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Monday, 23rd May 2011

Cheezburger CEO on News 2.0

Once you've built an empire of funny cat pictures and other user-generated comedy ephemera, what do you do next? Ben Huh, CEO of the sprawling Cheezburger network of comedy websites, has begun discussing a side-project he's working on called The Moby Dick Project. The Project's aim is to rebuild online media in a format that's suited for a…

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Replicate MySQL to MongoDB with Tungsten Replicator

You can now replicate data from MySQL data to MongoDB using Tungsten Replicator, an open source data replication engine for MySQL. It's sponsored by Continuent, makers of Tungsten Enterprise. The new functionality was added by Continuent CTO Robert Hodges, Flavio Percoco Premoli of The Net Planet and Continuent employee Stephane Giron as part…

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Gaming Saves Lives During Hurricanes

One of the first victims of a hurricane (or a flood or a tornado or an earthquake) is the sense of control. The trauma of survivors often centers not on loss of life alone, or of property, but of a belief in the individual as an actor. In children it is particularly acute. Game company Area/Code believes gaming, something most kids are already…

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Twitter's New Email Notifications

Twitter has just announced that it will begin sending email notifications to users when they're retweeted by someone they follow or when someone favorites one of their tweets. Until now Twitter has given users the option to receive email notifications when they receive a direct message or when they get a new follower. Last week, Twitter also…

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Music Downloads Began in 1892

I didn't start using a mobile device to rock me some of that sweet, sweet sissy bounce until I got my Android smart phone last year. I figured I'd need such a device to do justice to the music. Little did I know I could have done it with grandma's candlestick telephone. According to an article in Scientific American published in July of 1892, the…

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