Green Screen Mystery Solved (6)
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A lot of RNCC viewers were perplexed last night when McCain appeared from the light of the Obama logo, strolled to the podium, and began his lackluster speech before an enormous green screen. We'd seen that lime green screen before and thought McGrinch had learned his lesson -- it was not a good look for McCain and was widely panned by pundits and the public alike. So, why would he choose that hideous background for ...
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ModernBizzle said:
Ok this is hilarious. Wrong image shown behind McCain during his RNC speech.
Giant Ice Sheet Breaks Free in Canada (3)
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Giving Google Chrome A Spin. This Thing Moves Fast. (55)
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Google announced Chrome yesterday and the company has already offered Windows XP and Vista owners the opportunity to try it out. And although I’ve only been able to use it for just a little while, Google Chrome is not only one of the fastest browsers I’ve ever used, it’s easily one of the best. The Google Chrome install was quick and easy. In a matter of seconds (literally), I downloaded the application from the company’s ...
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Adam said:
The first reviews are looking good!
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Alex said:
yup!
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paul.grayson said:
Chrome is sweeeet! Looks good (apart from crappy windows fonts) and is darn fast too! Also I like the ability to make shortcuts to launch gmail etc as separate windows without all the browser back/forward gubins. I might actually use this as my main browser for a while on my Mac via Parallels.
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Adam Selwood said:
Have been using it now for a few minutes, and also very impressed.
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That Kid from Omaha said:
Wow. Could anyone write a more gushing PR release, err, "review?"
Picasa Refresh Brings Facial Recognition (76)
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In the anticipated release of Google’s new and improved Picasa, the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them. Launching at noon PDT today, Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for ...
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DarK FlameS said:
Picasa agora com reconhecimento facial...
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Jrod said:
boom
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Oudi Antebi said:
worked very nice for me!
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Hagdahl said:
Picasa med ansiktigenkänning måste vara det ballaste på länge! Det kan bli hur enkelt som helst att söka efter olika personer i bildarkivet.
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Icefreez said:
Wow, that will be nice. They already developed the technology somewhat for Google maps why not develop it a bit more and release it for free :D
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Jeffrey said:
interesting - this would make life a lot easier on facebook... firefox plugin anyone? =P
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Joey Doll said:
google is on a tear
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kpoirier said:
sounds cool.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/hurricane-in-louisiana-this-time-fema-is-prepared-this-time-fema-has-widgets/ (16)
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FEMA isn’t screwing around this time. There’s a hurricane hitting the gulf coast, and they are not going to take the blame if things go wrong. They’ve evacuated 2 million people, for example. And now, they’ve got widgets, which have been created by the Department of Homeland Security. Earlier this evening, MySpace says, Homeland Security phoned MySpace’s Chief Security Officer, Hemanshu Nigam who then called President (and hacker extraordinaire) Tom Anderson to quickly fast-track the ...
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aaron said:
Good thing Tom has such 1337 h4x1ng skillz, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to embed some links in a friggin' iframe in the span of a few hours. That takes talent, after all.
Seeds Of A Social Network: Blogger Adds New “Following” Feature (42)
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Blogger has announced a new “following” feature that enables members to list themselves as fans of other members’ blogs. By following a set of blogs, your username and avatar will not only show up among other followers in a MyBlogLog-like gadget that can be placed in the sidebars of these blogs. You can also view the latest posts from the blogs you follow in a special feed reader on the Blogger dashboard. Since Blogger is ...
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Jonathan Washburn said:
I like this implementation
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bhc3 said:
"By following a set of blogs, your username and avatar will not only show up among other followers in a MyBlogLog-like gadget that can be placed in the sidebars of these blogs. You can also view the latest posts from the blogs you follow in a special feed reader on the Blogger dashboard."
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puthali said:
interesting...
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Kluzter said:
I'm gonna try this one for sure.
TripAdvisor Invests In Vacation-Home Review Site FlipKey (4)
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TripAdvisor is in an expansive mood. In July, it acquired two small startups, VirtualTourist (user-gen travel guides) and OneTime (booking price comparison). And today it announced a majority investment in FlipKey, a guest review site for vacation home rentals. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. FlipKey launched only last March. It covers 50,000 vacation rental properties in the U.S., which CEO TJ Mahoney says represents a $60 billion market. So it is a ...
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Jeremy said:
Congrats TJ! Good Stuff!
If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity. (106)
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Aza Raskin at Mozilla Labs thinks there’s got to be an easier way to create Web mashups. Today, he is announcing the launch of Ubiquity, an experiment in using natural language to invoke Web services. Ubiquity is an extension to the Firefox browser that lets you type in what you want to do—insert a map, translate this page, Twitter this block of text, search on Google—and invokes one of 30 Web services. As Raskin describes ...
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Flyhorse said:
This is awesome!
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Devlin D said:
I am loving the work that Aza is doing! He is a user experience GENIUS!!!
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Derick Valadao said:
Holy smokes. That looks really really cool.
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Noah J said:
One to watch.
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Klemo said:
Aza Raskin at Mozilla Labs thinks there’s got to be an easier way to create Web mashups.
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Daniel said:
Now this is awesome!
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Praneet said:
Installed it today.. cool thing.
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Dominic Hopton said:
The new hotness, IMHO
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Luke G said:
Huge.
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ModernBizzle said:
Cool name, logo, and idea!
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Mickey said:
ovo samo sto je stiglo na moj RSS reader, Mozilla novi projekat, izgleda ludo (vidi video. alpha 0.1
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chrisbrogan.com said:
Can we stop always using maps to describe mashups? Is it just me?
If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity. (107)
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Aza Raskin at Mozilla Labs thinks there’s got to be an easier way to create Web mashups. Today, he is announcing the launch of Ubiquity, an experiment in using natural language to invoke Web services. Ubiquity is an extension to the Firefox browser that lets you type in what you want to do—insert a map, translate this page, Twitter this block of text, search on Google—and invokes one of 30 Web services. As Raskin describes ...
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Oudi Antebi said:
definitely one of the nicest things i've seen lately on the tech world that really make sense and solve problems
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Dominic Hopton said:
The new hotness, IMHO
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Praneet said:
Installed it today.. cool thing.
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ModernBizzle said:
Cool name, logo, and idea!
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Luke G said:
Huge.
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elmarco said:
that will surely become my favorite browser shortcut! great stuff
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a.andreev said:
Now this is what I always wanted in a browser!
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Will said:
uber cool!
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Devlin D said:
I am loving the work that Aza is doing! He is a user experience GENIUS!!!
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Klemo said:
Aza Raskin at Mozilla Labs thinks there’s got to be an easier way to create Web mashups.
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Daniel said:
Now this is awesome!
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Mickey said:
ovo samo sto je stiglo na moj RSS reader, Mozilla novi projekat, izgleda ludo (vidi video. alpha 0.1
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chrisbrogan.com said:
Can we stop always using maps to describe mashups? Is it just me?
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Noah J said:
One to watch.
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Flyhorse said:
This is awesome!
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Karl-Anders said:
Trying now...
If Amazon Really Wants To Get Serious About The Kindle… (23)
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More rumors about the new Kindle are emerging, which we first wrote about on July 15. The first device will have a similar sized screen as the existing model but will have a much enhanced form factor. The second will be a large screen device aimed at students and will come later. Somewhere around a quarter of a million Kindles have been sold to date and Amazon is clearly pushing out the last of the ...
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nybble said:
Oh! Apple should do that too, just license their OS to a bunch of competing hardware vendors. Wait a second...Maybe Amazon could just lower the prices and move to the same model as the console vendors - look at the hardware as less of a profit center (or possibly a loss leader until hardware prices decrease enough) - and sell a lot more units making it up in content sales.
Amazon Kindle rumours and where they should take it (19)
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Michael Arrington via TechCrunch shared by 11 people More rumors about the new Kindle are emerging, which we first wrote about on July 15. The first device will have a similar sized screen as the existing model but will have a much enhanced form factor. The second will be a large screen device aimed at students and will come later. Somewhere around a quarter of a million Kindles have been sold to date and Amazon ...
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Eater said:
Want*!(*Assuming I can strip all the DRM bullshit.)
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nybble said:
Oh! Apple should do that too, just license their OS to a bunch of competing hardware vendors. Wait a second...Maybe Amazon could just lower the prices and move to the same model as the console vendors - look at the hardware as less of a profit center (or possibly a loss leader until hardware prices decrease enough) - and sell a lot more units making it up in content sales.
College Sophomore Sells His iPhone App To Flixster (30)
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Movie focused social network Flixster acquired a popular iPhone application called Movies.app (iTunes link) last week, and has re-released the application this evening. As far as we know, this is the first acquisition of an iPhone app. The price isn’t being disclosed. Movies.app was created by Jeffrey Grossman, a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University. The application lets users find show times, watch trailers and get maps to local theaters and has been downloaded 250,000 times. ...
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Shawn said:
Congrats to Jeff! Pennsylvania represent.
College Sophomore Sells His iPhone App To Flixster (25)
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Movie focused social network Flixster acquired a popular iPhone application called Movies.app (iTunes link) last week, and has re-released the application this evening. As far as we know, this is the first acquisition of an iPhone app. The price isn’t being disclosed. Movies.app was created by Jeffrey Grossman, a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University. The application lets users find show times, watch trailers and get maps to local theaters and has been downloaded 250,000 times. ...
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Shawn said:
Congrats to Jeff! Pennsylvania represent.
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