TechCrunch:
TechCrunch50 is now just a month away, and we are very busy here reviewing the nearly 900 start-ups from 49 different countries that have applied. The ideas and innovations that have been brought to our attention are mind blowing. You will not want to miss out on this year’s conference as the next generation of tech (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
RECORDING TV shows -- and skipping the commercials that come with them -- may become more pervasive in the wake of a new court ruling that blesses a new networked form of digital video recorder.The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York said Monday that the so-called network DVR, which records pro (Read More)
Mashable!:
What is it with us denizens of the Internet? Free isn’t cheap enough for us, apparently. When a band like Radiohead comes out with an album, puts it up on a website for us, and gets more press coverage than just about any album release in recent memory, and says “Hey, pay us for it if you want to,“ we st (Read More)
Mashable!:
Ten, five, even two years ago, documenting a road trip meant disposable cameras, a fold-out map, postage stamps and planning ahead. Now a road trip means streaming video, GPS, email, and Hotels.com.Even if you’re not rocking an iPhone or BlackBerry, I know from personal experience (like last month, before I had an iPhone) t (Read More)
USATODAY.com Tech - Top Stories:
Luke Skywalker, eat your heart out. Emotiv's elegant, lightweight EPOC headset is a piece of cutting-edge technology that grants ...
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Lifehacker:
If you print a lot of documents on your inkjet printer at home, you've probably noticed that the costs of ink and paper over time are simply ridiculous—in some cases, they can exceed the price of your entire computer. After spending a weekend printing receipts for the accountant and completely depleting my $14.99 bla (Read More)
Huffington Post:
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Brett Favre will be reinstated and added to the Green Bay Packers' active roster Monday.The NFL announced the move Sunday after commissioner Roger Goodell had held off on granting Favre's request for reinstatement for nearly a week, hoping Favre and the team could resolve their standoff. By reinstati (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Good morning and welcome to your Sunday Morning Liveblog. This morning's session of psychological terrorism is the only thing standing in the way of me packing for the beach and taking a much needed break from the political figures and media personages that by now I'd like to take a rusty brace and bit to in defense of my (Read More)
: No one has to begin with Chris Wallace and Lindsay Graham unless you just can't resist beating up the teacher's pets. Nice guys can come across so freakin self righteous and that makes them easy targets for a Huffington bitchfest. But why not debate what they actually say instead of attacking their jowls? Graham has never been my cup of tea but I begrudingly admit to agreeing with him at times. And if you don't like FoxNews Musak just turn over to NPR and get a snoot full of retro symphonia.
ReadWriteWeb:
Energy giant Exxon Mobil fell victim to a Twitter user spoofing official use of an account named ExxonMobilCorp, it was discovered yesterday, and now a discussion is unfolding among social media advocates about what the company should do.Many people say that Twitter is frivolous and unimportant. In this case those people w (Read More)
Submitted by Mani Karthik:
Social media measurement is one of those topics about which everyone has an opinion, but nobody agrees on the solution. The question about how to measure the return on investment (ROI) for social media participation comes up in every workshop I deliver, as definitive, statistic-based metrics seem to be the primary way commu (Read More)
: Social Marketing couldincrease ROI enormously. The Question is if the money spent really all that great? I feel there are free ways that actually could increase your potential.
ReadWriteWeb:
My first post for ReadWriteWeb, just over 1 year ago, started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only space left was (re)search - what users do after the basic search.None of the search start-ups since then has made me change my mind. None of the cool new user interface fea (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Should I bother trying to buy eco-friendly furniture?Is there a way to subscribe en masse to a few hundred web sites without knowing the feed URLs? How do I learn new programming languages and start using modern webapps without getting frustrated and angry?Should I legally change my often mispronounced name? How do I go fro (Read More)