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| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 8:01am |
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| Animoto: When Using Amazon Web Services Gets Yo... |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 8:07am |
| Animoto, web app for creating videos out of photos and music has received funding from Amazon. The amount of money invested was not disclosed.
The service uses Amazon Web Services (S3 in particular) to scale its application which quickly gained tremendous popularity. For instance, the Facebook version of Animoto is one of the most popular [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Animoto: When Using A... |
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| Four Offbeat Word Processors for Targeted Tasks |
| Posted on 14 May 2008 at 7:00pm |
| This blog has covered alternative word processors before, and both writers and readers tend to agree that Google Docs and Zoho Writer are good choices. I have a few other alternative word processors that I favor, though. In this post, I’ll cover four that are worth looking into.
Adobe Buzzword is built on the Adobe Flash [...] |
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| Registration open for 2008 scalability conference |
| Posted on 14 May 2008 at 5:08pm |
| Posted by Andrew Schwerin, Software EngineerAs we noted earlier, our Conference on Scalability is taking place in Seattle on Saturday, June 14. And now registration is open until June 6.We have some great talks lined up from industry and academia, covering everything from scalability of storage, communication and transactions to scaling applications into the mobile space or, in one case, under... |
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| Google Docs: Now you can create polls too |
| Posted on 14 May 2008 at 5:59pm |
| Google Docs now allows you to create polls. But it’s not so easy or shall I say obvious to create polls in Google Docs. It’s one of those applications that are done from the programmers’ point of view and not the end-users’.
You will have to follow this tutorial to create your first poll. I [...] |
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| 17 Drug-Free Ways to Stay Awake |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 12:37am |
| Staying awake is easy… 5 shots of espresso and 2 lines of cocaine is all you need. You’ll certainly be wide awake and wired, but you may also die from a heart attack a few hours later. In all seriousness, conquering drowsiness before it overwhelms your mind can be quite a challenge without the help [...] |
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| Creating a live survey for your site |
| Posted on 14 May 2008 at 4:54pm |
Have you ever wanted to poll your website visitors on their interests or ask them for feedback on your site content? Now, using a Google Docs spreadsheet, you can create a simple form, collect responses from your visitors in an online spreadsheet, and publish the results on your website -- in a few easy steps. All of the data will be kept in your secure, password-protected spreadsheet. Here's ho... |
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| Amazon Funds Animoto Music Video Creator |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 7:25am |
| Amazon has taken a special interest in one of its web service customers: Animoto, the machine-driven music video creator that launched last August and now has over 160,000 users. The online retail giant has decided to fund the startup with an undisclosed amount of money.
Animoto takes photo and music files from users and essentially turns [...] |
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| Comcast to Buy Plaxo |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 4:40am |
| Reuters reports that the second-largest U.S. ISP, Comcast, has agreed to acquire online address book and social networking site Plaxo for somewhere between $145 million and $175 million."Comcast will use Plaxo to offer social network links across Comcast-connected devices from TVs to digital video recorders to, eventually, wireless devices, thanks to a new partnership with Sprint, Clearwire and... |
Posted in HotHardware.com News Rss Feed
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| CBS to buy CNet for $1.75 billion |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 8:01am |
CBS says it's buying CNet Networks Inc. for about $1.75 billion. That's a 45 percent premium above the closing price of $7.95 for the online news and entertainment site.
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Posted in Wired Top Stories
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