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26 May 2007

My Dots for Friday, May 25, 2007

Increased attachment limit-- 20 MB!

Now you can start sharing more of those home videos, large presentations and files you just can't seem to get smaller. We have doubled the allowable attachment size to 20 MB to make your Gmail space even more useful.

[tags: gmail]

Quoted: Space.com provides information on everything Space - satellites, stars, astronomy, the Sun, planets, NASA and more.

[tags: space, info, news]

There are two new studies ongoing with the aim to investigate the feasibility of generating solar energy from solar panels borne by satellites.

[tags: solar, space]

The Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC) is committed to providing local governments with ideas and information to generate clean, affordable power from local, renewable energy sources. With over $400 billion in annual procurements, state and local governments are in the best position to jump-start a new clean energy economy. Working with a growing coalition of nonprofit groups, municipal officials, business leaders and academics NNEC is promoting creative and objective ideas for financing community-based clean energy, helping to dispel misinformation about renewable energy in the media and advocating for critical utility policy reforms that will usher in a new world of energy choices for all Americans.

[tags: solar, EnergyTechnologies, climat change]

Quoted: SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 (OneWorld) - Solar power is the fastest growing source of energy in the world and likely will become much more affordable in the next few years, according to a new report out this week.

[tags: solar]

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25 May 2007

My Dots for Thursday, May 24, 2007

Bluegrind is here to lend a hand and bring some of the Web's most popular content to people who would love to have it, if only they could listen to it instead of read it,

[tags: text to speech, conversion]

Quoted: Provides free real time 24/7 website and server monitoring from georgraphically distributed servers with personalized Ajax interface, server performance testing, uptime reporting, traffic analysis and alarm notification

[tags: website, monitoring, tracking]

Quoted: osalt.com helps recommend a open source software alternative or replacement for commercial products and even shareware. Remember that open source software is also a freeware alternative.

[tags: open source, software]

With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have searched for them most often.

[tags: google, search, trends]

Quoted: What will replace the Internet? Something safer, more personal, more manageable.

[tags: software, technology, internet, future, worldbeam]

Blog search engine Technorati made significant changes to its data architecture and user interface this evening. CEO Dave Sifry outlined the details on his personal blog. The changes, Sifry says, are largely in response to Technorati’s changing user base - more and more mainstream Internet users are using the service.

[tags: technorati]

Quoted: Quickly search for famous quotations. Rate and tag popular quotes and people.

[tags: quotes, search, sharing]

Quoted: Simplified photo sharing. Easily create, customize and manage your own ad free gallery. Featuring bulk uploading and downloading, original photo backup, drag and drop organization, privacy controls, camera-phone uploads, RSS feeds and unlimited storage.

[tags: photos, sharing, backup]

Quoted: French President launched his drive to get a rapid agreement among European Union nations by next month on a new scaled-down EU treaty to replace the stalled constitution project which his country and the Netherlands rejected two years ago. French President Nicolas Sarkozy (Linternaute) BREAKING NEWS Pure Arab horses More... In his first visit to European Union

[tags: EU]

Quoted: Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Blog, one-2-one communications with Dell

[tags: dell, blogs]

Quoted: Click Image to Play Video Whether you have a USB printer, keyboard, mouse, scanner, audio, adapters, drives, hubs (or even an iPod) - whether your USB device is external or internal - Chris has some hints and tips to help you through your problem. http://live.pirillo.com/ - John asks "I have a Toshiba Satellite notebook running Windows Vista [...]

[tags: usb, problems]

Quoted: Click Image to Play Video http://live.pirillo.com/ - Windows Vista 32 bit "supports" up to 4GB of memory, but is 4GB of memory enough to run Windows Vista? Sometimes it’s more than enough. If you’re running a 32 bit system, 4GB is your technical upper limit. Of course, Windows may not report that you have all 4GB available! [...]

[tags: windows, vista, memory, problems]

Free + Database = Freebase

It's about film, sports, politics, music, science and everything else all connected together. Our contributors are collecting data from all over the internet to build a massive, collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data. It's a big job and we're just getting started.

[tags: community, search, technolog]

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24 May 2007

My Dots for Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Quoted: NanoScan is an online antivirus that detects virus, spyware, trojans and other types of malware in about 1 minute.

[tags: antivirus, security]

Quoted: TV's a fantastic thing, and we're on a mission to make it even better. We're combining the best things about television - great shows, great ...

[tags: tv, joost]

Quoted: The Union Square Ventures funded Adaptive Blue has released a new version of their well regarded Blue Organizer Firefox add-on. The new version ...

[tags: firefox, Blue Organizer, Adaptive Blue]

Quoted: Create simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together. Signing up and creating your own wiki space is fast, free, and easy.

[tags: wiki, community, sharing]

Quoted: Verticlans are online marketplace run by you, for you. They connect the people you know to each other so that they can buy and sell stuff from each other.

[tags: shopping, online]

AdaptiveBlue was born a little less than a year ago with the vision to develop smart browsing and personalization technologies. We saw an opportunity to harness the rapidly growing Mozilla platform to deliver unique value to consumers: a personalized web experience.

[tags: browser, firefox, extension]

MAPLight.org brings together campaign contributions and how legislators vote, providing an unprecedented window into the connections between money and politics. We currently cover the California Legislature and U.S. Congress.

[tags: contributions, voting]

Quoted: Nu kommer Seniofon, mobilen som främst är anpassad för äldre människor. Stora knappar, extra stark vibrering, en rejäl skärm med orange bakgrundsbelysning och inbyggd ficklampa ...

[tags: mobile, senior]

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23 May 2007

My Dots for Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Find your ancestors in our growing collection of birth, death, military, census and parish records. We currently have over 500 databases online and will be adding over 10,000 new databases in the next few months! We want to help you easily discover your family history.

[tags: genealogy]

Quoted: Providing reviews of online resources, books, and software devoted to genealogy research. I also like to post links to news articles from local outlets. Now serving 8 confirmed readers.

[tags: genealogy, research]

The next US president will inherit a legacy of global mistrust. Restoration of its authority must begin with a painful exit from Iraq

[tags: future]

Quoted: Nobel peace laureate Yunus calls for transformation of World Bank

[tags: banking, nobel, world bank]

Quoted: The new XPS 720 H2C gaming system from Dell adds a new graphics card, quad core processor, and Blu-ray drive for serious gamers.

[tags: dell, hardware]

Jag gillar mat. Och jag gillar att laga mat. Därför har jag i all ansåpråkslöshet velat dela med mig av några recept.

[tags: recipes]

"Regeringen styr riket. Den är ansvarig inför riksdagen."

[tags: sweden, government]

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22 May 2007

My Dots for Monday, May 21, 2007

Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore.

Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.

[tags: news]

Quoted: The Vectrix Scooter Is Different in Almost Every Way from a Traditional Gas Scooter/Motorcycle The innovative design of the scooter focuses on achieving extended range ...

[tags: scooter, automotive, electric, EnergyTechnologies, Environment]

Traduwiki's mission is to use the power of the wiki collaborative tool to translate the most interesting documents accessible under an open source license.

Explore the thousands of docs already uploaded, contribute two phrases at a time and let's spread the best stuff.

[tags: wiki, translation, collaborative]

Cylive (pronounced ‘sy-liv’) is a “Social Productivity” application. It is the easiest way for you to:

* Create, organize and share any digital content, such as photos, videos, audio files, etc.;

* Share and co-create content with your family, friends, or groups;

* Plan, organize and coordinate your personal & group activities;

* Publish your or view, rate and comment on other users’ thoughts and opinions;

* Express your ratings and recommendations on any topic, books, movies, etc.;

* Seek answers to your questions from other Cylive users;

* Discover user reviews of various things and places, such as restaurants, vacation destinations, etc.;

* Identify and connect with people who share your interests and hobbies;

* ?Store safely and access your private information online.

With Cylive, you can declare who can do what and when with your content. For instance, you can assign ‘add photos’ privileges to everyone in your family, but only assign ‘view photos’ rights to your friends. These privileges can be specified individually for your contacts on Cylive. Hence, you have greater control on who can do what and when with your information.

[tags: community, sharing, content]

Quoted: Find local and online music lessons in private piano, music, vocal, drums, percussion, brass, woodwind, clarinet, flute, violin, viola, bass, guitar, keyboard, saxophone, french horn, trombone, tuba, cello, and more by ZIP code.

[tags: private tutor, education]

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21 May 2007

next new networks

Next New Networks

Next New Networks is a new kind of media company, creating micro-television networks over the internet for targeted communities, bringing together elements of tv programming and internet philosophy to allow viewers to contribute, share and distribute content.

Our aim is to be of the communities, as each network is populated by key creative people of the audiences they serve. In other words, we want our networks to go where the audiences that share an interest are, whether it's their blog, a friend's profile page, or wherever they go regularly to find more of the things they love.

Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It?

Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It?:
"I’ve always bought Google’s defense that Google News drives traffic to other news sites and that linking to external headlines and providing a snippet of the news story constitute fair use. Google lost that argument in Belgium and it would appear now that it no longer believes its previous position is sustainable in the United Kingdom, possibly even worldwide."

My Dots for Sunday, May 20, 2007

Better Living Through Technology: a blog dedicated to emerging technology trends in hardware, software, webware, marketing and beyond

[tags: technology, applications, software, blogs, reviews]

Quoted: Uzès est une commune française, située dans le département du Gard et la région Languedoc-Roussillon.

[tags: uzes, france]

Quoted: Killer features for finding, managing and sharing online information. A powerful personal tool and a rich social platform.

[tags: bookmarking, sharing, social annotation]

Philipp Keller's thoughts on tags and other sweets

[tags: tags, services, history]

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20 May 2007

My Dots for Saturday, May 19, 2007

Quoted: Perth, Western Australia based Buzka is a social bookmarking site with a business function. I caught up with Buzka team earlier this week ...

[tags: bookmarking]

Quoted: GStock is a supercomputer for stock picks and signals. Its supercomputing power is dedicated to consistently point to profitable trades with a high degree of certainty.

[tags: stocks, analysis, trading]

Quoted: The Pirate Bay, one of the largest and most controversial sites for downloading copyrighted materials via BitTorrent, confirmed today that they are preparing ...

[tags: video, music, streaming]

Quoted: By seizing control of the Orinoco tar sands, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivered a stunning blow to US oil security. If the world economy worked in the way postulated by the globalizers his action would hardly have mattered, except to the unfortunate shareholders of the affected oil companies...

[tags: EnergyTechnologies, oil, orinoco, Chavez]

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