You’ll never use MapQuest again. With a new addition to its Google Maps service, Google has completely reinvented the notion of online driving directions, letting you adjust routes in with a simple drag and drop.In the past, when you asked services like MapQuest or Google Maps for driving directions, you took what they gave you. [...]
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Gizmodo did a ROFL quality post today.
A new Digg policy here, out of respect for the Digg community.
-No badging of articles unless they have original content, new reporting, treatment, or photos.
It’s not fair when we get the Digg for someone else’s work. Let’s keep the signal-to-noise ratio high, dudes.
And btw, Digg user “Iwanttodiggthis,” can you [...]
We decided to acknowledge WordPress because the authors have done good work and we rely on the software. We hope our acknowledgment helps foster the WordPress community.
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Thanks,
Will Mayall
[Truemors]
I had read earlier Guy Kawasaki had written a post about a new start up he had created in a short period of time (BTW read the post… [...]
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Now I read a couple hundred feeds, rarely do I bring the post count down to zero. But this is amazing.
Every morning Robert Scoble starts his day by sifting through 622 RSS feeds. In this interview, he describes the tools and tricks that enable him to accomplish the immense task of personally aggregating the [...]
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Craig Newmark might not be the most obvious choice for a speaker at a conference of newspaper publishers, considering that his Web site Craigslist is often seen as a rival to newspapers by siphoning away lucrative classified advertising.What, then, to make of his suggestion to the publishers that they follow the lead of late night [...]
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Jake tried to access Boing Boing from Boston’s free WiFi network and got this notice — topped by the seal of the Mayor of Boston no less! Banned in Boston — first they came for the Mooninites, then they came for the Boingers. Want to defeat censorware? Let freedom ring!
[Boing Boing]
Its stupid reasons like this, [...]
Forget search engines. Sure, the Googles and Yahoos of the world will get you quickly to obvious points of interest — Microsoft.com, for instance, if you type “microsoft.”But they will also have you surfing pointlessly through dozens upon dozens of barely relevant websites if what you’re really interested in is slightly off the beaten path. [...]
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Great Firewall of China : Use this tool to find out if your site or blog is banned in China. WeblogToolsCollection is not. It is interesting to notice that the disclaimer states that some sites might simply not be available for techincal reasons which might have nothing to do with censorship. Some of the obvious [...]
OK.. the gimmick is this. This guy goes around all day wearing a camera on his head. And streams it live onto the web. Its been going for about 9 days, been covered by way too many blogs, tv shows and I’m betting he’ll be making the late night tv shows soon. [...]
I’ve spent the last few days reading over stories of Vigilantes taking on Scammers and scamming them into wasting tons of time, and money. The “Scam Baiters” get the scammers to waste money hiring photographers to take pictures of them being ridiculous, paying for shipping of heavily weighted very expensive broken stuff, and anything [...]
