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.
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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.
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