June 2009

Digg’s New Dupe Detection Fails

by Jeff Weisbein June 30, 2009
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Today, Digg launched their new dupe detection system.  However, there is one slight problem – it doesn’t seem to be working.  As you can see in the screen shot below there are two stories on the Digg front page covering the exact same topic – the new dupe detection system.  Ironic isn’t it? So is [...]

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Tweetboard Brings Twitter To Your Website

by Jeff Weisbein June 30, 2009
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Tweetboard is a 140ware project that creates a Twitter-powered forum for any site. All a site owner needs to do to install Tweetboard on their site is implement the code provided and you will instantly have a site-wide tab appear which allows visitors to have forum-type discussions by simply logging into Twitter (via OAuth). All [...]

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Google Announces Mobile AdSense For Applications

by Jeff Weisbein June 30, 2009
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Google recently announced that it will be moving into the mobile applications ad market.  This announcement comes shortly after Google announced Google Product Ads.  The move doesn’t surprise me, after all, Google is the advertising king. It appears Google has been testing both text and image ads with a handful of developers, including Shazam, i.TV, [...]

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Firefox 3.5 Released

by Jeff Weisbein June 30, 2009
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Firefox 3.5 is now available for download – get your copy before the servers become overloaded. What’s new in Firefox 3.5? Firefox 3.5  is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and [...]

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The Pirate Bay Sells Out For $7.7 Million

by Jeff Weisbein June 30, 2009
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Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X announced this morning it has agreed to buy file-sharing service The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns (which currently converts to approximately $7.7 million). This news comes only a few months after the founders of The Pirate Bay were sentenced to one year in jail and a [...]

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Twitter Is Definitely Good At Spreading The Word

by Jeff Weisbein June 29, 2009
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Yesterday, at 11:59PM Facebook opened up custom URLs for pages with less than 1,000 fans which is most fan pages, by the way.  This allowed users to claim a URL for their fan page (e.g. facebook.com/besttechie). Originally, the only requirement was that you needed to have more than 25 fans. I think that’s a fair [...]

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Flicker.com Attempts To Capitalize With Its Correctly Spelled Name

by Jeff Weisbein June 28, 2009
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Many people are familiar with Flickr, the popular image sharing site owned by Yahoo, but, how many actually know the difference between Flickr and Flicker (with the e)?  Well, it seems many people (approximately 3.6 million) are not aware of the difference.  Flicker.com was registered in 1998 which is approximately five years before Flickr.com was [...]

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The Video Bay: Pirate Bay’s YouTube Competitor

by Matt Hodges June 28, 2009
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About two years ago, the makers of the ever-popular torrent website, thepiratebay.org, announced that they were working on a new project called “The Video Bay”. A few weeks ago, The Video Bay opened up a test version to the public.  The public trial has since been disabled, but the site is still up.  Currently, anyone [...]

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FriendFeed Adds File Sharing Support

by Jeff Weisbein June 28, 2009
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FriendFeed now allows its users to share (almost) any file directly through the site itself.  You can easily share pictures, PDF’s, text files, and even audio files.  Features like these aren’t all that new, we saw them in the past with Pownce (remember them?  The Twitter killer), but, the addition of file sharing to the [...]

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Should We Stop Masking Passwords?

by Matt Hodges June 25, 2009
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Logging in to our computers or various web services is a normal routine we all go through every day.  Each of us probably has half-a-dozen usernames across the web, with at least double that in passwords.  We’re all also very used to the standard format when logging into a service: plain-text username and a censored [...]

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