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Pixish: Contest Marketplace for Images
Written by Josh Catone / February 12, 2008 8:46 AM / 3 Comments
Well-known designer Derek Powazek over the weekend launched his latest project, Pixish, a design marketplace where people can post open calls for submissions for design elements or photography. Designers can Continue reading »


TheStreet.com Makes Celebrity News Even More Low-Brow
Written by Josh Catone / February 12, 2008 7:35 AM / 1 Comments
Publicly-traded TheStreet.com, a serious investment and business news site that was started by CNBC's Jim Cramer in 1996, yesterday launched a new site MainStreet.com. The site has the stated goal Continue reading »


Google's Kevin Marks Introduces "The Social Cloud"
Written by Richard MacManus / February 12, 2008 2:42 AM / 6 Comments
Interesting video presentation from Kevin Marks, Google's main evangelist for the OpenSocial project. Marks explains more about the theory behind OpenSocial, in what he calls "the social cloud". This seems Continue reading »


Comment of the Day: Advice for Big Media
Written by Richard MacManus / February 11, 2008 10:07 PM / 1 Comments
Our first daily Comments Competition winner is Dan from BlogMinistry, who left this comment on Josh Catone's post CNN to Launch Completely User Generated News Site. Congratulations Dan, you've won Continue reading »


EFF, Creative Commons Offer Developers Free Access to 2m Pages of Legal Documents
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 11, 2008 6:03 PM / 2 Comments
Creative Commons announced tonight that in partnership with Public.Resource.Org and with legal representation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, it has purchased and has now made available at no charge the Continue reading »


Feng-GUI: "Visual Attention" Heatmaps
Written by Josh Catone / February 11, 2008 3:42 PM / 13 Comments
Feng-GUI is an interesting heatmap creation service. Unlike click-based heatmaps from Crazy Egg, FuseStats, and others, Feng-GUI creates heatmaps based on where it thinks the human eye would most likely Continue reading »


JotYou: Location-Based Mobile Phone Messaging
Written by Aseem Kishore / February 11, 2008 2:12 PM / 11 Comments
The basic concept of location-based mobile phone messaging is that you can send a text message to someone's cell phone and they will receive the SMS message only when they Continue reading »


Gmail Delivery Delays - Will a Reply from Google Ever Arrive?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 11, 2008 12:06 PM / 34 Comments
Significant delays in the delivery of email messages to Gmail users are being widely reported with no apparent response from Google. As an increasing number of people choose to forward Continue reading »


CNN to Launch Completely User Generated News Site
Written by Josh Catone / February 11, 2008 11:43 AM / 9 Comments
We've been writing a lot about the trend of media companies paying more attention to citizen journalism and amateur reporting tools. Perhaps no mainstream media outlet has done more to Continue reading »


Microsoft Buys Danger - Zune Phone Anyone?
Written by Steve O'Hear, last100 editor / February 11, 2008 11:09 AM / 4 Comments
Syndicated from last100, our digital lifestyle blog Long before Apple’s iPhone, another Silicon Valley-based company pioneered the consumer-friendly smart phone. That company was Danger Inc. best known for its T-mobile Continue reading »


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