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Planjam does date planning/bachelor parties for nerds
via Webware.com by Josh Lowensohn on January 21, 2008
If you've ever been put in charge of a guys night out, there's a new app for you. Personally I just go out and see what happens, but I know people who like to make itineraries, and they need tools. Planjam is such a tool.
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Saving the Web From Internet Explorer 8
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on January 21, 2008
Just before Internet Explorer 7 was released, my Compiler co-author Michael wrote a piece entitled, Why Internet Explorer 7 Will Break the Web. As he and others suspec
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Stop Wasting Time Checking All Your Social Profiles, Get 8hands
via Digital Inspiration by Amit on January 21, 2008
If you maintain accounts on multiple social sites (say Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace), consider using 8hands - a small Windows software that monitors your social circle and will bring some peace to your otherwise chao
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t-rex is doing "i am legend" for ghosts. the reason the poltergeists break so many dishes isn't that they're throwing them around! they're just bumping into them because they can't see
via Dinosaur Comics by (author unknown) on January 21, 2008
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Search Stocks & The Stock Crash: GOOG, YHOO & MSFT
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by Danny Sullivan on January 22, 2008
Hitting John Battelle's blog today, henoted what a plunge Google took on the stock market yesterday and in general through the current year. I thought it would be fun to look at Microsoft and Yahoo as well.The chart above covers the past month and shows Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) against the NASDAQ, over the past month. Of the three, Google's had the greatest decline,...
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MPAA: Did We Say 44% of Piracy Was Done By Students? We Meant 15%, Our Bad! [Mistakes]
via Gizmodo by Adam Frucci on January 22, 2008
So the MPAA used to shout about a study they performed that showed that 44% of illegal movie downloading was done by college students, a figure they used as evidence that our government needed to enact some laws to keep our feckless youth population under control. The only problem? The study was complete BS, with the real figure hovering a bit closer to the 15% mark. Oops!To their credit, the...
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New RescueTime Goals and Alerts Actually Helps Rescue your Time
via RescueTime Blog by Brian Fioca on January 22, 2008
Last week I received an interesting request from a friend:1:19:10 PM friend: My boss has requested that you run a report: ’select count(*) from [pages visited table] where [url visited]=’http://www.randomtimewastingsite.com/’He was joking, but it got me thinking about the question of how much time is spent on various apps and sites. So I ran some more queries and found that so far,...
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THe HTML 5 Draft Hints at a Brave New Web
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on January 22, 2008
The release of a draft specification for HTML 5 marks another important step toward creating the next version of HTML, the hypertext markup language that powers the web. Yesterday the HTML Working Group, which is the arm of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) charged with updating HTML, published the first official draft of HTML 5, which will eventually supersede HTML 4. The web has grown and...
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Webware 100 nominations close Friday!
via Webware.com by Rafe Needleman on January 22, 2008
The 2008 Webware 100 Awards program is underway right now. At this point we're collecting nominations for your favorite Web 2.0 services. We've got a database of several thousand, but we want to make sure we're not missing any cool site or service. So nominate your favorite Web 2.0 site to make sure it's included. Once the nominations close (this Friday), Josh and I will pore over...
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Social site for mobile gaming Playyoo opens up
via Webware.com by Josh Lowensohn on January 22, 2008
After being in private beta for the last three months, Playyoo is opening its doors for everyone this morning. The site is aimed at casual gamers who like playing games on their mobile phones. Like Kongregate, game developers can show off their wares and interact directly with the people playing them. Better yet, anyone without programming knowledge can use Playyoo's WYSIWYG game creator tool...
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