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  Mobile

  HP TouchPad is Clever, Not a Killer

  It pains me to say this, as I was very excited to try HP's TouchPad, but the combination of the webOS mobile operating system packaged in the form factor of the TouchPad tablet is far from being any sort of iPad killer. That's not to say that webOS doesn't have...

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  Social

  Why Doesn’t Facebook Just Buy Zynga?

  Zynga added a 600-plus-pages addendum to its IPO filing yesterday and it turns out that Zynga and Facebook are intertwined so tightly that it is hard to tell where one company ends and the other starts. The best example is two agreements that the companies came to in May and...

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  Social

  Survey Says: US Consumers Most Unhappy With Facebook

  The 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report was published today and the survey of 70,000 US consumers found Facebook to be the least satisfying of the largest social sites on the web. Only 66% of respondents said they were satisfied by Facebook, compared to market leader Wikipedia at...

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  Web

  Is It Okay to Friend Your Boss on Facebook? (66% Say No)

  The increasingly digital world in which we now not only live, but also work, gives rise to a whole new set of questions about professional etiquette. When working from a public cafe, is it rude to jump on that conference call? Should you friend your boss on Facebook? Is using...

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  Work

  Yes, Customers Are Willing to Use Social Media for Customer Service [Infographic]

  One of the issues facing social business and social CRM strategies is the issue of whether customers want to use social media as means for getting customer support. As of now, the phone is still the most common way to provide support. But would customers be willing to engage in...

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  Mobile

  Google Plus for iPhone Falls Short of Expectations (But is Still Pretty Cool Anyway)

  Apple released the iPhone app for Google's red hot social network, Google Plus, on the iTunes store this morning. (link) Enthusiastic Plus users appear very excited to take advantage of the native app, which offers features like photo uploading, Huddle conversations and push notifications - in addition to the features...

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  Social

  Scribd’s New Float Reader App Combines News, Social & “Read Later” on Mobile

  Document hosting and sharing site Scribd is venturing into the mobile space in order to give its publishers an opportunity to attract more readers. With a new mobile reader application called Float, Scribd aggregates content from news sites, magazines, blogs, and Scribd.com as well as from your social networks like...

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  Mobile

  Cell Phone Spoofing and the UK Scandal – What it Means to You

  So the news this week is filled with ever-changing horror about how various reporters in the Murdoch's News Corp. "hacked" into the cell phone voice mail accounts of prominent Britons. How did News of The World reporters actually hack cell phones and should you be concerned that it could happen...

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  Mobile

  Alfred, a Personal Robot for Recommendations on the Go

  New from a company called Clever Sense is an app called Alfred (iTunes link) that provides personalized recommendations for restaurants, coffee shops, nightlife, bars and clubs, and soon, hotels, salons, spas, shops, attractions and more. The interesting thing about how the app does so is the technology it is uses...

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  Web

  Enable Comments in the Margins of Your Website with Highlighter (& 1 Line of JavaScript)

  One of the longstanding laments about our move to digital literature is how difficult and cumbersome this makes marginalia, those notes and annotations we make in the margins of printed text. A story in The New York Times earlier this year went so far as to call the future of...

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  Web

  A Closer Look at Cloud-based Testing with Soasta

  One of the themes many of us commentators harp on about is the fact that barriers to entry for application developers have never been lower - the availability of cloud hosting, agile development methodologies, even this crazy frothy investment cycle we're in all combine to see lots of applications being...

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  Mobile

  TripIt & Concur: When Trendy Consumer Apps Are Acquired by Enterprise Companies

  In January of this year, mobile travel management app TripIt was acquired for up to $120 million by Concur, a company founded in 1993 that provides "integrated expense and travel management solutions." TripIt, founded in late 2006, was one of my favorite 'web 2.0' apps. At the end of 2007,...

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  Social

  Sync Google Plus to Twitter, Facebook & Identi.ca with Agent G

  Want to sync your Google Plus updates to other social networks, without having to use a browser extension? There's a new way to do this, called "Agent G," which is actually a special Google Plus user account. Once configured, you can automatically share your Google Plus updates to the social...

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  Developer

  QUAD BOOT: Maemo, Meego, NITDroid, and Kubuntu on your Nokia N900

    Ever wanted to QUAD boot your Nokia N900 ? Of course you did !!!! Here is Maemo Community member Skykooler giving you the run down of what you need to do. Full instructions found in the link at the bottom of the post. Video: Putting together instructions from various...

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  Web

  Integrating Web 2.0 with Traditional Software: MindTouch Launches Contextual Help CMS

  Technical documentation platform provider MindTouch tonight announced an interesting new feature in its flagship product: MindTouch Contextual Help. The feature offers the ability to integrate collaboratively written documentation inline into web and desktop application interfaces, instead of only publishing it as a standalone document elsewhere. In contrast, forums, PDFs and...

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  Computers

  What do all these MeeGo version numbers mean?

  An excellent quick post from Paul Farquhar (Intel) on the version numbering associated with MeeGo image files. If you are planning to install a newer image on your ExoPC (How-To) and you want to download it from meego.com then you may have wondered what all the versions numbers mean. Here...

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  Developer

  MeeGoExperts is now part of the Nokia N950 Club #N950

    Globally the Nokia N950's are rolling out to eager Developers. We have already seen quite a few ported applications (in what seems record time) and many more on the way. The Guy from "DHL" has become a very much loved and revered person (love you guys). I'm Looking forward...

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  Hack

  Google Refine Gets Fusion Tables Import and More

  Google Refine, formerly known as Freebase Gridworks, has been updated to version 2.1. Refine is an open source tool for cleaning up messy data sets before linking them into systems such as Freebase. The update includes new HTML parsing functions, the ability to import Google Fusion Tables and more.Freebase Gridworks...

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  Mobile

  Futuristic Location Platform Geoloqi Will Live, Lands Funding

  Last Fall I wrote about Geoloqi, a bootstrapped geolocation platform that points to where I hope location technology will go in the future. The service offers an app and today launches an API that uses persistent location tracking to trigger notifications tied to real-world places. Maybe it's a note you...

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  Hack

  TameJs: A JavaScript Extension for Making Event Programming Easier

  TameJs is an extension to JavaScript created by the OK Cupid team. Its purpose is to make event programming "easier to write, read, and edit." It can be used with Node.js or other V8 projects. According to the site: "Tame is not an attempt to dumb down async programming. It's...