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Google Launching “Friend Connect;” Plaxo to Become Social Graph Provider
via The Real McCrea by therealmccrea on May 11, 2008
... me and has a nice writeup on Google Friend Connect and how it compares with last week’s announcements from MySpace and Facebook. Here’s an excerpt:John McCrea, vice president of marketing at Plaxo, said that Google’s Friend Connect is “flipping the model,” from walled gardens to a more open Social Web. “Instead of widgetizing apps and bolting them on to some corporation’s pr...
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CLONE WARS trailer hits in HD Quicktime!!!
via Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. by HEADGEEK on May 08, 2008
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How to Quickly Grab Pictures from Web Pages Into Picnik for Editing
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on May 11, 2008
You know how easy it is to pull an image from a website into an online photo editing applications - you simply have to copy-paste the URL of the picture into Picnik and the software will fetch it from the source location.Now consider a slightly different situation - a web page contains dozens of photographs and you want to pull some of them into Picnik. What’s the easy way ?For instance, do a...
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Nice, true, simple
via Monoscope by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
ad made for Milenio, a Mexican newspaper who claims they solved the inner workings of Bush's personality. Simpson Texas cowboy = GWB. The tagline reads: "Such a complex world needs a good explanation."
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Firefox 3 Nearing Completion
via CyberNet by Ryan on May 11, 2008
Development on the Firefox 3 browser is finally starting to wrap up. It’s been a year and a half since Firefox 2 was released to the public, and by the end of May Firefox 3 will have entered the Release Candidate stages. This is all preparation for what looks to be a June 2008 launch of the long awaited Firefox 3 browser.Mozilla has been fortunate enough to have over 1.2 million users test out...
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Powerset brings the Semantic Web to Wikipedia
via Webware.com by Dan Farber on May 11, 2008
Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset launched a public beta of its Wikipedia search engine. It brings a new, rich semantic dimension via natural language query processing to Wikipedia that greatly improves the search and reading experience.The company calls it a first step in changing the way users search and consume Web content. "It's a complete shift....
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Windows XP SP3 - No Downgrading IE 7 To 6
via The Blade by Ron Schenone on May 11, 2008
In another interesting twist, those who choose to install SP3 for Microsoft Windows XP, will lose the ability to downgrade from IE7 to version 6. On a recent blog entry by a Microsoft developer, this fact and others were confirmed. The article also states:Internet Explorer 6 UsersXPSP3 will continue to ship with IE6 and contains a roll-up of the latest security updates for IE6. If you are still...
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If You Need A Vista Recovery Disk - Download One From Here
via The Blade by Ron Schenone on May 11, 2008
If you are one of the unfortunate souls who did not get a Vista recovery disk with your new PC purchase, you can download one in a iso image from the link below. The only problem is that this is a torrent download and requires you share the downloading chores with others. On the site it states:It doesn’t matter that you just paid a thousand dollars for a machine that comes with a valid Windows...
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David Feldman on Risks of Bisphenol A
via Medgadget by Michael on May 11, 2008
David Feldman, MD, emeritus professor of endocrinology at Stanford, and his team were the first researchers to identify and warn about possible effects of low levels of bisphenol A (BPA) on human health. BPA has been increasingly seen in the news lately, with Wal-Mart and Nalgene moving away from the chemical used in many household plastics, as well as Canada leaning toward declaring the chemical...
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Twitter: The first draft of history?
via mathewingram.com|work by Mathew on May 11, 2008
Like many others, I woke up this morning to Twitter messages about a disaster in China: a magnitude 7.8 (at last report) earthquake in the southwest, with thousands of people either dead or injured. Much like the forest fires in California last fall and other recent news events, Twitter became one of the main sources of on-the-ground reporting — even before CNN started picking up what was...
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