Voices

The Real Reasons Zuck Got Married (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Noah Kalina, Wedding Photographer

I just took this photo. I’ll tell you about it later.

Noah Kalina, referring to the iconic wedding photo he took of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan

A Wedding App That Gives the Guests a Part

Before the wedding, the couple-to-be can create an app to keep their guests informed and involved.
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Geek-tastic! Twitter Queen Kim Kardashian Reportedly to Wed at Eric Schmidt’s SoCal Estate (Or at Kleiner Partner’s Luxe Crib).

Here’s a delicious juxtaposition you don’t get often: Various reports indicate that reality show empress Kim Kardashian’s upcoming wedding to New Jersey Nets basketball player Kris Humphries will be held at either the Montecito estate of Google’s Executive Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt or that of a VC legend.
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Save The Date! Smart Wedding Invitations Use Smartphones

With wedding Web sites now the norm, some folks are looking for new ways to push the state of the art when it comes to prenuptial technology. One couple is experimenting with using QR codes, special bar codes that can be red by a smartphone, to offer guests more than the standard save-the-date information.
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‘With This App, I Thee Wed…’

Several wedding-planning applications for mobile devices let brides- and grooms-to-be reach for an iPhone to manage the process, from finding the dress to registering for gifts to editing the guest list.
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BoomTown Will See You in September

Starting today and through next week, BoomTown is headed south down California’s lovely Highway 1 for as much of a vacation as I can possibly take. Which is to say, just a week off from posting. In other words: Partovis, Wenda, Owen, play nice! Yahoos, please hold your internal memos. And I hope Apple’s tablet is not delivered from on high this week while I relax beachside (it won’t be).
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Even Better: The JK Divorce Dance

Earlier today, BoomTown posted on the difficulty of making scratch off of popular online videos, including the Jill and Kevin wedding dance video. Here’s an inevitable spoof about the divorce dance, six months later. At least someone’s going to pay up!
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United Might Break Guitars and the Funky Wedding Video Has Buzz, But Will It All Have a Susan Boyle Ending?

Oh, who doesn’t just love, love, love the two latest viral videos to hit the Web–“United Breaks Guitars” and the joyful wedding dance of Minnesotans Jill and Kevin? Combined, they have more than 20 million views on YouTube. While that’s all well and good, like a lot of these kinds of viral phenoms, neither is likely to make much money and become more than watercooler wonders.
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Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name

So I was in Washington, D.C., this past weekend for a lovely wedding, traveling back to a city where I started my career and worked for 15 years after college. And I conducted a little experiment among the more than 100 folks gathered for the wedding, all of whom were quite intelligent, armed with all [...]