Useful Google Talk Bots That You Must Add as Friends (30)
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You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like get alert notifications, save bookmarks to delicious, manage web calendars, set reminders, write blogs, and so much more. Such features can be easily integrated into Google Talk through ‘bots’ which, in simple English, are like virtual friends who are online 24×7 and will always respond with a smile to your questions or requests. Here are some of the most useful ‘bots’ that transform Google ...
Tinymail: Like TinyURL but for E-Mail Addresses (2)
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Bloggers and Web developers know better than to simply toss their e-mail addresses on their blogs and sites these days unless they have exceptional spam filtering. At the same time, if you're a site owner and you want to be able to connect with your readers when they have concerns or comments, you have a dilemma if you don't want to provide an e-mail address and risk getting spammed, or you don't want to integrate ...
The Somebodies vs. the Nobodies: The Fate of the Digital Underclass (4)
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In the world of paid digital music downloads, there’s iTunes, Amazon MP3, maybe the Zune Marketplace and eMusic a rung or two lower on the industry ladder. The rest seem to comprise the land of the unspoken. Even Microsoft’s efforts and the indie fave eMusic are susceptible to falling into insignificance. After all, the music industry as a whole, as with virtually any market of capitalist design, tends to support winners. The tracks go where ...
Coca-Cola readying 100-flavor soda fountains (30)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Your typical soda fountain in a fast-food joint features eight boring choices, usually offering nothing more exotic than "Orange." It's been that way for decades, but one of the oldest players in the market is finally shattering that paradigm. Coca-Cola is introducing a machine that can pour 100 different flavors. Early prototypes underwent testing earlier this summer and second-gen units are headed for limited markets early next year -- the same ...
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Earl E Morningwood said:
100+ flavors and nothing to drink, Welcome to the end times. ;)
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sirmikester said:
This sounds cool, but I hope they still have larger amounts of regular coke and diet coke, otherwise they'll run out...
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Convoluted said:
This blows my mind
11-Month-Old's 62-Pound Frame Stumps Doctors (2)
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PhoneSpamFilter Identifies Telemarketers [Telemarketers] (4)
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Receiving frequent phone calls from a number you don't recognize? If you've ruled out the possibility that it's your Venezuelan stalker, turn to the PhoneSpamFilter web site to figure out exactly who it is that's calling you. Users submit complaints about numbers that have called them at PhoneSpamFilter, and you can see if the same number that's been bugging you appears there. Just this week a mystery number kept calling my wife's cellphone and leaving ...
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Dorn said:
Does anyone know anyone who ever bought something from a random call about a random product?
Yahoo Mash Closes. Some Things I Don’t Understand About Yahoo Handling Its Properties. (2)
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Now we hear the news that Yahoo Mash will be closed some time today. It has been announced by Yahoo! in an email all the users of the social network have received. In the email Yahoo! Team thanks everyone for participating in the beta test of the social network and invites to copy all the content we may want to keep to a separate document. I don’t have any content over there anyway and I ...
Flu Shot Does Not Reduce Risk Of Death (1)
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The widely-held perception that the influenza vaccination reduces overall mortality risk in the elderly does not withstand careful scrutiny, according to researchers. The vaccine does confer protection against specific strains of influenza, but its overall benefit appears to have been exaggerated by a number of observational studies that found a very large reduction in all-cause mortality among elderly patients who had been vaccinated.
Amazon: No New Kindle In 2008 (AMZN) (4)
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Saving up for Kindle 2.0? You've got some time. New York Times writer Brad Stone interrupted his vacation to pick up the phone and actually ask Amazon PR dude Craig Berman when he could buy one of the new Kindles we've heard so much about recently: 'Don't believe everything you read,' Mr. Berman said. 'There's a lot of rumor and speculation about the Kindle. One thing I can tell you for sure is that there ...
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nybble said:
Ouch, that's gotta hurt. Amazon needed that 2.0 to keep the ball rolling...
Using “Pants” In Your Password Can Backfire (6)
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Slyly insulting your bank with the word “pants” can have its consequences. Sound crazy? Check it out: A British bank customer says he wasn’t pleased with his bank, Lloyd’s TSB, so he changed his banking password to “Lloyds is pants.” Brilliant insult, if I don’t say so myself. But things only get funnier from there. The guy says he soon discovered a bank staff member had changed the password — to “no it’s not.” So ...
Auto Dial Puts Frequently Visited Sites in New Tabs [Featured Firefox Extension] (15)
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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Auto Dial Firefox extension automatically places shortcuts to your most frequently visited web sites inside all of your new, empty tabs. Mozilla Labs recently suggested that empty tabs could be put to better use by offering no-cost options for the user (i.e., if what you want isn't what's offered, it doesn't hurt anything). Although not as inspired as the undeveloped concept at Mozilla Labs, Auto Dial fits perfectly with this idea. ...
Images of the Arctic Ocean as We Will Know It (31)
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With the Arctic Ocean ice melting rapidly — in fact, this summer it's already at the second-lowest level on record, and still shrinking — it's time for us to start imagining what life will be like in the Arctic Circle when all the ice is gone. Some scientists predict that the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free as soon as September, but more likely it will be ice-free all summer by 2030 or 2050. What will ...
Judge orders woman to return two library books or go to jail (16)
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A judge has ordered JoAn Karkos of Lewiston, Maine to return two copies of It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health, which she checked out the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries last year. In September, Karkos sent letters to the libraries, including checks to pay for the cost of the books. The letters said, in part, “I have been sufficiently horrified of the illustrations and sexually graphic, amoral, abnormal contents. I ...
A New Look At Our Gamma Universe [Blazar Detector] (2)
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Here's what the universe would look like if your eyes could see gamma rays. The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) showed off its abilities this week by taking this "full sky" gamma image in just 95 hours of observation time. NASA's new gamma telescope is ready to find all sorts of cool, exotic cosmic objects. The same day NASA released this image, they also renamed the GLAST, which is now the Fermi Gamma-ray Space ...
BackType – a New Model of Handling Blog Comments (4)
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We have already seen enough competition (I think) between services intended to help blog readers easier authenticate themselves to leave a comment on a blog and have all the comments from blogs supporting this or that service aggregated into one account: Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, IntenseDebate all work in the same field with slight variations of approaches. But unfortunately as blog owners choose different services to install on their blogs, readers end up creating accounts with ...
My FriendFeed Wishlist Mark Two (14)
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Back in May, having only been on the service a short time on my second attempt, I posted a FriendFeed wishlist of things I’d like to see on the service. The FriendFeed team has continued to innovate, introducing a new beta service this week that offers a range of extra functionality that makes the service better. And yet still I find myself wanting more, I guess that’s the downside of being passionate about a service, ...
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Joe said:
Official Blogger plugin as well...
Highly-Advanced Cloaking Device Unveiled in French Forest [Concept Art] (9)
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Deep in the forests of Alsace, adventurous explorers can marvel at this strange installation that looks very much like what an invisibility cloak over a secret ship might look like in 100 years. No it's not a Romulan craft — it's actually a sculpture made of stones, glue and mirrors by Michel De Broin. De Broin says the sculpture, called "Superficial," is about a "notion of transparency," and that: The large stone, tucked away deep ...
Rottweiler fights dog to save boy (3)
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