Archive for February, 2008

Peter Macaulay: About YouTube outage caused by Pakistan

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Peter Macaulay writes: “I have been concerned this week with the actions of Pakistan causing worldwide outages to YouTube.

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Android alpha demo (video)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Darren Waters presents a video of a demo of Google Android as it looks in alpha status. Read the comments.

18 great real estate web sites — Today show

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Barbara Corcoran created this list of 18 great real estate web sites. [via NBC Today show]

Breaking up is NOT hard to do, if you use Facebook

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

A friend shares this TRUE story about how to break up in the new millennium. Beyond e-mail, beyond texting… it’s breaking up via a social networking site!

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Mobile phone includes tiny optical disk player for movies

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Andrew Seybold writes about a mobile phone that has a tiny optical drive for watching movies. The optical media is about the size of a U.S. quarter coin. [via Jim Soriano]

Sharon Begley on Effect of your Second Life avatar appearance. (Hot does matter…)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Sharon Begley writes Our Imaginary, Hotter Selves.

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Delocator — find a non-chain cafe or coffee shop near your zip code

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Delocator helps you find a non-chain cafe or coffee shop near your zip code. For my zip (93420) it was dead on. [via Twitter]

Joel Garreau on the Mobile Phone Revolution

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Joel Garreau writes about the Mobile Phone Revolution. It’s a long but interesting article.

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Howard Rheingold — Why I am hooked on Twitter

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Howard Rheingold writes Why I am hooked on Twitter. [via Twitter]

Jeff Jarvis on why he finds Twitter to be useful

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Jeff Jarvis writes about why he finds Twitter to be useful. [via Twitter]

Dasher: information-efficient text entry (a Google talk)

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Watch this talk (video) about Google’s Dasher, a novel method for information-efficient text entry. Very cool, very different.

Google’s GrandCentral Phone Service Invites Available

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

If you live in the USA, Google has opened invites to its GrandCentral phone service. I’ve been using GrandCentral (it’s a FREE service for now) for several months. It’s great! Google explains GrandCentral here.