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FATBOY SLIM -THE BPA TOE JAM FT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL. Inspiration Proves Increasingly Elusive for A VC. Small and Medium Business - Guy Kawasaki on Innovations. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, and since that time Oracle's hardware and software engineers have worked side-by-side to build fully integrated systems and optimized solutions designed to achieve performance levels that are unmatched in the industry.
Early examples include the Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8, and the first Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, both introduced in late 2010. During 2011, Oracle introduced the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, a general-purpose, engineered system with Oracle Solaris that delivered record-breaking performance on a series of enterprise benchmarks. Oracle's SPARC-based systems are some of the most scalable, reliable, and secure products available today. Sun's prized software portfolio has continued to develop as well, with new releases of Oracle Solaris, MySQL, and the recent introduction of Java 7. Oracle invests in innovation by designing hardware and software systems that are engineered to work together.
Learn 101 Photoshop Tips & Techniques in a 5 Minute Video. 26 Jun 2008 Adobe Photoshop guru Deke McClelland has done an entertaining but very helpful video where he shares 101 Photoshop tips and techniques in a five minute video. couch mode print story This is simply awesome.
Adobe Photoshop guru Deke McClelland has done an entertaining but very helpful video where he shares 101 Photoshop tips and techniques in a five minute video. Nokia to Open Access to Mobile Software. Bored With Web 2.0? Demand Change - ReadWriteWeb. CIO perspective: Patrick Slesinger, Wallem. Balsamiq - Flash Player Installation. MagCloud. Wanna be friends? Only on Twitter. Technology Review: Home Tweet Home. Founded in late 2006, Twitter provides a communication tool that lets users post 140-character-or-fewer updates on their current activities or thoughts, noteworthy links on the Web, or public conversations.
Twitterers can be found all over the world, posting updates 24 hours a day, but this photo essay will take you inside the Twitter offices, in South Park, San Francisco, where programmers try to turn the constant connection provided by the Web and cellular networks into a tool that some people find indispensable. Twitter cofounders Evan Williams (above right) and Biz Stone discuss upcoming changes to the company’s service in its office’s main meeting room. Linkfluence - home. Top daily links from the public timeline on Twitter. MadTwitter — Twitter for Windows — Main page. 280 Slides - Create & Share Presentations Online. Blog » English. Last week, we launched a new version of Jamendo.com.
More than just a facelift, the entire technical architecture of Jamendo was overhauled in order to increase flexibility of the site; the purpose was to make it easy to add new features and allow the site to evolve more quickly. As you know, among the additions are the new player, ten new radio channels and improved search. Our goal is always for our users to discover and listen to music more easily and for our artists to have a great, effective way to share their art. While we have received some positive feedback, we’ve also heard your criticisms loud and clear, specifically reporting bugs, calling for the return of some old features or criticizing the new track-oriented approach.
There were some technical problems that we needed to solve and we are working on getting it all smoothed out as soon as possible. Another major problem reported was the inability of artists to send messages to their fans. . - the Jamendo Team. Universcale. Political segregation. Vote plan to 'shake up internet' The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed.
[daily dose of imagery] Video Games Live at Dundas Square.
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This free concert was sponsored by FutureShop and featured music from video game classics such as Halo, Zelda, Metal Gear Solid and my favorite God of War among others. VGL is co-created by game composer and legend Tommy Tallarico, seen playing the guitar above for Halo. The Trap - 1 - F*k You Buddy. With iPhone 3G around the corner, Google Android sees delays. Were you considering holding off on getting Apple’s new iPhone 3G until you saw what Google would be offering with its Android platform?
Well, hopefully you can afford to wait a while. Though it’s still technically the 2nd half of 2008, Google is now indicating that delays will push the first phones based on its Android platform into the fourth quarter, a member of Google’s corporate communications team confirmed with us. The reasoning for the delays is telling. While many are quick to jump on Apple for having a comparatively closed system for its phones, Android’s more open approach is leading to headaches with both carriers and developers, according to The Wall Street Journal. Because Google is providing so many of its resources to T-Mobile to ensure it has a phone ready to go by the end of this year, a Google Android phone from another carrier, Sprint, is likely pushed until next year.
A Peek Inside Google’s Gmail Usability Lab. Nika Smith wrote a post on the Google blog today showing the evolution of Google chat before it launched in early 2006.
Google does extensive testing of new products using employees as guinea pigs (see our post on the pre-launch evolution of Gmail) as well as outsiders brought in to test software and interfaces in their usability lab. I had a chance to see the lab a few weeks ago. It’s a small room with a large flat screen monitor, along with a desk and computer. Am I Bored With “Web 2.0”? SanneW. Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist. [author's note: I wrote most of this post nine months ago, but never got around to finishing it. It seemed an appropriate companion to my recent series of "Social [X]” posts, so I added a couple paragraphs to the end and am posting it.]
I was reading a gapingvoid post, and saw this wonderful quote (for reference, gapingvoid is the blog of Hugh MacLeod, who’s using social media to advertise for a wine company among many other things): The main thesis is that it’s not the wine per se that is interesting, it’s the conversations that happen around the wine that is interesting. Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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The Secret to Understanding Design - Baekdal.com. We often discuss design. Should it be simple or complex? There’s Web 2.0 and then there’s Reality. A Day in the Life of the Tech Middle Class. A Look at the Internet, Then and Now. SwitchAbit. Create timelines, share them on the web. Feedbooks: Food for the mind. A Beautiful WWW. PingMe - What *Should* You Be Doing? EasyBib: Free Automatic Bibliography Composer - MLA and APA form. 6 Ways to Make Better Friends on StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is one of my favorite sites and a great way to network with those in your industry, meet others who share your interests, discover very interesting sites, and find the latest “interesting” news. One of the sites flaws is that it limits you to having only 200 “friends” or people that you can network with directly.
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