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It might take a few more years, or it might happen suddenly, but trends appear to indicate that the time when Internet Explorer is used by the majority of people on the web will soon come to an end. New numbers from analytics firm Net Applications put IE at a mere 67.5%, having dropped more than 7% last year. The bulk of (Read More)
: As the great Marc Presnky points out there is a vast differential between the fluent and new to the net - digital immigrants vs digital natives is massive. And even the natives are not properly taught to search the net. Time to look to education. Not browsers. Then at least we can all make an informed decision about browsers. Personally I am a recent chrome adoptee. Ex Flock.
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With an upgrade to its mobile maps, Google Inc. hopes to prove it can track people on the go as effectively as it searches for information on the Internet.The new software to be released Wednesday will enable people with mobile phones and other wireless devices to automatically share their whereabouts with family and friend (Read More)
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Rumors of a Facebook "sentiment engine" analyzing aggregate user data, or a new form of the company's Engagement Ads that offer rapid polling to advertisers, have been flying around the web since the start of this week's World Economic Forum in Switzerland. The reality behind these rumors seems to be much less exciting (or (Read More)
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Police in Cleveland say a man called 911 because he felt he was in danger — then asked the dispatcher to hold on while he made a drug deal. Police Lt. Thomas Stacho said Tuesday that Alejandro Melendez was arrested after the call and was charged with possessing cocaine.Police said Melendez called 911 late Saturday and repor (Read More)
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About 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social networking Web site MySpace, company and law enforcement officials said Tuesday.The number was nearly double what MySpace officials originally estimated last year, said North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, who along with Connecticut Attorney (Read More)
Mashable!
Tomorrow Facebook will celebrate its fifth birthday. The grown-up site has come a long way since its college-only days, and what better way for Facebook to share the love then to give its 150+ million members free gifts?Now don’t get too excited - the free gifts are of the virtual variety. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wr (Read More)
: I mention (probably very frequently) how I really dislike top 10 lists, but I make an exception for UI elements and development top 10 lists. At least they're directly useful!
TechCrunch
One of the simplest ways to use Twitter is to conduct instant polls among your followers. But compiling all the replies is an ad-hoc and messy process. Enter twtpoll, a simple polling app that lets you ask multiple choice questions and provides a shortened URL that you can Tweet. All you do is enter your Twitter user nam (Read More)
: nice site.. Company grew, expanded and diversified to include aluminum die casting, coil winding, insert molding, plastic injection molding, metal stamping, thermo-formed packaging trays and value added services. http://www.bepsi.net/profile.html
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[thenextweb] #sm Recover deleted files from your PC with Undelete Plus http://tinyurl.com/93q5y4. (Read More)
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Modern civilization may be the most advanced in history – but it could still be toppled by calamity like so many before. Here are some of the more likely dangers that might take us to the brink – or beyond. (Read More)
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