Saturday, December 20, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Future of the Internet Mobile
A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves.
http://pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp
http://pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
OpenCalais
We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais.
Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.
http://www.opencalais.com/
http://mashable.com/2008/11/29/google-iphone-apps/Friday, December 12, 2008
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Free Applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch - Chronometer, Stopwatches, Worldclocks, RPN Calculator, Money Management, Voice Recorder, Puzzles
Friday, November 21, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
MTV Site Posts Every Music Video Ever
I hope you've got some time to kill, because the new MTV Music website is pretty much the coolest thing ever for music fans. At long last, the MTV name is being associated with music videos again, because the "music" channel has gone and put its entire archive of music videos online, all embeddable and in high quality.
http://www.mtvmusic.com/
http://www.mtvmusic.com/
Using Your Linux Computer As A Media Center (Part 1)
If you are a Windows or Mac user, you will be familiar with Windows Media Center or Front Row that both have the ability to turn your computer into a Media Center PC. Linux users don’t have such luck as most distros do not come with a media center application pre-installed.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/using-your-linux-computer-as-a-media-center-part-1/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/using-your-linux-computer-as-a-media-center-part-1/
Sunday, October 26, 2008
World Toughest Phone Battered Live Online For Your Enjoyment
The folks at Sonim have done just about everything in their power to convince potential customers that their XP1 is the world's toughest phone. That includes running over it with cars and dunking it in beer baths. Their latest stunt involves hitting in with a hammer 24/7 until it breaks—and you can watch the entire thing go down online.
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Three Places To Shop For Android Apps? How Confusing!
Yesterday, T-Mobile stocked their stores with G1 handset, the first smartphone to feature Google's mobile operating system “Android.” Along with the device itself, the Google Android Market also went live.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Sling Media - SlingCatcher
SlingCatcher's onscreen interface and remote control provide easy access to digital video from just about anywhere—from your Slingbox, from your PC, or from the Internet
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Microsoft starts distributing open-source Drupal
The single biggest distributor of Drupal just might be Microsoft. Microsoft's Web Application Installer comes with out-of-the-box support for Drupal, as well as a few other open-source applications. Microsoft once called open source a cancer. Now it's spreading the disease?
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How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers
(Or, How to sync an iPhone with one computer and manually manage music and videos on another).Normally it’s only possible to sync an iPhone with one computer. If you try to use a second computer you get the warning below that "the iPhone X is synced with another iTunes library. Do you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library"?
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50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials
This post serves as a collection of useful tutorials on working with AJAX in a wide variety of ways. You’ll find tutorials on working with forms, building shopping carts, creating chat features, working with log-ins and usernames and much more.
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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. When Microsoft and Apple were founded.
http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
slingcatcher
SlingCatcher's onscreen interface and remote control provide easy access to digital video from just about anywhere—from your Slingbox, from your PC, or from the Internet
http://www.slingmedia.com/go/slingcatcher
http://www.slingmedia.com/go/slingcatcher
Friday, October 17, 2008
Python 3.0 makes a big break
Typically, each new version of the Python programming language has been gentle on users, more or less maintaining backward compatibility with previous versions. But in 2000, when Python creator Guido van Rossum announced that he was embarking on a new version of Python, he did not sugar coat his plan: Version 3.0 would not be backward-compatible. N
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YouTube Founder Compares Online Video To Nascent TV Market
Hurley compares the current state of online video to the nascent years of television. In 1941
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Why Windows Mobile Is In Trouble?
Recently it was revealed that the newest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7.0, would be delayed until as late as 2010. The updated version, which the company’s partners had reportedly been hoping to have by early 2009, was aimed at giving Microsoft a bigger presence on the mobile stage. But delay or no delay...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Start-up Siri developing new interaction paradigm for the We
In the midst of the financial meltdown and a contentious upcoming election, you might think the U.S. government and taxpayers are just funding wars, bank bailouts and bridges to nowhere or somewhere. But this is the same government that funded the Internet way back when and is also funding
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Saturday, October 04, 2008
It's here- VoiP for iPhone.
Fring allows you to chat and interact with others on a variety of networks including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, ICQ. In addition, Fring offers voice over ip (VoIP) using the iPhone's WiFi connec
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New Cool Touchscreen Communicator Concept from Nokia
besides all of the exciting news today, I got an interesting information about new communicator device concept over at the internet. This concept really grabs my attention since it seems that it's gonna be an all-touchscreen phone that converts into a Communicator when the 'pencil box' form-factor is opened. Concept, Nokia, Communicator
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Replacing Fiber With 10 Gigabit/Second Wireless
Richard Ridgway, a senior researcher at Battelle, says that the technique could be used to send huge files across college campuses, to quickly set up emergency networks in a disaster, and even to stream uncompressed high-definition video from a computer or set-top box to a display. Whereas Wi-Fi and cellular networks operate on frequencies of. . .
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Friday, October 03, 2008
Pixelpipe - Free your media, upload and share anywhere
Why choose one when you can send your media through Pixelpipe and have it delivered to so many at the same time
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VideoSwiper - Mass Video Finder Embeds Shares and Uploads Th
Many webmasters are now running video websites as a way to generate new income from the Internet, the problem in most cases is time & content, VideoSwiper acts as a medium between you & other top video sharing communities to provide you with millions of embeddable videos to mass populate your sites with speed & targeted niche content.
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State of the Art - For Purists, a Cut Above in Movies - NYTi
These days, anyone born after 1980 expects instant delivery of entertainment. But the Internet movie scene is still dismal: the movies are overpriced, heavily copy protected and lacking subtitles, commentaries or extras. The selection is thin. And even if you go to the trouble of downloading, each movie deletes itself 24 hours after you start playb
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YouTube Rolls Out Post-Roll Video Ads
YouTube, which has never had trouble growing an audience but hasn’t yet figured out the trick for monetizing them thar eyeballs, is adding a trick from the old playbook: post-roll advertisements.
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Skype security flub leads to discovery of Chinese monitoring
Researchers have found evidence that Skype and Chinese partner TOM Online are monitoring text communications online for "sensitive" topics, and storing extensive logs on publicly-accessible servers. Not only is this a major security risk, it also raises questions as to what level Skype is complying with the requests of the Chinese government.
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Hands-On Nokia 5800 XpressMusic First All-Touch S60 Phone
The 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube) is the first touchscreen Symbian S60 phone from Nokia—a surprising fact considering how prominent touchscreens have quickly become over the last few years. And instead of rolling out the new touch-specific S60 Fifth Edition on a flagship N-series phone, Nokia has decided to position the 5800 as a music phone for...
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100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites
Whether you need to find a home, share a huge file, or throw a wicked curve with a Wiffle ball, you'll find these sites indispensable.
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Boxee for AppleTV
A developer on Tuesday released a free patch enabling Apple TV to play virtually any multimedia file with the insertion of a thumb drive into the box.Normally, Apple TV can only play video and music files that are compatible with iTunes or bought through the iTunes Store, but coder Scott Davilla's patch called Boxee essentially "Jailbreaks"...
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A complete List of business Networking Websites for CEO’S
A complete List of business Networking Websites for CEO’S and Entrepreneurs. The Internet provides dominant networking opportunities that let users to efficiently target their addressees by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Hands on: Nero's LiquidTV, TiVo for your PC
Nero announced LiquidTV today, a combination software and hardware product that brings TiVo and much of its glory to Windows PCs, complete with that great remote. Ars Technica spoke with Nero and went hands on to see how well TiVo software performs outside of its natural habitat.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Microsoft and Nokia Adopt jQuery for Development Platforms
Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Nokia is looking to use jQuery to develop applications for their WebKit-based Web Run-Time. Microsoft and Nokia aren’t looking to make any modifications to jQuery (both in the form of code or licensing) - they simply wish to promote its use as-is.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Flash Video Glitch Allows Free Movie Downloads
A security hole in Adobe's ubiquitous online technology could open the door to swiping movies from Amazon's streaming video service.
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Access your Windows shared folders from your S60 Nokia phone
access windows shares and Samba folders from your nokia phone with this new free application
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‘Heroes’ Causes BitTorrent Boom
Two fresh episodes of the US hit series ‘Heroes’ were released Monday night. In the day that followed each episode was downloaded well over a million times by BitTorrent users all over the world, making it the busiest day ever on many torrent sites.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Popular Open Source Version Control systems
Designers and developers can both benefit from using revision control systems to keep copies of their files and designs. You can instantly browse previous “commits” to your repository and revert to earlier versions if something happens. This article reviews some of the top open source version control systems and tools that make setting up a version
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Enterprise 2.0 Vendors need to get more serious about mobile
The truth is that the most successful Enterprise 2.0 applications will focus heavily on mobile and will take in to consideration the considerably different use cases related to how different functions use mobile devices
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Where Attention Flows, Money Follows
Almost anything else except attention can be manufactured as a commodity. Luxury goods are only luxuries temporarily. They quickly are counterfeited and commodified. Premium brands are only premium because they garner a surplus of attention.
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The Future of Computing Over The Next Few Decades
Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie offered a long term view of where Microsoft and the world of computing is heading over the next few decades. Speaking at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference, Mundie envisioned a 3D virtual world populated by virtual presences, using a combination of client and cloud services.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
How Android Hurts Microsoft
The Android-based G1 is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's worst fears bundled together in a tidy package: Google, Web applications, open source and a platform alternative to Windows. Worse: easy access to Google's plethora of online services—including Calendar, Contacts, Gmail, Google Talk, Maps Street View and YouTube—via single sign-on.
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45 Drupal Sites You May Not Have Known Were Drupal Based
Drupal is an open source CMS system (Content Management System) that allows anyone to build fairly complicated dynamic website applications. A question we get asked here at Social CMS Buzz is what popular, well known websites use Drupal as their system, the answer is lots with Nike, Universal Music, Warner Bros, Yahoo and Adobe being just a few.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Analysts: Android mobiles to sell faster than iPhone?
Analysts are predicting such an interest in the amount of Android-powered mobile phones that 400,000 could be sold by 2009.That would equate to over 130,000 per month,given the fact we only have a quarter of the year left & given the teeny amount of marketing on these phones compared to the iPhone pre-launch,it would certainly be a feat to achieve.
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Interview with the BBC’s Future Media Director
Interesting interview with the BBC's Future Media Creative Director about mobile usability.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
3 Products That Will Change 2008
There are 3 products that will change 2008 for the web. Two are mobile products and the other is a online graphic tool for artists. The three are: Flixwagon, Aviary and GoMobo. You will use these apps in 2008.
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What makes Web shoppers click
Perhaps, the customer became frustrated with the typing in their shipping information. Maybe the person got cold feet just as it came time to type in a credit card number. Maybe the customer was never able to find the right product in a vast catalog of products.
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DECE - Lipstick on the DRM pig
Over the past few hours there’s been a lot of chatter about the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) consortium that everyone is a member of, except Apple. Is DECE a genuine move to make digital content easier to handle for the end user or is it just a feeble attempt to claw back some market share from Apple?
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Friday, September 12, 2008
15 Ways They Could Get People to Actually Watch TV Again
Our generation spends more time on the internet and gaming then they do just about everything else. Hell, you're probably on the internet right now. As a result, ratings are down all over, so the question is, what would the networks have to do to get us to watch again? Some ideas, courtesy of the generation they're losing.
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Why cable operators want to become wireless ISPs
Comcast talks up its investment in Clearwire, a WiMAX-based ISP. Cable operators like Comcast and Time Warner have been battling wireline telcos for years, but wireless offerings will allow them to turn their attention to an emerging threat to their entire business: wireless phone companies.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Google - The future of search
The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the 10 years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Live: Twenty Questions For The Venture Capitalists At TechCr
Erick Schonfeld and Mark Pincus just took the stage at TechCrunch50 to ask twenty (or so) questions to top venture capitalists, most of which were submitted by readers.
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Monday, September 08, 2008
Leadership and Management of Distributed Collaboration
This isn't just about motivating distributed teams. Distributed teams have higher coordination costs without a clear direction. This is similar to Eugene Kim's point that "there is no such thing as collaboration without a goal."
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Saturday, September 06, 2008
How Search Will Revolutionize Social Networking
Social networking is on fire. eMarketer predicts that in the US the category will reach 44.3% of Internet users by year's end.
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Friday, September 05, 2008
40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box [PICS]
Over the last months we have seen a strong trend towards more individual web designs. These designs use realistic motifs from our regular life. In the showcase below we present 40 creative out-of-the-box layouts which break the boring structure of typical 2- and 3-columned, boxed layouts.
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
The Golden Age of Streaming
The shift seems to be from ultimate quality to ultimate utility, to fit the data into the time available to consume it. Streaming content is far more efficient than downloading, since you don’t need to cache all the material you don’t get around to seeing.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The DVD Download Business, Part 1 to part 8
Mark Fritz | In Part 1 of a 4-part series on DVD downloads and their impact on the optical media market and distribution of entertainment content, we'll look at some of the major DVD and digital movie download vendors and how the market is initially shaping up.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
iPhone: Trouble in the App Store
It’s been a confusing week for both sellers and buyers at the App Store — the venue for third party software that is the best thing to happen to the iPhone (except maybe the price cuts) since it arrived more than a year ago.
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Saturday, August 09, 2008
How To Demo Your Startup
After doing 2,500 minutes of demos (40 hours) this year and many more last year for the conference, a lot about what makes for a great demo and what makes for a horrible demo. Since demoing your idea is a key to your success as an entrepreneur
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Friday, July 25, 2008
10 Tips: Cell Phones & Limiting Radiation Exposure
here is a new warning about the health dangers of cell phone use. The director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers has issued the new advisory.
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