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 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:04:07 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_1 7f46808b91d39c301a68f2fc11227017 The concept of Cyber Monday — when online retailers offer sweet deals to e-shoppers the first Monday after Black Friday — might have been dreamed up a few years ago as a marketing concoction, but I can’t help but think about its emergence, and the trend toward more online shopping, as a solid indicator of how broadband can help ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:04:07 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_2 3d30145755d8614f532c8c258a8103f9 Welcome to our newest Monday feature — Android Ecosystem! As I mentioned last week, I was still trying to get the latest Android x86 build on my Intel Core Solo powered Samsung Q1UP. I literally just got it working this morning and it’s darn near usable on the 7″ touchscreen slate computer. I’ll have to share some of my ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:04:07 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_3 6c70e19f71e04086f3116c262943fa9b The post I did recently about web tablets and text entry made one thing clear to me — that nothing about it is clear. The point I was trying to make is a valid one, that we no longer passively sit back while web surfing and consume the vast amount of information the web dishes out to us. More than ever before we now interact with that ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:36:16 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_4 9d1d6b55532551dc5c5ab7d138892f08 What is it with architects that they feel the need to glom onto the latest buzzwords to justify their projects? A group from M.I.T.'s Senseable City Lab is looking for funding for an ambitious observation deck designed for the 2012 London Olympics. They are calling it the Cloud . It is a "lightweight transparent tower, composed of a 'cloud' of ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:20:07 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_5 ee094fd1b4499096a7eac2086b1c992c You might find this suprising, but the top social gaming companies on the iPhone are not the same ones you know of from Facebook and MySpace. Zynga, despite $54.2M in funding, has hardly made a dent on the iPhone. Neither has Playfish, which was recently bought for $300M. Playdom hasn’t done squat, either. Although “the big three” (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:52:23 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_6 5f5f8e4742b2ad6fc8f5a2f145ca0d21 It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad . The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves - the user interface was intuitive enough that people "got it" without any instructions. And the look of pure joy on the ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:20:07 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_7 a4c07e95a7a0b103261f11c48b0814c6 Rumors were swirling that IBM would be acquiring database security company Guardium after the Israeli financial newspaper, TheMarker, reported the acquisition yesterday (translated version here ). Big Blue has officially confirmed to TechCrunch that it has acquired Guardium but did not disclose financial terms. TheMarker reported that IBM is ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:06:16 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_8 9f86f2c3e2760c1d1133b03d5de5c3da Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:20:07 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_9 70e72861a28699b89ca5c438acce6209 The law that started in California finally arrives in Colorado starting tomorrow: it is a primary offense to be caught texting while driving, punishable by a $50 fine. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:14:57 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_10 c98f1b61811bcca860cd15bece38294b A round-up from Shakil Khan, effectively Spotify's consigliari today in London opened the kimono a little on where it's at. Speaking at the new NOAH Conference in London, the headline points from his talk were that we can, as we expected, see a U.S. launch in Q1 2010 as well as a launch in Germany and China in Q1/2 (so no pressure then). Spotify ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:08:39 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_11 18472991a2e601cacade09bdc1e53c79 There were some interesting panel discussion today at the NOAH conference - a new event in London aimed at presented tech companies to the private equity and banking sector - but the plethora of suited and booted attendees were shocked out of their chairs a little when Klaus Hommels, (one of the first angel investors in Skype, QXL and XING and ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:27:54 GMT http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_12 3af1067569e89e4b9e1e7b7b402949f2 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:06:16 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_13 1b00b51e41b3a54b55a6026b244b4f1b Waterloo, Iowa will soon offer the fastest broadband in the nation with 105 Mbps service provided by Mediacomm, a cable provider. Sure, the fast speeds are somewhat of a gimmick, but we hope it's a gimmick that can turn into reality. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:03:30 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_14 f87022627a3ce68cf0dca08f65ef37cd [France] A commercial court in Paris has fined eBay €1.7 million euros (roughly £1.6 million) for allegedly not sticking to an injunction banning users from selling on products of luxury goods conglomerate Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH in short). Allowing the LVMH perfumes and cosmetics to be purchased by Frenchmen on its French and UK ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:02:43 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_15 fba36ed352e65f696f3e86076f0274f6 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:00:21 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_16 181871e696ffd0c9b291ca45cca6cac5 Absence makes the heart grow fonder and we know online marketers already like the BIGLIST of online marketing blogs reviews. This new update that is decidedly focused on search engine optimization should start your week off right. While we have a good looking group this week, the Search Agents was the winner for the best looking [...] (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T06:21:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_17 9fd81a12e791676bbd77df618867e815 "How much life insurance do you have?" Zig Ziglar liked to say that with that one question, you could tell if someone was a successful life insurance agent. If they're not willing to buy it with their own money, how can they honestly persuade someone else to do so? If you're in the music business but you never buy tickets or downloads, can you ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T01:53:00.000-05:00 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_18 a02c20ed41599e0b97bdcb5fb3c2b0b6 This is the second part of Google Maps mashups using the Geograph API. Geograph has over 1.5 million photographs covering a large area of Great Britain and of Ireland and is a great resource for developers in the UK to provide images in their map mashups CanalPlanAC CanalPlanAC is an interactive guide to the inland waterways of Europe, it plans ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-30T01:53:00.000-05:00 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_19 cc2a8a797ebe2ccf979b4f6248d97225 Ludlow Castle, the finest of medieval ruined castles, set in glorious Shropshire countryside, at the heart of this superb, bustling black and white market town. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:41:28 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/1#item_20 71381f918c5a9d506d3c81facf4d3b3b Although a little earlier than usually done by other search engines, Bing has released its top trending topics for 2009.  "Michael Jackson" was the number most search keywords although the most search personality was "Perez Hilton."The list was created based on the analysis of billions of searches against those that were searched using Bing.   ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:51 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/21#item_1 591fec9887297e5c658cf0b16fd44837 Ever since FriendFeed was sold to Facebook, we’ve been told over and over again that the company and its community were toast. And as if to underline the fact, FriendFeed’s access to the Twitter firehose was terminated and vaguely replaced with a slow version that is currently delivering Twitter posts between 20 minutes and two hours ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:20:04 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/21#item_2 954d9780e1e9d42e52b9d5870454bf38 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:20:04 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/21#item_3 ab556d23abedd40244e97d48497a2f0f Are you ever curious to know what exactly you're tweeting about? Sometimes it's fun to check out the silly applications that are constantly being developed for twitter. When I saw a link for tweet cloud, I was curious. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:21:21 +0000 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/21#item_4 4e595b61fcd6f887f036a8f39d1c63d6 Bonne journée du chapeau bleu! Now you know how to say “Happy Blue Beanie Day” in French. Monday 30 November is International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards. Get your toque on, post a photo, and pop a beanie on your Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook avatars to help spread the word. Let’s take this [...] (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-29T09:36:00.000-05:00 http://www.megite.com/knowmoremedia/1259613354/21#item_5 ba3f186834c04bf28f3d275d250b9cb2 Huis Doorn Photo Collection The Huis Doorn own a database of photographs from the collection of the German Emperor Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941). In 2007 they began digitising the 12,000 photos housed in this collection. So far, 5,500 photos have been processed. As well as digitising the collection the Huis Doorn are also geo-tagging the collection ... (Read on Source) ]]>