TechCrunch:
Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. It’s becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I’m guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help us create just about eve (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. (Read More)
Mashable!:
Last week we reported on Google’s new music discovery features. The Google music search endeavor is partnership between Google, MySpace, Lala, and several others to make music search and discovery a primary feature of the Google experience.In fact, Google music search does more than just return a few track listings; it offe (Read More)
New York Times:
The Food and Drug Administration said that it had warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to consumers online.
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New York Times:
Longtime Newsday police reporter and columnist Leonard Levitt was once barred from headquarters. He sued to regain access, and still visits weekly to gather news for his Web site.
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Mashable!:
As you can probably tell from our extensive coverage this week, we’re extremely excited about the possibilities of Twitter Lists: from how news organizations are leveraging the feature, to a full Twitter Lists FAQ to the potential for real-time journalism and the utility of lists after the tragic Fort Hood shootings.As such (Read More)
Mashable!:
America’s most trusted satire newspaper and website, The Onion, has been steadily moving into online video in the past few years (with many hilarious pokes at the Web, the iPhone, and social media along the way).Now, the outfit has landed a very real deal with Comedy Central to develop a pilot for a show based on its Onion (Read More)
Mashable!:
November 6 is an important day for both Verizon and Motorola — and to a somewhat lesser extent, Google. The U.S.’s largest carrier is unleashing its first Android device, and from the swath of reviews already in it looks to be a monster of a phone. Thus far it is being hailed as both the best Android phone to date as well a (Read More)
mashable:
XMPP might sound like a foreign language to you, but the extensible messaging and presence protocol was developed by Jabber and it’s the technology that powers many popular instant messenger clients.Today we’re learning from Process One that Facebook is readying an XMPP connection interface that would make it possible for y (Read More)
New York Times:
The Food and Drug Administration has identified 140 different dubious products sold online and has sent letters to 75 manufacturers.
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Mashable!:
Google Alerts, once the secret of savvy online marketers and social media experts, have become the de facto way for the masses to keep one eye always on the web.While there have been attempts to apply the instant alerts concept to Twitter, we haven’t seen an application get the formula completely right yet. Perhaps we spoke (Read More)
mashable:
To many, it’s becoming increasingly clear that mobile is the next big platform. First, the iPhone revolutionized browsing the web. A year later, the iPhone app store launched, bringing a new platform and new possibilities to developers and smartphone owners everywhere. Now with growing app ecosystems on Google Android, S (Read More)
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This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Learn more about Grasshopper at Grasshopper.com.Let’s face it: as an entrepreneur, the odds are stacked against you. Most businesses fail after the first few years, and even if you do manage to survive, that doesn’t mean your busi (Read More)