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Not So Social: Google And Facebook Face-Off At Supernova
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on June 18, 2008
Today at the Supernova conference there was a panel about who owns the social graph. The panelists were Kevin Marks from Google, Joseph Smarr from Plaxo and Dave Morin, Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager. The conversation turned very interesting when moderator Tantek Celik pointed out a post by David Recordon that showed how Facebook is blocking Google’s Friend Connect product, and not...
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Search Your Read Items in Google Reader [Google Reader]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on June 17, 2008
All-things-Google weblog Google Operating System details how to set up a read-items search in Google Reader. By default Reader searches all of your items, read and unread, and the results are sorted by date and not relevancy. If you subscribe to a lot of feeds, you may end up with a lot of unread items in your results when you know you've already read what you're looking for. By...
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Firefox 3 Portable Available for Download [Firefox 3]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on June 17, 2008
You may be helping Mozilla set a download record today, but if the majority of your Firefoxin' happens on a thumb drive, Portable Firefox 3.0 is officially available. Talk about turnaround.
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Google Translator and Barack Obama...
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on June 17, 2008
Vittorio sent in this Google translator finding:<
>The ways of the Google are long and complicated...[Thanks Vittorio!][By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Translator and Barack Obama... | Comments][Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and... Shared by: Azeem, Slicer, Edo, Farzin, Dan Russell, Jon, Alex, Chris Schrier, Navid, Maryam,
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Search Read Items in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on June 17, 2008
One of the most useful features that is missing in Google Reader is a way to search the items you've read in the past. This is useful, since Google Reader's search results are sorted by date and it may be difficult to find an article published two years ago.Depending on your preferred view, Google Reader defines read items differently: in the expanded view posts are marked as read when...
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Power User's Guide to Firefox 3 [Firefox 3]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on June 17, 2008
You already know about Firefox 3's marquee new features, but now it's time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn't mention. In honor of today's official release of Firefox 3—at 10AM Pacific Time—let's dive in past Firefox 3's most talked-about feature-set into its lesser-known power uses, tricks, and...
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Feedly: Bring Your Feeds Home
via The Last Podcast by Frederic on June 17, 2008
... is an RSS reader that lives locally in your Firefox browser as an extension (sorry – no other browsers are supported at this time). As its tag line promises, this feed reader functionality is implemented in a very stylish, magazine like layout by default. If you wish to do so, however, you can switch to a more traditional full-feed or summary view of your feeds, as well as an image only mode....
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Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass
via Blog Maverick by Mark Cuban on June 16, 2008
It is coming up on 2 years post my declaration that only a moron would buy Youtube and that Google was crazy for actually going through with it.In that period of time, while Youtube traffic has skyrocketed, they have been steadfast in their admission that they haven't been able to monetize Youtube's traffic in a profitable manner. Youtube has become the poster child for the old saying "we...
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The Browser is the New Operating System – NOT!
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on June 16, 2008
It never fails lately that at some point usually intelligent people struggle forward with the inane proposition that the Internet and by proxy the web browser is the new operating system. I’m sorry but this is such a bullshit argument. It really is.The latest screed to put forth this argument is courtesy of Timothy Lee over at Techdirt in which he suggests that because of the proliferation of...
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How to Make Windows Vista Less Annoying [Windows Vista]
via Lifehacker by The How-To Geek on June 17, 2008
Editor: Say hello to fellow tech writer and Lifehacker reader The How-To Geek, who was kind enough to pull together some of best Windows Vista power tweaks here on Lifehacker today. Whether it's the nagging prompts or the irritating notifications, Windows Vista's default settings can grate on your nerves... which doesn't help you be the productive person you want to be. A few simple...
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