Internet Explorer 8 To Feature 'Porn Mode' (2)
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (now out for beta testing) will feature a 'porn mode', aka InPrivate, similar to Safari's 'Private Browsing' feature. The new InPrivate feature on Internet Explorer 8 -- now in Beta release, and dubbed by many in the Web development community as "porn mode," a nod to its most obvious use -- when enabled automatically conceals sites visited by wiping clean browsing and search history, cookies, form data and passwords. It also ...
Zero Carbon Footprint: The Solar Ice Maker (11)
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It may look like a funhouse mirror and potato gun, but this sucker is actually a solar powered ice maker that requires no electricity, and can produce 14 lbs of ice per day. It works like this: the solar icemaker uses a refrigerant liquid that evaporates when exposed to the sun. The vapor travels through pipes that come into contact an absorbent material, which cools when the sun goes down. Once the slow-cooling absorbent hits ...
JamLegend Takes On Guitar Hero On The Web (1,000 Invites) (46)
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One of the most promising startups to come out of the LaunchBox incubator is JamLegend, a music site with mass appeal. JamLegend takes the familiar anyone-can-be-a-rockstar model made popular by videogames like Guitar Hero and Rock Band and puts it on the Web. The site is in private beta, but we have 1,000 invites for the first people to sign up at the site with the invite code “TechCrunch.” Once you sign up, you pick ...
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ekaye said:
Damn...missed the invite...
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Brendan said:
It's a keytar! Or... a guitboard.
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Dominik said:
Oh Mann.
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Alex said:
Well now the site is dead.
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Joel said:
I think this is a brilliant idea.
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jonezy said:
hmmmm should maybe keep an eye on this?
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Daniel Pritchett said:
The graphic of the guy wielding a keyboard like a guitar is worth the look if nothing else.
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Martin Dahl Pedersen said:
Guitar Hero 2.0
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Cerpin Taxt said:
zakon! guitar hero na compu na netu! :P
FriendFeed Releases New Set Of Customizable Widgets (31)
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FriendFeed, the social activity aggregator, has released a set of customizable widgets that will allow bloggers to make sure their readers can follow all of their activities across the web. While the site has provided some widgets in the past, this set includes some new widgets to facilitate story sharing and allows for more tweaking than was offered before. Among the widgets offered are a new profile badge, a list of the most recent items ...
Hacked! USB Cable Will Befuddle Onlookers! (7)
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The Hacked! USB Drive is actually a 2GB flash drive that just looks like a frayed USB cable. ZOMG, people will look at that and be so confused! The only thing that could make it better is if, instead of a frayed USB cable, it was a real severed arm complete with tattoos and 4GB of storage. Imagine the looks you'd get with that hanging out the side of your laptop! Looks like "OMG, I'm ...
Mozilla gives the passionates one with Ubiquity (57)
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Mozilla just ensured I won’t use IE8 because it released Ubiquity. What is it? It’s a box that lets you ask different questions and get answers. It’s sort of like search. But far more powerful. It’s not for non-passionate Internet users. They won’t get it. It takes some time to learn how to use this feature. (To get what I’m talking about when I use the term “passionate” you should see my previous rant about ...
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Peter said:
Watch the Vimeo video. Interesting.
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Jean-Baptiste said:
Checkez la video dont il parle
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Matt said:
Already been using this. Already think it's useful, and it will become more so as the community grows and new search operators are developed. I guess I'm "passionate".
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erbianchi said:
Beuhhh... je crois que je vais abandonner Safari
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Ricky said:
Whoa. That looks sweet.
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Jefferson Kim said:
Awesome.
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justin said:
ubiquity is going to change the world. and by "the" i mean "my". and by "is going to" i mean "has already started to". this is hot.
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Luís said:
Brutal... Aconselho o vídeo!
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blogan said:
I installed Ubiquity. Looks cool. Now I just need to figure out how to use it. :-)
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Jason Nielubowicz said:
If you use Firefox, and you should, you must try out Ubiquity!
If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity. (106)
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Aza 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 ...
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Flyhorse said:
This is awesome!
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Devlin D said:
I am loving the work that Aza is doing! He is a user experience GENIUS!!!
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Derick Valadao said:
Holy smokes. That looks really really cool.
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Noah J said:
One to watch.
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Klemo said:
Aza Raskin at Mozilla Labs thinks there’s got to be an easier way to create Web mashups.
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Daniel said:
Now this is awesome!
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Praneet said:
Installed it today.. cool thing.
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Dominic Hopton said:
The new hotness, IMHO
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Luke G said:
Huge.
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ModernBizzle said:
Cool name, logo, and idea!
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Mickey said:
ovo samo sto je stiglo na moj RSS reader, Mozilla novi projekat, izgleda ludo (vidi video. alpha 0.1
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chrisbrogan.com said:
Can we stop always using maps to describe mashups? Is it just me?
Forrester: Apple nearly quadruples enterprise share (5)
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Filed under: Apple Corporate, EnterpriseBen Gray, analyst at Forrester Research, says that Mac OS X accounts for 4.5 percent of the business operating system market, 3¾ times their share in January 2007. Computerworld notes that all this has happened with one thing notably absent: an enterprise strategy. "I haven't seen anything from Apple that seems to show it's attack[ing] the enterprise market," Gray said. He says the gains in market share are due to two ...
Study: Blogs Love Obama, News Sites Love McCain. But McCain Is Catching Up (30)
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Who is doing a better job of getting his message across on the Web: John McCain or Barack Obama? Conventional wisdom says that it is Obama, whose performance on the Web has been strong since the beginning. And conventional wisdom is still correct when it comes to blogs and social networks. But a new study by Attributor that is being released today shows that McCain is actually leading on mainstream news sites and catching up ...
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Jan said:
Really interesting analysis
Search experiments, large and small (47)
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In my previous post, I described the components of your web search experience and the principles behind creating a great search experience. There are complex algorithms underlying simple features such as spelling correction and the two line snippets that describe each search result. We figure out what works by running experiments - tiny tests for a small number of users which help us determine whether that feature helps or hurts. Experimentation is a very powerful ...
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Jorge said:
It's rather interesting to see that changing minute details on a page can yield measurably different results.
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Chris McQueen said:
It's all in the details.
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francks said:
Hard to be more anal than that...
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Damon said:
For those that think UI design is for the birds...
WorkLight: Bringing Enterprise 2.0 to a Widget Near You (13)
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It’s no longer an issue of whether enterprise services should be 2.0′d via widgets, RSS, and the like. CIOs & CSOs grasp the undeniability of this paradigm. But there is still a gap between the desire and reality of getting these enterprise services out the door. It’s one thing to design a Facebook application, it’s another getting it to interact with the backend systems commonly deployed in enterprise IT setups. Enter WorkLight, an Israeli startup ...
iPhone 3Gs Now Outnumber First Generation iPhones (35)
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Despite a weak battery and questions about how fast it connects to 3G networks, some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people’s hands around the world. What that means is that the second generation device has outsold the original iPhone just seven weeks after going on sale. They actually may already have done so. It took Apple nearly a year to sell 6 million first generation iPhones. ...
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Nate said:
Yes, I add to the statistic.
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adam said:
wow. two months.
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maccman said:
When am I going to get mine :(
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Chris said:
I'm gonna have to upgrade soon. But, really, other than Edge sucking and 3G would be nice, I love my first-gen.
FriendFeed's New Design (4)
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I just got a quick note from FriendFeed’s Bret Taylor letting me know that the FriendFeed Beta that MG Siegler spotted the other day is officially out and ready for public consumption. The new look sports a number of new features, all of which will end up getting integrated into the default design once feedback is garnered from the userbase. There are a lot of interesting aspects to the new layout, most of which have ...
Dexter Ad Rips Off Wired (21)
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Is there an overlap between readers of Wired and viewers of Dexter, the Showtime series about a serial killer? An upcoming ad campaign for the show will feature Dexter (aka actor Michael C. Hall of Six Feet Under fame) gracing the cover of a magazine that looks exactly like Wired, which is owned by Conde Nast. I guess Dexter is a hacker. I’m not sure. I’ve never seen the show, only the ads on the ...
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Peppermint said:
I LOVE Dexter! He's lovely, isn't him???
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Pierre said:
Märklig annons.
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Chris said:
An instance of the whole being greatly less than the sum of its parts.
