Bit.ly Now Summarizes Your Link Data For Even Better Metrics

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 5:03 PM EST (TechCrunch)

Perhaps the top reason to use Bit.ly (beyond obviously shortening links) is for its analytics. The service makes it easy to see all sorts of data about your short URL links going out to services like Twitter.

technology, twitter, data, metrics, bit-ly, bit-ly-click-summary, link-data

New "Microformat" Could Change the Way We Read Online

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:39 PM EST (Fast Company)

HNews is the product of a project overseen by none other than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the physicist who created the first Web protocol in 1990 and is widely regarded as the "inventor" of the World Wide Web.

technology, news, microformat, hnews

FDA To Look Into Safety of Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:23 PM EST (bevnet.com)

The Food and Drug Administration today notified nearly 30 manufacturers of caffeinated alcoholic beverages that it intends to look into the safety and legality of their products.

health, fda, beverages, alcoholic-beverages, health-issues, legality, scientific-evidence, safety-issues, caffeinated-alcoholic-beverages

Men dressed as Mario & Luigi wanted on assault charges

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:46 PM EST (gamepro.com)

Two men who dressed up as Mario and Luiqi for Halloween are wanted on assault charges after they beat up and robbed a cab driver.

us-news, crime, assault-charges, mario-luigi

Would You Feel Safe Driving Across a Recycled Plastic Bridge?

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:22 PM EST (Fast Company)

Bridge safety has been a hot topic lately, mainly because of the recent Bay Bridge nightmare that saw a cracked load-bearing beam come crashing down onto rush-hour traffic. But amidst all the news of unstable steel beams, the U.S.

science, bridges, axion, axion-international-holdings, recycled-plastic-bridges

YouTube Does Something Great at Last: 1080p HD

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:59 PM EST (Fast Company)

Until today. A cheeky little announcement on the YouTube blog states that the site will soon be supporting 1080p HD videos. Yes. Big. Videos. And Great quality.

technology, youtube, videos, 1080p-hd-videos

How Google Voice Violates Google's Own Privacy Policy (Updated)

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:45 PM EST (TechCrunch)

I've had a nagging frustration in my otherwise perfect relationship with Google Voice. The service systematically replaces my friend's phone numbers with their Google Voice numbers when they call, even when they aren't calling from Google Voice.

technology, google, numbers, google-voice, privacy-policy

News Corp Wants To "Lead" The Media Industry To Its Own Demise

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:21 PM EST (TechCrunch)

Once again, News Corp. is threatening to hide itself from the rest of the Web.

technology, media, google, traffic, rupert-murdoch, news-corp, wsj, block, news-corporation, media-companies

Wikipedia Runs Ads Highlighting Their No-Ad Policy

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:58 PM EST (TechCrunch)

Moments after Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins the Wikimedia/Wikipedia advisory board things start to go crazy. Way back in 2006 Jason Calacanis, then an executive at AOL, was trying to convince Wikipedia to puts ads on the site.

technology, ads, wikipedia, wikimedia, banner-ad, in-house-ad, no-ad-policy

Jericho struck with glow stick at event

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:30 PM EST (wrestleview.com)

During last night's WWE show in London, England, Chris Jericho was struck in the face by a DX glow stick. Following the incident, Jericho started provoking the crowd which resulted in more fans throwing glow sticks at him.

wwe, incident, chris-jericho, glow-stick

Eight charged in elaborate theft of debit card data

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:10 PM EST (USA Today)

A U.S. grand jury on Tuesday indicted eight foreigners on charges stemming from an elaborate cyberheist that began by hacking debit card data from Atlanta-based payments processor RBS WorldPay, then using the data to extract millions from ATMs around the world in just 12 hours.

technology, crime, theft, debit-card, computer-fraud-attack, cyberheist, debit-card-data, fraud-attack

CVS pays $875,000 for selling expired food and medicine

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:59 PM EST (USA Today)

New York officials say they've reached an $875,000 settlement with CVS Pharmacy to stop sales of expired products — including food, medicine and baby formula.

business, food, medicine, settlement, agreement, cvs, baby-formula, cvs-pharmacy, expired-products

Samsung's first Bada handset leaks out

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:46 PM EST (boygeniusreport.com)

In case you haven't heard, the other day Samsung announced Bada, a new open source platform it hopes will enable its handsets to better compete with the likes of the iPhone and the entire Android line-up.

technology, samsung, rumors, touchscreen, handset, bada

Ken Kuturagi working on a "cloud" gaming service?

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:03 PM EST (gamepro.com)

The "father of the PlayStation" is connected to a new startup in Japan that is very vaguely described as "developing next generation Internet services."

technology, speculation, internet-services, ken-kuturagi, cloud-service, cyber-ai-entertainment, new-internet-services-technology, next-generation-internet-services

Natal launch rumors--Nov. 2010, $50-85, 14 games

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:51 AM EST (gamepro.com)

According to video game business site MCV, Microsoft representatives showing the console to developers have been providing launch details during meetings.

technology, microsoft, project-natal, launch-details, launch-rumors, rumored-details

Casting the Undertaker Origin Movie

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:15 AM EST (movieblog.ugo.com)

As we wrote last week, UGO is doing suplexes of anticpation for The Undertaker origin movie that PWInsider says is in development. The planned Western reportedly has a $3.5 million budget, which is typical of a straight-to-DVD shlockfest.

entertainment, movie, casting, the-undertaker, straight-to-dvd, undertaker-origin-movie, origin-movie

Microsoft, IBM And Yahoo Are Vying To Take Part In India's Unique ID Project

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:44 AM EST (TechCrunch)

It appears that both Yahoo and Microsoft are duking it out to help power the technology for India's Unique Identification project.

technology, microsoft, ibm, project, infosys, id-project, unique-id-project, unique-identification, unique-identification-project

Cutbacks likely to slow snow removal - USATODAY.com

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:18 AM EST (USA Today)

The wait for a snowplow will be longer in some communities this winter as tight budgets, layoffs and high salt prices force cuts in snow removal services.

science, weather, snow, snow-removal

Advertising - Online Ads Are Booming, if Theyre Attached to a Video

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:19 PM EST (The New York Times)

News Web sites are starting to look a lot less like newspapers and a lot more like television.

technology, advertising, newspapers, online-advertising, video-production, news-sites, video-advertising, video-ads, interactive-advertising-bureau, news-web-sites

Apple's 12 biggest failures

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:28 PM EST (infoworld.com)

Apple has developed a reputation through the years, one almost on the level of religious faith: If Apple builds it, it will be a success.

technology, apple, failures, biggest-failures, product-missteps, serious-product-missteps, spectacular-failures

Windows 7 may be secure, but are Windows users safe?

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:38 PM EST (networkworld.com)

Windows 7 users got a nice surprise on Tuesday when Microsoft released its first set of security patches since unveiling the new operating system last month. Of the 15 bugs patched, none affected Windows 7.

technology, microsoft, security, windows-7, secure, security-patches

Enterprises like, don't love, Windows 7

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:25 PM EST (networkworld.com)

Consumers may appear to be snapping up Windows 7, but large companies won't, according to CIOs interviewed this week.

technology, windows-7, enterprises, large-companies

Adobe Plans Staff Reduction

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:12 PM EST (digitaldaily.allthingsd.com)

Add Adobe to the fast-growing list of tech companies sacking employees in November.

business, adobe, workforce, staff-reduction

Microsoft Bing Search Share Keeps Growing

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:08 PM EST (digitaldaily.allthingsd.com)

Looks like Bing's September market share decline (as calculated by Hitwise) was more an anomaly than anything else.

technology, microsoft, search, market-share, bing, search-share, search-market-share, search-market

Bartz expects Microsoft-Yahoo approval in Q1 2010

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:51 PM EST (blog.seattlepi.com)

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz expects her company and Microsoft to get their Web-search deal approved by federal regulators in the first quarter of 2010, she told reporters Tuesday in Singapore.

business, microsoft, yahoo, microsoft-yahoo, microsoft-yahoo-approval, web-search-deal

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