The VP debate: Candidates, questions, and queries (35)
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If information is the currency of democracy, as Thomas Jefferson allegedly said, then during last Thursday's vice-presidential debate between Senator Biden and Governor Palin a lot of people used Google Search to get a bit wealthier, metaphorically speaking. Using Google Hot Trends, we can see some of the more interesting things that people were researching, and you can do the same to follow along yourself during tomorrow night's second presidential debate (9 PM ET). But ...
Fring brings VoIP to iPhone (47)
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Filed under: iPhone, App StoreWe have all been waiting on an iPhone VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) solution, since we heard that Apple would allow VoIP application access while connected to WiFi. Fring has finally made our dream a reality -- and it's a reality that's available today!Fring is a new, free iPhone application that integrates with Fring's network and allows access to the following IM/presence services: Fring Skype AIM Yahoo Twitter ICQ MSN In ...
slices of slife (1)
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Last week, I mentioned the Slife review I wrote for MacSparky. If you haven’t read that, I hope you will, because I want to talk a little bit more about how Slife has been helpful for me. The short version is this: “Slife is a free program that runs in the background and measures how you spend your time. After it has been running for a while, you can go back and evaluate what you’ve ...
Are you better off than you were eight years ago? (3)
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Marcy Wheeler breaks down the numbers: DOW January 19, 2001: 10,587.59 DOW September 29, 2008: 10,365.45 NASDAQ Jan 19, 2001 = 2770.38 NASDAQ September 29, 2008 = 1983.73 CPI, January 19, 2001: 175 CPI, September 29, 2008: 219 Dollar exchange with Euro, January 19, 2001: 1.068 Dollar exchange with Euro, September 29, 2008: .695
Nice timing: Microsoft discloses executives raises, bonuses (1)
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The big winner this year appears to be Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, who received the biggest bonus and salary award. But all the top executives at Microsoft received raises and higher bonuses in fiscal 2008 than in fiscal 2007. The pay is apparently weighted to favor earnings performance over stock price gains, since MSFT was a snooze over that period. Here's the pay chart, from a proxy filing:
Wal-Mart Gives Consumers Number 1 Reason Why DRM is Not the Answer (45)
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The music industry is struggling to gain a foot-hold in the battle with online piracy. The options available for music lovers to grow their music collection digitally is tremendous and free. So much so that music companies and publishers have struck up agreements with some of biggest names offering digital music: iTunes, Last.FM., Amazon, Myspace, and Wal-Mart. While the options are appreciated, a certain restriction that comes with the music files is not. To help ...
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df said:
Walmart is shutting down its music store servers, meaning all the copy-protected music will go dark unless the customers burn it to CDs.Are we slowly turning towards a DRM-free music market?
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Matt said:
"Customers of Wal-Mart's digital music service will be in for a big shock very soon, just as Yahoo Music customers were. Wal-Mart has announced that they will shut down their DRM servers on October 9th. What does this mean for Wal-Mart digital music buyers?"
Coming soon: Changes to the spreadsheets interface (10)
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Next week, we'll be introducing a new interface for our spreadsheet application, polishing up the navigation and making it look and feel like our word processing and presentation tools. At the top of the page, a new set of menus is the place to look for all of your favorite spreadsheet features. In the toolbar, we've concentrated the most commonly-used features as shortcuts to make formatting data easier and faster. And the Share menu (look ...
Muxtape Is Dead - Favtape Emerges as a Great Alternative (33)
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While Muxtape's Justin Ouellette just posted a dire story about the shutdown of the popular mixtape service and his dealings with the music industry, Favtape has updated its service dramatically. Muxtape will effectively remain closed for the general public and will only return as a music hosting service for bands. Favtape, on the other hand, now looks like Muxtape on steroids, with embeddable playlists, album art, integrated YouTube search, a shuffle mode, and the ability ...
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i'm all about favtape.
Bailout Deal Appears To Fall Apart After McCain And House GOP Push Surprise Alternate Proposal (2)
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Earlier today, Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress announced that they had reached a “fundamental agreement” on a government bailout of the nation’s financial system. But following a meeting at the White House this afternoon, which included Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL), there are “fears the Wall Street bailout deal is falling apart.” In an interview with CNN this evening, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) said the meeting became “contentious” ...
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paul said:
John McCain is a fucking asshole.That is all.
McCain and House Republicans Shred Bill “More Deregulation!” (1)
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Yeah, sure buddy Looks like McCain showed up to the President's "let's all agree on a bad bill" meeting and started talking about his own bill, with House Republicans. Apparently this bill involves more deregulation to fix the problem. (No, I'm not kidding. This is clearly some sort of pathology) So by the end of Bush's photo op, the bill was lying in pieces on the floor. I'm glad to see that John McCain's intervention ...
Is Google Spreading Itself Too Thin? (16)
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Google's search advertising is the best cash cow ever invented for the Internet. None of the well funded alternative search engine contenders are able to put a dent into that dominance. But all of Google's other experimentation, all that frenzied innovation from their assembled brains trust, seems to be hitting headwinds. A tiny Indian company called Zoho is giving them a run for their money in Web Office and the latest report indicates that Knol ...
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Pvw said:
Google is to watch and the only one Microsoft is cared about!
Jott's Move From Free to Premium - Bait and Switch or Good Business? (11)
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Many Web 2.0 companies have tried to make money by charging for their product, but it can be hard work - especially if the product started out as free. Jott, a voice to text transcription service, is an example of one that took the plunge and succeeded. Jott moved to a paid model following a successful free beta. I spoke with Jott CEO John Pollard to learn how they did it and how it is ...
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Erik C. Thauvin said:
I didn't sign-up.
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Marianne said:
Jott still has free service, but it's been put together such that if you are a frequent Jott user, you'll be very tempted to upgrade. The upgrade itself is less than $4 so I suspect many people will go for it. Jott has a variety of plans to choose from including free, basic, pro, pay-as-you-go, etc.
The Significance of Google Chrome (15)
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A few weeks ago Google released the beta of Google Chrome, a new Web browser based on WebKit. Since then there has been a lot of interesting hype and backlash against the hype about Chrome. Two great examples of the hype and the corresponding backlash are Mike Arrington's Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer and Ted Dziuba's article Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility in response. The best way to think about Google Chrome is to ...
Summer Pro Special (8)
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Flickr folks: Just wanted everyone to know we’re running a summer special on Pro membership. If you upgrade or renew before September 30th, you’ll get a gift code for 3 months free for yourself or a friend. Go to the Pro upgrade page for more information. You can check how many months of pro you have left in Your Account. If you’re thinking about going Pro, the FAQ has helpful information on what you get ...
Back to school with a bunch of new features (10)
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Fight on, Trojans! Yesterday, we spent the day at the University of Southern California, the first stop on the App to School bus tour of U.S. college campuses. We hung out with a lot of students (and some professors, too) who dropped by our demo stations, and showed them our favorite tips and tricks in Google Docs. Some of them also told us about how they used Docs in their classes, clubs, and even side ...
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Nik said:
Cool AND useful - new features in Google Docs.
AP plays along with McCain "lipstick" spin (1)
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The AP's Nedra Pickler credulously reports the McCain campaign's claims to be outraged that Barack Obama used the expression "lipstick on a pig": Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told an audience Tuesday that GOP presidential nominee John McCain says he'll change Washington, but he's just like President Bush. "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said to an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous applause from his audience, clearly drawing a connection to Palin's ...
Don't Wait Too Long to Become an Entrepreneur (7)
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Are you one of the many executives who'd love to leave the corporate battleship to skipper a speedy, nimble start-up? And are you using a variety of rationales for why it's not yet time to go? Reasons such as: I need to work on my résumé, acquire more credibility, learn to manage better, figure out how financing really works, maintain stability at home while my children are young? Those are legit reasons, of course, but ...
The official update feed from the Google Apps team (41) permalink
Google Calendar users in the US can now add new events, invite attendees, and see daily and monthly views of their agendas from the iPhone. This release also includes speed improvements for the iPhone interface.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted:US EnglishHow to access what's new:Visit http://www.google... from your iPhone's browser, but remember to replace 'example.com' with your actual domain name. Then switch to the 'Calendar' tab.For more information:http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/mobile.html#iphoneShared by billrod (30) Emil (22) Greg (28) Jeff (16) Jimmy (38) Laurent (31) Mike Reynolds (82) Muzo (39) paul (18) Paul Helmick (37) Peter (22)Explore read four notesContribute commentGoogle Mac Blog (70) permalink
By Jeremy Moskovich and Matt Perry, Gears EngineersWe're really excited to announce the official release of Gears for Safari on OS X (minimum requirements are Leopard 10.5.3 or Tiger 10.4.11).You can download it today from http://gears.goog... means that you can now access all the Gears-enabled sites (such as Zoho office, WordPress, the new YouTube uploader and Google Docs offline) in Safari.Since launch, we've increased the number of APIs available in Gears. The 0.3 release added ...Shared by !&# (103) 8dee (114) AJ (299) Aleksander (5) Andrew Ruess (162) Andrew Schott (71) Angus (32) aNTwNHs (82) Auggie (21) Baturalp Torun (4) Bob (24) Brad Davis Seal (34) Bryan (3) Chet Nichols III (2) Chris Olson (9) Corey Hammond (24) Creeva (88) David (2) Edward Platero (5) Franca Richard (22) Fredrik H (20) Gine (12) Guillermo Esteves (46) guy (502) Guy (193) Håkan (52) iAlja (72) Istvan Hoka (2) jackysee (13) Joe (142) Julien Menichini (1) Kari (15) louisgray (230) Macsky.X (0) Madhav Tripathi (1) MeghnaK (918) Mich D (297) Mike (43) Muhammad Saleem (292) najee (290) nathos (19) neal (419) Pål Degerstrøm (34) paul (18) pericles (726) Philip Campbell (146) Piku (15) Rich (48) rich phelps (4) Rodrigo SEPULVEDA (3) Sam Law (51) ShuTian (93) Simon Wren (23) Stacy (68) Stephen (24) Tal Siach (577) thecolor (36) Thomas Raia (5) Todd Mundt (42) tom (12) Tom Morris (12) tornsuits (4) vevck (17) vicarum (35) vrypan (51) Wolf (35) Zak M. (824)Contribute comment
