February 2010
47 posts
January 2010
57 posts
PollDaddy Hits 1 Billion Page Views a Month, Major Updates Coming Soon
Written by Jolie O’Dell | ReadWriteWeb
“According to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, the poll and survey Web service PollDaddy has just hit the 1 billion monthly page views mark. This makes the PollDaddy network the second Automattic web property - excluding Gravatar - to reach this milestone....
Augmented reality system lets you see through walls | New Scientist
by Jim Giles
This makes it simple to glance “through” a wall to see what’s going on behind it. But the techniques needed to combine them were challenging to develop, says Yaser Sheikh of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The project is funded by Denso, a car parts...
Google’s Josh Cohen to Publishers: “You Are in Full Control of Your Content” | Beet.TV
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Google sends nearly four billion clicks per month to news providers, according to Josh Cohen, project manager at Google News.
The company sees this process as a big benefit to publishers. Whether or not Google unfairly links to content as has been suggested by some news executives,...
Our Newest Social Media Initiatives - THE PORTABLE FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation
A free mobile phone application featuring FBI updates has been downloaded more than 670,000 times in more than 70 countries since last February.
BlockChalk
BlockChalk is the voice of your neighborhood.
Use your mobile phone to leave messages on your block, your street, at the coffee shop, or anywhere you happen to be. Respond privately or publicly to messages from people in your neighborhood.
A Deluge of Devices for Reading and Surfing -... →
By BRAD STONE and NICK BILTON “Those products are part of a new wave of slender touch-screen tablets and electronic reading devices that dozens of companies, both well known and unknown, brought to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.” Click through to watch video C.E.S. 2010: Explosion of E-Book Readers Brad Stone on the proliferation of e-book readers at this...