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AT&T boosts 3G speeds by 20% ahead of 3G iPhone launch
via AppleInsider by (author unknown) on June 03, 2008
AT&T announced Wednesday a more than 20 percent increase to the typical download speeds across its 3G wireless network and a 50 percent increase to typical upload speeds. The mobile operator and exclusive provider for Apple's iPhone in the US sai...
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Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 16, 2008
The stories over the weekend were bad enough - the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submissions. Drudge Retort is doing nothing different than what Digg, TechMeme, Mixx and dozens of other sites do, and frankly the fact that they are...
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Tyrant alarm clock dials your contacts if you refuse to wake
via Engadget by Darren Murph on July 02, 2008
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe've seen alarm clocks institute some fairly unorthodox methods of waking users up, but this is exceptionally high on the list of "oh, no they didn'ts." Alice Wang's Tyrant, which we can only assume is a concept, actually dials a random number in one's mobile contact list for every three minutes that the sleeper doesn't address the obnoxiously loud...
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Visually Track Your Appearance with Daily Mugshot
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on February 17, 2008
In 2000 artist Noah Kalina started taking a photo of himself every day. In August 2006, he put together a nearly 6 minute video of these photos, chronicling over 2300 days, up on YouTube. It has since been viewed over 8 million times and has spawned a number of imitators (though it should be noted that some of these immitation videos were in progress before Kalina put his video on the web). ...
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Why Yahoo! Buzz is a Brilliant Idea
via ReadWriteWeb by Guest Author on February 26, 2008
As soon as the online press got hold of a sliver of information about Yahoo! Buzz, the predictable cries of "Digg clone!" were loud enough to drown out anyone who thought that Yahoo! Buzz might be something more than a lame attempt at socially driven news (without the social elements). While many people think that the flurry of recent launches from Yahoo! represent nothing more than a cry of...
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Superdelegate layer in Google Earth
via Official Google Blog by Karen on February 19, 2008
Posted by Rick Klau, Strategic Partner Development Manager and Elections HipsterI'm a political junkie, and as Super Tuesday neared it seemed likely that the race for Democratic nominee would extend well past that big day at the polls. I started looking around for information about the so-called "superdelegates" (the party leaders and elected officials who make up 20% of the vote at the...
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EditGrid Adds Analytics, Mashup Functionality, and More
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on February 25, 2008
... will let you dynamically import graphs from Google Charts, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Alexa, and Compete using simple in-cell functions. EditGrid is additionally debuting a beta version of its Excel plugin, which can be used to import to and export from Excel, allowing for offline editing.Finally, EditGrid now offers a set of over thirty templates with which you can start building your...
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Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web
via Publishing 2.0 by Scott Karp on May 24, 2008
As media companies struggle to figure out their digital future, the elephant in the room is that they have only been able to monetize online audiences for pennies on the dollar compared to traditional media. Here’s why: Traditional advertising formats FAIL on the web. By traditional advertising formats, I mean display ads, video ads, and any other ad whose format and value proposition...
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Mac OS X's Address Book Can Now Sync Google Contacts [Mac Tip]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 27, 2008
Mac OS X only: Today's release of Mac OS 10.5.3 added a juicy little tidbit to Address Book: the ability to automatically sync your Google contacts. After you've run Software Update and gotten 10.5.3 (and restarted your Mac), hit up Address Book's Preferences pane. At the button of the General tab, check off the "Synchronize with Google" box to get started. Be sure to back up your...
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What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0
via publishing2.com by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
And what’s the root cause problem? The useless article with no real-time data and no links was written for the PRINT newspaper. And the homepage is edited to match what will be important in the PRINT newspaper. And the navigation assumes I think like I do when I’m reading the PRINT newspaper. Want local news? Go to the metro SECTION.
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