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Microsoft researchers make me cry
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 14, 2008
It’s not often that I see software that really changes my world. It’s even rarer that I see software that I know will change the world my sons live in. I can count those times pretty easily. The first time I saw an Apple II in 1977. When Richard Cameron showed me Apple’s Hypercard. Microsoft’s Excel. Aldus’ Pagemaker. And something called Photoshop, all in his West Valley Community...
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The killer Twitter-tracker just arrived and its name is Tweetmeme
via TechCrunch by Mike Butcher on January 28, 2008
It had to happen sooner or later. We’ve had Technorati. We’ve had TechMeme. Now we have Tweetmeme, which will track what’s hot on micro-blogging platform Twitter. The business of tracking the online conversation just a got shot in the arm with the tech equivalent of crack cocaine.Built by the makers Fav.or.it, a yet-to-launch blog commenting system, Tweetmeme looks for new content and...
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An hour and a half with Barack Obama
via RB | Popular | min 3 by (author unknown) on March 03, 2008
... maximum amount of "hard money" we could to the Obama campaign, less than $10,000 total for both the primary and the general election. On the other hand, we also donated to Mitt Romney's Republican primary effort -- conclude from that what you will.I carried four distinct impressions away from our meeting with Senator Obama.First, this is a normal guy.I've spent time with a lot of...
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The "Work From Home" Generation
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on January 24, 2008
For decades in American households the most dreaded morning soundwas that of an alarm clock. Sometime between 6 and 7am a beep or radio musicsignaled that it was time to get up and head to work. But in the early 21st centurytwo things have begun to change. First, the alarm clock is going off a little bit later. And second,instead of putting on suits and driving to work, people are heading to the...
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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on January 30, 2008
For 2007, our Best Web LittleCo was Twitter, the microblogging/status application that captured the collective attention of Silicon Valley at SXSW last winter and has been on a meteoric rise ever since. We picked Twitter because it "has captured the imagination and become a new hybrid of chat, social networking and blogging." But, unlike 2006's Best LittleCo YouTube, which has become firmly...
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A Guide to Billionaire Bloggers - And Some We'd Like to See
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on February 06, 2008
With the news today that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is getting ready to start blogging, we started to wonder what other billionaires blog. Sadly (or perhaps not to sadly), not many of them blog. Why should we care if a billionaire blogs? After all, they only represent the tiniest fraction of the population (there are at last count 946 billionaires worldwide compared to about 6.6 billion...
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Tiinker is the Anti-Digg
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 09, 2008
Whereas the social news service from Digg relies on members to select and rank content, a new startup from Sydney, Australia, tiinker, does just the opposite: it treats each member as an individual and learns what he or she likes. The service, an intelligent news aggregator, uses A.I.-like technology to determine your interests and then adapts to show you the news stories you will find most...
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It’s Official. People Love Online Videos. Billions Of ‘Em.
via Mashable! by Sean P. Aune on February 09, 2008
It would seem people spent quite a lot of time in front of their computers in December watching online videos. According to the latest numbers from Comscore, a total of 141 million unique viewers, an increase of 2.5 million, watched 10,156,199,000 videos.Who’s the king of online video? It’s likely very obvious, but if precise numbers are what you seek, numbers are what you’ll get. Dennis...
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Blog Headers For Free Download
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on March 05, 2008
One month ago we’ve asked our readers to help us create a gallery of blog header graphics which every designer could use for free and without any restrictions whatsoever. We’ve announced a Header Graphics Contest and now, one month later, it’s time to present the most interesting, creative and beautiful works we’ve received.38 graphic designers and artists participated; as a result...
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The real roadblocks to data portability on social networks
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on March 26, 2008
I see that Yahoo has joined up with Google’s Open Social. That’s cool because it will let developers build gadgets, widgets, social networking applications, or whatever we’re calling these things that are like Facebook apps, twice, instead of dozens of times. Once for Facebook and once for everyone else. That’s really great, because it’ll encourage developers to build a bunch of new...
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