Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients
Twitter has one of the fastest growing application ecosystems of any web service outside of Facebook. For this post, we looked at 37,248 tweets and found 142 different ways in which people interact with the Twitter service. Some of the results, which follow below, were rather surprising.
Is Ethanol Production Fueling the Size of the Dead Zone?
Every year a New Jersey-size patch of the Gulf of Mexico where no sea life can be sustained is created by nitrogen-based fertilizer runoff. This runoff comes largely from corn production, which is now tied heavily to the production of ethanol in areas of the Midwest where the runoff comes from. So what can we do about it?
5 Best Instant Messengers Compared & Analyzed
5 Winners from the 550 comments on Lifehacker from users of IM services. They are compared and analyzed so that you can select the ones right for you.
World’s First Commercially Viable Cellulosic Ethanol Plant O
Range Fuels Inc. announced yesterday it has secured over $100 million in Series B funding, an investment that could make it the first company to seriously commercialize cellulosic ethanol. The first phase of construction will produce 20 million gallons of mixed alcohols per year by 2009, and has the potential to expand to up to 120 million gallons.
Diesel Grows On Trees, Seriously
Apparently scientists (and some of our readers, surely) have known that we can grow oil for years, and not in the grow-corn-make-oil kind of way. The Brazilian Copaifera langsdorfii can be tapped for a natural diesel fuel that requires simple filtering before being poured into a truck. Is it viable for world use?
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
Netscape’s Digg Clone May Shut Down
AOL is considering killing off the “Digg Clone” social news site that they launched a little over a year ago at Netscape.com, and redirecting traffic to the Netscape portal instead. One source says it’s a done deal. Another says no final decisions have been made.
OOPS: Google Mistakes Own Blog For Spam, Deletes It!
Readers of Google’s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company. The problem? Google had mistakenly identified its own blog as a spammer’s site and handed it over to another person.
Spock.com hopes to become the Google of people searches
People search site Spock.com went into public beta today after being privately tested for several months and claims to already have over 100 million individuals indexed in its databases. Better head over there and see if there’s any information about you.
The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles
When people see something wrong in Wikipedia they usually consider only 2 solutions: edit the article or sit on their hands. Unfortunately, neither approach typically results in the optimal outcome: a factually accurate profile containing trustworthy information. Here’s the right way to do it from a high ranking Wiki editor.
Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member.
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