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I love home automation or creating “smart homes”. It’s my hobby and the days when I don’t work 16 hours I like come home and work on my smart home – from networking, to media streaming throughout the house, to controlling the lights. Really cool stuff.
Check out this interview with John Yoon, VP of Marketing for Control4.
Someday I want to start a company to help people build these systems in their homes.
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The blog rumor mill is on the verge of explosion as many a-listers “in the know” are speculating the sale of StumbleUpon to eBay, for wait for it.. wait for it.. $40 – $45 million dollars. Excuse me? What was that? Yes, that’s right I said $40 million dollars.
A tad bit ridiculous? I think so.
According to Om Malik, here is why eBay would benefit from such a purpose:
By marrying the toolbar to Skype client, eBay can do an end run around Google’s dominance of the search business. A simple search box inside Skype client is all it would take. It is not that far fetched: Skype has been slowly integrating various different services (including PayPal) into its client, and slowly becoming eBay’s desktop backdoor.
In case you are unfamiliar with StumbleUpon’s products, check out this episode from the Scoble Show.
Ever have half an hour to just waste and wondered what cool stuff is there on the Internet? Well, StumbleUpon is the answer. They have 1.5 million people who are adding sites and rating them. It makes for a fun experience and you’ll find more fun new Web sites with StumbleUpon than any other tool or service we’ve seen. Here we get a demo from co-founder and Chief Architect Garrett Camp.
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Google has announced several goodies over the last couple weeks…
1. Added chart creation to its Spreadsheets application.
2. Announced a PowerPoint (Presentation) solution as an added bonus to its existing productivity package
3. Launched MyMaps, as an effort to compete in that market with Ask
4. Confirmed its shipping a Google-powered phone (sorry iPhone) as well as a partnership with LG to enhance the mobile experience
5. Acquired DoubleClick, Inc, a global leader in marketing technology and services for $3.1 billion in cash, despite Microsoft’s qualms
6. Announces AdSense for Audio along with a partnership with Clear Channel Radio (yes, the largest radio broadcasting company)
7. Development of new TV Advertising System with DISH Network
8. Launched a new AJAX Feed API – which came at a great time for us (mmm subtle hints)
9. Great keynote interview for Web 2.0 Expo with Eric Schmidt and John Battelle
10. And since I figured I should round the list out to ten, Google’s stock went up 3.21 (.68%) today to reach 476.01 / share.
Tags: Google, Office, DoubleClick, AJAX, iPhone, Microsoft
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I found a great article today over at Digital Web entitled “Web Design 101: Positioning.” I design and code (xhtml/css) websites for a living, so I know most of this, and thats why it’s called “101″, however this is one of those articles I would have loved to find a couple years back to explain the mystical world that is positioning.
It’s a tough, tough thing to grasp, especially at first, but is essential and will make a designer’s/developer’s life MUCH easier if floats weren’t the only option for everything. It did mine.
I think I can speak for the most of us when I say that once I learned and read up on positioning (and anything css for the most part), I basically just jumped right in because I learn better through trial and error, but I think if you can avoid that do it, or at least do both simultaneously, it would be a good idea to code while you are reading articles like this.
So even if you think you know everything there is about positioning, go read the article. I’m sure if nothing else, it’s a good refresher.
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Got this from Todd…
How to get from New York to London
1. go to Google Maps
3. click on “get directions”
4. type “New York” in the first box (the “from” box)
5. type “London” in the second box (the “to” box)
6. press on “get directions” button
7. scroll down to step #23
Tags: Google Maps, Travel
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