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November 20 2008
"The dissemination of what’s important to the world is too significant a task to be left to..."
- Jason Kottke, whose reputation as the winner of many popularity contests is well-earned by go-to nuggets like this one. Nicely put.
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Rick Turoczy shared an item on Google Reader
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James Kendrick posted an entry on jkOnTheRun
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l0ckergn0me posted a message
“http://letmegooglethatforyou.c... - try it, then remember it next time someone asks a question that Google could find an answer for.”
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Steve Rubel bookmarked a page on delicious
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November 19 2008
How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk
Josh Bancroft's TinyScreenfuls.com
I’m writing this up to help bloggers and other people who create stuff online (videos, etc.) get their “stuff” more visibility, by getting more sites to link to it and talk about it. Specifically, I’m trying to help people in my group at work, Intel Software Network, by sharing some of my experience and ideas, since I’ve been blogging for over 5 years. I’m by no means an expert, just sharing...
Six Apart Gives Journalists Free Blogs
San Francisco-based blogging startup Six Apart has announced they will be giving away free accounts on their TypePad blogging system for professional bloggers and journalists who recently lost their jobs as well as those who fear the axe is coming. Cleverly dubbed the "Journalist Bailout Program," the service includes one free blog, a place in the Six Apart Media advertising program, promotion ...
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Dave Winer posted a link
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November 18 2008
Vocito (Voe-kee-toe)*
Deconstructing Google Mobile's Voice Search on the iPhone
I've experimented with audio transcription lately, but always with big, clumsy humans. I'd happily use cyborgs speech recognition software, but even today, automatic conversion of voice-to-text is still flawed. Naturally, I was intrigued when Google announced they were adding voice searching to their Google Mobile iPhone app.
Google's flirted with voice-to-text conversion in the past, with
★ iPhone-Optimized Google Search Results
On the desktop version of Safari, when you use the built-in Google search field, you get pretty much the same results page as when you go to google.com and enter your query the old-fashioned way. The toolbar search field is just a more convenient way to get the same results.
But that’s not the case on the iPhone. On the iPhone, when you use the toolbar search field (the one you get by tapping...
Just say it! Searching by voice with the new Google Mobile App for iPhone
Call me lazy, but sometimes I just don't have the time or the patience to type a search query on my iPhone. Well, no more excuses. With the new release of the Google Mobile App for iPhone, I can just hold the phone to my ear, wait for the tone and say stuff like "Indian restaurants." And just like that, I'm looking at a bunch of places that will...
November 17 2008
Ignite Portland 4 - Sponsor Videos
Not only did the sponsors of Ignite Portland 4 help make the event possible, they also participated in proceedings by creating these amazing videos to tell the audience about themselves. Thank you all!
November 16 2008
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Clint Ecker posted an entry on Officially Lucky
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Clint Ecker posted an entry on Officially Lucky
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November 15 2008
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Steve Rubel published a photo on Flickr
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November 14 2008
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Jake Kuramoto shared an item on Google Reader
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On stage together at the end of the night. Thanks everyone!
Josh was the man who saw Ignite in Seattle and made it happen in Portland
