The Soul of Wit (6)
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According to a series of psychological studies discussed on Psychology Today, research participants are able to successfully communicate sarcasm and humor in a mere 56 percent of emailsand most of the senders had no idea their attemps were so ineffective. How do you avoid this? The article gives some tips: Read your emails aloud and listen for parts that could be confusing. For important emails, walk away from the computer and come back with a ...
Socialmedian Now More Twitter-esque With "Replize" (7)
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Today, socialmedian, the social news web site which we've described as a "less noisy FriendFeed" launched a new set of features called "Replize." Now socialmedian users can track conversations on the service, much in the same way that users can track responses to a question on Twitter, all it takes is the use of @username. Socialmedian has also announced Flickr integration which allows you to include your uploaded photos on Flickr in your news stream. ...
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giro said:
@username will be an standard?
How much extra for nice? (30)
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If I pay $1000 extra for a first-class seat, odds are the flight attendant will be nice to me. If I pay $2000 extra for the presidential suite at the hotel, odds are the front desk clerk will be nice to me. If I give the valet $50 to park my car, odds are he'll be nice to me as well. So, here's the question: if all I want, the only extra, is for someone ...
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Jason Shultz said:
How much would you pay to talk to a nice person as opposed to the standard front line overworked grunt?
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shivanand said:
Boy oh boy! Does this say something about us--human beings--as a species. Most of it rings true too!
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George Lane said:
I think the shiny headed man has a point here... ;-)
The Bailout (4)
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It's not related to the content of this site, but I am so damn mad about the financial bailout, mainly because the folks who profited the most from this mess are getting bailed out. So when I saw this post from Fred, summarizing Tom, I had to pass it along. I agree totally. Rule #1: Cut salaries now Part of the bailout bill ought to be that any organization which proffers securities for government purchase ...
Social Median Takes Guesswork Out of Online Mentions With Replize (3)
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As part of the Sunday panel at Blog World Expo, a key piece of the discussion was around whether it made sense to track down every conversation around your content, and whether you could rely on search tools within the major social aggregators to find when your content had been referenced, or if people were having conversations around your data. While the major content discovery sites have done a great job of enabling conversation, less ...
This Is Why iPhone Developers Put Up With All the, Well, How Shall We Say It?, Bullshit From Apple (16)
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Trism, the $5 gravity/tilt-assisted iPhone puzzle game by Steve Demeter, has made $250,000 since July 11. ★
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yolly said:
Compelling - where will Blackberry and Android play?
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Isaac said:
Well deserved. It's incredibly addictive!
New FriendFeed design launched... with an exciting new feature! (23)
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You might have noticed the new look for FriendFeed. We've been tinkering with a new design for a few weeks, and after spending some time in beta, it's finally ready for primetime. larger screenshot One of the things we'd heard most from users is that you wanted to have greater control over what you see in your feed—whether it's separating out your family members' updates from your coworkers' or making sure you don't miss entries ...
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Derek said:
ff just keeps getting better. i really like the feature that detects dups
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Josh said:
Even when you're not signed in it looks great.
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Min Liu said:
thank you for improving my life
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James F said:
The no-duplicates feature looks really nice. This produce is really coming along nicely.
Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme (12)
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Just three months ago, the WebKit team announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter. Today we’d like to announce the next generation of our JavaScript engine - SquirrelFish Extreme (or SFX for short). SquirrelFish Extreme uses more advanced techniques, including fast native code generation, to deliver even more JavaScript performance. For those of you who follow WebKit development and are interested in contributing, we’d like to report our ...
Zoho: The Little Engine That Could (Take on Both Microsoft and Google) (32)
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We all love the David and Goliath story. What about David vs two Goliaths? That is the improbable story of Zoho, the Web Office startup competing head on with both Microsoft and Google. On top of that, Zoho is from India and who ever heard of a product company from India? Indeed Zoho has only 10 people in America, yet it is winning really big enterprise accounts in head to head evaluations with both Goliaths. ...
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Chris Abraham said:
I also think Zoho is taking on Basecamp and Central Desktop as well.
Twitter website gets a facelift (3)
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Blessed microblogging service Twitter has launched a refresh of their website, offering cosmetic improvements and one new feature. The biggest change is the removal of tabs, a popular design decision today as FriendFeed has just done the same thing. Previous tab options, except archive (which has been dropped) can now be found in the right sidebar. The reason given suggests that the Twitter team may have more planned for the revenue poor service: We plan ...
After months in hibernation, Twitter redesign finally goes live (2)
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We first caught a glimpse of the Twitter redesign in mid-July, when apparently an overzealous employee of the micro-messaging service jumped the gun on the roll out. Seeing its shadow, the redesign went back into hibernation for another couple months. Now it’s ready, and looking good, but really not all that different. Instead, Twitter focused on subtle changes to the site we all know and love (are addicted to). Just as we saw in July, ...
The Inquisitr teams with Technorati Media for ad sales (3)
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I’m pleased to announced that The Inquisitr has signed an ad sales deal with Technorati Media, the advertising arm of long standing blog search engine Technorati. Under the deal, Technorati Media has exclusive rights over all our US inventory for the next 6 months. I’d been hearing good things about Technorati Media around the place, but after a strong recommendation from Steve Spalding at Gnomedex I contacted them and we went from there. Most of ...
An Obscure Google Product That Actually Turned Into Something Useful: GOOG-411 Makes Video Search Better (GOOG) (4)
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This week Google announced its audio index - a feature that will let users search videos based using speech recognition technology that identifies words in the video. It's yet another beta ("Labs") project. But if it moves forward, it will make Google's search a lot more useful, and make YouTube even more dominant. But what Google didn't mention in their official announcement is the technology that makes this all possible comes from a Google product ...
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Boris said:
this is really cool
FriendFeed Dials Down the Noise With Duplicate Detection (13)
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Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb shared by 8 people In its early days, FriendFeed was known for releasing new features on an almost daily basis. That breakneck speed has slowed now that the lifestreaming and aggregation service has come out of private beta, but sometimes FriendFeed still surprises us with new features and user interface changes. Just a few days ago, we wrote about FriendFeed's new design, which came out of beta today. More importantly, though, ...
Too-Powerful Google Thumbs Its Nose at Everyone–Good Luck With That, Eric! (3)
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It used to be, many years ago, that longtime Silicon Valley tech exec Eric Schmidt could work up a very significant head of steam when talking about the thuggish monopolistic practices of Microsoft and its negative impact on the tech industry. And, for the most part, Schmidt was dead right–Microsoft’s overwhelming power then had a malevolent impact, both directly and indirectly, on innovation and openness in the digital sector. Thus, BoomTown is both gobsmacked and ...
Yahoo testing new home page for faster access (1)
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Yahoo is testing new versions of its main page to a small group of users starting tomorrow, Kara Swisher reports on AllThingsD. The move is fraught with risks, as 82 million visitors hit the company’s main page every day. After its brand-bruising battle with Microsoft, the company has to get it right. The new page will let users access information and services more quickly so the design will consist of shorter and more accessible snippets. ...
Open Source Video Platform: Panda (6)
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Panda is an open source solution that handles uploading, encoding & streaming videos. All the process is completed via an elegant REST API. Panda is designed to run in the cloud using Amazon’s array of web services. The application runs on a customised EC2 instance with everything pre-installed, including FFmpeg and an plethora of codecs. SimpleDB is used to store all of data for video, encoding, accounts and encoding profiles. Uploaded and encoded video files ...
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(v) said:
клоны ЮТУБ - это же легко!
Seinfeld takes the European carry-all, Gates takes the man-fur as the two part ways? (1)
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No, seriously, what is the deal with those Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates Microsoft ads? In what I can only think is an attempt to upstage the lackluster finale of the show Seinfeld, the ads are apparently over, Valleywag reports. But why? Microsoft is saying that the move away from Seinfeld was always planned, as it moves into “phase two” of its $300 million marketing campaign. But Valleywag doesn’t seem so sure that the Microsoft statement isn’t ...
