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Google Reader Gets More Social: Now With Notes
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Zee M sharing this with note about google reader with notes..Google has added support for Notes to Google Reader, allowing users to share notes or add notes to shared stories.The add a note feature is located in the “Your Stuff” menu at the top of the Google Reader sidebar. Tumblr style, the feature allows users to share with friends “whatever pops into your head (for better or...
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Yahoo To Flag Malware Sites In Search Results
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 06, 2008
Tomorrow Yahoo will launch a partnership with McAfee and will integrate their Site Advisor malware scanning product into Yahoo search. The most dangerous websites are simply being removed from search results. Yahoo is also flagging less dangerous offending sites to warn users of specific problems that have been reported from those sites. Example warning messages include “Warning: Unsolicited...
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Hotmail Users Can Now Improve the World Effortlessly
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on May 05, 2008
Microsoft’s i’m Initiative, which launched in March 2007, has expanded to include Hotmail. The program donates a portion of the ad revenue generated through Hotmail and Messenger to any of ten worthwhile causes.I like the basic premise behind the i’m initiative - it’s an opt-in and fairly unintrusive service that just puts an extra i’m-specific advertisement at the end of your emails,...
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An interesting view on bank regulation
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on May 03, 2008
It starts with this:...there are few crises I have known from the inside that would not have happened if only there was more disclosure. People knew that sub-prime was a poor risk – it is called sub-prime, after all.Then it moves here:The alternative model rests on three pillars. The first recognises that the biggest source of market and systemic failure is the economic cycle and so regulation...
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Bill Gates
via Quotes of the Day by (author unknown) on March 26, 2008
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
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Backyards, Beware: An Orchard Wants Your Spot
via NYT > Most E-Mailed by STEVEN KURUTZ on March 21, 2008
In an era of local food, an increasing number of Americans are turning their yards into mini orchards, even in dense urban areas.
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What is the aggregate cost of trying to beat the stock market?
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on March 10, 2008
Investors collectively spend around $100 billion a year trying to beat the stock market. That’s the finding of a rigorous effort to measure the total costs of Americans’ efforts to surpass the returns they would have received by simply holding a stock index fund. The huge price tag helps explain why beating a buy-and-hold strategy is so difficult.Here is much more, and from Felix Salmon. ...
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NCAA Basketball Pool in Google Apps [Google Apps]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on March 17, 2008
CNET blogger Dennis O'Reilly is using Google Docs to manage his NCAA basketball pool; the bracket spreadsheet he put together is public and free for anyone to copy and use.
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Forget the Red State / Blue State labels; the real question...
via kottke.org by deronbauman@gmail.com on March 06, 2008
Forget the Red State / Blue State labels; the real question is Wal-Mart State or Starbucks State. (thx, jason) (link)
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Library of Lost Dreams
via Marginal Revolution by Alex Tabarrok on February 22, 2008
Dutch, a kind of archaelogist of recent America, takes us through the abandoned Detroit School Book Depository. This is a building where our deeply-troubled public school system oncestored its supplies, and then one day apparently walked away from itall, allowing everything to go to waste. The interior has been ravagedby fires and the supplies that haven't burned have been subjected to...
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