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January 23, 2010
Let the CrisisCamp begin

CrisisCamp Haiti will bring together volunteers to collaborate on technology projects which aim to assist in Haiti’s relief efforts by providing data, information, maps and technical assistance to NGOs,(non-government organizations i.e. Red Cross) relief agencies and the public.
CrisisCamp will bring together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.

March 13, 2010
Apple's iPad Will (Perhaps Controversially) Read E-Books Aloud [Ebooks]

#ebooks In addition to the orientation-lock button, yesterday's pre-order commencement delivered another surprise nugget: the iPad will read all EPUB books out loud.

March 13, 2010
Apple's Magic Mouse Gets Decidedly Unmagical Ergonomic Fix [Magicmouse]

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The Magic Mouse, for all of its sleek lines and multitouch, uh, magic, can feel a little awkward in the hand.

March 13, 2010
BlackBerry Slider undergoes further undercover inspection, side shots emerge

We're still no closer to finding out whether this is the next iteration of the Bold, Storm or some other BlackBerry line, but the unofficially coined BlackBerry Slider continues to pique our interest.

March 13, 2010
Ceton's quad CableCARD tuner for Media Center available for pre-order

March 13, 2010
Five Foot Lego Blackberry Adds Punchline Functionality [BlackBerry]

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We're no strangers to the work of Lego master Nathan Sawaya, but his latest creation achieved the impossible: making an exciting Blackberry.

March 13, 2010
Google Reportedly 99.9 Percent Sure To Shut Down Its Chinese Search [Censorship]

Though the last we heard, Google was nearing a compromise that would allow them to stop censoring their Google.cn results, the Financial Times is reporting that they are almost certainly going to close their Chinese search engine.

March 13, 2010
Lian Li's PC-T1R Spider case crawls towards a release

Custom computer cases that look like spiders aren't generally the sort of thing that are available to public, but Lian Li's new PC-T1R case is one big exception to the rule, and it's now edged a bit closer to a release.

March 13, 2010
Packard Bell Studio ST media playback drive invades Europe

It's not much more than a hard drive with HD media playback abilities, but the Packard Bell Studio ST certainly looks nice, doesn't it? It's Europe-only for now, but we're hoping parent company Acer brings over a US-branded version of this box, which holds up to a 2TB hard drive and can do 1080p out over HDMI with Dolby Digital.

March 12, 2010
Flickr Co-founder’s Startup Hunch Raises $10 Million

Hunch, a New York City-based startup founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and SiteAdvisor founder/angel investor Chris

March 12, 2010
Giiv Lets You Give Gifts Via Text Message

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

March 11, 2010
America’s Largest Bookseller, Barnes & Noble, To Release Its Own iPad App. Surprised?

Barnes & Noble will be releasing an iPad app alongside the iPad on the 3rd April.

It’s hardly surprising for America’s largest bookseller to want to get in on the action with many predicting the iPad will dominate the ereader market just as it has with the iPod and iPhone.

March 11, 2010
Apple Blocking Third Party Security On iPhone

If you’re looking to download a Kaspersky Labs app for your iPhone, then you’re out of luck.

March 11, 2010
Apple To Finally Introduce Multitasking To The iPhone?

According to sources close to Apple, the company will be introducing multitasking support to the iPhone in its 4.0 firmware release.

March 11, 2010
Battery Ventures Rakes In $750M, Is VC Funding Over the Hump?

Longtime technology innovation investment firm Battery Ventures increased its capital to over $4 billion Thursday as the firm announced the securing of its ninth fund at a value of $750 million.

March 11, 2010
Bing Heads To China, Replaces Google Search On Motorola Android Phones (The First of Many?)

As relations between Google and the China become even more strained, Microsoft have reached a deal with Motorola that will see Bing search and mapping tools featured on phones that run the Android mobile operating system.

Motorola are set to launch a new range of Android powered handsets aimed at reversing their fortunes in China and will seek to reduce their reliance on Google by offering handset owners search alternatives.

March 11, 2010
Boyoyo Boys, "Back in Town" (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)

Everyone from Malcolm McLaren to Paul Simon heard something in South Africa's Boyoyo Boys that they wanted to appropriate. Their '80s records are lively and surprising, both original and emblematic of their time. You can hear where whole chunks of popular American music, from Graceland to Vampire Weekend, were born and raised. After listening to "Back in Town," you'd have broken a UN boycott to work with them, too.

March 11, 2010
Brizzly for iPhone Streamlines and Improves Twitter [Downloads]

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iPhone/iPod touch: Web-based Twitter client Brizzly is just like Twitter's web site, except better in every way.

March 11, 2010
Buy Older Leafy Greens to Get More Nutrients [Shopping]

#shopping

There's an informal assumption that spinach and other leafy greens lose nutrients the longer they sit on grocery store shelves, and it's actually backwards.

March 11, 2010
Chasing Real-Time Raindrops in an Ocean of Content

The Web is huge. And growing. Faster everyday. It's almost like an ocean where there's no evaporation (the data on the Web stays there virtually forever), but yet, it's always raining in it. The rain is the new content that's added into the ocean.

Every tweet is a drop, every blog post is a drop, every check-in is a drop that falls into the ocean. This ocean is almost constantly under a tropical storm in some places, like Twitter or Facebook.

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March 11, 2010
eBuddy signs million dollar mobile advertising deal with inMobi

eBuddy Co-founder Onno Bakker announced today at Plugg that eBuddy signed a million dollar plus deal (for one year) with mobile advertising network inMobi to sell part of eBuddy’s mobile inventory.

eBuddy is one of the biggest IM companies worldwide.

March 11, 2010
Exhausting the entire problem space of animated teddy-bears, cars, people and pigeons

Animator/composer Cyriak just posted this surreal video featuring infinite giant teddy bears climbing out of the sea at the Worthing shore and crossing the road.

March 11, 2010
Facebook Launches Offensive On Sex Offenders

According to NMA, Facebook has approached the UK Government requesting access to data from the sex offenders list so it can take measures to remove and block sex offenders from its social networking portal.

March 11, 2010
Fashion as Futurism [Image Cache]

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It's hard for a lot of us to relate to what goes on in fashion, but Alexander McQueen,

March 11, 2010
Fat is a flavor?

Researchers at Australia's Deakin University have published a paper in the British Journal of Nutrition showing evidence that human beings can taste fat -- that is, they can distinguish between two flavourless solutions in which one has more fat than the other.

I believe that this is true -- and that fat can offset bitterness the same way that sweet can.