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March 12, 2011 Natural disaster in the 2.0 world: Japan earthquake 2011

Japan earthquake 2011 resources Google’s 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami resource page Japan earthquake: how you can help American Red Cross Donation Page Subscribe to @biggyglenn on Twitter for an interesting up-to-the-minute reportage of resources, eye-witness account and how this quake is playing out in the digital space. The earthquake that hit Japan and the [...]

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September 30, 2009 Spotted Today – Links for September 4th through September 30th

Dropbox Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch [Downloads] – Dropbox comes to iPhone… Finally! Yay with offline browsing too! Google’s Monopoly: The Board Game, Not Antitrust – Take over the world with Google – this does sound like fun. Keeping Google out of libraries – Google is threatening freedom… my feelings on Google have [...]

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September 19, 2008 New Facebook Revolution

What went wrong with Facebook? It grew rapidly as a popular site with fun features and cute little widgets that everyone seemed to like1. I, for one, advocated it to as many folks as I could find just short of becoming a Friend Whore2. With the redesign of Facebook (which incidentally, I do actually like), [...]

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September 16, 2008 Sociable Face Recognition

Here is a scary and cool thought depending on how you look at it – sociable face recognition. Imagine taking a photo of someone on your mobile phone and then some nifty bit of software was able to link it up to the right person on a sociable site like Facebook. The technology is there [...]

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September 6, 2008 Lacklustre Google Chrome

I tried Google Chrome this week and was distinctly unimpressed. Firstly, I wasn’t too impressed that there wasn’t a version for the Mac but then perhaps Google didn’t think it’s browser was ready for an audience already satisfied with its access to the web through Safari or Firefox. It definitely smacks of going after Internet [...]

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