Delicious/vanherndon
Cligs is a URL shortening service with lots of unique features, including traffic data and analytics, and 301 redirects for full seo benefits. (Read More)
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The problem with monopolists, of course, is that they just can’t help acting like monopolists, even supposedly benign monopolists like Google and even when they are not consciously trying to rub out the competition. (Read More)
Delicious/nealjansons
Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. Best of all, it lets you share your code snippets with other coders and designers. Did we mention it works with TextMate, too? It's code 2.0. (Read More)
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Submitted by Dazzlindonna:
Not content to lease data from others who have satellites, Google today launched its own satellite into space. ....Google is sensing too much, knows too much, and is too powerful. (Read More)
Submitted by Dazzlindonna:
...you might want to take a closer peek at the end user license agreement you didn’t pay any attention to when downloading and installing it. Because according to what you agreed to, Google owns everything you publish and create while using Chrome. (Read More)
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Kim does a great job of breaking down some usability roadblocks and helping us decide what changes we could make on our sites to help conversion rates. (Read More)
Delicious/storyspinner
Are you ready to just hand money over to Google for no reason? No? Then you'd better read this or you might be doing just that!. (Read More)
Submitted by Dazzlindonna:
Ask.com relaunches search engine for kids. AskKids.com has just been relaunched with a major overhaul, and in a time when parents want their kids to be comfortable online while also being surrounded by tales of a dangerous Internet, this is a smart move. (Read More)
Submitted by Dazzlindonna:
Social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia is going open source, announcing plans to allow anyone to download their code and run their own version of the service under a GPL license. While the project - dubbed M2 - won’t officially launch until next month, the company is launching Ma.gnolia.org today, which includes a project cha (Read More)
Submitted by Dazzlindonna:
Mozilla is "getting ready to take JavaScript performance into the next tier" with a radically innovative optimization tactic called tracing that has already produced performance improvements ranging between 20 and 40 times faster in some cases. (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Senator Barack Obama has all but settled on his choice for a running mate and set an elaborate rollout plan for his decision, beginning with an early morning alert to supporters, perhaps as soon as Wednesday morning, aides said.Obama's deliberations remain remarkably closely held. Aides said perhaps a half-dozen advisers we (Read More)
: "When we have our board meetings, the central topic is the revenue trajectory, not how happy our users are." - Not something you want to be hearing from the CEO
: Yeah Westergren seems like he's throwing the towel...I enjoyed the shameless plug: "I was on the bus when I get this message on my Treo," Westergren said. "I thought, 'We're dead.' "...maybe Palm threw him a few dollars for that.
: It's just that Westergren has the wrong end of the corporate funder stick - the one with the 'dirt' on it. The media does NOT want the Web radio to succeed because (sorry to explain the obvious) they perceive it as competition. They are happy to invest in a leading company just to have it fail with a bang so that others are scared to tread the path.
Is this end of story? NO. Westergren is hog tied along with his buddies but there's room for someone who is free from agenda laden moneylenders. The copyright police could not give squat for musicians. They were invented and set up BY the music biz FOR the biz. As usual musicians/artists are last in line for the cash. There is a way around this for a team that is committed to DO it. There have been others and there will be more - innovators who are not in the grip of greedy competitive moneylenders but can see further beyond than the length of their interest rates.
Submitted by Dazzlindonna:
Twitter adds threaded replies to API, but counts on outside developers to make use of it in external Twitter clients. (Read More)