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July 2, 2008
This is a quick look at what's going on around the web today: Apple Insider is reporting that you can now use an iPhone without the phone. Perfect. A lot of people are pleased with their phones, but would love...
May 5, 2008
Facebook Explained in the Weekly Evil TinyURL.com Blocked by Panera Bread Who Profits From Your Content When You're Dead? Where Offline Shopping Beats Online Today Amazon's 50 Product Page Features...
February 8, 2007
The Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper ran a story on the front page of startribune.com with the following headline and excerpt: Robber steals student's iPod "An armed robber stole an iPod from an Asian-languages and literature senior from the University...
January 6, 2007
Internet: $60 -- Comcast Rants: Free Cable Internet access is going up from $45 to $60 per month plus possibly an additional $3/mo for modem rental in Minneapolis, and people are NOT happy. (tags: cable internetaccess comcast qwest)...
January 4, 2007
What Jobs told me on the iPhone "You want to meet Steve Jobs to persuade him that Apple should build a tablet computer, or an iPhone? Then besides having a big purchasing budget and persuasive reasons, you'd better bring...
December 13, 2006
Does the IRS really want your World of Warcraft gold? - Howstuffworks "After filing with the IRS, he tried to find out from various IRS employees if he was supposed to claim his castles and gold and other online...
December 10, 2006
Cell phone privacy bill passes congress!: AMERICAblog "Today U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced the passage of his comprehensive legislation that would criminalize the practice, known as pretexting, of both stealing and selling cell phone, landline and voice over...
December 8, 2006
Google begins limited test of radio advertising - Yahoo! News "Google Inc. said on Thursday it has completed the development of its widely anticipated radio advertising system and begun a limited test allowing customers to buy ads via its...
December 1, 2006
How iTunes Hurts Podcasting Product Spotlight: LogMeIn Suite We're Making Wireless Internet Progress in Minnesota How to get a techie's money: GO MOBILE! The Slingbox challenge: Place-shift my media but with a better CODEC...
November 27, 2006
EU says more than half e-mails are spam "The biggest culprit of spam remains the United States, which accounts for 21.6 percent of spam coming into the 25-nation EU. China is the second-biggest producer with 13.4 percent, while EU...
November 1, 2006
Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites - CNN.com "Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million," he said. (tags: internet...
October 30, 2006
Is HD Radio Worth It? (by Jeremy Zawodny) "The way I see it, most HD Radios seem to pretty expensive ($150+) and I'm not seeing much of a benefit. Therefore, I ask you (my technically minded often leading edge...
October 25, 2006
Treo Family Comparison Chart: Understanding The Differences: Treonauts "I have included all the specifications and highlighted the areas where there are clear differences between one or more Treo smartphones (most accessories will work across all Treo smartphones except the...
October 24, 2006
Jon Johansen hacks FairPlay, the Apple iTunes closed system - October 30, 2006 "Johansen, now 22 and widely known as "DVD Jon" for his exploits, has also figured out how Apple's iPod-iTunes system works. And he's using that knowledge...
October 23, 2006
O'Reilly Network -- Open Tools for MySQL Administrators "MySQL provides some tools to monitor and troubleshoot a MySQL server, but they don't always suit a MySQL developer or administrator's common needs, or may not work in some scenarios, such...
October 22, 2006
What's the difference between Blu-ray and HD DVD? "Like the legendary (if lopsided) battle between VHS and Betamax, Blu-ray and HD DVD are each striving to win the next format war. It's too early to declare a winner, but...
October 21, 2006
Quantcast - Open Internet Ratings Service An alternative to Alexa. Not quite ready for prime time, but working on some interesting web metrics. (tags: statistics web analytics metrics) Video-hungry users could push Net to brink: Nortel - Yahoo! News...
October 20, 2006
And so it begins: YouTube nukes 30,000 videos "In the first major mass removal of content in its history, YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos after being contacted by a number of Japanese rights-holders, according to the Japan Society...
October 19, 2006
Apple: iPods, Macs rock earnings - Oct. 18, 2006 "Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said Mac shipments surged, climbing 30 percent to 1.61 million during the quarter. Laptops led sales of Macs, accounting for $1.34 billion in revenue versus $869 million...
October 18, 2006
One in three workers jot down passwords: study - Yahoo! News "One in three people write down computer passwords, undermining their security, and companies should look to more advanced methods, including biometrics, to ensure their systems are safe, a...
October 16, 2006
The Amazing YouTube Tools Collection "Here is a collection of several YouTube third party tools which enhance your YouTube experience." (tags: youtube tools) Apple Announces iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition "Apple?Ç¬Æ today announced the iPod?Ç¬Æ nano (PRODUCT) RED...
October 15, 2006
Goodbye Eudora, Hello Thunderbird "Eudora, once one of the most popular e-mail clients, is finally being retired. Instead of simply abandoning Eudora's customers, however, Qualcomm is partnering with Mozilla Corp. to create "Penelope," a customized version of Mozilla's Thunderbird...
October 13, 2006
top ten reasons why you didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t sell your web 2.0 company to google for $1.6 billion.: gapingvoid "1. You already sold your company. For a lot less, to somebody else. Ouch. Ouch. Pain." (tags: web2.0 gapingvoid) Miguel Carrasco: Blue...
October 10, 2006
Lightweight data exploration in Excel - Juice Analytics "What are some practical uses of in-cell bar graphs? For starters, they offer a good way to profile a dataset that has hundreds or thousands of rows." (tags: excel data analysis...
October 9, 2006
Find All Domains on Same IP Tool - SEOLogs.com "This tool will find other domain names hosted on your IP address. Just enter a domain (www.example.com) or an IP address (127.0.0.1) to get a list of domain names that...
October 5, 2006
Why better DVD recommendations are worth a million bucks?: The Long Tail "Aside for the obvious points that better recommendations are, well, better and the best thing of all is to get volunteers to do the work, why is...
October 4, 2006
Remember when things hit the fan at Enron and story after story came out about the retirement losses of the 21,000 employees who's 401k's largely disappeared? Here is one example (emphasis mine): "As Skilling did his macho-boy routine on guys-only...
September 30, 2006
Memo Details Hewlett-Packard Leak Hunt - The Smoking Gun "With the Hewlett-Packard scandal now triggering congressional hearings and criminal probes, it seems some of the computer giant's executives are hesitant to talk about the firm's extensive hunt for the...
September 29, 2006
Real Estate Service To Index Property Listings By Green Features - Treehugger ?¢‚Ǩ?ìOregon?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS?¢‚Äû¬¢) Board of Directors recently agreed to expand its database by spring 2007 to include information on energy efficient and green home...
September 28, 2006
A Peek Inside TechCrunch's 100k Subscriber Milestone: Burning Questions "For those participating in the "Guess How Many Jellybeans in Today's FeedCount Chicklet" contest, you may have noticed that TechCrunch recently surpassed the 100k subscriber mark. Given this major milestone,...
September 27, 2006
Rock Paper Scissors World Championship Rocketboom covers the Rock, Paper, Scissors world championships in Toronto. (tags: rock paper scissors rockpaperscissors toronto) Laptop with GE employee data stolen - Security - MSNBC.com "An employee laptop containing the names and social...
September 25, 2006
More universities banning Skype San Jose State University has banned Skype on campus. Apparently, Skype can be a bandwidth hog, and potential security threat for universities. (tags: voip skype security bandwidth college p2p) http://allsimps.com | All The Simpsons you...
September 23, 2006
Click Fraud: The dark side of online advertising "Over the past three years, he has noticed a growing number of puzzling clicks coming from such places as Botswana, Mongolia, and Syria. This seemed strange, since MostChoice steers customers to...
September 21, 2006
MarketingSherpa on the State of SEO & PPC Industry - Social Media, Search Marketing, SEM, SEO: Emergence Media "MarketingSherpa has put out its ?¢‚Ǩ?ìState of the Search Marketing Agency Industry 2006 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù 10 New Charts?¢‚Ǩ¬ù for 2006. In it,...
September 20, 2006
Tread's Colombian tyre laptop bags - thegreenguy "Most laptop bags are dull. Crumpler is one note-worthy exception but an even better one is Tread's new range made from recycled Colombian truck tyres - and I've managed to get my...
September 19, 2006
How BitTorrent Works - Howstuffworks "BitTorrent is a protocol that enables fast downloading of large files using minimum Internet bandwidth. It costs nothing to use and includes no spyware or pop-up advertising." (tags: bittorrent p2p tutorial torrent) Online word...
September 18, 2006
T.E.D.D.Y. - 2D to 3D Interface - TechEBlog "T.E.D.D.Y. is an innovative ?¢‚Ǩ?ìJava-Applet Drawing Program that takes the 2D images you draw and renders them in 3D.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù See it in action after the jump." (tags: 3D Drawing software visualization...
September 16, 2006
Link Building Advice from the Best ?Ǭª Online Marketing Blog "Unless there?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s any doubt, I am a linking fanatic. I appreciate links like they?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢re gold. When I talk about link building with our team, I can never stress enough...
September 12, 2006
Bill Stumpf, 70, a Designer of the Aeron Ergonomic Office Chair, Dies - New York Times "In 1994, Mr. Stumpf and Don Chadwick, an industrial designer in Los Angeles, created the Aeron chair for Herman Miller, the furniture company...
September 2, 2006
Amazon.com's rent-a-grid | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-08-30 | By Jon Udell "Amazon.com is on a roll. In March, the company launched the Simple Storage Service (S3), a metered disk in the cloud that I praised here and discussed...
September 1, 2006
Educational uses of Google Maps: Google Maps Mania "Here is a collection of links that will give you ideas and show you how Google Maps and Earth is being used at the school level. Parents could even use these...
August 31, 2006
Wal-Mart, Apple spar for movie sales: MacNN "The report says that Apple will launch the 'iTunes Movie Store' as soon as mid-September along with a new iPod. Wal-Mart has reportedly become so concerned for its business that it has...
August 30, 2006
Technorati Favorites Track your favorite blogs using Technorati's Favorites tool. It aggregates your latest posts, and helps Technorati determine which blogs people like the best. Don't forget to add Technology Evangelist to your favorites! (tags: blogs technorati bookmarks links)...
August 29, 2006
1st Apple laptop fire reported in Japan; officials order investigation "Japanese authorities reported Tuesday the first case of an Apple laptop catching fire in Japan and ordered the U.S. company to investigate the trouble involving the faulty Sony batteries...
August 28, 2006
VoIP, Finally On Your Palm (Treo): GigaOM "Hampton Software, a UK-based small software developer has released Articulation, a SIP client that allows you to well make SIP/VoIP calls from your Treo, as long as they are running Palm OS...
August 27, 2006
Finn takes gold at mobile phone throwing contest - Yahoo! News "This year's gold medal went to Finland's Lassi Etelatalo, who flung a scrapped Nokia unit a forceful 89.00 metres. "I prepared by javelin throwing, I haven't really practised...
August 26, 2006
USBDumper: Schneier on Security "USBDumper is a cute little utility that silently copies the contents of an inserted USB drive onto the PC. The idea is that you install this piece of software on your computer, or on a...
August 25, 2006
Here's an example of an online news site that doesn't quite get this whole web thing. The Web Host Internet Review is a daily news site covering the web hosting industry. Today, they picked up on a news story I wrote yesterday about Amazon.com's new EC2 transactional web hosting service, and cited Technology Evangelist in their article.
AOL to offer movie downloads from four studios - Yahoo! News "AOL said films from Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group will be available for download on AOL Video for...
August 24, 2006
IPod Patent Dispute Settled "Apple Computer Inc. said yesterday that it would pay $100 million to Creative Technology Ltd. to settle a patent dispute between the bitter rivals in the booming digital music player business." (tags: ipod creative patents...
August 22, 2006
Top Digital Cameras Used on Flickr "Top camera makes and models used to create photos uploaded to Flickr. The lists are generated automatically by periodically sampling the EXIF data from the stream of recent uploads." (tags: flickr cameras photography...
August 21, 2006
USB-NailGunner, a forceful PC gadget to defend your computer: Blubbie.com "The nail gun is guided automatically and fires a round of 6 2" household nails when objects are within a 2 meter range. Hence the nickname iKill. Tests have...
August 18, 2006
.Mac Needs to Be Radically Retooled: Apple Matters "When Steve showed that only 3% of people actively backup, I thought Apple is going to solve this! It hasn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t. So Apple you want to be bold, and make .Mac something...
August 17, 2006
Flat TV=More Nuclear Plants: Treehugger According to a recent article in The Observer, if half of British homes buy a plasma-screen TV, the country would need two more nuclear power stations to meet the extra energy demand. (tags: energy...
August 15, 2006
?Ǭª News Corp. to release TV/films for download (protected by MS-DRM) | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com "Personally, I think the very first question that should be asked whenever a movie or television studio releases its content for download,...
August 14, 2006
The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time: PC World "The IBM PC is 25. And here are the top PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of." (tags: History technology pc ibm apple...
August 13, 2006
Amazon Associates has a new search engine spider that checks from broken affiliate links to their site. They want to make sure you're properly pointing visitors to their site so they make money and you will to. As an added service, it also checks non-Amazon links on your site to see if they're working.
August 11, 2006
Saving iPods from the Landfill "iPods, although expensive, are treated as if disposable and some say Apple wants it that way. To their discredit, Apple offers no support to entrepreneurs like Matt, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. Thanks...
August 10, 2006
Interview with Guy Kawasaki: Pronet Advertising "Hockey is a great sport because it combines the physicality of football, the team play of basketball, the poetry of ballet, the complexity of mathematics, and the aerobics of soccer. There is only...
I've written previously about the role link popularity plays in search engine rankings, and about the problems newspapers cause themselves when they bury archives behind passwords and/or paid sections. Here is another example of why this is a problem.
August 8, 2006
Me A time lapse photography video of a woman who's taken one photo a day of herself since November 1, 2001. via Digg.com (tags: timelapse photography video) The myth of the living-room PC. By Paul Boutin "My tech-savvy friends...
August 5, 2006
Lenovo to preload SUSE on Thinkpad | Open Sources | InfoWorld The reason why Lenovo/SLED 10 is interesting is because Novell took the time to make the included applications better. For example, the SLED version of OpenOffice.org has better...
August 4, 2006
Valley Boys: Digg.com's Kevin Rose leads a new brat pack of young entrepreneurs "[Digg ]is now the 24th-most popular Web site in the U.S., nipping at the The New York Times' (No. 19) and easily beating Fox News (No....
August 3, 2006
Google, Yahoo, others team against click fraud | CNET News.com "The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the nonprofit Media Rating Council said they are teaming with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask.com, LookSmart and others to form the Click Measurement Working...
August 2, 2006
Motorola Listened, Made ?¢‚Ǩ?ìJust a Phone?¢‚Ǩ¬ù - PaulStamatiou.com "Just give us a simple phone that has a decent form factor, damn near stellar battery life, voice quality and reception. Motorola was the first major cellular phone manufacturer to answer...
August 1, 2006
MacMall gets one extremely happy customer "MacMall offered her one advantage from the get-go: The convenience of buying a Mac laptop bundled with a Windows license, that is, with a physical retail copy of the Microsoft operating system, as...
July 31, 2006
TheirSpace: Willamette Week Online "But the telcos want to create a tiered system that would leave them free to price the market well out of reach for your favorite website, be it porn or politics, forcing that site off...
July 29, 2006
Senator open to TV chat about Internet "tubes" - Yahoo! News "Mocked by comedian Jon Stewart for calling the Internet a bunch of tubes, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Thursday he is open to going...
July 27, 2006
Add a "Gmail This" Bookmarklet to Your Browser - About Email Nice tip that makes it easier to gmail something you find interesting. (tags: gmail howto tips) Top 126 Ajax Tutorials : Ultimate Web Developer Lists : eConsultant Helpful...
July 24, 2006
How to use Google to get a girl and get laid: Damien Mulley Johnny is a 22 year old Internet nerd. He works as a programmer with some megacorp, went straight from the computer labs in college to the...
July 22, 2006
Huge news - Judge refuses to dismiss NSA lawsuit: Glenn Greenwald The Bush adminstration suffered an enormous defeat [Thursday], as a federal district court denied its motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T,...
July 21, 2006
The Daily Show: Net Neutrality once more: Crooks and Liars Network Neutrality, PC vs Apple, AND Chuck Norris Jokes all in one segment. (tags: dailyshow networkneutrality apple pc chucknorris) Inside Apple's latest iPod touch-screen patent filing: AppleInsider "It describes...
July 20, 2006
Yahoo and Motorola to feature Web phone services - Yahoo! News "Yahoo Inc., the world's largest Internet media company, and Motorola Inc., the second-biggest maker of mobile phones, said late on Wednesday that Motorola will embed Yahoo services on...
July 19, 2006
Bush blocked probe into phone taps: Gonzales - Yahoo! News "Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales confirmed that Bush put a halt to an enquiry by department lawyers into the National Security Agency (NSA) program, which involved wiretaps...
July 18, 2006
Vehicles with the Highest Fuel Efficiency The Honda Insight leads the list today in off-the-lot fuel efficiency. (tags: cars business fuel environment ratings) Curbed LA: Broker Boys & Babes: WINNERS Who are the hottest real estate agents in Los...
July 17, 2006
YouTube serves up 100 million videos a day | CNET News.com "YouTube, the leader in Internet video search, said Sunday viewers are now watching more than 100 million videos per day on its site, marking the surge in demand...
July 10, 2006
Dane Carlson from The Business Opportunities Weblog created a widget that uses the Technorati API to estimate a blog's value based on link popularity. We first discussed this in March when this site crossed the $100,000 mark, and now we're close to double that:
June 14, 2006
New Sites Put Your Life on the Map - Yahoo! News "Despite their different appearance, all five sites let you add pushpins to online maps that link to your personal descriptions of the locations, and to peruse the contributions...
June 13, 2006
TPM Net Neutrality Tally "Here's where we're keeping track of where various politicians stand on the Net Neutrality bill making its way through the Senate" (tags: politics networkneutrality senate)...
Rustybrick at Search Engine Roundtable is reporting that Link-Vault.com has been banned from Google:
"It appears that a major link network named Link Vault has been banned from Google.
June 12, 2006
PluggedIn: Wi-Fi set to reshape France phone market "Making cheap calls over the Internet with a cellular phone is becoming a reality in France and set to spread quickly across the rest of Europe." (tags: mobile cellular phones france...
June 8, 2006
Survey: iPods more popular than beer - Yahoo! News "Nearly three quarters, or 73 percent, of 1,200 students surveyed said iPods were "in" ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù more than any other item in a list that also included text messaging, bar hopping...
June 7, 2006
Online Newspaper Ads Gaining Ground on Print - New York Times "Newspaper print ad spending in the first three months of 2006 increased only 0.3 percent, to $10.5 billion, over the corresponding period last year. At the same time,...
June 5, 2006
Cell Phones to Avoid: PaulStamatiou.com Paul comments on the recent article by CNET ranking the top-10 highest radiation cell phones. (tags: radiation cellphones motorola) U.S. Wants Companies to Keep Web Usage Records: New York Times "The Justice Department is...
May 30, 2006
TurnHere.com ~ The video insiders guide to neighborhoods across the world Watch videos of cities and neighborhoods produced by people in the know locally. (tags: movies reviews travel video neighborhood community) Free Image Hosting at AllYouCanUpload.com Upload and share...
May 29, 2006
Fitger's Beer RSS Feed - MNBeer A Duluth, MN brew pub is using RSS to keep their clientelle up to date on their latest batches via RSS. Nice work, Fitger's. (tags: beer rss) Why Google makes everyone else nervous...
May 28, 2006
Why we all sell code with bugs "Creating quality software products means knowing when to fix bugs and when to leave well alone, writes Eric Sink" (tags: business design security software)...
May 27, 2006
The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time "Our bottom 25 designees are all relatively well-known items, and many had multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns behind them. In other words, they were made by people who should have known better. In...
May 26, 2006
A little over two weeks have passed since we launched our WhoLinked.com contest to see who could move into the top-10 websites linking to Technology Evangelist according to our Wholinked.com report.
Here is where we started on May 10th:
Bipartisan Bill for Net Neutrality Passes House Judiciary Committee, 20-13: MyDD "This is an amazing turnaround, from a bipartisan stance against net neutrality, to a bipartisan stance for net neutrality." (tags: networkneutrality legislation politics AT&T cingular verizon) Top 7...
May 24, 2006
New Features at Live.com Local Maps: TechCrunch "Now, pushpins can be stored permanently by Microsoft if you sign in with your Live.com credentials, and can be categorized into any number of topics. The limit on the number of pushpins...
May 23, 2006
Click-to-play video ads for AdWords: Inside AdWords "We're very excited to announce the release of click-to-play video ads on the content network." (tags: video adwords google) Condo control: Noise level: StarTribune.com "Wouldn't it be nice to control noise in...
May 22, 2006
We launched the Technology Evangelist blog six months ago this past Friday, and have learned a lot about blogging over the past 180+ days. Here are a ten things we learned and/or wish we knew before we started:
Politicians Brave the Internet - With Help - Yahoo! News "Veteran politicians more familiar with turntables and typewriters are enlisting twentysomething computer whiz kids to help them brave the digital world of blogs, podcasts and the Web as they...
May 19, 2006
BlogShares - Technology Evangelist I don't really understand BlogShares, but based on the stats they're reporting for Technology Evangelist, I'd buy buy buy. :-) (tags: blogshares)...
May 18, 2006
How We Got DEMOgod by Nathan MacNeill: Guy Kawasaki You can calculate the number of times you should rehearse a demo by using this forumula: (tags: presentation tips DEMOgod) Blogs now have a world of influence: USATODAY.com "In fact,...
May 17, 2006
Mark Fletcher presentation at Startup SIG: Niall Kennedy Niall Kennedy's thoughts and recording of a recent presentation by Mark Fletcher of OneList and Bloglines fame. (tags: niallkennedy markfletcher onelist bloglines presentations) HOWTO: Bug Check Your Blog: Performancing.com John Unger...
May 16, 2006
It's the links, stupid: Economist.com "From teenagers to corporate executives, the new bloggers all have reasons of their own for engaging in this new pursuit." (tags: blogs blogging economist) Among the audience: Economist.com "The era of mass media is...
May 15, 2006
Apple, Softbank plan iPod mobile phones - Nikkei: Yahoo! News "Japanese Web and telecom conglomerate Softbank Corp. is working with Apple Computer Inc. to develop mobile telephones with built-in iPod music players, Nikkei reported on Friday." (tags: apple cellphone...
May 14, 2006
Creating Passionate Users: Popularity Breeds Contempt "They'll diss things because embracing those things might force them to re-examine thoughts and assumptions they care about, or because those things represent a change they don't want to make." (tags: blog marketing...
May 13, 2006
Verizon sued for handing out records to NSA: Americablog "The lawsuit seeks $1,000 for each violation of the Telecommunications Act, or $5 billion if the case is certified as class-action." (tags: verizon privacy lawsuit) Blogging vs Traditional Media -...
May 12, 2006
US House Republicans suddenly pull cell-phone privacy bill, Rep. Markey thinks Bush spy agency types may have gotten it killed today: Americablog "Did George Bush just kill a bill that would stop people from selling your phone records for...
May 11, 2006
Web 2.0 Innovation Map Find out where Web 2.0 companies are based. (tags: web2.0 googlemaps business) Get a Flash World Map of Your Flickr Photos: Flickrmap Build a flash world map of your Flickr photos (tags: flickr map photos...
May 10, 2006
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena: MichaelBach "These pages demonstrate visual phenomena and ?Ǭªoptical illusions?Ǭ´ or ?Ǭªvisual illusions?Ǭ´. The latter is more appropriate, because most effects have their basis in the visual pathway, not in the optics of the eye."...
May 9, 2006
Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder, Product Reviews, and Industry News "JiWire helps you locate free and paid WiFi hotspot networks, secure your wireless Internet connections, and learn how to use Wi-Fi products and wireless broadband services." (tags: wifi wireless travel internet...
May 8, 2006
How to Wow 'Em Like Steve Jobs "The Apple CEO is well known for his electrifying presentations. Here are five tips to make your next talk just as mesmerizing -- or close" (tags: presentation SteveJobs apple tips presentations) Alexaholic:...
May 5, 2006
Blogs Will Change Your Business: BusinessWeek "Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later " (tags: business blogging corporate marketing) Greasemonkey will blow up...
May 4, 2006
US FTC sues companies for selling phone records - Yahoo! News "U.S. authorities said on Wednesday they had filed suit against five online companies, charging they had illegally sold confidential phone records." (tags: ftc cellphone privacy) Another Web Pioneer...
May 3, 2006
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn: Paul Graham "We've now invested in enough companies that I've learned a trick for determining which points are the counterintuitive ones: they're the ones I have to keep repeating." (tags: webdesign business...
May 2, 2006
Technorati Top 100 by Google Backlinks A different look at the top-100 blogs based on Google backlinks courtesy of Phillip Lessen of blog.outer-court.com. (tags: technorati blogs ranking) Senator Reid asks Senator Frist to move ahead on cell phone privacy...
May 1, 2006
Stay tuned ... it's video in Google Reader: Official Google Reader Blog "In our never-ending quest to help you waste your day in better and richer ways, we've added support for video feeds that have Flash players. Mainly, this...
April 30, 2006
script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript "script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, totally cool JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly, Web 2.0 style." (tags: ajax Programming javascript webdesign) Save The Internet. Why? And...
April 29, 2006
will myspace: gapingvoid A recent Technology Evangelist post inspired a sketch by cartoonist and blog consultant, Hugh Macleod. (tags: gapingvoid hughmacleod cartoon) Google's GData, MySQL, and the Future of on-line Databases (by Jeremy Zawodny) "The benefit is that you'd...
April 28, 2006
Why AdCenter Will Fly: Traffick On MSN's new PPC program: "The product is cool. It's good. The demographic targeting options and dayparting capability have conference attendees paying rapt attention, more so than you usually see with new product rollouts....
April 27, 2006
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) Where do your visitors eyeballs go when they look at your site? Do they see what you consider the most important content? (tags: usability eyetracking webdesign jakobnielsen useit) gapingvoid: 98052...
April 26, 2006
Texas Community College Bans MySpace.com - Yahoo! News "Del Mar College students now have to use computers outside the school's system if they want to visit the popular Web site MySpace.com. The community college has blocked the site in...
April 25, 2006
Daily Kos: We Need You to Save the Internet! SBC CEO Edward Whiteacre: "The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! (YHOO) or...
April 24, 2006
You know how annoying it is when people email you links that are broken because they're too long? It isn't really your friend's fault. The problem lays with the webmaster of the site your friend is trying to tell you about. Wouldn't it be great if you could prevent that from happening when people send links from your blog to their friends? It turns out that it's a fairly simple thing to do.
Google Calendar SMS Tricks - TelegramSam You can now add events to your Google Calendar using SMS. Nice trick. (tags: google calendar googlecalendar sms tricks tips) Who Matters Most in the Food Chain: Joga Who influences decisions within corporations?...
April 23, 2006
MyDD :: Net Neutrality: Gunowners, Moveon, Instapundit, and Vint Cerf Unite for SaveTheInternet.com Short video explaining what network neutrality is and why it's important. (tags: internet networkneutrality mydd) Earth Day Footprint Quiz Find out how large a footprint your...
April 22, 2006
Malcolm Gladwell's Blog Keep up to date on Gladwell's latest ideas at gladwell.com (tags: malcolmgladwell blog tippingpoint blink) Email spam vs. web spam Yahoo! search spam fighter, Tim Converse, breaks down some of the differences between email spam, web...
April 21, 2006
Amazon Goes 2.0 Crazy : Booksquare "Probably you?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve noticed them: the plogs, the wiki, the stats showing what percentage of people who viewed the book your viewing bought it (and, if they didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t buy that book, what book they...
April 20, 2006
Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace by Mike Davidson How to make a MySpace template that doesn't look like a teenager's bedroom walls. (tags: myspace webdesign templates css) SEO for Real Estate Template Site by Jill Whalen Jill Whalen provides...
April 19, 2006
Searching for the net's big thing - BBC The average number of search engines per user is 2.5. Google make 12 cents per search? Seems a little high. Overall searches are up as search becomes, "deeply ingrained into people's...
April 18, 2006
Web Mail Services Compared: Designtechnica A comparison of 10 popular web based email programs. Too bad they didn't throw web Outlook into the mix. (tags: email reviews webmail gmail comparison hotmail .mac hushmail mytrashmail muchomail mail) Xbmc Fox -...
April 2, 2006
We're kicking off a new feature today with links to the top-5 most popular posts from the previous month. Here is what got the most buzz.
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