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My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 010110

From the home office in the future, where I’m currently reviewing all these 2010 predictions with a skeptical eye… #1 : How Companies Increase Innovation – WSJ.com #innovation http://post.ly/GubP #2 : RT @ chuckfrey Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on two ways to approach customer-focused innovation: http://ow.ly/QIbl #innovation #strategy #3 : RT @ briansolis Ideas Connect Us More than Relationships (video interview) http://bit.ly/8wPTzf #4 : Outstanding, detailed post on Enterprise 2.0 adoption from @ ITSinsider & the @ 20adoption council: http://bit.ly/516Cv4 #e20 #5 : Designing For Social Traction by Joshua Porter #design http://post.ly/GoE6 #6 : Intellipedia anyone?

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Key Systems Biology Components Of Therasis Filter™ Lead To Discovery Of Genes That Drive Aggressiveness Of Brain Cancer (Medical News Today)

Co-Founder, Andrea Califano, Ph.D., and Wei Keat Lim, Ph.D., Head of Computational Systems Biology at Therasis, along with a team of scientists at Columbia University, have reported in the journal Nature the identification of two genes that, when simultaneously activated, cause the most lethal form of glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor. The findings were first published in an advanced …

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New media firm gets Taiwan animated – 03 Jan 10

Taiwan’s overcrowded media landscape has been joined by a company providing animated representations of the news online. But the sometimes graphic animated stories have brought the company into trouble with the law and sparked debate on what images news organisations can reasonably show

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TSA Backs Down, Withdraws Subpoenas Against Two Journalists (Fox News)

The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration has withdrawn subpoenas ordering two journalists to turn over all documents and e-mails related to how they obtained TSA security regulations that temporarily restricted passenger movement and activities on international flights.

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Cable TV standoffs leave consumers to pay more for programming, risk losing shows (Los Angeles Times)

CHICAGO (AP) — Many questions remain for cable TV viewers nationwide even after Fox and Time Warner Cable settled their noisy spat with a New Year’s Day agreement.

Some of My Goals for 2010

My Own Top Five Technical Goals 1. Diversify! It’s time to put some energy into some new projects. 2. Learn something new. This list could be one of its own. At the top of that list would probably be mobile development. I have plenty of good ideas. Time to execute. There are also a lot of new .NET development tools I’d like to get my hands on. I want to read more on design methodologies, web 2.0, and usability as well

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International Sportmen’s Expo 2010: Coming soon to a convention center near you

The folks running this year’s International Sportsmen’s Expo have agreed to put on the show without the need to sit in the dead center of the room so you can actually enjoy it. The default viewing format is 3D, but you won’t see anybody fighting over anti-gravity rocks by shooting recurve bows from atop technicolor flying dragons

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Kosovo Muslim goes on New Year’s Eve murder spree: kills 5 at Finland Shopping Centre, Apartment complex

As the shocking news of the Kosvoan murder spree hits European newswires, many are now looking into the gunman’s…

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Reports of the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposia.(Reports): An article …

This digital document is an article from AI Magazine, published by American Association for Artificial Intelligence on September 22, 2009. The length of the article is 5905 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical …

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Arduino Headed for One Point Oh

In a recent blog post , [Massimo] stated that there will be some stabilizing changes coming for the Arduino platform. The API, IDE, and even the website are targets for the Arduino team’s New Year’s resolutions to bring Arduino to 1.0. This platform is often seen at the core of projects we cover and many that we do not or should not cover

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The crash can happen again Pt4

Robert Johnson: Nothing in current financial reform legislation will stop another crash …

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NUJP sets up fund for journalists killed in Maguindanao (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)

MANILA, Philippines – The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has set up a Justice Fund for families of victims of the November 23 Maguindanao massacre, which killed 30 journalists.

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Time Warner Cable, Fox Reach Programming Distribution Agreement (BusinessWeek)

News Corp.’s Fox network reached an “in principle” programming distribution agreement with Time Warner Cable Inc. covering more than 13 million households.

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Lightning Rod: keeps you safe from dirty Flashers

A new open source package called Lightning Rod will help to close security exploits in Adobe’s dirty Flash code. A presentation made at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress showed that the package does its job by reviewing incoming code before the browser executes it. Heise Online is reporting that this method can block over 20 different known attacks and can even be used to filter out malicious JPG attacks.

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What Should We Teach Software Developers

The great thing about having the career and credentials that Bjarne Stroustrup has is that he can talk about the “Emperor’s clothing” with out people saying “you don’t know what you are talking about.” So it was with interest that grew with each paragraph that I read his recent article in CACM. ( What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why?) One telling quote: I see the mismatch between what universities produce and what industry needs as a threat to both the viability of CS and to the computing industry.

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East-side hardware store is last of dying breed (The Des Moines Register)

Step into Fairground Hardware and take a trip back in time. From the antique collections on the walls to the homemade peanut brittle by the cash register, the store has little in common with the big-box retailers who are commanding much of the business its owners need.

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BlackBerry Storm2 (Verizon) – Hardware

Aaron takes a gander at the BlackBerry Storm2’s physical hardware and tests out the voice capabilities in part two of the BlackBerry Storm2 multi-part video series. Forums: forums.phonedog.com Win Free Phones www.phonedog.com More Videos: www.phonedog.com

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Exceptional Mathematical and Computer Science Grounded PhD's – $80 …

Exceptional Mathematical and Computer Science Grounded PhD’s – $80k + Bonus My client, one of the biggest names in the trading market place is currently seeking an exceptional PhD candidate who has strong academic skills in:  PhD in …

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Groovle 1 Google 0 Over domain name claim fight

Groovle 1 Google 0 Over domain name claim fight When search giant Google Inc filed a claim against small Canadian search engine Groovle.com, Google lawyers probably thinks is a forgone conclusion that Groovel.com will be transferred to them as indicated in the case Google inc filed against Groovel.com, after all, in the previous 64 cased filed by Google about domain names, 63 has been upheld in Google’s favour. Google argue that Groovel.com owned by 207 Media, was too similar to its own, however mediators in the case disagree with Google and refuse to grant the transfer of Groovel.com to Google, the 3 Judges at the body that arbitrated on the case were unanimous in their decision, they added in their statement that the name was not similar enough to confuse people and the word ‘groovle’ was more closely linked to “groovy” or “groove” rather than Google.

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