2008 December

Archive for December, 2008

StevieB’s Shared Items – December 23, 2008

December 23rd, 2008 | Author: UKStevieB

Study: 85% Of All Tracks Released in 2008 Did Not Sell Even One Copy...

The Music Industry thinks it can create a Hulu for Music Videos

FeedMyTorrents Offers TV Torrent Feeds without Duplicates [BitTorrent]

Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo Shutters Kickstart

Bypass Network Blocks with Remote Desktop [Tip Testers]

Best LittleCo of 2008 amp; Most Promising for 2009

TechCrunch UK now media sponsor of TechFluff.TV

The need for iPhone app folders and search is quickly approaching

Video MobileConverter Formats Flicks for Small Screen [Featured Windows Download]

First Feature Film Created Via The Web

10 Things I Wish I Would Do Better On the Web Come 2009

'Transparent' Touchscreen Perfect For Chubby Fingers

Three Ways to Enjoy Google Chrome Without Privacy Concerns

Garmin planning Android-powered handsets for late 2009

StevieB’s Shared Items – December 22, 2008

December 22nd, 2008 | Author: UKStevieB

RSS shows its age in real-time web (SUP and XMPP to the rescue?)

The World From Above: The Beauty Of Aerial Photography

Someone tell this woman she’s an idiot

Will Twitter Go Mainstream? The Debate.

Can You Guilt Someone Into Not Pirating Software?

StevieB’s Shared Items – December 21, 2008

December 21st, 2008 | Author: UKStevieB

LiveDrive Offers Unlimited Online Storage [Online Storage]

Warner Music gets all whiney while pulling out of YouTube

Sad: Good Samaritan Sued over Car Rescue

Follow The Plane Crash From Twitter With Mike Wilson

Measuring the worth of a blogger

W3C MobileOK Checks Mobile Friendliness of Websites

Top Ten Reasons to Try WinPatrol Again

If Marilyn Monroe was a Blogger What Would She Do?

PicApp Launches WordPress Plugin

Google Affirms Net Neutrality, Britannia Doesn’t

10 Guinness ads from years gone by

How I went from hating Facebook and Twitter to loving them and why I still don't get Friendfeed.

Google Reader quietly launches a “What’s hot” area. Where’s the “most shared” area?

Google's Secret Revenue Weapon Revealed (GOOG)

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StevieB’s Shared Items – December 20, 2008

December 20th, 2008 | Author: UKStevieB

Facebook Stares Down Labels Over Project Playlist Takedown Demand
Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008
Has hard work gone the way of the Dodo bird?
You Can't Afford to Lose Mobile Readers
Huffington Post’s Syndication tricks come back to bite them
RIAA makes your ISP the judge and jury
My Top 10 iPhone Apps of 2008
Google Image Search Gets More Specific
Living in the cloud
If Facebook’s All About Sharing, Why Won’t They Share With Me?
Meebo Announces Integration of MySpace and Facebook Chat
From Zero to Xing: Socialmedian's 2008 Drive to Acquisition
Twitter similar sites Plurk and Indenti.ca Traffic
Google Sync 0.5.13 Released – Adds Google Calendar Alerts Sync
NewsMixer: An Innovative Community News Framework
socialmedian Inc. Purchased by XING
BBC iPlayer desktop AIR Application
Google Reader Adds "What's Hot" Section [Google Reader]
A Good Argument for Shooting in RAW [HOW I TOOK IT]
The First Lady of Star Trek Majel Roddenberry Dead at 76

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StevieB’s Shared Items – December 19, 2008

December 19th, 2008 | Author: UKStevieB

WordPress 2.7 breaks category feeds (and apologies if you got the wrong content)

Worried People Don’t Know What RSS Is? They Don’t Even Care What a Browser Is!

Plainclothes allegedly police beat up 12-year-old honor student girl then arrest her 3 weeks later

12seconds Launches Innovative Video Application for iPhone and Opens to Public

EU defines high-end smartphones as legible for high-end taxation

Top 10 Digital Lifestyle Products of 2008

Google secretly crafts Android codename "cupcake," fixes and features aplenty

Adobe AIR Now Available For Linux

AirSet Creates "Cloud Computers" for Your Data [Screenshot Tour]

Sky Declares 3D TV Broadcasts A Success

SlingPlayer for BlackBerry Public Beta Coming Dec. 30!

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StevieB’s Shared Items – December 18, 2008

December 18th, 2008 | Author: UKStevieB

Top 10 Real World Web Apps of 2008

Entrepreneurs: We Will Happily Respect Your Embargoes

Michael Arrington: Evil Genius

The Exclusive, The Embargo and The Arrington

be* Announces Successful Trials Of 48Mbps Broadband

WhoCrashed Helps You Analyze Windows Dump Files [Featured Windows Download]

New from Cynapse: Activity Streams on the Company Desktop

Do You Think MyBlogLog Has Went Downhill Since Yahoo Took It Over?

Facebook Launches Connect Plugin Directory and Wordpress Plugin

Convert a Gmail Message into a Google Document [Gmail Labs]

iBegin Labs Releases WP Lifestream Plugin

Tumblr’s CEO brainstorms microblog monetization

New York Public Library joins Flickr Commons

Top Marketing Geeks Make Their Predictions for 2009

Remake times getting shorter: The Crow to be remade

A Socialmedian Tutorial

Orange's iPhone exclusive ruled illegal in France

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StevieB’s Shared Items – December 17, 2008

December 17th, 2008 | Author: UKStevieB

Apple Announces Its Last Year At Macworld; No More Steve Jobs Keynote

Cop seen on video knocking over bicyclist has been indicted

Canada increases its ‘you are a digital criminal’ tax

Interview: Michael Chertoff on the TSA and "Security Theater"

Lessons Learned from a Hacked Gmail Account [Security]

Researchers Create YouTube Archiving Tool

New Security Flaw Found In IE, Best Fire Up FireFox

Adobe AIR: Deleting Locally Stored Encrypted Data

Sony to release new handheld sometime in the future

Open IT Online Adds Image Editing, Other Online Document Options [Featured Firefox Extension]

5 Ways To Simplifiy Your LifeStream

Twingly Debuts BlogRank, Guess Who Leads The Top 100

What if We Replaced iTunes With the Cloud?

SeeqPod Aims to Beat iPod With Windows Mobile App

Six Apart Announces Motion: Roll Your Own Social Network with Movable Type

Twingly Launches BlogRank, Says it is Trust

Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2008 [Best Of 2008]

Yet Another Reason to Love Yahoo Mail – It Is Open and Social Now

Google Friend Connnect And Twitter Hook Up

SlideShare Presents Your Newest Social App: PowerPoint

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StevieB’s Shared Items – December 16, 2008

December 16th, 2008 | Author: UKStevieB

Scrabulous Drama Finally Comes to a Close

9 SEO Plugins Every Wordpress Blog Should Have

Twitter: Google Friend Connect’s social hub for the web?

Some other Bloggers You May Enjoy

Why we built Mahalo Answers

WiFi A Manger at Pret A Manger - Free WiFi with your coffee at Pret

Ecademy allows public access to emails and sends out spam. Will it ever learn?

Tumblr’s lead dev: “Scoble doesn’t know what he’s talking about”

Daily tracking of 40 things about yourself

Twitblogs Lets You Publish Longer Tweets, Looks Dubious

Expert responds to Brit politico who swore to make more copyright despite admitted facts

Killer Add-ons Make Songbird So Much Better [Songbird]

TwitBlogs Offers a Solution for Everyone Who Thinks 140 Characters Is Not Enough

Wikipedia Officially Launches Mobile Version [Wikipedia]

Nokia's N97 gets sized up, felt up, and photographed

PHOTO GALLERY: More Than 1,000 New Species Discovered In Greater Mekong

Twitter Adds Google Friend Connect Integration

Gogo in-flight WiFi taking off in six Delta flights tomorrow

Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2008

Yahoo Mail App Platform To Launch Tomorrow

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