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Digg.com’s annual “shindiggs”  have become something of an institution at SXSW Interactive, but this year Digg’s CEO Jay Adelson tried to slip a genuine product announcement into the evening’s festivities. Adelson took the stage at Stubbs BBQ and announced Digg’s bold new vision for the future in front of a crowd of hundreds [...]

Panasonic, one of the big entry companies into the new 3D phenomenon, will be starting a tour on Monday across the country to promote its 3D products and the features that they offer…. —- link

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Most of us, when we interview someone, compile a list of questions and go through them one by one. California Radio personality Colin Marshall suggests that what you should do is the opposite—have a conversation led by the interviewee instead. (more…)

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Microwaves have gotten a bad rap with some people because they just don’t cook some things as they should be cooked—food blog Savory Sweet Life attempts to squash this misconception with a lesson on cooking potato chips in the microwave. (more…)

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Numbers don’t lie, but it can be very hard to figure out what they mean. Google Public Data Explorer seeks to clarify trends by letting you explore them in a variety of ways: graphs, maps and animations, to name a few. As the service’s name implies, all information used is freely available information compiled from [...]

If it seems like a lamp or light fixture in your house practically eats light bulbs compared to the other fixtures, you may not be imagining it. This ten second fix can keep your bulbs burning longer. More »

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If you store images on your computer chance is that you eventually encounter duplicate images. This can be because some have been downloaded from multiple locations, in batch where it was not enough time to check the pictures before downloading them or because of copying and moving them around on the computer system.
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During today’s SXSW keynote, social media research Danah Boyd, who works for Microsoft Research New England and is a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, talked about online privacy. Specifically, she focused on how users can navigate issues around online privacy and how developers can help them to do so.
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Patrick is the author of Managing Online Forums and is somewhat of an expert on managing online communities in general, having managed the iFroggy network for several years. I caught up with him here in Austin and asked about first impressions of the conference and a little about his core conversation, “Shameless Self [...]