July 2010
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iPhone 4 vs HTC Evo →
June 2010
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Hotels Test Smartphones as Room Keys →
Our phones are already lot more than just phones. Imagine what they’ll be in five years.
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March 2010
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Memorari →
There are certainly many easy ways to remember something- program it in your cell phone, tie a ribbon around your finger, maybe write a note to yourself and stick it in your wallet. But, like, a lot of that requires effort, man. Well strain no more with Memorari, which will remember what you need and remind you at the specified time, date, and communication method via phone, IM, email, etc....
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Augmented-reality maps: Blaise Aguera y Arcas on... →
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is the architect of Bing Maps at Microsoft, building augmented reality into searchable maps. He’s also the co-creator of Photosynth, software that assembles static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.
In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Agüera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. (Recorded at TED2010,...
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Inside Leo Laporte's TWiT Cottage →
Leo Laporte has been a pioneer in creating tech podcasts such as his TWiT network, developing a business out of his popular radio show on KFI, and the remnants of Tech TV.
Jonathan Marks drops by Leo Laporte’s production studio in the heart of Petaluma, Northern California. The town is about a half hour’s drive North of the Golden Gate Bridge, at the foot of Sonoma County,...
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How To Build Your Brand Using Social Media – AJ... →
In this Mixergy interview Andrew Warner invited AJ Vaynerchuk, Co-Founder of VaynerMedia, to show how his company helps organizations like the Jets and the NHL build their brands using social media — and how you can use some of the same ideas to grow your brand.
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Fiverr -- What Would You Do For Five Dollars? →
Fiverr is a place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5.
Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5. Buyers can order gigs and are required to pay for the gig in advance. Fiverr takes $1 ...
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What are some effective techniques for building... →
Pulkit Agrawal from Ahmedabad, India asks: “Organic link building, according to me is one of the most difficult tasks for SEOs of SMEs. Can you please list 5 effective ways of organic link building other than building great content?”
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Fred Wilson talks trends, advice for startups →
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures talks about some of the trends he sees in the startup space. Fred’s blog has been an excellent place for information around venture investing as well as general entrepreneurial ideas and advice.
Silicon Prairie News
Vadim Lavrusik on Vimeo.
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The Longest Way →
Time-lapse of one year walking, growing a beard
Christopher Rehage spent one year walking from Beijing to Urumqi, China and chronicled his epic foot journey (and simultaneous beard growth) in a cool little vignette. Rehage had originally wanted to strut his way all the way to Germany, but after 4646km, he opted to shave his beard and return to school to finish his degree.
Christoph...
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Ted's Birthday - Improv Everywhere stunt →
Here’s the latest Improv Everywhere stunt, which was featured on This American Life. This time the organized pranksters get a bunch of people to throw a random person a birthday party. They all call him Ted and pretend to know him from somewhere specific, such as university, work, and elementary school. See how the joke pans out.
Read the full story at Urban Prankster.
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Want to get drunk for cheap? There’s an app for... →
Happy Hours by SF Weekly shows you all of the food and drink specials going on in your city. Not sure where to go? Shake your phone and the app will randomly select a place for you.
Happy Hours, is an free application for the iPhone, Android, and the mobile web. With it, you get access to some 15,000+ happy hours in 30 different cities around the country. You simply load the app up, tell...
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Yahoo! Timeline 1995-2010 →
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Flickr Yodel Anecdotal
February 2010
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How tech-savvy burglars use Twitter →
Just a few years ago, burglars might lurk in the bushes or a parked car and wait to see a family leave their house, or turn out the lights. But in this day and age, all you have to do is send a Tweet. A new site, PleaseRobMe.com, reposts such tweets by Twitter users who disclose when they’re away from home. Host Scott Simon speaks with Ginger McCall of the Electronic Privacy...
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Newsweek in 1995: why the Internet will fail →
Fifteen years ago, the Internet was a complete mess. No Google, no Twitter, no Facebook—imagine the horror! That’s probably why Newsweek, in 1995, printed the now infamous article entitled “The Internet? Bah!”. If you haven’t yet read the piece, it’s worth a look. The article is a hotbed for quotes that’ll have you grinning proudly about how wrong the author, Clifford Stoll, was, and how...
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Remarkable photos from earthquake-damaged Chile →
A devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Chile Saturday morning, causing widespread damage and triggering a Tsunami warning across the Pacific. The quake, one of the strongest ever recorded, toppled buildings and left an unknown number of people homeless.
Boston.com’s Big Picture has collected some truly remarkable, and a few disturbing, images from the scene showing the destruction in...
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Bloom Box: Bloom Energy Powers Your Whole House... →
Silicon Valley doesn’t just produce innovative web companies — it’s also a mecca for the green tech boom. Bloom Energy, which launches officially on Wednesday, has built a refrigerator-sized box that can power your whole house.
Bloom Energy has actually been operating for 8 years, raising $400 million in funding from VCs including Kleiner Perkins (investors in Netscape, Amazon, Google and...
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WebMynd: A better way to search →
See all the related top Digg stories whenever you do a Google, Yahoo! or Bing search with the new WebMynd Firefox extension.
WebMynd improves your search experience by focusing on the information sources that you most value. As well as Digg results, you can embed other sources such as YouTube, Wikipedia, and Twitter. You can also use WebMynd to remember and search your browsing history.
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12 Cool Garage Door Stickers →
German company StyleYourGarage makes deceptively realistic garage door stickers that will cause neighbors, friends and passers-by to stop and stare.
These garage billboards, as they are known, are made from high-quality material and can withstand sun, rain, wind and cold weather. [more info]
Toxel
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TED Talk: Sixth Sense Technology →
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demonstrate SixthSense technology in these TED Talk videos. ‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. Imagine “Minority Report” and then some.
Follow @tedtalks on Twitter
At TEDIndia, Pranav...
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Where Does Content Come From? 11 Easy Ways to... →
Creating great content is increasingly a cornerstone to lead generation and lead nurturing. In other words, it’s key to attracting new customers and to deepening relationships with existing ones.
But many companies have trouble creating enough of it. So blogs languish. Flip cameras gather dust. Your Twitter feed is as sparse as Oprah’s. How can you create and distribute a steady...
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iPad Unboxing and Review →
I can’t believe my local Apple Store had them in stock and was selling them tonight! I took advantage of this OBVIOUS oversight and decided to buy one on the spot.
This is the $499 (16GB) model. As you can see, it runs just fine. Too bad it doesn’t support Adobe Flash.
Chris Pirillo
Covering The Tablet
iBama!
Apple iPad Humor?
The iPad Keynote in less than 180 Seconds -...
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Failin.gs: What do people think of you? →
failin.gs wants to help you answer that age-old question: “What do people think of me, really?”
As humans, we naturally want to know what others think of us, either to boost our egos or to help us know what skills we need to work on. Failin.gs puts the concept of brutal honesty to the test by letting you posit opinions from those who know you, without revealing who says what.
In...
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January 2010
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20+ Mind-blowing Social Media Statistics Revisited →
The way we communicate online has gone through a sea-change over last few years – Infact, majority of netizens spend most of their time on social media / networking sites. Twitter has been a rage over past 1 year, Facebook has become one of the most visited sites on the web, Professionals are flocking Linkedin and keep their profiles updated. Do you want to know the numbers behind these...
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Why I Don’t Check Voicemail Anymore →
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Voice On The Line →
The era of nuclear anxiety, the Red scare, and covert CIA plots forever changed the way we engage with the telephone. Voice on the Line is an animated, experimental social commentary that explores the ideas of the Cold War and ungrounded paranoia.
Check out more short films from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival now playing in the YouTube Screening Room.
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A College Major Flowchart →
CollegeHumor
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iBama →
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State of the Union: Official Drinking Game →
State of the Union live on YouTube
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Apple iPad Rumor vs. Reality →
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Apple iPad →
Apple’s iPad announcement earlier this afternoon prompted a score of WTFing across the internet, prompting many to ask, “Are there any women on Apple’s marketing team?” Answer: Apparently not. (Period.)
From Twitter (for what it’s worth, #iTampon is apparently the number three one trending topic on the site.):
tjakabon: “It surfs the web AND stops the...
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I Remember Andrea - High School Reunion Prank →
Comedy writer Andrea Wachner hated the idea of going to her 10-year high school reunion so much that she hired a stripper to go instead, and what followed, she says, was a comical study in human nature.
Reuters
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'Pants on the Ground' ripoff: Detroit's Green... →
The Green Brothers version, 1996:
General Larry Platt’s version, 2010:
I can’t believe no one else picked up on this story earlier…ever since American Idol, everyone I know has been screaming that this Platt phony stole that song from Detroit’s…nay, the WORLD’s greatest hip hop act ever, the Green Brothers.
Everyone in the tri-county...
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Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No →
In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. In the past few years weve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs. If our evaluation...
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BREAKING: The New Apple iPad! →
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What comes AFTER the Apple Tablet; Light Blue... →
You’ll soon see Apple’s new tablet or iPad. It will be fantastic, to be sure, but what will come next? Well, how about a touch screen that can work on any surface? Robert Scoble interviews Light Blue Optics’ CTO, Dr. Adrian Cable, and co-founder about what this projector and touch surface computer can do. It is remarkable and you need to see it demoed to understand...
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If You Printed Twitter →
If you printed Twitter …
the seven billion tweets to date are composed of 104,860,000,000 words, as many as 133,000 copies of the the King James version of the Bible.
it would cover 350 million sheets of paper, which is 37 times the number of pages used in bills introduced in the United States Congress since 1955.
the paper would weigh three and a half million pounds, the equivalent of...
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Drink Great Wine on a Budget →
Unless you’re a real wine aficionado, you probably lack the confidence to know which of those bottles of wine on-sale at the local BevMo are a bargain and which deserve the appellation, two-buck-chuck. Mint.com asked two Master Sommeliers to suggest some wines that can stand-in for more well-known (and expensive) bottles. With the right attitude and the handy chart above (click to view),...
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Nanotechnology gives computers a human-like brain →
An organic transistor paves the way for new generations of neuro-inspired computers
For the first time, researchers have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse. This organic transistor, based on gold nanoparticles and known as a NOMFET (Nanoparticle Organix Memory Field-Effect Transistor), has opened the way to new generations of neuro-inspired...
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Dress Up Your Firefox with Personas →
Firefox is bringing together all kinds of personalization awesomeness to make browsing better for you!
One of my favorite features in the new Firefox version 3.6 is Personas. You can now instantly change the look of your browser with thousands of easy-to-install themes. You can choose anything from simple designs to colorful patterns to content like Harry Potter, Bob Marley or Lance ...
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Is Bottled Water Really That Bad? Yes →
This expansive graph by Online Education tells you all you need to know about bottled water, as you scroll from top to bottom. Now excuse me while I try to hide my bottle of water. Won’t happen again, promise.
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