6 days ago

Sean's shared items in Google Reader Have you ever heard of Twitter tags? No, I’m not speaking of those search functionaries known as #hashtags, I’m talking about regular tags that are a staple of bookmarks and blog posts.The ability to sort and share are fundamental to how we interact with digital information. However, Twitter seems to have ignored the power (Read More)

Oct 23, 2009

Submitted by Scbalazs from Google Reader: There has been a lot in the news lately about companies banning social media in the office.  The USA Today reported on October 22, 2009 in their Snapshot®* that 54% of companies completely block Facebook, whereas another 35% apply some form of limits.  That leaves only 11% that don’t put any limitations on Facebook use in t (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

TechCrunch My mother always yells at me when she looks at my pictures on Flickr, saying that I don’t take enough pictures of people. The truth is, I do, I just put most of those on Facebook because it’s a billion times better for pictures of your friends because you can easily tag them. Now Flickr is gaining the same functionality — b (Read More)

Oct 18, 2009

MakeUseOf.com For beginner and amateur musicians, there are many online websites offering free sheet music. But once you begin to visit these sites, you will find that many of them are thinly disguised search portals with broken links or front-ends to lure you into purchasing something related to music. We here at MakeUseOf are always ha (Read More)

Oct 01, 2009

Mashable! David Spark (@dspark) is the founder of Spark Media Solutions, specialists in building industry voice through storytelling and social media. He blogs at Spark Minute and is a regular on Cranky Geeks and ABC Radio.For many, creating a podcast is something that’s done solely out of passion. But even among those who do it stri (Read More)

Sep 30, 2009

Lifehacker If you're not one of the 100,000 lucky users who gets an invitation to Google Wave today, don't fret. You can check out Google Wave right here. But first, ground rules. Click on all images in this post to see it full size. Uppercase "Wave" refers to the entire Google Wave product. Lowercase "wave" refers to an individual m (Read More)

Sep 25, 2009

readwriteweb Forest fires in California, the plane landing on the Hudson river, the Mumbai hotel attacks - these historical events and many more have been recorded by everyday people on the ground, using Twitter. The historic record may be much, much richer as a result - but you can't access it through search.twitter.com right now.Many (Read More)

Sep 17, 2009

Mashable! Remember NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)? It’s an 8-bit video game console released back in 1985. Besides being a solid gaming system, NES brought us legendary games such as Super Mario Bros, Tetris, and The Legend of Zelda. What does all that have to do with Google’s web browser, Chrome? Well, a chap named Ben Firshman (Read More)

Sep 06, 2009

Mashable! Did Danny DeVito just join Twitter? It seems that way, with the username @Danny_DeVito displaying a shirtless Devito as its avatar and featuring the star’s trademark quirky humor. DeVito, who appears back-to-front in his self-promotional Twitter pic, also offered a new spin on the usually awkward first Tweet (below).Is it (Read More)

Aug 26, 2009

Mashable! The most popular URL shortener on Twitter just teamed up with Imageshack’s Yfrog. Could this spell trouble for TwitPic?In a blog post earlier today, Bit.ly revealed several major companies using its API (application programming interface) to share their content via the URL shortening service. They include some big compani (Read More)

Aug 01, 2009

TechCrunch Right about now, Apple probably wishes it had never rejected Google Voice and related apps from the iPhone. Or maybe it was AT&T who rejected the apps. Nobody really knows. But the FCC launched an investigation last night to find out, sending letters to all three companies (Apple, AT&T, and Google) asking them to explain (Read More)

Jul 29, 2009

mashable Twitter now has a brand spankin’ new homepage. Of course, if you’re a regular Twitter user, you’re rarely going to see it because you’re already logged in. But for the 5 billion+ people Twitter has yet to convert, it provides the company’s big chance to get them to sign up and stay on their website.So what’s Twitter’s big (Read More)

Jul 29, 2009

TechCrunch The outcry over the Google Voice ban on the App Store is still going strong, with hundreds of news stories, developer posts, and complaints putting the story in and out of Twitter’s top trends for nearly three days running. Much of the blame has been directed at AT&T, over beliefs that the carrier forced Apple’s hand in it (Read More)

Jul 25, 2009

mashable When we first wrote about Foursquare back in March it had just hit the web scene at SXSW and was taking the social media community by storm. We instantly saw the potential of a location-based service based on your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay.Now we’re starting to see the app get adopted by more an (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

readwriteweb Sometimes, even HTML is just too hard.In this postmodern world, we're all professionally fragmented jacks of all trades, and few of us have the patience (read: OCD) for learning enough CSS and Flash to allow us to keep up with the Jonses in terms of functional, sexy web design. Here are some cheat sheets, the Cliff Notes of (Read More)

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