Ivan Storck: Sustainable Entrepreneur

Ivan Storck runs his businesses, Sustainable Marketing and Sustainble Websites, out of Citizen Space, one of several co-working spaces cropping up in San Francisco. As a small business owner in the valley of tech giants, Ivan is working to create a community of creative and green entrepreneurs who are not exactly competing, but propping each [...]

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Spyjax: Using a:visited to test your history

Spyjax can scare you, or excite you depending on what you want to do.
By using a simple JavaScript check on the CSS style on URLs, a script can work out if you have been there:
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function hasLinkBeenVisited(url) {
        var link = document.createElement(’a’);
        link.href = url;
        document.body.appendChild(link);
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Japanese robot dances to iPod music – Yahoo! News

TOKYO – A Japanese robot twists and rolls to music from an iPod in an intricate dance based on complex mathematics, a technology developers say will enable robots to move about spontaneously instead of following preprogrammed motions.
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E-TEN glofiish X800 Video Preview

E-TEN glofiish X800 Video Gallery – Hands-on, preview, reviews and commercial Ad
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Comedy Business Turns to the Web

A video with Will Ferrell has become a sensation on a Web site that has the backing of a major venture capital firm.
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Aflax and Google Gears

Paul Colton quickly took Google Gears and created a simple example of using it from Flash, and his Aflax framework.
Kevin Lynch demonstrated an Apollo application that used Gears at the California Google Developer Day event today. You could also have applets that use the JavaScript.
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function displayRecentPhrases() {
  var recentPhrases = [”, ”, ”];
 
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Injustice 5, Justice 4

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Dell Lays Off 8,000; 1Q Earnings Sag

Dell Inc. beat Wall Street predictions in its first-quarter earnings report but said it would eliminate 10 percent of its work force over the next year as part of a broad plan to trim costs and become more competitive with rivals.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica sues TomTom, Magellan for alleged patent infringement

Filed under: GPS

TomTom has already tussled with Garmin over alleged patent infringement, but it looks like the company has now drawn some ire from a slightly more unexpected source, with Encyclopaedia Britannica now suing it, along with Magellan and, somewhat curiously, American TV & Appliance (a retailer based in Wisconsin). So far, about the only [...]

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Cell Phone Submitted Classified Listings: iqzone

Scottsdale, Arizona based iqzone has a solution for those seeking to sell items on the go: cell phone submitted classified listings.
Iqzone’s “Snap Send Sell” feature allows users to take a photo or video clip of any product or service, text a description and send as a Multimedia (MMS) message to iqzone. Iqzone then categorizes and [...]

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Wireless Spectrum Debate Moves Into Politics

Debate over upcoming auctions of wireless spectrum in the U.S. has reached new heights — the U.S. presidential campaign.
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Former CIA Officer Robert Richer on Insider Threat

If you do business overseas, or plan to, especially in France, China, India or Israel, you should watch this interview. Robert Richer is the former associate deputy director for operations at the CIA. The Directorate of Operations manages the CIA’s clandestine service. Richer, who is now the CEO of Total Intelligence Solutions, a private security [...]

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Parallels 3.0: Another Compelling Reason To Buy A Mac

The hardest thing for a Windows user wanting to make the switch to Apple is having software and games that won’t run on a Mac. Likewise OSX is deficient as a gaming platform.
Parallels has long bridged the Windows/ Mac divide by providing Windows support from the Mac desktop. The upcoming version of Parallels, Desktop for [...]

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Grooveshark partnership#3 = Magnatune

We were one of the first blogs of discover Grooveshark more than 2 months back. Since that time, the Florida based anti-DRM startup has covered quite a bit of ground that includes launch of private beta and signing up music labels. Grooveshark has been especially quickly in building it’s music repository after having done deals [...]

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Check out the Immersive Media street-scanning car

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Transportation

It looks like Immersive Media wanted to remove all doubt about what that street-traversing fleet of theirs really looks like. There’s obviously more than one vehicle scanning in streets across the US, but now you know what to look out for — and you little punks in the audience now realize [...]

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