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Richard posted a blog entry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:18:00 -0800

Sponty: Revolutionizing the Meetup and Tweetup
Though I'm chronically checking in on services like Brightkite, Loopt and Foursquare, it's rare that I'll actually make an...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

Books + Online Video = Vooks: Watchable, Readable, & Very Cool
Vook is a new company that's come up with a method for blending text and premium video to create an interesting mobile...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

DRM for Real-Time Media: Justin.tv Now Protecting Video Streams With Digital Fingerprinting
This week, Justin.tv is rolling out new measures to protect copyrighted live video streams from being pirated on their site....
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Richard posted a blog entry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:19:39 -0800

Foursquare's Brilliant Community Stewardship Campaign
Often compared to Twitter for its meteoric rise to media darling status, location-based check-in game Foursquare is incredibly...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:01:36 -0800

SPDY: Google Wants to Speed Up the Web With New Protocol
Google has just announced that it is working on a new protocol that will minimize latency and speed up the Web experience for...
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lingolook posted a blog entry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:47:27 -0800

The Acer Guy does Facebook
After some serious trials and tribulations it was much easier than I thought in the end, TheAcerGuy makes its debut on...
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Mark Dykeman posted a blog entry

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:51 -0800

10 Old School Blogging Tips To Know
I’ve read hundreds (or thousands) of blog posts and articles about blogging. One of the really timeless ones that I...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:05:22 -0800

Finding Jetpacks Made Easy: Mozilla's New Plugin Framework Gets a Gallery
Mozilla just launched a new directory for Jetpack add-ons. Jetpack is Mozilla's newest technology for building Firefox...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:15:28 -0800

Google Makes World Bank Data More Discoverable: Takes a Swipe at Wolfram Alpha
Google just announced that it now uses public data from the World Bank to display graphs for queries like "children per woman...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:03:03 -0800

7 Apps We're Falling in Love With
We test a lot of software around here, on the web, on our desktop and on our phones. It's a great job to have, but only so...
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:50:41 -0800

Bing Teams Up With Wolfram Alpha
Microsoft's Bing now relies on Wolfram Alpha to answer some of its users questions. This is not a full integration of Wolfram...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0800

Etelos Adopts OpenID For Business Applications Sold Through Its Marketplaces
Etelos is adopting OpenID and Single Sign On(SSO) for its partners that sell business applications. The service will provide a...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:59:18 -0800

Google Gives You More Storage for Less, but Still No GDrive
Google just announced dramatically reduced prices for their online storage options via a post on the company's Official Google...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:31:21 -0800

Mobile Application to Diagnose Disease by Hearing you Cough
Feeling a bit under the weather? Soon you'll be able to cough into your mobile phone for an instant diagnosis. A research firm...
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Mark Dykeman posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:56:08 -0800

Remembrance Day 2009
Just thought I’d include a link to last year’s post about Remembrance Day. I like that post. Lest we...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:22:08 -0800

Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: Online Music
It's November 2009 and we're nearing the end of a decade. It's been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:01:26 -0800

Good Bloggers Make Good Neighbors, New Survey Shows
Back in the day, it was assumed that heavy Internet geeks were a bunch of basement-dwelling, trenchcoat-wearing, socially...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:15:45 -0800

Find Your Whole Social Graph on Facebook at Once With FBFriendFinder
We've just found a new application for finding your Twitter followers, LinkedIn connections, and other friends from around the...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:48:08 -0800

indicee: Leveraging the Cloud To Mashup Data and Answer Questions
In their demo video, indicee refers to "accounting's ERP black box," a not so subtle remark about the challenges facing the...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:30:03 -0800

Google Takes Flu Trends One Step Futher With Vaccine-Finding Map
Last month, we told you about Google's Flu Trends' expansion to 20 countries around the world. The program monitors mentions...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:24:17 -0800

UNIX Co-Creators at Google Release New Programming Language: Three Developer Reactions
Google just released a new open source programming language called Go. Go is intended to offer built-in support for concurrent...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:59:36 -0800

Microsoft Bing Maps: Now With Draggable Routes and Embeddable Maps
Microsoft just released a major update to Bing Maps. Bing Maps now offers draggable routes that are computed dynamically, a...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:39:32 -0800

Fast-Growing Curation Service Posterous Now Publishing Real-Time Feeds
Blogging and stuff sharing service Posterous.com now publishes real-time PubSubHubbbub feeds for every site in its domain, the...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:53:38 -0800

Kindle Everywhere: Amazon Launches Windows Application
Amazon just released a free e-book reader application for Windows PCs. The Kindle for PC application allows Amazon customers to...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:52:13 -0800

NetSuite and InsideView Partner to Create 'Social ERP'
A growing debate in Enterprise 2.0 circles focuses on what value new technologies have for people who do back office functions....
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