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Facebook’s clearly up to something big. Facebook acquired Friendfeed. Facebook rolled out realtime search. And now, it looks like “Facebook Lite” is coming, because thousands of Facebook users have been chosen to test out Facebook Lite, including myself. And just as quickly, the message disappeared. What it is exactly… (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com
My HyperText Markup Language (HTML) skills are rusty for certain, but perhaps that qualifies me for this article. Back in the day when Friends was still on TV and AOL was sending out free coasters and mini-frisbees daily, I was creating websites to load on dial-up modems. As time went on, I had the nerve to think that there (Read More)
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In a Beet.tv interview posted yesterday, Wikimedia deputy director Erik Moller gave a few clues as to the Foundation's train of thought when it comes to video editing and distribution.In the interview clips, included below, Moller hints at the site's upcoming suite of editing tools and sharing options. He compares video to (Read More)
: This may one day be an additional pillar behind a much more open web and computing experience. Which is a great thing imho. I've never minded paying for tools, services or even content that benefits me, but I despise paying for something that I still have no control over and can't tweak to my exact needs. I believe that Open Source projects and developers who understand that mentality are going to rule the world soon.
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A four story building collapsed in Brooklyn today, just before 2pm. The “Vesper Bar & Lounge” at 493 Myrtle Avenue is completely unrecognizable after the collapse, which saw no casualties and four minor injuries, according to early reports. The Bar was closed at the time and emergency services are still on the scene.Image (Read More)
Webware.com
Flickr has made significant efforts at improving its mobile interface over the last year, and has just put out a useful update for iPhone and Android users which builds on that. Through the wonders of the latest iPhone firmware update, the built-in Safari browser can finally acquire the user's location information and pass (Read More)
The Open Road
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has suggested that "Twitter's a success for us when people stop talking about it," perhaps particularly its business model (or lack thereof). Unfortunately, either it's a success and I didn't get the memo, or it still has room to improve.Assuming the latter, here are a few things that I'd gla (Read More)
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Teachers are always trying to combat student apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History Professor Monica Rankin has found an interesting way to do it using Twitter in the classroom.Rankin uses a weekly hashtag to organize comments, questions and feedback posted by students to Twitter during class. Some of the student (Read More)
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Do you remember how, a couple of years ago, you could tell someone who was clueless about computers to simply switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox, and that action alone would fix 90% of all their security problems?This hasn’t been true for a while now, unfortunately. The fact that Internet Explorer is still the most wi (Read More)
TechCrunch
Yesterday, on it Twitter API Wiki, Twitter quietly unveiled a “Sign in with Twitter” feature. It’s a very simple idea: It gives you the option to use your Twitter ID as your login for third party services. But what’s more interesting is what Twitter could do with this. Basically, this could be the first step at launching a (Read More)
: I think twitter is the correct one to do this Connect login. Because it's small, independent and could negotiate with Facebook, Friend Connect and OpenId to gain for its users one login connecting to all.
Digital Photography School
If you are new to working in Lightroom your first few weeks will be a steep learning curve. Here are my top 5 mistakes to be aware of and avoid when you’re starting out. I hope they’ll save you wasting time, getting frustrated and generally tearing your hair out.1. Think - Navigate on the left - Keyword on the right.Ok, so (Read More)
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Warner Brothers has officially released the final trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Coming in at 2 minutes and 20 seconds, here is plenty of new footage available: Katie Bell being tortured, the Sectumsempra battle, Draco on the Astronomy Tower, as well as Snape uttering the cold words, "It's over.". (Read More)
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Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with changing usage patter (Read More)