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Microsoft + Yahoo! = Enh! Try Again! 2007-05-05 06:59:31 With Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick, Yahoo
! followed up by buying RightMedia, and now Microsoft
is wanting to re-enter talks about buying/merging Microsoft with Yahoo!. Think about it, Microsoft and Yahoo!. If they can make this work and have all the logistics done carefully, the duo can prove to be a real challenge to Google’s dominance [...]
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, Try Again
Oops! 2007-05-05 04:20:18 Once again, I was tinkering around with this blog and I’ve screwed it up. I’m really sorry. Blank pages with a line of black text isn’t the nicest thing to see in this world. Everything should be restored to its original place now. So I apologize for all this.
I was trying to install [...]
Digg Succumbs To Angry Users 2007-05-04 06:27:56 Various blogs have posted about this whole user rebellion over at Digg
and after the dust has settled, it’s time to do a little reflection of what happened.
Digg is a website known for its user-submitted online articles that allow other users to vote which articles get to stay on the front page and which do [...]
Q&A: To Stare Or Not To Stare? 2007-05-02 05:24:22 I was at Souplantation (a fine restaurant) Sunday evening. There was a man sitting a couple tables away from my mother and I. The notable thing about this man was that he walked with a severe limp. He was walking back and forth from the buffet. Every time he walked back, I just couldn’t help [...]
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Future: Power Napping 2007-05-07 07:46:03 The folks over at the University of Wisconsin have created a “power napping machine”. Apparently, all you have to do is strap on a device and you can squeeze in about 8 hours of sleep within 2-3 hours! I could definitely use one of these. Think of all the time I could save! Read about [...]
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, Napping
Figits!: Spider-Man 3, Hazzard Car, Super Coin, and Pant-Suing! 2007-05-06 01:51:25 Ok kids, it’s time to throw you some figures:
Spider
-Man 3 Amasses a Whopping $59 Million In 1 Day!
Man Sues For $67 Million Over a Pair of Pants
Dukes of Hazzard
Car Attracts $10 Million Bid
Canada Mint Creates $1 Million Dollar Coin
and…
you can buy your own million dollar bills!
Of course, have a happy Cinco de Mayo Day, [...]
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Quick Post: PS3 Price Cut 2007-05-08 06:55:11 There are rumors of a $100 price cut for the Playstation 3. Basically, there seems to be a larger supply of Blu-Ray diodes that will help facilitate its expensive price tag.
Article also talks about a price cut for the XBox 360 as well.
A price cut seems a bit too early for now, as some [...]
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Goof Off: Air Guitar For Sale 2007-05-08 03:33:35 All right! Air guitars for sale. Now you can learn where to place your fingers with this cool, slick air guitar! Plus, its compact size makes it much much easier to flail your arms about with! Don’t miss out! The air guitar is on sale now for only £2.50 or about $4.98. It would be [...]
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MySpace Acquires Photobucket 2007-05-12 07:43:08 MySpace, a huge social networking site, is buying Photobucket
, a huge media storage site, for $250 million in cash. Photobucket was planning on a $300 million mark but they probably didn’t have enough bidders other than MySpace. Photobucket had been looking for a buyer since March.
[via TechCrunch]
myspace, photobucket, techcrunch
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Goof Off: Solar Powered Lighter 2007-05-12 03:32:48 My dad would love this one. He always gets pissed off when the lighter runs out of lighter fluid. Anyways, this is a lighter from a Portugal-based company. It’s solar powered and the bottom serves as a bottle opener. Talk about being both convenient and green simultaneously. Unlike traditional lighters, this lighter expels sparks instead [...]
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Ouch!: Breakdancer Kicks Toddler 2007-05-16 04:33:47 Fortunately, it wasn’t intentional, but I’m sure the toddler was bawling her head off going back home.
If you can’t see the video, then here’s the link.
If the mother decides to sue the breakdancer then I think all my sympathy for the toddler would evaporate. But I don’t think there will be any suing going on though.
breakdancer, ouch, toddler
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Goof Off: Voodoo Knife Set 2007-05-16 03:04:54
Talk about living life on the edge. I would want this VoodooKnife
Set for a housewarming gift. This will match with the Love/Hate T-Shirt. It seems that this design was made for the Good Luck Design Exhibit in Milan by Raffaele Iannello. Available in red, chrome, black, white, pink, and transparent. More info and other snapshots of the snazzy Voodoo on his site.
Product Page
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Rants & Raves: Flyte 2007-05-14 02:02:31 Hehe, I stayed until 3:00 am in the morning this weekend just so I could finish reading a book called Flyte by Angie Sage. It’s soooo green and preeeetty! And I feel as if I’ve bonded with the characters with this book. Now I must search for the third book, Physik, which is, unfortunately, not in my local library. Go read this series if you like fantasy books and have the time.
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Internet Porn Stats 2007-05-13 23:39:55 Usually, I’m not inclined to write about such suggestive things on this blog, but I felt that I should write this for purely educational purposes.
Good Magazine made a very creative video that displays facts about internet pornography. Due to the suggestive theme of the video, you can go see it at TechCrunch or Youtube instead. So here are some of the interesting facts disclosed in the video about the internet porn industry:
89% of porn is created in the U.S.
$2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006
$89/second is spent on porn
72% of porn viewers are men
260 new porn sites go online daily
3,412 people visit Kellemarie’s website daily, the website of the lady in the video.
Watch the video for more info.
[via TechCrunch]
adultfriendfinder, good magazine, internet, kellemarie, porno, pornography
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, Stats
Quick Post: Pre-Toothpasted Toothbrushes 2007-05-13 01:48:08
Like the title of this post says, these toothbrushes, aptly named Ready Brush, have toothpaste already on them when taken out of the package. All you have to do is just wet the bristles and you’re ready for brushing! Handy for busy travelers. Pack of 30 for $24.95 on the product page.
[via Gadling]
ready brush, toothbrush, toothpaste
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Wordpress 2.2 2007-05-18 03:44:58 So yesterday night I’m trying to deal with my auto-redirecting admin page on this blog when I pop on over to Wordpress
.org to check for any new stuff. What a pleasant surprise when I saw that Wordpress 2.2 “Getz” was just out and I could upgrade. This new release is a lifesaver I’m telling you. There is a list of new features over at Wordpress for the new release, but I think I should highlight some good ones. (at least in my opinion)
“No breaking your blog” feature - This is my most favorite feature. Basically, Wordpress won’t allow you to activate/edit any plugins that will break your blog. I think this one would let many other Wordpress bloggers like me breathe a sigh of relief. (Because who knows how many times I’ve broken my blog after installing a plugin! ) Now I can feel at ease every time I try a new plugin.
Infinite comment stream - I don’t think I’d use this very much, but I think it’s a very useful feature
10 Common (and Stupid) Grammar Mistakes 2007-05-21 02:15:28 My mom kind of encouraged me to blog because that would involve writing and she always thought I should practice my writing any chance I had. What she doesn’t know is that I’m really not learning how to write better. Or if I am, I’m not aware of it.
10 CommonGrammar
Mistakes
Loose / Lose
It’s / Its
They’re / Their / There
ie / e.g
Effect / Affect
You’re / Your
Different / Different from
Then / Than
Could of / Would of / Could have / Would have
lay / lie
I’m sure there are a couple of these somewhere in this blog. (Especially that lay/lie part.) What are some grammar mistakes that you make?
[via Hongkiat/Scribd]
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Rumor: Google Gobbles Feedburner? 2007-05-20 06:36:42 Mashable heard from Vecosys who heard from a “very trusted source” that Feedburner is going to be acquired by Google
. Once again, heard. This might go from a rumor to a fact though because why wouldn’t Google buy Feedburner? Feedburner would allow Google to get into the RSS ad market. Then Google would be able to serve ads in RSS feeds. A lot people read RSS feeds from their favorite websites and don’t really go to the website at all so that would make Google’s AdSense program kind of useless for publishers. According to Vecosys, the only thing that’s keeping this deal from happening is beacause Google still needs to seal the DoubleClick deal back in April.
A[Philiac] uses Feedburner to manage its RSS and email feeds. If Google does indeed buy Feedburner, then I think we can expect to see Adsense and DoubleClick ads in those feeds.
adsense, doubleclick, email, feed, feedburner, google, mashable, rss, rumor, vecosys
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Goof Off: The Traffic Sign Story 2007-05-21 21:24:32 Once upon a time…
Moral: There’s a reason why these signs have such weird meanings by themselves.
(Do you think
BlogCatalog Bloggers for Good Fundraising Challenge 2007-05-28 16:57:43 This Memorial Day (in the USA) celebrate the past and invest into the future. Give back to the community by visiting DonorsChoose.org and funding a project. DonorsChoose.org is a website created by teachers at a Bronx public high school back in 2000. Their mission is to provide funding and materials to classrooms that need it. However, the thing that singles out DonorsChoose.org from other similar websites is the way it carries out its mission. Instead of limiting a donor’s choice to one cause, DonorsChoose.org gathers many requests by educators all over America and lets the donor choose to fund whichever project they feel will be best. Of course, donations big or small are accepted and project requests must pass eligibility requirements, so donors know they’re not being scammed.
So if you have a bit of time, hop on over to DonorsChoose.org and help out. I promise you’ll at least have that warm and fuzzy feeling inside you after you donate.
Help Public School Kids Read more:Challenge
, Fundraising
Google-Feedburner Deal Confirmed 2007-06-02 18:28:26 Remember my earlier post on how a rumor about Google
buying Feedburner was circulating around? Well that rumor is now officially a fact. (truemor?) Yesterday, the Google Blog published a post on their official acquisition of Feedburner as did the folks over at the Feedburner blog. Google’s reason for acquiring Feedburner:
…we’re constantly looking for ways to identify and offer new tools for content creators and website publishers. Likewise, we constantly aim to give AdWords advertisers broader distribution to an even wider audience of users. For these reasons, we’re very pleased to tell you that we’ve just acquired FeedBurner.
“Aiming to give Adwords advertisers broader distribution” will mean ads in our feeds which was anticipated so no surprise there. Though the price tag for this deal was not mentioned in the post, TechCrunch’s source says $100 million. Fortunately, they’re not planning to change any Feedburner features as of t Read more:Confirmed
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