1. Tropical Storm IDA Graphics  permalink

Tropical Storm IDA Graphics
Nhcwebmaster / National Hurricane Center (Atlantic)

5-Day Uncertainty Track last updated Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:48:28 GMT Wind Speed Probabilities last updated Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:07:29 GMT

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Tropical Storm IDA Wind Speed Probabilities - 0.5 Degree Multiple Basins   —  GIS Data last updated Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:09:17 GMT

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Tropical Storm IDA 5-Day Track, Uncertainty Cone, Warnings   —  GIS Data last updated Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:47:40 GMT

2. Think The Droid Launch Was A Let Down? Not So Fast.  permalink

Think The Droid Launch Was A Let Down? Not So Fast.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

Yesterday I detailed my quest to find the throngs of Droid fans who had woken up at the crack of dawn to grab a place in line before Verizon unleashed the phone to the masses. Yet despite reports of lines elsewhere, I failed — the Verizon store in Palo Alto was a ghost town, as was the Best Buy down the street. Some commenters took my report ...

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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!
Think The Droid Launch Was A Let Down? Not So Fast. IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010   —  Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in other parts of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while ...

3. Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does.  permalink

Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Last month, Apple rejected the Someecards iPhone app because it contained satirical comedy about public figures. After attempting to make their case and getting stonewalled, Someecards eventually gave into Apple and removed the offending cards which made fun of Hitler and Roman Polanski, among others. Apple swiftly approved the app and all was ...

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Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!
Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does. Google Music Search: 3 Major Implications for the Music Business   —  Last week we reported on Google’s new music discovery features. The Google music search endeavor is partnership between Google, MySpace, Lala, and several others to make music search and discovery a primary feature of the Google experience. In fact, Google music search does more than just return a few track listings; it offers up audio ...

4. #OpenWebAwards: 300,000+ Nominations, One Week Left!  permalink

#OpenWebAwards: 300,000+ Nominations, One Week Left!
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!

The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition , our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is gaining momentum. We’ve had 300,000+ nominations made for 60,000+ individuals, companies, websites and applications. If you haven’t nominated yet – and you can nominate once per category per day – now’s ...

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Barb Dybwad / Mashable!
#OpenWebAwards: 300,000+ Nominations, One Week Left! POLL: TweetDeck Trounces Seesmic Desktop in Reader Vote   —  We’ve had a number of close calls here during our Web Faceoff series, but this wasn’t one of them. This week we pitted TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop against each other in a bar room brawl for favorite Twitter client. Now, the results are in. Whereas last week’s Windows 7 versus OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard battle was a close one , ...

5. IBM’s Steve Mills on RealTime  permalink

IBM’s Steve Mills on RealTime
Www.techcrunchit.com

As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we’re seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. And while there ...

6. Services made flesh: 10 weird – and not so weird – “avatar” gadgets  permalink

Services made flesh: 10 weird – and not so weird – “avatar” gadgets
Www.crunchgear.com

The dawn of the 21st century brought us a problem: we had lots of data, but no real way to bring that data into the real world. We could feasibly lug laptops and phones around, but did they ever do exactly what we needed them to do? Don’t answer that.

7. How Priceline Got Its Mojo Working Again  permalink

How Priceline Got Its Mojo Working Again
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM

Of all the dot-com superstars that appeared in the ’90s, shone brightly and then disappeared from sight, few have been granted a second act. One exception is Priceline, which 11 years after it was founded — and 10 years after its stock price collapsed — is quietly thriving. It’s no superstar now, but it’s an [...]

8. Android This Week: Two Droids Hit Big Red; Carrier Channels Debut  permalink

Android This Week: Two Droids Hit Big Red; Carrier Channels Debut
James Kendrick / GigaOM

Verizon has been all over the Android news this week, with two of the hottest phones finally arriving on the scene. The Motorola Droid, a stylish phone almost as thin as the iPhone but with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, debuted Friday. Early reviews are not finding the keyboard to be much of a bonus, but [...]

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Android This Week: Two Droids Hit Big Red; Carrier Channels Debut Android Developer Challenge 2 Finalists Posted, Final Judging Begins   —  Early this morning, 200 Android developers woke up to one hell of an e-mail: they’d made it into the final round of the second Android Developer Challenge, and were thus one giant step closer to as much as $250,000.

9. Virtual Tour of the Universe  permalink

Virtual Tour of the Universe
Keir Clarke / Google Maps Mania

Star Map I've fallen in love with NGC 5866 (pictured) and I'm packing my bags in preparation for the invention of inter stellar space travel. If you can't wait for the development of faster than light speed travel then you will have to make do with the wonderful imagery from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes. This animated tour of the universe ...

10. Blogging is Rocket Science  permalink

Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips

Today’s post is by Kevin Sanders of Strong and Fit. Do you ever have those moments when seemingly random, unrelated thoughts kind of merge together in your mind? This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I remembered a documentary I watched on the space shuttle years ago. Something was said about the percentage [...] Post from: Blog Tips ...

11. Karaoke, News, Photos & Google Maps  permalink

Karaoke, News, Photos & Google Maps
Keir Clarke / Google Maps Mania

Karaoke Base Karaoke Base is a Google Maps Mashup of karaoke venues in the US and UK. You can search the map for karaoke venues by location, by day of the week or you can filter by type of karaoke (public, private rooms, live band), or venue keyword. The map sidebar and the map markers provide additional information, such as the address and ...

12. Take what you can get  permalink

Take what you can get
Seth Godin / Seth

When you're just starting out or when your organization is struggling or when the economy isn't hot, it's very tempting to take what you can get. You just graduated from law school and you have a lot of debt and the best job you can get is doing collections work. Should you take it? Your consulting firm is organized around providing high-value ...

13. The SECURE Strategy  permalink

The SECURE Strategy
EConsultant / Ask the eConsultant

Notes from Put Your Dream to the Test by John C Maxwell 01. State all your positions. 02. Examine all your actions. 03. Consider all your options. 04. Utilize all your resources. 05. Remove all your nonessentials. 06. Embrace all your challenges. See more : The Ultimate Business Reading List

14. Top 12 Obstacles to the Strategy Execution Process  permalink

EConsultant / Ask the eConsultant

Notes from Six Disciplines Execution Revolution by Gary Harpst 01. Inability to manage change effectively or to overcome internal resistance to change. 02. Trying to execute a strategy that conflicts with the existing power structure. 03. Poor or inadequate information sharing between individuals or business units responsible for strategy ...

15. SWAT Team Member Faces Off Against a Wall  permalink

SWAT Team Member Faces Off Against a Wall
Ml962 / The Jason Calacanis

A member of the SWAT team gets in the way of a door flying off its hinges.

16. Gadget of the Month Club  permalink

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine

Hey, Verizon (& Google & Apple & Dell & BestBuy….). I want to try the Droid but I am already in indentured servitude to AT&T for my iPhone (and have no particular desire to lose it). As much of a gadget geek as I am (I’m no Leo Laporte – my wife would’t let me [...]

17. Tough love for media  permalink

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine

Here in a bit more friendly video format is the keynote I gave to the Munich Media Days (in English) a week ago, which I linked to earlier. I decided to be blunt and tough and tell them I was worried about the protectionist talk I’ve been hearing from Germany and that they need to [...]

18. Jeff Jarvis: The Future of Journalism is an entrepreneurial, collaborative Process  permalink

Jeff Jarvis: The Future of Journalism is an entrepreneurial, collaborative Process
Carta.info

Jeff Jarvis: Why Google is not the enemy in a link economy, why protecting the media’s old business model will not work, why the future of journalism is entrepreneurial, collaborative and about process.

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19. Exclusive video of the Litl Webbook  permalink

Www.crunchgear.com

When news of the Litl Webbook broke out on Wednesday, I was pleased to learn that the company is located here in Boston, since there aren’t nearly as many people in this area making actual hardware devices, as opposed to software and web companies.

20. Retweet Function Rolls Out on a Limited Basis  permalink

Retweet Function Rolls Out on a Limited Basis
David Snyder / Search Engine Journal

Today Twitter rolled out its retweet function on a limited basis: We've just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or ...