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It’s Hard To Watch The Newsosaurs Turn A Blind Eye To Their Own Extinction

Sometimes it is obvious where the world is headed, but some people and industries become frozen in place and time. They are like the duckbilled dinosaurs happily munching on the still-abundant plants...
Brightkite’s Sneaky Plan To Get Regular Users Into Location: Group Text

Brightkite is tricky. Tricky and smart. While larger than most of their location-based rivals with over 2 million users, they know that in the past year they've lost some momentum to the newer check-...
CauseWorld’s New App Melds The Check-In With The Check-Out

Last night, we wrote about a CauseWorld teaming up with TechCrunch to provide double karma points during the SXSW festival starting today in Austin, Texas. These points, obtained through checking-in a...
FunMail’s FunTweet Visualizes Twitter Streams With Pretty Pictures

We've written about FunMobility's nifty picture messaging app for the iPhone and Android, called FunMail, that allows users to blasts their text into the application, which then breaks down whatever t...
Pentagon Partially Blames The Internet For That Christmas Shoe Bomber

This is the lede, verbatim, from a story that appeared in The Hill yesterday: "The Internet allowed extremists to contact, recruit, train and equip the suspect responsible for the attempted Flight 253...

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Get Ready for Pi Day 2010 (and the Big One in 5 Years)

There's a big geeky holiday coming this weekend -- and no I don't mean SXSW. It's Pi Day on Sunday, aka March 14, aka 3/14. But many self-proclaimed nerds are ramping up for the longest extended Pi Da...
3 Reasons Apple’s iPad 3G Service Is “Magical and Revolutionary”

Apple touts the iPad as "magical and revolutionary" but it's not the device alone that can make that claim. The service plan and no-contract model, combined with on-device 3G metering show the real re...
Are Mobile Coupons Finally Ready for Prime Time?

New figures from Compete.com indicate smartphone owners are more receptive to mobile coupons than to other types of pitches on their phones. The report comes on the heels of a new campaign from Target...
Clearwire’s Big Bet on Our Broadband Addiction

Mike Sievert, chief commercial officer at Clearwire, said the company's mobile users (those on laptops and dongles outside the home) consume more than an average of 7GB per month of data. Slaking that...
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Don’t miss cloud computing’s defining event, Cloud Connect, which brings together executives, IT professionals and developers to drive cloud growth and innovation. See the latest technologies and...

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How Musicians Are Using Social Media to Connect with Fans

Greg Rollett runs a music marketing company from his laptop in Orlando, FL. He is an advocate of the New Music Economy and very hopeful that artists can still live the rock star lifestyle in the digit...
The iPad: A Pre-Order Preview

The iPad is now officially available for pre-order, which means that news is going to be flowing in all day about its various specs and features. We’ll keep you updated on said news with this ha...
StumbleUpon’s New Ad Platform: An Inside Look

Earlier this week, the social discovery tool StumbleUpon revamped its advertising platform.These changes don’t so much change the basics of how StumbleUpon Advertising works, as much as they add...
4 Ways to Effectively Use Social Media as a Catalyst

Chris Allison is a social media strategist at NeboWeb, where he helps clients make the most of the social web. You can follow him on Twitter as the voice behind @Neboweb.As social media marketing beco...
Google Buzz E-mail Notification Changes Are Coming

Google’s new social network, Google Buzz, is getting some additional refinement, based on user feedback. Today’s news: The search giant is testing new features that will give you control...

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Interview: ABC News' Slavin: Paywall Strategy Coming Down By June

ABC News Digital execs are currently putting together a formal paywall strategy with expectations of having some concrete ideas for ways to charge consumers by the summer, said Paul Slavin, the unit&#...
Is Google Finally Ready To Make Its China Move?

China has now reiterated its position in its stand-off with Google (NSDQ: GOOG)—and it looks like all that remains is for Google to finally make its move. China says it won’t let Google op...
SEC Watch: Top NYTCo Execs' Wages Soar

While the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) struggled under the weight of economic pressures and debt last year, top execs personally did pretty well, even as the company reduced its newsroom by 100 staffers. As the...
Sonos Gets $25 Million For Wireless Music System

Sonos, which sells a digital music system that can be used to play music throughout a home, has raised $25 million in a third round of funding from Index Ventures. The funding was first reported by Te...
Free Maps From Google and Nokia Drive Vodafone To Shut Down Wayfinder

The first victim of the free navigation wars: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is shutting down Wayfinder, the Swedish mapmaker it purchased for $30 million in late 2008. It was the carrier’s goal to use...

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Intel, AOL, Others Help Betaworks Round Up $20M

As we profiled in our Never Mind the Valley series last month, New York is increasing its stronghold on the east coast startup scene. The city's rich media and international business ecosystems make i...
One Click Twitter-Clone Now Offered By DreamHost

If you visit the DreamHost blog today, chances are you'll give a quick guffaw, shake your head in dismay at the state of the Internet and quickly close the browser tab. But if you take a moment to r...
While Facebook & Twitter Sit on Sidelines, MySpace Jumps Into Bulk User Data Sales

MySpace has taken a bold step and put a large quantity of bulk user data up for sale on startup data marketplace InfoChimps. Data offered includes user playlists, mood updates, mobile updates, photos...
Will the Real Twitterati Please Stand Up?

The fact of the matter is, we're relatively far and few between, according to a study by Barracuda Networks. One day, we're told Twitter is growing exponentially, the next, it's a dying service that's...
Weekend Reading: Mass Customization Round Up

Lately at ReadWriteStart we have talked with a few people working with startups in the co-creation and mass customization industry. Some of these startups use on-demand production techniques to minimi...

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Six Delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders

Google's CEO went to Abu Dhabi this week and preached. He sermonized about Google's exceptional virtue — its indifference to profit and supreme trustworthiness. His speech should have been...
Twitterati at Breaking Point, Just in Time for SXSW

Alex Blagg is not going to improvise like some sort of monkey; Lily Allen is not going to stand for your "fat whore" condolences; and Nick Bilton is not particularly enjoying this week's pressure...
Was Apple Employee Choked By Law & Order Star?

An Apple Store staffer said she was choked by Richard Belzer. The Law & Order star, meanwhile, says he just touched the employee's shoulders to get her attention. Plus she's a crazy person who kept...
Did Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Break Electronic Privacy Laws?

Mark Zuckerberg's hacking of email accounts and user profiles in 2004 could be felonies under Federal and state law, according to privacy lawyers who spoke with Business Insider. As we described...
Airline Stops Video Chat Because You 'Could Communicate With a Terrorist'

United Airlines ordered tech writer John Battelle to stop video chatting with his daughters because "maybe I could communicate with a terrorist on the ground." Other in-flight wifi uses were OK,...

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Fits.me

Fits.me virtual fitting room for online clothing retailers Fits.me wins startup prize at Plugg...
SimpleGeo

SimpleGeo the easiest way to use location...
Aol Lifestream

Aol Lifestream Get all your updates in one place. Comment, like and update your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace status, right from AOL Lifestream. AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone P...
Broadband.gov

Broadband.gov Learn how the National Broadband Plan will help insure that all Americans have access to high-performance broadband. The FCC Wants You to Test Your Broadband Speeds...
Ofuz

Ofuz The goal of Ofuz is to simplify the task of managing your contacts and related duties by means of our innovative collaboration features.

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New York Times Pays Execs Extra If They Hire Minorities And Women Instead Of Old White Guys (NYT)

Another fun fact from the New York Times's proxy: Senior executives can get an extra bonus for hiring minorities and women instead of just old white guys. Don't believe it? Read the rest of this story...
Netflix Cancels 'Netflix Prize' Sequel Because Of Privacy Lawsuit (NFLX)

From Forbes: Read the rest of this story »See Also:Netflix Is Asking Customers If They Want An iPhone AppAkamai Gets More Of Netflix's Business, But At A Very Low PriceWalmart Should Buy Netflix,...
3 Things You Should Never Say Online If You Value Your Clients

Note: This post was originally published on OPEN Forum. It is republished here with permission. By now you’ve probably read or heard of stories of employees getting fired or tweeting their way o...
New York Times Execs Give Themselves Huge Raise For Firing People And Not Going Bust

As PaidContent's David Kaplan observes, at the top of the New York Times, it was a very good year. (In the newsroom? Not so much.) Read the rest of this story »See Also:Staffers To New York...
STAT OF THE DAY: 29 Million People Use The Facebook iPhone App (AAPL)

28.8 million people used the Facebook iPhone app in the last month. That's about a third of the 75+ million iPhone and iPod touch devices that have been shipped so far -- a huge percentage of phones.

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New Zealand relies on BGP router protocol to filter the 'Net

New Zealand's government-run Internet filtering system is now running, and two ISPs are already using the system. Seven thousand websites are on the list, most dealing with child sexual abuse, bestial...
China and Google playing game of Chicken over censorship

Chinese authorities are pounding their desks over compliance with the law as Google's C-Day approaches. The "C" is for Censorship, of course, which Google plans to lift in China sometime in the near f...
Science journo quits writing to fight chiropractic libel suit

The UK's libel laws, which place the burden of proof onto those who have published inflammatory statements, have had a chilling effect on journalism in that nation, and have led to a closet industry i...
Bed readers rejoice: iPad gains last-minute rotation lock

When Apple first introduced the iPad in late January, we noted with much disappointment that the device had no way to lock the screen orientation. This is apparently no longer the case, however—...
Firefox 3.6 sees 100M downloads, now pushing notifications

Firefox 3.6—the latest version of the popular open source Web browser—was officially released in January, but there are still many users who have not yet updated. In an effort to increase...

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One Year Of Foursquare

Our portfolio company Foursquare turned one year old yesterday. They posted about their birthday on the company blog. It is stuff like this that makes startups so fun to be around: It was exactly a ye...
The Cashless Exercise

Sorry for the inside baseball title, this post is not about net exercising options or warrants. It is about an exercise I've been going through since the beginning of the year. I've always walked arou...
Transitioning From One Job To Another

Mark Suster just keeps putting out great stuff on his blog. Last night he posted about the tricky issue of transitioning from one job to another. Mark writes the post from the perspective of the entre...
The Public Dashboard

I really like how Tumblr publishes some key stats publicly every month in their own stylized dashboard. I also like the way they foreshadow upcoming product features: As the old saying goes, a picture...
Accounting

I'm making up the curriculum for MBA Mondays on the fly. The end game is to lay out how to look a businesses, value it, and invest in it. We started with the time value of money and interest rates,...

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Stretch Your Phone's Battery Life by Choosing the Right Network [Batteries]

We've offered our best tips for getting the most from your smartphone's battery, but The New York Times revisits the mobile users' favorite topic. While most of the tips are familiar, he did suggest o...
Google Voice Turns One; Here's How to Get the Most from It [Birthdays]

Google Voice turned one yesterday, and in the year since Google reopened the service previously known as GrandCentral, we've:Helped you decide if Google Voice is a good fit for you Eased your transiti...
GoPetFriendly Finds Pet-Friendly Hotels, Campgrounds, and Much More [Travel]

We love traveling with our pets, but we don't like gambling on whether the hotel where we want to stay allows animals. Web site GoPetFriendly helps figure out where to rest your head without leaving R...
The Business Card Is Alive and Well After All [What You Said]

Earlier this week we asked if you still carried business cards, pointing out that the business card feels more and more outdated in a digital age. Your response: Digital age be damned! Around 70 perce...
Screwpop 4-in-1 Keychain Tool [Stuff We Like]

We're a little obsessed with great tools that fit on our keychains, so it's no wonder the Screwpop 4-in-1 keychain multi-tool caught our eye. It's a Phillips-head screwdriver, flat-head screwdriver, a...

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Apple Details iPad 3G Service Sign-Up and Management (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Apple Details iPad 3G Service Sign-Up and Management — With today's launch of iPad pre-orders in the U.S., Apple has also released additional information abo...
Index Invests $25 Million in Sonos (Plus a Video Interview with VC Mike Volpi) (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Index Invests $25 Million in Sonos (Plus a Video Interview with VC Mike Volpi) — Earlier this week, BoomTown had lunch with Michelangelo “Mike” V...
iPad 'Mute' button magically turns into 'screen rotation lock' (Seth Weintraub/9 to 5 Mac)

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac: iPad ‘Mute’ button magically turns into ‘screen rotation lock’ — The iPad is magic! That was then, this is now! Voil&...
Apple Rolls Out iBooks Feature Page (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Apple Rolls Out iBooks Feature Page — iBooks Application in Landscape Orientation — Apple has augmented its iPad “Features” sec...
Nexus One confirmed to only be sold online, (and to feature HTC Sense?) (Phil Nickinson/Android Central)

Phil Nickinson / Android Central: Nexus One confirmed to only be sold online, (and to feature HTC Sense?) — Far be it from us to say we told you so, but, well, we told you so. ...

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The War At SXSW: AT&T vs 15,000 Data-Crazed Velociraptors

AT&T’s struggles to stay up last year are well-documented. CNN recently ran a piece about how AT&T hopes to avoid a similar fate this year. But actually, “struggles” is way too kind of a word. I...
"Call to Action” Buttons: Guidelines and Best Practices

Call to action buttons on websites are often neglected. Designers sometimes don’t understand exactly what makes a good call to action button beyond being attractive and fitting into the overall desi...
China Warns Google - " Bear The Consequences"

A Chinese minister made the government's strongest statement yet on Google's future in the country, warning that the U.S. Internet company will have to bear the consequences if it stops censoring its...
President Obama Discusses Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Law

Hollywood lobbyists are trying to launch an assault on Internet providers and fast track tougher anti-piracy legislation in the United States. Ari Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Ra...
The Three-Story Washing Machine

So this was obvious: Place a few dividers into an otherwise normal front-loading washing machine, and separate your reds from your whites without washing a whole separate load.

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SXSW: See All Austin Check-ins in One Place

Cliqset has produced this nifty web app that aggregates status updates and check-ins sent from people in and around Austin to all of the different major location-sharing services — Gowalla, Four...
Webmonkey Goes South, Then West, for SXSWi

We’re headed to Austin, Texas tomorrow along with the crew from Wired’s Underwire blog to attend South By Southwest Interactive. The week-long nerd fest starts Friday, and we’ll be r...
Shocker: New Study Shows Web Video Is Still a Mess

A new study released Wednesday pits Flash Player’s video performance against that of native HTML5 video playback in several different web browsers. The verdict? Flash is a CPU hog in some cases,...
Google Launches Web Store for Cloud-Based Apps

If you have Google Apps running on your domain, now you can install third-party apps that fully integrate with Google’s apps. Google has debuted the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store wher...
Facebook Finds its Place in the Location-Sharing Landscape

The biggest social network on the web — that’s Facebook, by the way — is getting ready to unveil a location sharing service of its own, according to a report Tuesday. Citing unnamed...

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Google tweaking Buzz to declutter Gmail in-box

Don't like Buzz spamming your Gmail in-box? Google is adding some knobs to let users dial down the notifications. Originally posted at Deep Tech...
Mozilla aggressively asks older Firefox users to update

Most Firefox users have upgraded to Firefox 3.6. The stragglers who haven't may have their reasons, but Mozilla is starting to pressure them. Originally posted at The Download Blog...
Wearing your Stickybit on your sleeve, or elsewhere

One of the start-ups hoping to make a splash at this year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival is Stickybits, a set of bar code stickers that you can "tag" with anything. Originally posted at The...
Chasing Groupon, LivingSocial raises $25 million

Despite the fact that Groupon dominates all of its smaller competitors in the daily-deals market, rival LivingSocial is trying to draw some blood by expanding with the help of a new infusion of ventur...
Google tries to make its RSS reader fun, too

The Net giant unveils Google Reader Play, an attempt to put an easy-to-use, entertaining interface on its feed-reader Web application Originally posted at Deep Tech...

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Tricks to Keep Your Device’s Battery Going and Going

Smartphone and laptop batteries may seem like cruel masters when they threaten to lose power, but you have more control than you may think.
Phone Smart: Putting All Your Conversations on the Small Screen

Smartphones allow you to access all of your social networks and messaging services through a single app.
Q & A: Controlling a PC With a Phone

Is it possible to tap into my computer’s files from my iPhone?
Movin' On Up

A new flat panel TV wall mounting bracket makes viewing an automated process.
Solar Power Up Your iPhone

A new solar charger promises to keep your iPhone juiced up at all times.

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Netflix Cancels Contest Plans and Settles Suit

Bowing to privacy concerns, Netflix said it was shelving its plans for a sequel to a contest that awarded a $1 million prize.
Plastic Logic Delays Its Que Tablet

Plastic Logic is delaying its $800 professional document- and book-reading device until this summer.
How to Choose the Right Apple iPad for You

A step-by-step guide to making a smart choice between the Wi-Fi-only and 3G versions of the tablet from Apple.
South by Southwest: A Virtual Playground in Austin

Start-up hopefuls and creative entrepreneurs are heading to the South by Southwest technology conference.
What We're Reading: A Nobel Peace Prize for Us All?

Our daily roundup of Internet gems looks at a campaign to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the Internet, quantum computing and one airline's crackdown on video chatting in the air.

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Friday Signal: Location Location Location

Today's Signal is brought to you by the letter B. For Baseball. Every year around this time my son and I head out to Scottsdale, where our beloved SF Giants play Spring ball. We play hooky for a Frida...
Thursday Signal - Repeat After Me: Apps Are (Currently) Myopic (Or...We've Seen This Movie Before...)

I'm not claiming to be deeply informed about the app marketplace, which Google stirred up today (and, to my mind, the market could use a few more spoons). But I do use apps. At least, I use enough of...
Video Chat on the Plane? Illegal? OK? Legal Gray Area?

I'm writing this at around 36,000 feet, on a United Airlines flight between New York and San Francisco. That's not so unusual - anymore - Wifi had been on planes for over a year now, and I've grown ac...
Announcing The Fifth Annual CM Summit: Theme and Initial Lineup

(cross posted from FM blog ) I’m very excited to announce the theme and line-up for our fifth CM Summit, to be held in New York June 7-8 (it's the kickoff conference to New York's annual Internet We...
Weds. Signal: Get Me a Mobile Strategy or You're Fired!

(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every sing...

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Netflix Prize 2 Cancelled Due to a Lawsuit and FTC Inquiry

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It’s time to fix the window controls (ubuntu 10.04)

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Reason why most companies don’t waste their time developing software for Linux

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How to move $50B in bad debt off the balance sheet (Lehman report)

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The Great Recession, and why IT can't save the world

Why did the global economy tank in 2008? Mastek chairman Sudhakar Ram sits down with us to discuss risk-management, overhauling systems and why IT can't save the world.
Google to release noise volume controls for Buzz

Google is adding some controls to Buzz that will help reduce the "noise" in your inbox.
The Apple iPad leap of faith

The questions of the day are really quite simple: Should you preorder a device you've never touched, played with or used in any fashion?
China to Google: Censor or 'pay the consequences'

China sent Google its most direct message yet on the search giant’s plan to stop censoring its results. According to a bevy of reports, Li Yizhong, the minister of Industry and Information Techn...
TR Dojo: Detect and remove malware with these tools

TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler examines three types of anti-malware tools and explains how they can find and remove malware.

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The Scarborough Sharks

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Getting to know the GigaOm team

Just got back from a great visit to San Francisco (that’s it in the embedded photo), where I spent a few days with the rest of the GigaOm family in their funky loft-type office near Mission and...
Has Amazon won or lost the e-book war? Both.

Amazon’s battle with book publisher Macmillan was a valiant attempt to retain control over pricing in the rapidly changing world of e-books, but its weekend display of brinksmanship was short-li...
Will the iTablet help the media? Possibly. Save the media? No.

Is the newly launched Apple tablet, the iPad, beautiful? Yes. Drool-worthy, in fact. Will Apple sell a lot of them? If the iPod and the iPhone are anything to go by, then yes — and at $499 for the b...
Yes, HR execs check your Facebook page

Have you ever applied for a job and wondered why you didn’t get it, even though you were qualified? According to a new survey, there’s a good chance that the person doing the hiring found...

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Startup Career Fair in NYC on April 9th

Since founding the Columbia Venture Community a few years back, I have watched the group continue to thrive due to the efforts of the talented leaders that have taken it upon themselves to drive the o...
SXSW: I Hope AT&T Goes Down (video)

Ok, I’ve never actually wanted a service to not function and I am partially joking, but it would be great if AT&T service would go down here at SXSW 2010 in Austin. Why? Because perhaps the...
SXSW 2010 Schwag Bag Video and Giveaway

After waiting on line just about 90 minutes to get my badge, I was able to pick up the exciting SXSW 2010 schwag bag. The bag always contains tons of paper and a variety of small trinkets. I actually...
It’s Not About our App, It’s About the User’s Data and Context

The post below was authored by Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu. The title provides a short answer to the question: Why do we integrate with Google Apps? An important emerging theme in cloud applications is the...
Does the iPad Replace the Need for a Smartphone?

We’ve covered the Apple iPad several times on CenterNetworks. The device appears to be launching next month and I believe it will be a game changer. Andreas discussed how he sees the device bein...

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MusicBee, a Web-Centric Music Manager

I rarely post about topics that don't have too much to do with Google, but there's a little-known music player that deserves some recognition. MusicBee is a powerful music player and music organizer f...
Google's Command for Posting Buzz Messages

Google Mobile Blog has a cool tip for those who post Google Buzz messages from an iPhone or an Android phone:"You can post your public buzz simply by speaking it. From the Google Mobile App for iPhon...
How to Install Google Quick Search Box

Google has recently discontinued Quick Search Box for Windows, which was included in Google Toolbar. If you liked the application, there's a way to use it, even if it's no longer available in Google T...
Quick Search Box for Windows, Discontinued

Quick Search Box, a small Google application bundled with Google Toolbar, is no longer available for Windows. The software was both a program launcher and a Google search box instantly available even...
Macros for Google Spreadsheets

If you wanted to use macros in Google Spreadsheets, there's a good news: Google Apps Script is now available for all Google Docs users. That means you can write scripts for performing repetitive actio...

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The iPadpreneur. [Voices]

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigg...
Plastic Logic Says Que E-Reader Delayed [Voices]

Plastic Logic, the maker of an e-reader targeting business users, told customers on Thursday that it would delay the delivery of its first Que readers until the summer. The company had said at the Con...
Index Invests $25 Million in Sonos (Plus a Video Interview with VC Mike Volpi) [BoomTown]

Earlier this week, BoomTown had lunch with Michelangelo "Mike" Volpi, the high-profile tech exec who turned into a VC recently at Index Ventures. We also did a video interview about his new life as...
China Warns Google [Voices]

A Chinese minister made the government's strongest statement yet on Google Inc.'s future in the country, warning that the U.S. Internet company "will have to bear the consequences" if its follows thro...
Apple's New Job: Marketing Apps Through Google [MediaMemo]

Google and Apple may be fighting each other on multiple fronts, but they're deeply linked, too. Another example: Apple is filling up Google search results with the contents of its iTunes store.

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Adobe smacks back Apple over iPad, again

There’s a ton of chatter on Techmeme today regarding iPad and Flash and HTML 5. Again. In particular don’t miss posts from ReadWriteWeb regarding Flash vs. HTML 5 speed and PC World’...
The Revolution at Work (the industry reacts to Salesforce’s moves)

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, has been using the bully pulpit over at Techcrunch to tell everyone that how we work together is about to radically change to be more like how we are able to share pho...
Check in on this: can location-based services get any hotter?

If you’ve been reading Techcrunch or Techmeme lately you know just how in love tech bloggers are with location-based services like Foursquare. Just yesterday Facebook announced its intention to...
Augment your SXSW reality (News: first indoor AR app released)

No, no, I’m not talking about going to the Diggnation party and downing a couple of drinks. This year there’s some geekier ways to augment your reality while you walk from panel to panel o...
Do we need a new tech literacy? (Behind the “big data” services like Twitter, Facebook use)

The technology that lies underneath the services we use every day is complex and changing quickly. Technologies like Hadoop, MapReduce, are changing how developers and architects build these services.

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Me and iPad: Not now

I was up this morning at 8:30AM Eastern and saw the notes that the iPad was now available for pre-order. So I went through the process, updated my credit card on Apple's website, changed the address a...
I like abbreviated RSS feeds

Just read an article by Felix Salmon in response to a decision by Gawker to stop pushing the full text in their RSS feeds. I've heard this argument over years, from many people, but I've never agreed...
Still waiting for my HTTP-scanner

Many years ago I wrote about an idea for simplifying hardware devices that scan stuff producing digital images. They shouldn't require any drivers and they should work effortlessly. But the architectu...
Location-based content

I can't figure out how the new location-based Twitter works. Firefox can't figure out where I am. No surprise, My 13-inch MacBook Pro doesn't have GPS. Is there some place I can click on a map to say...
RSS enclosures from 2004 and 2005

I was doing some research for a blog post and came across this folder of RSS enclosures from late 2004 and early-mid 2005. These were the months when podcasting was beginning to take root. I was doing...

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WWD Reader Profile: Larry Salibra, Founder, Attigo

WebWorkerDaily readers are a diverse bunch. Every week, I profile a different reader and ask them to share what they do, how they do it, and some of their favorite hints and tips.
Mix Up the Workweek by Setting Your Own “20-Percent Time”

Google has what it calls "20-Percent Time", where its employees spend one day each workweek on projects they're passionate about, while 3M calls its version "15% culture," which "encourages technical...
Springpad Evolves: Capture Information from Anywhere

Over the last few months I've seemed to neglect some of the interesting things that Springpad could do outside of my business endeavors. Features that, while appealing, I just never really got around...
Roundup: Social Media Monitoring Tools

There are countless ways to track your brand on social media. Simple methods include using Twitter search and Google Alerts; more elaborate tools include Radian6's newly announced Engagement Console,...
Marketing With Virtual Facebook Events: Yay or Nay?

Generating buzz about a new service or product is one of the toughest things marketers will ever have to do. It's hard enough to achieve when you have real-life publicity events, where employees can d...

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Stock Tweet App makes tracking Twitter stock discussions easy

Filed under: Finance, Freeware, Social SoftwareStock traders are among the many groups of people who have taken up Twitter as a way to discuss their interests. They've even developed their own shortha...
Firefox Friday: the homogenization of browsers and the death of innovation

Filed under: web 2.0, BrowsersWhatever happened to being different? Once upon a time, difference was revered. Heck, I still think people, deep down, admire difference. It takes guts and balls and ner...
Google to strip unique client ID from future Google Chrome installs

Filed under: Google, Browsers Whether you were aware of it or not, Google has always tagged Chrome installs with a unique identifier. It's long been reported as a privacy-compromising feature, though...
WeatherBar puts the weather right in your Windows 7 Superbar

Filed under: Fun, Windows I've never been one to run sidebar gadgets on my desktop. If they're on top, they're usually covering something I need to see. If they're in back I forget about them entirel...
Play yourself at Rock, Paper, Scissors with an open source training glove

Filed under: Fun, Games, Open Source We've all been there... Those dark, dreary, lonely nights when you're up to date with your video games and you're out of books. You look at your last good friend,...

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GamesBeat@GDC: Keith Booyah describes rapid growth of real-world location gaming (video)

Location-based gaming in the real world is a hit with gamers and a broader community of mobile app users. Booyah’s Keith Lee has learned that with the rapid growth of his company’s MyTown...
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Sid Meier knows how gamers think. He has been making hit games such as Civilization for decades. Today, he shared his learnings about gamer psychology and how he has had to change his assumptions abou...
Threadbox launches a slick new real-time collaboration tool (invites)

About a month ago, email assistant startup Cc:Betty renamed itself Threadbox and said it was rebuilding the product into a more work-focused collaboration tool. At 5pm Pacific today, users will get a...
Plastic Logic announces Que eBook reader delay until summer

Plastic Logic announced today that it will have to delay the release of its hotly anticipated Que eBook reader until this summer. The company was originally aiming for a mid-April release. It’s...
Sonos scores $25M round for its wireless home music systems

Santa-Barbara-based Sonos sells wireless multi-room home music systems. They’re kind of pricey, but they work at least as well as trying to hook all your computers together with iTunes. Plus you...

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Yahoo Goes Hollywood With New TV, Celebrity Shortcuts

Citing the popularity of entertainment-related searches, Yahoo’s search results have gone Hollywood with the announcement of new search shortcuts for TV shows and celebrities. The TV shortcut sh...
Valuing Keywords Based On Their Role In Conversion

Are you valuing all keywords equally, assuming they all offer the same benefit to your paid search campaign? That may be a mistake. Here's a cautionary tale that shows you how to assign appropriate v...
Google Adds Microdata Support For Rich Snippets

The Google Webmaster Central blog announced a third markup language supported for Rich Snippets. In addition to microformats and RDFa support, Google has added microdata support, which is part of the...
Can Google Stay In China And Still Save Face?

Ever since Google’s bold statement early this year that it would be withdrawing from the Chinese search market if it couldn’t find a way to operate without censorship, Mountain View has fo...
20 Tips To Search Conference Success

Attending search conferences should be part of every SEM pro’s yearly routine. Whether it’s to network within the industry, learn new tips or tricks, find new business opportunities, or even jus...

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Privacy concerns derail Netflix contest

Netlix says privacy concerns have prompted the company to cancel a contest that rewards technology that best predicts a user's movie-viewing preferences.
'Cloud' vs. 'source' in the battle of bland corporate names

Open source and cloud-computing start-ups have one thing in common: a tendency to wear their industry trend on their sleeves.
ICANN postpones decision on .xxx domains

Advocates for a .xxx designation for adult sites will have to wait until at least June after the ICANN board postponed a decision on the matter at its meeting Friday.
Week in review: Game on for Sony

Sony joins the motion controller wars, and broadband gets ready for a big leap. Also: SXSWi goes geolocation.
Tech finds its place at SXSWi (roundup)

As the Web generation descends on the South by Southwest Interactive show in Austin, several location-based start-ups try to put themselves on the map.

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