The Lego Minifig Turns 30 | Geekdad from Wired.com (16)
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On August 25, 1978, the Lego minifigure was born. This was a hugely important transition for Lego. For many years they sold sets allowing builders to create cars or buildings, but something was missing -- a human element. The minifig gave them that humanity, and very quickly it became an iconic symbol of the company second only to the brick itself. The first minifigs had yellow skin and fixed, pleasant expressions. It was not until ...
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Flickr Releases Handy Embeddable Slide Show - ReadWriteWeb (27)
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Yahoo's photosharing service Flickr is one of the more wonderful things on the web and today the company made a small release that a lot of people should ...
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Wendy said:
Hooray!!! Crush on Flickr still in full effect.
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Pankaj said:
Finally Flickr with Slideshows that are embeddable.
Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider 'Fair Use' - PC Magazine (1)
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Ars TechnicaJudge: Copyright Owners Must Consider 'Fair Use'PC Magazine - 41 minutes agoby Chloe Albanesius A case involving the YouTube "dancing baby" video will continue after a California judge ruled that content owners must consider 'fair use' before sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices.Fair Use Must Be Considered In DMCA Notices SlashdotFair use gets a fair shake: YouTube tot to get day in court Ars TechnicaUnited Press International - Hard OCP - NewTeeVee ...
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Yahoo's photosharing service Flickr is one of the more wonderful things on the web and today the company made a small release that a lot of people should enjoy quite a bit. There's never been a really easy way to embed a nice slide show of your photos off site, until now. The new Flickr slide show (example below) is available for the photos on any page you're looking at, meaning you should be able ...
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Wendy said:
Hooray!!! Crush on Flickr still in full effect.
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Pankaj said:
Finally Flickr with Slideshows that are embeddable.
Mygazines Offers Full Magazine Scans Online [Free] (72)
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Browse any of a number of popular magazines for free—from Macworld and PC World to Cosmopolitan and Men's Health—at web site Mygazines. The site contains user-uploaded scans of these magazines, and flipping through magazines displayed in Mygazine's Flash interface is nearly as simple as browsing an actual magazine. It's sort of like the previously mentioned Zinio on iPhone hack except you don't need to pretend your browser is an iPhone to use it. You may ...
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Daniel said:
Legal?...somehow I'm suspicious
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trukshelly said:
This is how I roll. It's my way of going green!
map a list Puts Spreadsheet Addresses on Google Maps [Google Maps] (51)
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Free mashup service map a list grabs addresses directly from a Google Spreadsheet in your account and plots them out over a customized Google Map. While it certainly isn't the only web-based data-mapping tool, the combination of its easy grabbing from GDocs and its step-by-step creation wizard make plotting out the best pizza joints in town, the wedding party members who haven't RSVP'd, or any other data seriously simple. Your maps update automatically with the ...
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Meredith said:
Nifty. Find credit goes to Sermed.
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Derek said:
this would be great for shopping for a place to live
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Chris said:
Holy shit! This is EXACTLY what you needed before for plotting the CEDAM points.
“Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer” (1)
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The new book, "Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer," is hot off the press. Written by Bryan Eisenberg and John Quarto-vonTivadar, with contribution from Lisa T. Davis, the book will help you understand how to set up website optimization tests and improve your conversion rates. And, if you are going to SES San Jose next week, head over to the "Pay Per Conversation" session on Monday, Aug. 18 at 11:15 a.m. ...
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The new book, "Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer," is hot off the press. Written by Bryan Eisenberg and John Quarto-vonTivadar, with contribution from Lisa T. Davis, the book will help you understand how to set up website optimization tests and improve your conversion rates. And, if you are going to SES San Jose next week, head over to the "Pay Per Conversation" session on Monday, Aug. 18 at 11:15 a.m. ...
An SEO`s Experience: 21 Rules for Performing SEO (1)
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Every so often an experienced SEO in our SEO Chat forums makes a post with the goal of answering most of the concerns of those who are new to search engine optimization. Since newbies often ask the same kinds of questions this gives them one thread to turn to and saves time and space. Here s the lowdown from the most recent version of this thread.... Professional Robotic Design Robust Robotic Engineering Design.
Split Test Your Emails: A or B? (2)
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At eduWeb I chimed in about A/B testing on emails during the Q&A Session of Kyle James’ presentation (that’s me around 27:40). I just wanted to share an example of a recent test that I did. The email was to announce that our online app was available. I knew from last year’s send that the subject line was fairly effective (”Butler’s Online App Now Available!”), so I wanted to take a look at the content ...
Estonia, Google Help 'Cyber-Locked' Georgia (13)
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Civil.ge, the Georgian news site, is "under permanent [cyber] attack." So they've switched their operations to one of Google's Blogspot domains, to keep the information flowing about what's going on in their country. The attacks against Civil.ge are part of a larger set of online assaults, originating in Russia, against Georgian websites."In a sense," notes Jim Stogdill, "they must be saying 'we can't keep our sites up, but we don't think [Russian hackers] can take ...
Is JamLegend's Guitar Hero-Style Game the Next Scrabulous? (2)
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Is JamLegend's Guitar Hero-Style Game the Next Scrabulous? JamLegend plans to take on the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises with an online guitar-playing game that will let people compete against each other for free through a social network.
Some Mashups Harnessing The Power Of Yahoo’s BOSS (10)
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Yahoo’s Search Blog has posted a list of some of the most promising new web apps being built using its BOSS search platform. BOSS is a radically open API that launched last month that allows developers to utilize much of Yahoo’s core search data without the restrictions seen on most other search APIs. 4HourSearch - A week ago Yahoo VP of Platforms Sam Pullara released Yuil, a search engine that looked nearly exactly like recently ...
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Yahoo’s Search Blog has posted a list of some of the most promising new web apps being built using its BOSS search platform. BOSS is a radically open API that launched last month that allows developers to utilize much of Yahoo’s core search data without the restrictions seen on most other search APIs. 4HourSearch - A week ago Yahoo VP of Platforms Sam Pullara released Yuil, a search engine that looked nearly exactly like recently ...
Garfield Minus Garfield: From Web Sensation To Book In Less Than A Year (52)
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If you have not yet checked out the online sensation Garfield Minus Garfield, you have been missing out. Launched in February of 2008, this comic is a unique version of Jim Davis' "Garfield" which provides an entirely different vantage point on Jon Arbuckle's life simply by removing the lasagna-loving cat from all the frames. Without Garfield, the comic is no longer a silly strip for children but instead reveals "the existential angst..of Mr. Jon Arbuckle...as ...
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G-minus-G is laugh out loud funny. Amazing how taking something away can create a twisted side almost more compelling than the original.
SlingPlayer 2.0 beta in action - CNET News (1)
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CNET NewsSlingPlayer 2.0 beta in actionCNET News - 16 hours agoThe beta version of the SlingPlayer 2.0 software is now available for Windows users as a free download from Sling Media's Web site.SlingPlayer 2.0 public beta goes live Product Reviews(enter product name PC MagazineSling Community - mobility Today - Zatz Not Funny - Gizmodo.comall 17 news articles
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snocrossgjd writes "In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers — they're students in a computer-security class at Sonoma State University. Their ...
Is JamLegend's Guitar Hero-Style Game the Next Scrabulous? (1)
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