Stop Internet Censorship!

Today, some of your favorite websites will not be displaying or functioning fully. They will not be at our collective disposal with just a click of a button, and their content will not be there, ready to entertain us, or inform us, or make us better citizens of the world. Instead, these websites will be dark or possess very little other than a message of protest against proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

As it stands today, the U.S. has laws in place to fight online piracy and copyright infringement. You see this in action every time you go to watch a YouTube video and instead of the video, you see a notice that it has been taken down due to some …

History of the Consumer Electronics Show [Infographic]

Every year, all of the biggest and most influential innovators of the tech industry come together to exhibit their latest creations that could very well become a household must-have item in no time. This is, after all, how the VCR, CD player, Nintendo game console, DVR, satellite radio, tablets, and most other technological phenomenons that changed the course of how we entertain ourselves were all first introduced–at the annual Consumer Electronics Show.

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Consumer Electronic Show, which started today and is being held in Las Vegas until January 13th. Over the past 45 years, the CES has grow immensely. In 1967 it had just 17,500 attendees, over 100 exhibitors, and was held in a space of 150,000 square feet. In 1995, it was officially the largest electronics show in the country, and last year, 149,429 people visited the 1,700+ exhibitors, approximately 20,000 new products were debuted, and the event was held in a space of 1.6 million net square feet.

Check out the following infographic for some more interesting history on CES and why it is the place to be if you’re a tech enthusiast.

Get a Spotify Free Account Using Your Klout

Spotify, an award-winning music service that was founded in Sweden in 2008 and has since built up an audience of over 10 million listeners. The service allows users to play millions of tracks instantly on their computers and phones and after three years of getting more and more popular, they opened up memberships in the U.S. late last week. Going the same route Google did with their Gmail web-based email service and the recently-released Google+ social networking service, U.S. accounts for Spotify are invite-only.

By making a service only available to those who can score an invite from a friend, that brand is creating immense buzz for their service. I have seen countless people taking to their Twitter and Facebook accounts in hopes of someone with a Spotify account seeing their request and sharing the love. While it …