Twitter announced in its blog:
We’re happy to announce two new members of our investment team: Bijan Sabet with Spark Capital in Boston and Jeff Bezos of Bezos Expeditions in Seattle. Bijan has also accepted a seat on our board of directors. We’re looking forward to the guidance and advice both will bring to Twitter. Existing [...]
For those of you who are too lazy to hit up the site every day, just follow us on our Twitter page for updates so you can check out what’s going down both on and off the site. Just point your browser to twitter.com/albotas and if you wanna’ see what I’m doing with myself these [...]
Garth Ennis (of Preacher, The Boys, and Hellblazer fame) had recently taken the reigns in revamping “The Quintiscential British Hero,” Dan Dare for Virgin Comics. Many here in the states are unfamiliar with Dan Dare, but Ennis explained “He is our Captain America, our Superman, or Batman. So how is it that vast majority of [...]
Hey dudes and dudettes, we’ve made the pilgrimage from Pennsylvania to New York. There’s all kinds of crazy awesomeness going on so we’ll keep you updated with rapid fire updates on all the cool shit we see. It’s gonna’ be a fun weekend! Okay, me and Eddie are gonna’ go grab some beer and do [...]
Some of you may have tried to post comments within the last day and wondered, “hey why the hell can’t I post a comment”. The reason is the same for us because we couldn’t even make a post explaining what’s going on because frankly, we have no clue.
After doing some digging and looking through site [...]
“Now a question of etiquette; as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch…?”
I have a confession to make; earlier today I wrote up a post (this one) that I found on Kotaku (here). Since Kotaku linked Akiba Hobby as the source, I thought the proper thing to do was link Akiba [...]
Hey there, loyal readers and n00bz alike. We have something pretty exciting to announce! Every day we show you stuff that we think is a little bit on the awesome side, but what about you? Every Saturday, we will be doing a new feature called Show-N-Tell, but we can’t do it without you.
Here’s how it [...]
As we had previously reported on, there has been some serious heat between The Church of $cientology and the internet group known simply as Anonymous over freedom of speech issues and the reportedly “criminal” practices of both parties. We had noted in Episode #3 of the Awesomecast that the next global protest (aka Operation: [...]
Hello there, loyal readers. I’d like to take some time to talk a little bit about the site and the awesomeness in store. I came up with the idea for albotas around this time last year, only it was initially going to be a T-Shirt company. I thought to myself, “when people come to the [...]
Not sure if you dudes and dudettes have noticed, but you can totally sport your own gravatars (Globally Recognized Avatars) in the comments section! Just go to the Gravatar site, sign up (takes like 2 seconds. no lie), and upload your favorite 80×80 avatar. And since gravatars sync with your email address, any site that [...]
Hey, kids! Ever wanna’ write for a well established blog? Well, that dream will probably never come true, but you’re welcome to to build that resume here at ALBOTAS.COM!
We’re looking for contributors to post awesome stories for the site. If you think you have what it takes, send us an email with a short writeup [...]
Congratulations to the winner and thanks to all who participated. Stay tuned for the next contest!
He says he’s sorry, but I don’t believe him one bit. The official winner will be announced sometime tomorrow. Promise.
What’d you guys get under the tree?
Hey guys, we decided to switch our blogging process over to Wordpress. Bare with us as we make the changes.
