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Google suffered the glitch of all glitches earlier this morning.
If you happened to be doing a search on Google, you likely got this message when you clicked on one of the results:
“Warning: Visiting This Web Site May Harm Your Computer!”
Of course, this message appeared on EVERY single result.  I even got the message [...]

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Ma.gnolia is having one of those days.
The popular bookmarking service has gone completely offline, experiencing data corruption that “will take days, not hours,” to rectify. Here’s the full scoop from Ma.gnolia’s Larry Haff:
Dear Ma.gnolia Community Members or Visitor,
Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service’s worst nightmare: data corruption [...]

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If it wasn’t enough for you to read about the miraculous landing of flight 1549 on the Hudson River and follow the action via sites like Twitter, you can now play the video game.
The flight 1549 game “Hero on the Hudson” gives you the following scenario:
“Both engines are out.  The plane [...]

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Recession?  What recession?
SocialMedia Networks has managed to rake in $6 million in new funding on Friday.  The venture capital comes from IDG Ventures SF and Charles River Ventures.
SocialMedia Networks serves ads in over 5,000 different applications on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Hi5. It claims to be the web’s largest independent social media advertising network.
The new [...]

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We’re trying to confirm the details but, understandably, you can’t get through to Alaska right now and all webcams are down.  This is a continuation of the updates from this post.
The Alaska volcano webcam on Mount Redoubt is down at the moment but based on the photos that are being displayed on the site, we [...]

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UPDATE: See the latest at this new post – Alaska Volcano Eruption
…One has to wonder if they are – and things are really getting interesting now.
Of course, we posted the other day that you can now follow the updates on Mount Redoubt via Twitter.  This message was just sent moments ago…

In addition, you can now [...]

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This morning on Radio Row at Super Bowl 43 in Tampa, “Nasty Nestor” Aparicio, a sports radio host right here in Baltimore at WNST, attacked Gordon Keith, of Dallas’ “The Ticket”. The incident is just the latest in an on-going feud between the hot-headed Nasty Nestor and the Ticket.
Apparently, Gordon Keith approached Nasty Nestor while [...]

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I can see some folks having a field day with this.
YouTube has now made the ability to add annotations to your videos very simple.
Annotations, which were introduced to the site last June, consist of pop-ups (think of “Pop Up Videos” on crack) that can include standard text boxes or speech bubbles, or even [...]

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Live Nation’s clunky website was apparently not strong enough to withstand the wave of Phish traffic that hit it this morning.
While no one is a big Ticketmaster fan, at least they know how to sell tickets to a big show.
Tickets for most of Phish’s summer tour went on sale this morning. Livenation.com began offering [...]

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We’ve been wondering for a while now about the existence of the “Google Drive” AKA “GDrive”.
Today, Brian Ussery noticed an interesting reference to GDrive in a file used by Google Pack. The file includes “localized information which is sent to translators”.
The category listed for GDrive is “online file backup and storage” and there [...]

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