"Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides." Jason Calacanis (of weblogs inc/engadget fame) latest venture launched today - check it out.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Mahalo - We're here to help
"Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides." Jason Calacanis (of weblogs inc/engadget fame) latest venture launched today - check it out.
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Palm Foleo
I posted before that palm was doing a new OS, it was for the Foleo. A new toy from palm tat offers a laptop experience to the mobile user.
" With its 10-inch screen and full-size keyboard, the Palm Foleo mobile companion connects wirelessly with your smartphone to help you do more on the go. Unfold it, press a button, and it's on instantly—while just one touch brings your email to the big screen.1 Use your Foleo to view attachments, type longer emails, or to get a bigger look at web pages and photos you'd normally view on your smartphone. And with up to five hours of battery life packed into such a compact design, you'll do big things wherever you go."
" With its 10-inch screen and full-size keyboard, the Palm Foleo mobile companion connects wirelessly with your smartphone to help you do more on the go. Unfold it, press a button, and it's on instantly—while just one touch brings your email to the big screen.1 Use your Foleo to view attachments, type longer emails, or to get a bigger look at web pages and photos you'd normally view on your smartphone. And with up to five hours of battery life packed into such a compact design, you'll do big things wherever you go."
The top 10 presentations on scaling websites
Ten resources for making sure youur web service doesn't crumble under the strain of your millions of users.
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26 Reasons Why What You Think is Right is Wrong
A cognitive bias is something that our minds commonly do to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases.
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A Search Engine, Better Than Google
Google is keeping a close eye on a small, suburban Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves on the world leader. MyLiveSearch is fundamentally different in the way that it works. Read more...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
9 Driving Secrets from Police Officers
"With feedback from officers in the field, law enforcement driving instructors have compiled numerous tips to help their students avoid becoming a statistic."
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How Big is AppExchange? The Salesforce.com Guessing Game
If, as Benioff claims, AppExchange is to challenge the ecosystems of IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft, it needs to show that partners are actually making money selling add-ons to the larger Salesforce. what are the total revenues??
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Friday, May 25, 2007
10 Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload
E-mail provides a window into your workplace status, work habits, stress levels. Has trying to keep up with your inbox got you feeling like a hamster on a wheel, running faster and getting nowhere? Here's a great guide from the people over at Fortune magazine.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The Market Function of Piracy
In marketing the most effective way to introduce new products is the free sample. In 1978 Lever Brothers spent $15 million ($47.55 million in today's currency) delivering a free sample of Signal Mouthwash to two-thirds of all US households. The strategy was a success and the product remained on the market well into the 1990s.
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PC World's Best Products of 2007
(1) Google Apps Premier Edition, (2) Intel Core 2 Duo, (3) Nintendo Wii (4) Verizon FiOS (5) RIM Blackberry 8800 (6) Parallels Desktop (7) Pioneer Elite 1080p PRO-FHD1 (8) Infrant Technologies ReadyNAS NV (9) Apple Mac OS X (10) Adobe Premiere Elements 3... (58) Digg.com
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Nokia Beta Labs releases GizmoProject S60 Voip/IM mobile client
Nokia Beta Labs has released a Beta version of the Gizmo Voip and Instant messaging client for Nokia N80 Internet Edition and Nokia N95. This version supports free call’s to any Gizmo Project, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, or Windows Live user.
With a WLAN connection you are able to use all the features, and IM and presence are available even when you are connected over 2G or 3G.
You will first need to install the Nokia Internet Services Support Package available on the download page before installing the Gizmo for S60 client. Also note that the client needs to be installed on the main memory.
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With a WLAN connection you are able to use all the features, and IM and presence are available even when you are connected over 2G or 3G.
You will first need to install the Nokia Internet Services Support Package available on the download page before installing the Gizmo for S60 client. Also note that the client needs to be installed on the main memory.
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HTC takes a gamble with new brand and OS strategy
Despite making gains in the enterprise and becoming a fairly robust and well recognized, if relatively minor, smartphone platform, Windows Mobile will clearly be just an element in the mobile picture, and probably a small one compared to Linux and the growing family of Java-oriented OSs like Symbian/Series 60 or Sun's new developments.
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Mobile TV will reach 244 million by 2011, says report
TV enabled handsets will reach a staggering 244 million devices by 2011, according to a new report.
This is almost double the number previously forecast, and was reached by a detailed look into the likely mobile TV launch dates and the uptake rate expected in 55 countries.
The report was published in the US by Multimedia Research Group, but was written by Rethink Research Associates in the UK. It shows the rapid increase anticipated in handsets annually, with huge leaps during 2009 especially (see graph below), when 53 million broadcast TV enabled handsets are expected to ship.
"There are over 80 mobile TV trials all over the world and already there are a handful of services launched. The bulk of those trials are already committed to turn into genuine services, in some cases with a nationwide footprint, in other countries in limited regions," said report author Peter White, principal analyst at Rethink.
"This forecast is not including video services which are streamed over a cellular network, because that has largely been a slow burn business, due to its low screen resolution and the careful management it needs so that it doesn't interfere with voice. Most of these new handsets will deliver QVGA quality screens, where voices and lips are synchronised, where there is no shadowing on the screen, and where the resolution is good enough to watch for 30 minutes at a time and beyond," White said.
Initiatives in Japan and South Korea have been launched for some time using technologies which are largely unfavoured in the rest of the world, but last year Italy launched two DVB-H based services and now Qualcomm's MediaFLO is aggressively going after the US market with deals that take in Verizon Wireless and AT&T as resellers.
Around 80 pilots have been carried out globally and the trickle of current services will reach a torrent of some 50 to 60 services during 2009, led by developments in China and Asia Pacific, where the report says 105 million handsets will ship. It says this will be followed by strong showings in Western Europe and the US, which will ship 73 million and 40 million mobile TV capable handsets by 2011 respectively.
According to the report, service revenues from the global mobile TV market will exceed $24bn annually by 2011, with Western Europe likely to lead in revenue terms at over $10bn, followed by the USA and Canada at $7.7bn, and China and the Far East lagging at $5bn, despite higher usage levelsMillions of Chinese Hit by Symantec Foul-Up
Symantec virus signature disabled critical system files in Chinese PCs, crippling Windows XP for millions of users.
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Monday, May 21, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Top Ten Sources of Interruptions
In no particular order, here are the top ten interruptions we see most often with our clients that are affecting their productivity. - lifehack
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
What I Learned
If it’s any help to other entrepreneurs
- Make no assumptions when it comes to roles and responsibilities. “Someone’s gotta call quittin’ time.”
- Communication between partners is mandatory. And you cannot communicate with someone who is not communicating with you.
- Decisions aren’t decisions if you have to keep making them. Set on the course and stick to it. If you keep talking about things that have already been decided, nothing will ever get done.
- When someone says one thing, but acts in a contradictory way, you have a choice between believing their words or believing their deeds. Believe their deeds.
- Never let anyone tell you what you want. When someone says, “You don’t want that,” what they really mean is, “I don’t want you to have that.”
- Don’t stay where you’re not wanted, respected, or happy. Even if it’s your company.
Shaping the Future
Charles Stross talks about his personal predictions when it comes to the next 20 years of Technology, What it will bring us, limitations and expectations.
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Shortcuts for Special Gmail Labels
In Gmail every built-in view (e.g.: inbox, trash, read mail) is actually a label. So if you want to view all the unread messages from the inbox, you could search for: label:inbox label:unread.You can combine these built-in labels with your labels and create interesting queries. But these queries can become long and hard to write. Fortunately, you can replace label with l and everything with still work fine. The previous query will become: l:inbox l:unread.If you still think the query is too long, Gmail has shortcuts for the special labels.
^b chats
^f sent mail
^i inbox
^k trash
^r draft
^s spam
^t starred messages
^u unread mail
That means our query could become: l:^i l:^u. What about all the unread messages that aren't in the inbox? Search for: -l:^i l:^u.
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^b chats
^f sent mail
^i inbox
^k trash
^r draft
^s spam
^t starred messages
^u unread mail
That means our query could become: l:^i l:^u. What about all the unread messages that aren't in the inbox? Search for: -l:^i l:^u.
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
Comparing 5 Ways to Tag Videos
There's so many videos flying around online these days and both thesheer number and impact of those videos are only going to increasewith time. Video tagging tools let you archive and share favorites,subscribe to video tag feeds in iTunes or display tagged videos on awebpage using SplashCast..
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Friday, May 11, 2007
Bored Mathematician Discovers An Unusual Numerical Pattern While Doodling
The Ulam spiral is a simple method of graphing the prime numbers that reveals a pattern which has never been fully explained. It was discovered by the mathematician Stanisław Ulam in 1963, while doodling on scratch paper at a scientific meeting. Ulam, bored that day, wrote down a regular grid of numbers...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Learn to Ruby: 74 Quality RoR Resources and Tutorials
As is the case with any language, learning Ruby on Rails from scratch can be quite a pain. Here is a compiled a list of the best Rails resources the Web has to offer, covering installation (both manual and automatic, plus web hosts), tutorials (beginner and advanced topics), books, blogs, forums, cheat sheets, code snippets and API documents.
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Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles - Free Download
Photoshop Layer Styles are the easiest way to speed up the design process. Here is a set of 100+ Photoshop Layer Styles created in .ASL ( Photoshop Layer Style ) format.
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DIY Electric Bicycle
Learn step by step exactly how to make your own electric bike. Although it isn't that stylish, it will will save you thousands in gas money!
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IPv6 firewalling knows no middle ground
The need to have several computers share a single IP address means that today's home routers perform some basic firewalling. Applications have learned to overcome the problems this creates over time. With IPv6, all these problems-and their fixes-will disappear, but they come back with a vengeance when people need to setup IPv6 firewalls
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Absolutely HUGE List of Color Related Sites!
Someone put together a list of just about every color related resource (worth mentioning) in the known universe. Designers rejoice!
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Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition announced
Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition is aimed at "small, handheld, graphical tablets which are Internet-enabled", and will be developed together with Intel.
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100+ Ubuntu Tutorials and Growing Fast!
How to do practically anything with it. As a popular section, you can expect this number of lessons to continue to grow every day.
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Sunday, May 06, 2007
Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them
One of the new terms on the horizon is Microformats - formats, which make it possible to create meta-content which can be not only read, but also understood by machines. This post is supposed to give you an idea, what Microformats actually mean. Use them to enrich your content and make it more visible and understandable for search engines.
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Saturday, May 05, 2007
PhoneTunes - Series60
PhoneTunes provides an Apple iTunes interface for a Smartphone, allowing you to control your music collection from the comfort of your phone.
linkHutchison Australia Shareholders Approve A$2.85 Billion Raising
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/23551.php
"Hutchison Australia, which competes with Telstra and Singapore Telecommunications's Optus unit, will use proceeds to pay down debt related to its third-generation mobile phone network to around A$1.1 billion.
The group, which reported a 2006 net loss of A$759.4 million, expects the lower debt position to slash A$250 million a year off its interest bill"
with only "one million" customers that is $2,850 per customer.. they do not even get that much in ARPU
"Hutchison Australia, which competes with Telstra and Singapore Telecommunications's Optus unit, will use proceeds to pay down debt related to its third-generation mobile phone network to around A$1.1 billion.
The group, which reported a 2006 net loss of A$759.4 million, expects the lower debt position to slash A$250 million a year off its interest bill"
with only "one million" customers that is $2,850 per customer.. they do not even get that much in ARPU
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