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Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage (2)
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(Credit: Topherchris.com) Some nasty pranksters, likely associated with Web forum 4Chan, have hacked into Apple gossip mainstay MacRumors' live-blog coverage of Tuesday's Macworld keynote. Hosted on a separate domain, MacRumorsLive.com, the site was plagued by offensive messages about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health and general inanity (i.e. "SEX ME") before finally succumbing to "technical difficulties." It remains uncertain whether the pranksters actually brought down the site, or whether MacRumors voluntarily took it down to keep ...Shared by LouCypher (70) trindade (31)Contribute comment -
A gentle introduction to video encoding, part 4: captioning (10)
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[Part of an ongoing series.] The first thing you need to know about captions and subtitles is that captions and subtitles are different. The second thing you need to know about captions and subtitles is that you can safely ignore the differences unless you’re creating your own from scratch. I’m going to use the terms interchangeably throughout this article, which will probably drive you crazy if you happen to know and care about the difference. ...Shared by Atul Arora (230) Brian (4) jauco (4) LouCypher (70) Michael Nolan (47) Mike Fruchter (838) Simon Job (34) stilist (17) Wang Liang (34) yining (20)Contribute comment -
40 Key Elements to Getting Started In Social Media (3)
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Well folks it’s a new year and I wanted to kick it off properly. I put my heart and soul into this post, and I hope you get some value out of it. Below is an excerpt, please head over to louisgray.com to view the post in its full entirety. Getting started with social media, whether for personal or professional use, requires learning the basic fundamentals. Social media is more than just creating a blog ...Contribute comment -
Disqus2FF Mashes Up Fractured Conversations (17)
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Who really owned the comments... the original poster or the aggregation site that "stole them away" was one of the biggest small-time blog wars on the Web in 2008. Whether bloggers were complaining about seeing comments and conversation moved from their blog and instead taking place on FriendFeed, Socialmedian or Shyftr, or debating whether they could trust comments in the cloud, it became clear that the only consensus was that there would be no consensus. ...Shared by (jeff)isageek (92) AndrewBadera (63) Atul Arora (230) berkay (35) Buzzworkers (41) Chris Charabaruk (118) J. Phil (76) Jason Shellen (105) Joe Dawson (98) LouCypher (70) louisgray (180) Mike Fruchter (838) Nocky100 (49) robdiana (184) StevieB (95) straylight (32) Tim Hoeck (71)Contribute comment -
6 services that help you find and follow friends on Twitter (15)
onFinding friends on Twitter was simple when the service was in its infancy, but today, Twitter is home to millions of users. In fact, 70 percent of the entire Twitter community is composed of people who signed up in 2008 and 5,000 to 10,000 new users sign up each day. That's why I've compiled a list of some great solutions that have helped me find friends more efficiently than asking for their usernames. Twitter search ...Shared by Abhi (26) Carsten Pötter (42) ckaroli (37) Håkan Dahlström (39) Jesse Stay (120) Kathleen Anderson (6) Linda Wadman (45) LouCypher (70) Philip Lei (26) Rich Hintz (92) Romey (67) Seth G. (21) Seth Goldstein (21) Stanley Johnson (54) Todor (90)Contribute comment
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Tabbed Browsing in Google Chrome (12)
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Tabbed Browsing is a prominent feature of modern browsers. We think it's one of the key elements that makes the browser a window manager for the web. Since we thought of the tab as the "container" element within which all other aspects of the browser lived, we designed the Chrome UI with the tab strip at the very top. But we didn't stop at aesthetic upheaval. As we were designing Google Chrome, we designed our ...Shared by Ade (77) Atul Arora (230) Benjamin Golub (37) Chung (86) Glen Murphy (42) Hamish MacEwan (36) LouCypher (70) Matjaž (26) Mike Fruchter (838) Mike Riversdale (43) Ray Metzen (55) Wayne (63)- Chung said: I love the resize-on-leave behavior of Chrome tabs, less the tab-opening behavior. Once they implement anchor tab pinning/locking though, it will be perfect.
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Historical Tweets: Twitter posts from way back (10)
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Filed under: Fun, Social Software Historicaltweets.com takes us on a journey through time to see Twitter posts from historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Michael Jordan. There are categories for 1800's, various decades of the 1900's, and even Comically Old when the word "Twitter" would have fit nicely in iambic pentameter.You can submit your own ideas, choose to view a random tweet, and will soon be able to buy merchandise which I'm sure will be ...Shared by Aaron (43) Eric (41) Kajivar (37) Kwasi (137) LouCypher (70) Mark Reeder (36) Neil Williams (42) Rich Zygler (5) richrecruiter (17) yooper1019 (25)Contribute comment -
January Kicks Off With Cool Hires in Tech (7)
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The economy is depressing but there's no shortage of cool new individual hires in tech to report already this year. Mozilla, Dell, AOL Sports and some of our favorite startups have picked up new engineers and executives this week. The biggest tech job news of the New Year, though, may be that Lifehacker's long time editor Gina Trapani announced yesterday that she's leaving her position. Check out some of the young year's first highlights in ...Shared by ehu4ever (155) Fazle Rahim (72) LouCypher (70) robdiana (184) Tim Hoeck (48) Tim Hoeck (71) Vishal (25)Contribute comment -
FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter (158)
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Atherton Bartelby is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer, art director, writer, blogger, and photographer. He authors a blog at Curious Affairs. We’ve all been there: You’re at a party hosted by that one fabulous friend, and populated with the best of your mutual circle of friends. The atmosphere is almost carbonated with excitement; the guests’ personalities flawlessly compliment each other; and the conversations that abound are infused with intelligence, caustic wit, and a wide variety of ...Shared by 三少爷 (19) Adam Orchard (5) Adriana Iordan (26) ageor (55) Albert Willis (36) Alberto Gonzalez (4) alifr (143) Allie (2) Andy Beal (50) ani625 (270) Annette Schwindt (23) Ari (123) Ariadne Gomes (53) Åsa Johan (21) Atherton Bartelby (59) Atul Arora (230) ax0n (90) Bananalope (21) Ben Shoemate (55) Benjamin (23) Benjamin Kabak (37) bodzasfanta (75) Bright (35) Candis Hidalgo (2) Carri Bugbee (6) Charl (56) Chris (36) Chris Blackwell (8) Chris Charabaruk (118) ChristianAnderson (32) Chuqui (21) CineVegas (38) Citizen K (29) Cláudia Mello Belhassof (6) Cody McKibben (44) Connie Crosby (17) CT27STF (21) cvander (31) Damian (152) Dan (44) Dani (45) Daniel (27) Daniel Schultz (28) darko (6) davecurry (48) David (43) Dawn Foster (4) Derek Edmond (58) Dick (22) Doc List (8) Donyell Coleman (66) doreen butze (3) Doug aka Nullvariable (51) Doug Petch (32) E. Christopher (17) Ed Nicholson (2) Ellen Trude (43) Epiphany (7) erin (11) ferderig (34) frank barry (8) Frank Episale (1) funkyboy (43) G. Saunders (35) Geoff Wilson (14) Glen Richardson (33) Graham English (23) Håkan Dahlström (39) Henk-Jan van der Klis (30) Ian McKendrick (1) Ingrid Ihasz (18) Jacob Kiers (21) Janeen (19) Javier (30) Jeff (39) Jesse (35) Johan van der Kooij (17) John Rees (1) Jonathan Hopkins (71) Jonathan Wong (45) Jorge Barba (157) Jorge Quinteros (11) kaigani (26) Kathleen Anderson (6) Keith Higa (2) Kenneth (61) Kevin Hill (4) Kevin Lloyd (15) Khanh Le (78) Klaus Eck (41) Kurt von Moos (35) Kyle James (7) lafra (26) Linda Wadman (45) Lord Matt (90) LouCypher (70) luke (12) Lushano Perera (14) maique (20) manuscrypts (43) Marc Beharry (29) Marco Ramirez (38) Mari Smith (14) maryn (5) Mauro Fuentes (23) Megami (6) Michael Hocter (21) MichaelR (13) michelle goodall (8) Mido (27) Mike Allan (7) Mike Hankey (13) Mikhail (42) Mirco (15) mjc (94) MLx (26) Mohsin (33) Monica Tailor (18) Morton Fox (91) MY-Hou (19) Mykl Roventine (5) Neville Hobson (32) Nick Hortovanyi (11) Nowspeed (24) Olivier Falcoz (12) p@r@noid (1083) Patrick (51) patrickj (88) pericles (180) Peter Einarsson (76) Pramod (183) Rahul (20) reckless (20) Ricardo.Borelli (34) Rob (8) robdiana (184) Roger Chen (134) Ronald Hennessy (45) Ryan (28) Ryan Penagos (37) Sam (27) Sandro Groganz (5) Scheiro (2) scormier (3) Scott (34) Shannon (25) simonvreeman (57) soulcookie (30) Stanley Johnson (54) Stefan (50) Steve E (10) Steve Ellwood (1) Suzie Cheel (19) tewfiq (138) Tsudohnimh (68) UJ (54) William Wallace (115) zach (32)- Benjamin Kabak said: 1. You have no user avatar
- Jeff said: I have sort of internalized a similar list for deciding who to follow on twitter - I agree with all of the ones listed here.
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BaR2D2 - mobile droid bartender (1)
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After a long day on Tatooine fighting off Sandpeople and haggling over the price of power converters, Obi-Wan and Luke Skywalker walk into a droid... BaR2D2 is a radio-controlled, mobile bar that features a motorized beer elevator, motorized ice/mixer drawer, six-bottle shot dispenser, and sound activated neon lighting. The robot is driveable so you can take the party on the road! It was created in my garage using standard hand/power tools and readily available parts ...Shared by LouCypher (70) Shannon Morse (4)Contribute comment -
News Flash! (8)
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We launched a new feature today on socialmedian, "News Flash" -- it will be fun to see where this one goes and how it develops based on user feedback.Disclosure: We're pretty darn excited about this one!The foundation for the News Flash feature came from user requests to make it more meaningful to be a Newsmaker on socialmedian. Newmakers wanted better ways to alert their followers to hot stories and breaking news. We also had several ...Shared by Bill Sodeman (86) Franklin Pettit (44) Jason Shellen (105) Jeff Blaze (62) Joe Dawson (98) LouCypher (70) louisgray (180) StevieB (95)Contribute comment -
Google picks up third spot in spam-friendly shame list (1)
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Blogspot exploits and Gmail scams slammed Google has leapfrogged Microsoft to reach third place in a blacklist of spam-friendly ISPs and hosting firms, compiled by anti-spam organisation Spamhaus.org.…Shared by LouCypher (70)Contribute comment -
✈ ▌▌ Unpleasant Google Trends Subversion (50)
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Google Trends, which shows hot queries on Google at any given time, is sporting a nasty item at no. 2 today: a plane flying into two towers to remind all of us of 9/11. In July a swastika appeared on Google Trends, leading to endless debate on whether it was an ugly symbol or not. Later that month the site was attacked again. 4Chan was the culprit last time, we’ll see if they’re again responsible. ...Shared by 100rabh™ (41) aches (25) Ahmed Zainal (189) Amr ElGarhy (60) AndrewBadera (63) Artem Russakovskii (20) Atul Arora (230) Babychen Mathew (333) Blake (42) caine (10) Chung (86) Chunlin Zhang (27) Daniel (42) Dedalus (44) Drew Olanoff (75) Dule (18) elroy (33) evo (15) Gavin (30) GG (87) Haidong (22) hIpPy (25) Ivan Žužak (24) Jason Shellen (105) Junyu (57) kskobac (24) Li, Ao (26) lmjabreu (53) LouCypher (70) marchbox (11) mauro (11) Mido (27) Mike Fruchter (838) Moses (54) Nicholas (84) onurka (15) redeye (26) Rene Cunningham (65) Rick (18) Rob (19) Ryan (56) spsneo (35) StevieB (95) Tanath (64) Tim (60) Tony (23) Totto (19) Z'HuNG Lee (37) Zachary (39) Zephir (32)Contribute comment -
Twitter replies in your inbox without giving out your login data? (5)
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There's been quite an uproar in the blogosphere about the sale of Twply, a service that would allow you to get email updates every time someone sends you a reply on Twitter. The issue is that Twply asked users for their Twitter login data to get their services, and then stored this information. This would not be that much of a problem, if Twply hadn't been sold for $1200 on Sitepoint. A lot of people ...Contribute comment -
Walls, Blogs, and Power: Building Fortress Twitter (11)
onBy Eric Berlin of Online Media Cultist (FriendFeed/Twitter)The race to build the perfect Twitter add-on service is in full bore. There are so many new services and applications being delivered these days that new sites are cropping up exist solely to aggregate and organize all the cool stuff that's being built on top of Twitter's open API. For example, Twitterati notes that the goal of Twitdom is "to provide a consolidated view of all the ...Shared by Carsten Pötter (42) Eric (36) Franklin Pettit (44) Jason Shellen (105) Joe Dawson (98) LouCypher (70) louisgray (180) Mike Fruchter (838) robdiana (184) StevieB (95) svartling (73)Contribute comment
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louisgray.com: DRM = Doesn't Really Matter (14)
onIf one of the biggest items to be delivered at tomorrow's MacWorld Expo is the elimination of DRM from songs on the iTunes store, as is rumored, then we are on the brink of the biggest snoozefests in technology event history. Forget that Mr. Steve Jobs potentially is suffering hot flashes, and is instead being replaced by Cupertino's wild-haired Pillsbury Doughboy, Phil Schiller. This Macworld has got to be the lowest-anticipated in terms of new ...Shared by Adam Ostrow (18) bodzasfanta (75) Franklin Pettit (44) Jesse Stay (120) Joe Dawson (98) LouCypher (70) louisgray (180) Mark Trapp (75) Mike Fruchter (838) Nicke (20) Promethean (89) Rick Powell (34) sam (20) Steven Perez (143)
- Mark Trapp said: DRM is such a tempest-in-a-teapot issue. If the Romans had iPods, they'd offer up the plebians bread and DRM-free tracks to keep them in line.
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Site Launcher turns bookmarks into shortcuts (3)
onFirefox extension Site Launcher lets you replace your bookmarks toolbar with an overlay window of links that can be pulled up at any time using a simple keyboard shortcut. You pick which sites you want on the list, and a one-letter keyboard shortcut is given to each. When pulled up, you simply hit the key for the site you want and it goes straight to it. Once you've memorized which sites are on your list, ...
- Mark Roberts said: Keyboard shortcuts for Firefox, very cool!
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Twitter Hack Trail Leads To 'DigitalGangster' (90)
onOne thing that didn’t make a lot of sense about the 33 celebrity Twitter accounts hacked this morning - the messages left on the various accounts weren’t consistent and were clearly written by different people with different agendas. Fox News got “Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay,” and Rick Sanchez from CNN got “I am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today.” But other Twitter accounts had links to sites ...Shared by Adi Gaskell (164) Ajit Chouhan (43) Alberto (1012) Alex France (242) Alisha (769) Andrew Rodrigues (33) Ann Smarty (43) Arijit Das (584) Arslan Zahid (78) AshTR (43) benjamin rualthanzauva (37) Boy O Boy (131) Bryan Webster (74) Carl Golden (14) Carlton (39) chris (447) Colin (33) Daniel Austin (17) Daniel Ted Feliciano (57) Daniel Ted Feliciano (57) danliebke (54) Darren Isbrecht (115) Darrin Snider (39) Dave S (55) derek markham (538) Devlin D (38) Donna Chaffins (555) dwjmccall (34) Erick Schonfeld (6) Gary Denton (136) Gerald Weber (642) Grant (222) guy (291) Harper (116) Hoof (27) Ibrahim Cesar (33) J Yang (31) j_aroche (48) J.D. Rucker (1111) Jason (1) Jason (116) Jason Kingery (11) Jay Bandoy (70) Jim Wilkerson (10) Joe Dawson (98) Joe Manna (53) John Boitnott (923) Jonas Jones (130) Joshua (46) Justin (44) Keef (60) Kevin McAfee (13) kmohr25 (68) Koka Sexton (25) Leena (1231) lisa coultrup (7) LouCypher (70) louisgray (180) Manoj (29) Mat Morrison (8) Mathias (22) Michael Rose (46) Mike (32) Mohamed Amine (529) Morgan (22) Mr. BabyMan (466) neal (500) Nicholas (84) Nirad Gupta (49) omigod.net (42) pericles (180) Philip Campbell (93) Rami Taibah (570) Ritu (209) Sean McColgan (224) Shawna Bergen (15) Simon Wren (50) Steve (15) Tal Siach (309) Tamal White (3) Tim (60) TiTi (160) Todd Carpenter (4) Tom (61) Tom Mack (10) Truman Lam (16) twilight fairy (28) Victor Barrera (1219) Yatin Vadhia (554) Zak M. (597)
- Harper said: It seems that this thread is where arrington is trying to get to the bottom of it. n00bhttp://digitalgangster.com/4um/showthread.php?t=76692
- Devlin D said: Hackers' egos always get them into trouble. They're like terrorists in that if they never claimed responsibility for the things that they did they would have a much better chance of not getting caught...but they do it anyways.
- Tim said: Drama in cyberspace...
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XULRunner 1.9.0.5 (1)
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The newest official XULRunner has been released. XULRunner 1.9.0.5 matches the Firefox 3.0.5 release. For XULRunner developers, most of the changes in 1.9.0.5 are related to security fixes. You can also look at the full list of fixed bugs. Runtimes SDKs Source tarball Want to get started building XULRunner applications? We have an article for that.Shared by LouCypher (70)Contribute comment -
Twitter IRC server, tircd (21)
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tircd is an ircd proxy for talking to the Twitter API. It should work with any standard IRC client. After running the Perl script, you authenticate to the IRC server using your Twitter username as your /nick. Join the room #twitter and the /topic will be set to your last update. Any message you type will update Twitter and the room’s topic. All of the people you are following show up in the room as ...
