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TechCrunch
If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'
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J Angelo Racoma
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Performancing
Would You Consider a Dedicated Twitter Device?
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Since I’ve started appreciating Twitter for both personal discussions and promoting my blogs and online content, I’ve been exploring ways to access the service conveniently, even while on-the-go. For this purpose, I’ve settled with a Symbian Series 60 application called Gravity. The application is a fully-featured Twitter client ...
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Mashable!
15 Social Media Twitter Lists to Follow and Expand
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As you can probably tell from our extensive coverage this week, we’re extremely excited about the possibilities of Twitter Lists : from how news organizations are leveraging the feature, to a full Twitter Lists FAQ to the potential for real-time journalism and the utility of lists after the tragic Fort Hood shootings . As such, we’ve ...
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Fort Hood Shooting Shows How Twitter, Lists Can be Used for Breaking News
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RELATED " Covering the Fort Hood Shootings, A Day Later ," Al Tompkins Days after Twitter Lists were introduced to the public , the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday showed the power of this feature to cover a major news event in real-time. News organizations quickly created a trusted set of Twitter Lists to follow developments out of Texas. ...
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Performancing
Will Amazon Affiliate Twitter posting tool increase spam?
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Amazon has introduced a new feature for its Affiliate members, making it easy to post a link to any product on the site to Twitter. It's another step in making it easy to promote Amazon's products, after the introduction of cut-and-paste widgets and "link to this page" for bloggers and website owners. Yet Twitter is already flooded with spam and ...
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The social gaming lead-gen controversy sparked by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington came to an end this week when OfferPal, the company he singled out for scamming users and advertsers, replaced its CEO and posted a mea culpa for its past and current practices.
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TechCrunch/OfferPal Drama - Much Ado About Very Little
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So the inevitable "offers are scams" story finally blew on to the scene last week at the Virtual Goods Summit when TechCrunch's Michael Arrington attacked OfferPal's Anu Shukla for having misleading offers (e.g. sign up for Netflix, get 10,000 coinz) as a core part of her business. Anu responded with the now classic line �
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...
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Barb Dybwad
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Mashable!
Droid Does: An Ad on Google’s Homepage
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In addition to celebrating Muppets today, Google appears to be loudly and proudly celebrating something else on its home page. With the Verizon Droid launch hot and heavily underway today, the search giant is according the highly-regarded Android phone a place of honor on Google.com today. Although it’s not unprecedented — they’ ...
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Lolcats, cats and funny pictures - Extincshun ....imminent
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Google Blogoscoped
Brad Fitzpatrick, born in 1980, started to learn programming at the age of 5. In high school he went on to create a voting booth script called FreeVote, which he says earned him as much as 27 cent per click on banner ads back then (making for 25, 27 grand per month). He went on to create blogging platform LiveJournal, thinking and implementing a ...
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Philipp Lenssen
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Google Blogoscoped
Dan Siroker: CarrotSticks, Google Chrome, and Obama
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Dan Siroker is the founder of kid's learning games site CarrotSticks.com. Before that, he was involved with the Obama campaign transition as deputy new media director; prior to that, Dan was a product manager for Google Chrome. This email interview was made possible with the friendly help of the Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference ( ...
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Econsultancy.com
The five biggest myths about Google
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On the internet, few companies receive more attention than Google. And for good reason: Google touches so many individuals and businesses. From search to its 'side projects', just about everything Google does creates interest.
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From the Post: Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, have recently been promoting the idea of making the Web machine-readable, or a Web of data. What does that mean? After all, at least in one sense, the Web is [...]
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Tim Finin
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UMBC
RPI exports data.gov information as linked data
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UMBC alumnus Joab Jackson has an article in Government Computer News, Tim Berners-Lee: Machine-readable Web still a ways off , reporting on the International Semantic Web Conference help outside of Washington DC at the end of October. The article uses data.gov to illustrate the challenges and opportunities for the Semantic Web. Data.gov is a ...
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The Sundance-winning documentary ‘We Live in Public’ is released next week, on 13th November. The documentary ( ), distributed by Dogwoof, looks at the impact of the Internet on society through the eyes of Internet pioneer and artist Josh Harris. He set up an experiment living in public for ...
 
Adam Ostrow
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Mashable!
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 others part of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while ...
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From the Announcement: Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States. Mr. Ferriero was the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and is a leader in the field of library science. Mr. Ferriero, who was nominated by President Obama on July 28, [...]
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Webware.com
We were excited to hear that Flixster's popular iPhone movie app was making the jump to BlackBerry. Unfortunately, not all apps dive as elegantly into other mobile platforms. Flixster's Movies app is one of them.
Bert and Ernie shared space on Google's home page on Friday with an ad for Motorola's Droid, the Verizon Wireless smartphone that went on sale on Friday.
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National Archives: Progress and Risks in Implementing its Electronic Records Archive Initiative (PDF: 154 KB) From Highlights (PDF; 45 KB): NARA has completed two of five planned increments of ERA, but has experienced schedule delays and cost overruns, and several functions planned for the system’s initial release were deferred. Although ...
How in the heck did this girl not get red carded? Am I missing something? I would be scared to play soccer against this girl.
Barb Dybwad
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Mashable!
We were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille , the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the company had trademarked the name FishVille last month, and speculated that an aquatic derivative of the wildly popular social game might be in the works. And indeed it was, with FishVille launching ...
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OpenCalais (OC) is a free service that we first mentioned six months ago and have mentioned several times since. This post from June, 2009 mentions some of the organizations using the service from Thomson Reuters. In a nutshell, OpenCalais uses semantic technology and natural language processing to analyze text and add metadata by drawing [...]
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From an ACM TechNews Summary Researchers from Rovira i Virgili University, Autonoma of Barcelona, and Oberta of Catalonia have developed a system that protects the privacy of Internet search engine users through a new computer protocol. “It is a model based on cryptographic tools, which distort the profile of users when they use search ...
 
Simon Mackie
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WebWorkerDaily
With the new beta of Firefox 3.6, new tab previewing functionality has been made available in Firefox — you can preview tabs using the “List all tabs” button, and you can see a preview when using Ctrl-Tab to switch between tabs. These two new features are not enabled by default, so you’ll need to go to [...]
Simon Mackie
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WebWorkerDaily
Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Does Multitasking Make You More Productive? It’s easy to think that just because you’re a demon multitasker, you’re automatically productive. But is that really the case? Karen investigates. Google Dashboard: Find Out What ...
Lolcats, lolbirds and funny pictures - witness protection not working so well
I thought perhaps the Peek email device might be a good service to get for a family member who's not very technical. I wanted them to have access to text messaging, and thought its advertised simplicity might be the answer. So I bought a device for $49 and bought one month of service for $19.95, with the understanding that it's not a service plan,
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