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This Winter's Smartphone Wars Are Set: Who's Going To Win? (AAPL, RIMM) (6)
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Now that Nokia's taken the lid off its touchscreen "5800 XpressMusic" smartphone, the rosters are pretty much set for this Christmas shopping season's smartphone wars. Who's going to come out on top? Unlike last year, when Apple's iPhone caught the mobile industry with their pants down, pretty much every major gadget maker has a touchscreen smartphone to sell this year. But Apple didn't spend the year standing still: Its phone now costs half what it ...Contribute comment -
Flash Games (220)
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Shared by | Balu | (28) ab_aditya (31) Abe (19) Adnan (42) Alegrya (11) Alex Scoble (79) Alexandre (18) amy (20) Andrew (15) Andrew (32) Andy Yates (17) Aneel (32) Annarella (20) Anoop (37) aran (44) Army of Gnomes (78) Arne Hassel (94) Arvin (33) Ashe (22) Babychen Mathew (353) Ben (20) Bill (12) Bill (19) blntechie (18) bnoise (33) Brandon Bloom (20) Brian (23) Carlo (19) Chadwick (5) Charles A. Tatossian (21) chexov (24) chills (8) chimeric (22) Chloe Fan (15) Chris (28) Chris (20) Christian (65) chusemann (23) Clay (36) Csaba (21) D. Hayes (12) D4rKr0W (35) Daemith (23) Daidaros (19) Daniel (20) Daniele (20) Darren (14) Dave (21) David (12) David (21) David (17) David Arcos (38) Davina (20) Dedalus (28) dekrazee1 (2) Del (22) Dennis Laumen (23) denver_14 (20) djworth (12) Domino (21) Doug Stewart (62) Dustin (23) dwfrank (20) Eduard (9) Ellie (19) erikeric (33) focoma (22) Frank (13) fyc (92) gabopagan (30) Garrett (23) Gedoehns (15) georgexsh (18) Gina 'foosel' Häußge (7) giobi (19) Glutnix (17) Gonzalo Larralde (18) Graham (20) GraveHeart (21) gRegor (41) Guillermo Esteves (45) Gutshot (20) hadrien (28) harith (25) Henry (54) Icefreez (19) Imran (21) Ionut (20) j_aroche (13) James (23) James (20) James Andreasen (20) Jase (20) Jason L (17) JBu92 (50) Jennygo (14) JesusDQ (22) jhimmelman (16) Joao Azevedo (21) Joe Smith (18) John (21) John (11) JohnTheJohnMan (22) Jon (32) Jon (28) Jonjon (21) Jonnie (23) julie (19) Kajivar (54) Kendra (15) Kluzter (14) knv (3) Kris (42) kristin buxton (19) kumarhk (20) kunkaweb (32) Lauro (25) Lilian (20) mac (24) Marc (11) Mariaserena Piccioni (33) Martijn Reintjes (1) Martin Gordon (27) Matt (31) Matt (25) Matthew (94) Maxim (16) meatwaddancin (5) Michael (12) Michael Jensen (7) Michael Jensen (4) Mike (22) Mike F (671) Mikey (68) minmax (16) Mitchell Stewart (8) Mladen (63) Moishe (19) mrgorefest (8) Nathan Chase (17) Neko (26) Nelson (22) Ng Swee Meng (8) nickc321 (14) Nihar (23) nikewong (13) Nikki (45) Noelle (20) noii (7) nparker13 (149) odwl (20) Offline (7) Pablo (17) Page (23) Parker (20) Phani Raj (12) Pickles (16) Pittaya (18) Podcast Mike (21) Pozsi (31) Pramod (98) prattmic (14) PsychoPenguin (6) raddevon (28) Raphael Lullis (23) Razzu (36) Richard Sheehy (24) Rob (49) Rodrigo Amaya (16) Roshni (21) Ryan (18) Sandra B (35) sasb (11) Shane (10) shayanlinux (46) SiliconViper (38) Smal (10) smirk (19) sol (52) spiller (33) spiri (32) Squirrel Girl (28) Stephanie (19) Steve (17) Steve M. (47) Stu Andrews (26) sugree (46) Swapnil (17) tarmo888 (8) Terrence (20) terry (23) Tim (22) Timothy (13) Todd (27) Tom (42) Tony (24) Travis Swicegood (42) tuli0 (14) twoluvcats (19) vanlandw (33) Varun Nair (13) Veetrag (3) Ville Kokkonen (2) voidfiles (53) Voyagerfan5761 (43) vrillusions (18) Wick (20) Wilka (20) William Becher (20) Wojciech Beling (19) X-Phuture (24) XuRxO (21) Yann (29) Yerameyahu (94) Zach (55) Zach (25) Zhasper (63) ziizii (2) Zim (12) Zoram (32)Explore read 29 notes- Daidaros said: Sabio.
- tuli0 said: jajajajaja demasiado cierto
- spiller said: that is sooooooooo true!
- James said: DAMN YOU KONGREGATE.COM!
- Todd said: truth.
- Brandon Bloom said: Mmmmm XNA to the rescue!
- Pittaya said: this is so true (especially in Thailand)
- Ellie said: I stand by my Atari :-D
- Dave said: too many nights lost trying to beat the boss...
- Clay said: You know.. ..this is so true. It has to be tough to spend millions of dollars on gamedev and someone comes along and writes an extremely addictive, low-resource game that takes all of fifteen minutes and 100's of thousands of people are playing it.
- Marc said: Two words - "Fantastic", "Contraption".
- Ashe said: BLOCKLES!!!1!!!
- Jason L said: Peggle FTW
- vanlandw said: xkcd is amazing. casual gaming is just taking over the world
- Dedalus said: Some dust and spiderwebs missing in the Gamestation. Maybe the cleaning lady was there in the morning.
- Daniel said: It's all about Tetris
- Abe said: Ya se que pedirle a Santa Claus, que Linux ejecute Flash sin problemas.
- Wojciech Beling said: Zgadzam się całkowicie :P
- Noelle said: I concur! I love little simple brain-teaser type games.
- Kluzter said: having time on the bench at your office? then you get this joke easierlysily
- Alexandre said: Nem dos joguinhos de MSX (ai ai... saudades)
- Daniele said: ha ragione!!! viva i flash games! abbasso le console!
- Stu Andrews said: Ha ha. This makes me laugh AND want to make games.
- Chloe Fan said: Heck yes, Flash is where the party's at :D
- Parker said: see: kongregate.com
- Swapnil said: absolutely triuueee. Browser games are great, fun, addictive. They dont let you get away since it always takes two minutes to play a new game and obviously you have got 2 every time you lose.Remember monkey kick off?
- chills said: It's find of sad how true this can be sometimes...
- julie said: true!
- j_aroche said: Remembres me iminlikewithyou.com games :P
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Local Based Networking (17)
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See TechCrunch about location based social networking on the iPhone. Download localnetwork.comicdocShared by .mau. (27) Cass (22) Clayton B (24) Dustin DeKoekkoek (26) Gedoehns (15) haris (22) Jaemi kehoe (31) Jorge (19) Kris Haamer (17) Mariaserena Piccioni (33) Paul O'Flaherty (22) Pete (41) phil (19) Pramod (98) Sai Gudigundla (20) Sam (50) Umesh (20)- Jaemi kehoe said: OMG that's hilarious!
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Rethinking the Office - Dutch Design (Plus: Pics of My Home Office) (36)
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Interpolis - unconventional but damn effective. (photo: jsigharas) Through simple redesign of workspaces, Interpolis of Holland increased productivity 20%, and sick leave has dropped from 9% to 2.5%. Last but not least, their new design also brings in 90,000 visitors a year. How was it done? How do you create a Results-Only-Work-Environment (ROWE) for yourself or a company — and increase profits — by tweaking your surroundings? The following is an exclusive excerpt from the ...Shared by Aaron Trubic (18) Akshay Kapur (6) Alex (19) Alex@SmallBizPod (17) Alexandru Savu (39) Bif (11) C.M (21) Chris (23) Christopher Bennage (14) colladude (10) Daniel McClure (16) Fish (8) Fred Schechter (33) Gedoehns (15) GreenRoom (7) Jason (9) Jbud1 (19) John (1) John (10) Jonathan (5) Josh (6) Josiah Mackenzie (3) Justin Ribeiro (21) Lance (181) lezer (20) Michael Netsch (23) Mike (26) Nathan (17) Philip (14) Radek Pilich (50) rene (22) Robin Bal (66) Ryan (10) Sean O (9) Xdroot (88) xero (51)- Akshay Kapur said: Love the simplicity of Ferriss concepts. He has a knack for enabling people to do. Just do. Getting someone out of their chair to work, play, or really do anything from a few words on paper or online is just fantastic.
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GooseGrade promotes YOU to copy editor (1)
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Since most of our editors aren’t native English speakers, we’ve been obsessed with spelling and grammar. Every time we hit the publish button, we secretly hope no errors have slipped in. Next to being really careful, this fear also translated in some posts about 2.0 spelling tools. Like Spellr.us, an Australia-based service that remotely monitors your blog or website and send you updates when it finds errors and typos. They launched at TechCrunch 50. Last ...Shared by Gedoehns (15)Contribute comment -
How to Install iPhone 2.1 Firmware on Hacked T-Mobile iPhone (3)
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NOTE: This is an update to our previous article covering how to install the iPhone 2.0 Firmware on your T-Mobile-enabled iPhone. Now that 2.1.0 is out, the process is even easier and we cover it here for anyone interested on keeping their non-AT&T iPhone up to date with the latest release. First off I want to thank Chris Hunkele for sending along a link to the iClarified iPhone 2.1 tutorial that got us started down ...Contribute comment -
How to land a 747 (12)
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A checklist for landing a 747, presumably in a emergency. 1. Get on the radio, and tell whoever's listening that you are landing a 747. (link)Shared by Andrew Ferguson (21) Ara (20) Eli (78) Gedoehns (15) Ian (20) lakshmi (13) mac (24) nathos (19) pedstrom (18) Richard (8) Ryan (7) Scott Dier (12)- Andrew Ferguson said: I'm going to start carrying of copy of this with me...although I wonder what the TSA would think?
- Ian said: Cool, I'll print this out and take it along next time. Just in case, geez.
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Blogging Dream Team Joins Forces to Challenge Engadget, TreeHugger and More (28)
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A team of leading bloggers from the early days of AOL-acquired Weblogs Inc. has come back together again to build their ideal blogging software and raise a new network of blogs to challenge top sites in personal electronics, eco-awareness and other niches yet to be announced. Calling themselves Crowd Fusion, the company is lead by Weblogs Inc. co-founder Brian Alvey and has raised $3 million in venture capital from investors like Netscape and Ning co-founder ...Shared by abhi (22) Bob Caswell (45) Brian (25) Corvida (15) danblank (16) Dave (21) Esther Schindler (41) Garnett (12) Gedoehns (15) greenergrad (19) Jackyshadow (19) Julio (2) Krazy (469) Marshall Kirkpatrick (30) Mike (22) Nitin Badjatia (28) Pål Degerstrøm (32) Richard (17) Ritu (651) Rob (158) Seth (7) Shane Coffey (267) shreya (75) Simon Wren (23) Sue (36) Tad Chef (218) ultraviolet (34) whatevernevermind (26)- ultraviolet said: TreeHugger って挑戦されるような対象だったのか
- Brian said: Go Alvey! The platform looks rock solid and combines together so many tools (wiki, blog, cms, commenting, etc) into a powerful publisher tool. Cool stuff...
- greenergrad said: looks like an interesting platform.
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Find Out Where a Username is Already Registered [Identity] (83)
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When you think up that perfect new handle for storming social networks and other registration-only sites across the web, run it through UserNameCheck.com first. This webapp's purpose is simple: to tell you whether or not that name is already in use at a pretty impressive list of sites, from Delicious and Digg to eBay and Xbox Live. The developer explains: This site is a quick and dirty solution to a question that I often lay ...Shared by !!blue (28) admin (26) Annie (12) Backhandzeus (24) Bhavesh (14) Billy (20) Brett (18) Burcu Sarar (12) bziuum (10) Carey (14) Carsten (19) cat_aidg (21) chrissr (7) Christian Santos (98) Danny (2) David Cooke (2) Db0 (21) dKing (14) docbob (16) Doug (11) druqbar (9) DWM (18) elias (20) ema (20) EricTheDJ (19) fabiano (30) fundament (46) Ganesh (15) Garrett (26) Gedoehns (15) Gienah Ghurab (21) Graeme (197) Grapeshine (12) happy_harry (22) HejGustav (24) heringermr (22) Humberto Gonzalez (49) Ionut (20) Jacob Burke (18) Jake (17) Jaron (15) Jason (21) Joewxboy (21) John Ager (13) Jorge (20) Joshua Sadler (10) Kelly (20) kevin (23) Kevin (21) kidmarmite (31) Lindsay (19) marcusmeisel (24) Mark (25) Matt (20) MDWeezer (13) Mike (25) Mike (11) Mook® (19) Murz (19) Muzo (27) NanoTech (12) Nathan (18) OnyxRaven (19) Philippe (18) Qazwix (21) Ramkumar R. Aiyengar (25) rexy (27) Robert Scoble (112) rorowe (28) Sai Gudigundla (20) Shankar Ganesh (77) Steven Correy (71) Sweevo (20) Terrence (20) Tim (52) tomek (22) Tony (24) Travis Tubbs (27) venkks (13) Walter (8) WickeD (15) zsafwan (96) 攻疼新一 (403)Explore read nine notes- rorowe said: Someone stealin' ur identy? ^.^
- dKing said: useful stuff if you are looking to reuse your username! :)
- Billy said: This sounds most useful for finding out what you've signed up for.
- Carey said: Awesome! I've been wanting something like this for a long time.
- Mook® said: yea.. this is handy.. and i just found out that my normal username (escribitionist) has been used by someone else on ebay..
- Philippe said: I can think of a couple different ways to use this ....
- Muzo said: this one is for subsky ;)
- Murz said: I've got a lot of signup-and-forget's, especially shiny new Beta sites. So this might come in handy.
- Walter said: Oooh . . . this is a great tool for those who care about on-line personal branding.
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post-ONA conference (1)
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A few weekends ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the 2008 Online News Association conference in Washington DC. Laura Cochran of the Washington Post invited me to join a panel on mapping crime, along with USAToday datacruncher Paul Overberg and LA Times power couple Sean Connelly and Katy Newton. The conference got off to an inauspicious start when Tina Brown capped off a terrible keynote Q&A by called a journalism student an "easy ...Shared by Gedoehns (15)Contribute comment -
Digging Deeper::NYU Professor Stifles Blogging, Twittering by Journalism Student (11)
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After New York University journalism student Alana Taylor wrote her first embed report for MediaShift on September 5, it didn’t take long for her scathing criticism of NYU to spread around the web and stir conversations. Taylor thought that her professor, Mary Quigley, was not up to speed on social media and podcasting — even though the class she was teaching was called “Reporting Gen Y.” And Taylor felt that NYU was not offering her ...Shared by Alana (11) Ari Herzog (31) Carsten (19) Gedoehns (15) Jared Silfies (25) Jim (15) Marilyn (9) Mike (19) Nigel Robertson (11) Patrick Thornton (19) Rob (158)Contribute comment -
The Workplace's Newest Weight Loss Trick: The Moving Office (1)
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The wellness police have some new surpises for us. Coming soon to an office near you: treadmills that double as workstations. Walking meetings. Conference rooms outfitted with exercise bikes instead of oval tables and chairs. Office game rooms pimped out with Wii Fits. This is not the stuff of the future. All of this and more was rolled out recently at Minneapolis employment staffing firm Salo. The company partnered with Mayo Clinic endocrinologist James Levine, ...Shared by Gedoehns (15)Contribute comment -
On Prioritizing Feature Development (2)
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Gathering a list of features to implement in your software is pretty easy. Sources of inspiration usually come from all different directions. Users will request features, your team will suggest features, your competition will taunt you with their features and then, of course, there’s always what necessity dictates. The problem is once you’ve amassed this collective list of wishes, hopes and desires, you realize that your limited resources (time, money, manpower) force you to have ...Shared by Andy Croll (4) Gedoehns (15)Contribute comment -
John McCain, inventor of the BlackBerry (27)
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Filed under: Cellphones Politics aside, we're totally cracking up that McCain policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eaken told reporters today that his BlackBerry was "the miracle that John McCain helped create" -- dude, BlackBerrys are Canadian.[Via Wonkette, thanks to everyone who sent this in]Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsShared by Aaron R (151) alphakamp (26) Ben (23) can (20) ceri (20) Dan (42) darkeye11547 (179) DeadRinga (99) Fourbin (19) Gedoehns (15) Jared (7) Joe Moran (11) Joey Doll (18) Journ (21) JR A (43) Kiri (10) Lionel Riem (25) Matthew (94) Michael (20) OhCaptain (25) RJO (60) rowlikeagirl (43) rpy (20) Ryan Versaw (38) SF (1) Simon (7) Vijay Sadasivam (26)Contribute comment -
LinkedIn Knows Your Industry, Pay Grade, And Will Target You With Ads Across The Web (3)
onFor a while now the folks at LinkedIn have been telling us how good they are at selling ads. How good? Well, LinkedIn once told us that since they can target execs in specific industries, they were selling ads for $75 per thousand impressions (CPM). No doubt a little sales exaggeration there, but as TechCrunch points out, they've got an aggressive rate card with display ads listing from $35 to $76.50 CPM and text ads ...Contribute comment
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Yammer Gets Bronx Cheers from the Blogosphere. Why? (9)
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Yammer, as much of the free world seems to now know, won “best of show” at TechCrunch50. Yammer is an enterprise 2.0 company. The blogosphere had a fairly negative opinion about this. I read a number of these posts, and the table below outlines the reasons Yammer was viewed negatively: Links to source posts: Dennis Howlett, Rafe Needleman, Rob Diana, Mathew Ingram, Svetlana Gladkova, Chris Cardinal, Chris Brogan, Jennifer Leggio, Bernard Lunn, Joe Duck, Stephen ...Shared by Alex (119) bhc3 (41) Caleb Elston (20) DOCBook Howto (175) Duncan (42) Elizabeth (32) Gedoehns (15) louisgray (171) Mike F (671)Contribute comment -
23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself (64)
