Joey Chestnut Beats Kobayashi Again in Hot-Dog Eating Contest Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:09 -0000
It’s not the 4th of July without the Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Contest (that’s how we celebrate in Brooklyn, by stuffing our faces with as many hot dogs we can fit). This year’s winner is defending champion Joey “Jaws” Chestunt, who won in overtime from six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi.
Both ate 59 hot [...] The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:51 -0000 The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter’s all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with the familiar Twitter Fail Whale now appearing on T-shirts and kitschy art).
Identi.ca’s answer to Twitter’s scaling issues is by [...] Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:50:56 -0000
Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (The image above shows the range of both the Northern spotted [...] Independence Day Steve Gillmor Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:44:53 -0000 Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th, and a week later our long National Nightmare is over. On the 11th we deposit our 2G iPhones in the FriendFeed donation bins and officially hook ourselves up to the Enterprise iPhone. The ePhone will change how we work and play, and in the process free us from the tyranny [...] Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses Jason Kincaid Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:00 -0000
Regator, a new blog aggregator that hopes to reduce the blogosphere down to consumable chunks for the average user, has launched today in private beta. The site acts like a combination between Digg and a standard RSS reader, allowing users to vote on the most popular stories drawn from 3,000 blogs that have been [...] Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime Jason Kincaid Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:41 -0000
Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy, which until now has been buried in the “About Google” section of [...]
BBC: Web's Inventor Gets a Knighthood - Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web, has been honoured for his work.
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BBC: New Honour for the Web's Inventor - The web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, wins a prestigious prize which comes with an award of one million euros.
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Telegraph: Three Loud Cheers for the Inventor of the Web - Tim Berners-Lee is named Greatest Briton 2004 - an award organised by Morgan Stanley, in association with the Telegraph. Includes biography.
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The Great Idea Finder: Tim Berners-Lee - Photograph and biography of the inventor of the World Wide Web, with related links.
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Tim Berners-Lee - His official site at W3C includes biographies, information about his book, and questions and answers about his contributions to the internet.
Time 100: Tim Berners-Lee - Joshua Quittner's profile of the man who wove the World Wide Web, with a photograph, an audio snippet, and a transcript of an online chat with Berners-Lee.
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Looking Back, Looking Forward' Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium. 2007 Tim Berners-Lee was ...