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What I’m reading and finding for August 28th 2011 through August 31st 2011:

• “Respect Explorer’s Heritage” | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - MG Siegler
  

  When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an Onion mock-up. Or maybe they were from some Apple fan making fun of Microsoft’s design aesthetic in which more is quite often… more. I mean, there’s no way that this is something Microsoft could actually release — let alone in 2012, right?
  Wrong.
  As Windows chief Steven Sinofsky and Windows management team member Alex Simons detail in length on the B…  show all text
• From Twitter – http://t.co/44nTwUd Streaming Services Compared Amazon, Hulu Plus, iTunes, Netflix and VUDU
• The Memory Buyer’s Guide: What’s the Best RAM for My System? – How much do you need? How fast should it be? Are latencies important? Today, we’ll be covering everything you need to know to get the right RAM for your system.
• Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating | IttyBiz-
  ittybiz.com
  - Naomi Dunford
  I’m going to tell you a story and it’s very, very important. Please read it, all the way through. Women’s lives are at stake.
  Once upon a time, there was a website. We’ll call it Mean Website 1. The owner of this website didn’t seem to like me very much. As a successful woman on the internet, this is hardly surprising.
  The comments on Mean Website 1 got a little out of control, and people said some Not Very Nice Things. Because I am a woman, naturally these Not Very Nice Things quickly degenera…  show all text
• Seesmic Focuses On The Social Enterprise; Debuts Android, iPad Apps For Salesforce CRM | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - Leena Rao
  

  Social application developer Seesmic is making a big move into the social enterprise and is debuting a dedicated Android app and iPad app for Salesforce’s CRM product (Windows Phone 7 will also be added soon), called Seesmic CRM. The Android app will be launched tomorrow morning at Salesforce’s annual conference, Dreamforce, and Seesmic will launch the iPad app in a few weeks.
  For background, Seesmic, which was founded by French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, helps you monitor and track the social …  show all text
• H-P’s One-Year Plan – WSJ.com-
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• Hurricane Irene Hype: How the Media Went Overboard – The Daily Beast-
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What I’m reading and finding for June 21st 2011 through June 22nd 2011:

• PopCap Games To Be Acquired For $1 Billion+ -
  techcrunch.com
  - Jason Kincaid
  

  Huge news in the gaming world: PopCap Games, the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled, is in the process of being acquired — and we’re hearing from multiple sources that the price is over $1 billion.
  The question now is who the buyer is. The obvious possibility is Zynga, which has made a string of game-related acquisitions over the last year. But we’re hearing they’re out. Our sources say that Zynga did indeed kick the tires hard on a potential acquisition, but it looks l…  show all text
• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant -
  nytimes.com
  - By JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS
  

  A reporter talks about his illegal American dream.
• From Twitter – RT @latimestech Yahoo looks into buying Hulu, but is Hulu for sale? http://lat.ms/isVgRo
• Start-Up Lytro Aims to Sharpen Focus of Entire Camera Industry – A Mountain View start-up is promising that its camera, due later this year, will bring the biggest change to photography since the transition from film to digital.
• Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone -
  nytimes.com
  - By BRIAN STELTER
  

  Pervasive social media services, cheap cellphone cameras, free photo and video Web hosts have made privacy all but a thing of the past.
• From Twitter – Wasn’t aware of Apps Script. Cool RT @newsycombinator Building UI in Google Apps Script just got a whole lot easier http://j.mp/j9zjNF
• From Twitter – RT @Techmeme Flickr now Supports OAuth 1.0a (@jfanaian/ Code) http://j.mp/mqzu57

Hulu labs has launched Hulu Desktop. Desktop is a new program that lets you sit back from the PC and navigate Hulu via a standard remote control. It is currently available for both Windows and Mac.

It would be better if we could just use all the features from with in Vista or Windows 7 Media Center but at least this is a start. There are other solutions for Hulu in media center such as PlayOn with the vmcPlayIt Media Center add on but this new Hulu Desktop gives you a much richer navigation experience.

Hulu – Labs: Hulu Desktop.

Sites that I found interesting for April 30th 2009

• Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 8 – The Internet Explorer 8 Blocker Toolkit enables IT Administrators to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 8 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites.
• Streaming Media in Windows 7 – PlayTo –
• Disney to join NBC Universal, News Corporation and Providence Equity Partners as an equity owner of Hulu – From the press release: Full Episodes of Hit Current and Library Programs Like Lost, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Dancing with the Stars, Ugly Betty, Private Practice, Scrubs, Wizards of Waverly Place, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, General Hospital, The View, Greek, The Secret Life of the American Teenager And Other Hit Series From ABC, ABC Family, Disney Channel and SOAPnet To Come To Hulu.com and Its Distribution Sites.

Sites that I found interesting for March 31st 2009 through April 2nd 2009:

• Hulu begins encrypting HTML content to thwart non-browser apps –
• Time Warner Cable to Begin Charging on Usage – Time-Warner will soon begin charging its RoadRunner customers based on usage and data consumption.
• Information about certain file types that are blocked after you install Office 2003 Service Pack 3 –

Sites that I found interesting for March 26th 2009 through March 30th 2009:

• Google Redesigns YouTube, Copies Hulu – Google is redesigning YouTube to make the site more attractive to the content creators who make the kind of stuff Google could actually sell ads against
• PicoCool – LEGO Twitter Fail Whale –
• Skype for iPhone to Be Released as Early as Next Week –

The Springfield mall got a (m)Apple Store! The Simpsons have a visit and hi-larity ensues. Brainiac Bar!

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