Mar 29
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Showcasing Music Artist like the Steve Miller Band, Katy Perry, Al Green, Korn, Elvis Costello, the Roots, Los Lobos, and Snoop Dogg The Beale Street Music Festival is just one part of the month-long international festival of the arts known as Memphis in May.
Mar 28
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Once as rooted in the Scottish soil as this city’s famous castle, the Royal Bank of Scotland ventured far during the era of globalization — pumping billions of dollars worth of credit overseas as it expanded into markets as diverse as Kazakhstan, China and Rhode Island.
Mar 28
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The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed Saturday as Sydney became the world’s first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.
Mar 27
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The news media’s online shift has begun to claim the print editions of some fairly large players like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Rocky Mountain News. If print media is to survive at all, it needs a new business model. Perhaps large dailies like the New York Times should consider weekly publication, writes E-Commerce Times columnist Theodore F. di Stefano.
Mar 26
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Dear FileFront User: We regret to inform you that due to the current economic conditions we are forced to indefinitely suspend the FileFront site operations on March 30, 2009. If you have uploaded files, images or posted blogs, or if you would like to download some of your favorite files, please take this opportunity to download them before March 30th when the site will be suspended. We would like to give a warm thank you to all of you who have been part of the FileFront communities we have built together. Your support has had a meaningful impact for all of us here at FileFront. Again, we want to give you a sincere “thank you” for your support over the years and wish you all the very best. Keep gaming alive, FileFront Management and Team.
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Mar 26
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Thelasko writes “In an effort to knock Buster’s socks off, the Mythbusters accidentally created an explosion so large it shattered windows in a small town over a mile from the blast site. The Mythbusters had the broken windows replaced the very same day. The Esparto, California fire chief says that several firefighters were on hand for the blast, but he didn’t notify residents because, ‘Mythbusters is supposed to be a really popular show. Everybody would have been out there. We would have had to cancel it because it would have been too dangerous.’”
Mar 25
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Biz Stone, Co-Founder
A roundup of media stories on the news today that Twitter will offer paid premium accounts to businesses.
From SF Business Times
Twitter founder Biz Stone said that the company has hired a product manager to develop accounts for businesses that would have more features but would cost a fee to use, the Wall Street Journal reports.
But Stone didn’t specify when these accounts would be rolled out. San Francisco-based Twitter has been growing rapidly, but the company hasn’t specified how it will make money.
Many people speculated that the company would turn to premium accounts, especially as more and more businesses signed up for the service.
More revenue for Twitter on the way: The company confirms — for the first time we’ve seen, at least — age-old theories that they’ll sell commercial accounts to power users or companies using Twitter.
In exchange for a fee, companies will get “more features” on Twitter, the WSJ reports
. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tells the WSJ that the company recently hired a product manager to help develop those accounts, but doesn’t specify what the extra features will be or when the accounts will launch.
From Wall Street Journal
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the San Francisco start-up is watching the outside initiatives closely as it prepares to launch its own fee-based services this year, but doesn’t view them as competition. “We want to work with those companies that are already making an effort,” he says.
Mr. Stone says Twitter recently hired a product manager to oversee the development of commercial accounts. The accounts would offer users more features in exchange for a fee, but Mr. Stone says Twitter hasn’t set a launch date for them.
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Mar 25
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iPhone is no stranger to competition. Just like its Mac cousins, it’s constantly in a market share race against a wide-open field of contenders, and it knows its way around a courtroom, where Apple’s lawyers have a habit of schooling the opposition. However, it might be games of a more casual nature that will really make or break the platform. iPhone and iPod touch games have been a breakout category in the iTunes App Store. Case in point: Just this week, Ngmoco got $10 million in its Series B round of funding.
Mar 25
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Project Hope near Duck Hill, Mississippi desperately needs contributions. An article this week in the Grenada Daily Star profiles their work in rescuing abused, abandoned, and disabled animals in Mississippi.
The sanctuary is in need of community support in order to stay open, according to Stanley. We are facing an animal crisis in this area. The sanctuary is the only home for many of these abandoned animals, but it takes money to care for them. We have had to get very creative with the money that we have, but in this economy we are blessed to still be open,” Stanley said. Stanley first came to Grenada 16 years ago to investigate an animal cruelty case. She decided to stay, and since that time has helped shut down puppy mills, a pet shop, hoarders (including one with 86 animals), and a supplier. Stanley said she has seen some unspeakable cases of animal cruelty and abuse, but very few of those have occurred in Grenada County. “It’s mind-boggling and even horrifying that there’s still so much to do, and yet it’s even more astonishing what can be achieved by so few people. Currently, we struggle for the time to address cruelty cases, but the may animals that we care for and place absolve us of guilt,” Stanley said.
Mar 24
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American workers — whose taxes pay for massive government health programs — are getting squeezed like no other group by private health insurance premiums that are rising much faster than their wages.
Mar 24
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Mar 24
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Thanks to the nation’s lowest jobless rate among large cities, Oklahoma City’s office market has not headed down the all-too-familiar slippery slope of rising vacancies and lower rents that many other metro areas have experienced over the past year. Not yet, anyway.
Vacancy in downtown Oklahoma City’s Class-A office submarket, the city’s largest, registered 9.6% at year-end 2008, down from 12.2% a year earlier, according to Price Edwards & Co., a local full-service real estate firm. Rental rates moved up from $17.08 to $17.34 per sq. ft. during the same period.
Mar 23
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The popular Twitter tool HootSuite has been down most of the afternoon. They are updating restoration status via their Twitter account.
Mar 23
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JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER
Written and issued from the woods near Natchez,
Mississippi, USA
March 23, 2009
*****
SAVANNAH SPARROW APPROACHABLENESS
At St. Catharine National Wildlife Refuge just south
of Natchez this week I was way out on a levee barely
rising above vast, silvery-surfaced, flooded fields on
both sides of me. I was the most conspicuous feature
on the landscape for miles around, so maybe that’s why
a certain little sparrow came to run and hop along the
water’s edge beside me as I hiked down the levee.
Mar 23
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The Obama administration is hoping it has finally come up with the right formula to resolve the nation’s worst banking crisis in 70 years.
Mar 22
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Lifesavers President Jill Starr says she and other shelter operators are witnessing an equine crisis.
“People have lost their homes, their jobs, their hope,” she said. “And they are giving up their animals.”
Mar 21
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The same week that Cisco Systems rolled out its ambitious Unified Computing System data center initiative, a startup is coming out with its own integrated network infrastructure designed to address the complexity, cost and scaling issues within data centers as the demand for online services and cloud computing grows.
InteliCloud is prepping its InteliCloud 360 offering for an evaluation period that will extend into June, according to President and CEO Ken Hubbard.
Mar 21
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When Ben Schreiner, a 62-year-old retired Bank of America executive, found out last year he would need surgery for a double hernia, he started evaluating possible doctors and hospitals. But he didn’t look into the medical center in his hometown, Camden, South Carolina, or the bigger hospitals in nearby Columbia. Instead, his search led him to consider surgery in such far-flung places as Ireland, Thailand and Turkey.
Mar 21
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Popular online sites such as Facebook and Twitter have created huge followings, prodding companies to harness social networks for business uses.
Social networks let users share updates on their activities in online settings. This goes beyond instant messaging and other features of in-house corporate computer networks. Users can easily access related materials in these shared spaces, such as photos, videos, wikis, news feeds, slide shows and online chats
Mar 21
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After announcing it would lay off 18 employees earlier this month, The Commercial Appeal has laid off a group of long-time staffers including Jimmie Covington, the paper’s most senior reporter; copy editor Mark Watson, who was also president of The TriCouncil which represents union employees at the paper; Bill Day, editorial cartoonist; and reporters Jim Masilak, Frederick Koeppel and Christopher Blank. Industry sources also report another round of layoffs could come in June.
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