MacBlender
The three children of Bill and Melinda Gates may not be allowed to have a product from a certain Cupertino-based rival in their home, but that doesn't mean Mrs. Gates doesn't wish for an Apple gadget every once in a while. (Read More)
Mashable!
Many companies are starting to realize that whatever content they offer online, it still can’t match the various social media offerings out there, where the community contributes to the whole. Few, however, have taken it so far as candy maker Skittles, which replaced its entire homepage with its Twitter stream. The on (Read More)
Engadget
Google just announced a new service for pushing Gmail contacts and Google Calendar updates to mobile devices. For iPhone and Windows Mobile devices Google is using Exchange ActiveSync -- they can only push one-way to the device, and there are other limitations due to the beta nature of the service -- for devices that suppor (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
The Telegraph is reporting that social networking giant Facebook has new plans for generating revenue; offering its 150 million user database as a market research tool to corporations. Starting this spring, companies will be able to selectively target Facebook's members in order to research the appeal of new products throu (Read More)
Portals and KM
Dan Schawbel wrote an excellent post on Mashable on the Top 10 Reputation Tracking Tools Worth Paying For. I have reviewed one of them on the AppGap – see Radian6 – Monitoring Social Media. You can find Dan’s view of Radian6 and 9 others through the above post. I list the complete ten below in this cross-post from AppGap wi (Read More)
Delicious hotlist
TO SOME there is nothing so urgent that it cannot be postponed in favour of a cup of tea. Such procrastination is a mystery to psychologists, who wonder why people would sabotage themselves in this way. A team of researchers led by Sean McCrea of the University of Konstanz, in Germany, reckon they have found a piece of the (Read More)
: @michaelfidler my tea was too hot, for starters. So I needed something to do while it cools. And I don't want to check my email just yet as per that book I haven't read yet, but have heard others talking about. So I checked my Relplize, and here you are engaging my intellect in conversation surrounding procrastination, which I took as a sign from the Universe that my tea would cool itself in the same amount of time it takes for me to read and comment on said article.
I have no idea why people procrastinate, but what I gather, it seems to be tea-related and not necessarily a self-sabotage situation.
The Economist
Blank cheques, bankruptcy, nationalisation: the options are dire, but governments must choose between them“STARTING today,” President Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address from the Capitol, “we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.” In fact (Read More)