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Archive for June, 2010

Social application builds possible electoral map

30 Jun 2010

The point of the game is to accumulate points to move up in the political ranks. A player starts out as a lowly citizen with zero points but quickly earns them by participating in polls, answering trivia questions, and getting “donations” from other users of the application. It takes 2,500 points to put you in [...]

Google shows advertisers where their ads click

28 Jun 2010

Google has added a new level of detail to the tools advertisers can use to track the performance of their search-ad campaigns, showing them the geographic region of the users who clicked on the ads.

Separately, Google also said in a separate AdWords post on Thursday that it’s adjusted performance-monitoring tools so advertisers can distinguish ads [...]

New research says technology strengthens (miserabl

23 Jun 2010

Technology doesn’t allow people to ignore their parents, siblings and pet rats and disappear into their own hugely self-referential, self-reverential world, otherwise known as Facebook.

No, technology promotes family love.
It’s a wonderful headline for a wonderful life: “Technology found to strengthen U.S. families.”

I can hear you cheering. You are cheering very loudly. But wait, I have [...]

Red Hat’s Project Spacewalk could make it the hub

22 Jun 2010

Back in early 2007 Red Hat let slip that it was planning to release its Red Hat Network code as an open-source project. In June of 2008, Red Hat officially announced that Red Hat Network Satellite would be open sourced.
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Last week, Red Hat posted an update on the project, now called Project Spacewalk.
I’ve suggested [...]

Businesses warming up to the iPhone

18 Jun 2010

Jurcyzk is following the recommendations of J. Gold Associates by having his employees access secure corporate data through the iPhone’s
Safari browser backed by the firm’s own security certificate. That way, no sensitive data actually resides on the device, but users can still open documents and view them with “full fidelity,” which is a huge [...]

Internet Week New York Men in expensive suits and

16 Jun 2010

But the open bar and live jazz trio at Founders Club tapered off around 9 p.m., and several taxis full of fun-loving partygoers headed downtown to the flashy, chandelier-adorned Flatiron District nightclub known as Room Service, where the IAC-owned CollegeHumor was having its annual Hottest College Girl in America Party. The 2008 honoree was 19-year-old [...]

LinkedIn with apps makes social networking actuall

04 Jun 2010

Based on a nudge from Luke Kanies, I installed the TripIt application for LinkedIn. Others have been prodding me to use TripIt for at least a year, but this is the first time it made sense.
This is what Dopplr should have been, but it requires me to recreate my schedule (and network) just for [...]