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Bootleg City: Alex Chilton (1950-2010) (1)
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“One of the most distinctive voices in pop music. He sounds rough and gravelly most of the time, but when he sings a ballad he reveals an unexpected tenderness and sensitivity. He has the mischievous and subtle charm of a young tiger who still doesn’t realize his full strength. Alex plays guitar and bass and is very interested in the production end of the business.” —biography of Alex Chilton from the liner notes of the ...Shared by Johnny (68)Comment View comments -
My Addiction For Android Continues With This… (1)
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In my (never ending) quest to inundate my life with all things Android I run across some of the most bizarre and sometimes awesome things. Fortunately, my family tolerates my craving for more (usually, until I brought my Nexus One to bed with me... ya that was some great advice). I did find something recently that I had to fight my kids over though, and even standing at 6'4" tall and 240 lbs, I almost ...Shared by Sean (74)Comment View comments -
Protecting Earth and space from people (4)
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Don't muck around in the affairs of planets that are less technologically advanced than yours. Despite how often it gets ignored, Star Trek's Prime Directive is a pretty nice attempt to take a universe brimming with life and figure out how to interact with it in an ethical way. Unfortunately, the Prime Directive isn't terribly nuanced. How do we relate to alien life that's as, or more, advanced than us? What if alien life is ...Comment View comments -
Protecting Earth and space from people (1)
onDon't muck around in the affairs of planets that are less technologically advanced than yours. Despite how often it gets ignored, Star Trek's Prime Directive is a pretty nice attempt to take a universe brimming with life and figure out how to interact with it in an ethical way. Unfortunately, the Prime Directive isn't terribly nuanced. How do we relate to alien life that's as, or more, advanced than us? What if alien life is ...Shared by Mika (17)Comment View comments
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Has Chris Evans Won Captain America's Shield? (1)
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The hunt for Captain America may be over by the weekend. THR's Heat Vision is reporting that Chris Evans has been offered the part of Captain America. Let me stress the key word in that sentence: offered. He has not yet accepted, and neither Evans, his reps, or Marvel will confirm or deny whether negotiations have been opened. Marvel would be taken a bigger leap of faith than they did with their other candidates, as ...Shared by Wheezy (58)Comment View comments -
细数 Linux 平台上的烂尾非开源软件 (1)
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尽管 GNU/Linux 系统常常被做为开源软件的代表作，但是该系统同样允许运行非开源软件。然而相比于得到社区关怀的开源软件，这些非开源软件的发展状况似乎并不是那么乐观，于是具有了本文介绍的诸多“烂尾”。（仅代表笔者本人观点） 以下排名不分先后顺序，点击“遗址”查看网页： QQ for Linux 烂尾版本：1.0 Beta1 烂尾原因：同室操戈 话说腾讯在 2008 年推出 QQ for Linux 时在中国大陆地区的 Linux 用户团体中引起了诸多反响（具体可以参考本站过往报道）。尽管 QQ 这款即时通讯软件似乎在极客群体中接受度不高，但是在一般用户中还是有着巨大的用户群体。QQ for Linux 被认为是推动 Linux 在中国大陆地区的普及里程碑式事件，尽管软件有着诸多的缺陷（比如诡异的版本号变化），但是还是得到了比较正面的评价。 然而随着 WebQQ 在 2008 年下半年的悄然推出， QQ for Linux 在 2009年元旦假期过后就再也没有更新过了……最终版本遗留下了诸多问题，诸如 CPU 和磁盘占有率偏高，文件传输不稳定等等，对于目前的用户来讲，已经不可用了…… 遗址 Foxit Reader for Linux 烂尾版本： 1.1 烂尾原因：未知 Foxit Reader 在 Win32 平台上广受欢迎的一款轻量级 PDF 阅读软件，在 2008 年的时候也正式发布了 Linux 平台版本。尽管 Linux 平台上一般都预装了给予 poppler 库的 PDF 阅读器，Foxit Reader for Linux 因为较小的内存占有率和对于CJK字符编码较好的支持，还是赢得了部分用户的喜爱。 然而 2009 年12月份 Foxit Reader for Linux 并没有按照原先预计的发布 ...Shared by bigkid (458)Comment View comments -
5 Must have Powertoys For Microsoft Windows XP (1)
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Windows XP, a popular operating system in the windows family and to your surprise, 60% of the windows users are still in XP. So thought of making winxp users to add little more fun and functionality to their Windows experience. So, What are Powertoys ? PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released. Today we will discuss about the best and useful powertoys which you must have in your ...Shared by dilip (49)Comment View comments -
Location Isn’t A War Between Two Sides, It’s A Gold Rush For Everyone (10)
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Editor’s note: This post was written by Joe Stump, the co-founder of SimpleGeo, a geolocation infrastructure company. While much of the focus in location these days is on the front-end side of things, SimpleGeo focuses on the backend, allowing startups to very easily get started with geolocation. There’s been a lot of coverage lately about the location “war” between Gowalla and Foursquare. Nobody is arguing that Gowalla and Foursquare aren’t, on some levels, competing, but ...Shared by Bigtravman (35) Drew (49) Kevin (119) MG (55) Mustafa (117) Oren (102) robdiana (528) Thomas (9) tobias (14) Y (44)Comment View comments -
Chad Hurley’s Take From The Sale Of YouTube: $334 Million (14)
onYou can learn all sorts of interesting tidbits from legal documents. For instance, in one of the legal briefs unsealed today in the YouTube-Viacom dispute, such as the amount of money YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley made from the $1.65 billion sale of the company to Google in 2006. His take: $334 million (based on the November, 13, 2006 closing price of Google’s stock). In other words, the young CEO owned about 20 percent of YouTube ...Shared by Benoit (73) Bill (404) cheeming (4) Devlin (142) Fred (28) James (78) Joseph Rosario (56) karlus (23) Lucas (129) Mushin (124) and four more »
- Mushin said: Questi numeri riassumono il senso del Venture Capitalism. Sequoia s'é fatta oltre 500 milioni investendone 9.
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URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web – Especially Facebook’s FB.me (57)
onIt’s hard to imagine a Web sans URL shortening services nowadays but you can rest assured that they’re here to stay – for better or worse. Question is: how do the likes of bit.ly, TinyURL and Goo.gl score in terms of speed and availability? That’s exactly what Dutch startup WatchMouse sought to find out, by monitoring the performance and uptime for 14 popular URL shorteners for a whole month. Turns out most really don’t perform ...Shared by (jeff)isageek (141) abraham (197) Amy (114) bigkid (458) Brett (237) C (414) Chris (28) Christopher (1) CuiSiNeaNXiouS (29) DarkBls (114) and 47 more »Comment View comments
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Spotify Consumes More Internet Capacity Than All Of Sweden (26)
onToday, during his keynote address at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had a big revelation: “On certain days, we’re consuming more Internet capacity than Sweden has as a country.” Ek made the statement when asked why Spotify chose to use a P2P model, rather than centrally store all of its music in one place and stream it from there. Ek noted that if they were to stream from one UK ...Shared by Andy (97) Bart (31) corvin (20) Dave Briggs (21) gadgetboy (69) geertwissink (5) graywolf (171) Ian (258) J (76) Jakam (72) and 16 more »
- Trebel said: Spotify is P2p? Wist ik niet "“On certain days, we’re consuming more Internet capacity than Sweden has as a country.”"
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Google Says There Are Now 30,000 Apps In Android Market (11)
onAt the most recent Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that the company's partners are now selling over 60,000 Android handsets on a daily basis. With that kind of growth rate, it's no wonder that the size of the Android Market is increasing in its slipstream. While Google doesn't publicly show how many apps there are in Android Market, a Google rep this morning informed me that the store now serves approx. 30,000 ...Shared by (jeff)isageek (141) Dave Briggs (21) Hit (23) Justino (179) kabell (7) marleyuk (390) Naruedyoh (73) Qian (77) sarahintampa (275) Sid (114) and one more »Comment View comments
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Statistical Atlas from the ninth Census in 1870 (12)
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In 1870, Francis Walker oversaw publication of the United States' first Statistical Atlas, based on data from the ninth Census. It was a big moment for statistics in the United States as the atlas provided a way to compare data on a national level using maps and statistical graphics. What continues to amaze me about these old illustrations is the detail - all done by hand. That's ridiculous. The kicker is that a lot of ...Shared by anushsh (14) carstenhp (40) Dr (171) foolarch (232) Joel (62) Jon (49) Moah (11) Nathaniel (83) Oleks (86) Shanthi (13) and two more »- Jon said: I love the fact that these were all drawn by hand.
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MySpace Employees Speak Their Mind. Lots Of Yelling Going On, Apparently. (19)
onWe’ve had lots of emails from MySpace employees with their response to our most recent post about the crumbling mid level management structure. “If you’re a MySpace employee and feel differently, please contact us anonymously,” we said. And they did contact us. But they don’t feel differently. There was also a great discussion in the comments section to that post where a few MySpace employees chimed in both pro and against the company. But the ...Shared by Ankush (61) Ben (294) C (414) Devlin (142) Filipe (31) Gerald (25) JC (43) LouCypher (733) louisgray (403) Maggie (88) and nine more »Comment View comments
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Tim Bray Throws His Hat Into The Android Ring Because He Hates The iPhone (29)
onAs Apple goes on the offensive against Android, it risks alienating more and more developers. Today, another prominent developer is chose the opposing side. Tim Bray, the well-known software architect and blogger, is joining Google to help rally even more developers around the Android mobile operating system. Bray is the co-inventor of the XML Web standard, and most recently worked at Sun Microsystems. In a blog post, he explains that he is drawn to Google ...Shared by Andrei (42) Bananalope (29) C (414) crazybob (36) DennisLaumen (102) Devlin (142) Dustin (26) Fernando (51) GerardM (91) Haris (182) and 19 more »Explore read five notes
- Jake said: thanks mike
- pelles said: Kanske dagens citat och ett växande imageproblem för Apple. "The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger. I hate it."
- tjompa said: Pris för veckans bästa citat. Att tala i bilder är att tala i guld.
- Jordi said: Vaya fama...
- Sabrina said: Amen.
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It’s Hard To Watch The Newsosaurs Turn A Blind Eye To Their Own Extinction (19)
onSometimes 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 around them when the meteor strikes instead of the small furry mammals underfoot who take cover every day by natural habit. In the print newspaper industry, it’s the same story. Everyone wants to wall off the Web and keep grazing on declining ad ...Shared by admkrm (12) akempler (63) Andy (23) Austin (59) Chris (49) Eduardo (79) GeekGiant (41) groovysoup (67) Henry (147) Jordi (124) and nine more »
- Paolo said: "The people who read print newspapers and magazines are getting older and older, while advertisers always chase the young and impressionable. That audience is already on the Web."
- Jordi said: 2 extractos:"Yes, the Internet media business is much less lucrative than the print side, and may never replace it in terms of the revenues it generates. But Andreessen’s point is that the meteor is on its way and the sooner that media companies start looking for cover, the more likely they are to survive.He is not trying to be an alarmist. He’s just a realist.""The people who read print newspapers and magazines are getting older and older, while advertisers always chase the young and impressionable. That audience is already on the Web. And they are no longer satisfied with getting all of their news from one or two trusted sources."
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Vicarious.ly: SimpleGeo’s One Location-Based Stream To Visualize Them All (16)
onAs I’ve made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don’t believe me, here’s a small sampling (Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Whrrl, Plancast, Brizzly, Twitter). So, how are you going to wrap your head around all this location data? SimpleGeo has an awesome way. Vicarious.ly is a real-time location-based stream of information ...Shared by (jeff)isageek (141) b1ward (15) Burento (16) Byron Ward (9) Corvida (520) Drew (49) Jakam (72) Jake (33) Josh (324) Kluz (119) and six more »Comment View comments
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Facebook Is Testing Federating Foursquare And Gowalla Check-Ins For Its Location Launch (11)
onYesterday brought news that Facebook is planning to launch its location offering at its f8 conference in the end of April. In first reporting the news, the New York Times noted that “the company was not trying to beat the smaller location-based social networks, such as Loopt, Foursquare and Gowalla.” From what we’re hearing, that’s true — because they could be using some of those services to federate check-ins. How do we know? Because it ...Shared by (jeff)isageek (141) George Dearing (34) J (76) Jeff (13) JP (35) LouCypher (733) Mahendra (383) Mike Lizun (109) Paul (38) Polle (30) and one more »Comment View comments
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Just In Time For The Location Wars, Twitter Turns On Geolocation On Its Website (37)
onWhen I wrote that location would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitter’s geolocation would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on geolocation on its website today for the first time. While Twitter’s geolocation feature has been live through its API since last November, there was no sign of integration into the main twitter.com site until now. As you can see in the screenshot above, for ...Shared by (jeff)isageek (141) Adam (140) Alex (78) Alex (292) Ata (29) BJ (40) Bob (53) Brian (110) Bruce (37) can (28) and 27 more »
- wpbasti said: Yeah cool!
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The Secret Lives Of Objects: StickyBits Turn Barcodes Into Personal Message (48)
onEvery place and object in the world has a secret past: who lived there, who passed by, who touched it. The secret lives of objects are filled with such details. If only you could make them talk. But what if you could give any physical object a story simply by sticking a barcode on it and appending a message to that barcode? The message could be a photo, a text message, a video, or a ...Shared by andaux (5) Andrew (7) Bart (3) Beglen (51) Choosenick (35) Chuck (67) Devlin (142) Gavin (99) gijsbos (13) Greg (29) and 38 more »Explore read eight notes
- Chuck said: I REALLY like this...
- Schlomo said: I barcoded my butt!!!
- Tina said: Wow, what a cool idea!
- Tony said: These StickyBits have a lot of potential! Check it out.
- mdelfs said: Yes, I'm already loving it. I want Gowalla to buy them. Go ahead and get the iPhone app because you know I'm going to be the barcode mayor of everything.
- Kluz said: ¿Porqué nadie me compartió esto en mi ausencia?. Look @mMastropiero offline web!
- Hamish said: The future is here etc. etc.
- Greg said: I love this sort of thing. The Internet IS an extended part of the real world. It's like an extra storey added to your house. Things like this help smooth the crossover.
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