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Tidemark, once known as Proferi, emerged from stealth mode today and launched its promised cloud-based enterprise performance management offering with help from Terremark, Cloudera, SnapLogic, and VMware. In addition, Peter Currie joined David Duffield and Ben Horowitz on the Tidemark board. Read more »

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Researchers are already predicting how the nuclear disaster in Japan will affect the nuclear industry. According to Mark Cooper, a senior fellow at Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and Environment, construction costs of nuclear reactors are likely to soar for awhile. Read more »

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Fiction writer and e-book pioneer Joe Konrath makes a nice living for himself by publishing his own works through Amazon. That fact, among others, begs the question: Is the future of publishing actually one of self-publishing? And will Amazon be the new weapon of mass destruction ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Barack Obama’s $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants, announced today, is aimed at building more massive, gigawatt-sized reactors. Still, that same budget request could represent opportunity for startups venturing into the world of nuclear power. Read more »

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We’d like to say thanks to this month’s WebWorkerDaily sponsors: Rackspace: Experience fanatical support. FreshBooks: Look Professional with FreshBooks. Read more »

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Don’t feel so comfortable with a hot-tub sized nuclear power generator buried under your feet? Perhaps those that mine and process Canada’s tar sands deposits will feel differently — at least that’s the hope of Hyperion, a startup developing a modular nuclear device. Hyperion floated the […] Read more »

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UPDATED Steven Chu established himself as a well-known scientist and administrator years ago, running the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and winning a Nobel Prize. He has called for urgent action on climate change and (now famously) described coal as his “worst nightmare,” so cheers from environmental […] Read more »

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Growing support for nuclear energy in the U.S. has hinged on three key arguments in recent years: It offers a carbon-free alternative to coal; a domestic alternative to petroleum; and a supposedly cheaper, more reliable alternative to renewable sources like wind and solar. But according to […] Read more »

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We’ve brought you the victories and the disappointments of the year in cleantech, and now here’s a top 10 list that’s a little more personal: The top 10 Earth2Tech stories of 2008. The list is a combo of reader favorites — page views and number of […] Read more »

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Is this the first nation-wide Rickroll? Never let it be said again that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is out of touch — this morning the Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends float surprised, well, the entire nation with Never Gonna Give You Up and the ACTUAL […] Read more »

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Taking another move from the Facebook playbook, LinkedIn has started their own application platform they’re calling “InApps.” Don’t worry…no movie quizzes, Scrabble games or pokes in the bunch. Instead, Linked in has partnered with well-known companies with business-ready productivity applications to provide apps that users can […] Read more »

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A lot of the responses to our posts on startup Hyperion Power Generation and its nuclear-in-a-box solution have questioned whether this is a serious solution or not. Well, folks, the company says it has signed up its first customer, TES Group, which it says is an […] Read more »

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Hyperion Power Generation, a startup building compact nuclear power reactor units that are “about the size of a typical backyard hot tub”, says commercial deployments could start as early as 2013. The release quotes the company’s CEO John “Grizz” Deal, who says the Santa Fe, New […] Read more »

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Everything is going portable these days, but . . . nuclear reactors? Hyperion Power Generation, a startup based in Santa Fe, N.M., is working on a self-contained compact nuclear power reactor unit that it says is “about the size of a typical backyard hot tub” (a […] Read more »

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This is just pitiful. As if “crapware”, the extra apps that you’ll likely never use, isn’t enough of a nuisance, Sony is now charging $49.95 for the honor of removing said “crapware” from some Sony PCs before shipping. This is ridiculous and I personally think the […] Read more »

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I’m a web worker who is constantly using Google Docs.  It’s a service that is very easy to use.  It’s accessible wherever I can get online and it’s a fully functional word processor that has all the features I need on a daily basis.  There are […] Read more »

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VideoEgg, which has gotten more than a few press mentions today regarding the similarity of its overlaid video ad format to the one YouTube just launched, isn’t pulling any punches. The San Francisco-based startup has redesigned its homepage to state “Welcome, YouTube. Seriously.” And then, for […] Read more »

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After bumping into the World Series of Poker (WSOP) a bajillion times on late-night sports channels, I wanted to find an easy way to hone my skills in Texas Hold ‘Em, without having to lose my shirt (and money) at Vegas or my dignity among friends […] Read more »

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We can debate iTunes vs. Zune Marketplace (vs. Yahoo! Music, Rhapsody, Napster, etc…) until the Beatles finally appear in one of them; in the meantime, if you’re a true audiophile, consider stopping by MusicGiants. MusicGiants provides a music download store filled with lossless recordings. Instead of […] Read more »

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Hey, what’s the big idea? We work hard on a mobile-friendly feed and now Newsgator comes out with Newsgator Go! for mobile feeds. Well, in their defense, the Windows Mobile 2003 / 5.0 software lets you read ALL of your feeds on a mobile device. But […] Read more »

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Saturday was one of those mellow days when all you want to do is walk around and just soak in the sun, and do some people watching. It started off with a quick brunch and then a visit down to the Union Square Shopping District, where […] Read more »

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Okay with all the idle chatter about Apple’s IPhone, there might be something in the works. Type IPHONE.ORG and guess where it takes you. Actually the domain name is registered to Apple. The domain name was registered in 1999, and last updated on July 27, 2004. […] Read more »