Oct 16, 2009

Submitted by Alexhammer from blog: When I was around ten years old (that would be 34 years ago) my Mom took a few of my friends and me to McDonald’s in celebration of my birthday. On a single dollar apiece if memory serves we were each able to order a full meal (we won’t get into the nutritional aspects, that’s another topic). A dollar literally went a long (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Marc Chandler submits:It is difficult to envision Tuesday's $25 billion 10-year Treasury note sale to be as well received as Monday's 3-year offering.Indirect bidders, which include but are not limited to, foreign central banks, took down 68.5% on Monday compared with an average of 45.3% over the past ten auctions. The bid- (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Engadget Mobile Filed under: Handsets, RIMWe're onto you, Wally World. Granted, you already confessed that you'd be dishing out a deal a week until sometime in the future, but hey, we'll feign surprise without thinking twice. Next week's bargain is a good one for those in the market for one of RIM's handsets, as Walmart shoppers will be gi (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

Submitted by Mimbeo from blog: Simplicity. Renovated, rustic mountain chalet with spectacular mountain views, walking distance to club house and swimming pool. Three levels with bedroom and bathroom on each level. Lower level has a pool table and 39 in 1 arcade game. Call for any special rates. Weekly fee does not include tax and cleaning fee. (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

guardian.co.uk Politics My house would have been repossessed if it wasn't for these vouchers. Now Labour is taking away our tax reliefI have two children aged seven and 11, and my mother-in-law took care of all of our childcare. I went back to work full time as an administration assistant.Then two years ago, my mother-in-law died suddenly. One day (Read More)

3 days ago

CAREER-BROKERS's shared items in Google Reader Editor’s note: More and more mobile app developers are deciding to make apps for Android, even though it still doesn’t have the same reach as the iPhone. In this guest post Kevin Nakao, the VP of Mobile for Whitepages, makes the argument for taking the Android plunge now (as he is preparing to with a new Whitepages Android (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Wallace from Google Reader: Mussolini's body was hung from a public square in the centre of Milan The granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini has said that blood and parts of his brain have been stolen to sell on the internet.Alessandra Mussolini, a former showgirl turned MP, said she immediately informed the police w (Read More)

5 days ago

Submitted by Pink Lisa from Google Reader: If you’re looking for a challenge, see if you can reach 82°06′S 54°58′E — it’s the most inaccessible point in Antarctica, the farthest from the ocean and the coldest place in the world.You’ll know you’ve arrived because you’ll find a bust of Lenin peering weirdly across the ice toward Moscow.Dig down 20 feet and you’ll unco (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Twitternav02: Christian Carter {frequently|often} {discusses|talks about} the {validity|value} of a {lady's | woman's | girl's} intuition - and how if {girls|women} allowed themselves to listen to their intuition, they would often know the answer to their own dating or relationship {dilemma|problem}. (Read More)

Jul 02, 2009

David Harry - Trail of the Fire Horse The hype and the realityOne of the more popular buzz words in search over the last while is ‘real time search’. For starters, that’s a bit of a misnomer; there are NO actual ‘real time’ engines… that’s simply not possible (even Twitter search updates in intervals not entirely ‘real time’). Regardless, people keep gettin (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

WebProNews - eBusiness News, Search News, and Business Videos Google has quietly gotten rid of PageRank in Webmaster Tools. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable points to a thread featuring an explanation from Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Susan Moskwa."We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's (Read More)

Aug 27, 2009

Search Engine Watch Blog Yesterday, I talked about my new book, YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day, during Business Wire's free webinar series. During the webinar, I cited comScore Video Metrix data for June that showed YouTube getting more unique viewers that month than the Super Bowl. Today, comScore Video Metrix released July 2009 data (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

Webware.com Is search about presentation or results?(Credit:Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNETThere's perhaps no better way to shift attention from your failings in one era to proclaim the start of a brand-new, totally different era.Yahoo is in the midst of a grand transition as a company, with a pending deal to sell its search assets to Mi (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

MotherJones.com There must be something wrong with me. After receiving notice from 23andMe that my personal genetic profile was complete, I waited three months to go online and check out the results. I'm clearly out of step with the rest of humanity, which, judging from the explosive growth of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, is despera (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

AltNews: The Best Alternative, Weird, UFO, Cryptozoology, Physics, Science And Paranormal Blog Posts From Around the Web A series of tubs at a hot springs in the Idaho backcountry have been torn out. ---- linkAltNews: The Best Alternative, Weird, UFO, Cryptozoology, Physics, Science And Paranormal Blog Posts From Around the Web. (Read More)

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