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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on January 29, 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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Readburner’s Unofficial API
via Mashable! by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on January 30, 2008
A mark of a truly successful product is the fact that folks love it so much that they’ll unnecessarily begin hacking it up so they can extract every last drop of functionality from the service as is humanly (machine-ly?) possible. That is the case with the newly minted memetracker for creators of Google Reader powered linkblogs, ReadBurner. Found pre-maturely by Louis Gray, the site has seen a...
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Ex-Googlers Launch Intsructional Video Site Howcast, Raise $8 Million A Round
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on February 05, 2008
A New York City startup called Howcast is launching today that wants to be the YouTube of instructional videos. In fact, the three founders—Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman—are ex-Google employees who worked on Google Video and YouTube before they left eight months ago. They actually are going for a little more polish than YouTube, trying to bring some production values to...
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How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends [Feature]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on February 17, 2008
Best-selling author Tim Ferriss offers digital minimalism tips for reducing the amount of time you spend dealing with email.Investment bankers aren't known for their impulse control. Several global firms in Zurich don't allow their bankers to check email more than twice per day. The reason is simple: the more they check email, the more compelled they feel to send email. Technologist...
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Build Your Own Gmail Notifier Lamp [DIY]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 18, 2008
On Saturday you learned how to control hobbyist hardware using the Arduino microcontroller, and today we've got another neat Arduino project: a Gmail notifier lamp. Blogger Jamie Matthews connected a cube lamp to his Mac, and using the Arduino, configures it to light when he gets new messages to his Gmail account. Hit the link to get the details on the Gmail notifier hardware and software...
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Do More with Your Webcam with Free Tools [Webcams]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 26, 2008
The webcam that came packaged with your computer system can do a whole lot more than just let you video chat. With the right tools, you can turn your webcam into a watchful surveillance tool, a face recognition-enabled computer login utility, a time-lapse movie-maker, and more. Let's take a look at some ways you can get more out of your underutilized webcam.Keep In Touch with Friends and...
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The Laptop Lover's Guide to Productivity On-the-Go [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on January 28, 2008
You're an on-the-go worker, and the one thing you always carry with you? Your trusty laptop, of course. Sure, you've reached a point where you're pretty good at getting things done away from your desk, but you still haven't reached laptop zen—that point at which your laptop does gymnastics for you and is a seamless extension of your productivity. Today we're taking a look at...
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AjaxDaddy Adds Slick Applets to Your Web Site [Web Publishing]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 24, 2008
Need to give your blog or personal site a more modern look? AjaxBuddy, a free repository of Web 2.0-style site tools, is great for site owners who don't have time to learn an entire programming language, or just need a starter block of code to get building. Grab free, easy-to-modify code for Flickr-like editing fields, quick-loading slideshows and tabbed galleries, instant graphs,...
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Ophcrack Live CD Cracks Windows Passwords [Password Recovery]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 28, 2008
All systems with access to a Windows partition: The free, open source Windows password cracker, Ophcrack Live CD, has updated to version 3.0 with faster cracking, a better interface, and an all-new Vista version. We've walked you through how to crack a Windows password with Ophcrack in the past (and offered tips for securing your password against Ophcrack), but the new and improved version...
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Run Xbox Media Center from a USB Drive [XBox Media Center]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on June 06, 2008
We've shown you how to turn your classic Xbox and Mac into a super-powered media center using Xbox Media Center, but what about everybody else? Well, if you've got at least a 1 GB USB drive and a computer that can boot from it, you're in luck. LiveXBMC, a blend of the XBMC and Ubuntu Linux, lets you do all the same big-screen media playing, file sharing, DVD ripping, and other media...
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