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A Feed for Unread Gmail Messages
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 03, 2008
Gmail has a very cool feature not available in other webmail applications: feeds for unread messages. For example, the feed http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/ shows the most recent unread items from your inbox. Gmail also offers feeds for your labels: http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/labelname/, but it would be nice to have a comprehensive listing of all the unread messages, not just the...
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We've officially acquired DoubleClick
via Official Google Blog by Karen on March 11, 2008
Posted by Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEOI'm pleased to share the news that we completed our acquisition of DoubleClick today. Although it's been nearly a year since we announced our intention to acquire DoubleClick last April, we are no less excited today about the benefits that the combination of our two companies will bring to the online advertising market.Because we have been waiting...
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Low-Hassle Ways to Secure Your Computer System [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 08, 2008
If time were no object, we'd all live a more secure computer life—we'd beef up our browsers, use complex passwords, and keep our data locked up with encryption Skynet couldn't crack. But that kind of stuff requires obscure software, tricky command line work, and most of a free weekend, right? Nope. Anybody can feel more secure about their systems with the help of some free software...
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Infrared LEDs make you invisible to CCTV cameras
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 20, 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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Google Reader Gets Way More Social With New Sharing Features
via Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Drew Olanoff This is great for ReadBurner users!!!This story is near and dear to my heart: Google Reader has added a bunch of features to make sharing items more social and much easier. The biggest addition, which makes Google Reader sharing a lot more like saving something to del.icio.us or submitting it to Digg, is a new bookmarklet so you can share any web page in Google Reader. ...
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The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on January 26, 2008
Yesterday morning I woke up early. Was sitting in the hotel lobby at 7 a.m. trying to check email when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, which now has 68 million active users (people who’ve signed on in the past 30 days).He invited me to a breakfast with Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf. We walked together to the breakfast, which was...
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Bringing OpenID To The Masses: Clickpass
via TechCrunch by Nick Gonzalez on March 11, 2008
OpenID, a way to sign on to multiple web sites with a single set of credentials, has incredible promise. Large companies have signed up. Thousands of website take OpenID sign-ins. All is good, right?Well, not exactly. First, those big companies only issue IDs, they don’t accept them yet. And the user experience with OpenID is just plainbad. Users have to remember their OpenID URL, and are...
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Social Search is Coming
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 01, 2008
In a recent interview with VentureBeat, Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of Search Products & User Experience, spoke of Google's interest in social search and their future plans in that area. Social search, which may be the defining quality of Google's next generation of search products, is any search that is aided by a social interactions or connections. Offline, social search happens...
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Is Google's Social Graph API a Creeping Privacy Violation?
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on February 04, 2008
I love me some screenscaping and mashups and data portability, but when it comes to personal information things get a little more complicated.I'm in San Francisco today at Dappercamp, an event concerning a tool that's always got the rights of those it interfaces with in mind as an issue. Keynote speaker Mitch Kapor just told the group that the foundations of the web are sharing and...
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A Question of Programming Ethics
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on March 07, 2008
... that with the following hair-raising tale from Dustin Brooks:I was looking for a way to back up my gmail account to a local drive. I've accumulated a mass of important information that I would rather not lose. During my search I came across G-Archiver, I figured what the heck I'll give it a try.It didn't really have the functionality I was looking for, but being a programmer my...
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