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Yea I hired Mona Nomura and you didn’t. Turns out FriendFeed is not only a cool service, but a great place to find talented content producers too. After all, its on services like FriendFeed that users like Mona break online trends or just upright create them. Anyone who actively uses the site is well familiar with Mona’s (Read More)
Gizmodo
The Washington Post, the BBC, and other outlets are pointing out that Apple is, for the first time ever, "quietly" recommending anti-virus software for Mac OS X. A little research shows that this is completely false. Here's the Apple note they point at, postulating the old theory that Apple is feeling the heat of the increa (Read More)
Mashable!
Twitter competitor Pownce is no more. We’ve followed the story yesterday: it was acquired by Six Apart, but not to develop the service further: simply to acquire the talented people that worked on Pownce. I’d like to quickly revisit the story because I’ve been following Pownce from day one, I’ve actu (Read More)
: well they acquired the company to hire on the people that worked for it. they said they aren't going to develop it further. though i would love to see the service or something similar to continue
: damn. im gonna miss getting @darkgracie's new files in mi inbox on a weekly basis. i wasnt really moved by the loss of pownce. maybe its just that im SO into twitter, and as sttd previously; i couldnt get anyone else to join mi on pownce.
New York Times
Ev Williams, chief executive of Twitter, explains why he rejected a buyout offer from Facebook and discusses the future of the microblogging service. (Read More)
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from Google Reader:
Evan Williams, godfather of Twitter.(Credit: Rafe Needleman / CNET)At a Churchill Club event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams brushed off -- again -- criticisms that the company is slow to turn on its revenue-generating engines.At first, it sounded like Williams was a bit lost on the rev (Read More)
Digital Photography School
Whether traveling for business or just on a well deserved vacation, there are times when we all don’t feel like carrying around our full compliment of lenses, flashes and accessories. During trips like this the inner photographer in each of us starts to panic; “What if I need my wide angle lens?” “ (Read More)
Digital Photography School
Photo by igglybwiggsBackgrounds present both opportunities and challenges to photographers. On the one hand they can put a subjects in context and make it stand out in a way that highlights it wonderfully - but on the other hand backgrounds can overwhelm subjects and distract from them.Some of the common problems that photo (Read More)