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Imgur is undebatably one of the best places on the internet for funny and interesting images. The company has today announced its first ever in-real-life weekend camp, where you can meet other people who spend time on the site. Camp Imgur will be held August 7-10 at a campground in Mendocino, CA. The company is touting it as “part meetup, part festival and part conference” where you’ll get the chance to meet other internet people. The full lineup hasn’t been announced yet, but the Camp Imgur site promises stand-up comedians, GIF makers, a banana expert, PBS and more. The weekend costs $150, which includes camp activities,…
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It seems like Google can do almost everything for us now; the company today added a new feature that allows you to quickly do calculations for taking out a mortgage. The new feature lets you ask the search engine questions like “how much can I borrow at $200 a month” and Google will quickly spit out an answer on your maximum loan size. This new tool is great for people like me, who have no idea about how a mortgage even works. I already use Google as a calculator for everything, so the mortgage tool is a great addition. ➤…
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Telenovela fans have a new destination: Pongalo, which means “Play it” in Spanish. Available both on the Web and on mobile devices (iOS and Android), its beta version boasts a catalogue of 50,000 hours of Spanish-language television, film and children’s content, which viewers can stream for free with ads. Most of this catalogue comes from Venezuelan content powerhouse RCTV (Radio Caracas Televisión), which is owned by the family of Jorge Granier, director of RCTV International and CEO of Pongalo’s parent company Latin Everywhere. As some of you may remember, Latin Everywhere was formed in October through the merger of Granier’s former company GoTV and…
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There’s Twitter and Facebook, not to mention a vast variety of social chat apps. But what if you could go really large, using mega-public spaces like billboards and building walls to post messages and communicate with a general audience of people who don’t know or follow you? That’s the idea behind Deehubs, a social network-slash-advertising-slash-art platform that uses flat building surfaces — soon augmented with electronic billboards — to post tweets in public places. Starting in Seattle, Dubai-based Deehubs aims to expand the project’s reach to 25 major cities across the US, and is currently financing the trip with a $6,000 Indiegogo fundraising campaign. While Deehubs has…
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