Dell plunges, leading sector lower at the close

Technology stocks closed lower Friday, parting ways with the broader market’s push into positive territory. via MarketWatch

Original post by MarketWatch

$10 To Answer This Question

I’m completely unable to find an answer (though this Russian forum might have something), so I’ll give ten bucks via PayPal (or whatever) to the first person to give me a working answer to this question:
How do I force an ATI X1550 card to output YPrPb signals on VGA under Windows Vista?
Even if it’s a stupid answer, if it works, I’ll pay you. It’s probably a registry key, or maybe there’s software, or maybe the Russians know something. If I have to buy the ATI HDTV dongle, and you can confirm that for me, I’ll give you five bucks.
Thanks for the assistance.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Google Reader Recommends Feeds, Adds Drag-n-Drop Organization

Google Reader has added a feature to the sidebar that recommends RSS feeds you might be interested in subscribing to based on your current subscription. They list three feeds, but click a link and you’ll get a page with 20 pretty good recommendation.
Reader recommended for me Dave Naylor, Michael Gray, Ross Mayfield, Dave Sifry, the Google News Blog, the AdWords API blog, the Google Checkout Blog, the Vista Team blog, Microsoft’s JobsBlog, Channel 10, Jeff Sandquist, Tim Sneath, Matt Haughey, Eileen Brown and Dosh Dosh, among others, pretty much good recommendations all around.
By contrast, Bloglines has a similar feature which hasn’t been updated in a while (possibly not since its launch three years ago) that is biased towards more popular blogs you may already read in another form, or don’t subscribe to for a reason. They include Slashdot (already subscribe), CNET (I don’t subscribe to all of CNET, […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Google to Bid for Wireless Spectrum

“Consumers deserve more competition and innovation than they have in today’s wireless world”
Google Inc. will apply to bid for wireless spectrum in an upcoming government auction, the company said Friday. via Las Vegas Sun

Original post by Las Vegas Sun

Google Experimental Adds Suggest, Search Digging

Google Experimental, where Google runs experimental search interfaces which you can subscribe to and add to your regular search experience, has added two new experiments.

Keyword Suggestions is Google Suggest, the Google service that offers search suggestions as you type, is now available as an Experiment. This is great, being able to add it as part of your personal search experience, since Yahoo and Ask.com already offer it in their main search engines.

A limited number of users are also being offered this experiment, which allows them to delete and re-order search results. It’s been described as almost a Digg-like system, in that the eventual goal would be to improve Google results through the wisdom of crowds by changing the results for everyone based on a mass consensus in the voting up and down (and deleting) of search results. This feature was originally developed on Google’s SearchMash test engine.
The […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Corbis Offering Bloggers Free Use of Photos with Ads

Yet another means of making some money is presenting itself through the stock photography company started by Bill Gates: Corbis. What the company is doing is allowing bloggers to use some of their images for free in exchange for embedded advertising in the photo. Read more

Original post by The Alpha Marketer

PC Magazine - Update: Google Confirms Bid for Wireless Spectrum

November 30, 2007 — Google announced today that the company will be trying to buy a national block of wireless spectrum from the U.S. government, opening up the possibility …

Original post by FindArticles - Search Alert - google

PC Magazine - Google to Announce Spectrum Bid Today?

November 30, 2007 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)—Google Inc was set to announce on Friday it will bid on coveted airwaves to launch a U.S. wireless network, the Wall …

Original post by FindArticles - Search Alert - google

YouTube User Comment On Republican CNN/YouTube Debates

The YouTube blog has put together this playlist of what YouTube users who attended last night’s CNN/YouTube Republican Presidential Debate had to say after the debate:

46 videos in all, so take your time.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Google Helps You Read Experts Exchange For Free

Experts Exchange is a website that answers questions on computer issues, and it ranks very well in Google search results. Problem is, it costs money to read the answer, $12.95 a month. Luckily, they expose the full answers to search engines (which is why they are able to rank so well), so you can easily read the whole answer without registering and paying for an account.
Any time you see Experts-exchange.com in Google search, just hit the cache link to read the page with the complete answer.
Don’t even bother trying to view it normally, because they expect you to pay for content. Hopefully they left this loophole open on purpose, because we all know paying for content is a loser of a business model. The Wall Street Journal has a back door for Digg users, and this is a type of back door as well. Sites […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Tay Zonday Sings For Dr. Pepper

Tay Zonday’s got a new video out,and it’s not what you expect from the deep voiced YouTube viral video star.

Yeah, this time Tay’s got production values, featured rappers, dancers, and behind it all, corporate sponsorship. Dr. Pepper produced this to advertise their new Diet Cherry Chocolate limited edition flavor introduced a week ago. This is Tay’s first endorsement.
Have you tasted Cherry Chocolate? Let us know if it’s any good.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Gadget Allows Rule Control Over iGoogle Themes

Ionut Alex details a new iGoogle Gadget that allows you more control over personalized homepage themes than ever before. With this Gadget, you can set rules for theme switching, using a different theme based on which computer you’re using, the time of day, the weather outside, the day of the week, and choose from 70 user-created themes while doing so. The possibilities for theme combinations are endless, and you can do a different theme per iGoogle tab, giving you more options than you know what to do with.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Google Gadgets Now Run On Mac’s Dashboard

Google Desktop’s Gadgets are now cross-platform compatible with Apple’s Mac OS X Dashboard. That means you can run Gadgets alongside Widgets in the Dasboard, on Google’s Sidebar, and on the iGoogle personalized homepage, making them amazingly versatile, and letting Google’s platform pick up the slack when Dashboard is missing something important. If Google does the same for Windows Vista, and helps Gadgets run on Vista’s Sidebar, that would be amazing.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Google To Back Your Ass Up: GDrive on Horizon

The latest non-scoop in Google’s global takeover has arrived in the form of an external hard drive — really, really external — like, a server somewhere in Mountain View. via SF Weekly

Original post by SF Weekly

Google Announces Highly Open Participation Contest

The Google Code blog is talking about their new “Highly Open Participation Contest“, an effort to get pre-university students involved in different aspects of software development, part of the Summer of Code program. There are all sorts of tasks available, from fixing bugs to writing documentation or doing user experience research. Google is continuing to try to increase its appeal in the developer community, and this program is here to pull in those in the community who might not be into writing code.
Any student over 13 years of age and enrolled in a pre-university program can sign up. That includes high schoolers, as well as those in a secondary school or other educational institution. Parental consent is a requirement.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Google Checkout and PayPal Unveil Holiday Offers

Google’s Checkout and eBay’s PayPal unit are showing off their big holiday offers, designed to get you to use their services when making your holiday purchases online.
Google Checkout is giving $5-$50 off purchases at a number of online stores. You can get:

$5 off orders over $30 - PCSuperstore, TheNerds.net, Cost Central, DayDeal.com, Eforcity.com, KitchenSource.com, ReStockIt.com, Cufflinks Depot, Precious Accents, UpTempoAir.com
$5 off orders over $50 - ToolsForLess, AllBrands.com, Discount Dance Supply, Golfballs.com
$10 off orders over $10 for new buyers only - Buy.com
$10 off orders over $30 - Comp-U-Plus (Enter coupon code GOOGLE10), Mrs. Fields
$10 off orders over $50 - HandHelditems.com (Enter coupon code googleoff10 prior to Checkout)
$10 off orders over $60 - Aéropostale, Jockey.com, Your Electronic Warehouse, US-Mattress.com, DVD Empire, Flashlightz.com, Coffee Bean Direct, SelectBlinds.com, Stacks and Stacks Housewares, Discount Golf World
$10 off orders over $75 - Beauty.com, drugstore.com
$10 off orders over $100 - TigerDirect.com, WeaKnees.com (Enter coupon code holiday10), […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Verizon Sneak Attack on Googleplex! Or Not! [BoomTown]

“Verizon’s announcement will be more meaningful in a few years when more devices-not just cellphones-use wireless data networks.”
Dismiss Posted at 12:11 AM on November 28, 2007 Was it a bold way to thwart new rivals, like Google and Apple, who are promising-but have yet to deliver-a world without the fascist rule of the “Soviet … via All Things Digital

Original post by All Things Digital

Google introduces locator system for cell phone users

Internet search leader Google Inc. is testing technology that will find the location of people using its mobile mapping service, even if the phone making the connection isn’t equipped with a GPS receiver. via WFRV-TV Green Bay

Original post by WFRV-TV Green Bay

PC Magazine - Google Adds ‘My Location,’ Terrain to Maps

November 28, 2007 — Google added to its arsenal of mapping functions Wednesday with a beta mobile app that utilizes cell phone tower signals to pinpoint a mobile phone user’s …

Original post by FindArticles - Search Alert - google

PC Magazine - Google Devoting Millions to Solve Energy Crisis

November 27, 2007 — Google has set its sights on decreasing global dependency on coal Tuesday with the announcement of a new project intended to produce affordable renewable …

Original post by FindArticles - Search Alert - google

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