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07 Oct 2009 11:01

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Tech: Looking for a loyal social media lover? Look to Facebook.

  • 20% of Facebook users will come back for some more of your blog’s lovin’; Digg users are also loyal source
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07 Oct 2009 10:57

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Tech: Daily poll: Google’s constant logo changes, clever or annoying?

  • Today, Google changed their logo to a barcode to celebrate the anniversary of the first barcode patent. (It turns 57 today.) Now, we think it’s cool and awesome and everything, but Google has been doing this a lot lately. Which compels us to ask a fairly obvious question: Are they overdoing it? Vote above.source
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07 Oct 2009 10:46

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Tech: Amazon Kindles a global reach for its eBook reader

Jeff Bezos is hoping that the can take his pet project and turn it into the biggest present under a lot of global Christmas trees. source
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07 Oct 2009 09:42

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Tech: Thought Saturn’s other rings were cool? Check out this one.

Giant infrared ring around saturn
  • This ring is giant, way bigger than all the other ones, but we haven’t been able to see it until now. That’s because NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope works sort of like the signal that makes your remote control work. It uses infrared signals to pick up light which isn’t otherwise obviously visible.source
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06 Oct 2009 10:40

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Biz, Tech: Blog or news source? The inconsistent ways of Google News

  • Dividing content along these lines is like classifying brownies based on whether they were baked in aluminum or glass pans. There’s no difference, and it obscures what you really want know: if they contain chocolate chips.
  • Neiman Journalism Lab blogger Zachary M. Seward • Making a strong, interesting point about Google News’ new, and very inconsistent, labeling policies of blogs. Here’s one example: Talking Points Memo recently switched back to being a news source from being a blog. Here’s another (weirder) one: Gizmodo is a news source, and Deadspin is a blog, despite the fact that both are owned by Gawker Media. And the process of getting added to Google News, anyway, seems completely arbitrary. By the way, we love how Seward worded this. • source
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06 Oct 2009 10:30

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Tech: If you want to pay us to big-up a product, do it before Dec. 1

  • $11,000 fine for bloggers who don’t disclose source
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05 Oct 2009 22:18

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Tech: Adobe comes up with a workaround to the Flash-on-iPhone problem

  • Apple has been resistant to Flash showing up on its baby – you know, the iPhone. It’s gone out of its way to prevent the otherwise-ubiquitous software, focusing instead on platform-specific apps. source
  • In its new version of Flash, Adobe allows you to convert Flash files into iPhone programs. Soon, we expect Steve Jobs to show up on Adobe’s property with a shotgun, screaming belligerently. source
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05 Oct 2009 22:06

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Tech: This is how we produce all the fake photographs our site uses

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

  • With technology this awesome, who needs the truth, anyway? The truth was just getting in the way of what everyone really wanted, which is awesome, beautiful photos. Photosketch grabs random labeled photos off the internet and throws them into simply-drawn shapes that you outline. The geniuses that made this now have a hit on them thanks to photojournalists everywhere.source
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05 Oct 2009 21:53

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Biz, Tech: Knight Foundation: Everyone (not just EveryBlock) should benefit

  • Oops, this open source code isn’t very useful on its own! The Knight Foundation, which has been funding startups for a few years as part of their Knight News Challenge, was quite excited at the sale of EveryBlock to MSNBC in August. But now it’s having second thoughts. Why? Because it was released to the public as a piece of open-source code – not a plug-and-play package that newspapers can easily use. So they’re getting a new team to finish up the EveryBlock code which so it can be rolled out simply. Other startups will get treated the same way. We imagine some applicants to the Knight News Challenge (deadline coming soon!) might get turned off by this, but the goal was always to help journalism in general. source
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05 Oct 2009 20:39

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Tech: Voice over hypocrite protocol: Vonage is coming to the iPhone

  • Guess Apple had a change of heart. See, here’s the thing. Google Voice is a program that works with the iPhone to add a ton of extra functionality that the phone doesn’t have, yet works over regular cell signals. The Vonage iPhone app, does exactly what Apple and AT&T claimed they were afraid of – cheap calls on a network other than AT&T’s – and it was approved! Where’s the logic in that, Apple? source
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