My LinkedIn Life (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Over fifty million users entrust their professional identities and relationships with LinkedIn, helping build LinkedIn into the largest global professional network today. However, professionals around the world use a wide variety of applications and Web sites to get their work done, and they have spoken loud and clear that they want the ability to [...]
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Roku vice president of marketing Chuck Seiber only gave us a teeny-tiny sneak-peek at the new Roku Channel Store at NewTeeVee Live couple weeks back, but the company officially launched the feature along with ten new free channels today. Roku owners will now be able to get content on their big screen TV from: blip.tv: web shows [...]
The Official Google Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Can you spot the difference between these two sample display ads? Of course you can. However, the most important difference is not discernible to the naked eye. The lower ad was customized and chosen from thousands of different creative elements, automatically and in real-time, by machine-learning algorithms developed by Teracent , a San Mateo, California startup. We think that this technology has...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009 | Politics
An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement's foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the ... November 22, 2009, 10:13 am
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago | Technology
Tasering just isn't for 10 year olds , a UK man invented a lobster zapper that some feel is more humane than just tossing them in boiling water. I would like to try this electric lobster they speak of. Looking at the photo, it looks like two big metal plates that "zap". The company is called "CrustaStun" . A company in the United Kingdom is about to lift the lid on a device that...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago | Technology
A double shot of timewastey STAR WARS funs: Band Names (hashtag's here, @johnmoe started it), and Facebook Updates (via @bonniegrrl )...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Interesting point from the Raleigh News & Observer : "North Carolina has maintained the strongest Democratic Party in the South during the past decade by siphoning off moderate Starbucks Republicans."
Joystiq (Free subscription) | yesterday | Video Games
Datel announced that it has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, in response to Microsoft's lockout (via Xbox 360 firmware update) of the company's Max Memory Cards . We doubt this is the " remedy " for the lockout issue to which the company previously referred, but it's certainly one way to address it. " Microsoft has taken steps to render inoperable the competing Datel memory...
SlashGear (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago | Technology
Nokia have outed two new budget sliders with a strong emphasis on media sharing, the Nokia 6700 Slide and the Nokia 7230. The 6700 Slide packs a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, together with onboard editing software, while the 7230 gets a more modest 3.2-megapixel camera. Both have 3G for high-speed uploads (though only according to the press release; the 7230 data sheet only mentions EDGE),...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
First Read has obtained a resoultion being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members for comments that proposes a conservative litmus test of sorts for candidates. If a candidate disagrees with three of the 10 items on the list, the RNC would withhold financial assistance and an endorsement from that candidate.
Digital Inspiration (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Google Earth is the first desktop application to have AdSense Ads though Google policies don't allow Ads inside software applications.
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009 | Technology
The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fair use to do reporting on Sarah Palin's memoir Glowing Rouge: "The AP was determined to get the first copy," Oreskes [a senior managing editor] wrote, detailing how the writers learned a store had...
/Film (Free subscription) | yesterday | Entertainment
While it did break midnight and opening day records, The Twilight Saga: New Moon was unable to beat The Dark Knight's huge opening weekend record, despite being the highest opening weekend of 2009. The Summit Entertainment sequel took in an estimated $140.7 million domestically over the three day weekend, about $18 million shy of Batman's record $158 million, and even shy of Spider-Man 3's $151.1 million....
Michelle Malkin (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Big Government has a treasure trove of ACORN docs dumped to cover the criminal racket’s tracks before Jerry Brown launched a pretend probe. [...] Read the rest »
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago | Politics
Yes, the Blackwater that Bush's DOJ was considering indicting last December. The same Blackwater that was accused of shooting at innocent Iraqi civilians . The same Blackwater that was accused, just a few weeks ago, of bribing Iraqi officials to quell criticism of the civilian shooting incident. Yes, that's the Blackwater that the Obama administration is reportedly employing to conduct assassinations...
