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Published by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi November 8th, 2009 in NeoSmart Technologies 7 Comments Tags: Browser, Flash, HTML5, Videos, YouTube Running on Mac or Linux and tired of Adobe Flash eating up all your CPU cycles while you’re watching YouTube? Buggy plugins that crash your browser and freeze your PC? Proprietary formats that get in the way? ...
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Sarah Lacy
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TechCrunch
Tudou: A Push Towards Mobile Video and Profits
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Executives from Tudou—one of two companies left fighting it out to be the YouTube of China—were in San Francisco earlier this week to meet with investors and do a little schmoozing. I met up with CEO Gary Wang and COO Sam Lai, who already raised some $85 million from Granite Global Ventures and General Catalyst Partners, and they swore they ...
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Mike Wendland
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PC Mike
Russia fires police YouTube whistleblower
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Reuters - A junior Russian policeman was fired on Sunday after making a YouTube appeal to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accusing senior officers of corruption, a claim dismissed by authorities as false, news agencies reported.
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Army investigators on Sunday asked troops and civilians for help in the probe of a deadly mass shooting at Fort Hood last week, saying some who fled the gunfire might have evidence.
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Violence All Too Familiar at Fort Hood
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A mass shooting Thursday at Fort Hood in Texas was the latest in a series of violence incidents at the military post in the past two years. In September 2008, a 21-year-old Fort Hood soldier shot to death his lieutenant during a confrontation at his off-base apartment before turning the gun on himself.
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Civil unrest has a role in stopping climate change, says Gore – guardian.co.uk Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming. Amid increasing ...
As if cubicles weren’t enough, the boffins at Clemson University have come up with a computer controlled robotic wall called the [...] 194 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
Christmas is coming up, and Verizon's launched a whole new bevy of ads in order to push their new smartphone line-up this holiday season. If you haven't already seen it on television, you can check out any of the ads on Verizon's YouTube stream. Most of th...
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A hurricane watch has been issued for the U.S. Gulf Coast as Hurricane Ida moves through the Yucatan Channel. The storm killed at least 91 people in El Salvador.
 
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TechCrunch
There are many sites that show trending links across the web including TweetMeme, Topsy, and Bit.ly. Recently launched splurb is now in the mix with its site that shows the most popular links that are trending on social media sites. splurb currently indexes Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, TweetMeme, Yahoo Buzz and Fark. Splurb tallies the number ...
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Chris Pirillo
Social Media Updates for 2009-11-08
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Now # Gnomedex 9.0 has a list: [Thanks, @LianaWS!] # What is Twitter good for? [just another conversation] # Just upgraded Tweetie on the iPhone, but Twizzle (free) is an up-and-comer. SimplyTweet? Maybe. # Read more on Social Media Updates for 2009-11-08… Phil Plait – ...
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Betsy Weber
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Visual Lounge
A blog post title caught my eye last week, 'Why Most Screencasts And Online Presentations Are Tedious (And How To Fix It)'! I knew I had to check it out! Turns out it was written by "Sean D'Souza ": who has a great site, "PsychoTactics":
It's hard to get excited about a game based on a film. We've all been burned so many times before—remember Watchmen: The End is Nigh and X-Men Origins: Wolverine —that it's often hard to believe a great movie-based game will ever be made. And while Avatar: The Game might not be the title to change all that, it's certainly trying. The ...
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Using imaging mass spectrometry, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed tools that will enable scientists to visualize how different cell populations of cells communi
HOUSTON - (Nov. 8, 2009) -- The loss of a gene through deletion of genetic material on chromosome 15 is associated with significant abnormalities in learning and behavior, said a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) in a report that appears online today in the journal Nature Genetics.
You can make your own joke about batgirl and imagine that it appeared here: The title of this paper about tells you everything you need to know: "Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time." I really cannot think of much to add there. We can all be thankful it wasn't a coconut-laden swallow: As many of you may have heard, the LHC suffered a ...
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
Zynga's most recent Facebook game, FishVille, has temporarily been taken offline by Facebook for advertising violations . FishVille will remain suspended, Facebook tells us, "until Facebook is satisfied that Zynga demonstrates compliance with Facebook restrictions -- as well as Zynga's own restrictions -- on the ads it offers users." This is a ...
Amazon offers a Holiday Toy sale today. You can save 20% on hot Holiday Toys and Games from Fisher-Price and Mattel. The items on sale include Electronic Pictionary Man Game for $25, Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Camera for $45.85 and TYCO R/C Stunt Psycho Veh...
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Apple released on October 30th the new 3.0 Apple TV software update. Yesterday Apple released an emergency update that Apple advices to install immediately in case you have already installed 3.0 on your Apple TV. The new Apple TV version 3.0.1 prevents ...
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Heads Up: Update your Apple TV to 3.0.1 ASAP, says Apple
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We've heard a few reports of sync issues with the new Apple TV 3.0 software over the past few days, and apparently the chatter on the Apple support boards was on the mark: Apple has shipped 3.0.1, which is supposed to fix problems where 3.0 units would unexpectedly dump all their loaded content. You can get all the details from Apple's tech note.
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TWiT.TV
Gina lust over the Droid, Jeff joins Google's Data Liberation Front, and all your Google accounts in just one place. Show notes Friendfeed conversation and Friendfeed links for this episode. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Hosts: Leo Laporte , and Gina Trapani , Jeff Jarvis Running time: 1:09:42
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Most of the bloggers I know are satisfied to get $10 for a 250-word post. So when I read that our government is poised to spend $5 million to help “spread democracy” throughout the Mideast and North Africa, I couldn’t help but wonder if a few loyal BlogHerald readers were in for a sizable [...]
 
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GigaOM
Location is a core element in mobile applications and smartphones. We take our mobile devices with us everywhere we go. Their location, and the context in which we use them, changes constantly. In the next two years, location will become central to user experience and performance on hundreds of millions of handsets and applications. We [...]
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