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Reader, Can I Have A Lens With That Please?
via Official Google Reader Blog by Mihai Parparita on May 08, 2008
T.V. Raman and Charles Chen, who have helped out with accessibility in Reader in the past, have not rested on their laurels and have another feature to announce:I've long maintained that CSS is one of the most well-kept (and consequently under-exploited) accessibility secrets of the Web. Thinking back to the time that CSS1 became a W3C Recommendation, those of us who cared deeply about...
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Changes to Google Translate
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 08, 2008
The Google Translator has been slightly redesigned. Instead of a single HTML combo box showing the available language pairs, you now get two DHTML combo boxes each containing a language for more free mixing of source and target languages*. (I wonder why Google does not pick traditional combo boxes?) What’s best is that there’s now a “Detect language” option for the source language; it...
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Is Flickr Worth $4-Billion?
via Mark Evans by Mark Evans on May 08, 2008
In the wake of Microsoft’s aborted courtship of Yahoo and Jerry “Oh, did you increase your offer” Yang, there’s bound to be a lot of scrutiny about what’s next for Yahoo.One asset that’s well known but perhaps not scrutinized from an investment perspective is Flickr, the world’s most popular photo-sharing site that Yahoo picked up for a song ($40-million) in 2005. Today, Flickr...
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Potentially Serious Bug Discovered in Google Reader
via Mashable! by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on May 07, 2008
While I’m learning to love the new feature in Google Reader that allows you to add notes to your Shared Items feed, a very salient observation was made this evening by Ryan S. over at Duff’s Device:The (current) top item in my Shared Items feed shows that you can alter the text of any article, I couldn’t find the permalink in my Shared Items Feed. This could lead to misleading people by...
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Netflix Employees Get Free 8-Out Plan
via Hacking NetFlix by mikek on May 08, 2008
One of the perks of working at Netflix is a free 8-out plan, according to former employee Michael Rubin: Netflix employees automatically get on the 8-out plan, which is really really fun, even if you never have time to watch all those movies....The 8-out plan costs $47.99 per month, or $576 per year.
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Is Yang Still In Control At Yahoo?
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub Testing.Here’s the latest Yahoo rumor that we’re chasing: The Yahoo board of directors met earlier today and authorized chairman Roy Bostock, not CEO Jerry Yang, to call Ballmer about re-starting negotiations. In fact, this rumor may have been behind the small rally in Yahoo’s stock today, which closed up 5.5 percent to $25.72 (still down from where it closed on...
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Nintendo Channel for Wii goes live
via Engadget by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub I just used this today. No exactly amazing but you can submit what games you like/don't like to Nintendo so they can recommend games in the future. It asks you things like your age, gender, etc.Filed under: GamingIt didn't exactly launch with much fanfare but, as anyone's who's already flipped on their Wii today will know, the Nintendo Channel is now...
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Which button would you click? A lesson on website optimization
via Google Analytics Blog by lm on April 30, 2008
Start Now, Begin, or Get Started? Orange or blue button? What color text? Does it matter?Website optimization seemed to be the hot topic at SES New York this year. Everywhere we turned, speakers were discussing how small changes in website content can result in big differences in traffic patterns.Before we suggest a strategy for optimizing your website, let's make sure we're all on the...
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Google vs Baidu
via Google Blogoscoped by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub Google and Baidu both send a lot of traffic my way. Google + China = 4,918 visits/month. Baidu + China = 20,831 visits/month.Jason Yu provides a break down of some of the differences between Google China and their local competitor, Chinese search engine Baidu. One section compares the products of the two:<
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Podcasting The Social Web: The Social Geeks Podcast
via (jeff)isageek.net by (jeff)isageek on May 07, 2008
The Social Geeks Podcast is a new podcast which tackles the aspects of the “social web” taking a look at sites and services that are hot these days on the interweb. Social Geeks is presented by two individuals who are well known on the social web scene in Chris from The Social Networker and Corvida from Shegeeks.Each episode (releasing about every two weeks is the plan as of now ) takes...
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