Submitted by Emmeffe2
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Today’s featured artist is Liverpool, UK based painter Danny O’Connor. O’Connor (aka DOC), graduated from Liverpool’s John Moores Art School where he studied graphic arts. Concentrating mainly on figurative and portrait subject matter, his influences include comic books, graffiti, illustration, and character design. With (Read More)
Submitted by Koltregaskes
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Witch platform will you pick? SEGA has announced that the European PS3 and Xbox 360 demos of Bayonetta are due out next Tuesday, 3rd December. "You'll have to wait and see," a SEGA spokesperson told Eurogamer when quiz (Read More)
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
One of the things that’s been consistent about Trackur’s social media monitoring since launch, is that it tracks around 90%+ of online media. You know, news, blogs, tweets, images, videos, etc.But, what about that other 10%?Well, we think we’ve shored that up, with the new option to submit your own RSS feed to Trackur.The n (Read More)
Smashing Apps:
Who in your company spoke last with one of your customers? When and what did they talk about? You can use Timetonote to log conversations, calls or emails and keep a history of communications with customers, suppliers, leads or anyone else that matters to your business.Timetonote is a web based collaboration tool that helps (Read More)
Submitted by Levydr
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Photo of Wired writer Evan Ratliff courtesy of oxmour on Flickr.The November issue of Wired Magazine contains a fascinating narrative account of how writer Evan Ratliff disappeared and created a new identity for himself, and how Knight grantee Jeff Reifman and a community of dogged Web pursuers found him, using Knight-funde (Read More)
Submitted by Davesaunders
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Starting on December 1, the FTC is dropping a bomb on the world of online marketing. It impacts the use of endorsements and testimonials and from my reading it appears that these new guidelines have nothing to do with ensuring truthful use of endorsements and testimonials, but rather seeks to eliminate them as a form of le (Read More)
Submitted by Pink Lisa
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What would you do if you want a jigsaw puzzle with your significant other's mug on it? The standard method would be to have a custom puzzle printed up that features their photo, however Mark Setteducati and Ken Knowlton have come up with a better way: Jicazu. Using 300 generic pieces of varying intensity, their puzzle can (Read More)
Mashable!:
While some of us might be willing to pay to make Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars go away, it appears that Wall Street has other ideas.Specifically, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities tells Bloomberg that “If the IPO [for Zynga] were timed to price around mid-2010 or later, our expectation would be for a b (Read More)
betashop:
“A new green college campus was built, but one thing was still debated: Where in the grass should we put the paved walkways? Some felt the walkways should be around the edges, to leave the center green and untouched. Some felt the walkways should cut diagonal, connecting all buildings to all buildings. One professor had the (Read More)
Xconomy:
Venture Capital, startups, innovation Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: OnTech, a San Diego venture that makes self-heating beverage containers sold under the Hillside Beverages brand, went out of business Nov. 8, according to a brief notice on its online store. Venture Wire, which was the first to report the company had gone co (Read More)
Submitted by Koltregaskes
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Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Question of the Day, Supercars, PetrolHeadsWhich car manufacturer has made the most great cars? - http://www.topgear.com/uk...3 hours ago- Comment- LikeRoberto Bonini and Havang liked thisJeremy Clarkson would like to know. :-) - Kol TregaskesI'm an Audi fan. Mercedes-Benz is good too; I like st (Read More)
Jaguars:
As much as Mike Sims-Walker likes his teal No. 11, the receiver thinks he may have walked out of Jacksonville Municipal Stadium with a more valuable jersey after the Jaguars’ 18-15 win over the Bills on Sunday.read more. (Read More)
techno.blog("Dion"):
“Just what the world needs—another sucky JavaScript library,” he said. When I asked him what made it ‘sucky’, he elaborated. “It’s a JavaScript library written by Java developers who clearly don’t get JavaScript.”This quote is by Kevin Yank, talking to Dmitry Baranovskiy, author of the fantastic Raphaël graphics abstraction (Read More)
Freakonomics:
Daron Acemoglu describes what makes a nation rich in a new article for Esquire. According to Acemoglu, experts who believe geography or the weather or technology are to blame for persistent poverty are missing a much simpler economic explanation: people respond to incentives. (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
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Can anyone living in Cumbria offer any advice re: route planning in the current conditions? My wife needs to drive from Millom, to Southfield School (Formerly Salterbeck) in Workington tomorrow, and to Keswick school on Wednesday. If you have local knowledge and can advise on which areas to avoid/suggest alternative route (Read More)