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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

I love you more

Google makes another acquisition

Google's efforts to offer hosted applications, such as word processors and spreadsheets, mesh with JotSpot's strategy to build online productivity applications, Kraus wrote.

Google buys JotSpot, dips into wiki world | CNET News.com

Monday, October 30, 2006

Wallstrip: Google Buys YouTube

This is the real list, no shareware... very high quality and some open source. I don't want to be called a spammer but I created this and am hosting it on a cheap ad-less tripod site.

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Haunted Mansion Fireworks Display

mentos + pepsi + red-headed girl

Sunday, October 29, 2006

In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year

"Teen Web sensation MySpace became so big so fast, News Corp. spent $580 million last year to buy it. But now Jackie Birnbaum and her fellow English classmates at Falls Church High School say they're over MySpace. "I think it's definitely going down -- a lot of my friends have deleted their MySpaces and are more into Facebook now," said Birnbaum."

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Google Factory Tour


Google Factory Tour event on 5/19/05 at Google's Mountain View headquarters.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Bravo!

We tend to define “power users” differently in the PC and Mac camps. In the Mac world, we consider power users to be the people who do a lot of Photoshop or video editing, and sometimes the serious gamers with tweaked out systems. We define power users by their applications more than their hardware.In the PC world, power users run fast Pentium and Athlon processors, which are overclocked more often than not. They choose their hard drives, video cards, and other components based on performance. The goal seems to be having the best hardware, not productivity.Using cars as an analogy, PC hardware users build tricked out hot rods while Mac users buy production cars and trucks to get the job done.

Defining the Apple “Power User” by Apple Gazette

Taking Wi-Fi power to the people

The Spanish start-up FON wants you to help it unwire San Francisco and other cities around the globe by providing ubiquitous Wi-Fi access.

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