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Big Data and a Critique of Geek Culture

We are fascinated here at ReadWriteWeb about Hadoop. It can be used in so many ways. It gives you that sense of excitement that shows how big data…
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Desktop TweetDeck - Your BFF Gets An Upgrade

The best friends in life are those that you dont have to see every day. You know how it goes; you keep meaning to catch up, but things get in the…
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Linguee Brings Translation Dictionaries into the 21st Century

Automatic translation tools like Google Translate allow you to get a very rough understanding of a text in a foreign language. For the most part,…
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TweetDeck Adds Posterous Pics, T.co Support & More

Multi-column, multi-platform social network client TweetDeck has issued an update that fixes a few bugs and adds "some small, but important, new…
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Augmented Reality: design-fiction translation glasses

*Realtime augmented visual text-translation for the hearing-impaired. An obvious application, and a lot easier than projecting mobile 3-d images.…
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Display advertising: “WATCH THIS SPACE”

Last year, the travel industry-like many others-was having a difficult time. To grow its business, Hawaiian Airlines created and ran an engaging and…
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Fly to...a whole new website for Google Earth

(Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog) When you think of Google Earth, you might think about flying to the top of Mt. Everest, surveying the ancient…
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Augmented Reality: Augmenting the art world

http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/augmented-reality-augmenting-the-art-world "It's no secret that we're fascinated with developments in augmented…
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Santiago Pastorino joins Rails Core

It's my pleasure to announce that Santiago Pastorino has joined the Rails Core group. Santiago only started contributing to Rails this year, but has…
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New features and changes in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick!

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) BETA has been published a few days ago and quite a few brave souls has already upgraded to it. The Beta release…
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Study: Location-Based Services Users are Passionate but Niche

A new report released today from mobile media provider Myxer examines the current trends among "check-in" applications, that is, the particular…
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No Place Like Home: Is Facebook the Wizard of Your Oz?

Guest post by Angie Swartz, CEO of Square Martini Media. Businesses are flocking to Facebook these days, and with more than 500 million users, it's…
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Fanatical Linux Fanboys == Fake Linux Users?

A comic strip from Mostly Harmful got me thinking, how many are you so-called Linux fanboys actually use GNU/Linux operating system? Do you own a…
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Parallels 6 Released: Promises More Power, 64 bit Engine

If there is one thing that Mac users can't get away from it's Windows. Yeah, try as we might it seems that eventually almost all of us need to use…
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Google: 40% of our ads are non-text ads, number doesn’t include DoubleClick ads

Google today has announced that it is simplifying its display advertising process in a post on the Official Google Blog. Dropped right in the…
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textPlus, a truly better text and picture messaging app, gets some major upgrades

TNW Quick Hit textPlus isn't just "another" free picture and text messaging app. Customized chats and added features set it apart. Love It: Truly…
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A little bit of Info about Facebook PPC Ad’s

Attention all Facebook users… by now i'm sure you have noticed the Ad's that appear on the right hand side of your Home/Profile page while you're…
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Apple opens up, releases App Store Review Guidelines

Apple today announced that it would be relaxing restrictions on iOS app development, and also that it would publish its App Store Review Guidelines…
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C.E.B. Reas, Generative Artist

http://dam-berlin.de/mlExhibitions-pa-showpage-pid-1-newlang-english.html Opening: 10th September, 7-9pm The artist will be present at the opening.…
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Scoreloop adds payments to its Android social gaming suite

Android phone users are downloading lots of apps. But app developers would be happier if those users would pay for them. To help make that happen,…
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