Feature suggestion for Twitter (10)
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"Like" Is a FriendFeed feature that Twitter should have. It's a misnomer, it's not about liking something. When you like something that means you recommend it. Everyone who follows you gets the recommendation. How it would work in Twitter. 1. You're reading something I wrote in Twitter. 2. You say you "like" it -- which is like adding it to your Favorites (same UI). 3. It goes on your output stream. All the people who ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
Why not just use openid as your identity management system like identi.ca uses?
Wii hängt Xbox 360 ab (2)
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Nintendos Wii ist nicht nur die bestverkaufte Spielekonsole weltweit, sondern zeigt Microsofts Xbox auch in den USA die Rücklichter. Und auch die Playstation 3 holt auf.
Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ (42)
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Facebook is pursuiting social networks it believes have copied their design or features by suing German social network StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook have filed a suit in the Californian Supreme Court against the German company for what it claims is an infringement of Facebooks “look, feel, features and services”. StudiVZ claims to have 10 million active members, and is the largest social network in the German speaking world, covering Germany, Belgium ...
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jon|k said:
it's about time!!!
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Bill said:
so when will they sue oak pacific over xiaonei.com?
Gnip CEO's Goal: Make Twitter's Data Flow Suck Less (11)
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Data publishers and data consumers can be both friends and enemies, when it comes to the seemingly infinite demand for and growth of real-time data from Web services. Services like Digg, Flickr, Del.icio.us and Twitter are happy to see their user bases expand, and to see developer communities be built around their products. But with each new application hitting their API, and each new user, comes new demand that can put strain on their infrastructure, ...
Google Remove XMPP Support In Android (24)
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Android is the new highly-anticipated “open source” mobile platform that is currently under development at Google. There are a high expectations of Android as the first viable open source based mobile platform and a viable competitor to the dominance of Symbian, Microsoft and now Apple. Android is based on Linux and developers can write applications in managed code that use the Google Android SDK, which is developed in Java. Initially with the Android SDK, there ...
TechCrunch Zurich Recap: We Really Do Have Startups Here! (3)
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Are there actually startups outside of Sillicon Valley and the USA? For us Europeans this is quite an akward question. Of course there are startups here. And thanks to Mike Butcher and TechCrunch and his European tour we can show the world how great our startup scene actually is. As one of twelve cities on the tour, Mike came to Zurich on July 17th. As a techblogger and engineer myself and as a CenterNetworks writer, ...
Microsoft Revenues Top $60 Billion - up $9B over last year (2)
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Microsoft (MSFT) announced revenues topped $60 Billion for the year ended June 30, 2008, an increase of 18% over last year. This was the largest annual revenue growth since 1999. Profits were $17.6 billion, up more than 25 percent from a year ago. Growing a Yahoo every year - Microsoft is strong and growing. Revenues were up $9 Billion over last year. Just to put that in context, Yahoo (YHOO) recorded total revenue of less ...
Microsoft Mesh Is A Metaphor For A Run On Sentence (6)
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On the day of the Microsoft Mesh announcement I wrote skeptically about the product, but given that they have just opened it up to the public, its time to broach the subject again. What the heck is Mesh for? People are still talking breathlessly about its potential, but I can never get a clear explanation of how that potential is going to be realized. Ok, yeah, I understand the file syncing thing. And code syncing. ...
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Dan Stowell said:
Amen. Start with specific problems, move to general solutions later (usually, much later).
Freelancing 101 (1)
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Once in a while in my business there’s a customer who thinks he is the greatest thing that happened to me and then disappears. Some of them go silently - just stop answering emails when you send them the source code (lesson learned). For some of them it’s enough to get the demo file to be able decompile it (lesson learned too). Some of them go away loudly citing Aristotle, calling names and naming matters ...
Google Buys Russian Contextual Ads Service for $140m (27)
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BREAKING NOW: Google is buying Russian contextual advertising company ZAO Begun for $140 million from UK-registered Rambler Media (many Russian firms now base themselves in the UK). Rambler owns 50.1 percent of Begun, so to secure the deal it is buying the remaining 49.9 percent stake from owner Bannatyne Limited and then selling the entire firm to Google. Rambler says it expects to net about $50 million from the deal which will finance its investments ...
Die Playstation 3 soll bis 2009 profitabel werden (1)
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Bisher ist die Playstation 3 für Sony Computer Entertainment ein Verlustgeschäft, das soll sich aber bis Anfang 2009 ändern. Weniger mit Konsolenverkäufen, sondern mit den Spielen und Zubehörartikeln. (<a href="http://www.golem.de/specials/ps3/">Playstation 3</a>, <a href="http://www.golem.de/specials/sony/">Sony</a>)
AIR-based eBay Desktop downloaded 1 Million times (1)
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Alan Lewis, Product Manager for eBay Desktop over at eBay, has reported the very exciting news that AIR-based eBay desktop has been downloaded over 1 Million times! I first demonstrated this application at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs after Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch lost his voice the day before the presentation. I have since demonstrated this application to thousands of people in all parts of the world. It is great to witness the ongoing ...
AMD Has Gone From Scrappy to Sad (4)
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Confession: Back when AMD was pitching its Opteron chipset, I convinced my husband to buy shares in the company on the belief that its plans to build a backwards compatible 64-bit processor was so obviously better than Intel’s efforts with Itanium that the market would eventually see it. The market did, and AMD shares went up a bit, but we soon sold them after my company changed its policy regarding stock ownership. I say this ...
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Nate said:
Ouch. I used to believe in AMD too. Damn.
Why Silicon Valley Should Be Worried (30)
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We have short memories in Silicon Valley, which is both a blessing and a curse. We forget the bad times as quickly as we forget the good times. At the turn of the century, everything went to hell with the dot-com bust. Then the pendulum started to swing the other way; the pessimism that once reigned supreme was being replaced by wild-eyed optimism. Now Silicon Valley is in for a long-overdue reality check, one that ...
PodTech Sells For Less Than $500k (16)
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VentureBeat is reporting that technology media startup PodTech has been sold to ViewPartner, a “communications technology company” , for less than half a million dollars. PodTech is perhaps best known for the long tech videos produced by blogger Robert Scoble, who left the company last December to work for Fast Company. He was originally snagged from Microsoft, where he made his name. The paltry sale price is not much better than a landing in the ...
Why Metered Broadband Is Bad for Microsoft, Google & Us (12)
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Here’s a horror scenario for everyone on the content side of the Internet: A consumer comes to a web site to download a movie, work presentation, software update or photos, and just before they commit to the download they pause and wonder: Am I over my usage quota this month? How much will downloading this new HD movie from Netflix on my Xbox cost me? We’ve all been there before — with cell phones, about ...
Apple Climbs To Third Place In US Desktop Market (9)
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Gartner and IDC have reported that Apple has climbed to third place in the US desktop market, with a market share of approximately 7.8 to 8.5%. Worldwide, Apple has yet to crack the top 5 spots, but in the USA Apple has finished almost tied for third place with Acer (the new merged Acer-Gateway). Dell retains top spot in the USA with 31.9% of the market, and HP is in second place with 25.3%. Apple ...
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Matthew said:
wow. Apple has the #3 spot selling as many computers as gateway ...
Google Gears Coming to Gmail and Google Calendar Soon - ReadWriteWeb (87)
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According to Andrew Fogg from kusiri, Google will start rolling out offline support for both Gmail and Google Calendar through Google Gears within the next six weeks. Google enabled offline access to Google Docs earlier this year, after they had already been using if for Google Reader for over a year. Fogg also found out that Google will start supporting SyncML for synchronizing contacts in Gmail around the same time. As Google is trying to ...
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walkah said:
I'm *such* a fan of gears. Although, IMAP and Spanning Sync kind of take care of these for me...
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jtuchscherer said:
YEAH
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joco said:
Végre! Mondom ezt annak ellenére, hogy a GMail mostanában egyre többször behibázik: nem küld el leveleket, végtelen "in progress" üzeneteket dob fel stb. Már elgondolkodtam egy asztali kliensen megint, majdnem három év után.
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Marcus said:
Is this the beginning of the end of operating systems?
Amiando Makes Tickets Go Viral and Widgetizes Event Management. ($200 Discount For TechCrunch Readers) (13)
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How do businesses get people to come to their events? Viral marketing is one way. But Munich-based event-management site Amiando has figured out a way to make the tickets themselves viral. Today it launched ViralTickets. If you buy a ViralTicket for an event on Amiando, you get a referral code that you can pass onto friends or colleagues. Anyone with that code gets a discount, and the original referrer gets a refund on his or ...
