A freelance journalist has caught the GAP using child labor to produce hand embroidered clothing for its GAP Kids line. The children, who are as young as 10, are quoted as saying they were sold to the factory by their families and cannot leave until their debt is paid.
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Sam says that he went to BestBuy.com and bought a hard drive for in-store pick up. What he got was a box of bathroom tiles. Now Best Buy is saying he’d better take it up with manufacturer and that they’re not going to issue a refund and that Sam should just take his loss. We […]
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GetHuman contains shortcuts to skip the automated phone systems of over 500 customer service call centers. If you’re an impatient customer like me, and want a real human right away, this is a lifesaver!
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Diggers can be an opinionated bunch, but in their honesty they’ve given me food for thought. It is unlikely that we will ever give up being consumers. In fact, it’s probably impossible for most of us not to be consumers in one way or another. But we can aim for a more mindful consumerism…
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Execs leaving, potential acquisitions… Has Yahoo been replaced by Facebook to sit along side Google and Microsoft in the big 3
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In recent weeks, the U.S. has been looking like Canada’s answer to Mexico: Citizens from the Great White North have been traveling south to gobble up everything from steak dinners to multibillion-dollar banks on the cheap.
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None of the major U.S. cities like New York, Los Angeles or Chicago made the top 10.
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As people get less religious, they get wealthier. Or perhaps the other way around. Or perhaps there’s something else behind both trends. Feel free to interpret as you will.
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The truth is, big breaks don’t just happen; people make them happen–through hard work, networking, courage, passion and even pain. And as much as modern culture has glorified the notion of the “big break” ( American Idol, anyone?)
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What a beautiful view!
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.