We went behind closed doors to see the Nintendo 3DS portable gaming console and take photos from all angles when we attended the E3 conference in Los Angeles last week. The 3DS, which we previewed earlier, bumps up the specs and features of its predecessor across the board, but the most notable addition is the 3D screen. Unlike the tech used by movie theaters or Sony’s PlayStation 3 , you don’t need special glasses to see the 3D effect

Dating site OkCupid sent an e-mail to some of its users late last week informing them that they’ve been placed in the top half of users in terms of attractiveness by its algorithms. As a result of the categorization, the attractive users will be more likely to see one another in match searches, while the users who are in the lower tier will not see a change. The e-mail (which was sent by the “OkCupid Summer Interns”) specified that the determinations were made through analysis of clicks on users’ photos and reactions in the Quiver and QuickMatch features.

Rick Burnes leads the content production team at HubSpot , a marketing software firm that produces the Inbound Marketing Blog and Inbound Marketing University . Chances are, most of the businesses you interact with as a consumer are on social media. Your local restaurant is blogging, your grocery store is on Twitter — even your favorite candy is on Facebook

In light of NBC’s blunderous maneuvers , its decision to push back The Tonight Show , and Conan O’Brien’s public statement on the matter, Conan fans are using social media avatars to get their point across. In fact, one man’s I’m With COCO image is speaking for Facebook denizens everywhere.

The Social Network , the movie based on Aaron Sorkin’s narrative about Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook, will be released on October 15, 2010, according to ComingSoon . Columbia Pictures has set the date, which means that we’ll be seeing Justin Timberlake grace the screen as Sean Parker in just under a year’s time.

QR codes are those funky-looking barcodes that you’ll sometimes spot on print marketing materials or even pedicabs. While QR codes do offer you a unique way to use your mobile phone camera to capture/scan the code to retrieve a message, they haven’t been embraced by the mainstream population. But can Google change that