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Submitted by Louisgray
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You might have heard of Doug Engelbart, and you might know him as the inventor of the computer mouse. But you probably don't know that he is one of the most influential computer visionaries of all time.In the 1960s he and his colleagues were playing with concepts and designing systems that today we take for granted: visual (Read More)
15 hours ago
: This guy is very honestly one of my heroes. His work was so pioneering for the time, so advanced, that words covering the concepts developed in his collaborative system didn't even appear for over a decade after his "Mother of All Demos." And as a bit of trivia, he and his team invented the mouse. THE MOUSE.So, did he get rich and famous for his brilliance? No, not at all. He was hired as an engineer, any patents that were developed by him went to the company he worked for (Stanford Research Institute) and he remains humble to this day. Hats off to you, Doug. 
1 hour ago
: @lemonknickers Sounds like Obama's doctrine...rich pay more taxes and they support the middle class. I am sure many would definitely disagree with this. Nonetheless 20% taxes and free health care...well that just means I should move there right away :-D. I do hope that the new govt works on the healthcare policy here in the US. We do need it.Oh by the way, I was looking up Doug Engelbart. He is one of receipients of the Turing award for, and I quote, "For an inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing and the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision." I think its just not right that someone so decorated not be given the chance to develop the good stuff he could have. 
53 minutes ago
: Another person that envisioned the Internet - that may well have been inspired by Doug's work is a chap called David Gelernter - he's a Yale computer scientist and his mental images of how this kind of artificial world created by computers and software would function in the future with us at the controls - social,business, commerce, public information - when the idea of having a library at your fingertips or a satnav/gps system to tell you where you are were still generally seen as "near future" events and not at a commercial, mass production stage - his book mirror worlds gave a glimpse of what was to come. pre Windows software.
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TechCrunch:
Conspiracy theory lovers are going to have a field day with this one: when you try to access Facebook using the Google Chrome browser today, you’ll get a warning that the social network may in fact be a phishing site. At least, it gave a warning here and at least two tipsters.It worked fine for me until earlier this m (Read More)
6 hours ago
: I haven't ever seen this in Firefox, and I don't use Chrome, but I find it quite amusing.But it's not really that surprising, think of all the inter-connectivity that exists in Facebook, all the apps that most people have given access to their info., pictures, life. From superpoke to mob wars, everything has access to your info. 12
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Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Earlier in the year you may remember Twitter “accidentally” deleting a large portion of a majority of their users’ followers and having to spend days restoring those from tape backup due to their mishap. Well, it would appear that Twitter has done it again. This time may not be as obvious to users.On SocialToo.com I was not (Read More)
6 hours ago
: Somehow it's hard for me to be upset because the auto-follow feature for SocialToo isn't working. I haven't had any issues with Tweetdeck or twhirl, so I guess this is upsetting to developers and no one else.
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Submitted by Magitam
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With the rise of app-laden smartphones like the iPhone and Google's Android OS, now on T-Mobile's G1, many penny-pinching shoppers have downloaded barcode scanning applications onto their mobile devices. These apps allow consumers to compare the prices of merchandise on a store's shelf to competing stores in the area just b (Read More)
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Submitted by Louisgray
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed) In a very quiet announcement in a bug request on Google today, Alex Payne, API Lead at Twitter, announced the popular microupdate service would switch the status of implementing OpenMicroblogger support from "Accepted", to "Won't Fix". In the words of Payne, "We've consid (Read More)
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