Posts on ‘October 7th, 2008’

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October 6, 2008 - 10:02 am PDT - by Mark Drapeau

This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” These words are no less true today, over [...]

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By Nicholas Deleon

You’re looking at the BlackBerry Application Center, RIM’s answer to Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market. Same basic concept as the other two—you browse and buy applications that enhance your BlackBerry experience.
The Application Center—we’re running out of variants of the term “application store!”—is set to debut with the BlackBerry Storm software version 4.7. [...]

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by Henry Work on October 6, 2008

Tomorrow Mozilla will launch a new geotagging project called Geode into Mozilla Labs that promises to leverage your physical location to enhance your overall browsing experience. More details will be provided in an official post tomorrow, but this is what we know already:
Geode is a Firefox add-on that understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, [...]

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By BRIAN STELTER
Published: October 7, 2008

As the Web becomes a more social place, media companies are trying to make it easier to share links with friends, add comments to articles and extend users’ online identities.
This week, CNN will begin connecting “The Forum,” a site for political expression, to Facebook, the country’s second-largest social [...]

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October 7, 2008 - 12:58 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder9 Comments

You know how it goes: it’s the weekend, all your friends are busy with their own affairs, you’re bored and slightly inebriated, and what do you do: you come home and start sending e-mails you’ll later probably regret. Actually, I’m more of an SMS [...]

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By David Chartier | Published: October 07, 2008 - 05:12AM CT

IBM is apparently tired of its customers complaining that employees are playing movie quizzes on Facebook and blogging at MySpace all day. The company opened up a beta of Bluehouse Monday, its new SaaS (Software as a Service) that combines web-based productivity and meeting tools with social [...]