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“Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. ” - Kenneth L. Pike

Facebook Mobile - did you know?

A lesser known feature of Facebook is Facebook Mobile. I just set up a text message feature that allows me to get text whenever a select group of friends updates their status. This feature has been around for awhile, but I forgot about it since I didn't have an unlimited ...

XOHM WiMAX from Sprint is in Baltimore and it’s FAST!

Engadget sent a couple reporters to Baltimore to test our Sprint's new XOHM WiMAX wireless internet. They were able to get 3.05Mbps down and 2.4Mbps up AND connectivity in their car!Could this be the turning point for the battered and bruised Sprint? At the time of this posting their stock ...

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February 27th 2010
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Are You Listening?

[caption id="attachment_99" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Credit: Flickr user 'Tom Lin'"][/caption]Next time you are talking to someone, take notice to how long they wait before answering you. If the person across from you answers immediately, chances are they were putting together their response while you were still talking -- hence, they were ...

Building a Twitter Bot

Meet Jason Thorton. To the people who know Jason, he is a successful entrepreneur in San Francisco who tweets 4-5 times a day. But Jason has a secret, he's not really a human, he's the product of my simple algorithm in PHP. Jason tweets A LOT about the word "love" - ...

Facebook Mobile - did you know?

A lesser known feature of Facebook is Facebook Mobile. I just set up a text message feature that allows me to get text whenever a select group of friends updates their status. This feature has been around for awhile, but I forgot about it since I didn't have an unlimited ...

Aviary.com - The Future of the Web?

Aviary.com is a set of image editing tools created in Flash. Launched to the public yesterday and hailed as "the future of SaaS."  I tried pulling up Phoenix, their Photoshop-like tool yesterday but was denied due to high traffic. What's interesting is the business model. Out of the gate Aviary is ...

Facebook Announces 25 fbFund Winners!

Today Facebook announced the 25 fbFund winning companies. The fbFund is a $10M seed fund created by Facebook, Accel Partners, and Founders Fund to help jump start talented developers and entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses on the Facebook platform. Each of the following companies received a $25,000 for their first round ...

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