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My original title for this post was “The Phone Call Will Be Dead In __ Years” but as consumer inertia is somehow still keeping our parent company Aol in the dialup business, I thought it might be prudent not to include an ETA on the death of the call. Less obsolete but more annoying than a handwritten letter, the phone call is fading as a mode of communication even if the nostalgic will be singing its praises for awhile. We reached a breaking point in 2008 when text messaging topped mobile phone calling in usage, and we’ve been living in a world dominated by text based communication ever since (Thanks Twitter).
If old media has taught us anything, it’s that it takes most industries at least a generation to be completely disrupted, especially something as powerful as Big Telco. Pinterest / Home. Top 5 Location-Based Services [Mashable Awards] As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we're taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is "Best Location-Based Service. " Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships are available. Please contact sponsorships@mashable.com for more information. While location-based mobile applications and services have been around for years, 2010 is proving to be a big breakout year.
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Arduino TinyWebServer is a library implementation of a small web server running on an Arduino Duemilanove or Uno using the new Ethernet Shield released at the end of September 2010. The new Ethernet Shield adds a microSD card right on the board, in addition to fixing a number of hardware bugs from the previous iteration. The library is meant to provide a Web interface to your Arduino project. To save precious memory space on your Arduino, TinyWebServer encourages you to develop your web applications as AJAX applications. Changes from the previous release As you're probably aware, a new Ethernet Shield for Arduino was released at the end September 2010. Documentation An explanation of the library's API can be found in this older post.
Digital Marketing And Social Media Blog - The Future Buzz. Gmail Users to Get Free Phone Calls. Google has announced that Gmail users will be able to make free phone calls to the U.S. and Canada through 2011. When calling was added to Gmail back in August, the company said that it’d be making such calls free “for at least the rest of the year,” with per minute rates starting at $0.02 per minute for international dialing. The service made a major splash initially, with 1 million calls placed in the first 24 hours and pundits predictably calling the service a potential Skype killer.
That said, we haven’t heard many updates about the traction the service is getting since then, though free calling for all of 2011 certainly stands to lure more users. We’ve reached out to Google for some updated numbers and will post here if we hear back. All voices. HOW TO: Give Your Photos a Vintage Look. Your profile photo is an important part of your online personality, offering a glimpse of you to the wider world. We've previously brought you tips for creating the perfect profile pic, and in this post we'll be looking at some great online services that can help you create a variety of fun, vintage-looking pics for your profile. So, for anyone who doesn't have photo editing know-how, expensive editing software and a load of time to spare, here's how to create a retro profile pic in a matter of minutes using some absolutely free, entirely online services.
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The landmark ruling, passed in May, allowed Europeans to ask for links to "irrelevant" and outdated personal data to be removed from search engines. The Wikipedia incident, first reported in The Observer, marks the first time an entry on the online encyclopaedia has been targeted, the BBC understands. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has expressed his opposition to the law. The "right to be forgotten" ruling has been the subject of much controversy since the decision by European Union Court of Justice (ECJ). While the law has been welcomed by some privacy advocates, many groups have said it contravenes the right to free speech, with some even calling it censorship. The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet.
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