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With the rumor going around that CNN is about to buy Mashable, a lot of people are of course debating whether the value of this social media news site is accurate. $200 million could seem like a lot of money for a website, but we have seen this before. Huffington Post and TechCrunch were also sold f ...

Black & White Canned Goods Filled With Intangible Wisdom

I read the other day that Americans are known by people all over the globe for being the most impatient people in the world. I would have to agree with that since everyone I know who lives in this country is impatient about at least one thing. But isn't everyone? Are there really countries where eve ...

Lego Beer Machine Opens & Cools Your Beer Like A Boss

I bet some of you are ready for the weekend to embrace you. Well, it's only Thursday morning here as I am writing this, so it will still be a couple more days until you can break free from the claws of work. For some people, the weekend is all about relaxation and fun. Here at Bit Rebels we value yo ...

Technology

How Social Media Sites Make Their Money [Infographic]

I remember back in the old days when the only social media sites anyone ever kept up with was Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Of course, that was years ago, and now most of us are all juggling a bunch of them. I sometimes wonder if spreading ourselves so thin dilutes the quality of our individual int ...

Lifestyle

How To Eat Your Favorite Foods [Guide]

I am sitting here, and I am getting more hungry by the minute. Browsing the web isn't exactly easy when you stumble over delicious looking food on basically every single website that you're trying to soak in the daily news from. Well, the trick is not to let it get to you (yeah, right!). It's easy t ...

Original & Fun Yarn Bombing To Brighten Your Day With Colors

Almost a year ago, I wrote an article about Yarn Bombing. At the time, it was a relatively new global graffiti phenomenon where people all over the world were having fun decorating public spaces with yarn. As you probably know, yarn bombing is the activity credited with making knitting cool again. W ...

Social Media

Comparing Pinterest With Facebook & Twitter [Infographic]

I think we have all thought about it. I mean, now that Pinterest is becoming a new household name, there is little that wouldn't call for a comparison between it and Facebook and Twitter. It is easy to forget that these social networking giants were all once startups as well. They were struggling wi ...

Social Media

The Age Old Question About Following Back On Twitter

Debra Devita

Yes, I am one of THOSE people, I don't follow every single person back on Twitter. It's not that I think I am better than anybody else. That is not the case at all. I also don't do it to offend people either. I reply to and interact with all of the people who take the time to follow me, and I apprec ...

Retro Defined In This Lego Game Boy Transformer

The way people help things evolve is often by trying to predict the future in some obscure way. However, the best predictions have come from actually watching the past, and what we did wrong. The corrections of our mistakes is usually how we evolve, and that serves as a great indicator for what will ...

DIY Recycle Plastic Bags Into Useful Woven Baskets

There are tons of craft blogs out there that offer creative ideas when it comes to recycling and repurposing. I've even found some new ones lately that I learned about on Pinterest. Out of all of them though, I always seem to come back to my favorite one, which is Radmegan. It's a blog run by Megan ...

Technology

How To Dance With A Beer Without Spilling

Have you ever found yourself in a crowded club ordering a beer and as soon as you get it, you are bumped and you spill half of it all over yourself or someone else? It's one of the most annoying things that can happen when you're out having fun. Not to mention, unless you've consumed half of the bee ...

Trekkies: Microsoft Creates The First Universal Translator

Just four short months ago, I wrote an article about Star Trek Technologies and how close we are to achieving each one. I think I can speak for most trekkies when I say that the day things like tricorders, replicators, cloaking devices and universal translators all be come realities is going to be v ...

The Learning Power Of Lego [Infographic]

It's a day of joy today since I have finally found something that is very dear to our hearts over here at Bit Rebels. No, it doesn't have anything to do with Star Wars (even though that too is close to our hearts), but the one building block that had the most impact on our learning when we are young ...