11 hours ago

Submitted by Mahendra from Google Reader: Anyone can write a paragraph, but not everyone knows how to write one that other people want to read.You’ve seen it:You open a book, and the whole page is one long block of text.Each sentence in the paragraph makes exactly the same point, said in a slightly different way, and you wonder why they didn’t just say it once and (Read More)

18 hours ago

GigaOM Two winters ago, we unveiled a new design for GigaOM — today, we are launching another one. Whereas before, our focus was on design, this time around we’re aiming to bring you a unique user experience.The biggest change at our company in the intervening two years, of course, has been in the growth of our network, which now (Read More)

14 hours ago

mediabistro.com: MobileContentToday YouTube video courtesy of googlechromeGoogle announced their Chrome OS yesterday...Releasing the Chromium OS open source projectAnd, like a lot of people I watched the live stream on a web page built using Cold Fusion (how retro!) and requring either Real or Windows Media to watch (what happened to YouTube?). I thought Chro (Read More)

12 hours ago

TechCrunch Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it’s only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, it’s being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta, but that’s only so the team at Thing Labs can keep experimenting with new ways to mak (Read More)

11 hours ago

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17 hours ago

louisgray-com Why do some social sites thrive while others fail? Why do you find some networks have you dedicating hours every day to participate, while others couldn't get you to raise an eyebrow? And why don't your friends see with you eye to eye on what the best services are, even after you've told them about your favorites time and a (Read More)

16 hours ago

Submitted by Robdiana from blog: Google sort of released ChromeOS yesterday. I say “sort of” because they released the source code, but the official release of the OS is supposed to be in a year. Even the Chrome Blog hedged a bit, “Today we released Chromium OS, the open source project behind Google Chrome OS.” So, they released the open [...]. (Read More)

15 hours ago

Search Engine Land Hey news publishers. Stop acting as if your content only appears printed on dead trees and tap into the dynamics that the web offers. That’s a blunt summary of advice from Josh Cohen of Google News, from a wide-ranging interview with him on Google’s experiments with new ways of delivering news.Cohen, business [...].... (Read More)

14 hours ago

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19 hours ago

Submitted by Mahendra from Google Reader: I’m following the stories of the Google Chrome OS release today and am a bit concerned about some of the claims that are being made.  Mashable even goes to the extent of predicting Google is going to “destroy the desktop” with it.  Google is banking on the fact that many users use their computers solely for accessing Twitte (Read More)

23 hours ago

VentureBeat Adobe just announced announcing a bunch of upgrades to Acrobat.com, its suite of web collaboration applications. The most important: It’s releasing an application for the iPhone and BlackBerry.Mobile support has been a big missing piece for Acrobat.com, since a big selling point of applications like Adobe’s (as well as Goog (Read More)

21 hours ago

TechCrunch The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it’s open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most people aren’t ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google’s recently open-sourced co (Read More)

1 day ago

Latest from Computerworld Intel Corp. researchers, along with partners from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, are developing technology that can be implanted in peoples brains to operate computers, cell phones and television sets. (Read More)

1 day ago

ReadWriteWeb Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's release of 500 million time-stamped Twitter messages for analysis."You take this data, mash it up wi (Read More)

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