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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 08, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 19, 2008
This German exibition is showcasing bright infrared LED devices that overwhelm the CCDs in security cameras, allowing you to move through modern society in relative privacy. I used this as a gimmick in my story I, Robot -- now I want to own one!The URA / FILOART developed device promises to the citizens of a more reliable protection against security measures of the state (and other...
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How to Make Facebook Useful Again
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 19, 2008
Oh the heels of some of Facebook's missteps (ahem, Beacon) and the proliferation of a myriad of useless, silly, and time-wasting apps, someformer Facebook users decided to quit the site for good this year. However, a handful of early adopter angst doesn't have Facebook worried. Why is that? Because Facebook has a whole generation of users who grew up using their site for everything social...
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OLPC 2.0: A Striking eBook and a Step In the Right Direction
via TechCrunch by John Biggs on May 20, 2008
Here is the the next-generation OLPC. It will consist of dual touchscreens on a single spine and include keyboard, face-to-face, and ebook functionality. The touchscreens will be built by a start-up by OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen. These screens will be readable in direct sunlight, just like the OLPC. I’m glad that the second generation OLPC is more of an ebook than a laptop. While the...
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Google Spreadsheets Macros and List Mode Editing
via Google Blogoscoped by Tony Ruscoe on May 27, 2008
It seems a bunch of new functionality might be coming to the Google Docs spreadsheets application. By accessing one of Google’s experimental sites (like the one where I found offline access would be coming to Google Docs) I was able to get a sneaky look at some of this functionality, including the ability to record, edit and run macros, edit a shared spreadsheet in something called “List...
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Do you own trees?
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on June 01, 2008
Today's New York Times reports an astonishing fact: Book publishers wholesale their ebooks to Amazon for precisely the same price as their paper books. Amazon loses money on every ebook for the Kindle they sell because publishers don't discount zero-cost ebooks. Apparently, the publishers don't count the paper, storage, inventory, shredding and shipping expenses in their cost...
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The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard?
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on June 04, 2008
Last week we looked at how some browsers and plug-ins were adopting storage-related API’s that are a part of the new HTML5 draft specification. While Gears, Opera and Webkit have implemented structured storage API’s, the remainder of the HTML5 spec currently remains mostly unimplemented and also in a state of flux. HTML5 is a super-sized effort to bring all the browsers under a single,...
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The Idea Behind "Can Google Hear Me"
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 09, 2008
You might remember the crazy story behind CanGoogleHearMe.com: Aaron Stanton had a great idea he couldn't bring to life and he decided to pitch it to Google. Last year, he created a site to share his story and managed to convince Google to hear his idea. Since then, a lot of things have happened, other companies became interested in his project and he created a prototype, with a small team of...
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Noam Chomsky at Google (Video)
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 11, 2008
Noam Chomsky, author and institute professor at the Massachussets Institute of Technology, visited Google’s Cambridge office for a question & answers session last month. Topics covered are the concept of universal grammar and how this branch changed over time; positive progress recent generations made towards better understanding of history; pros and cons of the internet as a medium in...
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Staircase Bookshelf Does Double Duty [Household]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 22, 2008
A London-based couple wanted easy ways to maximize the use of space in their small flat, and a built-in staircase-shaped bookcase does the job. This isn't a DIY project—an architect built it in, and it's a pretty steep climb, but the owner says she got used to it quickly. While this is more a gawk and drool wishlist scenario for most people's actual homes, you can always build...
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