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TechCrunch to Endorse Presidential Candidate
TechCrunch has opened a poll for readers to vote on which candidate they would like TechCrunch to endorse. What makes this poll a bit different is TechCrunch will be endorsing two presidential candidates, one from each party. You can vote once a day.
TechCrunch has also been interviewing each candidate on technology issues which you can [...]
Testing Out Hulu
I was able to snag an invite from GigaOM to the Hulu beta. So far its pretty cool. They offer full episodes of shows like The Office, Chuck, Family guy, plus more. Here’s an episode from The Office:
I had to resize the episode so it would fit in the blog without overlapping the sidebar, but [...]
Facebook Apologizes for Beacon
The New York Times has an article on their Bits blog about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook apologizing for their Beacon program and now allowing users to opt-out completely instead of having to opt-out on a per site basis. This is a nice gesture, but I feel that Beacon should have been an opt-in program from [...]
Facebook Beacon Alert
Aaron Brazell has released a Firefox extension that alerts a user when they are visiting a site that participates in the Facebook Beacon program to better judge if they want to continue using the site and have their information shared with Facebook.
Here Comes Another Bubble
As seen on TechCrunch:
You can also download an mp3 of the song from The Richter Scales website.
EFF confirms Bittorrent Interfence by Comcast
Ars Technica reported yesterday about a study published by the EFF that confirms Comcast is interfering with bittorrent traffic regardless if its being used legally to share things that are public domain. I’ve noticed this myself when using bittorrent to download Ubuntu ISO’s. This study confirms what was reported in October by the Associated Press.
“Comcast [...]
My blog posts are now also available on my Facebook profile. My Facebook profile is pretty much used to congregate everything I use (blog, twitter, etc) into one place. Feel free to add me as a friend.
Gmail now offers Free IMAP.
As reported earlier on TechCrunch, Google has begun offering free IMAP support for all gmail accounts. This is excellent because it now keeps all email clients in sync which is especially useful on mobile phones and pda’s that don’t support the gmail java app. My free gmail account has the settings for turning on IMAP, [...]
Ask the GOP Candidates
From the EFF Deeplinks Blog:
On November 28, the Republican candidates for President will face questions from the public in the form of user-generated video clips uploaded to YouTube. (A similar event was held by Democrats last July.) We hope the candidates get to hear from Kim LeBiavant, who has a very important question regarding [...]
Halo 3 - My Review
So this past weekend I completed the Halo 3 campaign and I have to say, while the graphics and game play was amazing, I was a bit let down by the length of the game. It seemed like as soon as I started, I was finished. Guess I was just expecting more from the third [...]
