- Friday, October 10, 2008, 19:22
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I recently outlined why
I'm sick of the 'ROI in web 2.0' discussion. To be specific, the debate as to whether there is one at all.
In that post, I gave examples of how naysayers reacted to social media tools in the past - and how they were left in ...
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- Friday, October 10, 2008, 15:22
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OpenID adoption has been lopsided. Getting sites to offer OpenIDs has been relatively popular. Google, Yahoo!, MySpace, and countless others provide OpenID addresses for their users. Even AOL users have an OpenID. Far less popular? Allowing users to access their accounts on those services with an OpenID.
But
JanRain is hoping to change that with the release ...
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- Friday, October 10, 2008, 15:22
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Admit it. You don't always read the EULAs when you install software on your computer. You just click "I Agree." The same goes for the web. Most of us don't read the privacy policies that accompany our favorite web sites and services (
myself included, apparently). But our failure to do so has some researchers suggesting that it's time the Federal Government got involved. ...
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- Friday, October 10, 2008, 15:22
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YouTube is not exactly known for the depth of discourse in its comments. A few days ago, Randall Munroes's popular web comic XKCD
suggested that Google should add an audio preview for all comments, so that commenters might realize how inane some of their comments really are. Now, Google has implemented exactly this feature: audio previews for YouTube comments. While the ...
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- Friday, October 10, 2008, 15:22
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Mixx, the social news site that competes directly with
Digg, just celebrated its first birthday by
announcing that traffic to its site has grown rapidly over the last few months and that it now attracts more than 4 million unique visitors a month.
These numbers are even more impressive if you consider that Mixx only had about 1 million ...
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- Friday, October 10, 2008, 15:22
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Trapster is a new mobile application that lets you see and share the location of speed traps right on your mobile phone or GPS device. Once installed, the app uses a combination of your device's internal GPS capabilities, geocoding techniques, and voice transcription to alert you in real-time to any reported speed traps in your area. Of course we know we're not supposed ...
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- Friday, October 10, 2008, 15:22
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The media world is changing and its jobs are changing too. The rise of the blogger is an often-told story, but are the lucky few bloggers who do it for a living well paid? We did a survey to find out.
We asked 20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media consultants to tell us how much they get paid, ...
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- Friday, October 10, 2008, 15:22
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Shortcuts for commonly performed functions are beautiful things and we just found a great Firefox extension that's going to save us a lot of time. It's called
UrlbarExt and it puts six little gray icons on the right side of your address bar. What do those buttons do? They perform in one click some common functions that would otherwise take ...
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- Friday, October 10, 2008, 15:22
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In our search for that rare beast - the profitable VC backed venture - I interviewed Eileen Gittins, the CEO of
Blurb. Blurb does Print On Demand publishing for both consumer and professional markets. They compete with Lulu, which
announced today that it is "laying off 24 workers at its North Carolina plant because of the slowing economy". That is 25% ...
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- Thursday, September 18, 2008, 15:27
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Has anyone here used or is using hostonnet? are there any problems with their Getting Support.
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