paidContent.org
I took the ABC.com player for a spin the other day, the first in a while, popping in through Fancast. I had to agree to some terms and download the player, a quick glimpse of why this strategy doesn't work well for the casual fan. Then I had a kind of Lost flashback, whirling back three years to how wowed I was the first ti (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider
Reviewing Google's April Fool's gags over the years, we wondered if the company would pull a prank this year even though there's a recession on. Afterall, Google has itself laid off 300 people this year.We needn't have wondered. There are two gags on Google live right now.The first is breakthrough in artificial intelligence (Read More)
: Facebook will continue with this nasty experimentation -- it is probing what it can get away with in pursuit of some way to actually make money.
It is funny.
All of that personal info is an advertisers gold mine, but the facebook user base, originating from academia (ever more professorial than undergraduate these days, hardly an exaggeration) and other professions that eschew the pursuit of profit and look snobbishly down their nose at MySpace for being "corporate" (among other things).
I've said it many times. It is going to be interesting to see the way facebook plays out.
(I just signed on here and was assigned Sarah Palin's visage!? Guess I'll keep for a while as I explore the site.
louisgray.com
By Ken Stewart of ChangeForge (Twitter/FriendFeed) FriendFeed, a content and conversation aggregation service, remains under fire by many who feel it is too much of one thing and not enough of another. They often draw parallels to the micro-blogging service Twitter, and how "easy to use" that service is as compared with Fr (Read More)
: Its good to see people talking and sharing how they benefit from applications/social media. There's far too much talk about what they are than how they are used. I admit that Twitter is very intuitive and addictive @Calli lol
Submitted by Wheelyweb:
It is clear that as a society we must learn something painful and radical – how to live within our means – because the credit just is not there any more. The easy money is all gone, and there will be no more for a long time. (Read More)
PersonnelToday.com - All HR news stories
Recruitment website Monster.com has been hacked for the second time in two years, compromising personal data.
According to a warning published by Monster, data stolen included users' e-mail addresses, names, phone numbers and some demographic data. (Read More)
: Thanks for that Monster. Good to see you take security seriously. This explains why I'm getting an increase in job related SPAM, based on my listings with you in the past few years.
Submitted by Wheelyweb:
Microsoft uses an Apple portable to sell a horrifically sad and infantile MS product. Somgsmith: can they really be serious? I cannot see who would gladly associate them selves with this product when something as gorgeous, easy and slick as garageband exists. (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com
Google has become the standard search engine of virtually every web-goer on the internet today. In fact “to Google” is pretty much synonymous with “to search”. But that certainly doesn’t mean that other search engines can’t do a decent, if not better, job and this list has been compiled for just this reason. So check out th (Read More)
Scobleizer
You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.OK, I’m on the phone with Joel Comm right now. He’s been doing business online since 1995. He’s the co-creator of Yahoo Games. He wrote the Adsense Code, which got onto New York Times best selling list. He hosted and produced the first Internet reality sho (Read More)
TwitLinks
Twitter search is coming in 10 days. It would appear that Twitter will start rolling out search as an integrated feature into the homepage of Twitter for about 1% of their users. Twitter is smart to do this as it give them a relevant path to monetization and a way to enhance the service and make it easier for users to find (Read More)
: @michaelfidler I guess too many years in Enterprise software!... if I wasnt having so much fun in Enterprise Mashups right now, I may consider it :-)
: Sorry, I was watching Cindy put Mark's XXXX into her XXXX while Mark fondled her XXXX with his XXXX and XXXX was heating up the XXXX ready for the XXXX session later. Did you say something?
Six Revisions : Web Development and Design
There are a million and one ways to boost your website’s performance. The methods vary and some are more involved than others. The three main areas that you can work on are: hardware (your web server), server-side scripting optimization (PHP, Python, Java), and front-end performance (the meat of the web page). This arti (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Officials at Boston College have made what may be a momentous decision: they've stopped doling out new email accounts to incoming students. The officials realized that the students already had established digital identities by the time they entered college, so the new email addresses were just not being utilized. The colleg (Read More)
: Interesting. I know here at my school many professors do not see your questions/concerns through email as legit unless they are sent through a school source (school e-mail); they are afraid they are spam. Most young kids create immature and embarrassing e-mail names ("stud", "hot", "baby"). In this case, they (probably) will create a new one when they start college if the school doesn't give them one. I know Google runs our school e-mail now and it great. I just can't imagine eliminating the school e-mail addresses altogether verification reasons.
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Over the past few years we've seen a number of attempts to create the next best original-reporting tech news site. Which of the following sites do you feel does the best job of reporting tech news?1. TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com2. Mashable http://www.mashable.com3. PaidContent http://www.paidcontent.org4. Read (Read More)
: Leo laporte just had Marshall KickPatrick the lead on Read Write Web and he has some pretty interesting stuff about the site and everything on it. I just put it into my RSSfeed! one more site that i will probally be check daily to update myself on news! Woot for the Web!
The Guardian
Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.Obama's advisers have begun looking into Bill Clinton's foundation, which distributes millions of dollars to Africa to help with deve (Read More)
: I also supported Hillary during the primaries and have high hope she'd run again in 4 years. Nobody can predict what would happen in 4 years and I think Obama's presidensy would be like Carter's. Being state of secretary would take her out of the presidential arena, and if she makes mistakes, that would damage her stocks and I have no doubt that Obama will throw her under the bus like he has done to people who have been in his way. I also wonder what John Kerry thinks about this development as his name was mentioned as a possible contender, especially when he was the person who introduced Obama to the national stage in 2004. I also wonder what Hillary and Bill Clinton haters who fiercely support Obama think about Obama's cabinet that so far has been mostly filled with Clinton's people. To me, that does not look Change of new Washington he promised during his campaign.
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