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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:59:13 -0800

Google Translation Bar
One of my favorite bookmarklets translates the current web page into English using Google Translate: you can find it here. Unfortunately, Google Translate doesn't handle properly web pages dynamically generated using JavaScript. For example, if you try...
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:07:51 -0800

Netbooks: The Disruptive Dual-OS Future
In the computer operating system game, you don’t have to dominate to succeed — just ask Apple. With that in mind, emerging open source-based netbook software platforms could have surprisingly bright futures as secondary OSes, including Google’s....
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:05:40 -0800

Dying career: traffic helicopter pilot
I still like listening to KGO Radio (AM 810 San Francisco) but on there they still make a big deal about having a traffic helicopter and a team that covers traffic. Every day they put on air someone caught in traffic too, mostly on the Bay Bridge, to...
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:51:52 -0800

Some Thoughts On Email After Dealing With 500 Emails
I just spent four hours going through my inbox and taking it from 500 emails to zero. These were old unanswered emails, not spam (which I delete regularly in the ordinary course of business).My email routine, now that I am solidly on gmail and loving it,...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:08:49 -0800

eBay Maps Out Black Friday Online Transactions
While Black Friday has long been a popular phenomenon for brick and mortar stores, the deal frenzy has been extending to e-retailers and online stores. Now, sales on the web are equally as lucrative as those in the stores. eBay is launching a campaign...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:08:37 -0800

It’s Not Easy Being Popular. 77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans
In this age of instant Internet celebrity, anyone can become famous for 15 seconds (to rework Andy Warhol’s oft-quoted maxim). But what does famous mean exactly when anyone can have a Facebook fan page—those public pages on Facebook set up by...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:08:33 -0800

9/11 Pager Data Visualization
The organization Wikileaks recently published a data set of pager intercepts from the 9/11 tragedy. As described on their website: Text pagers are usually carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:22 -0800

The Real-Time PR Man
If you attend a tech event or conference you will probably run into Brian Solis. He’s one of those rare PR birds: everywhere all the time. He’s always on Twitter and Facebook too. Plus he guest posts over on Techcrunch, which shows he’s gotten the...
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:48:24 -0800

Most Searchers Use Three or More Keywords
According to Experian, the majority of US searches (at least those that generate clicks) incorporate more three or more keywords. This is likely being driven keyword suggestions, a feature that's now the default for virtually every search engine...
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:47:49 -0800

In The Age Of Realtime, Twitter Is Walter Cronkite
The year is 1963. It’s November. At 1:40 PM ET, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite comes on the air. “In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been...
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:43:49 -0800

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Your thoughts on waving so far

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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:42:53 -0800

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@stevegillmor wonder why you still use i! Are you The only one left?

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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:29:07 -0800

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rssCloud Blog - Fake popularity stats for real-time feeds

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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:22:39 -0800

In India, Thanksgiving Day Brings Remembrance

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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:09:22 -0800

This week on TechCrunch: very bad things, irritable Germans, retro fall-outs and shopping til you drop
If you’re anything like me – and let’s for all of our sakes pray that you’re not – then your first thought as you stagger back to your desk today, bloated and giddy after Thanksgiving, will likely be “what can I do to kill time until the end...
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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:15:08 -0800

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Obama's First Year Policies Need Time to Settle In - TIME

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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:45:50 -0800

State of the Art: Novel Now, but Not for Long
This year has produced many gadgets — high-tech and low — that point toward the future.
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:45:44 -0800

Bringing Big Smiles to iPhone Shutterbugs
A look at 15 of the roughly 2,000 camera apps that can help you capture, edit, enhance and share your images.
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:45:24 -0800

Aviary’s Chrome Extension Proves That These Add-Ons Are Going To Be Awesome
I have something to admit: I’ve never been a big extension guy. When I was still using Firefox, I liked them, but the downside, browser bloat, turned me away. But now that we’re starting to see the first steps of true extension support in Chrome, I...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:27:15 -0800

Dubai’s Move on Debt Rattles Markets Worldwide - NYTimes.com

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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:21:10 -0800

4mapper Puts Foursquare On The Map
As one of the hot social-location properties, Foursquare has a wealth of information about where you go. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really offer many good ways to visualize it. In fact, Foursquare only focuses on providing a text stream of your...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:20:31 -0800

The Rise of Nations
A visualization of the ascent of many of the world's youngest countries showing their independence from colonial powers (British, Portuguese, French, Spanish) from 1800 to 2009. France keeps its yoke on a stunning number of nations until...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:47:35 -0800

Why Google Wave Sucks, And Why You Will Use It Anyway
This guest post was written by Martin Seibert, a German Internet media consultant. Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment. The ambitious group collaboration and micro-messaging platform started rolling out in beta via an initial batch of 100,000...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:27:29 -0800

iCurrent Wants to Personalize News for the Masses
People are nostalgic for newspapers for a reason. The growing multitude of options for getting your daily news is more stressful than informative. We have on the one hand Google Reader, with its ever-growing mass of unread items, and on the other sites...
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:42:34 -0800

How (slowly) we add metadata to tweets
Why make an exception for geographic data or which app created the tweet or which tweet it's in response to, or that it was retweeted by 7 people and who they are? Or who wrote it? And when? These bits of data all live outside the 140 character...
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