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What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 26, 2008
Lots of people are asking me questions about what made me cry at Microsoft a few weeks ago.If I told you “a telescope” you’d make fun of me, right? Tell me I’m lame and that I don’t deserve to be a geek and that I should run away and join the circus, right?Well, that’s what I saw.Or, more accurately, the World Wide Telescope.Like I said, sounds lame. How could that possibly be the...
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Jott Reads Feeds to Your Cell Phone [Jott]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on June 02, 2008
Voice-to-text service Jott has up and reversed their game a bit with their latest service offering—having custom-picked feeds read back to you, over your phone connection. If you're already a Jott member, you should see a feed notice when you log in starting today, where you can choose highlighted feeds (including Lifehacker) or give Jott your custom feeds. Call into Jott, say "Jott feeds"...
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The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on January 25, 2008
Yesterday morning I woke up early. Was sitting in the hotel lobby at 7 a.m. trying to check email when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, which now has 68 million active users (people who’ve signed on in the past 30 days).He invited me to a breakfast with Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf. We walked together to the breakfast, which was...
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The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud
via Jonathan Schwartz's Blog by Jonathan Schwartz on March 02, 2008
I had no idea the Hubble telescope could see only 12 billion years into the past. Frankly, I'd never really thought about telescopes looking into the past until Dr. Michael Norman, a researcher from UCSD gave me a basic education in astronomy - and explained the Hubble looks at celestial bodies whose light is just now reaching us. But it can "only" see 12 billion years into the past - and...
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Google Reader’s new “share note” feature: the video review
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble One thing is FriendFeed now says it is importing these headlines. I wish these comments had a LOT more features.I love the idea of Google Reader’s new “share note” feature, but find it lacking in implementation — watch along in this video review.What’s really wrong with it?1. It’s breaking on my machines. No way to cancel note that I can see, and UI is not...
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Ancient Roman computer was used to chart the skies
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 18, 2008
Some of the mystery surrounding the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanical computer recovered from a 2100-year-old Roman shipwreck near BritainGreece has been unravelled. The device was an astronomical calculator -- and it employed a differential gear!Using modern computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth at Cardiff University peered...
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A Sample Social Media Toolkit
via [chrisbrogan.com] by chrisbrogan on January 21, 2008
There are countless ways to get into the game with Social Media, but sometimes, we get hung up on evaluating tools and thinking about which are the best for the job. We go further into thinking about the variety of tools and why we
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Rumors of Google and Dell iPhone Rival
via Slashdot by CmdrTaco on January 29, 2008
An anonymous reader writes "Speculation is mounting that Google is plotting the launch of a mobile phone in partnership with computer giant Dell. Senior industry sources claim the two companies will reveal their plans at next month's 3GSM telecoms conference in Barcelona, al-though Google insiders deny an announcement is due in the near future."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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