Ever wondered how Google gets letter bubbles on the map? ME TOO!
Their secrets are revealed HERE.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle. Especially if you’re named Snake Eyes or Cobra Commander.
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- Getting inspired by a TweetUp December 15, 2009Last Thursday I attended my first TweetUp at Tortilla Press in Collingswood. It was a great event and has, among other things, inspired me to bring more Twitter goodness into other areas of my online life -- including, for starters, this long-neglected blog. As you can see, I've launched a new WordPress theme by the [...] […]
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- Slogan Call: Need some hyperlocal help June 4, 2009We've been working long and hard for several months now on what we're calling our "hyperlocal project." Yes, indeedy, more town-centric citizen journalist goodness. Trust us, it'll be awesome. More on that in the weeks to come. In the mean time, we're still polishing up the site, and one bit of spit shine that would really [...] […]
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- AP reveals fair use to be fake, fake, fake June 4, 2009Go go creative commons and go go licensing fees. MediaShift takes a look at iffy fair use rules and the wobbly future of news copyright on the Web through the epic toils of AP's legal staff. I've always tried to follow the fair-use-doesn't-exist rule. The Copyright Act stipulations take too long to translate and are a little [...] […]
- News tidbits I bet you didn’t know June 4, 2009Did you know there's a newspaper (or a few) per continent including Antarctica? Or how about the lyrics to "The Washington Post March" (born and raised in Fairfax, Va. and even I didn't know that!) Check out this list of nine things you probably didn't know about the news. My favorite: "You've probably heard the New York [. […]
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- FLY BENEATH THE SEA February 3, 2010Check out the new toy being deliverd this month to the private Caribbean island of Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Unlimited. For $25,000 you can rent Branson's underwater airplane for a week. ''Unlike all conventional submersibles which use ballast to sink in the water, the DeepFlight submersibles uses downward ‘lift’ on the wings to fly down t […]
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- TIME FOR ‘24′: What’s Jack Bauer got on his wrist this year January 15, 2010- A new season of '24' brings Jack back for 2 hours Sunday night (and 2 more on Monday) to set the stage for the season. If you wanna be like Jack, while you're ducking and reloading and running from place to place to place, you'll need a good watch. After all, in Bauer time, [...] […]
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- NEXUS ONE TROUBLE: Google should search itself January 11, 2010- Reports are growing that right out of the box, the Nexus One is having issues. First issue is that people can't get them out of the box: Mobile phone users are complaining that Google isn't shipping fast enough. And people who received one, they're having real trouble getting support. Google's response to these issues: You have to [...] […]
- The Christmas Tree Rocket January 9, 2010We're taking down the Christmas tree today and right about now I wish I had studied my differential calculus a bit more. Wonder if I could do that with my washing machine. […]
- NEXUS NONE: Google phone released January 6, 2010-Listen closely and ... pffffft ... you can hear air coming out of the new Nexus One smartphone from Google. Great Gods, when it was released for sale Tuesday afternoon, the Earth didn't quake, clouds didn't part and angels didn't sing. You only heard Google touting it. To cut through 2009's relentless hype and verbiage surrounding this [ […]
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- Nuts to AT&T and its no-tether, no-MMS ways June 9, 2009Just about tech blog in the U.S. is currently bitching about yesterday's news that AT&T will NOT be supporting many of the newest features on the iPhone 3G, like MMS and tethering. Instead of echoing their gripes, I'd instead like to kindly point you to a petition to get Ma Bell to please, please join the [...] […]