Mashable!:
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Fido Factor Quick Pitch: Fido Factor is a dog-specific local search a (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Readers offer their best tips for updating Remember the Milk with Gmail's canned responses, avoiding mouse jumps while typing with touchpads, and repelling mosquitoes with Listerine. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader t (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The preview edition of Gina and Adam's new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. Google Wave is a young tool that's not terribly easy to understand for a lot of folks, but at least a couple of your Lifehacker editors are completely nuts for Wave and i (Read More)
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Susan Payton is the Managing Partner of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog, and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.We’re a week away from Black Friday and just a few years ago, if you wanted to find the be (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data that is understandable by machines for interpretation.However, with (Read More)
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It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and that means family traditions. But what if your family doesn’t really have any, or you simply want to start your own new ones? This might be the year where it’s your turn to up the heat and put together a Thanksgiving feast. With social media and the web, we’re lucky to have everything (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. Writer Ramit Sethi's first example, Jim Collins, might be familiar to those read up on productivity tech (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. Writer Ramit Sethi's first example, Jim Collins, might be familiar to those read up on productivity tech (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
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ReadWriteWeb:
Sysomos just launched the next version of Heartbeat, the company's social media monitoring tool. Highlights of Heartbeat 2.0 include a redesigned user interface and Facebook integration. Sysomos' customers can now monitor public conversations on Facebook and manage their Facebook Pages right from within Heartbeat. The Faceb (Read More)
Mashable!:
Back in July, Google made a move that long seemed inevitable when they announced the impending launch of their own operating system: Chrome OS. Since then, details on the project have remained sparse, other than that it would be lightweight (like the Chrome web browser), open source, and initially focused on the emerging n (Read More)
Brussels Blog:
From the FT’s Westminster blogCathy Ashton, Britain’s relatively low key European Commissioner, was on Thursday being talked up to take the new European post of foreign policy supremo at a summit in Brussels. Here are 10 details about her:– She spent most of her early career working for Business in the Community, a charity (Read More)