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5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: The Open Source Opportunity In a tough job market, there are opportunities for people with open source skills. 33 Ways to Use LinkedIn for Business Is your LinkedIn account… Read More »

 
 

Energy Information Displays: Moving to a Free Model?

Earth2Tech has been closely following the flurry of activity in the home energy management arena in recent months, of which Energy Information Displays (EIDs) are a key component. Product offerings in this burgeoning space range from robust home automation and control systems from companies like Agilewaves… Read More »

We’re all about small systems here on jkOnTheRun and so are many of the readers. We have previously published my “smallest desktop system” but reader A. Hammoud of Kuwait has me beat. He uses a Viliv S5 UMPC with 5-inch screen, a Stowaway portable keyboard… Read More »

[appreview] title=Phaze image=http://gigapple.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/phaze_icon.png price=$4.99 url=http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=317439506&mt=8 rating=silver [/appreview] Years ago I discovered a little futuristic hovercraft racing game on the PlayStation called Wipeout. The concept was simple, and in many ways it was pretty much the same gameplay as Mario Kart or Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart. What set it apart was that there were… Read More »

Daily Sprout

BP Drops Jatropha: BP has “given up on jatropha, the shrub once touted as the great hope for biofuels, and walked away from its jatropha joint venture for less than $1 million.” — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Palin Climate Smackdown, Round 2: After Sen. John Kerry lambasted… Read More »

General Electric’s Net Zero Energy Home project unveiled this week highlights the rising branding power of “net zero” buildings. The laudable goal of making buildings produce as much energy as they consume is easy for consumers to understand and easy for companies to use as… Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/iNh8P6-02ZU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 I mentioned earlier this week that I’m interested in looking at the new ASUS Eee PC 1101HA when it launches locally. For now, I can get this first look that Johannes offers — he unboxes the new netbook over in Germany. Due to… Read More »

You get mixed messages from movies and TV sometimes. So many dramas and comedies are framed around the pursuit of romance, only to fade out once the relationship is consummated. Meanwhile, the stories about those already in relationships are mostly about how much that sucks.… Read More »

Recently, I went to check on an open-source drawing program called Draw, which used to be from Cumulate Labs, and was a pretty good tool for creating diagrams; effectively an online equivalent of Microsoft Visio. When I went to the site, I found that it’s been… Read More »

More Must Reads

Sampa, a secure, weblog-style site where families can post events, videos, pictures and stories, says it’s shutting down in August because the 4-year-old startup ran out of money. Founder and CTO Marcelo Calbucci outlined the reasons behind Sampa’s closure in a blog post today… Read More »

With every day that passes we become more convinced that the Internet in our hands aka on our mobile devices is going to define network usage and innovation. According to some estimates, the consumption of data on mobiles will near an exabyte by the end of… Read More »

The conference call date for Apple’s latest quarterly numbers was finally announced this week as being at Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. PDT. The biggest question isn’t about profit or sales, however, but who will be doing the speaking: Could it be Steve Jobs? Jobs was last… Read More »

Smartphones have grown in capability over time, and that growth has led to a great deal of usefulness that extends far beyond the simple phone call. Today’s smartphones can tap into the web at a deep level, keeping owners connected in numerous ways. Many smartphones now… Read More »

We caught up with two of the biggest players in Desertec, Schott Solar CSP and Siemens AG, at the Intersolar solar conference this week and asked them what the game plan is for pulling off what — at a cost of $555 billion and with… Read More »

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