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Submitted by Isaacaggrey from Google Reader: I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars): It's never too early to start the xmas marketing campaign, and RoboBuilder is an attractive and affordable hobby robot kit. http://www.plasticpals.com http://www.robobuilder.net/eng/. (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

ReadWriteWeb When Google announced their plans for a new "cloud"-based operating system built around the web browser, there was some concern about the OS's capabilities. Although a lot of our computing can now be done in the web browser these days thanks to online applications and services, there are still quite a few operations that ne (Read More)

Nov 09, 2009

Engadget We just received a set of screengrabs from an anonymous source giving us a glimpse at what appears to be Google's (and thus, the world's) future interface to its web applications, Gmail in particular. While we were originally tempted to ignore them, communications with the tipster would indicate genuine insider knowledge. R (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Simon Willison's Weblog Adobe, in their “open government” whitepaper (which, of course, is a PDF): Since the advent of the web, an entire infrastructure has evolved to enable public access to information. Such technologies include HTML, Adobe PDF, and Adobe® Flash® technology.Clay Johnson responds: This is nonsense. The fact is, sticking to op (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Submitted by Mahendra from Google Reader: Everyone is talking about the “real-time web”. That’s usually a pretty strong indication of a buzzword that will soon mean very little. Some would argue that it already doesn’t mean much. And yet, as Paul Graham’s web 2.0 article showed, it is possible to extract value even out of apparently meaningless buzzwords. “Real-tim (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

TechCrunch My mother always yells at me when she looks at my pictures on Flickr, saying that I don’t take enough pictures of people. The truth is, I do, I just put most of those on Facebook because it’s a billion times better for pictures of your friends because you can easily tag them. Now Flickr is gaining the same functionality — b (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

GigaOM We have gone back and forth on the existence of Google Phone for a long time. In the beginning there was a talk of a Google Phone which turned out to be Android, Google’s mobile operating system targeting handset makers such as HTC, Motorola and Samsung. Now there is word that Google might actually be looking to make their (Read More)

Aug 28, 2009

Submitted by Isaacaggrey from Google Reader: I admittedly didn’t know much about Ernest Hemingway beyond his fine works of literature until I read Chris Hutcheson’s article, “The Hemingway You Didn’t Know: Papa’s Adventures.” Despite Hemingway’s flaws, he spent his life engaging in all manner of bad assery. I was so inspired by Chris’ article that I decided to put tog (Read More)

May 21, 2009

Consumerist When some lowlife tried to scam Andy the other day through his friend's hijacked Gmail account, Andy tried to get him to use PayPal, and he came up with a great reason why. "It's the fastest way to send money," Andy told the scammer. "Once I deposit the funds, you can print it out of any color printer and it's real money!" (Read More)

Sep 15, 2009

YouTube gbatuyong Google Wave Developer Preview presentation at the Day 2 Keynote of Google I/O. To learn more visit http://wave.google.com. (Read More)

Sep 14, 2009

louisgray-com With the introduction of an updated terms of service last week, Twitter once again had people buzzing about what was accepted behavior on the fast-growing microblogging site, and what crossed the line. In one of the site's frequent list-based articles dedicated to the San Francisco company, Mashable claimed one of the targe (Read More)

Sep 13, 2009

GigaOM Let’s say that you’re an entrepreneur or general manager about to take a new product to market. How do you price it? Traditional economic theory tells us that the market clearing price is the point at which supply and demand meet, and that consumers always know the utility of any given purchase. So surely pricing your produ (Read More)

Sep 13, 2009

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Sep 04, 2009

louisgray-com As Twitter becomes infrastructure, and its features become well-known, it has become a challenge for third-party clients, like TweetDeck, Seesmic, HootSuite, Tweetie and others to separate from the pack. But a recent entrant, Brizzly, has a serious advantage that looks to be paying dividends. You see... the core team consi (Read More)

Sep 03, 2009

ReadWriteWeb I've been a happy iPhone user for about a year but I just bought an Android phone yesterday and I like it a lot. I decided to buy an HTC MyTouch on T-Mobile yesterday in order to use the Operating System. Here are my thoughts on it after my first 24 hours.Many of us have high hopes for Android. It's not as polished, as (Read More)

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