Submitted by Surinderxx:
is how I use Facebook is very different from how a lot of other people I know use Facebook. For them, it seems to be their version of my LinkedIn. What this has meant for me is ignoring a bunch of requests to be friends, but from peop. (Read More)
Popular Science - SciTech
Since the invention of the transistor, silicon semiconductors have been king. But now silicon-based transistors are nearing the limit of their potential. Excess heat and manufacturing hurdles are impeding the development of ever-faster and -smaller processors. Advances in materials and chip design to resist extreme heat and (Read More)
Submitted by Surinderxx:
Google Inc., the leading online advertiser, stated that it had begun using Internet tracking technology that enabled it to more precisely follow Web-surfing behavior across affiliated sites. (Read More)
Submitted by Surinderxx:
s eat up more electricity and energy costs go up. To avoid future energy shortages caused by increasing IT demands, 10 more power plants need to be built to the tune of $2 billion to $6 billion each and their cost is ultimately going to get passed on to IT through increased utility. (Read More)
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TwitLinks
Twitter takes out the spammers, and twitter people go nuts over loss of "followers". It's only a number to some, but to others its speaks volumes about their standing. (Read More)
louisgray.com
As the world of online "friends" is getting increasingly blurred, and many of us are joining social network after social network, expanding our realm of friends to mean much more than just those we know in real life, artificial rules of etiquette are being created for when you follow someone or add them as a friend, and whe (Read More)
: Unfortunately the benchmarks for 'rules' are all real life based.. Agree that each community will make its own rules as they go along, and break them too :)
ReadWriteWeb
Windows Live Mesh is Microsoft's software+services data synchronization platform. Because of its complex nature, most people assume that file synchronization is all there is to Live Mesh, but in reality, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Microsoft has big plans for the service and syncing files between computers and the c (Read More)
: For those of us outside the US, access is somewhat possible, though there is a waiting list atm, also:
"International Customers
With Live Mesh open to anyone in the US, our international friends can join in the fun early as well - with one caveat: you must be willing to change your Windows operating system region and language setting to EN-US. Once you do this you will be able to immediately sign in to Live Mesh with a valid Windows Live ID. Please be aware that this may cause other applications that specifically require your native country region and language settings to encounter problems."
louisgray.com
Guest Post By Colin Walker (Blog/FriendFeed)On Wednesday, Matthew Ingram posted a reaction to Mike Arrington's interview with Twitter founder Evan Williams with regards to the way Twitter is just handing their data to potential competitors for nothing.It has seemed obvious to me for a while that an ideal aspect of a busines (Read More)
SMC:posts
I got in an interesting conversation earlier this week while at a dinner with Sarah Lacy and a number of active D.C. technology participants. At one point in the conversation we began discussing the ... (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider
Neat trick: Amazon just made one of my iPhone apps crash -- Twinkle, the Twitter app by Tapulous. Not on purpose, of course. But still, a reminder to companies that relying on third-party "cloud" hosting services -- even from giant, normally excellent Amazon -- has its drawbacks.What happened? Sometime this morning, Amazon' (Read More)