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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-26

  • Driving home in the snow #
  • Silly Bands? If you get your kids "Silly Bands" for Christmas or at any other time, I'm not sure what to say to you. They are rubber bands! #
  • Be nice to the retail employees. Their job stinks the other 360 days of the year, but the last few days before Christmas, it's much worse. #
  • When life gives you lemons, drink Diet Coke! #
  • Has anyone had any luck with #Wix It looks attractive as a simple flash site tool, but I haven't messed with it. http://icio.us/E5QCQ4 #
  • Best Open Source Genealogy Software? – [Posted On:] Slashdot http://icio.us/svz45U #
  • Quote by Thomas Alva Edison: #Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like… http://goo.gl/fb/7sEaC #
  • RT: @netflix: #HolidayTradition my family and I watch RUDOLPH, FROSTY, & A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951) together every single year. #
  • Can sites like – http://www.logomaker.com/ – really stand in for a professional designer? My instincts say 'no' but what is the reality? #
  • Now is a good time for preparing to make any updates for the end of the year. If your website has a yearly copyright, make sure you update. #
  • The end of the Internet as we know it. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/10/12/21/obama-fcc-caves-net-neutrality-tuesday-betrayal-assured #
  • Latest Blog Post: I Still Use Del.icio.us http://goo.gl/fb/tLs1Q #
  • Unlike other 'Robin Hoods' I can speak with an English accent. #NameThatMovie #
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    Twitter Updates for 2010-12-22

  • The end of the Internet as we know it. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/10/12/21/obama-fcc-caves-net-neutrality-tuesday-betrayal-assured #
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    links for 2010-08-05

  • We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. We showed character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop, even “playback” the history of changes—all within a browser. Developers in the audience stood and cheered. Some even waved their laptops. We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally, even though we weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication. The use cases we’ve seen show the power of this technology: sharing images and other media in real time; improving spell-checking by understanding not just an individual word, but also the context of each word; and enabling third-party developers to build
  • WASHINGTON — Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege. The charges could be paid by companies, like YouTube, owned by Google, for example, to Verizon, one of the nation’s leading Internet service providers, to ensure that its content received priority as it made its way to consumers. The agreement could eventually lead to higher charges for Internet users. Such an agreement could overthrow a once-sacred tenet of Internet policy known as net neutrality, in which no form of content is favored over another. In its place, consumers could soon see a new, tiered system, which, like cable television, imposes higher costs for premium levels of service. Any agreement between Verizon and Google could also upend the efforts of the Federal Communications Commission to assert its authority ove
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