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OneRioters Who Rock: Alex Odam

8/14/09 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Because We Feel Like it, OneRiot News

We’ve really been loving the great feedback, write-ups, and support we’re receiving from the people who are using OneRiot. From providing us with great user insight, to creating custom desktop backgrounds for us, our OneRioting community has been kicking butt (sometimes even kicking OUR butt when we need it). We wanted to thank some of those people who have just been super-awesome, which is why we will now be featuring the occasional “OneRioter Who Rocks.” Read on to discover who they are, what they’re up to, and why we want to hug them - then connect with more members of the OneRiot Community on Facebook

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You may remember our first OneRioter Who Rocks, Alex Odam, from a post we put up a few weeks ago. Originally he discovered us through Twitterbar - and since then, he’s been unstoppable. After writing a OneRiot review for his school paper, Alex decided to design this custom Twitter background for us, and has been chatting with us on how to get more involved in realtime search. While only 14, this guy is one of the most enthusiastic in our community. (more…)

Philadelphia Finds its 15 Minutes On Trending Topics List

8/14/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Because We Feel Like it

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You never know what will be trending. It could be anything from Barack Obama to natural disasters to types of ice cream to penis enlargement supplements. Every day, I glance at the handy dandy OneRiot Trending Topics bar and have to settle for some mundane newspiece like the Iran elections, or our president’s inauguration. But today, I was delighted to find that one of my favorite things was trending: the city of Philadelphia! (more…)

OneRiot + Digsby // Haiku Mimobot Giveaway Winners!

8/13/09 - Posted by Carmel Hagen under Because We Feel Like it, Industry

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Yesterday we celebrated the release of the new, OneRiot-equipped Digsby with a little haiku contest. Tons of you participated, resulting in the most poetic interpretations of a dorky product we’ve seen since the first slew of iPhone reviews.

To all those who joined in on the fun - thank you, you rock. To Lana Winter and Chris O’Callahan - thank yourselves, you won. And to “Mark,” whoever you are, thank you for correctly pointing out that I am the worst editor this side of Web 2.0 (see also: comment stating that our example haiku has one syllable too many). If you come forward and identify yourself*, you get a mimobot too (you left nothing but your name. OH, and a punch in the gut).

‘Til next time!

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*No hackery here, people - we have IP addresses.

Give Someone the Elbow: It’s International Left-Hander’s Day

8/13/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Because We Feel Like it

Here’s to the Barack Obamas, William Jefferson Clintons, Leonardo Da Vincis and Paul McCartneys of the world who, despite not feeling comfortable at their right-handed desks, have been able to etch their names in the pages of history.

picture-732 Being left-handed can be both an affliction and a blessing. While many lefties are said to be geniuses, the act of transferring the brilliance they possess from pen to paper is often met with smeared ink. Lefties have faced much hardship in their lives, from sitting next to a righty at the dinner table to engaging in a proper handshake with someone of the opposite-handed persuasion, and lest we forget, looking ever so awkward with a pair scissors. The lefty must persevere through a childhood of bitter strife in which the other 90% of the population tells them they’re not patriotic unless they put their right hand over their heart during the pledge of allegiance. (more…)

Beer Summit Brings New Brand of Justice

7/31/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Because We Feel Like it, Politics

picture-1519 Rise and shine America, a new day has dawned for our way of life. When you woke up yesterday there were three branches of Government: The Legislative, The Executive, and The Judicial. However, this morning as you look out your window at the summer sun, you should know that one third of those branches is no longer with us. With the recent advent of the beer summit in which President Obama settled the issue of whether or not Henry Louis Gates was guilty of breaking into his own house by simply inviting the Harvard Professor and his arresting officer to discuss the charges over a beer, overnight it has become customary to settle all disputes this way. (more…)

Typecast Yourself: Seinfeld Edition

7/27/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Because We Feel Like it, Gossip

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The internet has led us individualistic Americans to monumental changes in self discovery. We once stopped at pondering the simple, yet impossible questions, such as ‘What job should I pursue?’ and ‘What will make me happy?’ A few color coded personality tests and Cosmo compatibility quizzes later, we found that we needed more. Who will I marry? Am I a Ninja or a Zombie? Which Teletubby am I most likely to murder? Today, a chunk of Twitterific Americans asked the most profound query yet: Which Seinfeld character am I? We’ll be damned to hell if we’re not finding out. (more…)

A Bastille Day Quiz!

7/14/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Because We Feel Like it

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Happy Bastille Day OneRiot readers! Today marks the 220th anniversary of the day revolutionary frog forces stormed the Bastille fortress-prison symbolizing the people’s disenchantment with the Monarchy and the arrival of a modern France. It’s also known as the last time those surrender monkeys didn’t back down from a challenge and runaway at the slightest inkling of any sort of threat. But we here at OneRiot praise you, France, for we too are cowards - er, lovers - not fighters (though we will put a boot in yer ass the American way). So all you Gerard Depardieus, Inspector Clousseaus, and Sophie Marceaus, in tribute to your special day, we here at OneRiot thought we’d make a little quiz to test the Frenchiness of our readers. So without further ado…OneRiot’s How French are Eau? quiz!

1. Have you ever used a bidet?
a. Yes (very french)
b. No (you could be from anywhere)
c. What’s a bidet? (go back to Tennessee)
d. Was that the water fountain next to my toilet? (we’re just speechless)
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Happy America, America

7/03/09 - Posted by Carmel Hagen under Because We Feel Like it

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Happy Fourth, everybody - enjoy your fireworks, families, and freedom to do pretty much whatever the heck you want. We’ll catch you next week!

Pound It: It’s National Fist Bump Day!

6/03/09 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under Because We Feel Like it, Featured, US

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Handshakes are way too corporate, and high-fives are just so old-school. The world needs a new dominant greeting ritual, and thanks to the Obama’s famous public display of two knuckles pounding, the popularity of the “fist bump” is beginning to skyrocket. Today that rocket may shoot even higher, as June 3 marks the first installation of National Fist Bump Day, a full 24 hours of bumpin’ and greetin’ that should de-stuff boardrooms everywhere.

Celebrate friendship, America, and metaphorically join hands by making the conscious decision not to.

While transitions from medieval forms of hand introductions are always difficult, our list of five reasons why the fist bump rocks should help you easily wave good-bye to traditional hand-hellos. Celebrate friendship, America, and metaphorically join hands by making the conscious decision not to.

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Games We’re Playing // Taxiball!

5/21/09 - Posted by Carmel Hagen under Because We Feel Like it, Industry, Life at OneRiot

We’re not sure exactly when it happened, but somewhere between the very first iPhone game and the 100,000th app submission we started to feel worn down. In fact, some of us flat out quit paying attention, because taking incriminating pictures of our exes when they thought we were just sending a text was fun enough. But lo and behold, there’s a new iPhone game on the scene, and this one might just be worth wasting hours of our lives on - like out of respect, not just spite for our boss.

It’s called Taxiball, and it uses tilt sensors to control a ball as it rolls around. Seems standard - until you start realizing where you can roll the ball to. Taxiball comes from the brains at Self Aware Games, and we owe them all kinds of high fives for stepping in to fill the buckets of extra time we have while trying to build a search engine. Was that sarcastic? No, just funtastic. Really.

Serious action shots and link to a full review after the jump…

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