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December 8, 2009

Google Labs introduces Living Stories: news on the fly.

News, made for the Web.

The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country's leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

All in one place
Complete coverage of an on-going story is gathered together and prioritized on one URL. You can now quickly navigate between news articles, opinion pieces and features without long waits for pages to load.

check it out online at livingstories.googlelabs.com

 

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December 3, 2009

Win $40,000 tomorrow, just by finding 10 balloons!
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November 15, 2009

What is Google Wave? A somewhat more in-depth explanation for non-techies!

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October 10, 2009

Musical Stairs

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October 2, 2009

What is Google Wave? A simple 2 minute explanation for non-techies!

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September 30, 2009

Read Your Newspaper on Your Home Computer !! circa 1981

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The thing that really caught my ear in this report was their estimate of 2-3000 ( yes, that's two to three thousand ) "home computer owners" in the Bay Area!

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September 22, 2009

Coming soon to an iphone near you: check him out before you hook up!

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Can't decide if this is hilarious or scary!

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September 21, 2009

The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with controversial, game-changing propositions. We found a prison reformer who wants to empty jails, an economist who thinks foreign aid hurts more than it helps, and a military theorist who believes the US should launch preemptive cyberattacks, right now. Then there's secretary of defense robert gates, who wants to win wars, not just prep for them. Risky? Sure. But this is no time to play it safe.


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Sure to be thought provoking.

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September 21, 2009

It just got cheaper to use your iphone! (and other AT&T phones)

If you're an AT&T subscriber and have a fairly expensive wireless plan (over 59.99/month) take note: you can now sign up, at no charge, for unlimited free calling to your favorite five numbers with their "A-list" program. 

I'm not a huge AT&T fan.  I tolerate them because I love the iphone.  But I do appreciate this new feature which I think will save me some dough monthly. I would guesstimate that 3 or 4 numbers account for 80% of my calling minutes, so I anticipate benefitting. In fact, I may even need to downsize my plan!   

AT&T has rolled this out quietly:  I did not receive any sort of promo or announcement, but I learned about it a few weeks ago on one of my tech blogs: the A-list activates today so you should be able to log into your AT&T Wireless account and set it up if you qualify.

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September 3, 2009

Is your Iphone slow? Turns out YOU are the problem...

...or so says AT&T in this NYT article blaming, as we New Yorkers call them, "volume delays" for AT&T network slowness.  If you've ever driven on the LIE or the Belt ( or the Beltway for that matter), you know what I mean. In other words, they weren't ready.


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