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Can Google Trends Predict The Election?
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on June 07, 2008
If more people are searching on Google for “Obama” than “McCain” does that mean he is more likely to win the election? Not every voter in the U.S. uses Google, or even uses the Internet, for that matter. But enough of the population does use Google that its search patterns cannot be ignored by either candidate, the press, or anyone interested in the outcome of the election. Fortunately,...
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Firefox Reaches Its Goal Despite Site Problems
via Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog by Stan Schroeder on June 18, 2008
When the final version of Firefox 3 became available yesterday, it seemed they’re going to have a hard time reaching the goal of five million downloads - an arbitrary number, since the record for most software downloads in 24 hours didn’t exist before - simply because all official Firefox sites have died, unable to withstand all that traffic. However, the admins managed to bring the sites...
Shared by: Drew Olanoff, kskobac, Shankar Ganesh, Tina K.J, metaeuphoria, Ali,
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Nintendo Channel for Wii goes live
via Engadget by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub I just used this today. No exactly amazing but you can submit what games you like/don't like to Nintendo so they can recommend games in the future. It asks you things like your age, gender, etc.Filed under: GamingIt didn't exactly launch with much fanfare but, as anyone's who's already flipped on their Wii today will know, the Nintendo Channel is now...
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iGoogle to Get Ads This Summer, Is Google Reader Next?
via Micro Persuasion by Steve Rubel on May 20, 2008
Google developer Dan Holevoet published the roadmap for the forthcoming changes to the iGoogle personalized home page. You can check out the presentation here. The site, which anecdotally I can tell you is getting very popular, will get a new canvas view (below) starting in June and social features over the summer. However, what's most notable is that iGoogle is getting ads. They have not...
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Hints of a Facebook Operating System In New Design
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 22, 2008
It’s become a common trope to say that Facebook and Google are vying to become the operating system of the Internet. But there are some very clear hints of that in Facebook’s upcoming new design, which it just opened up to today in a developer sandbox. (You can see it at http://www.new.facebook.com, although you’ll need to download some libraries to start testing apps with it). It...
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fbCal - Freeing Facebook Finally!
via Download Squad by Drew Olanoff on May 28, 2008
Filed under: Utilities, Web services, web 2.0Ever notice that there's a missing feature on Facebook? Ok, it's not the ability to be able to add 5.001 friends. Get over it, nobody can have that many friends.The real feature that's missing is an event calendar! Sure, we know whose birthday it is every day when we log in, and sure we know when the next event is because we get 83 emails...
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Have a "look around" with Panoramio
via Google LatLong by elaine on June 02, 2008
... enables photographers to geo-locate, store and organize their photographs and to view those images in their geographic context. You may already have seen photos from the Panoramio layer while zooming around in Google Earth or Google Maps (just click the "more" button), but have you visited the Panoramio website? Now, when browsing photos on the site you can explore multiple images of a pa...
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Move Over iGoogle, Feedly Launches Public Beta
via Mashable! by Alana Taylor on June 17, 2008
If you use iGoogle or Netvibes, I suggest you pay attention. The latest news and RSS feed aggregator to enter the “homepage” ring is Feedly. Created by the founders of DevHD, Feedly has officially launched it’s public beta release today.What is Feedly? It is self-described as “an attempt at creating a more social and magazine-like page for Firefox 3. Think MyYahoo meets Digg meets...
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Turn Your PC into a DVD Ripping Monster [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on March 24, 2008
Commercial DVDs are far too expensive to let scratches turn your video into a glorified coaster, but most people still don't back up their DVD collection. Once upon a time, the four to eight gigabyte footprint of a DVD on your hard drive was prohibitively large. But since the price of a gigabyte has plummeted, ripping your entire DVD collection to your computer is not just possible, it's...
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More ways to find what you're looking for
via Google LatLong by elaine on May 13, 2008
Posted by Christoph Oehler, Product ManagerYou may have noticed a bit of a theme with some of our recent announcements, such as mapped web pages and geotagged YouTube videos -- we want you to be able to view any information in its geographic context. But we realized that an important step is making that information easier to find, so we've now added a new button to Google Maps:The "More"...
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