Steve Jobs: Still Not Dead. Film at 11. (7)
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Filed under: Apple Corporate Bloomberg seems to be having an extremely slow news day. Its obituary update for Steve Jobs has turned awry. The obituary, a copy of which was sent to Gawker, contains a list of contacts that could be used for an extended story. Soon after the obituary was published, Bloomberg issued the following retraction: Story Referencing Apple Was Sent in Error by Bloomberg News Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) - An incomplete story referencing ...
Court: Veoh did not infringe on copyright by transcoding videos (1)
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Filed under: Internet, Video, News There's good news today for user generated video sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, and MetaCafe. A federal court in California has ruled that Veoh did not violate the copyright of a pornography company by automatically transcoding video uploaded by a user. Let's back up a second here. If you upload copyrighted material to an online video site to share with others without the copyright holder's permission, you may be breaking the ...
Ubiquity: this is a big deal (20)
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I’m gonna go out on a limb and do something I don’t typically do, which is guess the fate of something. But my gut tells me Ubiquity, a new project just announced on Mozilla Labs, is going to be a hell of a big deal. Ubiquity, in a nutshell, is a set of functions on top of the browser that allows the user to take data sources existing now, and being created now (i.e like ...
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Jeff said:
Cool demo video - are we beginning to see the platforms that can be built on top of the semantic web?
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Tomas Becklin said:
Very cool. Quicksilver for the browser!
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nybble said:
Very cool, like Quicksilver for the web.
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Bram said:
zeer interessant jongens !
Review Shootout: Laptop Bags for Light Computing (2)
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Living the cloud life is only part of the equation; traveling light and easily being able to move your workspace from your home to class, a coffee shop, a coworking space or office are just as important. That’s why I use a MacBook Air and that’s why I’ve gotten my hands on some fine examples of small computer bags for light computing. Meet the Contestants Left to Right: WaterField SleeveCase (with flap, piggyback and strap), ...
Google Launch Ad Manager (an Ad Server) (14)
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Google AdSense announced the beta launch of their Ad Manager Ad Server product back in March. At that time I heard from a number of publishers in the beta program that they were finding it to be an effective way of managing their ads. Today on the AdSense blog they have announced that Ad Manager is now available to everyone. It’s still in beta but is obviously stable enough to be opened up to everyone. ...
Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button (45)
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Jason Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” people: That means you can friend someone but you don’t see their updates. That way, it appears that you’re paying attention to them when you’re really not. Just like everyone does all the time in real life to maintain their sanity. As duplicitous and sad as “fake following” sounds — and let’s be honest: the whole ...
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Michael Kuhn said:
"Jason Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to “fake follow” people: That means you can friend someone but you don’t see their updates. That way, it appears that you’re paying attention to them when you’re really not. Just like everyone does all the time in real life to maintain their sanity."
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Noah J said:
I could repost Merlin all day.
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Parveen said:
Man, I wish I had a pause button.
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Shane said:
What I wouldn't give for a native, configurable PAUSE on Twitter. Well, I wouldn't give money but the sentiment is the same.
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meta said:
"If you need to appear on an Internet list to know you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve." Amen to that.
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Ryan said:
kind of interesting approach to dealing with overwhelming data from life streaming.
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Stewtopia said:
"You can pause your newspaper delivery, and the newspaper never complains. Unfortunately most people online haven’t figured out that they’re just another publisher in a crowded space."Now that, is a good idea.
Expand Your Brain with Evernote (173)
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A new school year is just around the corner, but this semester you're looking for a safer way to enhance your brainpower than getting all hopped up on caffeine pills Jessie Spano-style. This year, the robust note-taking software Evernote is your answer. Let's take a look at how you can use your computer, cellphone, and digital camera in conjunction with the free, cross-platform application Evernote to remember everything for the rest of your life—or at ...
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CtrlBreak said:
Absolutely stunning.
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Sean Blakey said:
Maybe I should give evernote another try. My first few attempts resulted in application crashes and lost data, but that was months ago...
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Derick Valadao said:
Yes, this is a very amazing service. I've been using it for about a month now and I've got hundreds of notes stashed away. The possibilities are limitless.
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potentato said:
I still haven't tried using Evernote, but this makes a pretty compelling argument.
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Derek said:
I wish I felt comfortable using evernote, but it would mostly be for work and I just can't bring myself to do it
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yooper1019 said:
Been using it for a while and Evernote is AMAZING!!
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ndench said:
I wish I could love Evernote. I've tried really hard in the past. Perhaps this new version is worth persevering with.
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Noah J said:
I loves me some Evernote!
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Matt Chandler said:
I use the heck out of this.
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Jeremy said:
@eingy I've been playing around with and love it as a concept. I keep trying to work it into my workflow and haven't been able to get it in completely. I keep telling myself it is because I don't have an iPhone so I can't take and note photos with it. The OCR is amazing!
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Nico said:
evernote regelt.
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Andre Siregar said:
Try it if you haven't. I've used Evernote for a few months and have been very happy with it.
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munir said:
I'm a big fan of Evernote, though I don't use it nearly to its fullest.
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Jon Host said:
ive heard good things and am giving it a try, starting with firefox and iPhone. if i like it, i'll blog about it.
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Jamie said:
Anyone have any personal experience with Evernote? It sounds good ...
Amazon Buys Shelfari and it's Innovative UI (42)
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Shelfari, a small book sharing startup, was acquired today by Amazon (an existing investor in the company). Shelfari is known for its innovative user interface, something which we've discussed a few times on ReadWriteWeb. Shelfari's competitors include GoodReads and LibraryThing. The relationship with the latter has been frosty, with LibraryThing writing on its site today that Shelfari is a "clone" and that it is "somewhat less intellectual, less featureful", among other barbs. Despite LibraryThing's criticisms, ...
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Vidal Tripsa said:
In a small way I actually saw this coming; Shelfari already has quite close ties with Amazon. But way to go! This'll mean good things for my bookshelves in future, I'm sure. I'm already on Shelfari as VidalTripsa, by the way.
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Donnie Berkholz said:
I use Shelfari. Hope it heads uphill from here, or at least stalls instead of going down, as some acquired companies do.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/at-loss-for-words.html (64)
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Have you ever been stumped in finding the right words to search for? Back when I was planning my wedding, I had a list of wedding songs in mind, but the problem was that I couldn't remember any of the artist names or song titles. So I started typing into the Google search box parts of the lyrics that I did remember -- and like magic, I saw suggestions with the artist name and song ...
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Brandon said:
Sweet! Google Suggest has graduated. Congrats! :P
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Donnie Berkholz said:
This feature is amazing! I've used it for a while and I'm psyched to see it move to the main page. That will make it easier to combine with the still-Labs feature of keyboard shortcuts.
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pneal said:
always thought it was the small things that counted... can you spot the differences without reading the explanation?
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Devlin D said:
I've had this product set as my homepage for about 3 years and have raved about it since. Glad to see this thing finally get it's due. Great job to everyone that worked on this.
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ewbrown said:
I like Google Suggest, but I am not sure I would want to see it every time I visit the Google homepage. If I need a search query auto-completed, I typically use the Google toolbar. Hopefully, Google will provide a way to disable the suggestions for those who prefer not to see them.
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Eddie said:
yay jennifer!
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Linden said:
Awesome! I love the auto-complete feature for email addresses in Gmail, so I'm glad this labs item has graduated!
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Željko Filipin said:
Google Suggest will be "graduating" from Labs and available by default on the Google.com homepage.
Designing a better ballot (41)
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“How Design Can Save Democracy” is AIGA’s attempt to identify common design problems in election ballots and offer improvements. Problem (excerpt) Solution (excerpt) More details. Is it an improvement? Sure. But the real crime here is how terrible the original one is. Looks like a bunch of lawyers trying to figure out Quark. It’s tough to have much faith in your government’s ability to solve truly complicated challenges when it seems so inept at dealing ...
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iomegadrive said:
"VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN ONE(1)"Hahaha, wow.
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Derick Valadao said:
They should take a lesson from Elections Canada:1. Names are in alphabetical order2. Put an "x" in the circle next to the name3. Give your ballot backSimple, gets the job done.
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rexy said:
I think that this is a very interesting design problem to solve.
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猫影 said:
还是我国的选票比较简单!
12 Ways to Get “Back to School” Right (11)
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This week or next, your kids will be heading back to school. If your house is anything like mine, that means terror, trauma, and chaos – and that’s the good stuff! The first few weeks of school are probably going to throw you some curve-balls, too: your child gets bullied, the bus schedule is rearranged at the last minute (we lost a 6th grader for two hours the year before last when they changed the ...
Presentation Zen: Learning slide design from an IKEA billboard (49)
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Above: A short (1:52) intro about this topic made in Keynote (link to video on bliptv). Can you learn how to make better slides by looking at a few signs around your local IKEA store? This may sound absurd, yet the lessons are all around you, and you can indeed learn a lot from a well-designed billboard, including those used created by IKEA. On page 140 of Nancy Duarte's Slide:ology, Nancy says that good slides ...
