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SocialToo Phishing Protection

Mar 08, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

SocialToo just launched a new Twitter phishing protection service.

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How to Watch the Vancouver Olympics Live on the West Coast

Feb 16, 2010 1 Comment by Frederic Lardinois

It’s no secret that NBC isn’t making a lot of friends on the West Coast right now. The network has decided that it needs to funnel as many people into watching its tape-delayed prime-time programming as possible – with no regards for the fact that people out west would like to watch the Vancouver Winter [...]

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Facebook Login is Hard: Welcome to Idiocracy

Feb 10, 2010 107 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

We saw an interesting phenomenon on ReadWriteWeb today. My colleague Mike Melanson wrote a post about Facebook Connect, which now shows up as the #1 search results on Google News and also as a new result on Google’s main search engine. That – by itself – wouldn’t be something out of the ordinary, but here is what [...]

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the CLOUD – raisethecloud.org

Nov 30, 2009 2 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

via raisethecloud.org I have no idea what the purpose of this thing is supposed to be. It sure looks cool, though. Posted via web from Newsgrange

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Ommwriter is quickly becoming my favorite word processor on the Mac

Nov 26, 2009 2 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

via ommwriter.com I write quite a lot every day and being able to handle constant distractions is part of my job description. But sometimes, it’s just nice to be able to focus on your text without having anything else come in your way. Posted via web from Newsgrange

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Shamwow Jam – DJ Steve Porter

Nov 13, 2009 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

via youtube.com Posted via web from Newsgrange

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Infostate of Africa

Nov 13, 2009 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

via appfrica.net From Appfrica: “People often only see Africa from one perspective, here’s another. The above infographic details some of the happenings over the past few years in regards to infrastructure improvement and capacity building in Africa, paritcularly in the area of the internet and cost. The sources are various reports from the International Monetary [...]

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Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

Nov 12, 2009 2 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

via skytopia.com Posted via web from Newsgrange

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Make $8 to copy and paste a blog post – WebPoint VPN is looking for 100 spam blogs

Nov 11, 2009 2 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

I've always been fascinated by how the dirty underground world of paid blog posts works. Over time, I've signed up for a few services to see what they offered. This is what I saw in my mailbox today: Hi there Frederic, Do you blog?  Would you like to earn $8 real fast for blogging an [...]

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The Dark Side of Planet Earth

Nov 11, 2009 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

via vimeo.com Posted via web from Newsgrange

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