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I just got my Kindle last week and I think I need a bit more time with it to really gather my thoughts and make any real review of the device. I will, however, cop to the fact that one of my first thoughts when I saw the “Whispernet” connectivity and a browser was, “I [...]
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Jan sent me a link to a cool new shopping service called Polyvore that allows you to place sets of items you find while shopping online onto a page to see how they go with each other. What’s great is that people are using the tool to create other types of photographic mashups which are [...]
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The “True Knowledge” demo of a semantic search engine looks quite promising to me. It incorporates user feedback and intelligent parsing of intent to yield search results completely impossible by Google. It’s hard to imagine where a fully adopted version of this technology could go but it would be amazing to use this in combination [...]
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Blue Dot has changed their name, branding and product in one fell swoop and has been reborn as Faves.com. The improved product focuses on users being able to subscribe to topics of interest and receive customized feeds regardless of whether or not that user has friends already on the system. For me personally, this is [...]
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Quiet Please: Architectural Representations of City in Science Fiction Cinema – It is exactly what it says it is, a wonderful collection of science fiction cinematic analysis pertaining to representations of cities. This Dilbert Blog post discusses the possibility that economists are immune to cognitive dissonance and explores a particular issue on the Bill Maher [...]
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The article is here: In October, the online retailer Amazon.com will unveil the Kindle, an electronic book reader that has been the subject of industry speculation for a year, according to several people who have tried the device and are familiar with Amazon’s plans. The Kindle will be priced at $400 to $500 and will [...]
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I wish the video were more agnostic to the bookmarking services out there, but this is a great description of how/why you should use social bookmarking to store the best sites on the web. Click To Play If you’re interested in social bookmarking, I recommend Blue Dot!
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I used to work at a social networking / bookmarking startup called Blue Dot. While searching for an old demo video we had made while there, I came across a bunch of great videos, some made by our team and some made by our users. The following are all the videos I’ve discovered so far, [...]
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Uh oh. Oh no you didn’t! Harper’s has gone and “done it”, granting access to 157 years of Harper’s Magazine content as part of their normal subscription price. Take that New Yorker! Infowhores unite! (click the image for a larger look at what it looks like when you sign up and have access to 157 [...]
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