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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:29:14 -0800

Dictionary.com’s iPhone App Agent X Word Helps You Solve Crossword Puzzles On The Go
If you enjoy crossword puzzles, you are going to love Dictionary.com's new iPhone app, Agent X Word. The app, which is...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:38:21 -0800

Quicktime Vets Bring Mobile Video And Photo Sharing With Thwapr (Beta Launch)
Sharing videos on the Web is easy: Upload to YouTube or Facebook, send out a link. Sharing videos on mobile phones is still...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:10:15 -0800

Yahoo’s 2010 Turn-Around Strategy Revealed: A Cycling Team
Oh, Yahoo. Revenues are down. Search share is down. The social stuff has been outsourced to Facebook. The search stuff is...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:06:00 -0800

Larry Cuban on "so much reform, so little change"
Everything You Need to Know About Education Reform (By Rona Wilensky) « Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:17:55 -0800

Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again.
Another day, another Rackspace outage. The hosting company had a complete and total failure today that took down a number of...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:56:00 -0800

Expecting Youth to Be Better than Adults
From the seventh annual Junior Achievement/Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey..significant numbers of teens do not consider the...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:59:00 -0800

Crowdsourcing Appreciation in Ed Tech - Give Yours
I know that the screen capture to the left from the 2009 Edublog Awards show last night looks like a bad case of white-board...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:14:29 -0800

Very Cool: World’s Largest Spherical Photo (18-Gigapixel Awesomeness)
Jeffrey Martin from 360Cities (our earlier coverage) has spent over a month stitching together what he believes is now the...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:56:26 -0800

Trackle Launches Real-Time Social Directory Of Tracking Alerts
Trackle, a personalized web and RSS feed tracker we wrote about earlier this year, is making itself a whole lot more social...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:27:04 -0800

The UltraMega Weekend Giveaway: $500 Gift Card From Lottay.com
Good morning. We have a week until Christmas and we've been pounding out giveaways left and right. We've had Smart Pens,...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:48:44 -0800

Seedcamp Releases Its Dates And Cities For 2010
Seedcamp, the pan-European early stage startup programme that tours Europe to find companies for a week-long annual...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:12:00 -0800

Twitter Reportedly Hacked By “Iranian Cyber Army”
We’ve received multiple tips right around 10 pm that Twitter was hacked and displayed the message below. We’re...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:58:00 -0800

Life Just Got Complicated - Google Chrome Extensions
Google Chrome ExtensionsOK, my life has just been thrown out of balance. So long as the Google Chrome browser didn't...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:17:02 -0800

Loopt Ventures Into Yelp’s Territory With New Local Reviews Site
Before there was Gowalla or Foursquare, there was location-based social network Loopt. Launched in 2006, Loopt was one of...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:48:29 -0800

Bambuser’s Video Streaming iPhone App Hits The App Store, Qik Still MIA
Bambuser, a mobile streaming startup in the same space as Qik and Ustream, has announced that their live streaming iPhone...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:46:46 -0800

Google Starts Pushing Chrome To All Mac Users On Its Homepage
As we all know by now, Google Chrome for Mac and Linux are now here, and despite the Mac version missing a few features at the...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:46:33 -0800

CrunchBase Funding Digest: JAGTAG, OneWire, SimpleGeo, Millennial Media
Every day I troll SEC Form D Filings to discover new startups, fundings and investments. I put everything I find into...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:22:00 -0800

Multitasking (or not) at M.I.T.
More fascinating video from the FRONTLINE Digital Nation project. When listening to "Lauren" I couldn't help but think about...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:15:00 -0800

Social Networking in Education - A Whitepaper
Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education Hopefully,...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:10:00 -0800

The Stunning Growth of Social Networking
Facebook Now Consumes 5 Percent of Our Collective Internet TimeAccording to comScore, 5.5 percent of all time spent online in...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:24:00 -0800

A Positive View of Technology and Literacy
BBC News - Children who use technology are 'better writers'Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:41:00 -0800

Balancing a worrisome thought about multitasking and work capability
The Decade Google Made You Stupid - Doug Rushkoff in The Daily BeastSo what does it mean if we multitaskers are actually...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:45:00 -0800

Social Media Burnout and the New Pressures on Educators
When I'm speaking to or holding workshops for educators I use this image to indicate how I think a lot of them feel about huge...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:56:00 -0800

The Droid Is More Like a PC Than a Cell Phone
II'm not going to document the many incredible uses of the new Motorola Droid phone which I (and many others) recently...
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SteveHargadon posted a blog entry

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:48:00 -0800

We Were Told to Be Practical Not Passionate
We've had a lot of interesting interviews lately at FutureofEducation.com--as I hope we should. Last night Elizabeth...
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