http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:45:12 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_1 1eb61e3434edf5de862143b96e6cd35c Something really, really bad went down at high flying startup Canopy Financial . This is one of the high flying startups that had a lot of buzz the last couple of years. They've raised at least $85 million in venture capital with the help of an investment bank, Financial Technology Partners . Their most recent round, a reported $62.5 million, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:45:12 +0000 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_3 d1baa5bc9613e7a6d5cf4b9efffebcc5 En los últimos meses mis hábitos como bloguer profesional han cambiado sustancialmente. He dejado de usar algunas herramientas y he adoptado otras. Ha cambiado la forma en que usaba algunas más y me he dado cuenta de que para ser productivo en el blogging profesional no es necesario estar todo el día leyendo feeds. Es [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_4 434d7e1511c453b82cdadd494594cf40 During the last few months, our team has been working hard to support extensions in Google Chrome's beta channel. Today, we are getting one step closer to this goal; developers can now upload their extensions to Google Chrome's extension gallery. We are making the upload flow available early to make sure that developers have the time to publish ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:34:56 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_5 7995436fc56f80cae260e1b9f3c048ed Now this is cool. Some of the hype over Google Wave has died down over the last few weeks, in no small part because most people have absolutely no idea how to use it (no, the 80 minute long video demo doesn't help). Now it looks like the Wave team has another idea up their sleeves to show people the power of Wave: they're using it to recreate ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:07:27 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_6 8746127001611ab165aa39111fe73046 Woot , the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot . The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now has been driven by product selections from a team of Woot employees (aside from the main Woot.com site, which is often tech/geek focused, there are ... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:07:27 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_7 c0c13156572f75d85243f40c51ff785e Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:34:56 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_8 81d670487f70432c787c5f6894b6e71b Hey Mashable, his account was hacked because he told a fan to, "kill himself." See here: http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/11/23/jets-d... & http://www.thejetsblog.com/2009/11/23/breaking-... (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:34:56 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_9 731c6b7008dfc90466912ec8142a38af Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:14:29 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_10 4b837e69d17ac1b47560db619fb98428 Here's your chance to play online slot machines without risking your life savings. Plus it's an opportunity to contribute to a citizen science project that is sure to revolutionize our understanding of galaxy mergers. Galaxy Zoo's newest project asks for help in looking at colliding galaxies, and uses a tool akin to a [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:14:29 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_11 25a7223e9fc9c67d56c12e640002073e Can you spot the difference between these two sample display ads? Of course you can. However, the most important difference is not discernible to the naked eye. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:57:34 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_12 3cfe472d42463d20b70fb85297a99803 Why – and how — do brown dwarfs form? Since these cosmic misfits fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass, astronomers haven't yet been able to determine how they form: are their beginnings like planets or stars? Now, the Spitzer Space Telescope has found what [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:40:34 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_13 4b0719b5fc07732a5279b525b6766a2c This week's Carnival of Space is hosted over at the Chandra Blog. Click here to read the Carnival of Space #130. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry to carnivalofspace@gmail.com, [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:38:14 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_14 d6a18f2fc0d59d03fe01e59f58735ba0 Today we released our October Mobile Metrics report.  Instead of comparing smartphone platforms against each other, this month we look inside each operating system at the distribution of requests coming from different handsets. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:05:07 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_15 ed76e72958fd98d96a90ac238268f91e Two beams circulated simultaneously inside the Large Hadron Collider for the first time today, allowing for the first proton-proton collisions to take place. “It’s a great achievement to have come this far in so short a time,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. “But we need to keep a sense of perspective – there’s [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:55:31 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_16 8c57a6e71f234817ff79cbe14ea1462c El sinsonte de Floreana es una de las aves más raras del mundo, y de las más escasas. Sobrevive tan sólo en dos pequeñas islas, Champion y Gardner-by-Floreana, ambas cercanas a la propia Floreana, donde se extinguió tan sólo unos años después de que Darwin se llevara de allí un par de ejemplares. La Charles Darwin [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:57:54 +0000 http://www.megite.com/diegopolo/1259057102/1#item_17 38f9c445ac3234b9ea535155c69f9a5b ¿Por qué reina de pronto esta inquietud y confusión? (¡Qué graves se han vuelto los rostros!) ¿Por qué calles y plazas aprisa se vacían y todos vuelven a casa compungidos? Porque se hizo la noche y los bárbaros no llegaron. Algunos han venido de las fronteras y contado que los bárbaros no existen. ¿Y qué va a ser de nosotros ahora [... (Read on Source) ]]>