L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Thing Labs in their San Francisco office. Chris Wetherell, middle left, and Jason Shellen, middle right. Credit: Mark Milian / Los Angeles TimesThe mad scientists at Thing Labs have a very impressive track record.On the sixth floor of a trendy building in San Francisco's recently renovated Mint Plaza, four former Google emp (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
TweetMeme is launching Adtweets! Nick Halstead is at the Real-Time Crunchup in San Francisco today to reveal and demo our new, and exciting product! The idea behind this product was based around wanting to reward advertisers for using great, interactive and engaging adverts. The Adtweets are a way of putting pressure on ad (Read More)
mashable:
We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series. Last week Microsoft Office bested Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion.This week we turned our attention to a rather timely battle (Read More)
Mashable!:
Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader.Is your favorite app or service not represented in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure y (Read More)
Bob Schwartz Online:
The women out pawning a book despite some not believing that she has ever read one is apparently sticking it to her supporters once again and her Sioux Falls fans looking forward to her appearance here on December 6th might want to pay close attention.Sarah Palin's whirlwind book signing tour in small towns with easily cont (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
from Google Reader:
20 Nov 2009 // Washington D.C. - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint today with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) campaign committee, Friends of Mary Landrieu, Inc. The complaint concerns a mysterious $25,300 “donation” to the U.S. (Read More)
Submitted by Dennismcguire
from blog:
Ever since the NCAA basketball schedules were set, I've been looking forward to watching North Carolina take on Ohio State in the Coaches vs. Cancer tournament, particularly to see the development of Ed Davis and get a glimpse of freshman John Henson. Immediately upon laying eyes on the Tar Heels, one thing stands out above (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Extracting meaning from the Web is a difficult undertaking. Keyword search skims the surface of contextual meaning that is locked in Web pages, Tweets and feeds. That’s where semantic search comes in. The semantic web deals with looking beyond simple links that make up the web to understand a deeper meaning and context behi (Read More)
Submitted by Motown Terri
from blog:
Author : Vanessa EliosancoSystems of brand building have always been a topic of discussion within marketers From numerous ways of campaigning to an assortment of promotional products available in the market, designating the right style to introduce a brand or heighten one's visibility has never been a breeze Some companies (Read More)
Shakesville:
[Trigger warning.]Media Matters has noticed that prominent members of the conservative media sure love using "rape" as a metaphor (note the number of times it's used to accuse progressives of "raping" their fellow Americans): [Transcript below.]There's plenty more where that came from. Over at conservative cesspool Townhal (Read More)
Submitted by Multiplayerit
from blog:
Sconti, prove e nuovi arrivi In occasione della festività americana del Ringraziamento (il "thanksgiving"), Microsoft rivela le offerte in programma per la settimana su Xbox Live.Le offerte sono valide per tutte le regioni di Xbox Live e partono questo fine settimana con la possibilità per tutti gli utenti Silver di utilizz (Read More)
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
The Enterprise Cloud Summit panel at the Interop Conference yesterday discussed some of the challenges and concerns of large enterprises and government agencies in moving their applications to the cloud. While there are some regulatory and compliance concerns for some applications, it isn’t an all or nothing proposition. Mo (Read More)
I Will Teach You To Be Rich:
I’m always on the lookout for “hidden gems,” or people who are doing remarkable work that the whole world hasn’t caught on to, yet. Today, I asked my friend Cal Newport to illustrate how he completely dominates as a post-doc at MIT, author of multiple books, and popular blogger. How does he do it all?Cal writes one of the b (Read More)
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
Less than a month after the Washington Blade, known as “the gay paper of record,” celebrated its 40th Anniversary at a glitzy reception at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., comes news that the paper will no longer exist. The Blade—along with Atlanta’s Southern Voice and four other LGBT publications—shut d (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Something very peculiar is going on with a small-cap storage products company called Netlist Inc. (NLST).A 100-person memory products company based in Irvine, California, Netlist had been bumping along in low-price, low-trading-volume obscurity until late October. Consider this progression, which is illustrated in the 1-mon (Read More)