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Christopher “moot” Poole, the young founder of the irascible online forum 4chan, will speak in February at the TED Conference, the elite gathering of thought leaders whose video-taped talks have become immensely popular online. Read More »

Is nothing sacred anymore? Is privacy just an outdated construct in light of new ways to harness personal information? We interview Blippy co-founder Philip Kaplan about his new site for sharing and socializing around personal transaction information. Read More »

FreeAllMusic, an Atlanta-based startup, thinks it can buck the trend of flameouts in the free ad-supported music space with a refined model — and it’s already convinced two major labels to come on board. Read More »

The third annual Crunchies awards ceremony, scheduled to be held on Jan. 8, 2010, at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, is approaching. As of now, you can vote for the finalists. Here’s how. Read More »

Business Intelligence (BI) applications have been growing in sophistication for years, and while historically many of the best ones were expensive, tough-to-use tools, there are now numerous easy, free, open-source alternatives. Here are five that can help you better understand your business. Read More »

Kevin sifts through the thousands of gadgets he tried this year, and serves up the cream of the crop, including some suprises. Read More »

As the web and search get more up-to-the-minute, relevant and timely advertising shouldn’t be far behind. OneRiot, a Boulder, Colo.-based startup, this morning is launching a stream of real-time ads on currently trending topics. Read More »

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Top 10 Trends for the Smart Grid in 2010, Courtesy of Ray Bell

The founder and CEO of Grid Net foresees numerous Smart Grid alliances involving major tech companies, the birth of “retail energy,” an easing of security debates, and much more. Read More »

App Analytics Startups Flurry & Pinch Media Merge

Flurry Media and Pinch Media are merging to form a new app analytics company: Flurry Media. The new firm’s analytics services will run on more than 80 percent of all iPhoneOS and Android handsets. Read More »

Chorus App Gives Voice to iPhone Users

The new App Store offering Chorus leverages user recommendations to give iPhone users an alternative to Apple’s list of best-selling apps when shopping in the App Store. And that’s good news for consumers who are bewildered by all the choices in Apple’s ever-growing storefront. Read More »

November 2009: State of Location Apps

A survey of major mobile app stores shows that nearly 57 percent of paid applications in the Apple App Store have location-based functionality vs. 49 percent in RIM’s BlackBerry App World and 21 percent in Google’s Android Market. Read More »

Facebook Users Give Up Cursing, Use Shorthand Instead

Facebook users now swear in code. Over the last year the site’s status messages have contained remarkably fewer average curse words than in years past, according to stats the company released today, but far more instances of the acronym “FML.” Read More »

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