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• YouTube Tests HD Videos
  YouTube Tests HD Videos
  According to a report by Wired's Meghan Keane, YouTube is testing stereo sound as a default option for videos and is also offering very high quality HD versions of a small selection of clips. We weren't able to find a lot of videos that were encoded in t
• Casual Internet Use Is Good for Kids, 3 ...
  Casual Internet Use Is Good for Kids, 3 Year Study Concludes
  The ways young people use the internet everyday are transforming learning in ways that adults often fail to understand but represent major new opportunities that need to be taken advantage of by supportive educators. That's the conclusion of a major new
• 10 More Semantic Apps to Watch
  10 More Semantic Apps to Watch
  In November 2007, we listed 10 Semantic apps to watch and yesterday we published an update on what each had achieved over the past year. All of them are still alive and well - a couple are thriving, some are experimenting and a few are still finding their
• Mufin Brings Better Music Recommendation...
  Mufin Brings Better Music Recommendations to iTunes
  When we first reviewed Mufin, a music recommendation service that is entirely based around algorithms that can automatically detect the similarities between different songs, we only gave it a pretty average review. Since then, however, Mufin has greatly i
• College Stops Giving Students New Email ...
  College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts: Start Of New Trend?
  Officials at Boston College have made what may be a momentous decision: they've stopped doling out new email accounts to incoming students. The officials realized that the students already had established digital identities by the time they entered colleg
• A New Backchannel For Live Events: The B...
  A New Backchannel For Live Events: The Brightkite Wall
  Whenever there is a conference or event, there's a secondary bit of action taking place behind the scenes: the backchannel. Here, the attendees are live blogging, twittering, posting photos, and streaming live video about what they're seeing on stage or i
• 10 Things to Know About Salesforce.com
  10 Things to Know About Salesforce.com
  These are reflections from having spent a few days at the annual Salesforce.com event, Dreamforce. We hope they are valuable to people who need an executive summary-level understanding of the company and its position in the cloud and SaaS marketplace. Ful
• IT Must Learn to Bend or Business Will B...
  IT Must Learn to Bend or Business Will Break
  The current economic climate is having a devastating effect on almost every business around. In order to adapt to changing conditions and opportunities, businesses will need to use flexible, adaptable systems to survive. The days of expensive year-long im
• Google Lively Is Dead-ly
  Google Lively Is Dead-ly
  In an economic environment where a number of companies are stumbling, it's important to remember that sometimes even Google makes bad decisions. Such would be the case with Lively, a browser-based virtual world environment - and purported Second Life kill
• Wild Apricot: "Economic Scars"
  Wild Apricot: "Economic Scars"
  Editor's note: we're currently running a series of 'Sponsor Posts', focused on use cases and business stories. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the p

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• John Resig - JavaScript iPhone Apps
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• America's Next Top Hash Function Begins
  America's Next Top Hash Function Begins
  You might not have realized it, but the next great battle of cryptography began this month. It's not a political battle over export laws or key escrow or NSA eavesdropping, but an academic battle over who gets to be the creator of the next hash standard.
• Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial...
  Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial
  Hans Reiser, the 44-year-old Linux guru who was convicted in April of killing his wife, is seeking a new trial. But Reiser, who killed wife Nina Reiser, waived his right to appeal in exchange for his sentence to be reduced from 25-to-life to 15-to-life. T
• Introducing the Threat Level Rewards Pro...
  Introducing the Threat Level Rewards Program
  The National Review Online is courting financial contributions by offering "new opportunities for access" to its editors and writers. Not to be outdone, here's the skinny on Threat Level's new sponsorship drive. Break out your wallet. We're going cheap.
• Prosecutor: Lori Drew Intended to 'Prey'...
  Prosecutor: Lori Drew Intended to 'Prey' on Girl's Psyche
  The woman accused of making unauthorized use of MySpace to inflict emotional harm on a 13-year-old girl, who then committed suicide, "fully intended to hurt and prey on Megan Meier's psyche," a federal prosecutor charged Wednesday, as opening statements b
• Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright P...
  Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks
  Apple quietly installed copy protection in its new MacBooks, blocking some honest customers from watching iTunes movies on their external displays.
• Under Worm Assault, Military Bans Disks,...
  Under Worm Assault, Military Bans Disks, USB Drives
  The Defense Department's geeks are spooked by a rapidly spreading worm crawling across their networks. So they've suspended the use of so-called thumb drives, CDs, flash media cards, and all other removable data-storage devices from both their secret and
• Genome Hacking Could Reverse-Engineer Ex...
  Genome Hacking Could Reverse-Engineer Extinct Mammoth
  Using the hair of a woolly mammoth preserved in the Siberian tundra, scientists have reconstructed 80 percent of the mammoth genome, raising the possibility of one day resurrecting the beast.
• Physicists Find Dark Matter, or Somethin...
  Physicists Find Dark Matter, or Something Even More Strange
  Physicists have detected electrons over Antarctica that could be the first ever direct evidence of the mysterious dark matter that scientists say makes up 20 percent of the universe.
• Let Google's My Maps Be Your Geo Databas...
  Let Google's My Maps Be Your Geo Database
  Store geolocations inside a My Maps mashup and access the data anywhere on the web. The RSS feed produced by Google can be read by other services, or on your own site with the Google Maps API.
• Make Your Site an iPhone App
  Make Your Site an iPhone App
  Use an open source development kit to easily transform your website into an iPhone App with JavaScript access to location and accelerometer.

• Network Neutrality — Without Regul...
  Network Neutrality — Without Regulation
  boyko.at.netqos writes "Timothy B. Lee (no relation to Tim Berners-Lee), a frequent contributor to Ars Technica and Techdirt, has recently written 'The Durable Internet,' a paper published by the libertarian-leaning CATO institute. In it, Lee argues that
• Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off A...
  Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA
  NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's case in Boston against a 24-year-old grad student, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, in which Prof. Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, along with members of his CyberLaw class, are representing the defendant, may shap
• Study Recommends Online Gaming, Social N...
  Study Recommends Online Gaming, Social Networking For Kids
  Blue's News pointed out a report about a study sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation which found that online gaming and social networking are beneficial to children, teaching them basic technical skills and how to communicate in the Information Age. The s
• CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads
  CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads
  pparsons writes "Bell Canada Inc. will not have to suspend its practice of "shaping" traffic on the Internet after a group of companies that resell access to Bell's network complained their customers were also being negatively affected. The Canadian Radio
• MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft
  MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft
  Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics recently won a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to design quieter, more energy efficient, and more envir
• Spider Missing After Trip To Space Stati...
  Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station
  Garabito writes "A spider that had been sent to the International Space Station for a school science program was lost. The arachnid was sent in order to know if spiders can survive and makes webs in space, but now only one spider can be seen in the contai
• Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy
  Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy
  Da Massive writes "Leading Hollywood film studios Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Disney Enterprises are suing Australia's second
• Google Terminates Lively
  Google Terminates Lively
  FornaxChemica writes "In a surprise move, Google announced today, both on-site and in its blog, that it will shut down permanently its 3D virtual world Lively by the end of the year, becoming one of Google's few scrapped products and one of the most short
• IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationsh...
  IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationship
  ric482 writes "With the release of the Mozilla Foundation's 2007 financial report, questions have been raised by the IRS who are due to perform an audit on the non-profit organization behind the massively popular Firefox browser. Last year the Foundation
• Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstruc...
  Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed
  geekmansworld writes "From the Washington Post, 'An international team of scientists has reconstructed more than three-quarters of the genome of the woolly mammoth using DNA extracted from balls of hair, the first time this has been accomplished for an ex

• Jonestown, 30 years Later: Inside People...
  Jonestown, 30 years Later: Inside People's Temple, the 1977 exposé.
  In its special website section devoted to 30 years since Jonestown, the San Francisco Chronicle has republished a copy of a 1977 report on Jim Jones and People's Temple by Marshall Kilduff and Phil Tracy. The investigative report marked a turning point f
• Imprisoned China blogger, human rights a...
  Imprisoned China blogger, human rights activist Hu Jia receives Sakharov Prize
  The imprisoned Chinese blogger and human rights activist Hu Jia today received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe’s most prestigious human rights prize. Snip from NYT article: The award was a pointed rebuke of China’s r
• China: Mummies and the fight for Uighur ...
  China: Mummies and the fight for Uighur sovereignty
  A fascinating piece by Ed Wong in today's NYT on the role archaeology -- specifically, a set of mummified human remains -- plays in the conflict over independence for one of China's ethnic minorities. Snip: “Xinjiang has been an inalienable part of
• The Sound of Two Smokestacks Falling
  The Sound of Two Smokestacks Falling
  The demolition of Long Mill Dye House in Roanoke, Virginia brought down two smokestacks but one didn't fall as planned. photo from WSLS.com Watch this AP video and listen for one of the operators warn: "Be advised: one stack apparently did not fall i
• Today on Offworld
  Today on Offworld
  Today Offworld got an exclusive sneak peek at the awesomely retro-futurist super HYPERCUBE, a game by Montreal art collective Kokoromi and developer Polytron that uses both red/blue anaglyph glasses and Johnny Lee-style Wii-mote head-tracking to play a
• Jonestown, 30 years later: original audi...
  Jonestown, 30 years later: original audio recordings from People's Temple and Guyana.
  The single most comprehensive online public resource for original source material related to Jonestown is Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple, a website sponsored by San Diego State University's Department of Religious Studies. The
• Blip Festival 2008
  Blip Festival 2008
  Blip Festival 2008, a celebration of low-res visuals and chipmusic, hits New York City on December 4. Brandon Boyer has the details and a promo video over at Boing Boing Offworld! Blip Festival 2008: The Promo
• Ala Ebtekar drawings
  Ala Ebtekar drawings
  Ala Ebtekar is a Berkeley-based artist whose fantastic work juxtaposes "street" art and traditional Iranian culture. (Above, detail of this piece.) "In my own work, I'm trying to find a visual glimpse of a crossroad where present day events meet histor
• Review of Bandai Gun alarm clock
  Review of Bandai Gun alarm clock
  Boing Boing Gadgets reader Tucker Cummings bought the Bandai Gun O'Clock and reviewed it for us! He loves it as a novelty, but apparently as an alarm clock it, er, misses the mark. From Boing Boing Gadgets: The Gun O'clock has all the fun of Duck Hunt
• Woman convinced to hold down toilet hand...
  Woman convinced to hold down toilet handle as conman robs her
  A 91-year-old Jersey City woman was conned by a burglar pretending to be a utility company employee. He told her that there was a water emergency and that if she didn't hold down the flusher on her toilet, the house would explode. Meanwhile, he stole almo

• JavaFX and Adobe Flex Insider Shares Tho...
  JavaFX and Adobe Flex Insider Shares Thoughts
  Chet Haase of Adobe Systems, who previously worked at Sun on the JavaFX team, shared the following comparisons of JavaFX and Adobe Flex on the Yahoo FlexCoder group.
• Building a PHP Flickr Slideshow with Net...
  Building a PHP Flickr Slideshow with NetBeans IDE 6.5
  In this screencast, Justin Bolter, Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems, shows you how to build a PHP Flickr slideshow using Netbeans 6.5 . Bolter walks through the various ways in which Netbeans 6.5 supports PHP development, including project suppo
• NetBeans IDE 6.5 is Now Available for Do...
  NetBeans IDE 6.5 is Now Available for Download!
  NetBeans.org is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.5!
• Swing Patterns : The MainFrame Singleton...
  Swing Patterns : The MainFrame Singleton
  After reading the series of posts from Gregg Bolinger about Swing best practices, I thought I should share some of the patterns I use when writing Swing applications. I was going to post this as a comment in the original post, but it was too long so I'm w
• How to create an image gallery with jQue...
  How to create an image gallery with jQuery
  How to create a simple image gallery with fade in, fade out and delay between image transitions.
• iPhone JavaScript Apps
  iPhone JavaScript Apps
  I've been watching, with interest, developers create new applications for the iPhone. Owning one myself - and being knowledgeable in JavaScript - I've been wondering what options there were for creating downloadable JavaScript applications or the iPhone.
• jQuery & CSS Tooltip Example
  jQuery & CSS Tooltip Example
  Websites and web applications alike are slowly but surely transitioning towards an environment filled with rich user interface gadgets. Tooltips are amongst this vast array of gadgets that should be in every web application developer’s toolbox, as they
• 12 Excellent Free Text Editors for Coder...
  12 Excellent Free Text Editors for Coders
  You can make writing code as complicated as you want, but at the end of the day, all you really need is your favorite, trusty text editor. You can use a simple one like Microsoft’s Notepad, but oftentimes it’s helpful to have a text editor that has sy
• Screen Capture Tools: 40+ Free Tools and...
  Screen Capture Tools: 40+ Free Tools and Techniques
  Make your screen capture and sharing experience more interesting, here’s a showcase of 40+ Free Screen Capturing Tools and Related Techniques.
• Introduction To Flash Catalyst And Flex ...
  Introduction To Flash Catalyst And Flex Builder 4 (MAX Session Summary)
  Flash Catalyst is what everyone formerly knew as Thermo and Flex Builder 4 is the "Gumbo" release. Traditionally, Adobe always invested in developer productivity tools for Flex but they are now spreading out to design-oriented tools with Flash Catalyst, F

• OMG Boobies: Victoria’s Secret on Your...
  OMG Boobies: Victoria’s Secret on Your Mobile
  Lingerie connoisseurs will be happy to know that CBS has launched a multi-media, multi-platform Victoria’s Secret assault on all senses. That’s right: no longer will you have to search through the Internet’s wastelands to get your Victo
• Stop Smoking: 9 Resources to Help You Qu...
  Stop Smoking: 9 Resources to Help You Quit
  The third Thursday of every November has been designated the Great American Smokeout by the American Cancer Society since 1977. While it’s important to quit smoking the other 364 days a year, designating one day allows everyone to rally around and
• My MapQuest: A Google MyMaps Clone?
  My MapQuest: A Google MyMaps Clone?
  Having long played the part of a utility that allowed users fast access to places near and far, MapQuest now seems to be taking a cue from Google’s 2007 launch of MyMaps and is making things a little more personal for regular visitors. If you regist
• The Real Shaq is on Twitter and He’s a...
  The Real Shaq is on Twitter and He’s a Must-Follow
  The always quotable basketball star Shaquille O’Neal (see: Kobe, How’s My #$! Taste?) is on Twitter, and it is without a doubt, the real Shaq. Twitter welcomed the Phoenix Suns star to the service in a blog post, and The New York Times has a profile
• Mufin Now Open to All: Discover Music by...
  Mufin Now Open to All: Discover Music by Sound Analysis on iTunes and Facebook
  Mufin, the music recommendation engine that suggests songs based on their sound characteristics, is now open to everyone in public beta. With the launch, Mufin is also introducing two new applications: Mufin for iTunes and Mufin for Facebook. As you mi
• Lively, and Three Other Google Flops
  Lively, and Three Other Google Flops
  Google was once invincible and unable to make a mistake. Well, although its share price is not what it used to be, one can argue they’re still invincible in most areas they’ve dabbled in, but the mistakes and flops are now piling up. Google L
• HOW TO: Send Huge MS Office Files Really...
  HOW TO: Send Huge MS Office Files Really Fast
  There are three kinds of items users of Microsoft’s Office application suite share with one another more than anything else: Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. Yet precisely how such files are being transferred between co-
• That Was Quick: Google Shuts Lively Down...
  That Was Quick: Google Shuts Lively Down
  Without much fanfare, the 20% time project Lively is now facing the end of it’s brief lifespan, as Google announced today that the virtual chat and meeting tool is set to be shut down by the end of the year. “…despite all the virtual high fives and
• Yahoo! Glue Launches in America
  Yahoo! Glue Launches in America
  Back in May, Yahoo launched a new variant of search entitled “Glue,” something which� combines news, images, videos, and other content from around the Web (and other Yahoo properties) along with traditional search results that link to web pages. We j
• HOW TO: Use Twitter For Social Bookmarki...
  HOW TO: Use Twitter For Social Bookmarking
  Mashable reader Patrick de Laive over at Fleck, at the suggestion of our fearless leader Pete, put together a simple bookmarklet that posts URLs to Twitter (in a shortened form, of course) and then saves that tweet as an easy to find bookmark in your bro

• DOLLARS and SENSE
  DOLLARS and SENSE
  The billing application was slow. And not slow in the taking-30-seconds-to-start-up sense, but slow in the ridiculously-freaking-slow sense. Loading an invoice took between ten and fifteen minutes. Updating a line item on an invoice took up to a minute. A
• Error'd: Y2K Pedaling
  Error'd: Y2K Pedaling
  "Thank goodness this bicycle I'm borrowing still works after Y2K," Robin Sheat notes, "I can't even imagine the programmer-hours required to bring it up to spec." � Google's CSS How-To didn't inspire a whole lot of confidence in Stephen Schwarz. � "
• The Hangar Management System
  The Hangar Management System
  Back in 1998, at the Department of Informatics at the University of Ume� in Sweden, the professors had decided that instead of the final exam being solely a regurgitation of knowledge gleaned from text books and lectures, it would be a good idea for stud
• CodeSOD: Stupid Coding Tricks: The T-SQL...
  CodeSOD: Stupid Coding Tricks: The T-SQL Madlebrot
  The bar for entry into CodeSOD is pretty straight forward: professionally-developed code that elicits that certain What The— reaction. Though there have been a few exceptions over the years, generally speaking, student code, hobbyist code, and amate
• Hidden Tax Moves
  Hidden Tax Moves
  It was fall of 1995 and everyone was gearing up for the 1996 tax season. After years of maintenance of a DOS-based tax application, TaxQuik -- as we'll call the company -- had to get with the times. New, spunky companies were building tax software for Win
• Error'd: Act Fast!
  Error'd: Act Fast!
  Go ahead Michael Fulker, make your move. I'll count to one. � "I was obeying my wife and doing some research into what would happen to our daughter who had swallowed a penny (because, you never know, she might not poop it out)" P. James wrote, "and I c
• CodeSOD: Keep it Simple and Stupid
  CodeSOD: Keep it Simple and Stupid
  Diego G. lives in Argentina and is working with a developer from the USA on a PHP project. Recently they were discussing the merits of handling the communication from the backend to the frontend via XML or JSON. The system used XML elsewhere already, but
• Souvenir Potpourri: The Steak Dinner
  Souvenir Potpourri: The Steak Dinner
  Ever since the first Free Sticker Week ended back in February '07, I've been sending out WTF Stickers to anyone that mailed me a SASE or a small souvenir. More recently, I've been sending out the coveted TDWTF Mugs for truly awesome souvenirs. Nothing spe
• Mini Support Stories and Shake It, Baby
  Mini Support Stories and Shake It, Baby
  Having worked in support for years, Ben has amassed quite the compendium of quick stories. Double-Click on My Computer I was on a call with a lady who was having Internet connectivity issues. I listened to her describe what was happening and was just sta
• CodeSOD: The Toggle that Wouldn't
  CodeSOD: The Toggle that Wouldn't
  "I work for a software development house that creates business software, maintaining legacy MFC applications," Graf writes. "We recently received an issue where a filter-toggle wouldn't switch back and forth, never changing from its default value. It's wa

• Google Developer Days 2008 have come to ...
  Google Developer Days 2008 have come to an end
  By Alyssa England, Google Developer ProgramsWe've concluded Google Developer Days 2008, a set of one-day developer events. They started in Yokohama, Japan on June 10 and ended in Tel Aviv, Israel on November 2. Attendees had the opportunity to learn about
• A Toast to Code Jam 2008
  A Toast to Code Jam 2008
  By Bartholomew Furrow, Google Code Jam TeamCheers to the 100 Code Jammers who made it to the Code Jam finals in Mountain View today! We hope you enjoyed the competition as much as we enjoyed seeing you type furiously, solve ridiculously challenging puzzle
• Improving the issue tracker for larger p...
  Improving the issue tracker for larger projects
  By Jason Robbins, Google CodeWhen we created the issue tracker for Project hosting on Google Code our goal was to keep things simple. We had found that most issue trackers include too many fields and options that aren't applicable to a given issue. As a r
• Get Out and Vote! (on Google Code)
  Get Out and Vote! (on Google Code)
  By Mike Marchak, Google Code TeamThis election season, the Google Code Team has been inspired by democracy. We have been looking at code.google.com and thinking about ways to make the site better for our users. For example, we updated the homepage a few w
• Announcing the Google Search Appliance v...
  Announcing the Google Search Appliance virtual edition for developers
  By Vivek Haldar, Enterprise Search TeamEver wanted to write code against Google search technology, test your apps, and see how it all integrates into your development environment without having to pay a thing? If you're an IT administrator, you'll have th
• Introducing Powerful Visualizations for ...
  Introducing Powerful Visualizations for your server-side data
  By Itai Raz, Google Visualization API TeamToday, we're publicly documenting the Google Visualization API's open-wire protocol, thus dramatically expanding the capabilities of this API beyond what had been available since we first launched in March of this
• Moving another step closer to single-sig...
  Moving another step closer to single-sign on
  By Eric Sachs, Google Security TeamYesterday we announced one step we took to help increase adoption of single-sign on across websites on the Internet. For more details, you can watch today's episode of thesocialweb.tv which covers the launch. While we
• Google moves towards single sign-on with...
  Google moves towards single sign-on with OpenID
  By Eric Sachs, Google Security TeamCurrently users are required to create individual passwords for many websites they visit, but users would prefer to avoid this step so they could visits websites more easily. Similarly, many websites on the Internet have
• Looks Good To Me, Part Deux -- Assigned ...
  Looks Good To Me, Part Deux -- Assigned Code Reviewers
  By Steve McKay, Jason Robbins, Mike ParentIn our continuing effort to improve project hosting, we have just launched a new code review feature called "assigned reviews". Assigned reviews builds on the post-commit source code review tool we announced back
• Introducing the Gears Geolocation API fo...
  Introducing the Gears Geolocation API for all laptop WiFi users
  By Charles Wiles, Product Manager, Google Mobile Team I am thrilled to announce that today we have enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of citi

• VIDEO: Here's a demo of some thoughtful ...
  VIDEO: Here's a demo of some thoughtful UI on Ffffound.com.
  Here’s a demo of some thoughtful UI on Ffffound.com.
• QUESTION: CB2 and Land of Nod, both sist...
  QUESTION: CB2 and Land of Nod, both sister brands of
• Why the Drudge Report is one of the best...
  Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
  A couple weeks ago on Twitter I said: “I still maintain the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web. Has been for years.” A few people agreed, but most didn’t. Some thought it was a joke. I wasn’t kidding. To
• QUESTION: Now that Jerry Yang is out as ...
  QUESTION: Now that Jerry Yang is out as Yahoo CEO,
• PHOTO: "More effective, useless." The De...
  PHOTO: "More effective, useless." The Devil is in the details.
  “More effective, useless.” The Devil is in the details.
• Ask 37signals: Does "Getting Real" work ...
  Ask 37signals: Does "Getting Real" work in this economy?
  David asks: The recent economic downturn has me wondering… Are small ‘Getting Real’ businesses like 37signals more resistant to the declining economy or is it just that any downside is much less dramatic than multi billion dollar fail
• VIDEO: Starting in 2006 Peter Schiff goe...
  VIDEO: Starting in 2006 Peter Schiff goes prescient
  Starting in 2006 Peter Schiff goes prescient. He nails the current crisis in detail. The other talking heads can’t get the bull [market] out of their mouths fast enough. They’re even laughing at his bearishness in some of the segments. My fav
• PHOTO: "Origamized" Basecamp logo
  PHOTO: "Origamized" Basecamp logo
  “Origamized” Basecamp logo
• Product blog update: Basecamp monitor on...
  Product blog update: Basecamp monitor on production floor, Highrise Deals API, Tasks vs. To-dos, etc.
  Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog: Basecamp Large monitors on production floor show company’s Basecamp milestones “I love my new production schedule monitor. Great job and the best part is that I can see the red dates from my
• Why an 'iPod killer' will never kill the...
  Why an 'iPod killer' will never kill the iPod
  Apple must be smiling whenever one of their competitors bill their next MP3-player as an iPod killer. It reminds everyone who the market leader is and invites them to evaluate the product on Apple’s terms. If you’re going to be an iPod kill

• BIG MAC NOT ON KATIE'S MENU
  BIG MAC NOT ON KATIE'S MENU
  ANY discussion of John McCain's dissing of David Letterman in favor of Katie Couric was conspicuously missing from Couric's "Late Show" appearance last night. It was Couric's first visit to the show since McCain canceled a Letterman visit in...
• Open University appoints Microsoft boss
  Open University appoints Microsoft boss
• TalkSwitch IP PBX and Covad Provide Enha...
  TalkSwitch IP PBX and Covad Provide Enhanced VoIP to SMBs
• Weekly jobless claims surge to 16-year h...
  Weekly jobless claims surge to 16-year high
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits surged last week to their highest level in 16 years, Labor Department data showed on Thursday, as a harsh economic environment forces employers to cut back on hiring.
• Microsoft CEO rules out another Yahoo ta...
  Microsoft CEO rules out another Yahoo takeover bid
  Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer said his company is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., but told shareholders on Wednesday that Microsoft would still be "very open" to collaborating with Yahoo on web search technology. His comments sent
• eHarmony to create same-sex service
  eHarmony to create same-sex service
  Online dating site eHarmony will create a service for same-sex matching in a settlement of a 1995 complaint that the company's failure to offer such a service was discriminatory.
• Telegraph signs property search deal wit...
  Telegraph signs property search deal with Nestoria
  The property search site Nestoria has signed another deal with a major news site, partnering with Telegraph.co.uk to provide a white-label version of its service for the Telegraph site and a branded version for the Nestoria site. Estate agents already
• Frutarom 3rd-quarter net up 61% on 37% h...
  Frutarom 3rd-quarter net up 61% on 37% higher revenue
  TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Frutarom Industries Ltd., the Haifa, Israel, producer of flavors and fine ingredients, reported third-quarter net income rose 61% on 37% higher revenue. Earnings reached $9.4 million, or 17 cents a share, from $5.9 million, or
• Microsoft modifies Zune subscription mod...
  Microsoft modifies Zune subscription model
  (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Thursday announced a new music subscription plan for owners of its Zune players, which would allow them to keep 10 tracks per month and add them to their permanent collection.
• National Grid profit falls 82% as divide...
  National Grid profit falls 82% as dividend rises
  LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.K. electricity network operator National Grid said Thursday that it's six-month net profit fell 82% to 425 million pounds ($635 million) after large one-off gains a year earlier, while revenue for the period rose 43% to 6.07

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