Platform-as-a-service provider Rollbase launched today

Marketing its offerings as web-based software geared toward small- and medium-sized businesses. While the PaaS terminology conjures up images of Rollbase competing with something

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Trying to build the next BIG Web 2.0 Co.? Read this first!

An excellent post about what to do when all you have is an idea and no means to implement it yourself. You need more than just great web developers to make execution a success!

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Video Sharing Site CrunchyRoll Crunches Into $4.05 Million

CrunchyRoll recently removed all ads on the site and the blog post is worth reading. They are currently generating revenue from donations with badges for users who provide a donation

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11 Useful Email Addresses

"0. www@web2mail.com - Send an email with the URL of the web page in the Subject field (e.g. www.cnn.com) and you’ll soon find a copy of that web page in your Inbox. A perfect option when there’s no [WWW] Internet access in the area or access is restricted (for instance, you want to read the BBC homepage in China)."

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Nokia Shows Off Nanotech Mobile Phone Concept

Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the UK's University of Cambridge - has been put on show at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

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Hollywood and the internet - There will be blood

Hollywood is doing its best to ignore the internet. That is a big mistake. The internet may look unfamiliar and dangerous, but it could be the ultimate home-entertainment weapon. No trip to a thinly stocked retailer, no late fees, no waiting for a package in the post.

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12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them

There are loads of different types of clients out there and chances are at some point you’ll get to meet all of them. So let’s take a look through some typical clients and see if you recognise a few of your own in there! And the contractors

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8 steps to life change and success

Those who admire successful individuals and desire to achieve their own success want to know the steps they must take. There is no set path to success, it varies depending upon the person and the situations they face. However, these are 8 steps that you can walk to achieve a change in your life.

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Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding

In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. You definitely know some of them, but definitely not all of them. Some technique is missing? L

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Buying The DVD: Unhelpful And Unethical

These last few years P2Pers have got used to TV entertainment ‘our way’: de-loused, delivered efficiently in economical, good-looking codecs. Because we rarely turn it on, it’s been easy to forget just how cynical, unsatisfying and downright venal television, as a distribution medium, has become.

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Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

Many of the most successful web 2.0 companies understand this intuitively and it is reflected in their product management. Although they all have a general vision for their product, it does not spring full formed from their minds.

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51 Power User Ways to Reinvent the Windows Wheel

Forget what you think you know about Windows! Whether you use XP or Vista, these 51 tips and tweaks will give you a whole new OS

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12 Power Networking Questions

If you want to supercharge your in person networking skills, then these twelve questions are the foundational keys and the tools you will need to expand your network rapidly.

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Pen Style Personal Computer

You might’ve got one of these “hard-to-believe” emails and wondered if this is true or is this a myth. Take a look at those Pen Style Personal Computer pictures.

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How To Manage Feature Creep: 8 Simple Tips

Feature creep (also known as scope or requirement creep) is the term used for additional requirements that get tacked on outside of the original project scope. Here's some essential ways to help you manage feature creep on your own projects.

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doubleTwist makes DRM-stripping, sharing easy as pie

doubleTwist is a new venture cofounded by DVD Jon, the hacker who made a name for himself by cracking a number of prevalent DRM schemes. Except this time, he wants to help out average Joes and Janes free themselves from the complicated world of DRM by making it as easy as drag-and-drop.

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A Futuristic Mobile Device Mockup ... Pretty Cool [PICS]

The idea behind this concept is exploit the internet ability in a mobile device. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search all in one slim device.

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BBC's iPlayer nukes "all you can eat" ISP business model

The UK’s largest broadcaster finally launched its online video streaming and download service on Christmas Day. Plusnet - an ISP - has provided a preliminary analysis of the traffic and the results should send shivers down the spine of any ISP currently offering an unlimited “all-you-eat” service.

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10 Apps To Have For Your Symbian S60 Phone

I have 5.. now to down load the other 5

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The Analog Cell Phone Timeline (PIC)

As of today, the analog cellphone is no more. Here's the complete timeline of its development, since Greece in 490BC to February 18, 2008, the day in which networks are no longer obligated to provide with analog cellphone coverage.

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Mysteries Of Computer From 65BC Are Solved

The machine was lost among cargo in 65BC when the ship carrying it sank in 42m of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. By chance, in 1900, a sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck and recovered statues and other artifacts from the site.

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Watch DVDs on your iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc. with HandBrake

So you just bought an iPod touch or iPhone and want to stock it with movies from your DVD library. There are countless commercial utilities that promise to rip DVDs, but I recommend trying HandBrake. This open-source (read: free) utility for Windows (download), Mac (download), and Linux converts your DVDs for viewing on iPods, iPhones, Sony PSPs

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Windows Live Hotmail program manager's e-mail hacked

Windows Live Hotmail's Lead Program Manager had his e-mail account hacked... repeatedly. Welcome to the dark and rainy side of cloud computing.

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Intel and Nokia working on seamless WiFi / WiMAX

Along with Nokia, Intel is developing a technology with which a person could continue listening to Internet radio or watching online video without a disruption in service.

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Modu LEGO-Like Cellphone System Video Hands-On

Modu is a very small cellphone that carries your personal data everywhere and you can plug into "jackets", which are specialized hardware modules that transform it into all kinds of things, like multimedia players, a full-fledge PDA with full QWERTY keyboard, gaming handhelds, GPS and whatever you want. Seeing the concept work is quite cool.

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samsung mini projector goes mobile in March

Samsung returns with a hot little accessory. The MBP-100 mini projector casts a 20-inch display from cellphones or presumably appropriately jacked portable media players of all kinds. No details at the moment but it's expected to hit S.Korea in March and hopefully go global soon thereafter.

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Really, We Don't Want to Join Your Social Network

Dude explains why incorporating social networking functionality into an existing business' website isn't that great an idea.

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Microsoft Buys Mobile Developer Danger

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy cell-phone software developer Danger Inc., bolstering the company's stake in the growing market for mobile device applications.

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Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1 iPhone killing QWERTY

It's here, the XPERIA X1 QWERTY from Sony Ericsson. SE's new XPERIA brand will focus on multimedia and mobile web communication. The X1 then, brings a 3-inch wide VGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera (with photo light), A2DP Bluetooth, aGPS, WiFi, and quad-band GSM/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUPA... I want one

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LG Phones First to Support the DivX Video Format

LG Electronics and video compression provider, DivX have announced that the LG Viewty camera phone (LG-KU990) is the first mobile phone with DivX Certification to natively record video in the high quality DivX format.

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Alltop Has All the Tops Stories, and Egos, Covered

Introducing Guy Kawasaki's latest startup, Alltop.

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U.S. Internet Users Viewed 10 Billion Videos Online in Dec

Wow...the numbers seem unbelievable!!!

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EQO Mobile

A New EQO Mobile IM client for your phone, no skype support though. Java based.

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Turn Your S60 Phone Into A Hot Spot

JoikuSpot, a new piece of software for the Symbian S60 smartphones, might be the best thing that’s ever happened to web workers, though it is likely to raise the ire of mobile operators.

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Nokia Audiobook software beta for S60 available

Here's a nice little freebie if you're a fan of audiobooks and have a Symbian S60 device: Nokia has a beta Audiobook application ready and waiting for you to download.

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Open Handset Group announces Linux based mobile phone

The open handset consortium, the LiMo Foundation has announced the on-schedule availability in March 2008 of the first release of the LiMo Platform - a Linux-based software platform for mobile handsets-together with the immediate public availability of the application programming interface (API) specifications.

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8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

"An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design..."

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4 Tools to Backup your Mobile Phone

Some services to backup your mobile phone [contacts list, calendar entries, text messages, browser bookmarks, phone settings, notes etc]

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101 Design Patterns & Tips for Developers

An excellent collection of useful tips on design patterns, refactoring and other programming tricks

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Nano (this is really cool)

I have no idea how to explain this...almost like an interactive timeline thing.....it's pretty neat....

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50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

If your business limits its online presence to advertising banners and blogging, it's missing out. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and more. Take advantage of these tools by asserting your company's presence online ...

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