It’s no secret that NBC isn’t making a lot of friends on the West Coast right now. The network has decided that it needs to funnel as many people into watching its tape-delayed prime-time programming as possible – with no regards for the fact that people out west would like to watch the Vancouver Winter [...]
We saw an interesting phenomenon on ReadWriteWeb today. My colleague Mike Melanson wrote a post about Facebook Connect, which now shows up as the #1 search results on Google News and also as a new result on Google’s main search engine.
That – by itself – wouldn’t be something out of the ordinary, but here is what happened: [...]
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I have no idea what the purpose of this thing is supposed to be. It sure looks cool, though.
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I write quite a lot every day and being able to handle constant distractions is part of my job description. But sometimes, it’s just nice to be able to focus on your text without having anything else come in your way.
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From Appfrica: “People often only see Africa from one perspective, here’s another. The above infographic details some of the happenings over the past few years in regards to infrastructure improvement and capacity building in Africa, paritcularly in the area of the internet and cost. The sources are various reports from the International [...]
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I've always been fascinated by how the dirty underground world of paid blog posts works. Over time, I've signed up for a few services to see what they offered. This is what I saw in my mailbox today:
Hi there Frederic,
Do you blog? Would you like to earn $8 real fast for blogging an [...]
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Not sure why CNN calls it the ’secret’ online cloud, but I guess it’ll make more people check it out…
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On Thursday, Sony Electronics, which sells e-book devices under the Reader brand, plans to announce that by the end of the year it will sell digital books only in the ePub format, an open standard created by a group including publishers like Random House and HarperCollins.
Sony will also scrap its proprietary anticopying [...]
