January 2012
December 2011
Robert Scoble's iPhone pictures: The Windows Phone... →
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It’s about the apps. No one talked about WIndows Phone with me this weekend despite having dozens of people at two different events. It’s gonna be a long year for Microsoft. Developers are ignoring its platform (the pro developers who work for VC-funded companies, not the kinds that make…
July 2011
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New Photos In The 15 Minutes Album
Added new photos to my 15 Minutes album. 15 minutes is the amount of time I want to spend every day taking photos. That’s it.
Pachter predicts Netflix’s streaming content licensing costs will rise from $180...
– Studios are starting to play hardball with Netflix - CNN Money
Told you. Get ready for your Nexflix subscription to start costing what it’s actually worth.
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June 2011
New Amazon S3 Data Transfer Pricing
This is incredible. The price for transferring data into your S3 account is now FREE! Starting July 1, 2011. And now they have pricing for data storage in the Petabyte range. That just blows my mind.
New inbound data transfer price for all regions (effective July 1, 2011)
$0.000 - all data transfer in
New data transfer price for US-Standard, US-West and Europe regions (effective July 1, 2011)
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Introducing the Google project: Real-life sharing,... →
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5 Tech Stories Worth Reading
1. Hauppauge Digital Broadway Box Streams Live TV To Your Mobile Devices Hauppauge have this week launched their new Digital Broadway Box which has been designed to provide an easy way to watch live TV on your mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets whilst on your home network or while travelling. All you need is access to a Wifi connection.
2. Yahoo Is About To Spin Off A Billion Dollar...
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#28days Round Two
Today starts round two of #28days. This time we’re aiming to eat healthier. The idea is to pick 5 ingredients/additives that you will be eliminating from your diet for 28 straight days.
Mine are:
High Fructose Corn Sugar (HFCS)
Aspartame/Caffeine
Enriched flour, white flour, or wheat flour
Sodium Nitrate/Nitrate
Hydrogenated (or partially hydrogenated) oils / trans fat
These five...
Marines Look for a Software Study Buddy |... →
Technoccult: What's Next for Cognitive Training... →
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Most of the cognitive training games of 2011 resemble the simple games you can play online for free or apps designed for smartphones. However, in ten years, we can expect many of the big developers, following Nintendo’s lead, to introduce critical gaming elements. Envision games…
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5 Tech Stories Worth Reading
1. Sony cut online security staff two weeks before it was hacked Lawsuits against Japanese electronics giant Sony have revealed that the company laid off a number of employees responsible for network security, two weeks before attacks brought down the PlayStation Network.
2. How to use Twitter in the classroom The advantage to using a tool like Twitter for education is that it’s instant and it’s...
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1. Sources: PopCap In Late Stage Acquisition Discussions With EA For $1 Billion+ PopCap Games is in late stage acquisition discussions for a sum of over $1 billion — we’ve now heard from two sources that the buyer is Electronic Arts.
2. Google Invests $102 Million More Into California’s Alta Wind Energy Center According to an official company blog post today, Google is increasing its investment...
iPhone Accessory Maker Zagg Snaps Up Nearby Rival... →
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5 Tech Stories Worth Reading
1. Your next set-top box could be the size of a deck of cards The future of TV navigation is upon us, as cloud-driven programming guides could soon make it possible to disrupt the current set-top box market. As we’ve written before, we’re dreaming of a future where we don’t need a cable TV set-top box at all. In that utopia, users will be able to plug a TV in, connect it to their wireless home...
In the real future you will be working at a stint rather than a job. To work at...
– The Future of Jobs | Futurist.com: Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra (via mediafuturist)
Summer Reading 2011 →
via Seth Godin
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Bitly takes beta badge off Pro service, lets... →
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Bitly’s vanity URL feature was free during the Pro service private beta, and now it’s available to all users at the same low price. Some perks of using a vanity URL, however, are still walled off behind Bitly’s paid service, which is aimed at enterprise customers.
For example, if you want a root domain redirect for your vanity URL (so when users type your http://short.url into a...
Tumblr removes RSS import
taestell:
Tumblr has quietly removed the ability to automatically import RSS feeds to your tumblelog. They removed the feature during their recent redesign without give their users any warning.
So, if you were importing your Twitter feed, Last.fm Weekly Top Artists, or other blog into Tumblr and noticed that it stopped working — that’s why.
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1. Five years from now, there’ll be no such thing as a webpage Every time Facebook changes its interface, an outcry erupts in my News Feed. Without fail, my network transforms into a village and Mark Zuckerberg is our Frankenstein. Minor tweaks send us into an outrage, and we want Facebook’s head on a platter for our momentary confusion. But then a few days pass, and instead of anger, we see...
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1. Steve Jobs Confirms Discontinuation of iWeb in iCloud Transition Since last week’s unveiling of Apple’s new iCloud service and the transitioning of the company’s existing MobileMe service into iCloud, many users have been wondering about the fate of some of the MobileMe services that were not mentioned in the transition discussion. In particular, users have been concerned...
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1. PlayStation Branded 3DTV Announced, Coming Bundled With A Copy Of Resistance 3 Do you like the idea of all this new-fangled 3D technology in games but can’t stump up the cash for a new TV and 3D glasses? It seems like you aren’t the only one, and Sony has been listening to your pleas.
2. Google Maps can now tell you when your bus or train is late Google has offered travel information in Maps...
I have a few @tribalfish beta invites if anyone is interested
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1. Juniper: NFC Payments To Reach $50 Billion Worldwide By 2014 We know Google has made a big bet on near field communications (NFC) as a payments system with the launch of Google Wallet, but does the technology have the potential to be the future of how money is transacted? Juniper Research seems to think so. The company is releasing a new report that forecasts that global NFC mobile contactless...
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1. i’mWatch The Android Powered Wristwatch We have seen quite a few different watches that can be used with your smartphone here at Geeky Gadgets, but I think this may be the first one that is powered by Google’s Android OS, the i’mWatch.
2. Instagram Turns Your Likes Into Photo Albums Social photo app Instagram pushed out a new update today on the iPhone. The first thing you notice is that...
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1. Apple’s iCloud To Be Free At Launch, Then Pay To Play Apple Inc. has just sewn up its contracts with the four major record labels Thursday for a cloud music service, with agreements from music publishers to follow on Friday, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
2. Mashape, the Marketplace for APIs, Moves to Beta An app is like a Lego construction, Mashape is your Lego box....
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Why YouTube Adopting Creative Commons Is a Big...
Mashup artists, your life just got easier. YouTube is now making it possible remix existing videos right within its online … Read more
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1. Push.IO Buys Mobile App Framework TapLynx From NewsGator Push IO, a startup that offers a cloud-based mobile feature platform for developers has announced the acquisition of mobile app framework TapLynx from NewsGator.
2. Lendio Scores $2 Million More To Assist Business Owners In Securing Loans Off the heels of raising $6 million in venture capital, Lendio has secured another $2 million in...
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#Trust30 Day Two
One strong passionate beliefe I have, and one I try and live everyday, is giving those I work with the same respect, support and compassion I deserve. We spend a considerable amount of time working at our jobs. If we are constantly looking for the negative in people, you will have nothing but a negative experience. Who wants to go through life working with people like that. Leading by example.
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#Trust30 Day One
You can’t relive yesterday, but you can fully live today.
May 2011
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Todays Bike Ride
Date: 05/14/2011
Type: Bike
Distance: 8.05 miles
Time: 0 hr 52 min 10 secs
Average speed: 9.3 miles/hr
Route: Temple ride
Route link: http://www.logyourrun.com/showroute/raDFjxhm5j2ouJ
Calories: 637
April 2011
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Pixel Proliferation →
5cripted:
A superb FREE toolkit for managing screen resolutions