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Wait, I can do what? (A study of Amazon and Netflix on-demand video services)

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:57:17 +0000

Cool! A User Study of the Amazon and Netflix on demand video services.

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Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged (and Also Apple-icious): The New MSN Homepage Debuts (Plus Screenshots and the Press Release

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:31:15 +0000

The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct for thinking the recipe Microsoft (MSFT) has cooked up to inform its design ethos–white, clean and hiply modern–has definite echoes of a certain longtime tech rival. That would be Apple (AAPL), of course, ...

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Windows Live Sync Now Works on Snow Leopard

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:50:02 +0000

According to the Windows Live Sync blog , the service now supports Mac’s latest operating system, Snow Leopard. Those running that version of OSX can download the Sync software right here . For those of you who don’t know, Windows Live Sync (formerly known as FolderShare) is a free file ...

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Twitter Now Officially En Español

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:31:15 +0000

Last month, Twitter noted that it was seeking volunteers to help translate its service into other languages. Today, the first of those is ready to go, as Twitter has formally unveiled support for the Spanish language. The Twitter Blog has a post about it right now, but co-founder Biz Stone ...

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USB Geek, Your USB Solution!!

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:42:50 +0000

Features: High Speed USB 2.0 transfer rate USB 2.0 interface, 4 Gigs of storage Plug and Play, hot-swapped capability Windows, Mac and Linux compatible Made of high quality plush Custom product designed and manufactured by USB Geek Dimension: 11cm x 9.5cm tall (approx.) Weight: 20g ...

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The TwitterPeek Is So Dumb It Makes My Brain Hurt [Rant]

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:22:22 +0000

I still can't believe the TwitterPeek exists. It's a portable device that only does Twitter. Seriously, who the hell would spend $200 on this? Am I crazy here? The original Peek, which just runs email, is something I would never buy in a million years. But I could understand why some people ...

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Beta Channel Updated to 4.0 with Bookmark Sync

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:27:41 +0000

Version: 4.0.223.16 (Windows Only) The Beta Channel is being updated to 4.0.223.16 which is our first Beta release for 4.0. This release includes many bug fixes and for the first time Bookmark Sync is enabled . Extensions are disabled until the final API changes arrive. Please use the dev ...

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Revamped MSN Wants to Be Your New Home Page: The newly redesigned MSN.com just might be the best home page on the Web — with easy access to Bing search, favorite social networks, more relevant local content, and the latest news and entertainment informati

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:13:00 +0000

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 3, 2009 — Microsoft today unveiled a preview of its new design for the popular MSN home page. With a fresh new look, the new MSN is designed to be the best home page on the Web. With more than 600 million customers worldwide every month, nearly 100 million in the U.S. ...

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The Official Amazon Associates Blog: Amazon Associates Now Integrates Directly with Twitter

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000

We are excited to announce the launch of a new feature called Share on Twitter. You can access Share on Twitter from the Site Stripe and post links to your Twitter account from Amazon detail pages in just two clicks. The Share on Twitter feature is easy to use. Simply log in to your Amazon ...

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Millions of File-Sharers Hide Their Identities Online

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:53:36 +0000

As pressure from anti-piracy outfits on governments to implement strict anti-piracy laws increases, millions of file-sharers have decided to protect their privacy by going anonymous. In Sweden alone an estimated 500,000 Internet subscribers are hiding their identities. Many more say they will ...

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10 Neat Facts About Google

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:58:00 +0000

Google in 1998 (notice the exclamation mark) Sure, everybody knows that Google was created by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin who became gazillionaires. But did you know [...]

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Litl Webbook gets official: “cloud” netbook for $699

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:45:41 +0000

Given that most netbook press releases look like photocopies of each other, we’re particularly intrigued by the Litl Webbook . Spotted last week whipping through the FCC, the Webbook is described by Litl as “an internet computer for the home” and uses a home-grown always-on ...

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2010 Winter Olympics

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:26:11 +0000

Countdown to Vancouver Countdown to Vancouver The 2010 Olympics begin in 100 days, and Universal Sports has the winter season blanketed with 1,200+ hours of TV and online coverage. Visit our partner site -- UniversalSports.com -- to follow Apolo, Lindsey and Co. into Vancouver.

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Making Lists for the 32 counties in Ireland using Twitter Lists

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:40:53 +0000

The idea is simple. We want to put new Twitter lists to great use by creating lists of every single person using Twitter in Ireland. We want to do it in 48 hours and we want to use the power of crowd sourcing to do it. All you have to do is tweet the message below and we will collect all the ...

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Twitter lists of all the people in England crowd sourced by county

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:40:53 +0000

The idea is simple. We want to put new Twitter lists to great use by creating lists of every single person using Twitter in England. We want to do it in 72 hours and we want to use the power of crowd sourcing to do it. All you have to do is tweet the message below and we will collect all the ...

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Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:00:43 +0000

* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any ...

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WebOS Developer Event – Roundup

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:31:00 +0000

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 WebOS Developer Event – Roundup Category: Mobile View the technorati tag: Mobile Ben and Dion have just wrapped up a WebOS talk in London, in conjunction with O2 Litmus. They explained why Palm is using the web as an application platform (might be preaching to ...

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MSN Homepages throughout Time

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:01:00 +0000

This tour of vintage MSN homepages shows how the MSN homepage has changed since launching in 1995

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Twitter lists of all the people in England crowd sourced by county

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:40:53 +0000

USA twitter lists The idea is simple. We want to put new Twitter lists to great use by creating lists of every single person using Twitter in America. We want to do it in 72 hours and we want to use the power of crowd sourcing to do it. All you have to do is tweet the message below and we will ...

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The Next Step For Twitter Lists — Entire Populations

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:20:19 +0000

[Ireland] Social media consultants Simplyzesty started using Twitter Lists to list blogs. However, a brainwave has lead them to take Twitter Lists to their logical conclusion: creating lists of Twitter users in entire countries. They’ve launched a Twitter list for the UK and the list of ...

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Web could run out of addresses

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:20:36 +0000

Businesses urgently need to upgrade to IPv6, a new version of the internet's addressing protocol that will hugely increase the number of available addresses.

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I'm so addicted to email, Facebook and Twitter, I have to hide it from my wife

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:55:26 +0000

As a new book claims Britain is under the tyranny of email, James Delingpole owns up to a compulsion that is affecting his friendships, family and working life.

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Microsoft rolls out redesigned MSN

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:26:00 +0000

Spurred by the ever-changing ways in which people use the Internet, Microsoft has unveiled a completely redesigned MSN home page.

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Msn Preview - Website

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:26:00 +0000

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Msn Preview - Website

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:01:15 +0000

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'Worst parking job' victim given car

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:05:06 +0000

One victim in the YouTube hit "Worst Parking Job Ever!" found a brand-new car in his parking space Friday. Todd Jamison planned to take the day off to shop for a used vehicle a week after a driver trashed his 2004 Hyundai Elantra, which he had just finished paying off. But when colleagues called ...

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pirate keyboard

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:33:39 +0000

Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren't public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not. But! If you want to share photos marked as friends, family or private, use a Guest Pass. If you're sharing photos from a set, you can create a Guest Pass ...

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Super Annuation

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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Merchant Circle: How are they profiting from your business name this week?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:49:09 +0000

hotelsbycitylinks Merchant Circle has made a fine art out of leveraging the very long tail of local search by returning results in the main Google SERPs on virtually every U.S. business’ trade name. They have carefully optimized their pages and link structure so as to be frequently highlighted ...

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Is Microsoft Bing Finally Figuring Out 301 Redirects?

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:34:46 +0000

One thing I always see in the search optimization forums are complaints about how Microsoft Bing handles 301 redirects. I actually stopped covering the complaints because I saw them all too often. Today, I have some possible good news. Steve,...

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Android 2.0 Adds the Game Changer Known as Google Maps Navigation

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:00:42 +0000

Google announced the next evolution of their Google Maps for mobile today and it’s a game-changer. It’s called Google Maps Navigation it’s an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance. And it comes standard with Android 2.0. Sounds fancy huh? It ...

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Similar Image Search Engine GazoPa Opens to Public Beta Testing

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:59:38 +0000

Google Analytics Offers Proof of Individual Qualification | Main | Google Custom Search Celebrates Birthday with Updates Galore October 27, 2009 Similar Image Search Engine GazoPa Opens to Public Beta Testing GazoPa, a similar image search engine developed by Hitachi America, is now open for ...

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Google Maps to Fix One Web Box Result Bug

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:34:46 +0000

For at least a month now, there have been complaints in a Google Maps Help thread that Google is showing, in some cases, a single map result, when it should be showing seven map results. For example, a search on...

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California Boutique Hotels

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:30:00 +0000

Handcrafted California hotels with soul... Whether you are looking for hotels in Marin , San Francisco , Sacramento , Silicon Valley , Los Angeles , Orange County or the Coastal regions, you will find style, serenity, personality and friendly service whenever you stay at a Joie de Vivre boutique ...

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Top Twitter Lists

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:29:19 +0000

Twitter recently introduced lists, but there is no easy way to find new ones. I wondered which ones are the most popular (have most followers) and wrote a script to determine this. I thought that maybe others would like to get this information as well, so I decided to share the results. Top ...

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Google Experimenting with Social Search

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:50:33 +0000

Google may be an also-ran in the social networking market with its Brazil-centric Orkut service, but that hasn’t stopped the search giant from adding social features to its products. A post at the (unofficial) Google Operating System blog recounts the history of Google Reader’s ...

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Google Search Gets Personal: Social Search Launches in Google Labs

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:34:46 +0000

Social Search just went live in Google Labs . Google announced that it was working on this Social Search feature at the Web 2.0 Summit last week, but at that time, Google's Marissa Mayer announced that it would only be available "in a few weeks." Social Search taps into a user's social network ...

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Higher Counts of Malware Taking Over Google Search Results?

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:34:46 +0000

I often see threads in the various discussion forums online with people complaining that the Google search results look weird. They often complain the wrong sites come up, or they are full of ads or there are weird pop ups....

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Local Search: A Solved Consumer Problem

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:55:40 +0000

Oct 26, 2009 at 8:00am ET by Matthew Berk Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Matthew Berk is the Executive Vice President of Product Engineering for Marchex , a leading local search and advertising company that provides ...

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Information Week: The Business Value Of Technology

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:00:00 +0000

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Loading Ready Run

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:29:02 +0000

Every icon has his or her imitators, and while The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart didn’t invent the concept of snarking at the news in a quasi-reporting format, his influence has had a profound impact not just on the television world, but on web video. And shows that draw inspiration from the format ...

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Vimeo: Surfacescapes - Their Recent Videos

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:56:00 +0000

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Virtual goods: Duping the masses?

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:55:57 +0000

I attended the Virtual Goods Summit on Friday and walked away struggling to figure what topics might be interesting to write about. My net takeaway is that not much has changed in the year that I've been writing about social gaming and virtual goods, with the exception of two facts: ...

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Vimeo: Lego Foosball (video)

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 04:17:03 +0000

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Mini Size Lego Foosball

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:42:10 +0000

If you love to get one of the portable Foosball made with Lego, you are lucky. Some has created one that looks pretty fun and suitable for children. You can either make it yourself or contact the creator to test you luck buying one. Well, it’s actually made for children. The ...

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Libertarian Movement — Just Too Big and Too Busy?

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:12:13 +0000

Last night — a Monday night, the eve of a hotly contested gubernatorial election in Virginia — there were at least three interesting events for libertarians in the Washington area: Reason.tv held an event to launch “ Radicals for Capitalism ,” a new series of videos ...

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NBC Prepares For The Winter Olympics With Silverlight, HD Video, And Facebook Connect

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:40:00 +0000

NBC is gearing up for the 2010 Winter Olympics with some changes to its mainstay site, NBCOlympics.com, scheduled to go live tomorrow. (See screenshots below). Once again, just as it did with the 2008 Summer Olympics , NBC will be using a video player based on Microsoft Silverlight ...

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Weezer Snuggie Infomercial (video)

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:40:57 +0000

Raditude only $3.99 on Amazon MP3: http://bit.ly/Vjw2pWeezer Snuggie includes Raditude FREE with purchase: http://weezer.com/raditude

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Comments on: What's your funniest Google Voice transcription flub?

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:54:50 +0000

Add a Comment ( Log in or register ) Showing 1 of 2 pages (40 Comments) by fireashes October 29, 2009 5:00 PM PDT She hangs up and does not like to leave voicemail. No words spoken. Translation: hello Reply to this comment by bellewitch November 1, 2009 5:50 AM PST i got one of these also. The ...

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Best 'worst' Google Voice transcription errors

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:54:50 +0000

Best 'worst' Google Voice transcription errors--screenshots Add to my list Print E-mail Share prev 1 2 3 4 ... 8 next 1 of 8 Pick up my arm Scroll Right Scroll Left Pick up my arm Sterilize Woodstock Not so Fastpass Freudian slip? Ship sober Who's Paul? Fluency Mac and pollution Related photos ...

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