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@ 1hood rocks 4 me.mattr of prcptn. like V.gnty. Most men wna lose it. Sm w-men wna guard it. cnverse xist 2 - Aloch Rye

Will rivals bite the bait n get complacent....again?? That wd be a big mistake. - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

need 2 add some of these 2 my google reader now - Aloch Rye

Great idea. - Aloch Rye

For Cheryl's work check out: http://www.cherylnicolai.com/ http://www.cheryljacobsportraits.com/ - Aloch Rye

268 For and 1876 Against. Yay. - Aloch Rye

The price tag $1.5K seems unfair for a device that targets the visually impaired. - Aloch Rye

"Update: Seems Yahoo has decided to keep Term Extraction API alive ..for now (http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009...)" - Aloch Rye

"looks like the exciting days of innovation in search at yahoo are almost over." - Aloch Rye

"No clue as to how this aligns with VMwares business." - Aloch Rye

"A suitable alliance? Google shd have bought it." - Aloch Rye

"Won't be too long for no fish to thank for :-)" - Aloch Rye

""Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. -- Maya Angelou * Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. -- Maya Angelou" - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"This Month in Photo of the Day: Your Photos Watching a mahout lovingly bathe his elephant, I tried capturing the moment from the riverside but wasn't satisfied with what I saw through the viewfinder. There was something lacking that made the image not do justice to the scene. I then climbed a tree with a branch extending out over the water and got my shot, which may have been my last as I almost fell off after taking it. I'm sure the beautiful elephant would not have been very happy about me falling out of a tree straight onto her stomach! —Caption by Mohit Midha" - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"Among the hundreds of millions of bookmarks saved on Delicious are a large number of audio files, collected from across the Web. Rock, jazz, house, spoken word — you name it, you can probably find a link to it somewhere on Delicious. For some time now we’ve supported the streaming of MP3 audio via our “PlayTagger” feature, which is integrated directly into Delicious and also available for adding to your own site." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"News Corp is planning to introduce micro-payments for individual articles and premium subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal’s website this year, in a milestone in the news industry’s race to find better online business models. “A sophisticated micro-payments service” will launch this autumn, Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of the Journal, told the Financial Times." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"...imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go? Incredibly, there is such a thing. It’s the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate)." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"In addition to being the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of his fundamental work, "On the Origin of Species." As with many original sources, it is known mostly by reputation. Few people who are not biologists read Darwin in the original. But his writing can still offer surprises, insights and pleasures, and it can be sampled here, with selections by prominent scientists of their favorite passages and discussions of why these passages are important." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service Adsense, in one day as well. Now he's working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"The crumbling world of newspapers is looking to Schmidt in the hopes of convincing him to save the New York Times by buying it, or the Washington Post, before they sink into insolvency. Google has helped destabilize the world of printed information, goes the argument, it should now step in to save it. Schmidt is distinctly aware of the newsprint meltdown going on in an information world dominated by his company, and that this system only works as long as there is someone to report the news that his system delivers to readers." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

How social media is displacing traditional marketing channels. If you aren't using social media chances are that inspite of a good product you might never be 'discovered'. - Aloch Rye

"Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who helped to eradicate smallpox, is to leave his job as head of Google.org, the search giant's philanthropic arm, to lead the Skoll 'Urgent Threats Fund', created this month by Jeffrey Skoll, former founding president of eBay and head of the Skoll Foundation. The new fund aims to bring money — some $100 million to begin with — along with advocacy, technology and Hollywood, to bear on five threats facing humanity and the planet: climate change, water scarcity, pandemics, nuclear proliferation and conflict in the Middle East." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"Twitter (Twitter reviews) updates are used to communicate everything from birthday wishes to political opinions. But there are some special, shining cases where the status update has been used to do some extraordinary things, from marriage proposals to breaking news, and much more. The following are 10 of the most extraordinary and creative uses of Twitter updates. These amazing updates have made the news, pushed the boundaries of what the status update can do, and have even fundamentally changed people’s lives." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"Maker Faire Africa (MFA), a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 13-15 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana's capital, Accra." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"Google has released a new open source browser plugin that provides APIs for displaying rich 3D graphics in Web content. Google hopes that the plugin will help to advance a collaborative effort to create open standards for bringing 3D to the Web." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

Features: * Automatically detects which state you’re in (currently only covers the US) * Food that’s in season near you * Food that’s coming in season near you soon * Farmers’ markets near you * Browse all 234 fruits and vegetables to see where it is currently growing * Links to Wikipedia articles and Epicurious recipes from each food detail page * Browse all 50 states to see what’s in season in other parts of the US Built with the help of: * Natural Resources Defense Council for food availability * LocalHarvest.org for farmers’ markets data * Tattfoo for colors * Integrated with Get Satisfaction Remote for in-app feedback, ideas, and bug tracking - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you. For a quick introduction to PhoneGap, watch this three-minute video:" - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"The BBC R&D have just launched R&DTV. George Wright says: Today we launch a new trial aimed at exploring new ways to create, edit and distribute online video. It's called R&DTV. We've done this in collaboration with colleagues in BBC Backstage, part of BBC R&D. It's a pilot show, designed to be sharable, remixable and redistributable. It's released under a Creative Commons Attribution (Non-Commercial) licence, and looks at interesting tech stories inside and outside the BBC. The first episode features Nicholas Negroponte (talking about the OLPC project), Kevin Rose from digg.com, Graham Thomas from BBC Research and Ant Miller / George Auckland from the BBC discussing the BBC Micro. Hemmy Cho and Rain Ashford were the producers To quote from the FTP site -'R&DTV is a monthly technology programme made up of interviews from knowledgeable BBC developers, project experts and experts from around the world." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet

"Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform." - Aloch Rye from Bookmarklet