Tag: Google

  • Hybrid Calling: Say Goodbye to Big Cell

    Over the past month I’ve been using Google voice and other Wifi based VOIP apps as my primary personal phone service due to a disinterest in paying Verizon >$100 a month over a 2 year contract for a piddling number of calls and text messages. Now, it appears that a few companies including Republic Wireless…

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  • How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google without going mad

    How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google with Minimal Fuss. Related articles Apple extends iCloud storage following downgrade glitch (reviews.cnet.com) How to share documents with iCloud (macworld.com) Apple Gives Previous MobileMe Users An Extra Year Of iCloud Storage (geeky-gadgets.com) Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe users another year (engadget.com) iCloud.com Still…

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  • Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest

    Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest. I’ve used this software to track time on a team and it worked pretty darn well. It is part of the Basecamp portfolio which I also use for project management and is entirely cloud based so is very easy to set up and rollout with minimal IT resources.…

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  • Narrative Science: Using computational linguistics to automate storytelling

    The new startup Narrative Science is slowly replacing many of the stories you read every day by using computational linguistic algorithms to summarize data from online sources on subjects from finance to sports. It is also scaring the pants off of journalists everywhere. Narrative Science . Related articles Could algorithms replace writers? (raventools.com) We’ve sold…

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  • Fat-wallet and other hot deals sites compared

    One thing  I learned when working in e-commerce is that before buying anything online or off you should Google it and see what deals are available at hot deals sites like Fat-wallet. Here is a review of the top deals sites: http://hot-deals-review.toptenreviews.com Related articles Mobile wallet changes won’t come until incentives do as well (lexingtonlaw.com)…

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  • Culturomics: hard + soft science using the Ngram viewer

    I’ve been playing around with the new Google N Gram viewer and the emerging field of culturomics, the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture. It’s interesting to see that Timothy was more common in 1920 and that information has grown faster than knowledge  In 500 Billion Words, a New…

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  • Bob Servant: the spammer’s nightmare

    Bob Servant – Official Website. This guy is hilarious. He has decided to write back to spammers and harass them into submission with bizarre ploys. Related articles hiding from spammers (ask.metafilter.com) Reddit Thinks I’m a Spammer (amir.rachum.com) Spammers flood Facebook’s own Help Center (nakedsecurity.sophos.com) 5 Popular Twitter Habits That Make You Look Like a Spammer…

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  • Blogdigger: how to make sure your blog shows up on search

    Blogdigger : Blog Search Engine – Search Blogs. Be sure to confirm your blogs are up to date on them. See also day pop, live journal, slashdot, naymz, ziggs, findmeon, claimID, naggist, goloco.org, geni Related articles Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search (firstdigital.co.nz) Ping and Distribution Sites I use : BlogBuzzer (elaineossipov.wordpress.com) tgapp-smallpress 0.3.3 (pypi.python.org)…

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  • Google NGram viewer taps 500 billion words to uncover cultural trends

    In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture – NYTimes.com. Related articles Are words the atomic unit of a dynamic system? (sappingattention.blogspot.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) Google Labs’ NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com)…

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  • Google Ngram Viewer: Sciences vs. Religion

    Google Ngram Viewer. Related articles Google Labs’ NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com) Colossal is shrinking, but massive continues to grow (diginsider.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) Semantics: Ecohydrology vs. Hydroecology (snowhydro1.wordpress.com) Digital Signage in the Workplace Trends (themarlincompany.com) The Rise of…

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  • The politics of the internet: orkutificação or becoming “orkutised”

    In contrast to utopian ideals of some, the Internet like most other domains of social conduct is rapidly being divided into closed networks, haves and have nots. MySpace has been branded “lower class” and in Brazil wealthier citizens are migrating to Facebook from Orkut (Google’s social network) and branding those who still use the older…

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  • You are not a gadget: Considering the social side of new technologies

    A good critique of some of the risks and issues of today’s exploding use of online social media. Jaron Lanier argues it is creating a wealth of fake, fragmented social relationships, endlessly rehashed content and demeaning true human talents. And this is coming from a hardcore techie who developed VR. However his parents relocated to New…

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