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| A380 evacuation: as unreal as it gets |
| Published: May 1, 2007, 3:54 pm |
| Tags: Airplanes, Civil Aviation, Commercial Aviation, Multi Engine Jet, Aviation News, Aviation Technology |
| I will let you guys decide for yourselves but I think this evacuation is not realistic enough. If there were 873 soldiers aboard I can imagine them being that organized to evacuate but can you imagine children, freaked-out drunks, pregnant women and the elderly in that mix? |
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| Aeroflot is considering the purchase of ten A330s from Airbus |
| Published: December 13, 2006, 4:59 pm |
| Tags: Airplanes, Military Aviation, Civil Aviation, Multi Engine Jet, Aviation News, Aviation Technology |
| Aeroflot is making a smart move here in my opinion. They have recently purchase 5% of EADS (which stands for European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company) which happens to be the company that owns, among others, Airbus. They make a lot of stuff, but most interestingly, Galileo which is the non-military (sort of) version of the GPS network. Why? |
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| Yahoo Adds Shortcuts to Travel Section in SERPs |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 6:21 pm |
| Tags: Technology, International, Yahoo, Social Networking, Marketing, Seo |
| Yahoo just launched a really cool new feature that shows you travel related content on travel.yahoo.com for the city or location that you searched. Take a look at the new format: Yahoo’s new format features several important things that people look for when they type-in a geo-related search: Visitor guide, Hotels, Restaurant guide, Maps, |
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| Divx to spin off its Stage6 video-sharing site |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: Investing, Technology, Mobile, Marketing |
| videos that uses technology from its publicly traded parent company Divx, has been growing so fast that Divx has experienced a sharp up-tick in operating expenses, lowering its overall operating income. So San Diego's DivX will spin out Stage6, which will now seek venture funding. Unique visitors to Stage6 numbered 10 million in June, |
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| Going.com Raises $5 Million To Market It's Event Site |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 1:22 pm |
| Tags: Technology, Investing, Social Networking, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains |
| Going.com is really getting things going in the fundraising strategy, raising $5 million to help its self grow quicker than it’s competition. Going.com has grow to a half million users, most of which are in the hot demographic of 20-somethings from San Francisco, New York City, Chicago and Boston. General Catalyst and Highland Capital have |
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| 50+ Tools For The WordPress Admin |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:56 pm |
| Tags: Technology, Blogging, Gadgets, Copywriting, Social Networking, Marketing, Mobile, Domains |
| Mashable has a great list of over 50 tools for Wordpress Admin management. Here’s the full list, and there are more details over at Mashable. 404 Notifier - Gives you a log of all your 404 errors so you can see why your readers are ending up on broken pages. Admin Dropdown Menus - Make your crowded admin panel menus neat and orderly by |
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| Jangl Signs Justin.tv - Reaching 20 Million People |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:09 pm |
| Tags: Blogging, Technology, Social Networking, Mobile, Marketing |
| and they are branding their technology as just that. Anonymous VoIP service is one of the factors driving their brand and tapping into the social networks will allow them to grab a hold on this lucrative market. One of Jangl’s competitors, Jaxtr has grown to 500,000 users, and is expanding its global strategy to launch in 18 more |
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| Business.com Sells for nearly $350 million |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 11:54 am |
| Tags: International, Technology, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains |
| Telephone-directory company R.H. Donnelley Corp. clinched a deal for Web-based marketing directory Business.com Inc. for between $340 million and $360 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction. In 1999 business.com was founded by Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton that bought the name for $7.5 million, which was a lot of money at the |
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| Google Opts Adsense Publishers into Pay Per Action Ads |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 11:25 am |
| Tags: Technology, Social Networking, Google, Mobile |
| Google is reportedly opting publishers into CPA Pay Per Action ads for adsense on a large scale. DigitalPoint members have been reporting this all day today One publisher said that Google emailed him saying he “has been selected to” be automatically entered into his ads showing Pay Per Action ads. Within five days, Google will |
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| Suing Facebook: Oh Wait You Mean I need Evidence to Sue? |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 11:03 am |
| Tags: Legal, Blogging, Technology, Google, Marketing |
| The battle over facebook intellectual property is heating up as the Gederal Judge pushes back in Boston. Massachusetts Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock repeatedly suggested that ConnectU hadn't provided enough evidence to support their claim that Zuckerberg had built Facebook on code used by ConnectU. Claims must have a factual basis, the |
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| Pool Wins Bid to Be Official Auctioneer for .ASIA LandRush |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 8:14 pm |
| Tags: Investing, Landrushes, Technology, Acquisitions, Domain Auctions, Domains |
| Pool has won the bid to be the official auction house for .ASIA domains during the land rush period. If a domain gets more than 2 requests for registration, then it will be auctioned at Pool. The process will employ EPP Commands and can be white-labeled by registrars for full integration. More details from pool More details on .ASIA |
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| Baidu 2nd-Quarter Profit, Sales More Than Double; Shares Soar Aftermarket |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 8:06 pm |
| Tags: Investing, China, Technology, Social Networking, Domains |
| WOW! Chinese search engine operator Baidu.com Inc. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit and revenue more than doubled, easily surpassing Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s American Depositary shares soared nearly 20 percent in after-hours electronic trading as a result. Baidu earned 141.9 million yuan ($18.6 million), up |
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| Why the BMI is a crock of...well, you get the idea |
| Published: July 19, 2007, 1:56 pm |
| Tags: Science And Technology |
| I read this article today about the growing number of people who are overweight or obese. This really ticked me off.If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted on Wednesday.I'm overweight. In fact, according to the BMI |
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| BBC News, Translation tool may aid troops, 13 July... |
| Published: July 13, 2007, 1:12 pm |
| Tags: Technology, Al Qaeda, Iranian Cyberspace |
| will be integrated into this technology (English-Arabic). This is being developed in conjunction |
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| Re: Virtual Reality |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 9:41 am |
| Tags: Religion Society, Technology, Trends |
| Faith, not fair: I thought that your post was about this song. You wonder "why?" First, there are lyrics like And I'm thinking in what a mess we're in Hard to know when to begin If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made And now every mother can choose the color of her child That's not nature's way Well that's what they |
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