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iSlsk Brings Filesharing to the iPhone
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 15, 2008
Soulseek, which was creted by former Napster programmer Nir Arbel and visibly resembles early versions of Napster, is not one of the most popular filesharing apps. It doesn't have the mainstream appeal of Kazaa or Limewire, nor does it garner the press attention of BitTorrent. And that's all probably fine with its users, who tend to gravitate toward more independent musical fare. But...
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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 12, 2008
Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The large-scale committee approach is powerful because it leans on the concept of the...
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LocatePC Tracks Stolen Computers with Discrete Emails
via Lifehacker: not AOL, not Apple, not Ask Metafilter, not Command Line, not daily news roundup, not eBay Hacks, not eBay, not Facebook, not Featured Linux Download, not Featured Mac Download, not Get a Job, not IE7, not Internet Explorer, not Internet Explo by Kevin Purdy on May 15, 2008
Windows only: Free computer-tracking application LocatePC is a lightweight application that can save you a hefty amount of money if your laptop, or even desktop, falls into the wrong hands. Running as a nondescript background app, LocatePC can quietly email you at regular intervals or, more helpfully, whenever your IP address changes. That could be a pain for those behind cable connections and...
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Orgasm and brain
via Mind Hacks by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by splashme Who doesn't like sex research. I like this female orgasam 'silent brain' thing. Take a look at the original article, its pretty interesting too.Scientific American Mind tackles the neuroscience of orgasm in a feature article which has just been released online.One of the merits of the article is that it avoids the 'men are simple, women are complex'...
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Canada's Defence Surprisingly Expensive, Edwards Endorses Obama, And Some People Just Don't Like Bins
via Torontoist by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by splashme Lol - thank YOU torontoistTory MP Jason Kenney complained that Romeo Dallaire was overly harsh when Dallaire criticized the federal government's handling of the Omar Khadr case. Kenney is a former general who is credited with using meagre resources to save the lives of over 20,000 people during the Rwandan genocide in the face of massive indifference from the west…no,...
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CRTC Sets Timeline for Throttling Case
via Michael Geist Blog by Michael Geist on May 15, 2008
... weeks to provide much more detail on its network congestion claims and its network management practices. Interested parties - ie. the public and other businesses - will have the chance to file comments by June 12, 2008. Combined with the new media discussion document slated to be released later today, CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein wasn't kidding when he told an industry conference ...
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Nexus Graphs Your Facebook Friends and More
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 12, 2008
Looking to visualize your Facebook friend graph? You can with a Facebook app called Nexus. This app is a friend grapher that displays a visual analysis of your Facebook connections. But it's not just a pretty picture: in addition to viewing how your friends are connected, you can use Nexus to discover what interests your friends share and which of your friends are the most similar to you.How...
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Torrent2Exe Turns BitTorrent Links into Double-Click Downloads
via Lifehacker: Downloads, not Gmail, not Linux, not Greasemonkey, not iPhone, not Mac OS X by Kevin Purdy on May 14, 2008
Windows only: Want to direct your non-Torrent-savvy friends or relatives to a download they really need to check out? Free web utility Torrent2Exe takes torrent download links—the kind you'd normally pass to your favorite BitTorrent client—and creates tiny .exe programs that do all the download work for whoever double-clicks them. You can also grab a link to post on your own site (or...
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World Publics Say Governments Should Be More Responsive to the Will of the People
via World Public Opinion by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Governments Widely Seen as Serving Big Interests, Not the PeopleCountry-by-Country Summaries (PDF)Questionnaire/methodology (PDF)Press Release (PDF)Full PDF VersionA WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 19 nations conducted around the world finds that, in every nation polled, publics support the principles of democracy. At the same time, in nearly every nation, majorities are dissatisfied with how...
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Digg Townhall #2 Wrap-Up
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 13, 2008
Last night was the second Digg Townhall, a live session hosted online by Digg founder Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson. Like before, Kevin asked Digg users to post their suggestions on Digg as to what topics should be covered. (The thread is here). Now that the event is over, we can review how well those questions were addressed. Using a fairly democratic system, Kevin and Jay announced that they...
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