CoTweet releases Public beta of its Real Time Business Collaboration platform Twitter, raises $1.1 Million | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/cotweet...
VideoUp lets you record videos from iPhone 3GS and upload them to Facebook | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/videoup...
StumbleUpon’s URL Shortener; Su.pr is out of Beta. Add one more to the countless already! | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/stumble...
Now this is good, but I never use StumbleUpon, even though I have an account. What makes it better then Bit.ly? And where can I get a cool suffix life .ly or .pr?
- Zachary TG
Here comes the Fan Box from Facebook, I bet MySpace will enjoy this | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/here-co...
Google has all it takes to trouble Microsoft and this time it’s Chrome OS | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/google-...
Amazon gets after Mobile Apps using its Data. Delicious Library gets the hammer | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/amazon-...
Google is confused about offering Standard Edition of Google Apps | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/google-...
China bans Facebook, Twitter: Why? Maybe to suppress reports on riots, the riots themselves.. or just for the heck of it | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/china-b...
I hope they're not expecting Ff to pick this up and run with it. We're not ready to run a revolution, especially against the OG of oppression and reprisal.
- Matthew DeVries
Google moves ahead of the Beta: Pulls the label off Gmail, Gtalk, Docs and Calendar | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/google-...
Twitter makes changes to its interface: Easier to connect with Tweeples | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/twitter...
I really wish all of these Tech blogs would think before writing. The Twitter "followers/following" UI changes are a total FAIL, & definitely don't make it any easier to connect, in fact other than showing the last tweet per user, it's several huge steps backwards: As I wrote below, "They took away showing a follower's bio on hovering over their username...Showing the last tweet in...
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- Alex Schleber
BTW, ZDNet wrote "Twitter adds better friend management", which is just as silly of a claim. How is being able to view the last tweet plus the DM & "mention" options better "followers/following" MANAGEMENT? I would have much rather seen an on-demand (i.e. AJAXed), per user expansion insert with the last 3 tweets (while keeping the bio hover), because the "Followers" page is really...
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- Alex Schleber
Given how poor the follower management in Twitter is after the changes, I have to recommend http://refollow.com Not quite perfect, but a big step up. This is what Twitter should have been aiming for...
- Alex Schleber
People who say "tweeple" should be banned from the Internet for at least 48 hours on each offense.
- David Chartier
from iPhone
when somethign is absolutely 'unmanageable' a bit of a move in that direction is worthy to be something 'manageable' enough. This still takes a lot of time but at least gives an impression that Twitter is heading on in some sort direction to make things better.
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
Apple rejects Start Mobile’s app.. because it finds Obama’s Hope ‘Ridiculing Public Figures’ | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/apple-r...
China will ban everything there is on the Web, even Google! | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/china-w...
Ah, diablo 2.. my old friend. Anyway, I think China are merely ahead of the curve. Pretty much every western nation has or is planning to roll out internet content bans under the guise of "protection from kiddy fiddlers, terrorism and fraud". The little that is left accessable is to be monitored thru snooping laws or via the back door using puppet schemes such as behavioural ad systems...
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- alphaxion
alphaxion, you're right. *looks at Germany*
- vijay
vijay, I'm not condoning Chinese authorities' activities, but this tradition of China-as-closed-Empire, impenetrable to and unexploitable by foreign influences, stretches farther back there than first stirrings of Western democracy (which, btw. might be considered a tad too fascist for our tastes to be considered truly democratic). Remember, this is the nation that built the only man-made object visible by naked eye from the Moon, and they did it sans power excavators and the like…
- ianf ⌘
Look at the UK, France, The data retention and snooping laws the EU is trying to pass, Australia, Canada, US...
- alphaxion
@alphaxion: In Europe only. Whitelist "anti-porn" legislation in the US has failed repeatedly thanks to SCOTUS, with the NYAG's Usenet attack being the only notable exception. And data retention/snooping != whitelisting, though the two concepts are related.
- LANjackal
@LANjackal snooping and retention are the tools with which to abuse things such as the patriot act. The US government already considers any data that is stored in or passes through the USA to be the property of the government. While it may not be a whitelist directly, they can be used to enforce certain browsing habits with the threat of legal punishment from the proceeds of such...
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- alphaxion
I agree ianf. What gets me is that they have no problem opening that wall when it comes to manufacturing the very equipments whose usage they block. hypocrites, no?
- vijay
Thousands of years later the Great Firewall of China will be a great attraction :)
- Jemm
@alphaxion: Well at least we can fight it here via our democracy. And we should.
- LANjackal
vijay, the Greeks said it first "pecunia non olet." Vladimir Illitj Lenin said it last: "the capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them." @Jemm - there won't be any Great Firewall of China to remember, that's for sure.
- ianf ⌘
@lanjackal I'll agree you guys have had much greater luck dodging some nasty bullets (use of DPI in ad companies for example is being rejected in the US IIRC). However, something I have been keeping tabs on in the UK and the subject of it is finally being approached by our media. The UK has bypassed a lot of the civil unrest that occurred to most democracies - we've only really had 1...
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- alphaxion
?What? Battle of Stiff Upper Lips vs. the Yobs? I'd like to see it. Also (and that's serious), let's not drag, or romanticize, Iranians into this - it's not like their was some kind of popular uprising against theocracy, only for and against different flavors of the same despotism.
- ianf ⌘
@ianf now there's a way to stick to stereotypes. No, I'm talking about a number of those of us under 35 with any degree of intelligence. A common theme I hear in discussions with random people (a habit of mine) is a desire to see a total change of system of government in the UK. Crap like the great firewalls of many nations and the uncovering of even more abuses of the system could proove to be a tipping point. All I'm saying is watch this space, cause if it does blow up, it's gonna be nasty.
- alphaxion
A System named Desire ["to see a total change of system of government in the UK"]? This not the thread to discuss it, but if you post what you'd be prepared to lay down your life FOR, as opposed to AGAINST, I promise to do me best to show how evolutionary changes are overall preferable to revolutionary ones. Even though they take much longer to accomplish.
- ianf ⌘
Of course it will be one. perhaps some 12th or so wonder of the world that will be visible from anywhere there is Internet access..
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
With sympathetic respect China, neither Google or it's people in the United States or close neighbors agree on pornography but over the years as the Internet developed, loop holes formed and the evil one's found the back doorways. Unfortunately for all of us, with China being no exception to the rule, we have to tolerate systems that have been operating in this manner until a world-wide...
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- frank burns
China trying to ban the web is Brutal! Although China may feel it is exercising a great restriction on it's people I believe they will fail in restricting the Internet, because the people will find ways around it. Technology provides so many methods of accessing the net, via satellite for example, that I doubt if the Internet could ever be entirely blocked. There are ways around blocks...
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- (Garin Kilpatrick)
Google brings its Search Box gadget out of Blogger in Draft | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/google-...
Companies like SDL need to worry then. Cause a lot of companies would rather use a free service that is sometimes right as oppose expensive services that are nearly correct. (I know this sounds counter productive, but I see this at a couple of companies I have dealt with in the past few months)
- CW™
@CW™ Are you talking about translators or companies looking for translations? This service isn't for end-users just yet, so it's not a competitor for SDL's translation services. However, it could be a competitor for the lower-end of SDL's translation products market. It currently lacks a lot of features that I would think most professional translators would need though, like the ability to download TMs, work on file formats other than the ones offered, non-English source, etc.
- Tony Ruscoe
I wouldn't call it as a ready challenger for the SDL or the likes. At first i thought that the Toolkit would kill all translation services, but that would only be targeting the common users who just need a rough translation. Corporates would still doubt its performance and would prefer a complete Human powered translator no matter what the cost. But if Google is able to bolster this...
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- Sardar Mohkim Khan