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5Words for Wednesday, June 3rd 2009

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Is an evening 5Words acceptable? David Pogue’s Pre review. Leaked. And here’s Walt Mossberg’s take. Engadget weighs in, too. Positively. Gizmodo is less enthusiastic, though. Digg lets you digg ads. Is Microsoft the new GM? Hands on with PSP Go. Happy birthday to ya, Tetris! IE 6 likes Bing, apparently.

5Words for April 16th, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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Greetings to you from Malta… Please, Apple, approve iPhone SlingPlayer. TwitPic glitches frustrate, alarm users. Should Apple fear Zune? Maybe. Windows Mobile Zune? Also maybe. Acer’s ultraslim, fairly cheap notebook. Digg bows to DiggBar critics. Non-Apple Mini DisplayPort monitors. Hands on: Verizon’s Hub 2.

5Words for April 3rd, 2009

Friday, April 3, 2009

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Google, buy Twitter! Or don’t! Rumor: Google’s buying Twitter. Maybe. Digg launches short-url service. Microsoft alert: PowerPoint is vulnerable. Texas decides it hates Vista. RIM has sold 50,000,000 BlackBerries. EVO: Linux-based game console. Motorola’s Evoke phone: surprisingly interesting. Sweden cracks down on P2P. Ritz Camera closes 300 stores.

Digg This: The White House’s Social Media Experiment

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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Reviving an experiment it conducted during the transition, the Obama administration is using a Digg-style collaborative system called Open for Questions to collect questions for the president to answer. Here’s why it’s doi–oh, heck, wouldn’t you prefer to hear it from the horse’s mouth? Open for Questions lets registered users submit questions [...]

The Diggbar is Just Not a Good Idea

Friday, February 27, 2009

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A Flickr photo has set off a firestorm of speculation across the web as to the social news sites future plans, which apparently involve the launch of a application-free browser toolbar. It would appear that the toolbar would work much like application StumbleUpon debuted last year. SU originally started as a browser add-on, however it ditched [...]

Digg’s Problems Aren’t Going to Be Easily Fixed

Thursday, October 9, 2008

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There are stories on the Internets today about Kevin Rose’s talk in London during the Future of Web Apps conference. Specifically, Rose was tapped to to talk about the future of online news, and he was surprisingly candid about Digg’s problems while there. A common critique of the site is that while it may sport some [...]

New iPod Nano? Sure. This One? I’m Skeptical.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

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Digg’s Kevin Rose has blogged that new, cheaper iPods will arrive in the next two or three weeks. That I can believe. (I’d bet on the outer edge of the prediction timewise or even a bit later, since Apple will almost certainly need a little time to invite journalists to a press event to roll [...]