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Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret
Sep 2@9:02am: beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of water that fel... [from Slashdot]
Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?
Sep 2@8:45am: rsmiller510 writes "Could Apple's announcement about Ping, a music-based social network be Apple's social networking trojan horse? Facebook might want to be concerned." Of course it is. Read more of this story at Slashdot. [from Slashdot]
How do you spell device mandate failure? U-H-F
Aug 31@6:45pm: Man, the broadcasting industry is on a device mandate rampage these days. For weeks, we've been covering the National Association of Broadcasters call for Congress to require all smartphones to include FM receivers. This requirement is apparently ... [from Ars Technica]
iPod FaceTime, touchscreen nano, 99¢ rentals all grist for Apple rumor mill
Aug 31@5:19pm: Every year in September, Apple reveals its new iPod lineup in time for the holiday buying season. This year's event takes place tomorrow, and the usual rumors about what Apple plans to announce have popped up. Here's a rundown of some of the thing... [from Ars Technica]
VMware Buys Parts for Its 'Virtual Giant'
Aug 31@1:26pm: VMware on Tuesday announced two purchases aimed at furthering its vision of the future of IT. One is Integrien, which offers software that -performs real=time application and infrastructure performance analysis. The other is TriCipher, which offer... [from E-Commerce Times]
What Sort of Game Is Google Playing?
Aug 31@11:35am: Google continued its shopping spree through the social networking marketplace on Monday, agreeing to purchase SocialDeck, a 2-year-old company that develops games for mobile devices. This marks Google's third purchase of a social networking compan... [from E-Commerce Times]
GMail Marks Own Message As SPAM!
Aug 5@2:47pm: Okay, this is funny. When I configured my GMail account to send mail as my email address at my domain, it sent a confirmation email to the address I’d specified. That email address forwards everything to my GMail account. After several minutes, th... [from Alpha Gecko : Email]
Tweeting From My RSS Feed Reader
May 22@2:27am: I just sent an updated version of Lobster – my RSS feed reader to all CaRP users. This revision adds Twitter support — tweet directly from your feed reader. Lobster automatically generates tweet text from the title and link from each RSS item. Edi... [from Alpha Gecko : Atom/RSS]
Goodbye Google Reader, Goodbye NetNewsWire!
Mar 27@6:37pm: Yesterday, I decided it was high time to scratch an old itch, so I built myself an RSS feed reader. It uses CaRP Evolution’s MySQL plugin to store parsed RSS feed items in a database. I think this is the first time I’ve used that plugin for a real... [from Alpha Gecko : Atom/RSS]
AWeber Bugs Again
Sep 2@6:47pm: For the most part, I love AWeber. But as I wrote last year, they’ve got a few really irritating problems. Here’s my latest gripe. About a month ago, I deleted 11 follow-up messages from one of my autoresponder sequences — they weren’t converting, ... [from Alpha Gecko : Email]
Browser & Screen Resolution Trends
Jul 8@12:31am: I just checked the browser and screen resolution stats for www.geckotribe.com and wow, what a surprise! Firefox is wiping the floor with IE on that domain! One of my other heavily trafficed domains reverses the picture, but another looks almost e... [from Alpha Gecko : Web Design]
LinContEx.com was going to be “BlogRush done right”…
May 26@9:07pm: A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought “oh, c**p,” (that word isn’t “CaRP” :-) “one of the big boys beat me to my idea.” At the time, I’d begun working on a site that was going to be similar,... [from Alpha Gecko : SEO]