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More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 15, 2008
Desktop wallpapers are always nice to look at and to draw inspiration from. They may provide with some fresh perspective and offer you some eye-candy for tedious coffee breaks. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons, fonts and wallpapers and present them to you, so you don’t need to search for them. As long as we find something beautiful, interesting or useful, we let you know in...
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The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by SharonG ahahahaha!!! this stuff is hilarious!Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn’t involve openness or portability of data, it seems. Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single point across: Facebook has banned Google’s Friend Connect access to the Facebook API:Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a...
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Dude, William Shatner Totally Loves TechCrunch
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 15, 2008
Autograph sports and celebrity memorabilia is a $1 billion/year business in the U.S. alone. The problem is, up to 90% of it is counterfeit.Enter Los Angeles based LiveAutographs, a site that sells celebrity autographs that are guaranteed to be authentic - because they take a video of the celebrity writing the autograph and message and post it on their website. I am a huge William Shatner fan (who...
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Overwork: the visual
via core77.com's design blog by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Work stress: we all have it, few of us do anything about it. Here's the latest photographic "proof" of work stress taking its toll, as this Japanese newscaster goes from "hey!" to gray in a mere three years. He's like the portrait part of The Portrait of Dorian Gray. Thank God tomorrow is Friday.via albotas...
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The kindness of strangers on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
via FFFFOUND! | EVERYONE by matiasjajaja on May 15, 2008
via http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinosonic/2472863058/
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Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia for Web Developers
via Google Operating System by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by SharonG cool!Google released an encyclopedia of the "open web". "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications."Google Doctype is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who has...
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Douglas Adams
via Quotes of the Day by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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What's The First Thing That Pops Into Your Head When You Think Of Dell? Or Sprint? [Free Association]
via Consumerist by Meg Marco on May 15, 2008
Companies spend a lot of money on marketing, but ultimately, a brand is what people think it is. Meet Brandtags.net — a site where you can tag brands with one word or phrase that best represents how you feel when you see their logo. It seems that Dell has its work cut out for it—some of the top tags people are using for that brand...
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Swapping heads with dad and kid photos
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 13, 2008
Man Babies is a bizarre blog that has nothing but photos of dads whose heads have been swapped with their kids' . Link
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Do Companies Need Social Media Managers?
via I'm Not Actually a Geek by Hutch Carpenter on May 12, 2008
There are few institutions in the modern world that are not being transformed today by social media.Shel Israel, Global Neighborhoods, 5 New Social Media Turn-ons for me.Encouraging use and engagement with [social] tools is an area that all organizations find they have a need for at some point and time. Use of these tools and engagement by people in an organization often does not happen easily....
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