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My Ten Most Popular 2010 Blog Posts

One of my annual traditions with this blog is to post a summary of my top ten blog posts of the year in terms of “hits” on the blog post. A post with more hits isn’t necessarily better than a post with fewer hits, but the former certainly gets more att… Continue reading

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Useful Developer Tools and Resources Posts

Yesterday, I had posted on the Most Popular Posts For jQuery, JavaScript and .NET Developers in 2010 on DevCurry.com. In this post, let us see some useful posts which showcases Free Tools and Resources for Developers. Enjoy the link list!Tools and Reso… Continue reading

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New Year’s Message: From Pessimism To Optimism… And The Power Of Innovation

A couple months back, I had a really fascinating experience. I had two meetings in a row, each with incredibly successful content creators — people who have embraced new business models and new technologies to amazing results, both creatively and mon… Continue reading

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Predictions Of Today From 80 Years Ago

It’s the time of the year when nearly every media publication puts out some form of predictions. We’ve always avoided doing predictions posts, because it seems a little silly — and it’s rare that people really go back and look to see how good their p… Continue reading

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The History Of Intellectual Property Based On Its Use In Books

Google recently announced its funky Books Ngram Viewer, which lets you put in various terms, and see how often they appear in books throughout history. Just for the hell of it, I decided to see how often the terms patents, copyright, trademark and i… Continue reading

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The MoveUp Menu

I got an email quite a while back from Dirk Tucholski who showed me a site called FLOWmarket. He was wondering about how the menu system worked. I thought it looked neat and so set out to build it how I would do it. The idea is that there is a long vertical menu of links, not all of which are visible. As you scroll your mouse up and down the visible area, the menu scrolls itself to reveal… Continue reading

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DailyDirt: Medical Curiosities

While the fundamental mysteries of the universe seem pretty far from being fully understood, one might assume a more practical science like the field of medicine should be a bit easier to grasp. But that’s not really the case at all. There are a vast… Continue reading

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Does Google Design AdSense Contract So You’re Almost Forced To Break Its Terms?

We’ve noted numerous times in the past that one of Google’s major faults is that it’s absolutely dreadful at customer service. To much of the outside world, Google represents something of a big white monolith, with very little human face. When someth… Continue reading

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As Expected, Court Tells AFP That Posting An Image On TwitPic Does Not Grant Anyone A License To Use It

One of the more ridiculous lawsuits of 2010 involved AFP — the big news organization that once sued Google claiming that merely linking to AFP news articles was copyright infringement. However, when it came to others’ copyrighted works, AFP took a ra… Continue reading

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If Wikileaks Is About Cyberwar, Was The Pentagon Papers About A Wood Pulp War? [Updated]

The guy behind the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, recently tweeted a link to my blog post about how some believed the US government was trying to make the case that Wikileaks was a part of a “cyberwar” because it helped further the agenda of certain… Continue reading

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