Interesting post over at TechCrunch discussing a number of legal issues touching on daily deals (and how they may be violating laws, especially consumer protection). Like any area that is new and evolving its unclear what daily deals (Groupon, Living Social, Faveroo here in Columbus among others) are and you might be able to fit [...]
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“What happens if you let the notoriously fickle and sometimes downright dirty Google search autocomplete feature take over U.S. geography? A completely new State of the Union heavy on universities, history and other peculiarities, thats what.” via Google Autocomplete Redefines U.S. Map. See the map and what happens when you let autocomplete fill in for each [...]
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Can’t say I normally watch any of the videos on Slate V, I always think they are going to be articles and when I realize that they are on Slate V, I click away. But the other day I decided to watch a funny idea for a Wyclef Jean for president commercial. Then somehow noticed [...]
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“Wolfram|Alphas long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other [...]
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Yeah, you read the title right, the fusion of Korean BBQ Tacos (a fusion of its own) is big business when fused with twitter. What do the two have to do with each other? Well for the Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck in L.A. using Twitter to announce their next stop means that when they [...]
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[Quick background, MLB At Bat is a program in its second year for the iPhone that now exists as a free 'Lite' version and a pay $9.99 full version. The full version that I have allows detailed stats and scores for all games in real time (or close to) and additionally live audio for the [...]
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Being into all things new I installed the beta of Safari 4 on my Mac, I had know of some of the changes, including massive improvements with Safari’s Java performance, among other under the improvements. The UI also had some tweaks, probably most notably is the addition of Top Sites, a thumbnail view of your most visited [...]
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While there are plenty of fixible flaws with the iPhone’s software (copy & paste, mms, sideways keyboard in everything… oh we could go on) one is support for Flash, which love it or hate it is a reality of the web and when they claim that the whole internet is available in your pocket, missing [...]
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Buckling under the weight of the Internet radio royalty hike that SoundExchange pushed through last July, Pandora may pull its own plug soon. Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company still isn’t making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it can’t last beyond its first payment of the higher [...]
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What’s different about this post? Not sure if you will notice any difference between this post and any of my earlier ones. To keep you from guessing I’ll give you the answer… I am blogging from my iPhone (yeah it’s the now antiquated 1st gen). Anyway wordpress the website that runs my blog has a [...]
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