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- b5 Blogger Summit at Blog World Expo - Free Extra Day of Training for BWE Attendees
- If you’re going to Blog World Expo and can be there the day before the official program starts - b5media is running a training day for our bloggers that we are opening up to any BWE registrants that would like
- How Google Earth Helped Win A Gold Medal
- Google Earth is getting a nice plug from Olympic Gold Medal cyclist Kristin Armstrong. When she did her time trials in December, 2007 in China, she took along her husbands GPS unit to capture the elevation along
- Boy Proof, a compassionate young adult novel about a weird, smart, angry girl
- Ive just read Cecil Castelluccis 2005 debut novel Boy Proof and its delightful to discover that shes every bit as talented a novelist as she is a graphic novel writer (The Plain Janes, the first volume in the outstanding Minx
- Speed Up Your Vista Installation with vLite on a Flash Drive
- Sometimes the most effective way to clean up Windows is to just wipe your hard drive and start over with a fresh re-installation, and that process can be so long and tedious—unless you know the...
- iPhone 3G vs. Sony's 40-inch XZ1 LCD television... Fight!
- Filed under: DisplaysWe knew Sonys new 40-inch Bravia Edge LED ZX1 was thin, 9.9-mm thin in fact (at least at the top section). But man, we didnt expect it to make the iPhone
- A Downside of Getting to the Front Page of Digg
- The Holy Grail of incoming links for many bloggers is an appearance on the front page of Digg. It has the potential to send tens of thousands of visitors and bring about a lot of secondary links from other sites
- HTC's Dream a super skinny QWERTY bananaphone?
- Filed under: CellphonesYesterday we got the height and width, today its the full wireframe model with scale measurements. While we cant confirm the authenticity, several details including that arcing base certainly dovetail nicely
- Best of BBtv - Omega Recoil: Electricity as Art
- The Boing Boing tv crew is taking this end-of-summer week off from production, so were revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last couple of months -- fun stuff you may have missed. Today: John Behrens and Omega Recoil
- Reconfigurable Performance Display to show off engine stats in select GM cars
- Filed under: Displays, TransportationWell be honest -- we still kind of prefer the days when hacking Wiimotes and other household gadgets was the preferred method for extracting more enjoyment from ones vehicle, but
- Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On
- Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In DepthTake a minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox. So far, I’ve spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver-like interface it wants to bring
- Dell's Inspirion 910 netbook limps a bit closer to release
- Filed under: LaptopsYoure looking at official Dell pics of its upcoming Inspiron 910 netbook nabbed from their on-line support docs. These images match the others weve seen down to the key (look, no
- New Sony Walkmans surface at IFA booth
- Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoSonys IFA press event isnt for another couple of hours, but we managed to sneak these shots of Sonys minor refresh to its Walkman lineup. Everything is looking
- Bungee Labs In A Freefall
- Bungee Labs, a well funded Utah based startup that left private beta only six months ago, laid off 15 employees today to give themselves more runway on their cash burn rate.
- I Always Wanted Me a Porsche
- Porsche is now offering online tools to photoshop your favorite model in front of your home. Just hit the link and click on picture it. As you can see, a $100,000 sports car really classes up the...
- Microsoft Confirms "Porn Mode" For IE 8, Calls it "InPrivate" (Still Sounds Dirty)
- Microsoft has confirmed the rumor floating around last week that IE 8 would get its own porn mode—or private browsing mode if you insist on being mature about it. Amusingly enough, they...
- LG injects 7000-series HDTVs with Bluetooth at IFA
- Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home EntertainmentEven though its in nearly every phone available, only a few flat panels with integrated wireless networking have surfaced so far, and now LGs packing Bluetooth into its
- Sony expands Nav-U GPS line with four new models
- Filed under: GPSSonys Nav-U line of PNDs hasnt made big waves in the States yet, but the companys keeping at it, releasing four new touchscreen navs today. The new $400 NV-U94T (pictured) takes
- Space Station laptops catch "nuisance" virus
- Filed under: LaptopsWhile it doesnt appear to be nearly as serious as some of the computer problems the International Space Station has faced, it looks like a virus has managed to find
- Sony debuts $1,500 SACD player with HDMI output
- Filed under: Home EntertainmentWe have to admit, that headline makes us a little bit giddy, and Sony seems to be betting theres enough folks giddy enough to throw down their credit card to
- Garmin's new nüvi 7x5 and 2x5 navigators live and in person
- Filed under: GPSWe got a brief glimpse at Garmins new nüvi navigators, the 7x5 Series and 2x5 Series. Since we werent on the road, the 755T treated us to 3D views of the
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- Quote of the Week: On Multitasking
- My quote of the week comes from a comment by Eideteker in this Metafilter thread on multitasking: Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.And, for what it’s worth,
- Albatron Debuts "Tee PC" Internet Tablet Running Windows CE
- Albatron has launched a new UMPC-like devices called the Tee PC that could be an interesting media tablet. It has a touchscreen and stylus for input, runs Windows CE 6, and comes with all kinds of...
- 11 Ways to Open a Post and Get Reader Engagement
- ‘Hi Michael, it’s nice to meet you’ These were the first words my wife spoke to me.Not he most spectacular start to a relationship…. considering my name is Darren.Opening lines matter - particularly when it comes to blogging. If you
- A Fireside Chat Guy Kawasaki at Blogworld
- Next month I am going to the Blogworld Expo in Conference in Las Vegas. I was slated to be the lunchtime keynote on Friday, September 19 but, happily, theres been a change in plans. I am now going to participate
- Who should be USA’s CTO?
- Today I visited Larry Lessig. He’s the founder of Creative Commons. A professor of law at Stanford University. And does many other things.He is one of those guys who is just interesting to talk to. Why? Whip smart and has
- Who should be USA’s CTO?
- Today I visited Larry Lessig. He’s the founder of Creative Commons. A professor of law at Stanford University. And does many other things.He is one of those guys who is just interesting to talk to. Why? Whip smart and has
- The Wrong Door: If Terry Gilliam Directed Transformers as a TV Variety Show
- Leave it to the BBC to introduce a show about robots attacking humans and generally making a mess of the landscape thats both funny and tailor-made for the ADHD audience. The Wrong Door is a...
- WidgetLaboratory Strikes Back At Ning Where It Hurts
- Yesterday we reported on Ning’s termination of its most popular premium widget developer, WidgetLaboratory. Ning removed all WidgetLaboratory widgets from its platform without warning, and in doing so broke many of the social networks that had been created by its
- Lenovo Olympic Bloggers
- Check out this site where Lenovo is aggregating the blogs, tweets, pictures, and video of Olympic athletes from around the world. Lenovo provided these athletes with Ideapad laptops and video
- Microsoft Celebrates Photosynth Server Failure, Surprised People Like It
- In the startup world, server spikes and downtime are a fact of life. We’ve seen countless startups fall prey to the huge rushes of traffic they receive at launch, and while it can be frustrating at times (see past comments),
- Is Writing Great Content Enough to Build a Successful Blog?
- At times you could be forgiven for thinking it is - if you read a lot of blogs on ‘how to blog’ that is.One of the first thing that most of us who write about blogging advise those starting out
- Question of the Day: Would You Ever Consider Using a Palmtop MID?
- At the Intel Developer Forum last week, a lot of the buzz on the demo floor was around new Atom hardware. There were the requisite netbooks and EeeClones floating around, but it seemed like peculiar...
- Where Cellphones Go After They Die: A Photo Essay
- Technology Review has a fascinating photo tour of a ReCellular facility, where many of the phones traded in for new ones end up. Dealing with thousand of phones at a time, the workers are charged...
- Canon EOS 50D Official: 15-Megapixel Prosumer DSLR Is First With Digic 4 Processor
- Canons EOS 50D probably isnt the DSLR you were praying they would unveil at Photokina, but it does fill a gaping hole in their lineup between the low-end prosumer 40D and semi-pro 5D. The...
- How to Transplant a Sony Reader Display Into a Dying Kindle
- The mad scientist behind this hack was faced with a problem. His beloved Amazon Kindle had a shattered screen and was all but dead. Distraught, he thought to himself: what if I could sacrifice a...
- Get Paid to Twitter Using the Adjix Link Shrinker
- I was just contacted by a reporter who is working on a story about Adjix, a new service that conceivably gives everyone on Twitter a way to make money for tweeting. It could be a smash hit, but its
- gapingvoid commissions
- Im going to be hanging out my shingle more in the cartooning department. I think its time. Im...
- iPhone Dev Team Releases PwnageTool 2.0.3, Jailbreaks Latest 2.0.2 Firmware
- This release adds support for Pwning the 2.0.2 5C1 firmware on the iPhone and iPod touch, as well as an update to the latest version of Installer.app. Mac-only for now but, as usual, just sit tight...
- Don’t Post The Evidence Unless It Supports Your Case
- For those of you not closely following the drama between social network platform Ning and a popular widget provider called WidgetLaboratory, you can read the background here. On Friday Ning unceremoniously shut down their access to Ning, making all those
- Cartoon depicts what went on in the NSA's wiretapping room at AT&T
- Electronic Frontier Foundation designer Hugh DAndrade sez, I did a live-painting last Friday at a gallery -- a mural-sized cartoon depicting the goings-on inside the secret room at AT&Ts Folsom Street facility. My EFF co-workers created a time-lapse video with
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- Threats and Opportunities in Data Leaking
- Photo Credit: Kaia Gets Caught! by marcus_in_nyKaia, the cat in the photo above (no, shes not mine), is symbolic. If she looks like an LOLcat thats my intention. Kaia represents consumer social networks and
- Back to school with more than 1 million users worldwide
- Google Apps is rapidly gaining momentum in education. We now have more than a million people on campuses worldwide actively using Googles suite of email, calendar and docs to share information and study. This makes perfect sense. Schools have always
- The iPhone is a Pandora's Box for Radio
- Radio is Dead by super-structure The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week.All the talk about one medium replacing another, to date, has largely been just that - talk. Over time new formats tend to
- Hello from A2
- We set up shop in Ann Arbor, Mich. nearly two years ago. And we’ve been so busy, we’ve barely had time to say hi. But before we tell you about the interesting things were doing in our new location, we
- "How Women Work"
- Check out this great article called How Women Work. Its like a combination of Women for Dummies, Everything You Wanted to Know About Women But Was Afraid to ask, and Women: The Missing Manual. My favorite factoid: men have 6.5
- How Newspapers Can Turn Problems Into Profit
- A few weeks ago I wrote about the perfect storm facing print media. Robert Scoble started a similar thread on Friendfeed over the weekend. This week in my AdAge column I look at the same trends, but this time through
- Google in your language
- You may have read a couple of weeks back about our 40-language initiative and our broader goal of making the world’s information accessible in as many languages as possible. For this reason we were extremely pleased last week to take
- A Patently Risky Business
- Because patent attorneys charge many thousands of dollars to prepare and file a patent application, some people with the next bright idea opt for the poor persons patent (call it the three Ps), which is simply to write up a
- News Flash: "Young VC Does Something Good"
- You know how I feel about young venture capitalists, right? If you dont, read this. Having written this, I still have an open mind, and this morning young Matt Winn told
- Sunday Secrets
- PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where peoplemail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.
- The Art of Visual Thinking
- In the venture capital business, many people think that a short pitch is thirty slides and a short business plan is fifty pages. My how they are mistaken. The more
- MarketingAge Profile
- Marketing Age magazine, which is published in Ireland, ran a profile of me in their July/August issue where I talk about my role within Edelman Digital, how I use RSS to keep in the know and trends in social networking
- "playfulness"
- Funny how Dell is so heavily tied into the GAMING industry, yet as a company it could use a much greater sense of PLAY. Playfulness etc. Just had a this thought over on Twitter. Thought Id share it over...
- Search quality, continued
- A few weeks back Udi Manber introduced the search quality group, and the previous posts in this series talked about the ranking of documents. While the ranking of web documents forms the core of what makes search at Google work
- the cloud's best-kept secret
- You hear a lot of talk about The Cloud nowadays. The premise is simple. In the future, we wont have or even need all our data or software programs on our own computers, theyll...
- New York Times Flags Print Edition Stories
- The New York Times recently made a small, but important change to stories they post on their web site. If the story ran in print, at the bottom they include a tiny footnote that says where it ran and when.
- Apple Device Security: Big Temptation to Dumb-Down
- Chairman Gruber recently discovered (via his sharp-eyed reader, Earl Misquitta), that the aforementioned iPhone Remote application can also be used as a virtual keyboard for entering search text, login information, and what have you on
- How Newspapers Can Turn Problems Into Profit
- A few weeks ago I wrote about the perfect storm facing print media. Robert Scoble started a similar thread on Friendfeed over the weekend. This week in my AdAge column I look at the same trends, but this time through
- How to Be Persuasive
- Just posted a book report for Yes! for my buddies at American Express. This is the best business book Ive read this year. Please check out my posting here. One of the co-authors is Robert Cialdini; he is The Man