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TimesMachine - New York Times
via timesmachine.nytimes.com by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.
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Use Amazon SQS to Build Self-Healing Applications
via Amazon Web Services Blog by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Geoffrey Wiseman A brief description of how you could use message queues and in particular SQS to act as a self-healing workflow.Quite a few people ask us about best practices that they should consider when architecting solutions in the cloud. This post covers just one best practice: how to use Amazon Simple Queue Service to build self-healing applications. The basic idea is that you...
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RAW vs JPEG
via Michael Mistretta by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble If you have a DSLR you should ALWAYS use RAW.Dan McCullum just got his first DSLR (congrats!) and DM’d me on twitter asking for my opinion on whether to shoot in RAW or JPEG. If you are completely photo illiterate, I suggest you stop reading this, get a large mug of your favourite drink and start here. Most amateur photographers have probably heard these terms thrown...
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Facebook Censoring User Messaging: Spam Prevention or Unaccountable Control of Conversation? - ReadWriteWeb
via www.readwriteweb.com by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble This is one of the reasons I'm really down on Facebook lately.Facebook and MySpace have replaced email for a substantial number of young people. Facebook, though, appears to believe that some things are better off not discussed in conversations ...
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The next time you complain about a company on Twitter, Get Satisfaction may be listening
via VentureBeat by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble Get Satisfaction is a really cool company. I'm going to interview them soon.While it wasn’t made very clear during its outages over the past several months, Twitter has been using the online customer service site, Get Satisfaction to respond to customer complaints. Now, the two are going to work hand in hand with one another to handle customer inquiries about other...
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Opera Takes on Apple With Open Widget SDK
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on May 20, 2008
The popular mobile browser Opera today launched a software developers kit (SDK) for widgets. While rival Apple's iPhone SDK requires that applications be distributed exclusively through the still-unlaunched iPhone App Store, pay a $99 application fee and wait - Opera SDK built widgets appear to be much more open and free. Opera's widgets will be able to run on the company's wildly...
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Q&A: Hard-driving Seagate CEO talks about making money in storage
via VentureBeat by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble Seagate is my sponsor on ScobleizerTV and I have an interview with Bill coming up on my show in the next week too. This interview is great, though.Bill Watkins is a hard driver. The CEO of Seagate, the $13 billion hard disk drive maker based in Scotts Valley, Calif., is racing to take advantage of the boom in storage as digital media spreads everywhere: to iPods, home...
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Seth's Blog: How to read a business book
via sethgodin.typepad.com by (author unknown) on May 20, 2008
Seth Godin's riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread.
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Why I Have Resisted FriendFeed
via Google Blog Search: scoble by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble Wait until we start talking about him in FriendFeed. Let's see if he can resist the temptation to join us then!To tell you the truth, I have been tempted to jump into FriendFeed for quit awhile ever since Robert Scoble began championing it even while it began to fracture commenting on blogs, but I have several reasons to wait on this one. ...
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Face to Face
via i love typography, the typography blog by johno (iLT) on May 20, 2008
An Interview With Stefan HattenbachStefan Hattenbach started designing typefaces in 1996. In 2003, he established his own independent foundry and design studio, MAC Rhino Fonts (MRF). Proud A.S. Roma supporter and father of two, Stefan works his magic from a studio in the beautiful city of Stockholm.What do you love about designing type?Oh many things. One is the challenge of getting the...
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