Google May Challenge Microsoft Monopoly
… by creating an operating system based on their Chrome browser, which would be great for all of us, I think. Details here (MSNBC.com).
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Nano Spaceships to the Stars
This story from MSNBC.com says it might be possible.
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Ford: Office on Wheels
Some details here.
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Yahoo Messenger Login Problems with Pidgin
For those who may be even slower than I am, let me link to the solutions. Basically, upgrade your Pidgin to 2.5.7. Here is an explanation of the problem, and for those who use Ubuntu, as I do, the easy solution is to add the Pidgin repository here, do an update, and restart Pidgin. Mine…
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Finding Facebook Feeds
This post on Wesblog helped me.
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Twitter Karma – Clean Up Followers
Having reached the 2,000 follower barrier on Twitter, I needed to bring my follower list down closer to my followed list. There are some services that will simply unfollow those who don’t follow you, but since I follow–and read–some tech gurus, news services, and such, that don’t follow me, I didn’t want to do that….
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Facebook User Names
Apparently, there’s to be a sort of rush, according to TechCrunch.
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Congratulations to Ford Motor Company
There are a number of things I like about the Obama administration, largely in foreign policy and to a lesser extent in terms of civil liberties. But there is one area where I disapprove totally. I think a company that fails should be permitted to fail. The only cushion provided should be the bankruptcy laws,…
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Five Mistakes Managers Make
… from Toni Bowers at TechRepublic.
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Twitter Stages
From @jasonhiner: The Four Stages of the typical Twitter User. I’m trying to move from stage three to stage four.