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Sunday, 19th December 2010

Holiday Reading: 5 of This Year's Best Books for Startups

Ideally, you'll find some time over the next few weeks to curl up with a good story. Or hey, at least that's what I look forward to on vacation. If you are looking for some books on entrepreneurship to read, or even to gift, here are some recommended books from 2010. There were a number of great business books published this year, many of…

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Information Wants to Be Free, But the (Unofficial) WikiLeaks App Costs Extra

"Information wants to be free," or so goes the slogan invoked a lot in relation to WikiLeaks. Information wants to be free - except when it's a WikiLeaks iPhone app apparently. Then it's $1.99. It's an unofficial WikiLeaks app, with no connections to the organization. The app's maker Igor Barinov says that WikiLeaks will receive $1 from…

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Wave Technology Lives On In Google's New Shared Spaces

Google has quietly launched a new Labs project today - Google Shared Spaces. Based on Google Wave gadgets technology, Shared Spaces is designed to be an easy way to create and share collaborative applications. As Shared Spaces uses Wave technology, there are already 50 different gadgets available, including shared maps, scheduling tools, polls…

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British Library Maps Evolution of English, Contribute Your Accent by Reading Mr. Tickle Aloud

For those that have been busily searching Google's new Ngram Viewer to assess how language has changed over time, here's another project that might pique your interest, one that involves another great literary work, Roger Hargreaves's children's book Mr. Tickle. The British Library wants to map different words and accents and chart the changing…

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Cartoon: Thanks a Bunch, WikiLeaks

This one came to me while I was watching an episode of Burn Notice (please hold your applause until the end of the post), where Michael, Fiona, Sam and Jesse have realized they have a piece of unspeakably important information in their hands. And maybe a decade ago, I would have found their dilemma compelling. But today? In a few minutes, they…

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