Yahoo plans a more social, open homepage design (1)
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Yahoo has announced an upcoming homepage redesign that will open the page up to third-party content and services. Combine this with ambitious plans for social network, and you may have a Yahoo that is focusing on the right things again.
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martian said:
Y! leads again with the openness. With AOL and google not far behind it's a great time to be a small third party company with a kill app or aggregator.
Man City 1-3 Chelsea (1)
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Robinho scores on his Man City debut but Chelsea cruise to victory despite having John Terry sent off.
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martian said:
maybe money can't buy happiness. Sorry Man City.
Reconizing and Directing Traffic Flow (1)
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Reconizing and Directing Traffic Flow - An interesting article on how show designers plan out their store for maximum traffic flow.
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martian said:
As andy alludes to here there is much virtual design and ui can inherit from industrial and retail design and ui. What are the decompression, strike, and wrap zones of your web site and how can treating it like a retail floor plan improve commerce and engagement?
NebuAd Calls ‘Time-Out’ On Further ISP Ad Targeting | paidContent.org (2)
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Having endured continued Congressional scrutiny, the loss of potential clients and the sudden departure of its CEO, NebuAd has decided to call "time out" on its ad targeting plans, WaPo reports. With Congress still trying to figure out what to do about privacy issues related to behavioral targeting, a NebuAd rep tells WaPo that it will hold off on the further roll-out of its system, which is designed to serve ads directly to ISP broadband ...
@ Virtual Worlds: Disney Online SVP: 'If It Doesn't Matter To Kids, It Just Doesn't Matter' (2)
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The "Disney (NYSE: DIS) difference" lies in the company's ability to weave its deep and familiar library of content into virtual worlds that give kids the opportunity to participate in their own storytelling, Steve Parkis, SVP of Disney Online, said at his closing keynote here at the Virtual Worlds conference and expo in Los Angeles today. Over the past eight years, Disney's online portal has transitioned into a place where people come to participate in ...
Will Its 'Chrome' Web Browser Put a Shine on Google's Long-term Strategy? (3)
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Casual observers may have concluded that Google's introduction this week of its 'Chrome' web browser was a direct assault on the dominance of Microsoft's Explorer. But Wharton professors David Hsu and Kevin Werbach see a longer-term strategy at work.
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martian said:
a very insightful analysis on the longer term strategy at work behind Google Chrome. Namely it helps disconnect the google applications from their major hurdle and limitation, the internet browsers google has no control over. Without these limits google is free to coax advertisers and build the apps without a mind for limitation.
New Media Expo Wrap-Up (1)
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So I am really glad I went to the New Media Expo this year. It was my third year at the show, so I was worried that there wasn’t much more to accomplish. I loved the keynotes, especially the first one by Gary Vaynerchuk , from Wine Library TV. His enthusiasm is contagious. He was pretty [...]
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martian said:
i agree with the post we have reason for concern with making a decision to use only iphone in a development roadmap rather than wrap a general mobile sdk. Between adoption and authority, it's a wonder devs are moving to an apple first mindset... Maybe, i'm old school but what ever happened to wanted to be free and having code work everywhere?
When the 250 only date the 250 [Geek Love] (3)
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When we popularized "the 250" as a nickname for San Francisco's Internet cool-kids crowd, we didn't realize how literal the incest was. Take the flirtation between Flickr's engineering chief, Cal Henderson, and Ariel Waldman, the community manager of Pownce, an online file-sharing service. Pownce was cofounded by Leah Culver, Henderson's ex-girlfriend, who has also dated around the scene. Henderson and Waldman traveled to Hawaii together, and have made jokes — on Twitter and Flickr, of ...
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BillDeys said:
No Way! Cmon, this is human nature, you date in the circles you run in. The "incest" is likely at no higher a rate then in most other circles.
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Brett L. said:
LOL: "Who'd want to start anything with anyone who's not already registered on all the same websites you use? The training time to explain the twee etiquette of Web 2.0 is a barrier to entry more fearsome than any Google or Microsoft might dream up."
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martian said:
another great reason to be a geek on the "right" coast... silicon alley is still in it's anonymous enthusiast phase. Although, there is some consolidation on the funding tip, most of the devs and product people work in silos, secret, ormaybe just aren't that attracted to one another... Maybe because we are NYC stylish, and real people --non geeks and dorks-- will actually date us. Either way, wacky silicon valley style incest we don't have as much of.
Two Museums Undergo Changes (1)
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Earlier this year the Guggenheim's notoriously-hated director, Thomas Krens, announced his departure from the museum (which many blame him for turning into a McGuggenheim). The NY Times announces today that the Guggenheim is now ready to name Richard Armstrong as the next director, saying the final board meeting regarding the decision will be held on or before September 23rd.The choice was considered a safe one after nearly 20 often tumultuous years of Mr. Krens’s maverick ...
Google backtracks on Chrome license terms (1)
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Updated 2 p.m., with change in license terms. Google said on Wednesday that it plans to alter contract terms that gave the search provider broad rights to use anything entered into its new Chrome browser. "In order to keep things simple for our users, we try to use the ...
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martian said:
"...to keep things simple..." read, drats you got us... e$ for effort though
Apple to add Genius song-selling feature to iTunes [Rumormonger] (7)
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Digg founder Kevin Rose claims this iTunes 8 feature from a reliable source: iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don't already have. It sounds like an iTunes version of Pandora, geared to selling you more music you might not have discovered on your own.
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Jeff Schmidt said:
sounds like a fun feature
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martian said:
recommendation, relevance, and retail... the new three Rs of monetization on the web. Get familiar.
Welcome, Neighbor! Have You Seen My Son? (5)
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Nothing like knowing what kind of neighbors you're going to have in the new place! A reader writes in saying, "I live in Brooklyn and in my apartment building this was posted on the wall near the front entrance...seriously, wtf?" WTF, indeed. The full note can be seen after the jump, but to summarize, someone seems to have lost their son and thinks the new neighbors may have found/taken him. Towards the end a "joke" ...
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Ben said:
WTF? Did they lose a son or a pet?
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Matt Southworth said:
WTF? "WTF, indeed", indeed.
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nadir said:
breaking that lease would be mandatory!
Rejoice -- your tube is big enough after all [Mythbusting] (4)
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Comcast's announcement of a bandwidth cap for home users beginning in October has raised a recurring fear: Is the Internet being overloaded? It's not a new worry. Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe forecasted a meltdown in 1995. But our growing adoption of BitTorrent downloads and YouTube-like streaming clips must be straining the pipes, right? No. Metcalfe literally ate his words two years after his prediction. In the decade since, Internet infrastructure upgrades continue to outpace growth. ...
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BillDeys said:
hmmm
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Hamish.MacEwan said:
IADL
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martian said:
don't fall for it. There is plenty of bandwidth. The attackers of net neutrality have been floating this back around to drum up concern and maybe a few allies. As in most things, analyze the source and what they have to gain from the information. Comcast and time warner are telling me the internet is running out of bandwidth... hmmmm
Tracking Elections From the Ground Up (3)
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PollTrack is a new website that combines poll tracking data and written analysis to decipher "what voters are actually thinking and feeling" in the lead-up to the election. The site is not complete: sections are unfinished, artwork is rough, and usability problems involving labeling ("Today's Map Today") have yet to ...
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on all sides 2008 election in the EEUU in a feedback loop with the net.
The 5 most laughable terms of service on the Net [Terms Of Disservice] (18)
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Nobody reads terms of service agreements, those legal documents new users have to click a box to say they've read. And the truth is, they hardly matter to anybody but the cyber-rights-now crowd who get worked up by articles on Boing Boing, and the paranoid lawyers at large Web companies who want to avoid money-fishing lawsuits. But sometimes they go far beyond protecting corporate interests into la-la land. Did you know that when you download ...
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martian said:
TOS POS! read em and wipe
Dehumanizing headlines 101 (3)
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You can always count on The New York Post to bring you the bottom-of-the-barrel headlines. And this one is no exception. 38 year-old Elizabeth Acevedo, a human being, was murdered in Brooklyn after someone hit her in the head. The police are still looking for a suspect. Renee at Womanist Musings has more. Via Ren at Feministe.
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the reason new york smells like a toilet may be part in due to it being the home of the new york post...
Chinese iPhone worker gets to keep her job [Great Moments In Pr] (3)
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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.A Chinese worker at a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China is "definitely not fired," a factory spokesperson told the newspaper Xiandai Kuaibao. The smiling young lady's photos were found on a newly unboxed iPhone by a British buyer who posted them to MacRumors.
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John Reynolds said:
Wow. I was sure she was going to get canned.
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AndyF said:
iPhoneGirl has done more to humanize China than the $40B Potemkin-esque Olympics. Yay!
Europe’s largest onshore wind farm is coming to Romania (3)
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Taking a page from T. Boone Pickens, who made waves when he announced that he was building the world’s largest wind farm in Texas, Continental Wind Partners and CEZ Group have concluded a deal to create Europe’s largest onshore farm, with a total capacity of 600 megawatts (onshore farms tend to be in hilly areas 3 km or more inland from the shoreline while offshore farms are 10 km or more from land). As part ...
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Andrei said:
Go, Romania!
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martian said:
romania may be the next estonia... dont sleep on this tiger from the east... now equipped with energy producing wings.
Bankruptcy filings soar to 1 million (1)
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As things in the economy have gotten worse, the number of people and businesses heading to bankruptcy court has spiked.
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martian said:
economy on the edge. Even after the instituting of laws that make bankruptcy less appealing many are finding it the only option.
