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  • The social failings of Google
    Orkut. Used it? I did back in 2002, but since then? No one I know uses it. Jaiku. Used it? I did back in 2006, but since then? No one I know uses it. Dodgeball. Used it? I did back in 2006, but since then? No one I know uses it. These are just a few of the failures Google has had trying to figure out the social space. Tomorrow they’ve invited a ton of journa […]
  • Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland.
    "Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland."
  • Back to the Future: How Apple is Becoming More Like a Carrier Every Day
    Editor’s note: Is Apple going too far with its restrictions on developers? Alistair Goodman thinks so and explains why in this guest post. He is the CEO of 1020 Placecast, a location-based mobile advertising startup. Apple’s recent behavior bears an increasing resemblance to carriers with respect to the walled garden they are creating around the iPhone. Rest […]
  • Kausfiles : How to Write A Piece On How to Save the President
    Steve Clemons praises a What's-Wrong-With-the White-House diagnosis by Edward Luce in the FT : "[M]any of the nation's top news anchors and editors are sending emails back and forth (I have been sent three such emails in confidence) on what a spot-on
  • The Way We Live Now - Tyranny of the Majorities - NYTimes.com
    Shared by Henry Webb Umm, yeah. Losing your majority in congress might be a good thing. Why losing a few Democrats in Congress could be good news for the president.
  • Modified Tab Ordering Enables Firefox-like Tab Handling in Google Chrome [Downloads]
    Google Chrome: If you've recently moved from Firefox to Chrome, you probably miss the way that Firefox orders tabs. This small Google Chrome extension switches the tab ordering in Chrome to mimic how Firefox handles new tabs.The default behavior for Chrome is to group tabs together—new tabs open relative their parent tab. If you prefer new tabs to open […]
  • Review: Daddy-Daughter Killing Sprees Power 'BioShock 2'
    By building on the original's creepy setting and tweaking the troubling relationship between Big Daddies and Little Sisters, this sequel becomes a worthy successor to a groundbreaking game.
  • Google Wave in Action: Real-World Use Case Studies [Use Cases]
    A week ago we asked readers to tell us how they're using Google Wave in their daily lives, and despite a bit of "ha! no one's using Wave!" snarking on the Twitter, we got lots of interesting responses. Unsurprisingly, most Wavers use it as a real-time wiki, but some take advantage of features unique to Wave, like inline and private replie […]
  • #28244 - Wolong National Nature Reserve, south west...
    Wolong National Nature Reserve, south west China– In these amazing images, 16 tiny pandas are shown their new home for the first time after being separated from their mothers. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)
  • PeteSearch: How to split up the US
    As I've been digging deeper into the data I've gathered on 210 million public Facebook profiles, I've been fascinated by some of the patterns that have emerged. My latest visualization shows the information by location, with connections drawn between places...

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