March 5th, 2010 by admin
By now, the only people who haven’t heard of the Internet probably live in some monastery up in the Himalayas, and even they probably have a satellite dish, at the least. For anybody who understands how truly dominate the Internet has become, they understand that it really is possible to make money on it. All [...]
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September 15th, 2009 by admin
SAN FRANCISCO–Most of the new ventures launching at the TechCrunch50 conference are standalone Web sites, but not all. In years past there have been the few hardware launches, and this year is no different. Here are two new bits of hardware, and a new hardware platform that are gunning to make their way into your [...]
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November 2nd, 2008 by admin
If you’re contemplating liquidating some of your assets, eBay, Craigslist and others are probably looking pretty attractive right now. Don’t forget about the garage sale though!
A good way to dress one up, or turn those old pizza boxes into holiday gift baskets is to head over to iStockPack. It’s an Instructables-like community that’s filled with [...]
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October 30th, 2008 by admin
If you’ve ever had trouble finding scanned documents on Google, it’s probably because it was not indexing them. On Thursday, this all changed. Google has announced that it is now indexing scanned documents.
Google is now able to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on any scanned document it finds stored in the PDF format. OCR technology [...]
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October 29th, 2008 by admin
There’s nary a sheep to be tossed on business network LinkedIn’s new developer platform, which has officially gone live.
The array of internal- and partner-created applications includes a “reading list” app from Amazon, a trip-tracking app from TripIt, file sharing from Box.net, and presentation apps from SlideShare and Google Presentation.
“One of the big differences between LinkedIn [...]
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October 28th, 2008 by admin
Yahoo on Tuesday released a hosted version of its Zimbra e-mail and calendar software for educational customers.
Zimbra is open-source software, which means anybody can install it for free, but Yahoo also offers Zimbra Hosted as a subscription for which customers pay. The education version has a “substantial discount” in pricing over the regular commercial version, [...]
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October 28th, 2008 by admin
Google’s Profiles page lets people change settings for all their Google services. How socially aware will the site become?
(Credit: CNET News)
Google Profiles got its start as a way to centralize users’ settings and self-descriptions. Now Google has now flipped a switch to let search engines discover people’s profiles, giving the service a much greater social [...]
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October 27th, 2008 by admin
Facebook likes to trumpet the value of “trusted referrals“–recommendations and ads with the endorsements of members of your friends list. But a new study from Jupiter Research, commissioned by analytics company BuzzLogic, says that consumer purchases are more likely to be influenced by what they read on a blog versus what their social-networking rosters recommend.
Half [...]
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October 27th, 2008 by admin
If you have a MySpace or Facebook account, you know how hard it is to ignore friend requests. And in no time, you end up with a long list of buddies that contains mostly people you’ve never met or even talked to before. The definition for “friend” has never been more blurred.
In reaction to this [...]
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October 27th, 2008 by admin
WindowShop is a new content-viewing layer for Amazon.com. If you’ve ever used Cooliris’ PicLens before, you’ll feel right at home, as WindowShop turns Amazon’s selection of online goods into a giant wall, which you can scroll back and forth across, and zoom in and out of to find things to buy. The tool was built [...]
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