Mashable!
This is a guest post written by Mark Dykeman. Mark broadcasts from his brain about communications, social media, and technology several times per week at Broadcasting Brain. He enjoys participating in several social media sites, including Twitter, FriendFeed, and StumbleUpon.Oil and broadband Internet access are the twin fu (Read More)
: I read somewhere recently that the US is 16 or 17 in the worldwide league table for speed and reliability. Much of Western Europe is certainly ahead of the US.
: I agree with the author. During 1999-2000 a 256kbps unlimited connection for our office used to cost us $5000 dollars per month whereas now the same connection $ 84 dollars. It is directly reflecting on our services and given raise to massive expansion. Now we are able to offer many services for lowest level possible and become one of the best BPOs.
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Hey everyone -- what do you think of the new design?
Have you discovered the roll-overs for people and news networks? (hover your mouse over someone's name in your News Feed). (Read More)
: You can now filter your news feed by person or by news network by hovering over a person or news network and then clicking on the "Zoom to" button, to zoom to that person or network in your news feed.
ReadWriteWeb
Last.fm is a great music service that keeps track of your listening habits. Though you can view stats such as last played tracks, top artists, or most played songs with just words and numbers, it can be limiting in so many ways. We're huge fans of visualization tools, so wouldn't it be cool if you could grab a visual histor (Read More)
: Last.fm is a great music service that keeps track of your listening habits. Though you can view stats such as last played tracks, top artists, or most played songs with just words and numbers, it can be limiting in so many ways. We're huge fans of visualization tools, so wouldn't it be cool if you could grab a visual history of your Last.fm stats? LastGraph is just the service for the job.
USAElectionPolls.com
We were not regular updating the website during the memorial day weekend because there just were not enough polls being conducted. The democratic primary has pretty much come to a halt and then, as a pollster, why would you bother polling on a weekend where a large number of people may be on vacation anyways. The disparity (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Social media. Web 2.0. You know what these things are and you take advantage of them every day on the net. Whether you're socializing on Facebook, updating Twitter, or just adding a new bookmark to Ma.gnolia, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. However, that doesn't mean that it's something that eve (Read More)
Submitted by Johanbryggare:
One of the toughest things for someone writing about tech trends for a general audience is keeping up with what's new, but also having some perspective about how the average person uses technology.Twitter is just one product that's evolved from the explosion of sites classified as Web 2.0, which allow people to easily creat (Read More)
NPR Blogs: The NPR News Blog
Two North Carolina TV stations, one in Raleigh and one in Charlotte, say they won't run the controversial ad that attacks Sen. Barack Obama and the two Democrats running for governor. The ad, produced by the state's Republican Party, links together the Illinois senator and Rev. Jeremiah Wright and calls Obama too extreme fo (Read More)
TechCrunch
As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips. In fact, some argue that keyword search is already delivering diminishing returns—as the slide above by Nova Sp (Read More)
NPR Blogs: The NPR News Blog
The Democratic Indiana primary looks like it's going to be closer than anything of the races we've seen so far.A new poll by the Indianapolis Star-WTHR shows that Sen. Barack Obama has a three-point lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton -- 41% to 38% -- with a week and a half to go before the May 6th primary. But with a margin of (Read More)