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Fifty Android Developers Get $25,000 Each: The List
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 13, 2008
The winners of the first round of the Android Developer Challenge have been announced. Fifty developers will receive $25,000 each to build out their Android mobile phone apps. Only 46 were announced (the other four prefer to remain stealth—wimps). From this list, ten will receive another $100,000 each, and another ten will receive $250,000 each. The Phandroid blog gives a rundown of what...
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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 09, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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Google Started Blurring Street View Faces
via Google Blogoscoped by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by Rick Klau The horse lobby really pushed hard for the blurring. Glad we could accommodate them.Google updated the panorama photo imagery of Manhattan as part of Google Maps, and for this update also blurred the faces of persons shown in the pictures. Google at their maps-related blog writes, “This effort has been a year in the making – working at Street View-scale is a tough...
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You Lose, You Resign
via Patrick Ruffini by Patrick Ruffini on May 14, 2008
There is no sugarcoating tonight’s result in MS-1. Thankfully, the NRCC doesn’t even try, issuing a soberly worded statement from Chairman Tom Cole in lieu of the usual upbeat results memo: [T]he political environment is such that voters remain pessimistic about the direction of the country and the Republican Party in general. Therefore, Republicans must undertake bold efforts to define a...
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Google Reader iPhone Beta Launches [IPhone]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 12, 2008
Google launches a new beta version of Google Reader for the iPhone. Visit google.com/reader/i/ to check it out on your handset or in your browser. [via]
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Childers On Track To Win It
via Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall on May 14, 2008
I didn't think the Dems would pull this one off. The Republicans brought Cheney in late bout of campaigning -- maybe not such a bad idea. But it looks like Childers is going to win this thing. He's only narrowly ahead. But it's pretty much only his strong precincts that are still to report. Late Update: AP's called it. Childers takes Mississippi's 1st district, an...
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Democrats win MS-1 Special Election
via 2008 Democratic Convention Watch by Matt on May 14, 2008
... each district being more progressively Republican, Childer's win is going to send shock waves throughout the political community. This district has a Partisan Voter Index (PV) of R+10, meaning on average it votes 10% more Republican than the nation as a whole. If every district with a PV of R+10 was in play in November, that's 50 seats the GOP will have problems defending.Oh, and yes,...
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Democrats Pick Up MS-1
via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Democrats "appeared to regain control of north Mississippi's 1st Congressional District" as Travis Childers (D) beat Greg Davis (R) in their special election runoff, the Clarion Ledger reports.Childers victory means he will serve the final months of a term vacatedby Roger Wicker. Wicker, a Republican, was appointed to the U.S. Senateafter former Sen. Trent Lott resigned in December.Democrats...
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Google Maps Adds More: Wikipedia Entries and Geo-Coded Photos
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 13, 2008
If you go to Google Maps, you’ll notice there is now a “”More” button right next to “Street View”" and “Traffic.” If you click on it after getting a map, you will be given the options to tick “Photos” or “Wikipedia.” Ticking the first option populates teh map with geo-tagged photos provided by Panoramio. Ticking the second gives you geo-coded Wikipedia articles. For...
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Didn't that woman blog about Al Roker's nipples?
via dooce.com by dooce on May 13, 2008
When the producer for NBC called me and asked if I'd be interested in flying to New York to be on a live segment of the Today show to talk about the business of mommy-blogging — okay, wait a minute, I think I should address this right here, right now, this label MOMMY BLOG. Do I consider my website a mommy blog? Not really, no. When I sit down to update my website I don't think to...
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