(Mobile)Speed Trap Application For The iPhone (14)
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Trapster is a new mobile application that lets you see and share the location of speed traps right on your mobile phone or GPS device. Once installed, the app uses a combination of your device's internal GPS capabilities, geocoding techniques, and voice transcription to alert you in real-time to any reported speed traps in your area. Of course we know we're not supposed to be speeding in the first place, but a little heads up ...
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Devlin D said:
That's just a great idea.
Best Buy's "Enterprise Twitter" (32)
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IBM’s got BlueTwit. Oracle’s testing OraTweets. SAP’s experiments include ESME, SAP Talk (laconi.ca), ShoutIt and apparently others. Yammer has an ad-hoc base at thousands of companies. But so far, no large corporation has rolled out microsharing company-wide. Enter Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt, Best Buy’s Senior Managers for Social Technology, and better known as the guys who built Blue Shirt Nation. Drupal-based Blue Shirt Nation went on to become the prime internal enterprise 2.0 case ...
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Devlin D said:
BestBuy is really excelling in their enterprise 2.0 efforts. Quite impressive.
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DaveP said:
Does the enterprise use of these tools then restrict peoples use of the broader connections outside of the enterprise. Now you have to use two tools to microblog.
Venture Investment Likely to Fall Short in 2008 (3)
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In the last few days, venture firms have begun to realize they are not immune from the credit crunch. At the end of next week, official data will arrive that will likely bear that out. Judging by early numbers indicating $5.71 billion went into startups from July through September, the third-quarter venture capital data gathered by Thomson Reuters for PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association is likely to show a drop of of about ...
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Devlin D said:
Oh to be a tech startup in 2000 :)
Is effort a myth? (97)
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People really want to believe effort is a myth, at least if we consider what we consume in the media: politicians and beauty queens who get by on a smile and a wink lottery winners who turn a lifetime of lousy jobs into one big payday sports stars who are born with skills we could never hope to acquire hollywood celebrities with the talent of being in the right place at the right time failed ...
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Ed Dale said:
He is right
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
this has a good ending...
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Devlin D said:
Very interesting take. For the most part I have to think that even the people that we consider "lucky" still had to expend effort in some way to get there. You don't get to be a CEO, even a failed one, without putting in work. Same with a beauty queen, actor, or athlete. Lottery winners are really the exception IMO.
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tumbleweed said:
Good advice. I worry that I do too many of those bulleted items :-)
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Foghornboy said:
Structure unstructured time to invest in yourself and others...
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Anthony said:
I've got the fitness, blogging and self education parts down, almost there.
People in the Real World | chrisbrogan.com (28)
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Sometimes, it’s worth flashing a bit of a public reminder that even though it seems like lots of us are deeply passionate about this space, most folks don’t exactly understand what we’re talking about. That’s because technically, they don’t need what we do to make money and go on with their lives. They’re happy. Take a cab ride and ask them about Twitter. Ask the folks at the grocery store if they’re on LinkedIn. Check ...
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Devlin D said:
Brilliant!
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Nayer said:
Ya; Being a bidge in everywhere counts.
Facebook Rolls Out Live Search…Wait, Where’d It Go? Oh, There It Is. (14)
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It’s been a long time coming, but it appears as though Facebook finally has begun integrating Live Search into its main search bar, thereby providing web search in addition to its preexisting profile search capabilities. The functionality appeared earlier today for users, only to disappear again. Facebook published an official post about it only to take that down as well. Microsoft’s own post, however, can still be found here. The integration is a natural consequence ...
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Haidong said:
big moment for facebook
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Devlin D said:
Well this looks like possibly the most useless thing in the world.
Calling for a Ban on 'About Us' Pages (1)
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You have an "About Us" page on your website, right? And you always put one on client sites you build, right? I've always done that too. But no more. Let's ban "About Us" pages!
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Devlin D said:
I don't think there is anything wrong with the About Us page, just the way it is currently being used.
Google Mail Goggles: Are you sure you want to send that? (19)
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Google has improved any number of the Web activities in which we engage during the day. But what about those activities that occur late at night? Like firing off that email at 3 AM on Sunday morning after a night out? If Jon Perlow has his way, Google may be able to save you from that moment of regret, too. Sponsor Perlow has used his Google Labs' time to build a new feature called "Mail ...
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Devlin D said:
Interesting idea, I could say this would actually be useful to me.
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Tom Steel said:
Read/Write Web: "When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?"
MySpace Music Streamed Its Billionth Song “A Few Days” After Launch (14)
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It took iTunes nearly three years to get to 1 billion song downloads. MySpace Music streamed a billion songs in just a few days after it launched on September 25. And while this isn’t a fair comparison (songs on MySpace are free to stream; on iTunes users were paying $0.99 each), it’s an incredible milestone. What MySpace won’t say for some reason is what the billionth song was, or when exactly it was streamed (which ...
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Devlin D said:
Holy freaking crap that is a lot of ads displayed!
CERN Officially Unveils Its Grid: 100,000 Processors, 15 Petabytes a Year - ReadWriteWeb (43)
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CERN today officially unveiled the massive computer network that will crunch the enormous amount of data coming from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CERN expects that the LHC will produce around 15 petabytes of data every year. While the LHC was in its planning stages, CERN's IT department decided that the only realistic way to handle this amount of data would be by relying on the then still novel idea of grid computing. CERN's grid ...
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Steve M. said:
this is amazing. can't wait til the combine comes through the portal that's going to open. LOL
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Devlin D said:
Now that's a grid!
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Donnie Berkholz said:
Wouldn't it have been a lot cooler to use cloud computing?
Why Microsoft's Gates/Seinfeld Went Viral and 'I'm a PC' Ads Didn't - Advertising Age - DigitalNext (2)
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According to Visible Measures, which charts online video viewing trends and has measured the videos associated with Microsoft's $300 million ad campaign, the Seinfeld/Gates ads are squashing the "I'm a PC" ads by a margin of 4.3 million viral video views. Both ads had about equal video placements (about 75 each).
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Devlin D said:
THANK YOU!!! I've been trying to defend that these Seinfeld ads were freaking brilliant because all the tech people just didn't get them. That was EXACTLY the point.
Poll: Adobe Confirms Flash For iPhone - Do You Care? (11)
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At the Flash on the Beach 08 conference being held in Brighton, England, Adobe's Senior Director of Engineering, Paul Betlem, confirmed that a Flash Player is in development for the iPhone. The information was provided in answer to a direct question from an audience member during the Town Hall meeting sessions held during the conference, historically a good source of Adobe news. Sponsor Adobe's Official Word According to Betlem, Adobe is working on the iPhone ...
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Devlin D said:
Flash on the iPhone would be great if it was running Intel's Atom chip so it wouldn't kill the battery any more quickly than the current processor.
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Polina said:
I care, I care!
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pierre pracht said:
Je rêve du jour où cela sera possible. J'aurais alors dans la poche un petit outil pour montrer combien ces beaux sites flash sont inutilisables !
Exclusive: eBay Launches Browser Highlighter to Compare Pricing, Make Skype Calls (11)
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eBay launched a new browser extension tool tonight that lets you highlight different products in Firefox or Internet Explorer and compare the pricing of those products on eBay. The tool also includes Skype functionality, which will let you click on a number in your browser and call it directly via Skype. Dubbed Browser Highlighter, eBay’s latest tool will run only on Windows machines for now, but will eventually be rolled out for Macs and Apple’s ...
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iomegadrive said:
Wow a cool tool from ebay. Whodathunkit?
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Devlin D said:
OMG! eBay is finally using Skype for something!!
Why ‘Friending’ Will Be Obsolete (18)
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Every few days, (or hours) you probably get a friend request of some sort, the good news is, someday, this will not be relevant. I just got finished watching this video of Renato of “E”, a device and software platform that allows you to phsyically gesture in the real world with people you meet that you are friends. Remember palm pilot back in 2001 that let you ‘beam’ contact info to each other? Similiar to ...
A Feature Request For Facebook (5)
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I use Facebook a bit, but I use Twitter more. It's surely because of our investment in Twitter. But it was like that before our investment in Twitter. It could be because the people I connect to most often are on Twitter. It could be because I don't have to log in to Twitter every time I want to use the service. Regardless of the reasons, that's how it is for me right now. I ...
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Devlin D said:
Agreed, my profile page is filled with nothing but FriendFeed stuff. Including this shared item from GReader :)
What’s after the Social Web? (15)
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I’m sitting in Union Square SF on a Saturday night at Starbucks getting some additional analysis completed on the Wave report, which should be publishing in a few weeks. I can’t but help think about some trends that I’ve been hearing from multiple people. On Friday, I had a meeting with an SVP of Yahoo, to learn about some of the redesign coming to the homepage. What’s interesting is the focus is on apps, not ...
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Maria Reyes-McDavis said:
Why his one of the great marketing minds of our time.
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Devlin D said:
Oh to be a fly on the wall of some of those meetings about "what's next".
What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App? (52)
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Everyone keeps talking about Smule’s virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter (iTunes link). I wasn’t impressed: there are no less than ten different virtual lighter apps in iTunes, which is what I’d call a saturated market. And it gets better, because Sonic Lighter costs $.99. The official Zippo iphone app is free. The basic functionality of all of these is similar - you have a virtual lighter, you light it and when you move ...
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kleinman said:
This is a very good example of using location-based technology to drive viral adoption. When you see people in your vicinity using something, you are more incline in doing same. Even for something as useless and crazy as a lighter app.
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Jonathan Washburn said:
Must read post for AR team.
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puthali said:
lol...just one example of the massive community building opportunities via iPhone/iTouch...
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MV said:
why?
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llopis said:
Those stupid novelty apps don't cease to amaze me!
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Jason Cartwright said:
Astounding pointlessness
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Kingsley said:
brilliant. you can make almost anything more valuable by adding some social
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Sergey Kapustin said:
Похоже на то как горят зажигалки на концертах рок-групп, только в данном случае масштаб "немного" побольше.
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Haidong said:
very nice try
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SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) -- "The monetization question on the web is a very big and open one," Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg told an audience at the American Magazine Conference in San Francisco yesterday. Google and its competitors have made answering demands for information very profitable by selling ads attached to search requests, or demand fulfillment, Ms. Sandberg, a former Google executive herself, noted. "What no one's figured out how to do is demand generation," she ...