Engadget
Encyclopedia
Engadget is a multilingual
technology blog
network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics
. Though on appearance Engadget functions much like a blog and may be defined as such, much of its editorial content takes the form of an online magazine
. Engadget currently operates a total of ten 'blogs' - four written in English and six international versions with independent editorial staff. Engadget frequently ranks among the top 5 in the 'Technorati top 100' and was noted in TIME
for being one of the best blogs of 2010.
technology weblog editor and co-founder, Peter Rojas
. Engadget is a member of Weblogs, Inc.
, a blog
network with over 75 weblogs
including Autoblog
and Joystiq
and formerly including Hack-A-Day. Weblogs Inc. was purchased by AOL
in 2005. Engadget's editor-in-chief, Ryan Block
, announced on July 22, 2008 that he would be stepping down as editor-in-chief in late August, leaving the role to Joshua Topolsky. On March 12, 2011 Joshua Topolsky announced that he was leaving Engadget making Tim Stevens the editor-in-chief. Joshua Fruhlinger, who has been writing for Engadget since 2004, has acted as Engadget's Editorial Director since 2007.
Launched in March 2004, Engadget is updated multiple times a day with articles on gadgets and consumer electronics
. It also posts rumor
s about the technological world, frequently offers opinion within its stories, and produces the weekly Engadget Podcast that covers tech and gadget news stories that happened during the week.
Since its founding, dozens of writers have written for or contributed to Engadget, Engadget Alt, Engadget Mobile and Engadget HD, including high profile bloggers, industry analysts, and professional journalists. These writers include Jason Calacanis
, Paul Boutin
, Phillip Torrone, Joshua Fruhlinger, Marc Perton and Susan Mernit
. Darren Murph, who became the World's Most Prolific Professional Blogger as recorded by Guinness World Records on July 29, 2010, is the site's Managing Editor and has written over 17,212 posts (and growing) to date. Industry analyst Ross Rubin has contributed a weekly column called Switched On since October 2004.
Engadget has been nominated for numerous awards, including a 2004 Bloggie for Best Technology Weblog, and 2005 Bloggies for Best Computers or Technology Weblog and Best Group Weblog; Engadget won Best Tech Blog in the 2004 and 2005 Weblog Awards.
Google Reader, as well as many other RSS readers, has included Engadget as a default RSS
feed, pulling the latest articles which appear at the top of all user's mailboxes.
To extend readership, the blog is available in several languages including Spanish, Japanese, German, Polish (until 1.04.2010), Korean, and Chinese (traditional and simplified).
Engadget uses the Blogsmith CMS
to publish its content.
along with editors Paul Miller and Nilay Patel with occasional special guests, until their 2011 departure. The podcast was produced by Trent Wolbe under Topolsky's editorship and continues to be under Tim Stevens (Editor).
The topic of discussion for the podcast is technology related and closely linked to events that have happened during the week in the world of technology. The show generally lasts an hour or more. The show is normally weekly, however the frequency can change, especially during special events. When events such as the Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) and the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) occur, the podcast has been known to be broadcast daily.
The Engadget podcast is available as a subscription through iTunes
, Zune Marketplace and as an RSS
feed. Alternatively, it can be downloaded directly from the site in either MP3
, Ogg
, AAC
or m4b format. The m4b version features images related to the current topic of discussion and can be displayed in iTunes
or on a compatible player.
Engadget has started doing live podcasts, usually broadcasting Thursday or Friday afternoons on Ustream. The recorded podcast is usually available the day after.
and iPod touch
.Engadget then released an Engadget app for the Palm Pre and Palm Pixie phones on January 1, 2010 claiming it was the "1000th application in the "PalmOS" Catalog".A week later, on January 8, 2010 they launched the app on the BlackBerry platform. Finally, they released an app for Android devices on March 25, 2010 making the app available on all major mobile smartphone platforms. The app's features included sharing articles through Twitter
, Facebook
or e-mail, the ability to tip Engadget on breaking news, and the ability to bookmark and view articles offline.
. The show will be free admission and will later be put onto the site. It features one-on-one interviews, roundtable discussions, short video segments, and live music. At first it was taped at the Tishman Auditorium at Parsons The New School for Design
, but after the 5th show they began taping at The Times Center part of The New York Times Building.
The show was originally hosted by Joshua Topolsky along with editors Paul Miller and Nilay Patel. After their departure from Engadget and AOL in early 2011 newly appoined editor in chief Tim Stevens became the shows host. It is directed by Michelle Stahl and is executive produced by Joshua Fruhlinger and Michael Rubens.
The first episode (List of The Engadget Show Episodes) was taped at Parsons The New School for Design on September 13, 2009, and featured guest Jon Rubinstein
, CEO of Palm Inc. The second episode's guest was Microsoft
's CEO Steve Ballmer
and was taped live on October 22, 2009 at the Times Center. Episode three featured HTC
's Drew Bamford, Joystiq
's Chris Grant and was taped live on November 22, 2010 at Parsons The New School for Design
. The fourth episode taped live at Parsons The New School for Design on December 20, 2009, featured guest Peter Rojas. Episode five taped live at the Times Center on January 16, 2010 and featured Erick Tseng, a former Senior Project Manager for Google
(now employed by Facebook
.) The sixth episode was filmed live on February 27, 2010 at the Times Center and featured guest Avner Ronen, CEO of Boxee
. Episode seven featured Nicholas Negroponte
of the MIT Media Lab
and was taped live at the Times Center on March, 20th 2010. The eighth episode was filmed live at the Times Center on April 21, 2010 and featured guests Ryan Block
of GDGT and Dr. Dennis Hong, a mechanical engineer who specializes in robotics. Episode nine featured guest Kevin Lynch, Adobe Systems
CTO and was filmed live at the Times Center on May 22, 2010. The 10th episode was filmed on June 23, 2010 and featured Jimmy Fallon
and was taped live at Cooper Union in New York City
. The 11th episode was filmed live at the Times Center on August 4, 2010 and featured game designer Peter Molyneux. Episode 12 was filmed on August 27 live at the Times Center and featured guest Omar Khan
, CSO of Samsung. The 13th episode featured guest Bobby Braun of NASA
and taped live at the Times Center on September 14, 2010. Episode 14 was taped live on October 23, 2010 at the Times Center and featured guest Aaron Woodman of Microsoft
.
The show's end is always marked by audience prize give-aways and Chiptune music with visuals from a variety of different artists.
(the parent company of T-Mobile
and T-Mobile USA
) had sent a letter requesting that Engadget cease using the color magenta in its Engadget Mobile site, claiming that T-Mobile had trademarked the color. Engadget issued a response on April 1, mainly by repainting the Engadget sites and changing the Mobile logo for the day to a logo that looks as though it is saying "Engadge t-mobile". The site has since returned to normal format, with the exception of the highlighting color.
to build a new gadget site with CEO Jim Bankoff
at SB Nation
. On leaving, Joshua Topolsky
, former Editor-in-chief, is quoted having said, “We have been working on blogging technology that was developed in 2003, we haven’t made a hire since I started running the site, and I thought we could be more successful elsewhere”. It appears the departure of the team from AOL which includes not only Topolsky but editors Nilay Patel
, Paul Miller, Joanna Stern, Ross Miller, Chris Ziegler, Chad Mumm, Justin Glow, Dan Chilton, Thomas Ricker and Vladislav Savov was primarily the cause of an internal memo distributed by AOL detailing "The AOL Way", a 58-page long company plan to turn AOL into a media empire. Some employees suggested that AOL was destroying journalism for page views and that it would be difficult for the organisation to apply a 'one size fits all' business model to a business primarily made up of acquisitions with diverging outlooks. Paul Miller makes a mention of this on his blog where he writes "I’d love to be able to keep doing this forever, but unfortunately Engadget is owned by AOL, and AOL has proved an unwilling partner in this site’s evolution. It doesn’t take a veteran of the publishing world to realize that AOL has its heart in the wrong place with content. As detailed in the “AOL Way,” and borne out in personal experience, AOL sees content as a commodity it can sell ads against". The group set up a 'placeholder site', "This is my Next" whilst they develop the new gadget site over at SB Nation. The new site is called The Verge
.
in Consumer Electronics 2011 for The Engadget Show
Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of...
technology blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics
Consumer electronics
Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...
. Though on appearance Engadget functions much like a blog and may be defined as such, much of its editorial content takes the form of an online magazine
Online magazine
An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control...
. Engadget currently operates a total of ten 'blogs' - four written in English and six international versions with independent editorial staff. Engadget frequently ranks among the top 5 in the 'Technorati top 100' and was noted in TIME
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
for being one of the best blogs of 2010.
History
Engadget was co-founded by former GizmodoGizmodo
Gizmodo is a technology weblog about consumer electronics. It is part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton and is known for its up-to-date coverage of the technology industry, along with topics as broad as design; architecture; space and science....
technology weblog editor and co-founder, Peter Rojas
Peter Rojas
Peter Rojas is the co-founder of technology blogs Gizmodo and Engadget, as well as the video gaming blog Joystiq . A 2006 article in New York magazine described him as "the best-compensated blogger in history".-Education:...
. Engadget is a member of Weblogs, Inc.
Weblogs, Inc.
Weblogs, Inc. is a blog network of about 90 blogs, covering a variety of subjects, from computers and gaming . Roughly half of these blogs are regularly updated and maintained. Weblogs, Inc. was founded in September 2003.-History:...
, a blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
network with over 75 weblogs
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
including Autoblog
Autoblog
Autoblog is a neologism and misnomer used to describe a particular type of website which uses software designed to automatically add content in a blog format. The owner of an autoblog is generally referred to as an autoblogger. Engaging in this practice is called autoblogging.Autoblogging does...
and Joystiq
Joystiq
Joystiq is a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 that has since become one of the most successful sites within the Weblogs, Inc. family of weblogs. It is the centerpiece of WIN's own network of video gaming blogs, which also includes a blog dealing specifically with the popular MMORPG World of...
and formerly including Hack-A-Day. Weblogs Inc. was purchased by AOL
AOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
in 2005. Engadget's editor-in-chief, Ryan Block
Ryan Block
Ryan Block is a technology journalist and critic. He was the editor-in-chief of AOL’s Engadget before he co-founded the popular community site gdgt....
, announced on July 22, 2008 that he would be stepping down as editor-in-chief in late August, leaving the role to Joshua Topolsky. On March 12, 2011 Joshua Topolsky announced that he was leaving Engadget making Tim Stevens the editor-in-chief. Joshua Fruhlinger, who has been writing for Engadget since 2004, has acted as Engadget's Editorial Director since 2007.
Writers
| Blogger | Position |
|---|---|
| Tim Stevens | Editor-in-chief |
| Darren Murph | Managing Editor |
| Joshua Fruhlinger | Editorial Director |
| Don Melanson Christopher Trout Brian Heater Zach Honig Michael Gorman |
Senior Associate Editors |
| Joe Pollicino Sean Buckley Joseph Volpe Terrence O’Brien Amar Toor Sharif Sakr |
Associate Editors |
| Myriam Joire | Senior Mobile Editor |
| Sean Cooper Zachary Lutz Brad Molen |
Contributing Mobile Editors |
| Richard Lawler | Senior HD Editor |
| Ben Drawbaugh | Contributing HD Editor |
| Dana Wollman | Reviews Editor |
| Kevin Wong Jesse Hicks Dante Cesa Billy Steele Mat Smith Daniel Cooper James Trew Lydia Leavitt |
Contributing Editors |
| Jon Turi | Interns |
| Andy Yang | Senior Chinese Editor |
| Trent Wolbe | Media Producer |
| Ross Rubin Michael Gartenberg |
Senior Columnists: |
| Peter Rojas | Founder |
| Ryan Block | Editor Emeritus |
Engadget Blogs
Engadget operates a number of blogs spanning seven different languages including English, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese, Spanish, Polish, Korean and German. The English edition of Engadget operates four blogs which, like the international editions, have been assimilated into a single site with a sub-domain prefix. These include Engadget Classic (the original Engadget blog), Engadget Mobile, Engadget HD and most recently Engadget Alt.Launched in March 2004, Engadget is updated multiple times a day with articles on gadgets and consumer electronics
Consumer electronics
Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...
. It also posts rumor
Rumor
A rumor or rumour is often viewed as "an unverified account or explanation of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern" However, a review of the research on rumor conducted by Pendleton in 1998 found that research across sociology,...
s about the technological world, frequently offers opinion within its stories, and produces the weekly Engadget Podcast that covers tech and gadget news stories that happened during the week.
Since its founding, dozens of writers have written for or contributed to Engadget, Engadget Alt, Engadget Mobile and Engadget HD, including high profile bloggers, industry analysts, and professional journalists. These writers include Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur and blogger. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York, and his second venture, Weblogs, Inc., capitalized on the growth of blogs before being sold to AOL....
, Paul Boutin
Paul Boutin (journalist)
Paul Boutin is a magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context....
, Phillip Torrone, Joshua Fruhlinger, Marc Perton and Susan Mernit
Susan Mernit
Susan Mernit is the CEO of Peoples Software Company, a Web 2.0 social media startup devoted to making it easier for people to connect with each other...
. Darren Murph, who became the World's Most Prolific Professional Blogger as recorded by Guinness World Records on July 29, 2010, is the site's Managing Editor and has written over 17,212 posts (and growing) to date. Industry analyst Ross Rubin has contributed a weekly column called Switched On since October 2004.
Engadget has been nominated for numerous awards, including a 2004 Bloggie for Best Technology Weblog, and 2005 Bloggies for Best Computers or Technology Weblog and Best Group Weblog; Engadget won Best Tech Blog in the 2004 and 2005 Weblog Awards.
Google Reader, as well as many other RSS readers, has included Engadget as a default RSS
RSS (file format)
RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format...
feed, pulling the latest articles which appear at the top of all user's mailboxes.
To extend readership, the blog is available in several languages including Spanish, Japanese, German, Polish (until 1.04.2010), Korean, and Chinese (traditional and simplified).
Engadget uses the Blogsmith CMS
Content management system
A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...
to publish its content.
The Engadget Podcast
The Engadget podcast was launched in October 2004 and was originally hosted by Phillip Torrone and Len Pryor. He was the host for the first 22 episodes of the podcast at which point Eric Rice took over. Eric Rice is known for his own podcast, called The Eric Rice Show and has also produced podcasts for Weblogs Inc. Eric hosted and produced 4 episodes of the podcast for Engadget until the show was taken over by Peter Rojas and Ryan Block. The podcast was hosted by Editor-in-chief Joshua TopolskyJoshua Topolsky
Joshua Topolsky is an American technology journalist. He is also a record producer, drummer, and DJ under the stage name Joshua Ryan. Topolsky is the co-founder and founding editor in chief of the technology news network The Verge. Before The Verge, he was the editor in chief at Engadget...
along with editors Paul Miller and Nilay Patel with occasional special guests, until their 2011 departure. The podcast was produced by Trent Wolbe under Topolsky's editorship and continues to be under Tim Stevens (Editor).
The topic of discussion for the podcast is technology related and closely linked to events that have happened during the week in the world of technology. The show generally lasts an hour or more. The show is normally weekly, however the frequency can change, especially during special events. When events such as the Consumer Electronics Show
Consumer Electronics Show
The International Consumer Electronics Show is a major technology-related trade show held each January in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Not open to the public, the Consumer Electronics Association-sponsored show typically hosts previews of products and new...
(CES) and the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) occur, the podcast has been known to be broadcast daily.
The Engadget podcast is available as a subscription through iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
, Zune Marketplace and as an RSS
RSS (file format)
RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format...
feed. Alternatively, it can be downloaded directly from the site in either MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
, Ogg
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex...
, AAC
Advanced Audio Coding
Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates....
or m4b format. The m4b version features images related to the current topic of discussion and can be displayed in iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
or on a compatible player.
Engadget has started doing live podcasts, usually broadcasting Thursday or Friday afternoons on Ustream. The recorded podcast is usually available the day after.
The Engadget App
On Dec 30th 2009 Engadget released its first mobile app for the iPhoneIPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
and iPod touch
IPod touch
The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...
.Engadget then released an Engadget app for the Palm Pre and Palm Pixie phones on January 1, 2010 claiming it was the "1000th application in the "PalmOS" Catalog".A week later, on January 8, 2010 they launched the app on the BlackBerry platform. Finally, they released an app for Android devices on March 25, 2010 making the app available on all major mobile smartphone platforms. The app's features included sharing articles through Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
or e-mail, the ability to tip Engadget on breaking news, and the ability to bookmark and view articles offline.
The Engadget Show
On September 8, 2009, Josh Topolsky announced that Engadget would be taping a new video show once a month in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. The show will be free admission and will later be put onto the site. It features one-on-one interviews, roundtable discussions, short video segments, and live music. At first it was taped at the Tishman Auditorium at Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School For Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is the art and design college of The New School university. It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has produced artists and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Dean and Dan Caten, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Jane...
, but after the 5th show they began taping at The Times Center part of The New York Times Building.
The show was originally hosted by Joshua Topolsky along with editors Paul Miller and Nilay Patel. After their departure from Engadget and AOL in early 2011 newly appoined editor in chief Tim Stevens became the shows host. It is directed by Michelle Stahl and is executive produced by Joshua Fruhlinger and Michael Rubens.
The first episode (List of The Engadget Show Episodes) was taped at Parsons The New School for Design on September 13, 2009, and featured guest Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein
Jonathan J. Rubinstein is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who helped create the iPod, the portable music and video device first sold by Apple Computer Inc. in 2001...
, CEO of Palm Inc. The second episode's guest was Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
's CEO Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer
Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer is an American business magnate. He is the chief executive officer of Microsoft, having held that post since January 2000. , his personal wealth is estimated at US$13.9 billion, ranking number 19 on the Forbes 400.-Early life:Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan to...
and was taped live on October 22, 2009 at the Times Center. Episode three featured HTC
HTC
-Companies:*HTC Corporation, a Taiwanese manufacturer of handheld devices*Harrisonville Telephone Company, a telephone company in Waterloo, Illinois*Horry Telephone Cooperative, a telephone cooperative in Horry County, South Carolina...
's Drew Bamford, Joystiq
Joystiq
Joystiq is a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 that has since become one of the most successful sites within the Weblogs, Inc. family of weblogs. It is the centerpiece of WIN's own network of video gaming blogs, which also includes a blog dealing specifically with the popular MMORPG World of...
's Chris Grant and was taped live on November 22, 2010 at Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School For Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is the art and design college of The New School university. It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has produced artists and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Dean and Dan Caten, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Jane...
. The fourth episode taped live at Parsons The New School for Design on December 20, 2009, featured guest Peter Rojas. Episode five taped live at the Times Center on January 16, 2010 and featured Erick Tseng, a former Senior Project Manager for Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
(now employed by Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
.) The sixth episode was filmed live on February 27, 2010 at the Times Center and featured guest Avner Ronen, CEO of Boxee
BOXEE
Boxee is a cross-platform freeware HTPC software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV...
. Episode seven featured Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association ....
of the MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
and was taped live at the Times Center on March, 20th 2010. The eighth episode was filmed live at the Times Center on April 21, 2010 and featured guests Ryan Block
Ryan Block
Ryan Block is a technology journalist and critic. He was the editor-in-chief of AOL’s Engadget before he co-founded the popular community site gdgt....
of GDGT and Dr. Dennis Hong, a mechanical engineer who specializes in robotics. Episode nine featured guest Kevin Lynch, Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
CTO and was filmed live at the Times Center on May 22, 2010. The 10th episode was filmed on June 23, 2010 and featured Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon
James Thomas "Jimmy" Fallon, Jr. is an American actor, comedian, singer, musician and television host. He currently hosts Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a late-night talk show that airs Monday through Friday on NBC...
and was taped live at Cooper Union in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. The 11th episode was filmed live at the Times Center on August 4, 2010 and featured game designer Peter Molyneux. Episode 12 was filmed on August 27 live at the Times Center and featured guest Omar Khan
Omar Khan
Omar R. Khan is the Business & Football Administration Coordinator of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers.-Biography:Khan is the child of immigrant parents — his father is a native of India and his mother is from Honduras. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana...
, CSO of Samsung. The 13th episode featured guest Bobby Braun of NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
and taped live at the Times Center on September 14, 2010. Episode 14 was taped live on October 23, 2010 at the Times Center and featured guest Aaron Woodman of Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
.
The show's end is always marked by audience prize give-aways and Chiptune music with visuals from a variety of different artists.
Trademark Infringement
In early 2006, Engadget reported that they were victims of their likeness being stolen and used as a store name at a mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. However, they stated they would not be taking any action. The store has since changed its name (or possibly shutdown and a new store opened with a new name). In July 2007, another store had opened, also in Malaysia, with a logo bearing the same resemblance to Engadget's.Apple Delay Hoax
In May 2007, Engadget published a story based on an email sent to Apple employees announcing that the company was delaying the launches of both the iPhone and Mac OS X Leopard. After the story ran, Apple's share price dropped 3%. Less than 20 minutes later the story was retracted after the email was discovered to have been a hoax perpetrated on Apple employees. Apple's shares eventually recovered and Ryan Block apologized for the mistake.Misattribution
In March 2006, DAPreview, a website about digital audio players, noted that Engadget used a photo that had originally been taken by DAPreview, and then removed attribution by cropping the DAPreview logo off. Engadget's managing editor Ryan Block agreed that the photo had been copied and cropped, stated that it had been a mistake, and apologized and restored the image's attribution.T-Mobile "magenta" accusations
On March 31, 2008, Engadget reported that Deutsche TelekomDeutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom AG is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Europe....
(the parent company of T-Mobile
T-Mobile
T-Mobile International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...
and T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA, Inc. is an American mobile-network operator, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, that provides wireless voice, messaging and data services in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. market with 33.73...
) had sent a letter requesting that Engadget cease using the color magenta in its Engadget Mobile site, claiming that T-Mobile had trademarked the color. Engadget issued a response on April 1, mainly by repainting the Engadget sites and changing the Mobile logo for the day to a logo that looks as though it is saying "Engadge t-mobile". The site has since returned to normal format, with the exception of the highlighting color.
Mass exodus
In early 2011 a mass exodus ensued at Engadget with eight of the more prominent editorial and technology staff members leaving AOLAOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
to build a new gadget site with CEO Jim Bankoff
Jim Bankoff
James Philip "Jim" Bankoff is Chairman and CEO of SB Nation and is also a Senior Advisor for Providence Equity Partners. As the former Executive Vice President of Programming and Products at AOL, Bankoff has developed and led many notable websites including Aol.com, Mapquest, Moviefone, AOL Music,...
at SB Nation
SB Nation
SB Nation is a sports network owned and operated by Vox Media with more than 300 separate web sites maintained primarily by part-time contract writers. They put together posts, facilitate dialogue and interact with commenters. At a kickoff event in February 2009, there were about 185 blogs...
. On leaving, Joshua Topolsky
Joshua Topolsky
Joshua Topolsky is an American technology journalist. He is also a record producer, drummer, and DJ under the stage name Joshua Ryan. Topolsky is the co-founder and founding editor in chief of the technology news network The Verge. Before The Verge, he was the editor in chief at Engadget...
, former Editor-in-chief, is quoted having said, “We have been working on blogging technology that was developed in 2003, we haven’t made a hire since I started running the site, and I thought we could be more successful elsewhere”. It appears the departure of the team from AOL which includes not only Topolsky but editors Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel is a technology journalist. Former managing editor of Engadget, he left in 2011 and went on to become managing editor of The Verge.- External links :* *...
, Paul Miller, Joanna Stern, Ross Miller, Chris Ziegler, Chad Mumm, Justin Glow, Dan Chilton, Thomas Ricker and Vladislav Savov was primarily the cause of an internal memo distributed by AOL detailing "The AOL Way", a 58-page long company plan to turn AOL into a media empire. Some employees suggested that AOL was destroying journalism for page views and that it would be difficult for the organisation to apply a 'one size fits all' business model to a business primarily made up of acquisitions with diverging outlooks. Paul Miller makes a mention of this on his blog where he writes "I’d love to be able to keep doing this forever, but unfortunately Engadget is owned by AOL, and AOL has proved an unwilling partner in this site’s evolution. It doesn’t take a veteran of the publishing world to realize that AOL has its heart in the wrong place with content. As detailed in the “AOL Way,” and borne out in personal experience, AOL sees content as a commodity it can sell ads against". The group set up a 'placeholder site', "This is my Next" whilst they develop the new gadget site over at SB Nation. The new site is called The Verge
The Verge (website)
The Verge is an American technology news and media network operated by Vox Media with offices in Manhattan, New York...
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Awards
People's Voice Webby AwardWebby Awards
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in Consumer Electronics 2011 for The Engadget Show