Nov 12, 2009

kottke.org As part of Newsweek's extensive 2010 project (more on that next week), they've produced a 7-minute video showing the highlights from the past decade. Wassup! Wassup! What a decade. (thx, jr) Tags: The 2000s   video. (Read More)

7 hours ago

Logic+Emotion A nice reminder from Chris Brogan. I recommend watching the entire talk—it's only 10 minutes. Here's what you need to know: as an observer and active participant of the social web for several years, I've seen the power of serendipity influence how business gets done. Business leads coming in through Twitter because the pers (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Snsundar from Google Reader: The holiday season is here in the US and A and with that commences the seemingly never ending list of potluck parties, not that I’m complaining. At one such potluck in an official setting, some of us volunteered to bring food towards the potluck lunch.I took the easy way out, I brought salad and dressing to the lunch. A co- (Read More)

1 day ago

GigaOM You’ve gotta hand it to Google: The company is never shy about throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick. Over the years, it’s introduced countless projects that have gone through long beta cycles only to fail miserably — or achieve a degree of success far below what was expected. Google Doc (Read More)

5 days ago

Valleywag It's great that Google has contests awarding money and computers to schoolchildren. Less great: It gives the victor in India 1/20th of what an American kid gets for winning the same contest.Puru Pratap's design to spruce up the Google logo for a day (see below) beat out designs from other Indian contestants. It ran on the h (Read More)

2 days ago

TechCrunch BANGALORE, INDIA — It’s almost as if Russian cell phone carrier MTS has bought the naming rights to Bangalore. I half expected my immigration stamp to read “BANGALORE! ™ BROUGHT TO YOU BY MTS.” The carrier recently launched service in the uber-competitive Indian telecom market and has erected billboards every twenty feet or (Read More)

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The Unofficial Apple Weblog Filed under: Hardware, Multimedia, Found Footage, Apple History Here's a great video assembled by applemctom that presents the history of Apple (more or less) in two minutes. There are some huge leaps in time and some obvious errors (Apple Mac II? MacIntosh?), but that's OK. It isn't easy to cram decades of history into 120 (Read More)

2 days ago

Knowledge Hemispheres Consolidated Feed for New Media Gabe Rivera, founder of news aggregator Techmeme. Credit: Mark Milian/Los Angeles Times.Don't tell News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, but technology news aggregator Techmeme is raking in profits.Rather than visiting the front pages of every newspaper or choosing a few out of brand loyalty, as Murdoch hopes consumers will do, agg (Read More)

2 days ago

BuzzTracker.com - Twitter In August we announced that we were working on a new API that would provide developers with the ability to geotag tweets. Today, the Geotagging API is officially available.This release is unique in that it's API-only which means you won't see any changes on twitter.com, yet. Instead, Twitter applications like Birdfeed, Sees (Read More)

2 days ago

Scripting News My chin fell to the floor this morning as I read a BBC article quoting Twitter co-CEO Biz Stone advising Rupert Murdoch to be more open. This got me to think about where Twitter is and where they're going and how similar it is to where Murdoch's newspapers are. In a newspaper, reporters get the prime space with the big head (Read More)

3 days ago

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO Last week I was in Las Vegas for PubCon, a conference for publishers, and I wanted to share the slides from my main presentation:When I get a chance, I’ll also re-create the talk on video and share the video with you, but in the mean time Lisa Barone did a nice live write-up and coverage of the Q&A.It’s always nice to see S (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Kentnewsome from blog: I've spent lots of blog space and podcast time pooping all over Facebook.  Saying how it is for kids, that it's AOL 2.0, that it's the internet kiddie pool.  I was right, and I was wrong.  Mostly wrong. Facebook is all of those things, of course, but perhaps in an evolutionary- and not a pejorative- way.  More than anythi (Read More)

3 days ago

iPhone Alley - RSS Despite official iPhones not having Wi-Fi, a large population of jailbreakers and rampant app piracy, the Chinese App Store is managing to grow at a healthy rate. Meanwhile, China Unicom is optimistic that the iPhone will become the device top-selling smartphone in China. (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Snsundar from Google Reader: The Hindi word bhaiya translates into “big brother”. It’s used mostly to politely hail a male stranger—the Hindi equivalent of “Excuse me, sir”—or to address him in mid-conversation. An innocuous piece of vocabulary, in other words—until it’s wielded by an Indian woman.In their hands, bhaiya is a weapon of coercion unparall (Read More)

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