{"id":4551,"date":"2011-04-12T21:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T02:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2023-12-05T21:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T03:07:09","slug":"noisecast-roundup-04-12-2011-if-it-bleeds-we-can-kill-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/04\/noisecast-roundup-04-12-2011-if-it-bleeds-we-can-kill-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisecast Roundup 04-12-2011: If it bleeds we can kill it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Man, what a morbid day it was in the tech industry today! So morbid that both Agrippa and Kevlar opted to curl up in the fetal position in a dark corner of their rooms and sob softly instead of doing tonight&#8217;s Noisestash Roundup. Fear not, readers, I shall guide you through this dark and bloody evening, starting off with a fitting theme song for today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Predator: The Musical (Arnold Schwarzenegger)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qlicWUDf5MM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So onward to today&#8217;s news, starting with today&#8217;s RIPs after the jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You probably have heard of Rockmelt, but have you heard of a similar browser called Flock? If not, don&#8217;t worry, Zynga hired away all of its engineers so you <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldaily.allthingsd.com\/20110412\/delete-the-flockers-social-browser-calls-it-quits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won&#8217;t be hearing about it any more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the way, if you&#8217;re reading this sitting down, you&#8217;ve got a <a href=\"http:\/\/health.yahoo.net\/experts\/menshealth\/most-dangerous-thing-youll-do-all-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first class ticket for a heart attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Flip cam held so much promise, until those pesky smartphones with integrated 720p video recording got in the way. So <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">pesky<\/span> revolutionary and magical those new devices were that Cisco didn&#8217;t even bother selling its flip business, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/04\/12\/technology\/cisco_kills_flip\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opting to kill it off completely<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More heads roll at AOLHuffPo as both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.switched.com\/2011\/04\/12\/farewell-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Switched and DownloadSquad are nixed<\/a>. Interesting how they consider Engadget, TUAW, Joystiq, and even HuffPo Tech (wtf?) as the best places to go for tech news, but leave out TechCrunch. Michael Arrington must have rubbed a lot of people the wrong way (both sexually and professionally).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But AOLHuffPo isn&#8217;t getting away scot-free, as former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/arianna-huffington-lawsuit-unpaid-bloggers-2011-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unpaid bloggers are suing HuffPo<\/a> for&#8230;not paying them. Fortunately, none of The Noisecast staff dare do such a thing because they fear that Vitto will shit on their truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least Huffington isn&#8217;t having half of her empire threatened by some convicted felon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/04\/does-this-convicted-felon-own-50-of-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like Zuckerberg is being threatened with Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/vagina-face.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-attachment-id=\"4552\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/04\/noisecast-roundup-04-12-2011-if-it-bleeds-we-can-kill-it\/vagina-face\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/vagina-face.jpg?fit=440%2C330&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"440,330\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Vagina Face\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Kevlar secretly wishes that Ron looked like this&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/vagina-face.jpg?fit=440%2C330&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/vagina-face.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/vagina-face.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/vagina-face.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kevlar secretly wishes that Ron looked like this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kevlar seems to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/04\/convofy-the-social-network-for-your-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written up a review<\/a> on the business oriented social application Convofy, but if you look closely you will see that it is all about Ron&#8217;s vagina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m pretty sure Benguin and Ron are currently in the process of writing &#8220;U Mad?&#8221; comments via their iOS devices on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/04\/dear-google-give-android-a-bloody-roadmap-already\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O.C. Entertainment&#8217;s rant regarding Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t a tiny bit jellz of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/04\/12\/htc-sensation-4g-official-1-2ghz-dual-core-qhd-display-and-th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HTC Sensation 4G<\/a> that&#8217;s coming this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dick Durbin is an awesome name. It&#8217;s a bottomless pool of dick joke material. At least he&#8217;s living up to his name with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2011\/04\/12\/senator-to-propose-new-internet-sales-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">internet sales tax proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tired of Internet Explorer 9 after only 29 days? Don&#8217;t worry, Microsoft figured you would be which is why it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/04\/12\/microsoft-pushes-out-preview-build-of-internet-explorer-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demoed a preview build of Internet Explorer 10 today<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Too lazy to come up with something to tweet? Let <a href=\"http:\/\/yes.thatcan.be\/my\/next\/tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this site do it for you<\/a>! It goes through your history and intelligently hashes together a tweet based off of your past tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" data-attachment-id=\"4559\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/04\/noisecast-roundup-04-12-2011-if-it-bleeds-we-can-kill-it\/mynextweet\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mynextweet.png?fit=600%2C413&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,413\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"That Can Be My Next Tweet!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mynextweet.png?fit=600%2C413&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mynextweet.png?resize=600%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4559\" title=\"That Can Be My Next Tweet!\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mynextweet.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mynextweet.png?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of Twitter, what kind of Twitter user are you? <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyinfographic.com\/the-twitter-biotch-infographic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Twitter Biotch!<\/a> infographic can help you figure that out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All my exes live in Texas, and now I can finally find and stalk them once again thanks to a major security breach <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/news\/2011\/04\/texas-exposes-addresses-ssns-of-35-million-residents.ars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exposing personal info of 3.5 million of the state&#8217;s citizens<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">50 years ago today Yuri Gagarin became the first man to venture into space. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/04\/yuri-gagarins-first-speech-about-his-flight-into-space\/237134\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out his first speech after landing safely back on earth<\/a>. Ignore the whole Soviets conquering &#8220;cosmic space as it should be done&#8221; part. Russians and Americans are friends now! =D<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since your Wii is now more or less obsolete\/useless, might as well put that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1746467\/hacking-the-wiimote-to-make-a-mini-segway-on-the-cheap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiimote into good use and make a mini robotic Segway with it<\/a>. It&#8217;s a shame that a 17 year old thought of this before you did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And lastly, your moment of sobriety: the lulz between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/04\/sony-vs-geohot-settlement-reached\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sony and GeoHot is now over<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roundup of the day&#8217;s tech news, including the deaths of Rockmelt, Flock, and Flip Cam, the closure of Switched and DownloadSquad, a lawsuit against AOLHuffPo, and 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