Are URL Shorteners A Necessary Evil, Or Just Evil?
Apr 07 6:50a.m. 2009
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One of the most viral activities on the Web is sharing links. It is fast and easy, and a good way to communicate ideas. What started out as something people did via e-mail and bookmark-sharing services like Delicious, is now moving to Facebook, Twitter, and other social broadcasting services. It is just so much more efficient to share a link once with all your friends and followers than to send it to each one individually.
Twitter is especially suited to sharing quick links, but its 140-character limit has perhaps done more than anything else to propel forward the use of ...
FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses
Apr 07 6:50a.m. 2009
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 FriendFeed is a wonderful application that allows users to track what their friends are doing online. Photos, videos, blog posts and anything else that's published online with a RSS feed can be brought into the service and viewed by anyone who wants to subscribe to you. And the FriendFeed team is continuously innovating and creating new features. All in all, it's a service that should be bound for success.
But there's trouble on the horizon, and FriendFeed is in danger of becoming the coolest application that no one uses.
Growth at Twitter, FriendFeed's primary competitor, continues ...
Texans' Ryan Moats delayed by cop en route to see dying relative - NFL - SI
Mar 28 7:12a.m. 2009
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Red River flooding - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Mar 28 7:10a.m. 2009
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The Red River is approaching record flood levels, likely to break century-old records this weekend. Flowing north toward Manitoba along the Minnesota-North Dakota border, the river is jammed up by ice and is being fed by rain, snow and meltwater. The National Weather Service has issued projections of a crest of 43 feet near Fargo, North Dakota, 24 feet above flood stage. Volunteers and national guardsmen are out in force, building levees, rescuing and evacuating those that need to get to higher ground. Cold temperatures are hampering efforts, freezing damp sandbags and making the job that much more strenuous for ...
Socialbrowse | On the News
Mar 28 7:09a.m. 2009
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Socialbrowse got some great coverage today courtesy of Fox47 and KTTC in Rochester, MN. Dave and I were interviewed by Ali Lucia, who put together the following piece on Socialbrowse:
The Obamas Get Up Close and Personal in D.C. - NYTimes.com
Mar 26 11:46a.m. 2009
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GO BULLS! President Obama’s team lost; it may not have bothered 5-year-old Nick Aiello.
What Can $150k Buy in Real Estate Around the World?
Mar 26 11:46a.m. 2009
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With the economic crisis bringing down housing prices worldwide, here's a look at what 150k can buy you right now.
Magazine Preview - The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.co
Mar 25 9:18p.m. 2009
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Facebook Launches Redesigned Homepage, Again
Mar 25 8:33p.m. 2009
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Moments ago I wrote about the ability to hide applications now but it appears that Facebook has actually pushed out all the new changes to their homepage. The requests have now been added to the top right, the applications have been merged with friend lists on the left hand side, there is now the [...]
Treats For Coffee Snobs - Starbucks Launches Super-Premium Ice Cream (GALLE
Mar 25 8:20p.m. 2009
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Mexico's drug war - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Mar 25 5:03p.m. 2009
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In December of 2006, Mexico's new President Felipe Calderón declared war on the drug cartels, reversing earlier government passiveness. Since then, the government has made some gains, but at a heavy price - gun battles, assasinations, kidnappings, fights between rival cartels, and reprisals have resulted in over 9,500 deaths since December 2006 - over 5,300 killed last year alone. President Barack Obama recently announced extra agents were being deployed to the border and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today to pursue a broad diplomatic agenda - overshadowed now by spiraling drug violence and fears of greater cross-border ...
Pranks: Teenager's 60-Foot Roof Wang Backfires, Rich Parents Dole Out "Puni
Mar 25 4:56p.m. 2009
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Want A Free, Cheesy Wedding Planned By Millions Of Strangers? Head to MySpa
Mar 25 4:36p.m. 2009
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If you have ever wanted a cheesy, media-sponsored wedding like those on reality TV shows or on the Today Show, perhaps you should look to your social network. MySpace is now accepting submissions for “Married on MySpace,” an online reality TV series that will let couples receive the "wedding of their dreams" planned by and shared with the entire social network . Engaged couples can enter their video submissions here. MySpace is partnering with The Knot to provide editorial content and wedding planning expertise and the contest is co-sponsored by Disney, who is releasing "The Proposal" soon with Sandra Bullock and ...
Letter shock for grieving parents - News - Manchester Evening News
Mar 25 2:30p.m. 2009
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Find the Right Way to Deal with Weird Things to Recycle at WomansDay.com -
Mar 25 12:49p.m. 2009
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Hackers steer clear of Google Chrome, say too challenging | Googling Google
Mar 25 10:09a.m. 2009
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At the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver BC, hackers were invited to find and exploit holes in modern browsers. A popular target for hackers at this year’s conference was Safari on a Mac — definitely the lowest hanging fruit.
Charlie Miller explains that it’s not whether a product has holes (all of them do), its [...]
Unafraid China apparently fears YouTube | Technology | Internet | Reuters
Mar 25 7:55a.m. 2009
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Fast polling using C, memached, nginx and libevent - amix blog
Mar 25 7:51a.m. 2009
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 In this post I'll show you how to implement really fast polling using C and libevent, memcached and nginx. The performance of the server is over 2400 request pr. second on a not optimized Mac Book - that's 144.000 requests pr. minute. At Plurk we use polling and we have thousands of live users hammering the service with poll requests. It's beginning to be pretty expensive so I set a goal to optimize it. We currently use this approach in production and it uses around 2% of CPU and _very_ little memory. Choosing the stackI could ...
Xobni takes in funding, exits beta | Webware - CNET
Mar 24 9:49p.m. 2009
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Xobni, the Outlook e-mail helper launched at the TechCrunch 40 conference in 2007, is finally leaving its official beta phase. It's getting some needed updates in the 1.0 release, although no major new features. Xobni is also announcing that it's closed its B round of funding.  The software updates for Xobni are all in the performance and compatibility areas. The product is now faster, CEO Matt Brezina told me. In other words, it should work acceptably quickly for users with large e-mail installations, such as Xobni investor Josh Kopelman. Passing "The Kopelman Experiment," Brezina says, was a ...
Hulu Gains 10 Million Viewers In February, Now No. 4 Video Site In U.S.
Mar 24 8:09p.m. 2009
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Hulu jumped two spots to become the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, according to the latest data from comScore VideoMetrix. Hulu drew an audience of 34.7 million people who watched 332.5 million video streams. That is a 42 percent increase in unique U.S. visitors, up from 24.5 million in January, and a 33 percent increase in streams, up from and 250.5 million streams.
In a single month, Hulu overtook Viacom and Microsoft in total viewers and video streams (see January data). And Hulu is catching up to No. 3 video ...
The Bottom Feeder: How Many Games I Sell, Part Two
Mar 24 7:35p.m. 2009
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The first part of this column, in which I gave the full sales figures for one of my games, Geneforge 4: Rebellion, attracted a fair amount of attention on the Internets. This pleased me. I really want this blog to be a useful discussion point for people interested in Indie computer gaming, and I'm off to an acceptable start. I'm not really doing this for sales. And, if anyone is curious, I only sold three or four more copies of Geneforge 4 last week than I probably would have otherwise. But that's all right, because it's ...
Responding to Your Feedback | Facebook
Mar 24 6:51p.m. 2009
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Since we launched Facebook's home page design, we've received thousands of e-mails, Wall posts and comments from you along with direct feedback from all of our friends and family. If you've already given us feedback, thank you...
Why it's time to break out of Twitter (Scripting News)
Mar 24 6:14p.m. 2009
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An iPod So Small Its Controls Are Found on the Cord - Pogue's Posts Blog -
Mar 12 12:45p.m. 2009
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The new iPod Shuffle from Apple is half the volume of its postage-stamp predecessor; with no controls or buttons, it looks like a sleek aluminum tie clip.
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