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HP Smart Web Printing Saves Tons of Paper [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 19, 2008
Windows only: Freeware application HP Smart Web Printing combines clips from any number of web pages into one page, so you don't have to print five different pages of filler to get one page worth of information. The tool—which despite its HP origins works with any printer—integrates directly with both Firefox and Internet Explorer, so clipping text, images, or any part of a page is as...
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Technorati Launches Blog Ad Network, Technorati Media
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on June 17, 2008
Shared by Nico ad networks sind die neue heisse scheisse du jour.Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based very early growth metrics. Other startups, like Six Apart, have launched their own blog advertising networks as well.As we predicted, Technorati now joins them...
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Get ReadyBoost Speed on XP with eBoostr [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 05, 2008
Windows only: Speed up your computer with a spare USB thumb drive with eBoostr, an XP-only application that brings the benefits of Windows Vista's ReadyBoost feature to XP. The app can work with up to four devices, up to 4GB on each, and its smart-cache feature gives speed boosts to your more frequently used apps and data. eBoostr could be perfect for XP users who want a little extra memory...
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TechCrunch Stories Now Appear On WashingtonPost.com
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 07, 2008
We are announcing a new partnership today with WashingtonPost.com - TechCrunch stories will be syndicated to their site and added to the Technology section. The press release is here.I think this is a good experiment for the Washington Post - adding new types of content to the site to retain reader interest, over and above their existing stories. And this is certainly a great partnership for us,...
Shared by: Andrew Terry, metaeuphoria, Jason, Rick Klau, Jrod, caozenghui, charlie anzman, Farzin,
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FeedBurner FeedFlare for Blogger Comments
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 19, 2008
Now that FeedBurner is owned by Google, it makes sense to integrate with other Google services. One of the most requested features, a FeedFlare that shows the number of comments for each post from a Blogger blog, has been recently added. The FeedFlare links to Blogger's (ugly) comments page so you can easily add a comment if you read the post in a feed reader. Note that the comment feed has...
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The infographic that saved a million lives?
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on May 20, 2008
“No graphic in human history has saved so many lives in Africa and Asia,” says NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof about an infographic in a ‘97 Times article that spurred Bill and Melinda Gates to take action on public health.in september i traveled with bill gates to africa to look at his work fighting aids there. while setting the trip up, it emerged that his initial interest in giving...
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Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out
via A VC by Fred on May 27, 2008
I know that this has been discussed in great detail already. And I have a vested interest in this debate with our firm's investments in the disqus third party comment system and also twitter which is part of the problem. But today I saw something on FriendFeed that really got me thinking. Here's a picture of it:My brother, known as Jackson to the blog world, wrote a wonderful post on the...
Shared by: Jonathan, Rick Klau, atul, Sue, Andy C, louisgray, Frawst, Nico,
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Google Gears and WordPress 2.6 Is Not About Offline Blogging
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on May 28, 2008
... using Google Gears for a completely different purpose and that is to speed-up your regular blogging tasks.Let’s look at an example. Say you are moderating comments in WordPress and then switch to the dashboard view - this action will make WordPress download some web images, JavaScript libraries and CSS files in the background. With Google Gears, WordPress will store all these ’static’...
Shared by: Shankar Ganesh, Leko, atul, Andy C, Wyctim, Rick Klau, Antonio Ortiz, Todd Mundt,
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Improving on Robots Exclusion Protocol
via Official Google Webmaster Central Blog by (author unknown) on June 02, 2008
Shared by greenergrad nice to see google pulling back the curtain a bitWritten by Prashanth Koppula, Product ManagerWeb publishers often ask us how they can maximize their visibility on the web. Much of this has to do with search engine optimization -- making sure a publisher's content shows up on all the search engines.However, there are some cases in which publishers need to communicate...
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MapReduce Explained
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on January 23, 2008
... What does it do?Suppose you’re at work, and you need to do something that’s going to take a long time to run on your computer. You don’t want to wait. But you don’t want to go out and spend a couple of million dollars buying a supercomputer. How do you make it run faster? One way is buy a whole bunch of cheap machines, and make it run on all of them at once. Another is to notice that y...
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