links for 2008-05-10
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Bloggers are influencers and there are more Hispanic and African American bloggers than among the general population.
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Google and Microsoft may eventually become the envy of medical researchers, as the technology behemoths take on the role of hosting health care databases for consumers' own personally controlled health records (PCHRs).
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We are seeing users spend a bit more more time with the video websites, spending an average of 16 minutes and 12 seconds for the week ending April 12, 2008 as compared to 15 minutes and 14 seconds during the same week last year.
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Digg is attempting to attract a large mainstream user base. Just how low has tech sunk in digg? We have new data that shows that the number of frontpage tech stories is halving every year on digg.
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Google's Webmaster Central blog wrote a best practices for moving your site to a new domain.
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The founders talk candidly on where they've been & where they're going
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Host Charles Lewis is an online marketer for Pop Labs whose alter ego—the Poetic Prophet—likes to rap about his subject of expertise. It sounds weird, but the videos are not only entertaining, they're remarkably informative.
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Short survey of the staffs of nonprofits on social networking and web 2.0 released in April 2008. No real surprises, nonprofit folks like blogs and aren't sure social networking will generate donations.
- LongTail Video
Video ad serving service and video ad network.
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Sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising — registrations increased 45 percent this year alone.
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The company says it's using the wisdom of crowds to produce versions of site guidelines — especially terms specific to Facebook — that are in tune with local cultures.
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The service links module enables admins to add links to a number of social bookmarking sites, blog search sites etc. Includes sites are del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, ma.gnolia.com, Newsvine, Furl, Google, Yahoo, Technorati and IceRocket.
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The Pathauto module automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias.
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This module provides a site map that gives visitors an overview of your site. It can also display the RSS feeds for all blogs and categories. Drupal generates the RSS feeds automatically but few seems to be aware that they exist.
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Instead of showing a standard "404 Page not found", this module performs a search on the keywords in the URL, e.g. if a user goes to http://example.com/does/not/exist, this module will do a search for "does not exist".
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The social network Facebook has reached an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to institute a broad set of principles intended to protect young users from online predators and inappropriate material.
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Creates a list of node URLs at /q=urllist.txt or (/urllist.txt for clean URLs) for submitting to search engines like Yahoo! Site Explorer.
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This module integrates Moxiecode's popular TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor into a Drupal site for editing advance site content.
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The views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists of content (nodes) are presented. Traditionally, Drupal has hard-coded most of this, particularly in how taxonomy and tracker lists are formatted.
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The Content Construction Kit allows you create and customize fields using a web browser.
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Counterfeit products are a routine threat for the electronics industry. However, the more sinister specter of an electronic Trojan horse, lurking in the circuitry of a computer or a network router and allowing attackers clandestine access or control, was
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URLify is a simple module that generates the path alias of a node automatically using javascript. The alias is generated from the title of the node.
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MEETin.org is a word-of-mouth effort to bring people together from all over for fun, low-key events without paying membership fee's.
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Microsoft To Yahoo: Marry Us, Or Else!
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Google & Don't Be Evil; Google's New US High & More
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The focus of Part 1 will be with on page website optimization.
- Daily SearchCast, April 16, 2008 [MP3]
Microsoft Gets News Search
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This basically does confirm that it’s nearly impossible to get something promoted that’s at least a day old, no matter how many diggs it collects.
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The women's magazine for moms about children, family, health, home, fashion, careers, marriage & more
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Yahoo Sez Google Ads Look Good
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Daniel Wilson, who has a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, got to thinking recently about devices he'd like to see invented. He's published a list of 10 genius inventions on PopularMechanics.com. They include an insect forcefield, sonic s
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What would you pay for a computer chip that could help you recall every piece of information that's passed through your brain? It's a question posed by New York University psychology professor Gary Marcus, who says implanting chips in human brains would h
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Americans have a growing comfort level with young people using social networking sites, chat programs and email, according to a new Zogby International survey. The changing sentiment could have implications for technology policy, according to Tim Lordan w
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The plan will allow unlimited calls to land-line phones in 34 countries for $9.95 per month, said Don Albert, vice president and general manager for Skype North America.
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Some major employers, including AT&T, Intel, Hewlett Packard and the federal government, have begun to scale back on telecommuting, calling thousands of home-based workers back to the office.
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When photo sharing site Flickr gave users the ability to upload short videos recently, more than 25,000 customers signed an online protest petition. They believe video will detract from the purity and simplicity of the photo site. The Flickr dust-up is an
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As cable TV companies pack ever more HD channels into limited bandwidth, some owners of pricey plasma, projector and LCD TVs are complaining that they're not getting the high-def quality they paid for. They blame the increased signal compression being use
- Sony BMG joins Universal in offering catalog on Nokia phones - Yahoo! News
Sony BMG is joining Universal Music Group in allowing users of select Nokia mobile phones access to its entire music catalog later this year.
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Internet service providers must not release personal information about users in New Jersey without a valid subpoena, even to police, the state's highest court ruled Monday.
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So far, although most major banks offer mobile banking services, 89 percent of consumers do not use their cell phones to conduct mobile banking transactions, according to a study by IBM's retail banking consulting practice shown to The Associated Press
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Writers are pushing for legislation to guarantee the Internet's status as an open forum for communication. Partic Verrone, the president of the Writers Guild of America, West, is scheduled to appear today before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta
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A green video network.
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Technology & Design (un)Conference: No Spectators, Only Participants
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Using GPS, the system figures out where the user is located and delivers nearby results from Microsoft's Live Search engine to the smart phone's screen, along with links to call, get directions, buy movie tickets and other related actions.
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Kreuziger's experience is shared by most Americans: They want the convenience of e-mail for non-urgent medical issues, but fewer than a third of U.S. doctors use e-mail to communicate with patients, according to recent physician surveys.
- Facebook | Lexicon
Counts occurrences of words and phrases on Walls over time.
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Even though the ink is still fresh on his diploma, Paul Smith is putting his communication and marketing degrees to work. His first project: himself. He has spent the past few months trying to sell himself to NFL types.
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Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday offered a glimmer of hope to fans of the company's XP operating system, saying customer demand may see the company reconsider a decision to stop selling XP in June.
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The figure, reported by the Xinhua News Agency, reflects China's explosive growth in Web use despite government efforts to block access to material considered subversive or pornographic.