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Stack Overflow – Where Experts Exchange Information

May 17th, 2009 No Comments

Last year a new Q&A site for developers called Stack Overflow was opened to the public. We covered the site a bit on an episode of the AGP a few months back, but I just realized the other day that I hadn’t posted about it here.
The site is focused on the interaction between software [...]

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Goodbye Grand Central, Hello Google Voice!

March 12th, 2009 1 Comment

Google today announced a new service to (some of) it’s customers called Google Voice. The service works very similarly to Grand Central (which the big G acquired back in 2007).
The system allows you to create a single phone number, to which you can aggregate other numbers to have a unified system for voice and [...]

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Twitter Acquires Sandy and Stikkit

December 15th, 2008 No Comments

Here’s a clip of a post I did over on the AGP Blog about the acquisition of Sandy & Stikkit by Twitter. It’s going to be very interesting to see what Twitter decides to do with the newly acquired technology, particularly in the wake of reduced services in nearl every country outside the US (read: [...]

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Get more written: Write or Die

December 7th, 2008 No Comments

I came across this web application a few weeks back while listening to AmberMac’s dulcet tones on CommandN #156.  The application is called Write or Die written by Dr. Wicked, and its aim is to make you a more productive writer.
Write or Die provides you motivation to write not based on the positive reinforcement of [...]

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