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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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Note to Social Media Types- Build Your Interfaces
via chrisbrogan.com by chrisbrogan on May 15, 2008
If you’re thinking about a future in social media, build your interfaces. This means, if you’re someone making media, build your text, video, audio, and your entire business with the mindset of how to connect it up to other organizations. Think TechCrunch meets the Washington Post, for instance. Think about how you will share: content, processes, financial back and forths, responsibilities....
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Quantum cryptography may not be as secure as we thought
via Ars Technica by laserboy@fusemail.com (Chris Lee) on May 15, 2008
Mathematicians analyze a potential weakness in quantum cryptography and find that it can be solved by adding extra qbits.Read More...
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The Importance of Getting Paid
via Cafe Witness by Justin Kownacki on May 15, 2008
When you're a freelancer, NOTHING is more important than getting paid. Not finding new leads, not meeting your deadlines, not exceeding client expectations -- NONE of that compares to making sure there's money in your pocket and your bills are paid on time.Over the past 3 years, I've learned that the act of physically getting paid by clients is much harder than it should be. Some of...
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Get a Gravatar
via Chris Garrett on New Media by Chris Garrett on May 15, 2008
You might have noticed in my comments some of the commenters have their smiling faces grinning out at you while others have a drab gray blob.This my friends, is the Gravatar!A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web...
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These Are the Best of Times!
via Mark Evans by Mark Evans on May 15, 2008
Having experienced the dot-com boom (circa 1998 to 2001) as a technology journalist and startup entrepreneur, it was a really exciting time: lots of new and exciting companies and concepts, spectacular IPOs, great parties (amazing food, open bars) and sweet, bountiful swag.But there’s no comparison between then and what’s happening now on the Web. Put aside niggling concerns about the bubble...
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Are You Familiar with HTML and CSS? Six Reasons Why You Should Invest the Time to Learn
via Daily Blog Tips by Steven Snell on May 15, 2008
I had been involved with web design for a few years before I ever started blogging. In my opinion, being able to work with the code of a blog is a huge advantage that many bloggers choose not to pursue. Aside form the design aspect of creating an attractive blog, being able to work with the coding will allow you to make changes and adjustments to your blog any time you want, rather than relying...
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Too Many Choices, Too Much Content
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 14, 2008
Sometimes it's just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers. Take a day off and you're behind. Take an hour off and you just missed 300 more blog posts. In addition to the everyday struggles of information...
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A Day Without Twitter
via chrisbrogan.com by chrisbrogan on May 14, 2008
Yesterday, I took the day off from Twitter. I’ve been using it fairly solidly since the early days, and wanted to get a feel for what I was counting on Twitter to do for me. The results were interesting: I count on Twitter for group answers. A LOT. For instance, I needed to know who from the social media scene was in Detroit. I ended up using LinkedIn, but I know that means I missed a bunch...
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VBA Will Return To Mac Office
via Slashdot by kdawson on May 14, 2008
An anonymous reader sends a pointer to Erik Schwiebert's blog — he's the design lead of Microsoft's Mac Business Unit — where he announces that Visual Basic will be returning to Mac Office. Not in Office 2008, which started shipping earlier this year. We discussed the announced death of VBA in Mac Office 17 months back. Schwiebert says that the interval to the next version of Mac...
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