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There’s No Crying in Baseball – Follow These 4 Simple Rules There are a lot of mistakes that people make with their Web-based support strategy, and that’s understandable considering the pace of change in customer preferences and available technologies. That said, there are some basic, modern practices that every company should be working to...
The web may be more social now than ever before — but according to a recent study, there is still a lot more room to grow. Fewer than half of the world’s most highly trafficked websites link to either Facebook or Twitter on their front pages, according to new research conducted by SEO firm...
Image: Asa Mathat | All Things Digital See Also: Boehner Says There Is 50-50 Chance A Debt Ceiling Deal Will Be Reached In Next 48 Hours Obama, Congress Looking For “Bigness” In Debt Ceiling Deal Pelosi: “We are not Greece” Google has backed down from its previous stance and will let Chairman Eric Schmidt...
Image: Wikimedia Commons Jesus Diaz Top Stories of the Week Top Stories: Friday July 8, 2011 Mac OS X Lion: This Is Not the Future We Were Hoping For It breaks my heart to say this, but Mac OSX Lion’s interface feels like a failure. Its stated mission was to simplify the operating system,...
While streaming is all the rage these days, Netflix hasn’t given up on DVDs entirely: The company has quietly launched a new page where users can sign up for an unlimited DVD-by-mail package that matches the $7.99 price of its unlimited streaming offering. New users that go to dvd.netflix.com can sign up for an...
We’ve just gotten word that that Google is acquiring digital loyalty card service Punchd. The team, which consists of developers Reed Morse and Grantland Chew, will most likely still be working on Punchd within Google according to our source. The same source pegged the acquisition at under $10 million. Punchd, which is basically the...
Today might have marked the last Space Shuttle launch, but it is not the end of people going into space. In fact, technologist, angel investor, and space privatization advocate Esther Dyson says it’s only “the end of the beginning” and that private companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, and Xcor will...
The Innovation Center for Denmark and Start X Labs put on a brilliant event with co-founder of tech giant Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla. I was lucky to grab Vinod for a quick interview where he summarized his talk about how to teach entrepreneurs irreverence. “It’s important not to learn not to respect authority too much,”...
Italian telecom agency to review Internet filtering proposal. Italy’s telecommunications agency has decided to review its filtering regime with an eye toward possibly impinging on fewer individual liberties. Australia, on the other hand, has no such compunction. They’ve implemented their filtering system – oh, it’s for child porn, so don’t worry. One of the...