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  • Starbucks’ WiFi goes Google

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    Starbucks dumps AT&T WiFi for Google.

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  • Turntable.fm

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    Anyone try turntable.fm yet? You can chat and DJ for each other in a room. I’ve been on and it seems pretty interesting. I believe it’s still in beta right now and open only to those who have Facebook friends who are already on. So all my facebook friends can log on now. Let me…

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  • Quick, Grab Your Arabic Domain Name

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    Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called “country codes” written in Arabic scripts. The move is the first step to allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil.

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  • New Facebook Homepage

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    Just a new hompage for facebook today when I logged out. I didn’t notice anything else that was new. So what’s the verdict? Who like the old fb and who likes the new?

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  • “Stuff People Like” Websites

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    Stuff White People Like and Stuff Korean Moms Like.

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  • Google Chrome Beta Download (Windows Only)

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    Edit: Sept. 3, 2008 me: i miss my adblocker joey: it has adblock joey: doesn’t it joey: o wait it doesn’t joey: lol it doesnt’ block google ads oh, and type about:internets into the address bar to get a fun little animation. If you haven’t heard the news, Google released its own browser today. Google…

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  • IE: stupid or superb

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    Joey: internet explorer is the stupidest browser ever madde me: nice me: haha Joey: there’s so much stuff that works on other browsers but not IE me: yep me: johnny doesnt think so Joey: and now there’s little button that works on IE 6 but not IE 7 me: neither does my friend hsin Joey:…

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  • Where…is Matt? (2008)

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    I’m glad to be home, but I sure miss traveling already.  Watching this video doesn’t quite help with it either…it’s so amazing.

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  • Facebook in Real Life?

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    British comedy group Idiots of Ants shows what Facebook might look like in real life. High five to Laughingsquid.

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  • Dark XP and Gmail

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    For everyone who has followed me on the internet all these years, they know that I have a dark side. I absolutely LOVE dark-themed websites, for some reason. All my websites have been dark, save my very first Blogger template. I even wrote about the switch from light to dark back in 2002. Too bad…

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  • Creepy Lady Following Your Mouse

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    Ew, another creepy flash-based site. It took awhile to load, so be patient. High-five to Laughing Squid.

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  • Google Goes Black to Go Green

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    Is black the new green? Google turned its home page black in support of Earth Hour. TechCrunch brings up a good point: Google, ironically, is causing more people to visit their site, using even more power to celebrate Earth Hour than they would on a normal day. It looks so funny that it almost made…

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  • It’s I-Don’t-Care Friday!

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    I absolutely LOVE Hoops & Yoyo. Here’s an e-card for today from Hallmark. Got that report done? Nope! Why? It’s I-don’t-care Friday!! Yeah!

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  • What’s this Twitter thing?

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    Am I the only one out of all my friends who uses Twitter? Maybe it’s because I’m the biggest internet geek I know or it’s because of my unlimited free texting that comes with my phone plan. Either way, there’s so much hype about it nowadays that I finally had to see why people like…

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  • City!N launches in China

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    City!N (read CityIN), is a new China-based social networking site that launched earlier this month. An article at VentureBeat explains why it’s a bit different from Facebook. Users create profiles where they explain their interests such as favorite movies, cars, or celebrities. They rate items and then the site recommends other people in the same…

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  • World Pillow Fight Day

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    World Pillow Fight Day – March 22, 2008. Massive pillow fights will be happening all over the world, except San Francisco, because we already had ours on Valentine’s Day. Too bad I missed it this year. But guess what? They’ve got it going on in Beijing and Shanghai. Fun.

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  • Google Sky

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    Google Sky. Why? Just because Google can.

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  • Hulu Now Live

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    Hulu is now live. Watch thousands of TV-Movie videos for free!

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  • Gmail now supports IMAP

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    Yay. I’ve been waiting a long time for this. It really helps when you use different devices, or computers for me, to check email.

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  • Burning Up in SoCal

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    Charissa: socal is burning up like crazy me: really? Charissa: yeah me: yeah, it’s been pretty hot here too Charissa: nooo Charissa: fires That’s what I get for not watching the news on Sundays. Pray for all the SoCal folks please. +- On a different note– check out Crackbook: a hilarious spoof on the popular…

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