FbCal Puts Facebook Birthdays in Your Calendar [Facebook] (11)
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One of the best side effects of using Facebook is knowing when your contacts' birthdays are—but you only see them if you log in. The Facebook application fbCal is out to fix that. Once you install it on Facebook, fbCal creates an iCal file for your Facebook contacts' birthdays as well as Facebook events. Subscribe to the feed in your iCal-enabled calendar app of choice, like Mac's iCal or Google Calendar. When I tried fbCal ...
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Something useful in Facebook? Amazing!
Ball Girl Makes Incredible Catch (1)
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A minor league ball girl makes an incredible catch on a foul ball in left field. Her coach later informed her that there is no crying in Baseball.
Meijer offering free prenatal vitamins (1)
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Interactive Map Shows What's In Season at Your Grocery Store [Food] (1)
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Foodie site Epicurious has a great map for anyone who's ever drawn a blank when asked what's in season or "good right now" at their local markets. Click a month, choose your state, and you'll get a pop-up list of stuff grown in your own neck of the woods (or at least some woods closer to home). Roll through the list, and you'll get links to recipes and details on each ingredient. The Flash-based map ...
The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform (1)
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A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed to us that the social networking company will announce an open-source initiative around its Facebook Platform sometime today or tomorrow. We originally broke this story we broke yesterday. We’ve also learned from another source that the name of the initiative will be fbOpen. As Michael previously reported: Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to ...
Google Maps Rolls Out Spanking New Features (1)
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While idly clicking on the various buttons, I found some really neat new features that will make me pay closer attention to the site from now on.
12 Tools and Techniques for Building Relationships with Other Bloggers (1)
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Image by Michael Sarver A recent question asked in the Q&A widget was from a reader asking me to write about: “How to go about building relationships with other bloggers?” Building relationships with other bloggers is an important aspect of blogging. I see it as crucial for a number of reasons: Finding Readers - one of the best ways to grow your readership is to have another blogger recommend that their readers check out something ...
What we just learned about Windows 7 (1)
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In his first interview discussing the next Windows, engineering head Steven Sinofsky didn't exactly tell all, though a few things are clearer. News.com's Ina Fried tries to make sense of things.
Christopher Tolkien to New Line: The Hobbit is Mine! [Cinematic Uprisings] (1)
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I bet you thought the biggest threat to the world of the Hobbits was Gollum, Sauron and the one Ring. Think again, it’s Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R., who wants to shut down Peter Jackson’s two new films based on Tolkien’s The Hobbit directed by Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro. The 83 year old son of the author is feeling economically slighted by New Line Cinema and claims they owe the estate 80 million ...
Harrison Ford Still Jack Ryan? [Movie News] (1)
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Perhaps trying to prove that he’s still young at heart, Harrison Ford is in consideration for reprising his role as Jack Ryan, the Tom Clancy penned hero of such previous flicks as Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. The current rumor circulating is that series producer Mace Neufeld is championing Harrison Ford to return to the role, while the distributor and studio behind it, Paramount, wants a younger actor. With Indiana Jones and the ...
Tragedy Rocks Latest ‘Harry Potter’ Film (1)
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Robert Knox, who will be seen this November in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Marcus Belby, was stabbed and killed. He was 18 years old.
Bloggers are like Pawns on a Chessboard (1)
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Today Nadeesha Cabral from Rockfuse tells us why Bloggers are like Pawns on a Chessboard! - Image by All glass no class. Well, you have to give it up for the title, don’t you think? Probably one of the weirdest blog post titles that you’ve ever seen on Problogger right? Well anyway, by the time you’ve finished reading this post, I can guarantee you that you will know just where on the chessboard (blogosphere) you ...
Jackson & Del Toro Reveal ‘Hobbit’ Details (1)
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Executive producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro participated in a live chat session earlier today where they answered previously submitted reader questions regarding their plans for The Hobbit movie and its sequel, currently referred to as Film Two (F2).
FriendFeed Still Has a Lot of Killing to Do (1)
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With Twitter down all the time, the super-early adopters are getting frustrated and looking to FriendFeed as their salvation. Duncan (over at Inquisitr now) argues that it is time for FriendFeed to kill Twitter. And Jason Kaneshiro at Webomatica already has FriendFeed Fever. He thinks it can not only replace Twitter, but also Facebook, Google Reader, and Digg! FriendFeed certainly has a lot of potential, but it still has a lot of killing to do. ...
Come Join us in the ProBlogger Room on FriendFeed (1)
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Most regular readers of ProBlogger will know that I’ve been playing quite heavily with Twitter over the last few months. I’ve found it to be a very fruitful exercise. Over the last month or two FriendFeed has been another tool that many bloggers are also playing with. I’ve dabbled with it (my FriendFeed Account is here) bot to this point am still trying to get my head around it (would love to see some good ...
Marvel Planning To Runaway With Another Franchise [Movie News] (1)
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The word around the interwebs is that Marvel Studios is set to adapt yet another one of their properties. With films adaptations such as Captain America, The Avengers, Thor and Iron Man 2 already having dates, Marvel plans for one more. Marvel Comics Runaways will be one of Marvel Studios’ next films. Never heard of Runaways you say? It’s ok, most people haven’t. I have only heard of it by passing it on the shelves. ...
