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| 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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| Google Translate adds 10 new languages... |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 5:10pm |
| Posted by Jeff Chin, Product Manager...and that's great news any way you say it. Language is one of the biggest challenges we have in making information universally accessible. As part of the machine translation team within Google Research, I'm happy to report we've been hard at work to overcome this challenge. We've recently added translation capabilities for 10 new languages to Google Transla... |
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| Time Capsule off to a great start |
| Posted on 14 May 2008 at 5:01pm |
| “After about a month on the market,” reports Arik Hsseldahl (businessweek.com) “Time Capsule is proving to be far and away the market leader.” Hesseldahl notes that “Steve Baker of market research firm NPD called it the ‘dominant product in its category.’” |
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| Aliph's New Jawbone Headset: Smaller and More S... |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 3:22am |
| Confession time: This is a quick headset review by a guy who's never liked headsets much. McCracken's First Law of Eyeglass Wearing correctly posits that it's impossible to comfortably hook more than one device behind your ear at one time....
      
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| New Comments System Released! |
| Posted on 15 May 2008 at 4:15pm |
| Hola,
We’re excited to launch the new Comments system – we’ve listened to your requests and feedback and have incorporated many of your suggestions. Some highlights include:
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- Comments are much more lightweight. Some submissions get hundreds of comments, which used to require a lot of bandwidth to load and even more CPU to render. The display [...] |
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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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| FriendFeed - Does It Enrich The Conversation Or... |
| Posted on 16 May 2008 at 6:50am |
| Muhammad Saleem made an interesting point about FriendFeed on Twitter earlier today, which turned - ironically, and against his will - into a big discussion on FriendFeed.
As many of you know, FriendFeed aggregates all your other social profiles into one feed. But it does more than that; it’s another social network in itself, meaning [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FriendFeed - Does It Enric... |
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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 [...] |
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| 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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| 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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