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Big Changes Are Coming to Digg
Last night, during Digg's annual SXSW party, Digg's CEO Jay Adelson announced a set of significant changes to Digg. Among the changes Adelson announced are a streamlined submission process, a personalized homepage, an unlimited amount of topic pages, a new commenting system and better curation tools.
Les Chevaliers du Ciel crèvent le plafond
L'affiche était alléchante. Le geste solidaire, tentant... Le résultat a été à la hauteur des efforts et des espérances de l'association des...
DE BELLES AMÉRICAINES SUR LE QUAI
C'est un rendez-vous désormais traditionnel qui était donné, hier matin, aux Narbonnais.Une nouvelle fois, le quai Vallière a accueilli de belles...
Bouger et bien manger : les objectifs d'une semaine
Déjà la deuxième édition. La campagne visant à encourager de bonnes habitudes de vie - bien manger et bouger - est relancée en ce mois de...
Venezuela's Chavez calls for internet controls
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.
Net clash for web police projects
A row is brewing over separate projects to use the web to bring people closer to their local police forces.
The iPad paradox: Less is more
A strange trend has emerged that violates the more-is-better ethos of American consumer culture. Some products and services are touting limitations as desirable "features." And consumers are loving it.
Google's Matt Cutts Clarifies "Delusions"
Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google’s Arrogant Leaders. The two assertions that used my comments as material were “Google’s wealth means Google ‘gets it’” and “Google must sacrifice user privacy to grow.”
YouTube - Firefox Personas Video - How To
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Pi Day: Google Doodle Celebrates Math Nerds Everywhere
Google’s new logo, which you can see on the top right, contains not only the famous πr2 formula, but five other uses of π: measuring the volume of a sphere (V = 4⁄3 πr3), computing the circumference of a circle (C = 2πr), measuring the volume of a cylinder (V = πr2h), Archimedes’ calculation of Pi (223/71 < π < 22/7), and even the ...
U.S. to Roll Out Major Broadband Policy - Yahoo! News
U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.
Google Street View: Survey Raises Privacy Concerns
Google Street View, which has now been expanded to cover more than 95 per cent of Britain’s roads, is being seen as a “service for burglars”, according to new research.
iPhone browsing to be faster with Opera -- if Apple approves
The company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apple's iPhone store for approval, a spokesman said Friday. The result, according to the Norwegian company, would be a browser up to six times faster than the iPhone's default Web tool, Safari. The open question is is whether Apple will approve the application.
What to Expect at SXSW 2010
SWSW Interactive opened on Friday in Austin, Tex., drawing a crowd of thousands and a collection of speakers that includes director Quentin Tarantino, Twitter founder Evan Williams, and Microsoft Researcher Danah Boyd. Here's what you can expect from it.
An invitation to crime: How a friendly click can compromise
'Hey Alice, look at the pics I took of us last weekend at the picnic. Bob'. That Facebook message, sent last fall between co-workers at a large U.S. financial firm, rang true enough. Alice had, in fact, attended a picnic with Bob, who mentioned the outing on his Facebook profile page.
Could GPS devices create a world without signs?
These tools are inexorably changing the way we navigate highways. It's true that we use signs in tandem with personal navigation systems today, but that may not always be the case. Experts envision a future in which we trust digital directions so completely that we no longer make much use of real-world cues.
How Apple Blew Its Chance To Own AdMob For $600 Million
Apple had a chance to own mobile advertising company AdMob for $600 million, but blew it, the New York Times reports.
Leo Laporte crowd surfing while live streaming @ Diggnation
Leo Laporte crowd surfing while live streaming on the Internet at Diggnation Live case. As seen at SXSW 2010 at Stubbs BBQ in Austin, TX!