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April 24, 2008 Hot Trends

IBM News May Signal Enterprise Mashup Maturity

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:33:00 PDT
An assortment of vendors are releasing enterprise mashup development tools during this week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, but those announcements may gain additional resonance from news that broke about two weeks ago, when IBM announced a pair of mashup-related product releases.

China Ties US for Most Web Users

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:33:44 PDT
China's fast-growing population of Internet users has soared to 221 million, tying the United States for the largest number of people online, according to government data reported Thursday. The figure, reported by the Xinhua News Agency, reflects China's explosive growth in Web use despite government efforts to block access to material considered..

ABC News: Underclad Coed or Overreacting Airline?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:33:56 PDT
People just can't handle a pretty girl.

Do NME readers play vinyl?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:39:29 PDT
A question posed on the back of the news that Coldplay will issue an exclusive vinyl of new single Violet Hill through the NME.

Foolocracy.com! Very Funny Political Satire

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:39:29 PDT
These are links to news articles. It seems to be updated daily. You have to love the Fool of the Day. The fool is a politician who has done something really stupid. It usually has a picture of a politician in a jester's cap. Plus, there's a bunch of other stories from the US and around the world.

Fox News Obama Countdown Clock Will Stop This Weekend

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:46:00 PDT
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace introduced an "Obama Clock" to reflect the amount of time that had passed since the Illinois Senator and Presidential Candidate told Fox News that he would sit down for an interview.The clock will stop at 772 days on Sunday.Inewstube.com will cover the event on the Sunday Morning Mashup. Look Forward to It!

Chicago Sun-Tiimes Profiles Exploding New Options Website

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:48:42 PDT
A Chicago Web publication has seen its audience soar 12-fold in its first year by publishing and podcasting news on a decidedly unsexy topic: Options...

Baseball: Rays: Kazmir's rehab start not quite as planned

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:50:30 PDT
Tampa Bay's news, shopping and information source brought to you by the St. Petersburg Times and tbt*.

Youth Vote Growing, Supporting Obama

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:03:36 PDT
Harvard's Institute of Politics had some encouraging news for Sen. Obama today: young voters nationwide overwhelmingly prefer Sen. Obama to Hillary Clinton. The institute found 70 percent of Democrats ages 18 to 24 favor Obama, compared to just 30 percent for Clinton. Youth vote has been central to determining] the next nominee.

Bono Dedicates His Life to Life-Long Dedication

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:04:06 PDT
Long an activist supporting vital causes around the world, U2 front man Bono has publicly decided to dedicate himself to being committed. Legions of fans around the world rejoice at the news! A new tour is planned.


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Hot trends for April 24, 2008

Learn from visitor patterns, improve your website-for $15

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:19:20 PDT
There are a couple other optimization services that I hear about quite a bit: Atlas, Map Surface, Omniture, WebTrends, ClickTale and Click Density… just to name a few. These services can be expensive. Is there a better (and less expensive) way for small business?

BMC Finishes An Impressive 5th In The Team Time Trial

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:25:19 PDT
For the first time in its six years of existence, the Tour de Georgia included a team time trial in the race schedule. Thursday’s Stage 4 challenged the riders with a very hilly 16km course at the Road Atlanta motor speedway. A smooth and consistent ride “Overall, I am really very pleased with how the guys rode,” Gavin Chilcott said after all the teams had completed their rides. “The laps unfolded as planned, and though we may have been able to go 10 seconds faster due to little 1-2 second m

Supply, Demand, Speculation, & Gouging: Oil, Metals, Food

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:29:50 PDT
Supply, Demand, Speculation, & Gouging: Oil, Metals, Food Posted by Hannah Bell on Fri Mar-07-08 01:43 AM OIL “http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?backgroundid=10 … “ Speculators – not supply and demand – are to blame for skyrocketing gas prices: July 11, 2006 A bipartisan Senate report, largely ignored by the media, says that there’s no oil shortage and none is expected. Rather, it’s massive, unregulated speculation that is costing consumers billions of dollars – and vastly e

Develop Customer Loyalty Through Awards and Recognitions

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:40:14 PDT
Creating customer loyalty doesn’t have to cost a lot. Often it just takes a little investment of time. One way to rack up customer loyalty is to spotlight your customers and bring them some recognition and free PR. Just today I ran into a perfect example of this. While I was over at the Elance site (where I posted a guest blog article), I noticed they announced the winners of a contest for best websites on Elance. The contest was designed to recognize small businesses that had gotten a websi

ComScore CEO Fires Back at Google, Wall St, and Bloggers

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:44:47 PDT
Google CEO Eric Schmidt took an indirect shot at comScore paid click data during Google's (stellar) Q1 earnings call this week, referring to the inaccuracy of "third party data" that led Wall St. analysts to reduce earnings estimates for Google based on softness of the paid search advertising market. This afternoon, comScore CEO Dr. Magid Abraham fired back, defending the validity and accuracy of comScore aggregation of Google paid click data. "When Google announced strong Q1 earnings last

OSGi & Modularity

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:45:03 PDT
The .jar file has always been a great unit of modularity on the Java platform. Unfortunately, it also comes with the classpath baggage, and .jar files were never treated as first class components. OSGi is the next generation component platform that will bring greater modularity to the Java platform, and a new set of key architectural and design principles will emerge that are enabled by OSGi.

EVENT: Sumthin Haute

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:48:07 PDT
EVENT: Sumthin Haute "Sumthin Haute: Finding Your Niche In a Cluttered Fashion Market" is more proof that people and industry insiders in the DC-area may be serious about turning the nation's capital into a more fashion-friendly town. Part of the Business and Brunch professional series targeted to entrepreneurs and hosted by the Pastiche Group, this fashion industry seminar seems has a cool premise: A panel of local fashion experts discuss over brunch how to get your fashion business star

A Tale of Two Corporate Trends in Today's Economy (NPR)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:51:02 PDT
Two different trends are emerging when it comes to how companies are faring in the current economy, reporter Jim Zarroli tells Robert Siegel. Banks, builders, and airlines are getting clobbered by the credit crunch and soaring energy costs. But farflung companies from Boeing to McDonald's are doing well, thanks to growing exports.

Instead of biofuel, other global trends starve Haiti

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:05:15 PDT
When deadly food riots erupted in Haiti this month, experts were quick to blame the United States' policy of harvesting...


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Current News for April 24, 2008

TV tonight: Five worth watching - Toronto Star


TV tonight: Five worth watching
Toronto Star, Canada - Apr 20, 2008
... his shooting rampage in Blacksburg, Va., The Passionate Eye has the premiere of Jonathon Hacker's film Massacre at Virginia Tech (CBC Newsworld at 10). ...


CBC to close Calgary unit of Newsworld - Toronto Star


CBC to close Calgary unit of Newsworld
Toronto Star, Canada - Apr 3, 2008
CALGARY–CBC News will close the Calgary unit of its Newsworld channel as of next month. The public broadcaster announced Thursday that the two hours of ...


TELUS Mobility launches TELUS mobile TV on its national 1X network

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:35:45 PDT
TELUS mobile TV is powered by MobiTV, the world's first network and platform providing live television on wireless phones. clients watch live, real-time programming on seven channels: CBC Newsworld, Fox News, G4 Tech TV, Le Reseau de l'information (RDI), MeteoMedia, The Shopping Channel and The Weather Network.

Public: Don't Mess With My Flight Plans

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:58:25 PDT
"Pretty soon we'll have to fly naked!" The mass media rapidly embraced the UK terror storyline fed to them. The BBC, CNN, CBC Newsworld and other all-news broadcasters covered scarcely anything but the narrowly averted catastrophe throughout the day. Funny thing, but the general public wasn't buying it. The reaction was surprisingly cynical...

World News-World Infomation

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:11:04 PDT
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US News Expands The Ranking Service

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:14:05 PDT
US News&World Report, an authoritative source for US university rankings has launched an auto ranking website in what seems to be an expansion move towards a general online ranking service.

WordPress Upgrades

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:05:37 PDT
WordPress 2.3 and 2.2 upgrades include security and minor bugfixes without any plugin or theme compatibility issues. Do share your feedback if you upgrade.Download |WordPress | Instructions | Extended Upgrade GuideTag: Wordpress design, wordpress News,World News

Entertainment News, Celebrity News,

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:25:52 PST
Entertainment News, Celebrity News, Movie News, Music News, TV News - AOL News,World News

Canada - Mortgage Insurance is NOT a sure thing

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:56:10 PST
"MarketPlace" was broadcasted on Feb 6 and re-ran on CBC NewsWorld on Feb 9. It was about claims made and declined by the major banks (and their underwriter Canada Life) regarding mortgage insurance that the borrowers took when they assumed their mortgage.Link: http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/in_denial/

Celebrity & Entertainment News

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:49:40 PDT
Entertainment News, Celebrity News, Movie News, Music News, TV News - AOL News,World News

CBC Newsworld : Passionate Eye Monday : Documentary

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:53:25 PDT
The story that showed on news world tonight.This is just another example of the futility and expense in money and lives that is the drug war.

Newsworld jobs: I’m sure it’s just a coincidence…

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:10 PDT
Ten new CBC News jobs in Calgary were posted this morning. These, presumably, are part of the people given back to Alberta after CBC moved — er, “reconfigured” — CBC Newsworld programming from Calgary to Toronto: 4 reporter/editors Video-journalist 4 videgraphers Switcher-Director In what I’m sure is just a coincidence, only two positions are posted for Toronto this morning: Specialist in “Contract Management” Specialist in Automation

Politics | Politics from the Nation and the World | The Australian

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:46:47 PDT
Politics | Politics from the Nation and the World | The Australian April 9th, 2008 No Comments » Latest news on politics from Australia and the World. Including state politics, policies and Local and Federal Government. Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au CBC.ca - Politics Politics with Don Newman on Newsworld is compulsory viewing for a sharp analysis of all things political in this country and around the world. Source: www.cbc.ca Politics and Political News | Reuters.com Find out what

Amazon.com: politics

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:33:15 PDT
Amazon.com: politics April 11th, 2008 No Comments » A community about politics. Tag and discover new products. Share your images and discuss your questions with politics experts. Source: www.amazon.com Politics: News & Videos about Politics - CNN.com South Koreans appeared to hand conservatives control of parliament Wednesday, according to an exit poll, strongly endorsing their new president and giving him a free hand to Source: topics.cnn.com Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse An


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