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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0800

WorldCat - the world's largest library catalog
"Your library's content and services can be discovered by millions of people where they work every day—on the Web. Use...
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:50:27 -0800

Navy Log > Home
"All members of the Navy community – Sailors, veterans, retirees, reservists, family members, friends, civilian employees and the private sector that serves the Navy – are invited to build Personal Scrapbooks for themselves or loved ones....
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:44:18 -0800

Navy Log of the United States Navy Memorial
"The Navy Log is the National Registry of Sea Service, the place where you can search for shipmates or enter information about your service record. You can search by Name or Duty Station."
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:36:37 -0800

OpenCourseWare and the Future of Education
By Ryan T. Normandin As we are all aware, MIT has and will continue to make relatively large cuts to its budget in light of the recent financial meltdown. The administration established the Institute-Wide Planning Task Force to evaluate ways to make...
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Mashable posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:39:15 -0800

OLPC Comes Up With a Beautiful, Thin Tablet Concept
Remember the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project? It’s a US-based, non-profit organization which aims to create a cheap,...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:55:33 -0800

The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method: Choosing a good chart
"Here's something we came up with to help you consider which chart to use. It was inspired by the table in Gene Zelazny's classic work Saying It With Charts (p. 27 in the 4th. ed) [The chart chooser is step 7 in the 10-step Extreme...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:32:25 -0800

9 Ways to Visualize Proportions – A Guide | FlowingData
"With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure out what graph or chart suits your data best. This is a guide to make your decision easier for one particular type of data: proportions. Maybe you want to show poll results or...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:12:57 -0800

BibliOdyssey
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:01:42 -0800

20 Things That Happen in 1 Minute

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:01:36 -0800

20 Things That Happen in 1 Minute
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:00:49 -0800

Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever. | FlowingData

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:59:39 -0800

Land Mass and Population by Country | FlowingData

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Mashable posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:26:34 -0800

Top 10 Mobile Social Apps Judged by Mashable Readers
If you’ve tuned in previously, you’ll know we throw out a Lunchtime Poll topic weekly to get a zeitgeist of...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:41:41 -0800

Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month
5 years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:10:00 -0800

Experts Predict 2010 the Year for Social Media ROI
Aptly-named consumer trend blog TrendsSpotting just released its poll from more than 30 social media influencers. The market...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:20:56 -0800

Nexus One and Android 2.1 Walkthrough Surfaces [VIDEO]
It’s undoubtedly the Google Nexus One that has the Android faithful — and the Android curious — champing at...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:39:50 -0800

Twitter Goes Down Under With SMS Support for Australia
Twitter just announced they’ve partnered with mobile provider Telstra to provide SMS Twitter support in Australia. As is...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:17:00 -0800

Will the Word-Blocking Patent Extend Beyond Microsoft?
As of today a federal appeals court is upholding the judgement to bar Microsoft from selling current versions of Word and...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:43:17 -0800

Facebook Is Destroying the Sanctity of Marriage [REPORT]
Stop the digital presses: People use Facebook to cheat on their spouses and said cheating leads to d-i-v-o-r-c-e (in case there...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:17:57 -0800

HOW TO: Boost Your Resume Over the Winter Break
David Spinks is the Community Manager for Scribnia, where the world’s bloggers and columnists are reviewed by their...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:02:05 -0800

Microsoft Modifies Word to Keep it in Stores
Oh Ballmer, just pull out the checkbook already! The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just upheld a lower...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:55:44 -0800

Stalqer: Aggregated, (Almost) Live Location Data on the iPhone
With the rapid growth of services like Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite, location-based mobile social networks seem to be a...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:30:51 -0800

Taptu Adds Real-Time Search to Its Mobile Apps
Taptu, a mobile search engine that specializes in indexing mobile-friendly websites, just launched a new version of its iPhone...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:12:14 -0800

4 Social Good Trends of 2009
A look back on 2009 may not be so rosy. A global economic crisis, an increasingly polarized healthcare debate, a handful of...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:46:47 -0800

Firefox Plugin Finds Related News, Tweets and Videos While You Browse
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to...
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