November 2010
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Stop Getting Twitter Replies from Other People's... →
(via Lifehacker)
It’s great that your friends are getting personalized, newspaper-style digests of all the tweets they probably already saw. But why do you have to get a spam-ish ping every time that “paper” is delivered and you’re “featured” in it? Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin shows us how to stop the insanity: simply tweet something to the NewsCrier...
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LinkedIn Launches Share Button →
(via Mashable)
Business-oriented social network LinkedIn has launched a share button, which gives publishers a way to spread their content on LinkedIn and enables users to easily share content with their LinkedIn network.
www.linkedin.com/publishers
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From PSD to HTML, Building a Set of Website... →
(via nettuts+)
Today I’m going to take you through my entire process of getting from Photoshop to completed HTML. We’re going to build out a set of 4 PSD mockups of a website that eventually will become a WordPress theme. It’s a massive tutorial, so if you’re going to follow through to the end, make sure you have a few hours to spare!
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UberTwitter beta arrives on iOS →
(via Download Squad)
UberTwitter, the definitive BlackBerry Twitter app, has finally made the leap to iOS. The app bears the beta moniker, but Engadget seems to think that the final release will be as soon as December.
UberTwitter for iOS [iTunes] — Free
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Historic Places Set: Cheyenne Heritage Trail →
A proud Indian heritage, frontier battle sites, rugged cowboys and dramatic scenery shaped the land that once was Cheyenne Indian Territory. This tour takes you where hills climb toward the horizon and dawn and dusk are spectacular events. Here, the red earth and wide blue sky are home to the legends that made the west.*
(Yes I did it again, posted to the wrong Tumblr. HA! Please visit...
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Get the Ringtone from Last Night's Conan →
(via teamcoco.com)
Here’s an AWESOME and FREE new ringtone from tonight’s show: The sure-to-become-an-instant-classic, “Honk Fart Scream”! I will say this: For better or worse, you won’t mistake your ringing phone from anyone else’s EVER AGAIN. Ha ha. Of course, you probably won’t want to answer your phone around other people because you’ll be so...
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Apple releases iOS 4.2.1 →
(via Mac World)
On Monday, Apple will release iOS 4.2 (the company says by 10 a.m. Pacific Time), a free software update that brings the features of iOS 4—including multitasking, fast app switching, and a unified mail inbox—to the iPad for the first time. …
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Hulu Plus on Roku (via GigaOM)
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Shawn Michaels joins Oklahoma's 'Celebrity Slide'... →
(via WWE.com)
Shawn Michaels will be a special guest and celebrity rider at the Fourth Annual 4R Performance Horses Celebrity Slide at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City on Dec. 3. The event is held by the Reining Horse Sports Foundation in conjunction with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Got To Get You Into My Life – Tabitha Fair →
Got To Get You Into My Life cover featuring a ukulele (via thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com)
At www.TheBeatlesCompleteOnUkulele.com we will release a new recording of a Beatles song* featuring a different artist every Tuesday. A short essay will coincide with every recording and each performance will include a ukulele.
… Tabitha Fair is the product of a rich family and musical heritage —...
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How To Use Facebook Places For Your Business →
(via All Facebook)
Want to have your own business show up within Facebook Places?
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U.S. Supreme Court: U S v. TEXAS, 162 U.S. 1... →
March 16, 1896 - This is the famous Greer County, Texas case. The state of Texas claimed the north fork of the Red River was the southern border of unorganized Indian Territory..
“…United States was directed to institute in this court a suit in equity against the state of Texas, setting forth the title and claim of the United States ‘to the tract of land lying between the North...
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Twitter + Ping = Discovering More Music →
(via Twitter blog)
Every day, millions of people use Twitter to follow and share what they care about. Twitter users now send over 95 million Tweets a day, many of which are about the music they’re listening to.
Starting today Ping, iTunes’ new social network for music, and Twitter are making it even easier for people to share music discoveries with their friends by putting Ping...
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Libsyn Podcast App - Now On Android! →
(via Libsyn blog)
We are happy to announce that Libsyn now offers an Android app, in addition to the iphone/ipod touch apps for podcasters.
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How To Build Your Facebook Landing Page →
(via socialmouths.com)
Building a Facebook Landing Page is easier than you think, even if you are not a programmer.
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iOS 4.2 Said to Perform Much Better on iPhone 3G →
(via Lifehacker)
The iOS 4 branch of Apple’s mobile operating system is generally considered to perform pretty terribly on the iPhone 3G model. … But a video from the TiPb blog shows the latest developer release of iOS 4.2 as running much better on an older iPhone—nearly at par with iOS 3 on the same device, according to the Boy Genius Report.
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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address revisited.
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Google Mobile Girl videos in Japan (via BoingBoing)
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Twitter's Election Day Check-in →
(via media.twitter.com)
Elections are a special opportunity for people who work in media. They provide a familiar context (almost a control variable, really) to check our progress—and test our assumptions. Every two years, a lot of things are exactly the same: two parties; plenty of speeches; a map of the country spotted red and blue. But increasingly, a lot of things are different. Here’s a...
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How to Create a Wiki without any Technical... →
(via How To Geek)
Wikis are a great way to communicate and work on a project with other people, but hosting your own wiki can be complicated to work with. Today we’ll show you how to setup your own Wiki page with Google Sites.
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TweetDeck v0.36 released, now with real-time... →
(via Download Squad)
TweetDeck’s User Streams Preview introduced real-time Twitter streams to anyone who was willing to beta test, and now TweetDeck v0.36 is bringing it to the masses. This release merges the User Streams Preview with the “original” branch of the app, giving all users the option to view their friends’ tweets in real time. …
www.tweetdeck.com/desktop
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Here’s the talk @BeckyMcCray gave at #140conf small town on Monday.
Why small town people have a natural advantage in all things social online. Becky McCray (@BeckyMcCray) - Rural entrepreneur. Teaching new marketing with TourismCurrents.com. Learning from small town businesses about survival and community building.
Missed the last few minutes of her talk when the live feed dropped off.
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WordPress.com launches FoodPress.com →
(via ReadWriteWeb)
WordPress.com just announced the launch of FoodPress, the blog host’s first foray into aggregating content written by its users. FoodPress wants to become the “go-to destination for the hottest dishes from WordPress.com bloggers”