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Zinio Inside Opens 50,000 Magazines to Searching and Sharing 
Steve Rubel via Micro Persuasion on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
Zinio, a digital magazine service I became a fan of as I moved to go media green, just got a whole lot more useful with the addition of awesome search and social sharing capabilities.
The service, called Zinio Inside,
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Jamie Boyle's book is out
(unknown author) via Lessig Blog on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
Jamie Boyle's fantastic new book is out. And he has beat me in getting it out with a CC license (soon, not soon enough, but soon
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WalMart Worker Trampled to Death by Deal-Crazed Black Friday Shoppers [Black Friday]
(unknown author) via Gizmodo on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
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Disgusting.
OK, Black Friday has officially gotten out of hand. A 34-year-old WalMart employee was trying to hold back the crowds at a Long Island store this morning at 5am, when they took the doors off their hinges and stormed th
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Free Software We're Most Thankful For [Thanksgiving]
Gina Trapani via Lifehacker on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Dear free software developers: Before we American nerds sit down to our turkey and mashed potatoes today, know that your creations are at the top of the list of things we're most thankful for. Whether you're an indie hacker putting out the occasional scri
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Help us Save GPS on Windows Mobile
Dieter Bohn via WMExperts on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Dear Readers,
As you may know, the GPS situation on Windows Mobile is becoming unacceptable.
We're not talking about the fact that on certain phones you need to go into settings and muck around with Program Com Ports and Hardware Com Ports (though that,
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Sling Streams TV and Movies, Steps Up to Hulu [Television]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Web site Sling streams popular television shows and movies through a web-based Flash player. Sling is brought to you by the company behind the Slingbox, a living room gadget capable of streaming live TV from your ho
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10 Great Gifts for Bloggers and New Media Moguls
Catherine-Gail Reinhard via Mashable | All That's New on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Catherine-Gail Reinhard is a creative director at a leading web video company. Prior to becoming a digital media maven, Catherine’s reviews lined the pages of Time Out New York.
With swaths of imitation-pine already beginning to appear in shopping malls and e-tailers ro
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iPhone PSD Vector Kit
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennart via Smashing Magazine on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Today, we are glad to release the iPhone Starter Kit, a set that comes with several button elements as well as six different iPhone interface options. This pack may be useful for mobile developers and front-end designers who need a professional way to show mock-ups to clients or to work out ideas. This set was designed by Renee Rist es
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Sling Opens Up Its Hulu Competitor To The Public
(unknown author) via TechCrunch on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
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Old: NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox.New: YouTube, Hulu, Joost, Sling.com.
Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has opened the gates to its
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Building Graphically Advanced Apps in .NET CF 3.5
priozersk via Alex Yakhnin's Blog on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Take a look at this very cool article on how to create graphically advanced applications in NET CF 3.5:
http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd279543.aspx
And the source is included!
-Alex
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How big is Wal-Mart?
Jonco via Bits & Pieces on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
I’m not sure if this is true, but it’s interesting.
1 . At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.
2 . This works out to $20,928 profit. Every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Pa
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Silverlight resources for designers
pluginbaby via ASP.NET Weblogs on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
When I am training Silverlight I am often asked by designers how to find resources on Silverlight/XAML/Expression, so here is a post for them: First you can find lots of Expression Studio videos training in the new Microsoft videos portal:
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Checkout these two articles
Amit Chopra via Every Developer, Now a Mobile on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Both of them are an excellent read for the Mobile Developers. Application Architecture Guide for Mobile Applications Chapter 19 focuses on Mobile.
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How Do I: Display a Background Image on a Form?
(unknown author) via How Do I Videos - Devices on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Adding an application-appropriate background image to your forms is a great way to give your application a professional look and help it stand out from similar applications. In this video, Jim Wilson demonstrates how to display an image in the form background; the demonstration includes techniques for avoiding screen flicker and scaling the image to support different device resolutions.
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A Microsoft Phone?
George Ponder via WMExperts on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Wasn’t it last year that Microsoft said it had no intentions of developing hardware for Windows Mobile?? Wasn’t that re-affirmed back in September that
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Get Quick Feedback For Your Website
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Feedback Army is an incredibly useful little website where you pay $7 for feedback to a given website of yours, and then get back 10 comments. Feedback Army uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in the background. You enter the domain in question, say “example.com”, and then ask a b
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Bailout costs more than Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, moonshot, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq war, Vietnam war, and NASA's lifetime budget -- *combined*!
Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Barry Ritholtz sez,
In doing the research for the "Bailout Nation" book, I needed a way to put the dollar amounts into proper historical perspective.
If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars.
People have a hard time conceptualizing very large numbers, so let’s give this some context. The current Credit Crisis bailout is now the la
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New ASP.NET Charting Control:
ScottGu via ScottGu's Blog on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls
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