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November 20, 2009

Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks” and “most of the user experience takes place on the web.” That is, it’s “Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel” with the web as the platform. It runs on x86 processors (like your standard Core 2 Duo) and ARM processors (like inside every mobile smartphone). Underneath lies security architecture that’s completely redesigned to be virus-resistant and easy to update.

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November 20, 2009

Google announces new site hierarchies display in search results

For example, consider this result from ProductWiki for the query [spidersapien reviews]:

The URL of this result is “www.productwiki.com/spidersapien,” which doesn’t provide much additional information about the site or this result. The result with the new site hierarchy display will look like this:

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November 19, 2009

Think Globally, Tweet Locally

Twitter has just announced the public availability of their Geotagging API.

We can now start focusing in on local conversations!

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November 19, 2009

FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report 2009 Key Findings

See how consumers engage with brands in the 2009 version of FEED, the Razorfish Brand Experience Report. This is only the summary and it’s quite useful for social media and marketing peeps!

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November 17, 2009

Page load speed may be in Google 2010 algorithm

Maybe it is time to make sure your site loads fast enough… as page load speed will be a part of Googles algorithm next year.

Page speed is already part of the AdWords quality score algorithm but until now it’s not directly been part of the main search algorithm.

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November 17, 2009

'Unfriend': The Oxford Dictionary's word of the year

The New Oxford American Dictionary, declared today the 2009 word of the year: unfriend. It is defined as:

To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.

Unfriend works for Facebook but for Twitter, Unfollow works best!

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November 17, 2009

Foursquare Lets Others Play With Its API

Let’s see what is going to be built on top of the Foursquare API… You can already check out their App gallery to see what is there so far. I quite like FourTap which let you checking in to Foursquare using your Oystercard!

Source: @Techcrunch

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November 16, 2009

The 4 mental activities of a good listener

good listeners regularly engage in four mental activities, each geared to the oral discourse and taking place concurrently with that oral discourse.” Those four processes are:

The listener thinks ahead of the talker, trying to anticipate what the oral discourse is leading to and what conclusions will be drawn from the words spoken at the moment.
The listener weighs the evidence used by the talker to support the points that he makes. “Is this evidence valid?” the listener asks himself. “Is it the complete evidence?”
Periodically the listener reviews and mentally summarizes the points of the talk completed thus far.
Throughout the talk, the listener “listens between the lines” in search of meaning that is not necessarily put into spoken words. He pays attention to nonverbal communication (facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice) to see if it adds meaning to the spoken words. He asks himself, “Is the talker purposely skirting some area of the subject? Why is he doing so?”

via Harvard Business Review