Friday, September 30, 2011

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Oracle needs some cloud computing mojo - gigaom.com
 
Oracle's cloud computing stance has evolved, to say the least, over the past few years. As the company preps for its annual Oracle OpenWorld mega-show in San Francisco next week, a huge question lingers: Does Oracle--and its...
 
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You Might Have Klout, But What’s Your Kred? - techcrunch.com
 
Reputation on the Internet is a tricky thing to measure. But with the rise of social media—with its retweets, likes, +1s, replies, and followers counts—companies are trying to keep score. If you are a big user of Twitter, you...
 
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Title Tags - Is 70 Characters the Best Practice? - Whiteboard Friday - seomoz.org
 
It's often pretty difficult to make a short title for a webpage that offers a lot of varied or super-specific information. At SEOmoz, we say that the best practice for title tag length is to keep titles under 70 characters....
 
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Tag Heuer concept watch beats 3.6 million times per hour, $89,000 price tag gives heart palpitations - engadget.com
 
 
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Get ready for Oracle's takes on Hadoop, NoSQL - gigaom.com
 
It looks as if Oracle's official forays into Hadoop and NoSQL spaces will come at next week's OpenWorld conference. The company appears to be working on an Oracle Loader for Hadoop and a NoSQL database as part of an...
 
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

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Amazon’s Bezos Adds Fire to Fuel Tablet Wars With $199 Kindle - bloomberg.com
 
Amazon's new tablet crystallizes the difference between Apple, which tends to keep prices -- and profit margins -- high, and Amazon, which likes to start low and drive lower in an effort to knee-cap the competition.
 
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This Sure Looks A Lot Like Facebook’s Project Spartan [Screenshots] - techcrunch.com
 
This Facebook mobile developers page is pretty interesting, first of all because it starts with a statistic, "350 million users access Facebook from a mobile device every month," which was just released and then because it...
 
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Richard Branson on Time Management - entrepreneur.com
 
The celebrated entrepreneur shares tips from his experience on avoiding overwhelm so you can stay focused on the big picture for your business.
 
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Ex-NASA man squeezes cloud onto USB stick - wired.com
 
Piston Cloud Computing has created a device and Linux based operating system that lets you configure an OpenStack cloud in a matter of minutes from a USB stick, in an effort to streamline the creation of such clouds behind the...
 
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The Interactive Vim Tutorial Teaches You How to Use the Super-Efficient Vim Text Editor - lifehacker.com
 
Vim has long been praised as one of the best text editors around, mostly for its completely mouseless navigation. However, it can be very confusing for beginners.
 
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

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Apple Officially Announces iPhone Event: October 4 - techcrunch.com
 
It's finally confirmed: Apple's next event will be held on October 4. And they're not even being coy about the topic — the invite says, "Let's talk iPhone". In typical Apple fashion the invite is cleverly presented: The date...
 
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Browser Speed Tests: Firefox 7, Chrome 14, Internet Explorer 9, and More - lifehacker.com
 
Firefox 7 is set to be released today, and with a big focus on performance, we thought it time for another round of browser speed test. We pitted the four most popular Windows browsers against each other in a battle of startup...
 
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SlideShare ditches Flash, rebuilds entire site in HTML5 - gigaom.com
 
SlideShare has had a major makeover. The company has ditched Adobe Flash technology entirely, and rebuilt its website using the HTML5 markup language. Starting Tuesday, SlideShare.com now runs on HTML5 on both desktop and...
 
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Conquer Link Directory Best Practices for SEO - seomoz.org
 
Good news to all you link builders out there. SEOmoz just updated the PRO SEO Web Directory List. The long overdue update includes over 400 directories (up from 180) separated into three categories – Web, Local and....
 
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Facebook’s Mobile Chief: Within 1-2 Years, We’re Going To Be A Mobile Company - techcrunch.com
 
Facebook has their sights locked on mobile. We know that. This afternoon at GigaOm's Mobilize conference, Facebook Mobile Chief Erick Tseng touched on just how crucial mobile is to them — and more importantly, how crucial it...
 
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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On Wednesday, Amazon Will Unveil The “Kindle Fire” - techcrunch.com
 
Last Friday, Amazon sent out invites to a press conference being held this coming Wednesday. They didn't give away any details in the invite, but given our scoop earlier this month, everyone assumed it was to unveil the new...
 
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The Cloud's My-Mom-Cleaned-My-Room Problem - theatlantic.com
 
Welcome to the era of parental computing, or how the cloud makes children of us...
 
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Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID - blogs.msdn.com
 
With Windows 8, we introduce the optional capability to sign in to your PC with a Windows Live ID and, by doing so, gaining the ability to roam a broad range of settings across all of your PCs. In this article by Katie Frigon,...
 
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7 Google Analytics Advanced Segments I Love (and you should too) - seomoz.org
 
I love using Advanced Segments in Google Analytics. Sure, you can export a big chunk of data to Excel and then use some Excel wizardry to clean up the data and display it in different ways, but what if you just need to get a...
 
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Piston Cloud Launches pentOS, An Enterprise OpenStack Distribution - techcrunch.com
 
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called pentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open source IaaS cloud...
 
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