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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: (another) Linkman Review
« Last post by Josh on April 10, 2011, 12:39 PM »Ditto! I am trying it out now too because of this review 
And loving it so far!
And loving it so far!
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And loving it so far!And this exactly on the day of my birthday.-JoTo (April 03, 2011, 10:20 AM)
I guess this prize is-cranioscopical (April 03, 2011, 12:06 PM)
The AdBlock app for Chrome and Safari is pretty fantastic for blocking ads on web pages, and millions of people use it daily while they surf. Users report that they forget what surfing was even like before AdBlock, and some even report a sense of bliss at seeing the before-and-after effect on web pages.
But the number one requested feature has been a way to block the ads that assault us all in the "real world" -- such as billboards, TV commercials, and magazine ads. Unfortunately, AdBlock hasn't been available outside the browser window.
Until today. Introducing the beta version of AdBlock Freedom: augmented reality eyewear that detects and removes ads from the world in realtime.
Here's how it works: when powered off, AdBlock Freedom functions as sunglasses. Slide a discreet switch on the frame, and AdBlock Freedom begins scanning your view for objects that it recognizes as ads. Any detected ad gets a "smudge" overlay to blend it into its surroundings. A picture is worth a thousand words:
Version 2.98.01 - Mar 22, 2011
- [MinorFeature] Added option to do early replacing of %environmental% and user variables in the search text (useful for directory browsing).
-mouser (March 23, 2011, 05:59 PM)
I call it security through RTFM.-cthorpe (March 23, 2011, 07:39 AM)
Classic stuff
As long as you are not forced to go to one of those linux support forums instead of RTFM-rgdot (March 23, 2011, 05:23 PM)
OK, I'm going to call it: Digg is dead.
No, the site hasn't gone dark. It still functions and has millions of users. But then so does MySpace.
I used to be a very active Digg user -- as were many of my techno-journalist-pundit type friends. Five years ago, Digg was the future of content discovery. But now I don't personally know anyone who's still an active user. We've all moved on.
Now, it turns out, even one of the site's founders and former CEOs, Kevin Rose, barely uses Digg anymore.
In a devastating analysis this week, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington exposed Rose's Digg usage. According to Arrington, Rose uses Digg less than once every four days or so. He hasn't submitted a story in more than a month. And he went more than three weeks in December without using Digg at all.
Arrington pointed out that Rose is 26 times more active on Twitter than on Digg, having tweeted 181 times in the past month.
Arrington's numbers have been called into question by blogger Taylor Buley, who says Rose is twice as active as claimed. In other words, he's only 14 times more active on Twitter than Digg.
To me, the most telling bit in all this is that, as of this writing, the story about Rose not using Digg hasn't even made it to the front page of Digg. And Rose defended himself not on Digg but on Twitter, tweeting to Arrington that "I think you forgot we shoot a weekly podcast about digg stories. "
Even the Internet's most important conversation about Digg isn't taking place on Digg.
What went wrong? How did Digg become so unappealing that even its founder and former CEO didn't want to use it?
Not sure, might have been a previous version of SUMo?-Tuxman (March 19, 2011, 11:02 AM)
They looked all equal, so probably yes.-Tuxman (March 19, 2011, 11:31 AM)
