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Tuesday, 15th February 2011

CNN Announces iReport Awards for Participatory Journalism

If you're a TV actor, you have the Emmy Awards. If you're a journalist, you have the Pulitzer Prize. But if you're a citizen reporter, what do you have? Nothing, until now. CNN announced today that it was launching the CNN iReport Awards "to honor the best examples of participatory journalism in 2010."

Mike Melanson comments

TechDygest Summarizes Top Stories on Your Phone

The free iPhone app for TechDygest has hit the iTunes app store and could be a good way for you to quickly catch up on technology news on the go. The app is similar to web aggregator Techmeme but with some additional features that really add to the user experience. For each news story, TechDygest aggregates coverage from multiple news sources…

Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

How Etsy is Using Node.js

"If Engineering at Etsy has a religion, it's the Church of Graphs," Ian Malpass writes on the Etsy Code as Craft blog. And how is Etsy fulfilling its religious obligations? With a Node.js daemon called StatsD, which the company has made available on GitHub. StatsD listens for messages on a UDP port, conducts its counting or timing, and then…

Hack Klint Finley comments

Cloud Computing

Enabling the Mobile Cloud: Appcelerator Partners with Engine Yard

Appcelerator, the makers of the mobile development framework Titanium, announced a partnership with Ruby on Rails platform-as-a-service provider Engine Yard today. Engine Yard developers will be able to create cross-platform applications using Titanium while leaving their Rails backend environments virtually unchanged. Titanium developers will be…

Klint Finley comments

Cloud Computing

The History of Collaboration [Infographic]

The history of collaboration is the subject of another infographic from Socialcast. A previous infographic the company did late last year explored how to measure the effectiveness of social technologies inside the enterprise. This one explores collaboration starting with a quote from Charles Darwin about communications. It goes from there to…

Alex Williams comments

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