What is the social network 1% rule? Generally in a group of 100 people online, one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or adding to it) and the other 89 will just view it. But, everyone benefits from the activities of the whole group.
Bradley Horowitz,  an old friend from my AltaVista days, and one [...]

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10. Lists don’t take a lot of human attention to process. Since we don’t seem to have much to spare these days (particularly online), that makes them popular.
9. Ranked lists imply a comforting order to the universe. People like to believe that some people, teams, or companies are simply better than others. Never [...]

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Following Philipp’s announcement last month about the release of Google Apps Hacks, written by him and published by O’Reilly, I’m pleased to say that another O’Reilly book recently hit the shelves. Over the last couple of months, I’ve been the technical reviewer for Google Apps: The Missing Manual, a book aimed at users who are [...]

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Goosh.org hosts an unofficial Google interface which “behaves similar to a unix-shell,” as the author Stefan Grothkopp explains. For instance, entering n disney will result in a Google News search for the keyword “disney”. Type help to see some of the other available commands, like lucky (an “I’m feeling lucky” search), wiki (a Wikipedia search), [...]

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This release party went far over our expectation, considering that it happened the last day of May (when people usually go away for holidays, here in Italy).
We’ve had about 15 people, and some of them didn’t know Linux at all, what a great opportunity to spread Linux and Fedora to new potential users.

We came to [...]

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