3 days ago

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader: Over the past few years, we've worked hard to open source large pieces of our infrastructure such as Thrift, Scribe, and Hive, as we continue to take steps to support the open community and build a scalable, secure, and sustainable identity platform. Along with the code itself, what makes it possible for you to freely use (Read More)

3 days ago

TechCrunch The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real.The next “super” Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that’s much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone – The the Dragon/Passion. This is the phone the sen (Read More)

3 days ago

The Next Web Here at the Microsoft PDC event, there are about a dozen Microsoft Surface computers spread out around the center, open for anyone to sit down and play with. Put simply, they are nearly endless fun.They are currently running an application that streams photos and tweets that contain a specific hashagged tweets in a scrollin (Read More)

Nov 07, 2009

TechCrunch Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. It’s becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I’m guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help us create just about eve (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

ResourceShelf Something very new from Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Knowledgeland. From the Web Site:Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to a selection of audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse.As part of Images for the Future, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision a (Read More)

Oct 18, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider Yahoo Is A Surprising Second Among User-Authentication ServicesYahoo's "It's Y!ou" Campaign Turns Off ConsumersMac Sales Spike When A New Version Of Windows Comes OutiPhone Has 30% Of The Smartphone MarketGoogle's Massive Cash Flow In Context IIJoin the conversation about this story »See Also:CHART OF THE DAY: Google's Mass (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

SlashGear We have seen the Blackberry 9700 quite a bit already for the device to not even be available at retail outlets yet. The 9700 has been spied in the wild a few times and is already claimed by some to be the best Blackberry yet. If you have been waiting to get your hands on the device, the wait is only about a month away if yo (Read More)

Oct 03, 2009

Lifehacker You've probably heard about a hard-to-get, hugely new service called Google Wave. Lest ye forget, there are plenty of web-based collaboration tools that don't require learning a new way of speaking. Here are a few of our (mostly free) favorites. Photo by woodleywonderworks. 10. Cc:Betty This email-organizing service is open (Read More)

Sep 25, 2009

Lifestream Blog Over the last couple of years I have seen my fair share of critics that post negative commentary about Lifestreaming. I feel that this is due to a narrow-minded view of what it is. This in part is due to the misconception that Lifestreaming is only about personal narcissm and vanity. Sure, that’s a part of it, but it goes f (Read More)

Sep 16, 2009

Submitted by Tom Resing from Google Reader: One of the most common phrases you hear from managers about lack of agile adoption in their team is We don't have that kind of 'super' developer here. We just have ordinary day folks - they can't handle it. And We can't seem to find anyone who can fit what we look for.The real key to being a great leader is that if you do y (Read More)

Sep 20, 2009

ZDNet Blogs While, in the past, analysts and journalists ruled the roost when delivering controversial and impactful information to the world, the new crowd of industry bloggers are taking their share of the spotlight, once they have successfully leveraged their industry network into a social-media setting. . (Read More)

Sep 19, 2009

Submitted by Hanna Wiszniewska from Google Reader: It sounds kind of obvious, and a little trite: the world would be a better place to live in if we were all a bit kinder to each other. But how can we make that happen? This is fast becoming a valid scientific question. Psychologists and neuroscient (Read More)

Sep 17, 2009

Ars Technica This past weekend, we spent some time among the computer enthusiasts at the Vintage Computer Fest East, hosted by the Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists. The event was a mix of things: part history lesson, part nostalgia trip, and a bit of swap meet thrown in. All in all, it was (Read More)

Sep 16, 2009

gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine Seven years after starting to talk about it, and six years after introducing the first draft, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) has finally ratified the 802.11n wireless local area network (WLAN) amendment to the base standard. This effectively means that the super-fast routers we've been us (Read More)

Sep 13, 2009

Daggle: Danny Sullivan's Blog Back in April, I became one of the rare people to run out of Gmail space. Due to a glitch with Google, I was also unable to purchase more space for several weeks. As a result, I became hyperaware of how much email space gets eaten up each day routinely. Newsletters, product offers, Facebook and Twitter notifications, th (Read More)

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