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Quikmaps Draws Directly onto Google Maps [Google Maps]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on June 18, 2008
Go beyond simple place markers and draw directly onto a Google Map with Quikmaps, a free mashup service. The site offers tons of distinct icons you can drag and drop onto road or satellite maps, along with scribbling, line tracing (great for giving custom directions when Google's aren't convenient), text labels, and other tools. Drawing and saving a map to your desktop or web site is...
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Found footage: Using an iPhone to control reconnaissance aircraft
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Robert Palmer on June 18, 2008
Filed under: Found Footage, iPhoneThe clever folks at UC Berkeley have developed a system to issue commands to unmanned aerial vehicles using a device we all know and love: the iPhone. While the iPhone is specifically restricted from piloting the drones themselves, the team uses Mobile Safari on the iPhone to enter coordinates and select tasks for its airborne fleet. A web server then relays the...
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The Secret of Small Talk
via Business Pundit by (author unknown) on June 18, 2008
Shared by Jrod anything but "where do you work"I’m going to share with you the secret that got me through four years of accounting society recruiting events and a battery ’social situation’ interviews. I’ve got more practice making small talk now, but I still occasionally revert to my cheat sheet at the seemingly endless social and business occasions that come with bona fide adulthood....
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Like gadgets? You’re probably an arrogant prick
via CrunchGear by Doug Aamoth on June 18, 2008
Well, the secret’s out. People who are into technology and gadgets have a high tendency to be a-holes. Can you believe it? According to Reuters…“An online study evaluating the characteristics of 25,000 American adults found avid technology consumers tended to score highly in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness — but low in modesty.”To which you could argue...
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Redesigning the Google Favicon
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on June 17, 2008
The designers at TurboMilk didn’t like the new Google favicon – the icon displayed in the address bar and elsewhere on Google’s sites – so they decided to take the design job in their own hands. Four designers each had a try at a redesign, and came up with different reasoning and different end results. Here’s one of their results:As the official Google blog told a while ago, Google’s...
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Get your Firefox on: Firefox Download Day
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Cory Bohon on June 17, 2008
Filed under: Software, Freeware, Internet, Internet ToolsJust a reminder, as Robert hinted half an hour ago today is "Download Day" for Firefox 3. If you haven't yet downloaded the official 3.0 release, be sure to do it today! Firefox is trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. At 10 AM PDT (1:00 PM EDT) head over here to get your official download....
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Technology and Politics Collide at the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 17, 2008
If you caught last week’s Los Angeles Times coverage of the TechCrunch Primaries, you know we’ve tried to underline the increasingly important relationship between technology and politics - we have to know the candidates’ positions on tech issues. That’s why I’m happy to announce our support for this year’s Personal Democracy Forum event in New York next week, which will bring...
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New Yahoo: Joining up without severance package would be like "running into a burning building" [Yahoo]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on June 17, 2008
Silicon Alley Insider turned up a defender of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's change-in-control severance package — someone bold enough to join Yahoo in May. (Confused? A tip: Just remember that the phrase "joining Yahoo" is the opposite of the more commonly used phrase "leaving Yahoo.") Critics called the plan, whose cost was estimated at as high as $2.5 billion, a "poison pill," saying it creates...
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Waste Management Launches a Social Network
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 17, 2008
Frankly this should just be an application on Facebook and MySpace, it would get better traction. But that’s not what the consultants told Waste Management (a $20 billion company that, well, manages waste), I’m guessing, since today they’ve launched Greenopolis, a social network for greenies.They’re committed, they say, to connecting people and businesses on green issues, and teach people...
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Changents: “Agents For Environmental Change Are the New Rock Stars”
via Mashable! by Alana Taylor on June 17, 2008
If you use the internet on a daily basis you are slightly aware of its mysterious power to, basically, do everything you want. Everything you ever need is there, it helps you, you use it at your free will. But it’s not so easy to harness the internet’s power and channel it towards a greater good.The newest site that is hoping to take on this task is Changents, a social media start-up that has...
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