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Given the recent Twitter problems of the last week, similar to the months ago when Twitter was down almost as much as it was up, I decided I should compile a list of things that people can do while Twitter is down or showing the Fail Whale.
1.  Use other services similar to Twitter.
There are [...]

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When I arrived at my Google Reader this morning, I saw a post on the Official Google Blog announcing that the ad deal between Google and Yahoo is off.  The reason?  Government.
Google claims that the deal was attracting too much attention from government officials and they wanted to avoid a drawn out legal battle [...]

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If you are like me and are a huge fan of Gmail, there is another great new feature for the popular email service from Google.  In the past couple of weeks, there have been several new features added to Gmail including canned responses and an e-mail sobriety test.  There is yet another new feature [...]

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I’ve spent most of the day catching up on podcasts, when I heard about the new auction site Swoopo from Ken Rutkowski of one of my favorite podcasts, KenRadio.  If you haven’t heard of Swoopo, I wouldn’t be too surprised as it is a new auction site that is unlike any auction I have [...]

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I came across a link to a really cool site.  Have you ever wondered where your surname (last name) came from?  Have you wondered were you are most likely to run into people with the same surname, potentially distant relatives?  This site will tell you all of that and more!
Public Profiler will tell you [...]

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I hadn’t planned on blogging any more today until I saw that Comcast (who I typically refer to as Crapcast) finally decided to come clean about its traffic management techniques.  Unfortunately it took a ruling from the FCC to get this kind of transparency.  Before I give my thoughts on their techniques and what [...]

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As I am sure you are aware by now, the FCC ruled against Comcast for throttling P2P traffic and has been ordered to stop and disclose all of their “network management” practices.  Comcast responded by saying they are working on a “protocol agnostic” system for managing their traffic which should be in place by [...]

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Sorry it has been so long since I wrote anything.  Starting today, that will change.  Today I wanted to talk a bit about Google Chrome.  So without further delay, here are my thoughts on Google’s Chrome browser.
I will start off with what the browser does well.  The browser is amazingly fast.  Thanks to the [...]

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For those that haven’t heard, the number of computers in use around the world has hit 1 Billion!  Im not sure if I am more suprised that we have hit this mark or that we haven’t hit this mark until now.
According to this story, the primary reason for hitting this number now and the [...]

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I have some rather suprising news for you today.  I have been banned from Digg.com!  For those who don’t know what happend, I will catch you up to speed before I post all correspondence that I had with Digg support.
Last week I made a wrote one of my insightful blog posts about Cisco’s predictions [...]

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