My Faves for Friday, March 14, 2008

Oddee - Quality Entertainment

Quoted: Quality Entertainment
Oddee serves quality entertainment focused on the oddities of our world. Be amazed!

[tags: entertainment, photos, oddities]

The Ultimate USB Key

Quoted: With some advance planning and setup, your USB drive can be more than a briefcase; it can be a powerful tool that keeps you fully connected and functional when you're on the road without your laptop.

[tags: software, mobile, usb]

Bill's Ex-Counsel: Hillary Is "Misleading The American Public" - Politics on The Huffington Post

Quoted: Bill's Ex-Counsel: Hillary Is "Misleading The American Public"
Craig Gregg, former counsel to Bill Clinton and now Obama supporter, sat down for an interview with National Journal. His comments reflected more strongly a memo he had penned last week, suggesting that Hillary's claims of experience were overblown. An excerpt from the interview:

Google Launches Web-based Sky

Quoted: Not content with mere global domination, Google launched Sky last year--a downloadable companion app to Google Earth that let users explore explore planets and stars in the night sky. Today they've introduced a Web version of the app, which gives non-downloadable access to tens of thousands of named objects in the sky.As in Earth, users can zoom and

[tags: GR]

hulu: Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free.

Hulu videos are only available to users located in the United States.

[tags: tv, video]

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My Faves for Thursday, March 13, 2008

How to Change the World: Announcing (Formally) Alltop

"Alltop is deceptively simple. The site gathers up the best suggestions from the most active social web users and compiles links into a simple, clean discovery space. For many, Alltop will replace their RSS readers."

Quoted: A practical blog for impractical people.

[tags: rss, discovery space, social]

TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)

Quoted: Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

[tags: Science, brain, TED]

Wikimedia Foundation

Quoted: TThe Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 10 most visited websites in the world.

[tags: internet, wiki, wikipedia, free content]

Unidym - Carbon for Electronics

Unidym is focused on the electronics industry where its initial product is a transparent electrode for touch screens, flat panel displays, solar cells, and solid state lighting. Unidym is developing thin film transistors for printable electronics and the emerging flexible display market. Additionally, Unidym has developed a range of proprietary CNTs for conductive polymers, structural reinforcement materials, and anti-static films.

[tags: nanotech, solar, displays]

Welcome to Transclick | Transclick - Realtime language translation of text messaging

Quoted: Real-time language translation of SMS, email and Instant Messaging in 16 languages to/from English
is now available online or on a mobile phone

[tags: translation, mobile, online]

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) - Free Download Manager

Quoted: 153 million users can't be wrong - the most popular download manager worldwide! Download files up to 400% faster, full download speed and security, only with DAP.

[tags: download, accelerator]

Silver Spring Networks

Quoted: AAt Silver Spring Networks, we develop intelligent, IP-based networking products that allow utilities to dramatically improve efficiency, provide their customers with insight and control, and ensure the reliable delivery of low-cost services.

[tags: Utility networking]

Rincon Pharamaceuticals, Inc.

Quoted: Rincon's mission is to dramatically increase the availability and affordability of recombinant protein therapeutics.

[tags: health, therapeutics]

Resverlogix Corp.

We are a leading biotechnology company working toward the development of novel therapies for unmet medical markets. Our goal is to improve patients’ longevity and quality of life by becoming a leader in the research, development and commercialization of products for cardiovascular disease, cancer and fibrotic conditions.

[tags: health, biotech, medical]

QlikView : Simplifying Analysis for Everyone - New

Quoted: Imagine a dashboard – containing ALL of your company’s relevant metrics, and capturing all its data sources.

Say hello to QlikView. We’re providing the next generation of speed, flexibility, and ease of use. Our solutions can be deployed in days, and users can be trained in minutes. QlikView makes long, complex, and expensive software implementations – a thing of the past.

[tags: business, presentation, data capture]

NuLens

“NuLens (is) one of the first truly accommodating IOLs with accommodative amplitudes far in excess of any other current single or dual optic designs“

Quoted: Imagine coming out of a cataract surgery with better eyesight than you ever had before...

[tags: health, cataract]

Neurosynaptics

With the commitment to make quality healthcare affordable to all, and provide equity of access to healthcare through technology, Neurosynaptic Communications introduces a range of medical diagnostic equipment and solutions.

[tags: health]

Meraki Wireless Network | Affordable Internet Solution | Free WiFi

Meraki’s mission is to bring affordable Internet access to the next billion people. Meraki’s new approach to wireless networking empowers individuals and groups to bring access to local communities, anywhere in the world.

[tags: wireless network, internet, access]

Cheap Flights, Airline Tickets, Cheap Airfare & Discount Travel Deals - Kayak.co.uk

Quoted: Find and book cheap airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars with Kayak.com. Search hundreds of travel sites, compare results, and buy direct.

[tags: shopping, travel search]

GridPoint

At GridPoint, our mission is to align the interests of electric utilities, consumers and the environment. GridPoint’s innovative SmartGrid platform empowers utilities to achieve business objectives, increase grid reliability, promote environmental stewardship and fuel the adoption of renewable energy sources.

[tags: technology, EnergyTechnologies, environment]

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My Faves for Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Future Leaders of Tech - BusinessWeek

Quoted: The World Economic Forum's 2008 picks for the hottest startups in health care, biotech, IT, Internet, and energy

[tags: new technology, future]

Alltop, all the top stories

You can think of an Alltop site as a “dashboard,” “table of contents,” or even a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. To be clear, Alltop sites are starting points — they are not destinations per se. The bottom line is that we are trying to enhance your online reading by both displaying stories from the sites that you’re already visiting and helping you discover sites that you didn’t know existed. In this way, our goal is the “cessation of Internet stagnation.”

Quoted: All the top headlines from popular topics around the web

[tags: news, rss]

Itamar: Hearing Heart Disease

Quoted: The Israeli company's EndoPat device "listens" to minute vascular functions through sensors attached to a patient's index fingers and warns of possible heart attacks.

[tags: technology, health]

Yahoo's New Appeal to Women

Quoted: The Internet giant hopes to attract more women with a new content site that will incorporate user home pages and blogs.

[tags: yahoo]

Facebook CEO Admits Missteps

Quoted: At SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg says the social network has yet to achieve its grand ambition. Plus, the lesson of the Beacon controversy.

[tags: social, facebook]

Animoto Rocks (Automatically Turns Your Photos Into a Music Video Slide Show)

Quoted: What can I say? I’m a music video genius. Check out my latest MTV-worthy video above. It took me, oh, about five minutes to slap together. Actually, it was all done for me by a startup that is getting a lot of buzz called Animoto. The New York City startup recently won an award at the South by Southwest conference, just launched a great Facebook

[tags: GR]

What Is A CAT Scan? ~ Tech News Watch

A CAT scan (Computed Axial Tomography), also abbreviated CT scan, is a process that uses computers to generate three-dimensional images from flat X-ray pictures. X-rays only take flat, two-dimensional scans, whereas the CAT scan takes 3D pictures.

[tags: health]

International Seafood Guide

The International Seafood Guide is a summary of seafood guides found in the Internet. Search the best available advice on ecologically sustainable seafood by seafood name, country, continent, or guide. The International Seafood Guide and the INCOFISH Seafood Guide, which is based on catch data, resilience and bycatch, have been developed by the INCOFISH project.

[tags: seafood, fish]

How to Listen to Music Without Breaking the Law ~ Chris Pirillo

Honeytoast is a regular member of our live community. He wanted to send me his top 5 ways of getting and listening to music legally, conveniently, and inexpensively.

[tags: music]

YouTube: The Platform

Quoted: (Update: Comment from YouTube added below). In case there was still any doubt that Google wants to use YouTube to host all the video on the Web, it’s announcement earlier today to broaden its APIs makes it clear that is its goal. Once again, instead of making it easier to search videos elsewhere, Google is making it easier to host videos on YouTube.

[tags: GR]

MyLoki Lets You Tell the World That You Are Here

Quoted: If you look at my Facebook page you might think that I’m still in Miami, although I returned from that trip two weeks ago. I simply forgot to change my location status back to New York City. The problem with most location updates on Facebook or elsewhere is that they require you to manually change your status every time you get on a plane. Finally,

[tags: GR]

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My Faves for Monday, March 10, 2008

Wetpaint Adds Friend Feeds, and Social Networking Tools

Quoted: Wetpaint wikis are taking more steps to become like fully-functioning social networks, with the release of several new features that ...

[tags: wiki, wetpaint, social, network]

MoMB | The Museum of Modern Betas

Quoted: MoMB - the Museum of Modern Betas - is a museum focused on collecting websites in beta stage. Currently about 5000 sites are listed.

[tags: websites, beta, collection]

Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine - New York Times

Quoted: Last year, Nintendo Wii and the Apple iPhone began to break down the logjam in technological innovation for the way humans interact with computers.

[tags: software, apple, cooliris, interaction]

Cooliris, Inc. | Think Beyond the Browser

Quoted: Our core products include PicLens, which gives you instant full-screen, cinematic slideshows that go beyond your browser window, and Cooliris Previews, which lets you preview links instantly.

[tags: video, tutorial, cooliris, piclens, browser, slideshow]

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My Faves for Sunday, March 09, 2008

Sexual Selection

Quoted: It is clear that in sexually reproducing species, we see both physiological and behavioral differences between the sexes. For example, in many bird species, the ...

[tags: reproduction, selection]

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