From the creation of the internet by Tim Burners Lee in 1989 to the latest technology running in 3G wireless networks, the world has literally seen what some call the greatest human invention of all time grow up right before their eyes. (Always funny to think about what work must have been like before 1990…
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Basically describes my thoughts on the meaning and purpose of religion… charterforcompassion.com Check out the 2008 TED Prize Wish: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/karen_armstrong_makes_her_ted_prize_wish_the_charter_for_compassion.html
The big men are up on stage now (o’reilly and batelle), talking about the conference and the mantra of where they wanted this conference to go. They are extending the concept of Obama’s speech, “yes we can” to the tech industry. We can move things forward into 2009. They believe that in this down turn
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As some of you may know a few of us from the Spreed team are attending a very interesting conference called the Web 2.0 Summit. We will have two guys live blogging the entirety of this event. Keep checking back for live updates.
Since our mention in Wired Magazine, we’ve had a lot of great feedback from users requesting changes to our reading interface. We had the whole gamut of requests from different colors to different fonts, changing of font sizes, adding words to each cluster, subtracting words from each cluster. These are all great suggestions and they
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I read this article on Gizmag Bioethanol from Olive Stones and it slapped me in the face. Living in Turkey, I see a lot of olive trees. Not just a lot but A LOT. Albeit I absolutely despise the taste of olives, I love every other product that comes out of the incredible fruit. And
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If you are a new reader here at the Spreed:Blog, you will find out in due time that we are quite obsessed with digital publishing and the ways that we take in digital content. Spreed’s goal is to make the digital reading experience more efficient on any electronic device. Our speed reading application is only
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Lifehacker also picked up on the Wired Magazine article today and wrote their own post all about Spreed:News. A lot of these sites see Spreed as a way to practice Speed reading. Once we release Spreed:Docs to the public and let you all speed reading your own doucments we are hoping to move away from
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Spreed was featured in this months issue of Wired Magazine as the best way to practice your speed reading techniques. It’s a quick read and gives some very helpful hints on the best way to learn how to speed read. See the article in full below. Learn How to Speed Read: Wired How-To The ability
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Yes, in Chicago a Dead Fish was registered to vote. “There was no fraud involved,” said Nudelman, a Democrat who supports Barack Obama. “This person is a dead fish.” The paperwork sent to a “Princess Nudelman” likely came from the “Women’s Voices, Women Vote” project, which sent nearly 1 million mailings to Illinois households in
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