1. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go 1 hour ago permalinkAs you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ... 2. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market 3 hours ago permalink3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ... 3. Beatles Discovered 6 hours ago permalink1,000 years in the future, the legacy of John, Paul, Greg, and Scottie remains. Comments | Posted in Humor 4. Advances In Church Attendance Monitoring 6 hours ago permalinkIn Poland: Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance . A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday. The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years ... 5. Lawmakers upset over Obama's 2nd anti-Vegas remark 6 hours ago permalinkPresident Barack Obama smiles after his at a town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (Jim Cole - AP) President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (Jim Cole - AP)
6. Stolen Jesus 6 hours ago permalinkThis is at one of those local news sites that makes you look very hard to find out where they are. It happened in Ripon, which is in Fond du Lac county in some state: Man says photo of Jesus on his wall stolen . A Ripon man called police Saturday to report a photo he took of Jesus when he appeared on the wall of his house has been stolen. The ... 7. Model Photos 6 hours ago permalinkCombine model making with photography, and it doesn't get any better than these photos by Michael Paul Smith: Photos of my models . I can't believe these aren't real. (Thanks John) Comments | Posted in Visual Arts 8. Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs 8 hours ago permalinkFiled under: News , Blogging , Google , Freeware Love it or hate it, Blogger was the tool that really brought blogging into the mainstream. Once upon a time, the only way to have your blog hosted on your own domain was to use Blogger as the content management system, but then have it use FTP to push HTML pages to your web host. Fast forward to ...
9. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack 7 hours ago permalinkEarly this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ... 10. OpenFire and Spark offer secure private chat and collaboration tools 9 hours ago permalinkFiled under: Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Freeware , Open Source , Web If you're looking to implement a secure, private chat environment in your company, have a look at what's going on at Ignite Realtime with their OpenFire real time collaboration server and Spark cross-platform IM client. Being that they are open source, both OpenFire and ...
11. ScribbleSquid tries to help new writers -- with one glaring omission 10 hours ago permalinkFiled under: Text , Productivity , Op-Ed Creative writing is not an easy task, but the web gives us great opportunities to collaborate and get some help. For our own book, my friend and I set up a custom DokuWiki which does the trick quite nicely. But not everyone likes to tinker; some people simply want to get down to business and start telling ... 12. 683,030 gameplays » 12 hours ago permalinkCheck the hints below to get connected with the community and track achievements in thousands of games. Check your connection Please check your internet connection and refresh the page if chat does not reconnect on its own. Note that you may lose unsaved game progress if you refresh the page.
13. Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer 13 hours ago permalinkI begged and pleaded with Greg, editor of MobileCrunch, not to make me write this, but it looks like I’m stuck introducing myself to you all. So in my best Troy McClure voice let me say: Hi, my name is Marc Flores. You might remember me from such popular sites as Boy Genius Report or True/Slant. 14. Facebook 'Automation Labs' Warning 16 hours ago permalinkAlert warns that entering "Automation Labs" into Facebook's "Block List" option will display a list of twenty people who have access to your Facebook account. 15. It appears that car park computers revert to their native language, German, when placed under stress 16 hours ago permalinkA car park in Birmingham switches from English to German in times of stress . That reminded me that over a decade ago, a colleague of mine noticed an error message on the screen at the exit to the parking garage at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The way the airport works, you pick up a ticket as you enter, and you pay your parking fee ... 16. Microspeak: Future-proofing 16 hours ago permalinkIt has been famously said that England and the United States are two countries separated by a common language. The same holds true for Microspeak . In the Redmond dialect of Microspeak, we talk about extensibility : Designing a system with specific points where features can be added in the future, often by outside parties. For example, an ... 17. Social Deviants 16 hours ago permalinkHoax messages warn that communication with strangers will provide bad people with access they will use to harm you. 18. Top Scams 16 hours ago permalinkTough economic times are, unfortunately, boom times for scammers, as people desperate for money and jobs let down their guards and are more likely to pursue questionable financial opportunities that caution might ordinarily warn them away from. And as folks become more inured to monetary woes, their charitable inclinations are more easily ... 19. Want More Ideal Clients? Five Simple Steps 16 hours ago permalink“Give Me Ambiguity or Give Me Something Else!!” A potential comes to you with a problem. The person you meet is your perfect “work soulmate,” but for some reason you don’t get the job. Why is that? Could it be that you’re ambiguous — that you’re just not clear? When it [...] 20. Passed Around 17 hours ago permalinkThe rejection had taken three months to arrive, and now somebody, somewhere, owed Luis K an explanation. Why had a required feature been rejected? He couldn't tell from the cryptic jumble of control codes and received/forwarded stamps that overflowed the "office use only" box. The internal trouble-ticket system just showed " ... |
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