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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:00:16 -0800

Think Tank Study Shows Top Web Trends Are Security Risks
Mobile technology, virtualization, the social web, cloud computing - a think tank study has all our good friends on a hit...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:11:56 -0800

Tweetsgiving: The Twitter Way To Give Thanks
Happy Tweetsgiving! At any number of companies, people are being asked to do their part. To give something back to their...
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gigaom61 posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:00:31 -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...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:07:49 -0800

Volvo IT Department Gets Banned From Wikipedia For Racist Rants
One of the risks facing any enterprise is how to deal with people who use the corporate network to post rude, sexist or even...
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gigaom61 posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:58:45 -0800

7 Fun App Ideas for the Weekend Tinkerer
Here in the U.S., we’re getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, which for many folks means a long weekend — my favorite...
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gigaom61 posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:18:53 -0800

Like Facebook, Data Robotics Dreams of an IPO
IMPORTANT POINTS* Data Robotics has sold 85,000 Drobos * Will do sales of $60 million in its third year of sales. * Wants to go...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:51:17 -0800

Live Music Comes to iTunes
It took a while for it to happen the right way, but now it has. Apple has teamed up with Live Nation to bring live music to...
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:36:54 -0800

FCC Solicits Applications for White Space Database Administrators
The Federal Communications Commission said today it’s soliciting proposals from those looking to become administrators...
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gigaom61 posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:11:28 -0800

How to Shop on the Go This Holiday Season
There are countless mobile sites and apps designed to help users spend their money this holiday season. To help save you time,...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:04:16 -0800

Wikileaks Releases Over Half a Million Pager Messages from 9/11
Earlier this morning, Wikileaks began to post pager messages that were sent on September 11, 2001. According to Wikileaks,...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:58:06 -0800

Navigation App Waze Makes Crowdsourced Map-Building a Game
The latest edition of mobile navigation app Waze has just launched in the iTunes App Store and on the Android Market Place with...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:10:40 -0800

The Most Influential Websites in the World: Wikipedia #1, Twitter #4 With a Bullet
A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good 'Influence Index' for the Web....
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gigaom61 posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:08:53 -0800

Dropbox Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users
You don’t go into file backup and syncing for the fame and glory, but that’s what it seems to be yielding for...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:10:31 -0800

Ommwriter: Be Alone with Your Thoughts
Between Skype, chat, texts, push news notifications and three screens of scrolling feeds, it's easy to get distracted while...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:36:07 -0800

Enterprise 2.0: Study Shows Adoption is Real
When you look at Enterprise 2.0, you can see the hype pretty clearly but what is not so evident is how social computing efforts...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:36:20 -0800

Regator Brings the Best Niche Blogs to Your iPhone
Scott Lockhart used to tell his co-workers in the real estate industry that there was a lot of valuable information to be found...
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Rory posted a tweet

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:30:21 -0800

Eminem, A Writing and Marketing Machine? I Always Thought So...What Can He Teach You? http://su.pr/2Lio7f
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gigaom61 posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:27:11 -0800

How the Nook Nicked B&N’s Q2 Numbers
For Barnes & Noble, sold-out pre-orders for the Nook were a rare bit of good news in its second quarter, but chasing demand...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:21:56 -0800

Will the iPhone Save eBay?
eBay is introducing a second free iPhone app today, eBay Deals, which scrapes the site’s listings for those with less than...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:17:05 -0800

Kindle Gets Battery Boost, PDF Support
Amazon has released a series of software upgrades that make its Kindle eReader even more useful. The new software upgrades...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:00:38 -0800

Former Facebookers Get $9M for Workforce Telepathy
Asana, a year-old stealthy startup co-founded by two Facebook alumni, Justin Rosenstein and Dustin Moskovitz, said today...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:41:40 -0800

EU Closes the Books on Qualcomm Probe
Qualcomm has put another regulatory challenge in the rear-view mirror as the European Commission dropped a 4-year antitrust...
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:34:49 -0800

What Our Compute Demand Looks Like
The servers running our web applications, crunching numbers or serving up ads aren’t all in company-owned data centers —...
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gigaom61 posted a blog entry

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:00:27 -0800

Tesla IPO: A Test for VC Model in the Auto Biz
If and when Tesla goes public, it could become the biggest and possibly the first public offering for a U.S. car company since...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:12:49 -0800

Is Bing Cashback Costing Users Money? Sometimes, Yes
When Bing debuted a feature called Cashback, the product was intended to save users money while they shopped from online...
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