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Thursday, 27th November 2008

7 Fun Facts for Thanksgiving

Celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, Thanksgiving is considered an important day by most Americans; a time to take stock of all the things we are thankful for. So it's a good time to take a quick look at some fun facts and trivia surrounding Thanksgiving. Please enjoy.

Lidija Davis comments

NaNoWriMo: 'National Novel Writing Month' Still Going Strong After 10 Years

5 years ago, before this blog was a media business, I participated in NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. It's an annual creative writing project, in which participants try to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. I did it in November 2003 and documented it in ReadWriteWeb. While the resulting work of art was very average, and…

Richard MacManus comments

One Year Later, Too Many People Are Still Using TinyURL

One year ago link shortening service TinyURL experienced an extended period of down time and we argued that the outage illustrated serious risks associated with the service. One year later, the landscape doesn't look any less bleak. A search of the web turns up complaint after complaint after complaint about TinyURL being down and links being…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Wednesday, 26th November 2008

IBM: Talking Web Will be Commonplace in 5 Years

Every year IBM releases a "Next Five in Five" list, a list of innovations that "have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years". This is the third such list, and it mentions a "Talking Web" among the 5 items. You will talk to the Web and the Web will talk back, according to…

Richard MacManus comments

Messaging Services

Nimbuzz IM for the iPhone: Friendly to Fat Fingers

One of the common complaints about the Apple iPhone - beyond the inability to cut and paste - has been that such a powerful communications platform is sorely lacking in one particular respect: instant messaging. But Apple's shortcoming in terms of a universal IM client is the iPhone development community's gain. And any number of folks are rushing…

Rick Turoczy comments

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