Paul Harvey has passed away.
The following is a statement from Jim Robinson, President of ABC Radio Networks, on his passing:
Paul Harvey was one of the most gifted and beloved broadcasters in our nation’s history. As he delivered the news each day with his own unique style and commentary, his voice became a trusted friend in [...]

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Yahoo just made some changes to their index with brand new web data and an update to its crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms.
The company has done 2 search updates since last November.  The first one occurred in December of 2008 and another in late January of this year.  Expect the full update to be completed [...]

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Today is the deadline to move all of your FeedBurner feeds over to Google.  We’ve already done it here at Blippitt and it’s really very easy.
Will your old feeds still work if you don’t move them?  The jury seems to be out on that one.  To be safe, go with the Feedburner to Google FAQ:
“It [...]

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Amazon is apparently backing off a bit on the text-to-speech feature on the Kindle.  It announced today that it will let publishers decide whether or not they want the new Kindle device to read their books out loud.
This text-to-speech ability lets Kindle owners have their books read to them in a male or female digitized [...]

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Yahoo has just released an updated version of the Zync plug-in that allows the sharing of videos from Yahoo Video, Flickr, and YouTube within Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.
If you’re not familiar with it, the Zync plug-in lets you watch a video clip together with a friend, right in your IM window. Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 has always [...]

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It’s official.
The S&P 500 has fallen 53 percent from its high back in October of 2007 and has now seen its worst six-month drop in percentage terms – 42.7 percent – since 1932.  In that year, it fell 45.44 percent within a span of six months.
A late flurry of selling activity finished off a dismal [...]

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Does the photo above look like self-defense to you?  No, I didn’t think so.
Yet that is what Chris Brown will plead when he heads to court, if a newly released report is accurate.
“Chris is already building his case. He’s saying she threw a phone at him, then hit him in the head and basically just [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s head honcho, says that the social networking website is growing by 1 million users per week in the United States, according to an interview he did with MSNBC’s Today Show.
Matt Lauer then chimed in that the site is growing by more than 5 million users per week worldwide. This is a [...]

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In a bizarre turn of events, Toys.com was sold earlier this month for $1.25 million, THEN that sale was halted by the bankruptcy court.
Now the domain name has been RE-auctioned and this time, ToysRUs.com won said auction by paying a whopping $5.1 million for the domain name.
ToysRus really needed to win the auction, for obvious [...]

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Does YouTube have its first 91- year-old star?  It sure looks that way.
Clara Cannucciari, a great-grandmother, has debuted “Depression Cooking with Clara”, an instructional cooking series on fabulous recipes from the Great Depression (when I first saw this, I figured it was going to be recipes for people suffering from depression – boy, was I [...]

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