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Make Gmail Your Productive-Minded Web Gateway [How To]Web PR worker Steve Rubel has a great post at his Micro Persuasion blog detailing how he adapted Gmail to serve as his ideal start page for nearly anything he needs to get done. Lots of stuff is built into Gmail by default—like web or mail search and RSS web clips—but Rubel goes into detail on using Google Talk to update IM-friendly social services, Labs tools like Quick Links and the new gadgets to access his calendar, documents, and vital services, and start his writing in an auto-saving Gmail box, to be mailed to other writing apps. It's a neat...
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November 19, 2008 9:02 PM - Sign in to comment - Link
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Yahoo Brings Glue To U.S.: A Plethora of Aggregated Topical Third Party Content Yahoo Glue, a new search results page design that the company has been testing in India, is rolling out to the US market this evening. You can view it at glue.yahoo.com, although Yahoo says it is rolling out in stages, so sit tight if you don’t see it. It’s also a little different than the Indian version, and includes a number of resources beyond simple search results. On a typical query, content from Wikipedia, Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo Answers, blog search results (from Google) and YouTube videos are shown. For the US, Yahoo is starting with a limited set of...
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A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we’ve seen. Etherpad, a new product from Appjet, launches this morning, and you must try it out. It’s comparable to Google Docs or a wiki, but it’s far more useful. You start off by creating a new workspace. You type basic text on numbered lines at will. Then invite someone else in and have them type as well. Each user’s edits are highlighted a different color. Changes are made in absolute...
How cool would it be to do some sort of Madlib experiment with this. - Globecode
Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done - Paul Buchheit
"It’s comparable to Google Docs or a wiki, but it’s far more useful. You start off by creating a new workspace. You type basic text on numbered lines at will. Then invite someone else in and have them type as well. Each user’s edits are highlighted a different color. Changes are made in absolute real time, something even Google hasn’t been able to do (Google docs update every fifteen seconds). Users can also chat in the sidebar, save versions and make a few tweaks to the settings like removing line numbers. One great feature optionally highlights Javascript syntax (making this a great way to write code collaboratively)" - Paul Buchheit
Etherpad may be a new tool in the Real Time Web kit. Collaboration on a non-flow basis. - Cliff Gerrish
Interesting - wasn't sure if AppJet was a worthwhile platform - this makes me much more interested - Christopher Galtenberg
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If you don’t know what being RickRolled is, go look it up because you don’t want to be the last person to figure it out. YouTube even RickRolled its own users as an April Fools joke. Anyway, tonight I get a call on my mobile phone. And it’s that damn song. Apparently it’s some new startup called Twilio, and according to a Facebook message it was initiated by Dave McClure, who is probably advising them. Congratulations Dave, you’ve found a unique way of bugging me. Hope there’s more to the business than that. Did you get my text message...
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Jeff Bonforte never met an API he didn’t like. The CEO of Xobni, a startup that makes an outlook plug-in that makes your e-mail smarter, has been busy getting his team of engineers to integrate every possible API they can think of into the service. Xobni already added LinkedIn last June. Today it is adding integrations with Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, and Hoovers. Data from all of these services appears in the Xobni sidebar in Outllook. Let’s take them one by one. Xobni has been working on its Yahoo Mail integration since last April. Now in the sidebar, users...
Xobni is great use it all day long - Craig Carignan
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Sequoia-backed visual search engine SearchMe finally got approval on their iPhone application - it appears to have been sitting at Apple waiting for approval for over two months. Well, it was worth the wait. Like Google’s voice recognition app, it’s a much better search experience than the default Google search built into the iPhone browser. The app gives you a visual preview of all search results, which is a noticeably better way of searching on a small screen with a small virtual keyboard. It isn’t in the app store yet directory yet, but you can download it here. As...
SearchMe’s Visual Search For the iPhone Finally Launches - Dieter Schwarz
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The LG Incite and post-iPhone phone porn There it was, this morning, creeping up in the Google Hot Trends ranking: the LG Incite. AT&T announced that the smart phone, which runs on its 3G networks and is equipped with Windows Mobile 6.1, is available in stores and online. And so the masses began to prognosticate. They wondered on Gizmodo whether the phone could be an iPhone killer. On Engadget, they compared it with other smart phones and debated how it would stack up. And on one phone site, they just posted photos of LG phones, presumably for the purpose of inspiring drooling. How did we get...
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Twitter is down. Super down. The status blog is silent on the issue, although the error message untruthfully says the site is down for database maintenance. If it was maintenance, it would be noted on the status blog. This is maintenance in the same way open heart surgery after a heart attack is maintenance. We’ll know soon enough what happened. But for now it’s just nice to remember the good ‘ol days when we celebrated entire days going by without Twitter going down. The site has been far too stable lately, and I was beginning to get suspicious. Crunch Network:...
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Glam Media’s Application Platform Goes Live Glam Media has launched its application platform, called Glam Apps Atako, to the public. The platform was originally unveiled in July, and has remained in private beta until now. Each application allows bloggers and site owners to quickly implement new functionality into their sites, with available options for syndicating content, adding rich media, and enhancing posts with comments and polls. At launch available apps include Sphere, BuzzFeed, Meebo, PollDaddy, PicApp, JS-Kit, and Kwanzoo, along with a video delivery widget developed in-house called GlamTV. Glam has also built the platform with monetization in mind, offering an integrated monetization system with...
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That's A Lot Of Non-Working Technology — The latest study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says that while plenty of people are buying new gadgets and technology, an awful lot of them are having trouble getting or keeping it working. According to the survey, 48% said they need others' help in setting up new devices. Additionally, plenty of folks noted that when their stuff broke, it was a pain to fix it. In fact, 15% of people said they just gave up and left devices not working when they had troubles. While some may see this as an opportunity for various "home geek services"...
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Multiply Gets $100M Valuation As South Asian Media Conglomerate Buys 5% Stake Philippines-based media company ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation has paid $5 million for a 5% stake in Multiply, the media-centric social network with a userbase primarily composed of adults. The investment pegs Multiply’s valuation at $100 million, which is within range (though on the lower end) of our social network valuations based on past deals. ABS-CBN also has the right to purchase up to 10% of Multiply within the next two years. Multiply has a significant presence in the Philippines, with around 3 million users. ABS-CBN plans to capitalize on its investment through advertising, and by eventually offering a mobile version...
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Spansion Suing Samsung Over Patent Infringements, Will It Affect Consumers? Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware....
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Boing Boing Launches New Gaming Blog Offworld Boing Boing has just launched their latest blog Offworld, edited by Brandon Boyer, which focuses on the world gaming culture. Boing Boing Offworld is a hub for gaming culture that cultivates the joy of discovery, sense of wonder, and celebration of innovation that all of us, and you, thrive on. Offworld will mix no-nonsense game reviews with profiles of designers, game industry news with level-headed thinkpieces, HOWTOs with actual games you can play. And of course, community! Gaming is a social phenomena. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS...
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Forget the printed books and cluttered sites like this one, you can now pick your new baby’s name in style. Two year old Jackson Fish Market’s newest site is What A Lovely Name. Peruse and click on descriptive tags and see names that reflect those traits. For example, English, Elegant, Intelligent and Wise yields twenty-six boy names: You can also see what any individual name means: Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware....
"Peruse and click on descriptive tags and see names that reflect those traits. For example, English, Elegant, Intelligent and Wise yields twenty-six boy names." - Hutch Carpenter
Tag Your Baby, Pick A Name - Hutch Carpenter
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Some of the most useful set of apps on the iPhone are the restaurant apps that tell you what is to eat nearby. There’s UrbanSpoon, Yelp, and LocalEats, among others. But once you find a restaurant, you still have to call to make a reservation. Now, you no longer have to use up those minutes. Online reservation service OpenTable released an iPhone app today that lets you not only find nearby restaurants, but book a table as well. You don’t have to call and wait on hold. The app uses OpenTable’s online reservation system to book and confirm a...
Already added to my iPhone. - blackmailismylife
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November 16, 2008 9:53 AM - Sign in to comment - Link
Greed Drives the Greening of the Electronics Industry There's gold in them there PCs -- not to mention silver, copper, aluminum and other valuable recyclables. "We view this waste as a valuable resource, and recycling it is a far better use of it," said Wes Muir, director of communications at Waste Communication Recycle America, which is handling Sony and LG's recycling programs. That fact, not a desire to save the planet, is pushing the tech industry toward "greener" manufacturing and recycling practices. It could mean that there's an environmental silver lining to the mounting economic crisis: Tough times are forcing companies to resort to recycling as a...
Recession Drives the Greening of the Electronics Industry | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - Kol Tregaskes
"There's gold in them thar PCs -- not to mention silver, copper, aluminum and other valuable recyclables." - Kol Tregaskes
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Google’s voice recognition search application for the iPhone, originally set for launch on Friday, will likely go live sometime Monday, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the situation. Google was under the impression that the application would be live on the App Store on Friday (obviously, since they pushed all significant press attention to it). Sometime Friday they found out Apple wouldn’t be pushing it, despite the fact that Google submitted it for review earlier in the week and got a thumbs up for Friday. One source says they’ve had little direct contact with Apple during the review,...
Update On Google iPhone Voice Recognition App: Look For It On Monday - Chris Nixon
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November 15, 2008 12:36 PM - Sign in to comment - Link
October was a good month for Twitter. All those election Tweets brought a 25 percent increase in U.S. visitors from the month before, to 1.45 million unique visitors, according to comScore. (Worldwide, the number was 5.6 million in September). Since January, Twitter has experienced a 16-fold growth in the U.S. And that is just visitors to Twitter.com. These numbers don’t count all the people who send and read Tweets from other Websites, desktop apps, or their mobile phones. Twitter is having its hockey stick moment in terms of its growth just shooting up. Last week it may have delivered...
Wow. Good to see the comparison with FF. - Francine Hardaway
Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment - Louis Gray
Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment - Justin Yost
Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment - MeghnaK
Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment - Russellreno
That little red line at the bottom of the chart, just for reference, is FriendFeed. It is still scraping the ice in terms of growth. Comscore only measures 150,000 unique U.S. visitors in October (550,000 worldwide in September). But that’s just below where Twitter was last January. And FriendFeed is a lot younger than Twitter, having launched publicly only last February, compared to July, 2006 for Twitter. Maybe a year from now it will be hitting its hockey stick. - Russellreno
FriendFeed: overtake and surpass.:) - Igor Poltavskiy
Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment - Igor Poltavskiy
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