Category Archives: News & Media

California IOU’s are Dumb and Dumber

7/7/2009 – 9:36 am

California’s state government is the poster child for how NOT to run a state. They’re printing up their own currency nowadays in the form of IOU’s. The smart banks are refusing to accept them.

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Slingbox SlingPlayer iPhone App is Available for $29.99

5/13/2009 – 11:53 am

the much anticipated slingbox iphone app has been published in the itunes store. but somewhat to my suprise it’s not a free app for slingbox owners. it’s currently listed for $29.99. the iphone slingplayer is now the most expensive iphone app i’ve paid for; i guess in a few weeks or months i’ll know if [...]

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diggbar – better than tinyurl

4/3/2009 – 1:44 pm

digg might have been crazy for not selling out to Google or any other suitors by now, but they are continuing to develop. i personally feel that digg is a more likely business to return real dollar bills back to investors than twitter. sorry, i’ll use twitter while it’s free but i think that’s short [...]

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Google Lengthens Snippets, But The Meta Description Still Important

3/25/2009 – 12:33 pm

So recently Google officially released longer snippets on search results. There has been some chatter about this depreciating the value of the meta description. I have to play spoiler here and say I disagree.
The extended snippet stuff is great for long tail queries, like the many that I do when looking for programming information. Yet [...]

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Garmin Phone, Real iPhone Rival?

2/19/2009 – 1:50 am

google android? no, garmin nuvifone. that’s right garmin, a long time maker of consumer gps products is near releasing their new smartphone, iphone contender called nuvifone. since the 2nd generation iphone was released with true gps capabilities i have been waiting for garmin to release an iphone app specifically to step up the value of [...]

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