Another busy week for me but not exactly tech news. Here is another selection of my favorite articles from the around the web for the previous week.
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Select Technologies Stories From the Week
- US Cyworld Will No Longer Be Able To Service
Published: November 5, 2009
Source: TechCrunch
Ah, Engrish. There’s a whole world of funny translations out there to laugh at. Cyworld, the massive Korean based virtual world, is shutting down its U.S. site, which draws all of 112,000 monthly visitors according to Comscore. And while the shutdown is sort of sad, the message they sent to users more than makes up for it. The translation is bad. Not Matrix DVD cover in Korean bad, but bad. Yes, I know Americans and others butcher other langua…
- Founder Institute On Track To Graduate 300 Startups Per Year, Expands To New York
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: TechCrunch
More expansion news from Adeo Ressi’s Founder Institute. The startup incubator is steadily expanding. It recently opened up an outpost in Seattle, and now is expanding to New York. “New York City needs a kick in the pants,” says Ressi. The Winter New York City Semester will be led by Razorfish co-founder Craig Kanarick. Mentors for the program will include Munjal Shah, Patrick Keane, Max Hoat and others. You can apply here. The Founder I…
- MYTH BUSTED: Internet Use Doesn’t Lead to Isolation
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: Mashable!
Imagine this: once a happy child with a lot of friends, little Jack has started spending many hours per day on social networking sites such as Facebook, which has turned him into a pale asocial freak. Oh, if only he’d never touched that cursed box we call the computer, he’d be a healthy young man now! This is the picture we’ve been fed a lot by the media (did you see the movie Gamer? I rest my case), but according to a study conducted by th…
- Playing Games with Media Usage
Published: November 3, 2009
Source: eMarketer Articles
The third screen?
- Gen Y Holds Tight to E-Mail and Texting
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: eMarketer Articles
My Note: Don’t give up on email yet!
Critical for communication
- DMCA: Is It a Muzzle or Security?
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: FreelanceSwitch
Since the advent of the Internet as a wide-open information conduit there has been a lot of worry amongst legislators, media corporations, and others with a stake in preventing content piracy to create a law that would add teeth to copyright for electronic communications. The long discussions, lobbying, and heated arguments between interested parties were loud and public. The end result was the passing of a complex law called The Digital Millenn…
- 30 Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Will Love
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials
Few days ago I created this article 105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel with amazing photo manipulation works. This time I went step further and actually tried to find tutorials teaching you how to achieve such effects! Of course, I didn’t find the same effects there, but if you look closer and really study these tutorials I showcased here, you will understand you’ll have all the skills to create such artworks! More or…
- Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: Noupe
By Justin Johnson Certain elements in HTML lend themselves to many situations when marking up a website, one of the more useful of these elements is the HTML list. Using lists, a developer can markup horizontal navigation, dropdown navigation, a list of links, and even scrolling content panels (with the help of Javascript). These features can help developers build new sites and applications as well as integrate new content into existing applicati…
- Google aims to "connect" users with shared interests
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: Ars Technica
Google is improving its service aimed at providing websites with social networking features by making it easier for users with shared interests to connect with one another. The company has announced a number of new features for its Google Friend Connect that center on collecting and utilizing information about a site users’ interests. The new features start off with a several ways to poll use…
- Domain Industry Rocked By Shill Auction Bidding Admission
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: TechCrunch
Anyone who doesn’t know how dirty the domain name business is just doesn’t know the domain name business. People pay exorbitant sums to acquire domain names, put Google or Yahoo ads on the parked pages, and collect the advertising fees. They often buy and sell individual domains and portfolios with other domain squatters. But the real feeding frenzy is around deleting domains – the domain names that people let expire and that go back into g…
- After onstage spat, Offerpal replaces CEO
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: The Social
Departing CEO Anu Shukla says the offers-and-surveys company has been hunting for a new chief exec for "many months," but the timing is a little suspect considering recent media scrutiny of its business model.
- Second Life Goes Behind The Firewall
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: ReadWriteWeb
Second Life is introducing a behind the firewall service for enterprise customers, another sign that the very definition of collaboration is changing as more companies seek ways to do their work in virtual environments. In addition, Second Life will unveil a marketplace in the first quarter of 2010 where people may purchase templates and other 3D environments for their Second Life Enterprise world. Sponsor We hear so much about how "people," ar…
- PayPal woos developers with $150K challenge
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: VentureBeat
PayPal has been making a big deal about convincing developers to build cool applications using its global payments platform. Today it added a little more incentive, by announcing the PayPal X Developer challenge, where the creators of the most innovative payments apps will receive a total of $150,000 in cash and waived PayPal transaction fees. Basically, the PayPal platform is supposed to give companies and developers more flexibility about how t…
- Goodbye Microsoft, the next chapter
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing
Microsoft announced more layoffs today, and I was one of them. This was a total surprise to me, and management offered no explanation. This is pretty standard procedure, mostly for legal reasons, but none the less left me with a cold feeling…but only for a minute or two. Today I start thinking about the next chapter in my life. It is always exciting to look beyond your normal boundaries and think about new possibilities. Being totally consumed…
- Microsoft Dumps Don Dodge
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: Xconomy
Layoffs, Microsoft, IT Wade Roush wrote: Don Dodge, admired by many technology entrepreneurs as Microsoft’s enthusiastic ambassador to the startup world, is one of those swept up in today’s big round of layoffs at the software giant. Dodge was director of business development for the Emerging Business Team, working from Microsoft’s offices in Cambridge, MA. Dodge revealed the news in a post on his own blog today. He said the termi…
- Google Boston growing
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: Daily Business Update
Steve Vinter, engineering director of Google Boston, said today that the company’s local operation will be "growing very rapidly in the next few months." Vinter made his comments while introducing Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who was at the company’s Cambridge office to speak to about two dozen journalists. Vinter said there are now 200 employees working at Google’s Kendall Square location. He did not specify how many jobs might be added…
- The future of schooling may lie with video games
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: www.economist.com
SINCE the beginning of mass education, schools have relied on what is known in educational circles as “chalk and talk”. Chalk and blackboard may sometimes be replaced by felt-tip pens and a whiteboard, and electronics in the form of computers may sometimes be bolted on, but the idea of a pedagogue leading his pupils more or less willingly through a day based on periods of study of recognisable academic disciplines, such as mathematics, physic
- 101+1 Small Business Marketing Questions For People Who Don’t Speak Marketing
Published: November 3, 2009
Source: Starting a Home Business | Home Business Ideas | Work From Home
How To Use This List: Pick 25-50 questions. Answer them as honestly and expansively as you can. Follow your intuition. Trust the answers to lead you to make the right decisions. Come back in three months and do it again, with the same or different questions. Do that and you’ll have a better marketing plan than anybody I know. Including me. 1. What do I love to do so much that it doesn’t feel like work? 2. What parts of that activity are my fa…
- “Too Smart For Your Own Good?”
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: PR-Squared
I’ve written more than once in the past about the need for marketers to avoid Shiny Object Syndrome and, more recently, to Think Organically when it comes to Social Media. Guess what? Not everybody reads my blog. As we have found ourselves increasingly competing not just against PR firms but against different types of marketing agencies, e.g., advertising, marcomm, branding, we have on occassion lost the bid because the Other Guys wowed the u…
- Steve Smith on HTML5 and CSS3
Published: November 4, 2009
Source: Carsonified » Blog
Next up in our series of web deisgn interviews is Steve Smith from Ordered List. Steve is a recognised authority on front-end development, interface design and is also the co-founder of Sidebar Creative. As an author, public speaker, and University of Notre Dame professor, he is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others. Editor’s Note: Steve will be hosting a workshop on “How to build a HTML5/CSS3 Website Today” at The Future of We…
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