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Geek Reviews: Play And Record Internet Radio With Screamer Radio 
mysticgeek via the How-To Geek on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
Last weekend I ran across a very cool Internet Radio and Recording program named Screamer Radio. This program is extremely light on system resources and offers a ton of music and programming resources, with one button push recording included.
Installing Screamer Radio
Installation and setting up Screamer Radio is a breeze. First select your language and hit OK.
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Spokeo: Ad-based Service Was a Failure, Declares Web 2.0 "Over"
louisgray@gmail.com (louisgray via louisgray.com on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
A year ago, Spokeo entered my view as a service that would let you follow all your friends' updates across multiple social networks. At the time, the idea that you could see all their updates, from
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A shakeout of unhealthy advertisement sponsored web 2.0 businesses
Alexander van Elsas via Alexander van Elsas's Webl on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
There is some talk this morning on the possibility of on-line advertisement collapsing due to the current financial crisis. Svetlana Gladkova notes that when looking back at the Great Depression advertisement spent remained healthy and asks herself if we are sure there is going to be an adve
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Netvibes Partners With Russian Web Portal Rambler.ru
Jason Kincaid via TechCrunch on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
Netvibes, the site that lets users customize their homepages with a variety of widgets, has partnered with Rambler.ru to bring its widgets to the massive Russian web portal. Rambler is the Yahoo of Russia, with an estimated 40 million user
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Mozilla's Geode brings geographic Web to Firefox
Stephen Shankland via Webware.com on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Mozilla Labs plans to announce a plug-in called Geode on Tuesday that gives the Firefox Web browser a better ability to understand and use geographic information on the Web.
Geode details at this stage re
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Ad Model vs. Premium Model
harrison via Spokeo Blog on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
As most of you would agree, the Web 2.0 era is long over. Web 2.0 was categorized by ad-based business models. Everything has to be free, and advertisers would somehow pay the bills. We entrepreneurs chased after user counts, and the ad dollars were assumed to flow in.
We started Spokeo with the standard "Google AdSense" ad model. We thought that if we’ve built someth
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MySpace Hires Away Another Yahoo Exec (NWS, YHOO)
Vasanth Sridharan via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
The Yahoo exodus continues. Valeh Vakili, director of U.S. sales operations for Yahoo, is leaving the company to join News Corp.'s MySpace, as SVP of sales and strategy and operations,
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Mozilla CEO: First Firefox Mobile Alpha Release "In a Few Weeks" [Firefox Mobile]
matt buchanan via Gizmodo on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
When we saw Firefox Mobile in action a few months ago, it looked pretty snazzy, but we were a bit concerned by a few reports floating around that it might be a long wai
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Jonathan Heiliger, top Facebook exec, may leave [Rumormonger]
Owen Thomas via Valleywag on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Will the last tech executive to leave Facebook please turn off the lights at the datacenter? We hear Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook's operations VP charged with running the social network's expansive server network, has
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Tab Mix Plus Updates for Firefox 3 [Featured Firefox Extension]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Popular Firefox extension Tab Mix Plus has finally released an update supporting Firefox 3, meaning that the tabbed browsing enhancements you'd come to know and love with TMP in Firefox 2 are no
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Taking on Twitter with open-source software
Daniel Terdiman via Webware.com on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Earlier this summer, just as Twitter started to really pick up steam, the microblogging service began to have major stability problems.
The more users who signed up, the more the site seemed to be down, and it became nearly as commonplace to see the so-called "fail whale," signifying that a desired operation wouldn't go through, as it was to have the service work properly.
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Exclusive: New Twitter Homepage Revealed?
Andy Beal via Andy Beal's Marketing Pilg on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
At the Aloha Summit today, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone revealed the company’s plans to revamp the Twitter homepage to include saved searches and filtering.
Here’s a mock-up of how it might look:
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Entrepreneurship as Signal: Quitting Facebook to Tackle Enterprise 2.0
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
In a recent post, Fred Wilson had this to say about Enterprise 2.0:
This is one of the reasons we’ve struggled so hard to invest in “enterprise 2.0″ at Union Square Ventures. We have tried pretty hard to find companies that we can invest in that bring the new web technologies to the enterprise,
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Earth Atlas - Google Earth Plugin Application
Frank Taylor of Google Earth B via Planet Geospatial on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Bjorn Sandvik has produced another Google Earth application as a by-product of his
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Yes, Facebook is Open Source, Too!
Jesse Stay via Inside Facebook on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
When people think Open Source and social networking, usually the first thing that comes to mind is Google and OpenSocial. What most don’t know however is
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Find Spelling Mistakes on Web Pages with Spellist
pratham via Digital Inspiration on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Nothing looks more unprofessional than a couple of spelling mistakes on your site so here’s an online tool that will help you quickly spell check an entire web page though it wont’ fix these errors for you.
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My Five Months With Google Chrome
(unknown author) via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, a on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble
I'm still loving Chrome, except I signed up for the beta builds and now I'm getting weird behavior and crashing. Serves me right for trying to be an early adopter. :-)
Om Malik wrote an interesting post about Google Chrome one month after the public launch. While I w
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Help, I’m clueless about Web Service scalability
Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogge on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
I’m really freaked out. I have one of the biggest interviews of my life coming up and I’m way under qualified to host it.
It’s on Thursday and it’s about Scalability and Performance of Web Services.
Look at who will be on. Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress (and behind this blog)
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27 Adobe AIR Applications - Handy For Web Designers
wrd via WebResourcesDepot on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Every designer & developer loves handy tools that simplify frequent tasks.
And, even if you’ve a complicated software that does the same thing, usually it is much more effective to run a tiny, fast-loading application that does the job.
This is a list of 27 functional Adobe AIR applications that can help a web designer to design & develop:
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