Web curation for February 13th 2010 through February 16th 2010
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 13th 2010 through February 16th 2010:
- Foursquare Nerd Merit Badges!!! on Flickr – Photo Sharing! -

- From Twitter – RT @nrek RIM woos consumers with new WebKit browser for BlackBerry http://bit.ly/94fkCV
- Boxee Windows 7 Media Center Integration 1.0 – teknowebworks.com has created a small installer that adds a Boxee tile to Windows Media Center, clicking on it launches Boxee and when you quit Boxee it returns you to Media Center.
- Social Faceoff: Google Buzz vs. Facebook vs. Twitter -
Four months ago we asked you to vote in our Web Faceoff series for your preferred social network between the two current giants: Twitter versus Facebook. The results were pretty close, although Facebook edged out Twitter in a 48% to 40% victory. Now, there’s a whole new game in town.
Google Buzz is now the new shiny, and represents Google’s big push into social networking meets mobile social meets location services. We know it’s still the early days for Buzz, but it seems like a good time .. show all text - From Twitter – RT @drapps Kaspersky released standalone tool to remove TDSS rootkit http://bit.ly/9uNwDc which is causing (most?) of KB977165 BSODs
- Why Social Media Means Big Opportunities for Women -
Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.
Women have firmly established their presence on the social web, and account for the majority of users on many popular social media sites. But what does this mean for the future of women in social media?
One word: Opportunity.
Companies looking to reach women — whether as consumers, entrepreneurs, empl.. show all text(0)posted by friends of friends:tomsebastiani: Why Social Media Means Big Opportunities for Women: Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. … http://bit.ly/bIBhGW - No more snoozing – back to Bloozing! | BabyBlooze -
Yes, it’s true. BabyBlooze.com has been on a bit of a hiatus… we got our “big boy” pants on last November, moving to a self-hosted blog platform and then proceeded to take a bit of a vacation. NOT TO WORRY! We’ve back and ready for more Blooze… please send your photos in via the form on the site and we’ll let you know when your photo is posted.
Special thanks to all of you who have encouraged me to keep bloozin’… a special shout-out to Phelan of Digithrive, my web dude and friend — and Holly.. show all textimagium: Wow, it took V-Day, Prez Day, Chinese New Year, the Olympics and some coercing to get @BabyBloozeback to Bloozing!
http://bit.ly/av5NBn - Windows Phone 7 Series -
edbott: I’m not sure I would call this a Silverlight emulator as MS does: http://bit.ly/c2X01t It’s a nice demo, but emulator s/b interactive
- Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win — Engadget -
Windows Phone 7 Series. Get used to the name, because it’s now a part of the smartphone vernacular… however verbose it may seem. Today Microsoft launches one of its most ambitious (if not most ambitious) projects: the rebranding of Windows Mobile. The company is introducing the new mobile OS at Mobile World Congress 2010, in Barcelona, and if the press is anything to be believed, this is just the beginning. The phone operating system does away with pretty much every scrap of previous mobil.. show all textMitchWagner: Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win — Engadget http://bit.ly/cJRmMI
- YouTube – A Love Letter for Mama Mary by G$ Part II – Empire State Parody -
lolagoetz: RT @BabyBlooze: @MamaMaryShow’s hubby aka G$ shows up ALL the men out there with his VDay rap for his suburban sweetie! http://j.mp/bz4kif
- The elephants in the room at TED -
First, let’s get the elephant out of the way so we can talk about more important things. What is the elephant? No, it’s not Larry Page, co-founder of Google, seen above waving to the audience at TED after he gave them all a free Nexus One.
So, what is the elephant? That TED costs $6,000 and is hard to get into (next year’s TED is already sold out, for instance). They never give away more than 15 press passes, too, which means that most of the world’s press corp can’t get in. This always pi.. show all textKaroli: The elephants in the room at TED http://ff.im/-fW4xD - Official Gmail Blog: A new Buzz start-up experience based on your feedback -
Posted by Todd Jackson, Product Manager, Gmail and Google Buzz We’ve heard your feedback loud and clear, and since we launched Google Buzz four days ago, we’ve been working around the clock to address the concerns you’ve raised. Today, we wanted to let you know about a number of changes we’ll be making over the next few days based on all the feedback we’ve received. First, auto-following. With Google Buzz, we wanted to make the getting started experience as quick and easy as possible, so tha.. show all textsamharrelson: RT @google: We’ve heard the feecback — Now more sharing controls in Buzz! http://bit.ly/cpJCbm
- Make Adobe Reader shine like it should under 64-bit Windows 7/Vista – After some detective work by Leo, not only did he pinpoint the root cause of both the preview and thumbnail issues, but today released a dead-simple fix in a neat executable package that fixes both problems faster than you can say “what the hell Adobe”.
- From Twitter – RT @marsroverdriver Mars sunset animation, by Spirit http://is.gd/8luyW (artificial color; animation by The Planetary Society)
- SlickRun – Windows software. Instant access to anything. – SlickRun, written by Microsoft employees, Anson Horton & Eric Lawrence, gives you instant access to any program or website.
- Writing a Sensor Driver for the Wiimote on Windows 7 – CodeProject – Wii remote driver for Windows 7. Cool.
- Stonehenge “Hedge” Found, Shielded Secret Rituals? – Stonehenge may have been surrounded by a “Stonehedge” that blocked onlookers from seeing secret rituals, according to a new study.
- aHomeInHaiti.ORG -
baratunde: Rainy season begins in 15 days. Send tents to Haiti – aHomeInHaiti.ORG http://ping.fm/XKY0i
- How To Use Google Buzz. The Unofficial (and Frequently Updated) Guide. – Zee is keeping this guide updated.
- View Google Buzz Mobile From Your Browser (w/ Collapsible Conversations) -
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