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TypeWith.me Makes Real-Time Text Collaboration Dead Simple, Resurre...

If you like Google Wave's real-time collaboration but not the interface or registration, check out TypeWith.me. It's a solid, simple, as-you-type document collaboration webapp with no sign-up required.A quick background: Google recently bought previously mentioned EtherPad with goals of integrating it into Wave, then closed the service. Then, after some backlash, they open-sourced the entire app. TypeWith.me took that code and put it on a new server that, unlike EtherPad, won't be closing dow... Read more

Google - Moscow-Vladivostok: virtual journey on Google Maps

Flavors.me Is a Simple and Elegant Personal Portal [Personal Promot...

If you're looking to set up an elegant portal for your online identity that brings together social networks and other aspects of your online presence, Flavors.me is as simple and easy to use as it gets.Photo by Tyson. Flavors.me is intended to act as a splash page for your virtual identity, routing viewers towards the aspects of your online persona you want to share. You can pull from over a dozen services including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Tumbl.r, Last.fm and more. Rather than m... Read more

Recognizr: Facial Recognition Coming to Android Phones

Swedish software and design company The Astonishing Tribe, also known as TAT, has been developing a rather astonishing augmented reality application for mobile phones. Originally built as a software concept, the Android app called "Recongnizr" is a mobile prototype that allows you to use your phone in order to "see" who a person is and what web services and social networks they're connected to. App users can also associate traditional address book details with their profile like their full na... Read more

Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Pol...

Inexpensive Audience Response System that uses audience mobile phones or the web. Features live, animated charts in PowerPoint and on the web.

Chicago Style Q&A: New Questions and Answers

New Questions and Answers from the Chicago Style Q&A. Style advice from the publishers of the Chicago Manual of Style

Twitter traffic up 9% after Google real-time search launch | Ventur...

After the launch of Google's real-time search, in December, I predicted that Twitter would get a boost in traffic ... Read more

Skype Comes to Blackberry & Android With Verizon Partnership

Skype has announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it has joined with Verizon Wireless and will be availble on a number of the company's phones. The partnership brings Skype to both Blackberry and Android platforms on Verizon Wireless phones, which will be shipped beginning in March with Skype pre-installed. Skype over 3G will allow international call at rates unavailable over traditional wireless carriers. Sponsor Skype will be available on a number of Verizon phone... Read more

Build Business Cases, Not Business Plans

In the ancient times before the internet, a business plan was what you wrote to appease the Gods of private equity and venture capital. It was a thick document, full of scientific analysis, market data and of course, a J-curve shaped projection of sales. The problem was that few investors would make it through your epic masterpiece. Instead, they'd skip to the juicy parts. Former CEO of Elance and current founder of Roach Capital Partners, Eric Roach, shares what he's kept in the business pla... Read more

Big! Exciting! News: ThinkTank Is Now at Expert Labs

I am thrilled to announce I've landed a pinch-me dream job: I'm now a Project Director at Expert Labs, the new non-profit headed up by Anil Dash. I'll be in charge of developing ThinkTank. Here's what happened. Last March I was thinking about buying a netbook, and asked my Twitter followers a question: Do you have a netbook? What do you love or hate about it? When I got back 243 informed opinions by savvy netbook owners, I knew I needed a way to easily parse and share the most useful replies... Read more

NPR News Android App Now Streams Local Stations Live [Updates]

Android: NPR News' Android app has quickly upgraded its nice but not quite necessary app to something far more useful: a portal for streaming nearly any NPR station's content live to your phone, including your local favorites.Fire up the application, choose the Stations menu item, and you're asked if you want to find your stations based on location, or enter a ZIP code or city name to find one. Assuming your local station is one of the 600 NPR stations in the U.S. offering more than 1,000 new... Read more

What's the Easiest Way to Share Large Files and Media with Friends?...

When you want to to share music, movies, photos, or other files online, you've got countless options. We've examined most, and for our money, one tool emerges on top of the heap for its ease of use, wide support, and all-around excellence.Sharing files publicly has always been a subject of hot debate, but put aside any legal concerns for the moment and consider: What if you want to just share some home videos or music privately with a few friends rather than the internet at large? What's the ... Read more

High Visibility: The Weather Underground Goes Full-Screen

Thanks to the Weather Underground, the weather just started to look a lot nicer. The popular weather-tracking site just launched fullscreenweather.com, which does exactly what the name implies. The new site gives you a full screen Google Maps display and overlays it with current weather reports from the over 16,000 personal weather stations that report data to the service. The map can also display a precipitation layer or cloud layer and you can, of course, see local forecasts and sever weat... Read more

Meet The First Miners of the New Social Graph

George Stephanopoulos. Wolf Blitzer. Ana Marie Cox. Three powerful people that you might want to get in touch with, especially if you're in D.C. One man who has the ear of all three of those powerful people is Tony Fratto, known as @TonyFratto on Twitter. Managing Director at Hamilton Place Strategies, the founder of RooseveltRoom.net, a CNBC Contributor and a former US Treasury & White House official, Mr. Fratto is the least well-known (in Twitter terms) of the mere 41 people that all th... Read more

The War on Interruptions, an Excerpt from “Switch: How to Change Th...

The following is an excerpt from Chip and Dan Heath’s new book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, which will be released on February 16. One of the most consistent findings in psychology is that people behave differently when their environment changes. When we’re in a place where people are quiet (church), we’re quiet. When we’re in a place where people are loud (stadiums), we’re loud. When we’re driving and the lanes narrow, we slow down. When they widen, we speed up again. ... Read more

The Value Of Online Buzz For The Top 20 Brands

Nowadays, buzz around brands on the news, blogs, tweets and other social media that spreads through product launches, PR campaigns, earnings reports are as valuable as traditional ad campaigns. But buzz and social dialogue on the web is tough to quantify. General Sentiment has released a report that calculates the dollar value of the buzz, content, and conversation taking place online. General Sentiment’s technology evaluates the volume of mentions and sentiment value regarding a brand, comp... Read more

The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul

Youth social networking researcher danah boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them. "I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a gay dating site because all they saw were other gay men," she says. "I interviewed teens who believed that everyone on MySpace was Christian because all of the profiles they saw contained biblical quotes. We all live in our own worlds with people who share our values and, with networked media, i... Read more

Sketchpad - Online Paint/Drawing application

Sketchpad is an online drawing application -- written in .

Alton Brown Picks Cookbooks - WSJ.com

Food Network star Alton Brown (Good Eats, Iron Chef America) chooses his favorite cookbooks: Irma S. Rombauer's The Joy of Cooking, Jeff Smith's The Frugal Gourmet, Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, John Thorne's Outlaw Cook and Michael Ruhlman's Ratio.

Google Wave in Action: Real-World Use Case Studies

A week ago I asked readers to tell me how they're using Google Wave in their daily lives, and despite a bit of "ha! no one's using Wave!" snarking on the Twitter, I got lots of interesting responses. Unsurprisingly, most Wavers use it as a real-time wiki, but some take advantage of features unique to Wave, like inline and private replies, public tags, and gadgets. I featured the most unique use cases I got in a brand new chapter just added to The Complete Guide to Google Wave. The following i... Read more

Dear Facebook, Please Check Out the New Tweetdeck

As more and more of our friends and favorite organizations start publishing updates online, being able to organize them well is becoming even more important. Niche-popular desktop social media stream-reader Tweetdeck issued a software update this morning and the most striking change is in its handling of user groups. It's beautiful. The new Tweetdeck is faster, more flexible and easier to navigate. Groups, we have argued, are the secret weapon of the social Web. Here are five ways that ... Read more

Google Voice Quick Reference Cheatsheet v2.0 Speeds Through Phone M...

A while back we highlighted a Google Voice Quick Reference cheatsheet you can keep near your phone that lays out Google Voice's voicemail menu tree so you can quickly skip to whatever action you want. The cheatsheet (abov) just updated with a few more details here and there, so if you're a Voice user, it's worth grabbing. [Cool Geex]

Twitter Reactions Shows What the Twitterverse is Saying About That ...

Chrome: If you've ever wanted to see what people are saying about a web page you're visiting beyond the site's own comments, Chrome extension Twitter Reactions will show you the most recent tweets that are talking about the page.The idea isn't unlike other universal commenting systems, like Google Sidewiki—but instead of just seeing the comments of Google Toolbar users, you can see what the entire Twitterverse is saying about the page that you're on. It takes a bit of filtering with all the r... Read more

Get to Know Windows 7 Libraries Inside and Out [UltraNewb]

The new Libraries feature in Windows 7 makes it easier to manage your files and folders. Today we take a comprehensive look at everything you can do with Windows 7 Libraries. The Libraries feature in Windows 7 provides a central place to manage files that are located in multiple locations throughout your computer. Instead of clicking through a bunch of directories to find the files you need, including them in a library makes for quicker access. Access Libraries To access the libraries in Wind... Read more

Set Up a Low-Tech, Whole-House Speaker System Through Existing Phon...

Ed. note: It can be pretty expensive (and a big pain) to install a wired, whole-house speaker system, but reader Tom O'Brien writes in with his low-tech solution: Route your speakers through the phone lines already installed in your house.Here's Tom's set-up: Using existing telephone wire and powered speakers, it's fairly simple to connect speakers throughout the house via existing phone lines. This will work only if the lines have 3 extra wires, such as when no land line is in use, or if th... Read more

Become a Gmail Master Redux [Hack Attack]

Gmail is easily the most popular email application among power users, and with good reason: It's an excellent app. But if you haven't gotten to know its best shortcuts, tricks, Labs features, and add-ons, it's time you made Gmail sing.Photo remixed from Google's own Become a Gmail ninja page. Way back in 2006, I showed you my favorite tips, tricks, and tools for making the most of Gmail. A lot has changed in the Gmail world since then, so much so that it seemed like a good time to revisit our... Read more

Expertise Requires Time over Talent, So Get Busy [Expertise]

Career blogger Penelope Trunk carries a 2007 article from the Harvard Business Review with her everywhere she goes. The article, called The Making of an Expert, discusses the reality of expertise, which, simply put, is this:Photo by Joe Shlabotnik. Being an expert takes time, not talent. The HBR article, which you can read in part here, examines the factors that experts in various fields share in common. The takeaway, from Trunk's post: Being an expert is not what you think, probably. For on... Read more

6 Great Approaches to Public Speaking

If you want to be a great public speaker, your preparation has to be more than just blasting gangsta rap and shadow boxing in front of the mirror. Whether you have to videotape yourself speaking, join a presentation club, or rewrite your PowerPoint deck 40 times, it's important to be able to tell your own story. Few of us are born with the gift of public speaking but with a little preparation we can learn to persuade, sell and inspire. Sponsor 1. How Not to Suck at a Group Presentation: LA-... Read more