Tesla is as known for what he couldn’t manage to accomplish as for what he did, and his admirers are doing their best to save the site of his ballsiest, most outlandish failure.
After his work on alternating current made him a rich, famous, and respected electrical inventor, Tesla had no trouble securing funds (about $3 [...]

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In an email sent to users today and in today’s blog post, SocialToo CEO Jesse Stay announced that users would no longer be receiving nightly Twitter autofollow and unfollow stat emails on the company dime. Email from SocialToo now costs $20.
This comes in the wake of a “no guarantees” policy toward accuracy or speed for [...]

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Twitter has a wealth of data - it’s a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable. But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise?
Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user [...]

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This is wild speculation at best, but the price point was simply too high to ignore: $1,000 for a no-contract Palm Pre when Best Buys get them for a trial run on June 7.
Unbelievable? Probably, yes, but the other rumored price points are more in line with what we’d expect them to be. Those being [...]

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McAfee, widely recognized as one of the leading providers of online security software for both home and business, appears to be struggling to secure its own Web sites, which at the time of writing this post, allow anyone with enough tech savvy to covertly do whatever they want on, and with, the site.
During tests this [...]

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Visible Measures, the online video tracking platform, has just published their list of the most watched viral videos of all time. The numbers are in and they’re astounding, so astounding that Visible Measures terms these 18 hits the 100 Million Views Club. You won’t see “100 million” on all the view counters on YouTube, [...]

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Pet Airways was designed to cater to, yes, your best friend. With potty breaks and attendants checking on your pet’s comfort, they’ll travel in the lap of luxury. Sort of.
Because no humans besides the flight crew are allowed—and because there aren’t exactly effective seat-belts that’ll keep your pets from wrecking havoc on the plane—your dogs [...]

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Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then, he built the first prototype of Google’s contextual advertising service, Adsense, in one day as well. Now, he’s working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, [...]

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When seeking data on salaries, company environment, and even approval ratings of corporate CEOs, one of the first places many people tend to turn to is Glassdoor, a Web service that allows users to anonymously share information like salary, workplace reviews, and their honest opinions.
To give job seekers an even greater advantage in the [...]

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