Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0's Impact Across Industries 
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn't know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is "next candidate, please." In today's business world, job-seekers are expected to stay current with the happen
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With FriendFeed Lists, I Start to Organize the Noise 
louisgray@gmail.com (louisgray via louisgray.com on Sun, 07 Sep. 2008
When FriendFeed rolled out their new proposed interface in beta, I didn't rapidly adapt to using their most-visible new feature, lists. The list feature lets you essentially group friends you're following into smaller gr
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NBC Drops Silverlight, Runs Back to Adobe for Flash 
Corvida via ReadWriteWeb on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
NBC seems to be having a change of heart this week. The network recently wrapped up their streaming of the Olympics using Microsoft's Silverlight technology. However if you tuned in for this week's NFL season opener, NBC was using Adobe's Flash technology instead of Si
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A Web OS? Are You Dense? 
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Sun, 07 Sep. 2008
People are calling Google Chrome a "Web Operating System" and a "Cloud Operating System". Some are even calling it a Windows killer.I think it's time to nip this horseshit in the bud, before it gets out of hand.How Does Arringtons Know What Operating Systems Is?He doesn't. It is TechCrunch's official position that Google Chrome will co
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Startups: your web site sucks 
Robert Scoble via (title unknown) on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
I visited each website from the list of Demo finalists.
Boy, do they suck. Really, really suck.
Does no one understand how to market themselves?
It’s amazing to me that not a single Demo website has learned from the lessons of Gary Vaynerchuk’s
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Google Chrome Receives Heavy Criticism in Germany 
(unknown author) via Google Blogoscoped on Sun, 07 Sep. 2008
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GOOG is Big Brother.It's official in Germany.
It doesn’t get any more “official” than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany’s oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news
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Weekly Wrapup: Special Chrome Edition 
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
Join us now for our weekly review of Web Technology news. This week was dominated by the launch of Google's new open source browser Chrome. As the Ed tweeted during the week: how often does a major Internet company launch a brand new browser? Check out our extensive coverage and analysis
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Two Years After Facebook Launches News Feed, Sociologists Describe “Ambient Awareness” 
Justin Smith via Inside Facebook on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
Today marks the two-year point since Facebook first introduced its “News Feed,” a new way of discovering information about your friends through an automatically “pushed” stream of updates about your friends’ activity on the site.
While hundreds of
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The Google Navy 
timothy via Slashdot on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
theodp writes "Is Google preparing to launch its own Navy? In its just-published application for a patent on the Water-Based Data Center, Google envisions a world where 'computing centers are located on a ship or ships, which are then anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to ca
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VW Should Bring Back The Microbus And Make It Electric 
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
Maybe it’s just because I’m a Dad who refuses to get a minivan, but I seriously want Volkswagon to bring back the Microbus. (Or maybe BMW’s Mini should make one and call it the Minibus). VW showed off an updated Microbus concept vehicle a few
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NYT on "ambient awareness," ethereal intimacy, and internet ESP 
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
I'm reading and re-reading a NYT Magazine piece that explores ambient telepresence, as made mundane by Twitter, Facebook, AIM, and the like. The writer, Clive Thompson, really nailed a number of things I've been struggling to put into words fo
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The iPhone App Store Should Let You Try Before You Buy 
louisgray@gmail.com (louisgray via louisgray.com on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
With only a few exceptions, it's been universally accepted that Apple's move to sell iPhone applications on its iTunes store is an unqualified success. In fact, it's widely believed that
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Scoble Sucks 
Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogge on Sun, 07 Sep. 2008
Whoa, the hate mail has been flowing fast and furious tonight.
Pat Phelan, founder of MaxRoam, says that today my shine came off.
Loic Le Meur, founder of Seesmic, says that it’s easy to knock startups when I’ve never star
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Satellite launches for exclusive Google hi-res imaging; can we track humans by shadows? 
Xeni Jardin via Boing Boing on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
Google is REALLY watching now. John Battelle blogs:
Not content to lease data from others who have satellites, Google today launched its own satellite into spac
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Google Says: We'll Get Own Own Data, Thanks 
(unknown author) via John Battelle's Searchblog on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
Not content to lease data from others who have satellites, Google today
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The Big Conference Launch: How to Stand Out from the Crowd 
(unknown author) via TechCrunch on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
Editor’s Note: This post represents the professional advice of Brian Solis who is not formally affiliated with TechCrunch50. If you are a participating TC50 company, resident TechCrunch PR expert Sarah Ross is available to share and review the public relations guidelines with y
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Plex for Mac OS X has been updated: You need to be using it 
Nicholas Deleon via CrunchGear on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
I just wanted to remind my fellow Mac users that they really aught to be using Plex to play back all their movies. (An
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