How Hashtagging the Web...

Laura Larsell is the information ontologist at Trapit , a content discovery, personalization and curation platform currently in beta. Laura holds an M.A. in library sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. I rolled my eyes when the Library of Congress announced in the spring of...
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Microsoft to revamp Xbo...

It’s been awhile since its last major update, but the official Microsoft Xbox website will be given a facelift in the coming days. Microsoft announced on the Xbox forums that Xbox.com will be given a brand new interface to improve the social and video aspects of the site. Xbox.com...
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Mozilla Firefox 8 Relea...

It’s been barely over a month since Firefox was officially  upgraded to version 7 , and now it looks like a new update has arrived. The Release Candidate version of Firefox 8 has been made available for download today, while the official release of version 8 will be happening next...
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Skyrim goes gold – ti...

Ready to slay some dragons in Bethesda’s upcoming RPG, The Elder Scrolls v: Skyrim? Well you better be, because the developer has just announced on its blog that the game has gone gold – one week ahead of its official release date. In case you didn’t know, going gold means...
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eBay CEO Keynote at Ope...

John Donahue, CEO, eBay, delivered a keynote at Open Mobile Summit this morning. He opened his speech by saying that “there will be more changes on how consumer shop and pay in the next three years than there have been in the past twenty. These changes will be technology-enabled and...
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Zoom H2n Handy Recorder...

If you need a portable recording device that features better capabilities than your smartphone when it comes to capturing audio, Zoom has the answer for you. Introduced back in July, the  H2n Handy Recorder , is a handheld recorder that packs groundbreaking features in an ultra-portable...
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Gmail app for iOS devic...

A few days ago there was a rumor going on about Google releasing an official Gmail app for iOS devices . Well it turns out that the rumor was spot on because Google has just announced the launch of the aforementioned app. Available for free on all iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch, and...
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Scientists use Twitter ...

Twitter is a very interesting tool. Besides serving as a source of news or a form of communication for a large number of people worldwide, people have also been studying how tweets have an impact on our lives and world around us. For example, recently there was a study on tweets that...
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Gmail gets a new look...

If you’re tired of the way that Gmail looks right now, and you think that it’s about time Google made some changes to its popular email user interface, you’re in luck, because the company has announced that it will be rolling out some new changes for Gmail over the next...
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Internet Explorer 9 web...

Great news for fans and developers of Internet Explorer – Microsoft has just announced that 65% of Windows 7 users are now using modern browsers to surf the web – this means that they are surfing the web on browsers like Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome 14+15 and Firefox 7. With...
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