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Happy 50th, LEGO Brick! – Gearlog.Com
Born in Denmark on January 28, 1958, you’ve led a full life. You discovered electricity in the mid-60s, had a kids a year later, and moved to the States in 1973. “There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants”
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Mole: 80GB PS3 dead, 120-160GB with Dual Shock 3 incoming – ArsTechnica.Com
“The Spiderman 3 pack-in will disappear as well once the 80GB unit is gone. To maintain a similar value the 80GB/Spiderman 3 bundle, Poss. storage increase to 120 or 160GB at the same price point, plus the new Dual-Shock 3 controller.
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Scientology website shielded against DDoS attack – TheRegister.Co.Uk
The Church of Scientology has restored it website after a campaign of denial of service attacks prompted it to use DDoS mitigation service Prolexic. Web sites associated with the Church of Scientology were intermittently unavailable last week.
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Technorati Founder Launches Web Hot or Not. It’s Geek Love. – Mashable.Com
Technorati founder David Sifry has just launched a website with investor friend Martin Varsavsky that is, in so many words, a Hot or Not for websites. Actually, it’s called ‘Web Hot or Not’, so you get the point right away here.
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SmugMug’s Private Photos Aren’t Really Private – Mashable.Com
In a nutshell, the problem is this: if you set your photos as “privateâ€, they can still be accessed simply by URL manipulation. SmugMug are aware of the issue, but claim this is intended behavior, separating the notions of “privacy†and “securit
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Bookmark and Share Potential Employees with StandOutJobs – Mashable.Com
StandOutJobs, launching this week at DEMO, is the latest to incorporate web 2.0 features into a company’s hiring process. This works from a backend perspective for all members in the company that may be involved in the hiring process.
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Queen Elizabeth must die or abdicate for Australian republic – Reuters.Com
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, Australia’s head-of-state, must die or abdicate before Australia can become a republic, said one of the country’s leading politicians and former head of the republican movement. Malcolm Turnbull,.
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PayPal to buy Fraud Sciences – Reuters.Com
PayPal, a unit of online auctioneer eBay, said on Monday that it would acquire Israel’s Fraud Sciences Ltd in an all-cash deal worth about $169 million.
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Consumers Save Billions on eBay – WebsiteMagazine.Com
Two statisticians from the University of Maryland have calculated that eBay buyers saved $7 billion than what they might have been willing to pay in 2003, $8.4 billion in 2004 and a projected $19 billlion during 2007.
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Have Some Fun and Sip Some Interactive PhotoSoup with Yahoo and Flickr – ResourceShelf.Com
Another beta from Yahoo Europe (Spain) named PhotoSoup. PhotoSoup, a visual word puzzle generator that allows players to create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr. Access to PhotoSoup is free.
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Build Site Traffic with Error Marketing [Other Promotions] – SitePoint.Com
In this context, new advertising and marketing techniques are required. In order to provide a positive experience for your site’s visitors, while getting them to do what you want them to do, you need to be innovative in your approach.
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YouTube Takes Entire Site Mobile – ReadWriteWeb.Com
After several years of talking about it, YouTube made a surprise move today and launched m.youtube.com – a site with nearly all content and functionality available on the website proper now available on mobile.