Feature-length documentary film Earth Days will premiere on Facebook with a live video stream and a chat at 8 PM EST on April 11, more than a week before the over-the-air PBS television premiere at 9 PM EST on April 19. The film chronicles the history of Earth Day in the United States…

The FCC has just submitted its National Broadband plan to Congress. The plan is pretty ambitious; the FCC wants at least 100 million U.S. homes to have access to affordable broadband of at least 100Mbps download speeds. Likening broadband to electricity, the executive summary calls the technology “a foundation for …

Jeffrey Katzenberg was right: 3D is the future of movies . USA Today interviewed Avatar director James Cameron about this new era of filmmaking, and the director revealed plans to bring a certain unsinkable hit back to theaters in 2012, this time in 3D: Titanic. Because of the success of Avatar — and now Alice…

Ever since Owen Van Natta stepped down as CEO of MySpace last month, there has been a lot of speculation surrounding the future of the social networking site. Can it function with two co-presidents? Can it turn things around and restart its growth? Can it remake and re-imagine itself for today&#…

Exactly 25 years ago, computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc, registered the first .com web domain ever: symbolics.com. By today’s design standards, and considering how websites looked back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, it’s quite decent , although a bit short on content. However, its content and even the…

The iPad is now officially available for pre-order , which means that news is going to be flowing in all day about its various specs and features. We’ll keep you updated on said news with this handy-dandy, ever-changing post. Keep your eyes here for the latest. If you&#…

Earlier this week, the social discovery tool StumbleUpon revamped its advertising platform . These changes don’t so much change the basics of how StumbleUpon Advertising works, as much as they add additional tools and metrics for advertisers to better track and understand the results of their campaigns. I got to…

Chris Allison is a social media strategist at NeboWeb , where he helps clients make the most of the social web. You can follow him on Twitter as the voice behind @Neboweb . As social media marketing becomes more widely practiced, the questions of the day are less frequently focused on the benefits of…

Look out, OnLive — you’ve got company . InstantAction is having their coming out party at GDC , and we stopped by for a lengthy chat about the technology, its future and the hopes / dreams of the company. Put simply (or as simply as possible), IA has developed a browser-based plug-in…

Even if you don’t own a PlayStation 3 , Heavy Rain is a game you should know because it re-imagines both videogames and movies, combining them into a new genre of Choose Your Own Adventure digital narrative. (Very minor spoilers ahead.) This is not to say Heavy Rain is perfect…