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Wetpaint Emerging As A Leading Social Publishing Platform
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 13, 2008
Seattle based wiki startup Wetpaint has always been ahead of the pack in terms of design and usability. Now, a couple of years after launch, they’re starting to see real usage traction as well.The product isn’t just about wikis - they also have social features (profiles, friends, etc.), and added things like forums and, more recently, photo uploads, over time. In many ways they are more like...
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Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?
via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
... gotten my hair cut:Then I was reading Google Apps Hacks and Hack 25 caught my eye: “Show the difference between two dates”. A formula like “=INT(A2-A1)” will automatically compute how many days passed between the date listed in cell A1 and the date listed in cell A2.If you copy and paste a date from Google Calendar’s search results into a cell, it will automatically format a nice ...
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Email Of The Day
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on May 15, 2008
A reader writes:My Beloved, Samantha, just asked me to update my Facebook page to confirm that I'm engaged to her. My mother just called for the third time this morning and choked out through her tears, "I promise this is the last time I'll call this morning, but I understand that the proper protocol is that the mother of the bride pays for the wedding." I've left a message for our...
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Should We Be Concerned That The Military Will Use Counterfeit Routers Bought Off eBay?
via Techdirt by Michael Masnick on May 14, 2008
There was a story last week that got a lot of press about how the FBI discovered that the military was using a ton of counterfeit technology equipment, including thousands of fake Cisco routers. Dan Wallach has an excellent writeup looking at the security implications of what happened. From the description, it certainly doesn't sound like any of the equipment was found to include any kind...
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Retract, Boehner
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on May 15, 2008
Pete Wehner, formerly at the Bush White House and now writing for Commentary, among other things, draws a line:It’s perfectly acceptable if people want to criticizeObama for his comments. One could, for example, dispute Obama’s assertionthat the Israeli-Palestinian issue “infect[s] all of our foreignpolicy.” There is a widespread view among many foreign policy elites thatall the problems...
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Bush vs Obama
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on May 15, 2008
This is manna for the Obama campaign, sent straight from Heaven. Who wouldn't want to run against this president this November? By conflating Bush and McCain on this, the White House has done the Democrats a massive favor.
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My lawyers are freaking out
via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs by Steve on May 15, 2008
Just got a nervous call from my lawyers who said they wanted to give me a "heads up" about a "situation" at Broadcom. See more about it here. Basically the feds are going after some Broadcom execs over some options backdating stuff. I'm like, So what? I don't work at Broadcom. They're like, Um, well, see, Broadcom did its own internal investigation and already cleared these guys, and...
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Kerry on Bush's "Absolutely Shameless" Act
via Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall on May 15, 2008
Sen. Kerry blasts President Bush's "shameless" act of launching a domestic political attack in front of a foreign parliament. In case you hadn't heard yet, the president attacked Sen. Obama as a terrorist coddler on the order of the late 30s Nazi-appeasers in a speech before the Israeli Knesset. As the president who's probably done more to damage this country than any in 150 years,...
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Google Spreadsheets Become Wikis
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 14, 2008
Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secret code and the people you invited had to login using a Google account. If you click on the Share tab and enable "Anyone can edit this document WITHOUT LOGGING IN", your spreadsheet becomes a wiki...
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CWA President, A Super-Delegate, Will Endorse Obama
via TPM Election Central by Greg Sargent on May 15, 2008
Larry Cohen, the president of the Communication Workers of America and a super-delegate from D.C., will endorse Obama today, CWA's communications office confirms to me.A press release will go out sometime soon. CWA's umbrella union sat out the primary, and had left it up to individual locals to decide whom to endorse.That brings Obama's count for the day to two. Seattle Rep. Jim...
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