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If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity. (34)
on TechCrunch (21054) permalinkAza 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 ...Shared by Aashay (35) Alex (99) AnthonyBaker (51) Bob (93) Burcu Sarar (52) CB (150) Chris (42) cleiva (49) David (38) Derick Valadao (116) FiZ (35) Flyhorse (39) Hooman (20) hyderabadblues (36) Jeremy (343) Jordan (5) Jorge (37) jqueryboy (46) kevin oshea (26) Klemo (60) Luana C. (20) ModernBizzle (22) MrT (30) Noah J (31) partout (57) Pejman (44) Pimienta (18) Razzu (31) Selwin (39) Sh (17) spolay (42) Thinh (118) Tomi (44) wildgica (165)
- Flyhorse said: This is awesome!
- Derick Valadao said: Holy smokes. That looks really really cool.
- Noah J said: One to watch.
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Free Starbucks Recipes for DIY Coffee Drinks [Food Hacks] (73)
on Lifehacker (29721) permalinkIf you've got weak defenses against Starbucks' frillier fare like frappuccinos, chai lattes, or even the ubiquitous pound cake, the Coffee Fair blog has an appealing weekend recipe project for you. Amongst 32 pages of free Starbucks-derived recipes, you'll find recipes for those sweet treats, amongst lots of other cloning attempts. We've previously put up a DIY frappuccino recipe, so if you've made that version or the one in this PDF, let us know which ...Shared by Aashay (35) Abhishek (49) Adam (27) Andrew [j.Mac] (58) Andrew M (22) Angelo (16) Angus (87) Apostlion (36) Arvin (53) Augmented Web (92) Ben Shoemate (209) Bror Bojlen (21) BW.Wooster (34) Carl Dunn3 (69) Carol (47) Chris Schrier (41) Christina (25) Damiano (38) dan (100) Dave E. (34) Elton (15) Fletcher (50) foolarch (198) Fred Schechter (262) fundament (111) GG (289) Glenn Batuyong (245) Haris (97) Hilary (28) Ian Benedict (62) Jason (161) JeDa (52) Jeffrey (27) Jim (15) Joannie (126) John (39) Jon (29) Jordan (24) Josh (122) Kelly (17) Kichigai Mentat (80) Luckystrik3 (65) Matt Hall (44) MBytz (22) Michael (10) Mike (20) Mitch Wagner (94) Mookyjooky (110) Murz (22) ndench (32) nwistheone (28) Peter (23) Ricardo Hdz (16) River Song (117) Robert (21) ryan.capote (62) Scott (83) Scott (29) Suzanne (118) tarman (155) Taylor (65) Then (97) Theotrek (45) Tim (155) Todd Albertson (111) Travis Tubbs (41) tsangal (54) underlost (26) Vincenzo (172) yasha.sozo (45) Yerameyahu (60) zemote (19) Zenith (69)Explore read six notes
- Jeffrey said: sounds like fun - who's got a blender?
- Todd Albertson said: Definitely cheaper to make than buying at Starbucks!
- Chris Schrier said: Neat. This makes me wish I had a coffee maker / espresso machine.
- Angus said: not to self: win
- Luckystrik3 said: YES, Rezepte für leckere Käffchen :)
- Joannie said: wooo!!! let's make it ourselves!
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Mail Pixily your monthly papers to scan (7)
on Unclutterer (417) permalinkIf your office is overflowing with papers that you would like to have in digital format, Pixily may be the solution you’ve been seeking. From the website: How does the mail-in service work? When you sign-up with Pixily, you receive pre-paid envelopes in the mail along with instructions on what kind of documents you can send. You then collect the paper documents in the envelope and mail them to us at least one a month. ...Shared by Aashay (35) Doug (111) Fred Schechter (262) hornbeck (31) Mario Sundar (46) Nick (281) nparker13 (575)Contribute comment
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Mail Pixily your monthly papers to scan (3)
on Unclutterer (417) permalinkIf your office is overflowing with papers that you would like to have in digital format, Pixily may be the solution you’ve been seeking. From the website: How does the mail-in service work? When you sign-up with Pixily, you receive pre-paid envelopes in the mail along with instructions on what kind of documents you can send. You then collect the paper documents in the envelope and mail them to us at least one a month. ...Contribute comment
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Is Our Addiction to Saving Money Destroying the Real America? (33)
on Zen Habits (2048) permalinkEditor’s note: This is a guest post from Paul Michael, Senior Writer for Wise Bread. As a young boy growing up in a gray, rainy seaside town in England, I had a fascination for America; maybe even a love affair. America was the land of opportunity, sure. But it was also vastly different and eccentric (in a good way) from state to state. So when I came to the U.S. around seven years ago, I ...Shared by Aashay (35) ambuj (21) andreas (19) atul (498) BIGODE (98) Brett Stewart (18) Cassie Wallender (29) Charo (39) Chris (64) Corvida (334) Deege (19) Dereck (72) Devin Reams (25) Doug (111) Flint (28) Frawst (50) Gauravonomics (241) Glen (52) Hugh (11) J. Phil (155) Jisan A (41) krisnelson (9) Lara (118) Mike F (2033) Mitch Wagner (94) Mithrill (44) nbr (175) Peter Du (24) Richard (47) richhand (93) rmg7344 (65) Thomas Hochmann (21) Wyn Lim (24)
- Brett Stewart said: What is more American than nostalgia? America has changed, but that doesn’t automatically mean it is bad.America’s economy has evolved along with technology. Wishing for those happy times when most stores were Mom and Pop is also wishing for a time when most people could afford one car only, when long distance phone calls were a luxury, and when foreign grown foods, like pineapple, were almost unattainable. Technology has given us great gains in efficiency. Big chain stores allow traditionally poor people to have products that were impossible to afford in the Mom and Pop days. Take away the chain stores, and you take away some family’s means to buy furniture and supplies for their home. But maybe they would be better living on a farm, growing their own food (just don’t use pesticides!), and unable to afford those Mom and Pop hotels this post so desperately romanticizes.It amazes me to see how many people want those old days back, but don’t realize that the culture they want was only for a small middle class. Today, the middle class is huge, and for some reason it thinks it can have it both ways. A large middle class cannot support a Mom and Pop store economy, because Mom and Pop prices are too high. Take away chains and you take away the middle class that wouldn’t afford it.I think Mom and Pop stores are great, but only if they can make the extra money worth it. I’ll pay for personal service when I need it, but when I am buying a coke at the corner, do I really need to worry about whether or not it’s from a chain? I don’t think so.Think about this. Walmart is actually the biggest Mom and Pop store around. The Walton family still more or less runs the business, after it was started in a little town in Arkansas. If you want Mom and Pop, there is it.
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Startup Hacks: 5 Tips for Offshore Outsourcing (5)
on Mashable! (9842) permalinkThis is a guest post written by Michael Cerda. He blogs about startups, people and the variety hour at Cerdafied. Outsourcing product development (or parts of development) offshore sounds like a good idea at the time. After all, you can augment your dev group quickly and on the cheap. But it only seems to work under certain conditions; mileage does vary depending on the company. Longer-term enterprise development projects tend to be better suited for ...Contribute comment
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Email Innovations You Want in Your Inbox [Email Apps] (59)
on Lifehacker (29721) permalinkThe basics of how email works hasn't changed much since its invention, but even forty years later, there are still tiny features and enhancements that can make dealing with large volumes of email easier. Your email client already provides message attachments, filtering, HTML email, auto-fill contacts, spell-checking, folders or labels, keyboard shortcuts, search, and an advanced spam filter. What else do you need? Well, as people rely on email as a primary means of communication, ...Shared by Aashay (35) Adam (27) Alec Resnick (192) Amihai (165) Andy Li (17) b (8) baardoa (99) Ben (76) Bwana (231) C.K. (285) Cade (171) Cale (34) Charles (249) Chloe Fan (24) Compuwizard123 (203) Dennis Laumen (52) Erez (82) Goktug (62) Gordon (41) ja | castillo (36) Jaap Willem (51) JasonV (42) Jeremy P (58) Jonas (48) Josh (17) Julius (25) Krazy (413) lejoe (54) Leo (79) Leyla Bonilla (173) Linda (21) Michael (69) Mohammad Behdad (52) ndench (32) Nguyen Dinh Nguyen (31) Nick (40) oemebamo (37) Ozgur Alaz, Marketallica (136) Peter (21) Petre (28) Rahul Gaitonde (64) Randy (85) Rodrigo (34) roel (51) rpy (27) Ryan (119) Serena (21) Shanthi (25) Simone (57) Srinvard (263) Stewtopia (26) TiTi (393) tom (48) tOMPSON (40) Tony (118) trukshelly (24) Vandywolfer (16) zRyu (25) 攻疼新一 (1721)Explore read six notes
- Srinvard said: Some cool email addons that would be good for the future
- Stewtopia said: usage trends and language filtering both seem like great ideas to me.
- rpy said: I especially like the idea of 'attachment reminders', I've been caught by that and seen others caught out too. On a tangent, I made the change to Gmail for my personal mail a few weeks back and am really digging tagging instead of foldering. One-to-many much better characterises how I want to organise my email than the way Outlook/Apple Mail behave.
- Linda said: Man, I wish the first two weren't just concepts.
- tOMPSON said: I really would like some of these features
- Chloe Fan said: The "Usage Trending" section is worth checking out for those who email a lot.
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RBA (105)
on xkcd.com (5499) permalinkShared by !!blue (32) Aashay (35) Alex (419) amy (25) Aneel (147) angela (36) ani625 (338) Ben (19) Benjamin Golub (72) Bif (114) Bramha (70) Carolyn (14) cfohlin (21) Charles (249) Chris (24) Chris (64) Christian (62) Chung (325) Cindy Waters (31) Cocoy (211) Cort (24) Creeva (96) Dan (49) Dan (32) Daniel (25) David (23) Dennis Laumen (52) djspark (312) Drew Olanoff (534) Dustin DeKoekkoek (46) Eli (18) Eric Atkins (45) Fearghas (40) Gabe (25) Grant (16) Gregg (26) Houdoken (18) Jacob W (52) Jaffer (38) Jakob (133) James (20) James Andreasen (27) Jason (68) jason (29) JBu92 (344) Jeff (675) John (44) JohnTheJohnMan (28) Jon (78) Jon (31) Jonathan (78) Jordan (48) Jordan Bouvier (29) Jrod (119) Juan (26) Juan Diego (256) Justin Yost (237) Katie Fellows (154) kmohr25 (115) Lilian (24) maria (16) Mark (262) Martin Gordon (89) Matt Hall (44) Mattie (34) mernisse (20) Michael Neel (65) MidgetWombat (37) Mike (18) Mike (24) Mike F (2033) munir (25) Natalie (41) Nick (60) Nishant (23) Pellizzari (32) phillprice (59) Pit (26) Rachel L Fisher (11) Rantan (129) Reto (24) rheimbro (21) Rk (34) rOckY (692) rushabh doshi (18) Ryan (56) Scott (25) Sean T.-S. (28) shahryarrakeen (51) Sham (940) Sharath (55) Sheryl (26) Steven (3) Steven (623) terry (57) Toco (145) Ubqtous (82) vasta (35) vevck (38) vim (50) Wayne (218) Whitney (25) willygru (52) Zac (24) zizzy (53)Explore read seven notes
- rushabh doshi said: one of the best, so far..
- Mattie said: hahahahaa.
- Jacob W said: The internet, still funny after all these years.
- Juan said: ARG. I've had this song stuck in my head for weeks.
- Sharath said: just try imagining yourself in the guy's place
- mernisse said: I will have to try this.
- willygru said: The geek prince of Bel-Air
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Top 5 Reasons Business Execs Fail to Work Effectively with Product and Engineering Execs (30)
on GigaOM (2552) permalinkAll too often, technology companies fail to find the right balance within their business executives. When a business exec is too technical, she may not have the aggressiveness or “street smarts” to help a young company succeed. If a business exec isn’t technical enough, he might swim out of his depth and make wrong decisions about key technology or product hires. You may have heard it referred to (unkindly) as the Mechanic Dilemma: Business execs, ...Shared by Aashay (35) Andrew Ruess (402) Cade (171) Coop (67) Daniel Langendorf (112) David Daniels (26) Edin (52) Eunice (32) Hiten Shah (20) Jacob Palicki (3) Jauder (46) Jay (30) John (56) kalle (33) Kyle (34) Mahesh CR (10) Marie Casas (59) Mike (33) Nitin Badjatia (58) Nocky100 (50) pongle (19) Ranvir (18) Rick Turoczy (343) RMathew (47) ScottGutt (11) sczizzo (36) Shyam (34) Simon (40) spandana inspiration (3) Vinayak (25)Contribute comment
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An Article About Startups That Wasn't Written By A Pretentious Asshole (22)
on Ted Dziuba (162) permalinkTrue, people do think I am a bit of an asshole, but those are the types who take everything they read on the internet seriously.Anyway, you ever notice how when some dick writes about startups or entrepreneurship on his "Random Musings of an X Programmer" blog, he writes it with a holier-than-thou tone, implying that anybody who is not an entrepreneur is somehow either dumb or less of a man? You know, cocksteaks like Paul ...Shared by Aaron H. (58) Aashay (35) Adi (46) andy bons (20) angol (235) Chris Metcalf (36) CJ (286) cnu (19) Eric Carlson (31) Gordon (17) Harper (203) Hudson (8) Joshua (35) larry (36) Pickles (79) Roland Tanglao (282) Scott Moskowitz (4) Shawn Poulson (50) Siva (16) subbu (20) Terence Lo (31) zapnap (94)
- subbu said: via harper, this is effing awesome
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Voting Machines (392)
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