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2 months ago0
Year in Review: Social networks come of age
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/23/BU741B48V3.DTL
By the numbers, it's easy to say 2009 was the year social networking went mainstream. After all, if Facebook were a country, it would be the world's third most populated, behind China and India. Images But the numbers only begin to show how social networks, led by Bay Area companies Facebook and Twitter, are reshaping the way people communicate. And because of that trend, businesses began to adopt social media in 2009 and figure to get more involved in the new year. "The corporate response was no...
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3 months ago0
Online lives rewiring coffee shop culture
Ivor Tossell writes, "It turns out that technology doesn't make people antisocial – people who use the Internet are more likely to have a larger cadre of real friends"
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4 months ago0
Ken Lee - Bulgarian Idol (with subtitles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo
Guaranteed to make you laugh
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7 months ago0
Diverless car in 2040? Here's how it could look.
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8 months ago3
IE 6 is on its way out (can't be fast enough)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/
YouTube will soon drop support for IE6 and Digg is thinking of doing the same.
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8 months ago0
Gen Y prefers a trusted and safe network (not Twitter)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/why-teens-arent-using-twitter/
Interesting read about why teenagers don't gravitate towards Twitter. A report was written at Morgan Stanley by a 15 year old intern.
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8 months ago2
Apple tablet still rumored to arrive in October
http://gizmodo.com/5313266/re+rumor-apple-tablet-coming-in-october-priced-at-800
I will be first in line
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8 months ago0
Totlol - YouTube Vids for Kids
Totlol is a video website designed specifically for children. It is community moderated. It is constantly growing. It is powered by YouTube. The videos were submitted, screened and rated by parents. The selection is huge and if you like, you can participate too.
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8 months ago0
Google Chrome Operating System On Its Way
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/08/google-chrome-redefining-the-operating-system
Better watch out Microsoft
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8 months ago0
Make your own iPhone ringtones using just iTunes 8
http://www.ipodrepublic.com/iphone-accessories/create-free-iphone-ringtones-in-itunes/2009/06/30/
Overview: Use iTunes "Get Info" to pick a start/end time that spans not more than 40 second for any MP3 you have. Convert it to AAC (creates new file). Export the file out of iTunes so you can change its extension from m4a to m4r. Drag it back into your library. Sync your phone.
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8 months ago0
Bit.ly Grows (interesting stats)
Over 7 million URLs are shortened via the service each DAY, the company says, and 2-3 million of those are unique URLs Bit.ly has not seen before. Those Bit.ly URLs are clicked on 150 million times per week across a wide range of services
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8 months ago0
10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media
http://mashable.com/2009/06/19/teaching-social-media/
1. Promoting Content 2. Interviewing 3. News Gathering and Research 4. Crowdsourcing and Building a Source List 5. Publishing with Social Tools 6. Blog and Website Integration 7. Building Community and Rich Content 8. Personal Brand 9. Ethics: Remember, You’re Still a Journalist 10. Experiment, Experiment, Experiment
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8 months ago0
Who rules real-time search? A look at 11 contenders
http://venturebeat.com/2009/06/20/who-rules-real-time-search-a-look-at-9-contenders/
There's more than a few trying to solve this area of search.
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9 months ago0
Do you read a book a week? You could.
A billion brilliant business books (or so) pave the road to the cover of Fortune. But who has time to read and remember them all? ReadItFor.me does it for you. This idea packed, weekly video podcast reveals the best takeaways and instantly applicable ideas from the world’s best business brains.
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9 months ago0
iPhone app that helps you beatbox!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/11/bchamp-the-iphone-app-that-beatboxes-for-you
Watch the video to see this in action. There's no limit to what people can dream up for the right device.
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9 months ago4
Beginner's Guide to OAuth
http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2009/03/sunday-morning-homework.html
Sixent will use OAuth to connect with Twitter securely. Follow this link to learn more about it. OAuth allows you to share your private resources (photos, videos, contact list, bank accounts) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out your username and password. There are many reasons why one should not share their private credentials. Giving your email account password to a social network site so they can look up your friends is the same thing as going to dinner and giving your ATM...
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9 months ago0
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1902604,00.html
The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly?
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9 months ago0
Business Book Video Summaries
Do you read a book a week? You could at least get the core message of a great business book every week using this site. It's all video and they're to the point.
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Mar 27, 20090
Most interesting way to browse Flickr photo tags
Add a tag, click to add more tags and then click a "planet" to view the photos. Quite cool.
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Mar 26, 20090
Facebook is seeking $100M in debt financing
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090326_604141_page_2.htm
Carrying 245 million users isn't cheap!
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Mar 19, 20090
Apple Netbook is coming and it will have an OLED display like the next iPhone
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Mar 17, 20090
Twitter opens OAuth support to everyone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10197898-2.html
The adoption of OAuth (alonside OpenID) continues. On its Web site, OAuth is likened to a valet key given to a parking attendant--the key only allows access to, say, drive the car, but doesn't enable the trunk to be opened. "You give someone limited access to your car with a special key, while using your regular key to unlock everything...While OpenID is all about using a single identity to sign into many sites, OAuth is about giving access to your stuff without sharing your identity at all (or its...
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Mar 12, 20090
Google Friend Connect Opens Up APIs
http://code.google.com/apis/friendconnect/
Friend Connect API's enable developers to: * Integrate social flows and data directly within a page's markup, via the OpenSocial standard specification. * integrate existing login systems, registered users, and existing data with new social data and activities. * Create social gadgets & services that are embeddable within millions of Friend Connect enabled sites.
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Mar 12, 20090
Google Reader Adds Conversations
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-reader-is-your-new-watercooler.html
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Dec 5, 20081
Google Reader got a nice update (more square like Sixent too)
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/12/square-is-new-round.html