A friend connected web
A Googler via Official Google Blog on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Posted by Mussie Shore, Product ManagerHave you ever wished you could share information and interact with friends while visiting some of your favorite websites? There are a number of great social networking sites out there that let you stay connected, but the rest of the web typically hasn't been social. Yet.Site owners have been saying for a while that they would love
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Twitter and the Architectural Challenges of Life Streaming Applications
Alex Iskold via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Because Twitter is getting more popular, every glitch in the service is now felt more acutely. Going without Twitter for many people is even harder than going without email, and so outages lead to complaints. Complaints pile up and become debates, asking questions like: should Twitter be converted into a protocol and become decentralize readmore
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Alex Iskold via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Because Twitter is getting more popular, every glitch in the service is now felt more acutely. Going without Twitter for many people is even harder than going without email, and so outages lead to complaints. Complaints pile up and become debates, asking questions like: should Twitter be converted into a protocol and become decentralize readmore
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released
Mark Hendrickson via TechCrunch on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth. We’ readmore
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Mark Hendrickson via TechCrunch on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth. We’ readmore
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Mozilla Stealth Data Project Could Be Just What The Internet Needs
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Tue, 13 May. 2008
One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites. But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer sai readmore
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Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Tue, 13 May. 2008
One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites. But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer sai readmore
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Get Vista's Best Features in XP [Windows]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather readmore
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Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Despite the fact that most of you prefer XP to Vista and would rather readmore
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Google Reader iPhone Beta Launches [IPhone]
(author unknown) via Lifehacker on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Shared by Jamin money Google launches a new beta version of Google Reader for the i readmore
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(author unknown) via Lifehacker on Tue, 13 May. 2008
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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
Gmail Blog via Official Gmail Blog on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates ma readmore
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Gmail Blog via Official Gmail Blog on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates ma readmore
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Official ReadBurner Blog » Blog Archive » Sharing Is For Everyone! ReadBurner Now Includes Netvibes
Tue, 13 May. 2008
NETVIBER EXPERIENCE shared as favorite Official ReadBurner Blog » Blog Archive » Sharing Is For Everyone! ReadBurner Now Includes Netvibes readmore
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Why You Should Use FriendFeed
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Social aggregation service FriendFeed has turned into this years hot service, and yet to date I’ve have remained unconvinced of its merits. In an age where people are suffering “over-noise” in terms readmore
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Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Social aggregation service FriendFeed has turned into this years hot service, and yet to date I’ve have remained unconvinced of its merits. In an age where people are suffering “over-noise” in terms readmore
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Where Are They Now? A Look at A Dozen Services That Debuted Here
louisgray via louisgray.com on Wed, 14 May. 2008
Near the end of 2007, I first came across a service I had hoped would one day challenge Google Reader for the throne of coolest RSS feed reader, Assetbar. With social aspects including shared statistics and comments, it ha readmore
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louisgray via louisgray.com on Wed, 14 May. 2008
Near the end of 2007, I first came across a service I had hoped would one day challenge Google Reader for the throne of coolest RSS feed reader, Assetbar. With social aspects including shared statistics and comments, it ha readmore
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Ok, Wired, Let’s Do This.
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Wed, 14 May. 2008
A week ago Wired Magazine voiced its displeasure over our syndication partnership with the Washington Post. Wired’s Betsy Schiffman wrote “We’ve got nothing against TechCrunch, but it seems crazy-crazy to us th readmore
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Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Wed, 14 May. 2008
A week ago Wired Magazine voiced its displeasure over our syndication partnership with the Washington Post. Wired’s Betsy Schiffman wrote “We’ve got nothing against TechCrunch, but it seems crazy-crazy to us th readmore
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NYC vs. Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City
David Pescovitz via Boing Boing on Tue, 13 May. 2008
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David Pescovitz via Boing Boing on Tue, 13 May. 2008
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Microsoft Gives You The Sky With WorldWide Telescope
Stan Schroeder via Mashable! on Tue, 13 May. 2008
First of all, if you want to try this baby for yourself, go get it here; the installation might take a while because you need .NET Framework 2.0 SDKs and DirectX (which I didn’t readmore
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Stan Schroeder via Mashable! on Tue, 13 May. 2008
First of all, if you want to try this baby for yourself, go get it here; the installation might take a while because you need .NET Framework 2.0 SDKs and DirectX (which I didn’t readmore
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Cleaning Your Display and Keyboard
(author unknown) via Coding Horror on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Let's say, just as a hypothetical, you're sitting at your computer, casually chatting up a fellow programmer. You begin to describe some bit of code, then bring it up on your display to illustrate. You want to highlight some particular part of the code. Perhaps you move the cursor invitingly over the area to bring it to their attention, or gesture towards it with your hand. What happens ne readmore
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(author unknown) via Coding Horror on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Let's say, just as a hypothetical, you're sitting at your computer, casually chatting up a fellow programmer. You begin to describe some bit of code, then bring it up on your display to illustrate. You want to highlight some particular part of the code. Perhaps you move the cursor invitingly over the area to bring it to their attention, or gesture towards it with your hand. What happens ne readmore
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Disqus and Seesmic Teaming Up for Video Comments
louisgray via louisgray.com on Tue, 13 May. 2008
It's only been a few weeks since I integrated Disqus commenting with my blog, but I've already reached the point where it would be hard to consider what life was like before Disqus came along. Overnight, with the h readmore
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louisgray via louisgray.com on Tue, 13 May. 2008
It's only been a few weeks since I integrated Disqus commenting with my blog, but I've already reached the point where it would be hard to consider what life was like before Disqus came along. Overnight, with the h readmore
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Now you can cry over heavens
Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Remember when I cried over seeing something very cool at Microsoft Research? Well now you can cry too, because the World Wide Telescope is now up. Still is stunning, even a few months later. readmore
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Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Remember when I cried over seeing something very cool at Microsoft Research? Well now you can cry too, because the World Wide Telescope is now up. Still is stunning, even a few months later. readmore
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SMS data rate is 4x more expensive than data from the Hubble
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Tue, 13 May. 2008
You know how the mobile carriers charge you a couple cents to SMS a few characters' worth of text over their network? When you add it up, you're paying about a zillion bucks a meg for that traffic -- seriously! A space scientist from Leicester has calculated that SMS data is four times more expensive than receiving data from the Hubble space telescope. He worked out the cost of obt readmore
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Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Tue, 13 May. 2008
You know how the mobile carriers charge you a couple cents to SMS a few characters' worth of text over their network? When you add it up, you're paying about a zillion bucks a meg for that traffic -- seriously! A space scientist from Leicester has calculated that SMS data is four times more expensive than receiving data from the Hubble space telescope. He worked out the cost of obt readmore
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Swapping heads with dad and kid photos
Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Man Babies is a bizarre blog that has nothing but photos of dads whose heads have been swapped with their kids' . Link readmore
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Mark Frauenfelder via Boing Boing on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Man Babies is a bizarre blog that has nothing but photos of dads whose heads have been swapped with their kids' . Link readmore
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A list of 1001 (fiction) Books That You Must Read...
jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Tue, 13 May. 2008
A list of 1001 (fiction) Books That You Must Read Before You Die, from a book of the same name. I read too much nonfiction to be well-read fiction-wise, but I have read these thirty from the list: The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen Hous readmore
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jason@kottke.org via kottke.org on Tue, 13 May. 2008
A list of 1001 (fiction) Books That You Must Read Before You Die, from a book of the same name. I read too much nonfiction to be well-read fiction-wise, but I have read these thirty from the list: The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen Hous readmore
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Fractal drawers
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Fractal 23, from New York's Takeshi Miyakawa Design, might just be the coolest chest of drawers I've ever seen. Link (via DVice) readmore
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Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Tue, 13 May. 2008
Fractal 23, from New York's Takeshi Miyakawa Design, might just be the coolest chest of drawers I've ever seen. Link (via DVice) readmore
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