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1.Scavenger Hunt! New JTV Contest (blog.justin.tv)
On August 18th Justin.tv plans on hosting it's first ever site wide scavenger hunt. The first eleven people to locate all of the items on the list and send screen-captures of those items in first will receive a prize badge for their profile and a Just...
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2.Meat in the Machine (blog.matchmine.com)
Don Dodge has a characteristically thoughtful post here asking a bunch of good questions about why there seems to be such a big gap between the promise and the reality of online ad targeting:
Lots of startups and VCs are pinning their hopes on this sim... -
3.News of the Loudcrowd private alpha (blog.conduitlabs.com)
It has been an incredibly exciting period at Conduit Labs lately as we've been in closed alpha for our first game. We've been busy watching our early users spend some amazing amounts of time seemingly enjoying themselves while we gather important feedb...
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4.Get Connected! 8 Tech Tools and Tips For a Tough Economy (blog.mint.com)
Having my father get laid off from his state government job a few weeks back has kept me busy. He's not what I'd call tech-savvy, although he's learning along the way. So I've spent quite a bit of time with him over the last two weeks: setting him up w...
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5.Talkin bout Translations (blog.songbirdnest.com)
We’re striving to make it as easy as possible for people to help translate Songbird and we’d like to hear from the community about what works best for you. Some of the questions we have are:
What features are most important to you in a web...
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6.‘You Suck at Photoshop’ In No Need of Touching Up (news.tubefilter.tv)
Most people wouldn’t peg a “how-to” show for using a computer program as a viable form of entertainment. And it probably wouldn’t be, with the exception of My Damn Channel’s hilarious web series You Suck at Photoshop, whic...
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7.Learn how to make money from your RSS feed (blog.openx.org)
Thirty years ago, on October 21st 1978, Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a light aircraft towards King Island, Australia. Valentich had reported via radio that an unidentified craft flew at high speeds dangero...
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8.SNPwatch: Genetic Variant May Increase Risk for Anxiety Disorders (spittoon.23andme.com)
SNPwatch gives you the latest news about research linking various traits and conditions to individual genetic variations. These studies are exciting because they offer a glimpse into how genetics may affect our bodies and health; but in most cases, mor...
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9.How the Posts are Uniquely Positioned to Cure the Fundamental Flaws of E-Mail as a Replacement for Physical Mail (www.earthclassmail.com)
By Ron Wiener, CEO & Postmaster General, Earth Class Mail (Note: This article will be appearing in an upcoming issue of Postal Technology International.)
It took posts three centuries to reach their peak worldwide volume of about 440 billion piece... -
10.That’s What We’re Talking About! (blog.outside.in)
The New York Times has a great story about placebloggers in suburbs and smaller urban areas. It speaks to the role they play in providing voice and local coverage in their towns especially in areas that are underserved by their local papers.
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11.Romany Malco’s ‘Tijuana Jackson’ Trailer Leaked (news.tubefilter.tv)
Fans of Romany Malco have made it clear that they were unhappy when his character did not return to Weeds this season. Well, those fans now have a reason to celebrate in the form of Tijuana Jackson.
Still I Rise is the new web series created by and s... -
12.080808 New Product Launch (sproutbuilder.com)
It has been a little quiet from us as we were working like crazy to get our new product done. We officially finished it up last Friday, but due to our client not getting their site done, we postponed going live until yesterday at around 7 pm PDT. It ...
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13.Intelligence training (www.lumosity.com)
By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and UCSF, and science writer for Lumos Labs.
A study conducted by Martin Buschkuehl and Susanne Jaeggi in John Jonides’ lab at the University of Michigan indicates that it is possibl... -
14.Tattoos and Copyright (avvoblog.com)
Copyright is one of the few issues that did *not* arise when Avvo Blog last visited Tattoos. In the NYT Ideas Blog today, the issue of tattoo artists having copyright claims to their tattoos is explored. The post links to a couple of law review arti...
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15.World’s Most Disgusting Apartment Is In Houston (PICS) (blog.txtapt.com)
WARNING: NOT FOR FAINT OF HEART. When your apartment gets to this point, I wonder if you even bother shitting in the toilet, or anywhere near the bathroom, for that matter. The moment you feel a dump coming on, do you just drop your pants, squat down a...
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16.GameLayers, Inc. is looking for a Web developer/front-end developer at a new kind of game company in San Francisco, CA, USA (pmog.tumblr.com)
GameLayers, Inc. is looking for a Web developer/front-end developer at a new kind of game company in San Francisco, CA, USA: GameLayers, Inc. is a venture-funded game company looking for a full-time web developer to help us make a massively multiplayer...
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17.Seesmic loses a valued community member (blog.seesmic.com)
[by Jeremy Vaught, Blogger - Seesmic] Sadly today I woke up to the news that Seesmicer Craig Manganello has passed away. If you follow Seesmic at all, you know Craig as the musician that often was wearing an oxygen tube....From: Seesmic
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18.Your Customers Want You To Be Social (www.kickapps.com)
“93 percent of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media, while an overwhelming 85 percent believe a company should not only be present, but also interact with its consumers via social media.”
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19.Gnip, Mahalo, and L.A. (blog.gnipcentral.com)
Eric and I just spent the past few days in Los Angeles. We were lucky enough to be invited as one of two presenters to Mahalo’s first hosted tech meetup; Google (Chris Schalk and Kevin Marks) represented the other slot with Open Social. Attendanc...
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20.A Matter of Motivation (spittoon.23andme.com)
The following post is by Esther Dyson, a director at 23andMe and investor in numerous private aviation, space and health care ventures, including PatientsLikeMe.
Last weekend I attended Science Foo Camp, a sort of grown-up summer camp for scientists sp... -
21.Control a robot on Justin.tv! (blog.justin.tv)
apocas has put his mindstorms robot on Justin.tv for viewers to control.Go here to give it a test drive!Watch live video from Robot Remote Control! on Justin.tvFrom: Justin.tv Inc.
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22.One Man’s Exons: Craig Venter’s Genome Offers Clues About the Future of Personal Genomics (spittoon.23andme.com)
What we know today about the correlation between genetic variation and observable effects on people’s health, physical appearance and other traits is just the tip of the iceberg, according to a paper published Friday in PLoS Genetics.
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23.Put down the burrito and step away slowly: where not to eat in San Francisco (blog.freebase.com)
Toby has loaded the San Francisco Health Department’s scores for all the local restaurants into Freebase, and a couple of weeks ago he shared with us this list of restaurants ordered by health department score.
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24.Opinion from a Rubicon Project Newbie (www.rubiconproject.com)
Hi all, I’m Whitney and I recently joined the publisher team and wanted to offer an inside peek from a Rubicon Project newbie.
So far it’s been a whirlwind of excitement. I was looking for a new challenge in life and I’ve definitely found the rig... -
25.If Google Got Into Mail (www.earthclassmail.com)
By Cameron Powell, VP of Strategic Development, Earth Class Mail. This article will be appearing in an upcoming issue of Postal Technology International.
Note: The views expressed in the following dramatization do not necessarily reflect the views of ...
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