HTML 5 and the Wizard of Oz
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Kyle Weems, the CSS Squirrel and author of the occasional and bizarre comic of the same name, targets his latest rendering at Ian Hickson:
Click-through to see the full comic. The related blog entry fleshes out the basic complaint some more:
Why is it that the person who is the center of this process is allowed to [...]
rogerkarlsson: F-Secure blog: Scareware Attacks http://tinyurl.com/mopfjh
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rogerkarlsson: F-Secure blog: Scareware Attacks http://tinyurl.com/mopfjh
rogerkarlsson: F-Secure blog: Hacktivist Tweets http://tinyurl.com/n6pebn
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rogerkarlsson: F-Secure blog: Hacktivist Tweets http://tinyurl.com/n6pebn
rogerkarlsson: MS antispyware blog: Microsoft Security Essentials Beta Announced http://tinyurl.com/lp2tk5
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rogerkarlsson: MS antispyware blog: Microsoft Security Essentials Beta Announced http://tinyurl.com/lp2tk5
rogerkarlsson: F-Secure blog: Would You Give Your Facebook Password for A Job Application? http://tinyurl.com/n9z695
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rogerkarlsson: F-Secure blog: Would You Give Your Facebook Password for A Job Application? http://tinyurl.com/n9z695
Iran elections: Google launches Farsi translation tool
25/6/2009 | external link
Google has added a Persian dictionary to its online translation service allowing web users to translate blog posts and Twitter messages written in Farsi in to English.
What is Boxee Announcing Tonight? [Live Video]
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Following in the footsteps of Wolfram Alpha, Web-to-TV service Boxee is planning to make a few significant product announcements tonight via live video on Justin.tv.
Officially, the event is to announce the winners of a developer challenge that the company has been running since May, with host Veronica Belmont handing out the hardware (literally ? big screen TVs and 4TB Seagate hard drives) to the best video, music, and photo apps.
But on their blog, Boxee also notes that ?during the event we will also
10 Twitter Best Practices for Brands
25/6/2009 | external link
Michael Brito is a social media strategist and community builder at Intel. You can catch him writing in his social media blog, Twitter or Facebook at all hours of the day/night. These are his thoughts and opinions and do not reflect that of his employer.
Having a Twitter profile doesn?t mean you?re a social media master, but it is a great tool for conversations, building community and finding the latest industry news. That s why Hollywood is on Twitter, athletes are on Twitter, your competitors ar
Orbitz Gives Away Free Twitter Tickets
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Chances are you might have woken up this morning to see a popular retweet make its way across your Twitter feed. That s because Orbitz is doing a Twitter giveaway for a chance to win a round-trip coach ticket good for a flight in the United States.
Not surprising this has put the Twittersphere abuzz. Who doesn t want a free round-trip ticket to anywhere in the US (other than International folks that is)? So, what does it take to win? You ll need to follow Orbitz on Twitter and retweet th
How WWF is Using Social Media for Good #FindingTheGood
25/6/2009 | external link
This is the third post in Mashable?s Summer of Social Good series on #FindingTheGood, a week of posts dedicated to profiling charitable initiatives using social media. WWF is one of the four Summer of Social Good charities.
There s no way to sugarcoat it: the fate of all life on Earth will be determined by what we do over the next decade to preserve the planet s health and biodiversity. Halting and reversing the degradation of our planet s natural environment is one of the most pressing
Facebook Live Stream Box: Create Your Own CNN Obama Inauguration-Like Chat
25/6/2009 | external link
President Obama?s inauguration was a huge event online. Much of the traffic went to CNN, and specifically to its integration with Facebook to provide live chat side-by-side with streaming video.
Essentially, the feature let you login with your Facebook credentials and broadcast your chat messages as status updates. Since then, the feature has been used in other big events, for example, the NBA All-Star Game and by pop trio The Jonas Brothers.
Starting today, however, the feature is available to any we
Twitter Envy: Facebook Adds Public Content Sharing
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Facebook s Publisher aka, the What s on your mind? box on your homepage, was recently overhauled to support smart links, video, photos and other options.
Today, however, Facebook is announcing even more updates to Publisher, which will let users control the privacy settings around each status update they post to Facebook. Beta testers, and eventually the rest of us, will now be able to specify whether they want to update the world or just a select group of friends.
The ne
Roger Federer Talks Wimbledon ? And Hits 2 Million Facebook Fans [Video]
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Ashton Kutcher might be the only Twitter user with 2 million followers (although Ellen will soon join him), but on Facebook, numerous celebs have fan counts in the 7 digits. Today, while doing an interview with ESPN, tennis champ Roger Federer actually crossed the 2 million Facebook fans mark live on-air.
In the interview, we learn that Federer is adding about ?2 fans per second? and also maintains his own site at RogerFederer.com, where he claims there are another quarter million users signed up (he als
Habitat Uses Iran Twitter Spam to Pimp Furniture
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In some of the worst hashtag spam we ve seen in a long time, European furniture maker Habitat has been caught spamming Twitter to increase signups to its customer database.
More specifically, the retailer was caught adding topics from the trending topics from #iphone to #Mousavi to the front of Tweets trying to get people to sign up to a customer database. One Tweet read: #MOUSAVI Join the database for free to win a £1,000 gift card. The cheap trick has led many Twi
Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They?re Not Fixing Outlook
25/6/2009 | external link
Give Microsoft some credit: they quickly took note of the campaign to ?Fix Outlook? that went crazy viral on Twitter this morning, and have issued a response.
In case you missed it earlier, the Fix Outlook campaign is essentially a protest ?against the Microsoft decision to use Word to render HTML emails, which will make designers? lives a misery due to its failure to display these mails properly.? So far, nearly 20,000 people have tweeted the link to the movement s homepage, fixoutlook.org.
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YouTube Rolls Out Redesigned Channels for All New Users
25/6/2009 | external link
Have you ever noticed that some YouTube channel pages were a little different than others? A bit cleaner? The White House, Citizentube, the University of Phoenix, and Lisa Nova all are different than the channels of popular YouTubers Fred, nigahiga, and Smosh.
Their videos are wider. They re left-aligned. The content is better compartmentalized. Profiles information is pushed below the fold, and better organized. The entire layout is centered around playlists. And the differences go on and o
Measuring audiences needs a finer approach - New Media Age
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How many followers have you got on Twitter? How many friends on Facebook? Connections on LinkedIn? Visits a day to your blog? The nerdy beauty of the digital world is that pretty ...




