Storyteller and poet Rives tells a three-minute love story with a twist — it’s all done with emoticons. A very clever video presentation given at TED, worth a watch.Rives is a regular on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and starts in the Bravo...
Topics: emoticons, humor, video

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Google has done some interesting things with mobile search in the past year, introducing voice search and local search using the location awareness capabilities of today’s smartphones. Today, they are introducing visual search called Google...
Topics: android, google, iPhone, Mobile, search

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Nimbuzz has created the first multi-network IM app for BlackBerry smartphones available in the RIM App World store. Because it’s design as a native BlackBerry app, it can run in the background and push notifications to the phone much like their...
Topics: Blackberry, nimbuzz, smartphone

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Rock giants U2 will be broadcasting tonight’s concert at the Rose Bowl in a global webcast on YouTube. You can view the concert on the official U2 channel, which will be available in 16 countries.Tonight’s concert will be an acid test for...
Topics: concert, live, Social Networks, U2, video, youtube

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I’ve been getting the Twitter Fail Whale with an “over capacity” message on and off this afternoon. Apparently Twitter has been getting a lot of traffic. As they say, stuff happens. It seems to be working now, but I thought I’d...
Topics: fail whale, status, Twitter

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