Lolcats, cats and funny pictures - must prevent swine flu
related items
Resourceshelf
/
ResourceShelf
From the Wikimedia Blog Post: Maybe you’ve been editing Wikipedia for years. Or maybe you made your first edit a few days ago. Whatever your experience, you likely know at least one central fact about editing – that it can be difficult for newcomers to master the skills necessary for contributing to Wikipedia. We want to change [...]
Resourceshelf
/
ResourceShelf
On October 23rd we posted about a new iPhone/iTouch app from NASA. All sorts of info dynamically updated info. It’s a free app. Today, something new. Now, it’s time for the NASA Images app with content coming from the nasaimages which is an effort to bring all NASA imagery and video together in a single [...]
related items
|
Adam Ostrow
/
Mashable!
IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010
—
Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in other parts of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while ...
|
|
Jessica Dolcourt
/
Webware.com
Popular iPhone movie app flops on BlackBerry
—
We were excited to hear that Flixster's popular iPhone movie app was making the jump to BlackBerry. Unfortunately, not all apps dive as elegantly into other mobile platforms. Flixster's Movies app is one of them.
|
 
Barb Dybwad
/
Mashable!
We’ve had a number of close calls here during our Web Faceoff series, but this wasn’t one of them. This week we pitted TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop against each other in a bar room brawl for favorite Twitter client. Now, the results are in. Whereas last week’s Windows 7 versus OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard battle was a close one , ...
related items
|
E-Media Tidbits
Fort Hood Shooting Shows How Twitter, Lists Can be Used for Breaking News
—
RELATED " Covering the Fort Hood Shootings, A Day Later ," Al Tompkins Days after Twitter Lists were introduced to the public , the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday showed the power of this feature to cover a major news event in real-time. News organizations quickly created a trusted set of Twitter Lists to follow developments out of Texas. ...
|
|
Michael Arrington
/
TechCrunch
The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
—
If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'
|
 |
Econsultancy.com
Brand tweets sends twitterers searching
—
Twitter's traffic may be flatlining at the moment, but Performics and ROI Research have come out with good news for marketers: Twitter users pay attention to brands on the service.
Barb Dybwad
/
Mashable!
FishVille Launches on Facebook; It’s Like Underwater FarmVille
—
We were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille , the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the company had trademarked the name FishVille last month, and speculated that an aquatic derivative of the wildly popular social game might be in the works. And indeed it was, with FishVille launching ...
Andy Merrett
/
Performancing
Will Amazon Affiliate Twitter posting tool increase spam?
—
Amazon has introduced a new feature for its Affiliate members, making it easy to post a link to any product on the site to Twitter. It's another step in making it easy to promote Amazon's products, after the introduction of cut-and-paste widgets and "link to this page" for bloggers and website owners. Yet Twitter is already flooded with spam and ...
James Dimick
/
Tools Collection
The Best-Of Series: Download Managers
—
We continue our Best-Of Series today with download managers. Or, plugins for WordPress that will allow you to provide various files to your website visitors for download. Over the years I’ve gone through many. Everyone will have a different preference but, here is a list of my top plugins for managing downloads with WordPress… Drain ...
|
Figures showing everyday use of a university library are the unlikely stars of a JISC-funded competition showcasing innovative approaches to presenting library data.
discussions
 
Giveaway of the Day project team
/
Giveaway of the Day
Lazesoft Recover My Password is easy to use, design to general users that let you reset your forgotten Windows logon password, unlock locked or disabled out user accounts including administrator. You can reset your lost password with just a few mouse clicks. It could not be easier! Features: 100% recovery rate. Lazesoft Recover My Password let ...
Resourceshelf
/
ResourceShelf
New Stats from Rapleaf In our last post, [An In-Depth Look at AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Email Users – Part 1: Age and Gender] we analyzed age and gender of AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo users. For this post, we sampled the same 120,000 users and studied their online social media profile counts and friend [...]
related items
Missrogue
/
HorsePigCow:
I noticed that posts from 2003-2006 have completely been lost (except for Google Cache), so I'll post a few of them that are still pretty applicable. This one is from January 18, 2006 when I was working at Riya.com (no longer around):
 
Erick Schonfeld
/
TechCrunch
The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona . Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he's made from plaster. Halfway through, the actual video player crack in half, and all ...
Ben Parr
/
Mashable!
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: DocVerse Quick Pitch: DocVerse brings the collaboration functionality of products like ...
related items
|
Econsultancy.com
The five biggest myths about Google
—
On the internet, few companies receive more attention than Google. And for good reason: Google touches so many individuals and businesses. From search to its 'side projects', just about everything Google does creates interest.
|
|
Philipp Lenssen
/
Google Blogoscoped
Brad Fitzpatrick Talks About Programming
—
Brad Fitzpatrick, born in 1980, started to learn programming at the age of 5. In high school he went on to create a voting booth script called FreeVote, which he says earned him as much as 27 cent per click on banner ads back then (making for 25, 27 grand per month). He went on to create blogging platform LiveJournal, thinking and implementing a ...
|
MG Siegler
/
TechCrunch
Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...
related items
Resourceshelf
/
ResourceShelf
From the Post: Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, have recently been promoting the idea of making the Web machine-readable, or a Web of data. What does that mean? After all, at least in one sense, the Web is [...]
related items
|
Tim Finin
/
UMBC
RPI exports data.gov information as linked data
—
UMBC alumnus Joab Jackson has an article in Government Computer News, Tim Berners-Lee: Machine-readable Web still a ways off , reporting on the International Semantic Web Conference help outside of Washington DC at the end of October. The article uses data.gov to illustrate the challenges and opportunities for the Semantic Web. Data.gov is a ...
|
The Sundance-winning documentary ‘We Live in Public’ is released next week, on 13th November. The documentary ( ), distributed by Dogwoof, looks at the impact of the Internet on society through the eyes of Internet pioneer and artist Josh Harris. He set up an experiment living in public for ...
The social gaming lead-gen controversy sparked by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington came to an end this week when OfferPal, the company he singled out for scamming users and advertsers, replaced its CEO and posted a mea culpa for its past and current practices.
related items
|
Www.sharkjumping.com
TechCrunch/OfferPal Drama - Much Ado About Very Little
—
So the inevitable "offers are scams" story finally blew on to the scene last week at the Virtual Goods Summit when TechCrunch's Michael Arrington attacked OfferPal's Anu Shukla for having misleading offers (e.g. sign up for Netflix, get 10,000 coinz) as a core part of her business. Anu responded with the now classic line �
|
How in the heck did this girl not get red carded? Am I missing something? I would be scared to play soccer against this girl.
The impetus for the site redesign comes from the growing online video market. According to the IAB, online video is now one of the UK’s fastest growing ad categories; recent eMarketer reports show that the UK online video audience has grown 10% in the last 12 months alone to 30m unique viewers.
 
Simon Mackie
/
WebWorkerDaily
With the new beta of Firefox 3.6, new tab previewing functionality has been made available in Firefox — you can preview tabs using the “List all tabs” button, and you can see a preview when using Ctrl-Tab to switch between tabs. These two new features are not enabled by default, so you’ll need to go to [...]
Simon Mackie
/
WebWorkerDaily
Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Does Multitasking Make You More Productive? It’s easy to think that just because you’re a demon multitasker, you’re automatically productive. But is that really the case? Karen investigates. Google Dashboard: Find Out What ...
Lolcats, lolbirds and funny pictures - witness protection not working so well
I thought perhaps the Peek email device might be a good service to get for a family member who's not very technical. I wanted them to have access to text messaging, and thought its advertised simplicity might be the answer. So I bought a device for $49 and bought one month of service for $19.95, with the understanding that it's not a service plan,
discussions
|
