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May 16, 1960: Researcher Shines a Laser Light
Posted on 16 May 2008 at 12:00am

1960: Physicist Theodore Maiman uses a synthetic-ruby crystal to create the first laser.

Maiman began tinkering with electronic devices in his teens and even earned college money repairing appliances and radios. He was working at the Hughes Research Laboratories of the Hughes Aircraft company in Malibu, California, when he built the first working laser.

The laser is a device that produces mon...

Posted in Wired Top Stories
WhitePages.com grapples with privacy in a Web 2...
Posted on 16 May 2008 at 9:00am
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes a look at how a simple concept like privacy gets complicated fast when development, authentication and millions of users enter the mix.

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BloggingBoost.com - get free domain name and ho...
Posted on 15 May 2008 at 4:02pm
Regular readers of AdesBlog know Alan Johnson very well by now. He is the regular contributor to this blog and author of some of the best articles in the blogosphere. BloggingBoost.com is a new project by Alan offering free domain name and hosting for promising bloggers. Obviously this free service is for serious bloggers or “to-be-bloggers” [...]
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3 Ways to Build a Persuasive Business Plan
Posted on 15 May 2008 at 7:00pm
Remember the dot-com boom, when countless web workers were able to take a business plan written on a scrap of paper to potential investors and get funding? The investment community doesn’t play quite as fast and loose with business plans as it did back then, but if you have in mind an entrepeneurial effort on [...]
Posted in Web Worker Daily
Exabytes’ 7th Anniversary Web Hosting Promotions
Posted on 15 May 2008 at 2:43pm

Exabytes is celebrating its 7th anniversary and rewarding its customers with 7 great deals.

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Guitar Hero? Just Data Entry. iVideosongs Rocks
Posted on 16 May 2008 at 3:00am
A common knock on the wildly popular Guitar Hero console gamer is that it's a shame that people don't just learn how to play the guitar instead. It's easier to play the actual guitar than many songs on Guitar Hero on its most challenging setting, after all. Perhaps the critics were wrong about Guitar Hero siphoning off interest in the actual instrument. Six of the top twenty iTunes podcasts are...
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Monetizing Non-Content Web Pages with AdSense A...
Posted on 16 May 2008 at 7:27am
Google Adwords advertisers can prevent their AdSense ads to display on social networking sites and also pages that only share images or video but no real content.
Posted in Digital Inspiration
Danish Mobile Social Network ZYB Acquired By Vo...
Posted on 16 May 2008 at 5:09am
ZYB, a mobile social network that we gave high marks to in August 2007, has been acquired by Vodafone for €31.5 million, or about $50 million. The company had raised just €3 million in venture capital. ZYB was smart in how they built their service. At first they were a simple address book backup-to-web service. But [...]
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