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Smarter Healthcare: How Social Media is Revolutionizing Your Doctor Visits

Monday, October 5th, 2009

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog

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Digg To Launch iPhone App [Video]

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Digg is set to debut a new iPhone app, according to an interview with the news site’s founder, Kevin Rose. The revelation was somewhat unintentional: video podcasters Arnt Eriksen and Thomas Moen were interviewing Rose during the FOWA conference in London and spotted him playing with the new app. When the pair inquired about the application, Rose replied: “You’re not even supposed to know about that…nobody knows about that”.

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YouTube Down, Facebook Wonky

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

YouTube is having a less-than-reliable Saturday as unscheduled downtime is preventing video pages from loading.

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YouTube Down, Facebook Wonky

Facebook Wave: Why Facebook Should Clone Google Wave

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

History is littered with good ideas that didn’t work out because they were ahead of their time. Tablet PCs didn’t work out a decade ago, but with technology advances, they’re poised to make a comeback . Microsoft’s local information web site Sidewalk.com was a bust in 1997, but now sites like Yelp and Google Maps offer local information that many people couldn’t fathom living without.

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Toggling variable row heights on a Spark VGroup container in Flex 4

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

The following example shows how you can toggle variable item/row heights on a Spark VGroup container in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean variableRowHeight property. Full code after the jump.

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Toggling variable row heights on a Spark VGroup container in Flex 4

Jack Thompson Sues Facebook, Cites Personal Safety

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Much like the Energizer Bunny, seemingly nothing can stop ex-lawyer Jack Thompson — not even disbarment . According to the Escapist , Thompson has set his sights on a new target for litigation: Facebook

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Ad Spending: Internet Tops TV in UK

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

At just 12% of the total advertising market in the United States, online ads still have a ways to go before surpassing the amount spent on television. In the United Kingdom, however, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is reporting that online advertising has overtaken television. According to Reuters , advertising spend on the Internet grew 4.6% to a total of 23.5% of the total market

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Ad Spending: Internet Tops TV in UK