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LinkedIn People Search: "It's People Alerts (via email), Stupid"

LinkedIn People Search - Email AlertsOriginally uploaded by davemc500hatsLinkedIn buried the lede on the recent launch of their new LinkedIn People Search feature set.The new feature they probably should have highlighted more clearly is People Search Alerts via Email. You can now save up to 3 searches...

Posted to Venture Capitial by Anonymous on 11-25-2008
Gmail Hack: A Route to Domain Theft?

Google’s Gmail service has lots of fans , but it may also be the cause of a number of domain name thefts in recent weeks. Attacker Creates a Gmail Filter According to a proof of concept by Geek Condition , there is a security flaw in Gmail that allows an attacker to forward GoDaddy account reset information...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-23-2008
Problems at the polls? Send a tweet

Long lines, broken voting machines, and citizens who can't vote because their names don't show up on the registration rolls. A group of software developers and designers have teamed up with the blog techPresident to make it easier for voters to broadcast such issues far and wide--fast. The Twitter...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
Use the Google to find your polling place

We’d hate to see you get lost trying to vote on this, the mostest important of election days. Fortunately for us, so would Google! Take a look at this fanciful tool they put together to help you find your polling place: http://maps.google.com/vote Just type your address into the form field on the...

Posted to Indie by Anonymous on 10-31-2008
Start Em Young - Three Web Apps for Families

Since launching Dad-o-Matic , a blog where dads give views, reviews, news, and ideas about parenting, I’ve been thinking a lot about how families interact with the Web. I look for applications and ideas that give parents some “first steps” into sharing experiences using online tools...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-24-2008
Putting Social Media Monetization in “Context”

In his post on why the traditional CPM model doesn’t work anymore , Dave McClure breaks the CPM denial balloon, noting that the popular content-centric, keyword-based Google Adword model delivers a click-through rate of less than 1%. Dave posits that the problem is not Google-specific, but reflects...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-23-2008
BusinessWeek on America’s CTO gets to top of TechMeme

Hah, at the top of TechMeme right now is a BusinessWeek article about who America’s CTO should be if Barack Obama gets to be President. Um, Google “America’s CTO?” and you’ll find my article on the topic where I ask Larry Lessig about this (the video of Lessig is a must...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-20-2008
Lizzer Lets You Add Links and Embed Content in One Click (The Startup Review)

Company Lizzer 20-Word Description Lizzer is the easiest way to add links and embed content on the Web. CEO’s Pitch Need to find interesting links and content for your blog, email, or site? Lizzer is a bookmarklet (and site) that makes it easy for anyone to find and insert links, images, and videos...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
Our disappearing web

Garret McMahon is right. He looked at the just-put-up “old Google” from 2001 (lots of fun to do searches and see what Google looked like back then, that index was done just a few days after I started blogging) and he noticed that lots of things that were on the Web back then are gone. My...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-01-2008
Mobile Phone Users Struggle With Hardware Adoption

Ian Lamont writes "A Google executive speaking at the Emerging Technology conference has described a problem that mobile phone carriers and manufacturers have been struggling with over the last few years: Users aren't taking advantage of many phones' hardware-based features. Rich Miner,...

Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 09-24-2008

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