Archive | February, 2013

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Dream Big and Fast [Podcast #56]

Michele & Conn reunite for a Valentine’s day podcast!  On the agenda: Google celebrates George Ferris.  And the Star Wars traceroute! We’ve missed a few shows, so there’s a lot to catch up on: Social WiFi by Karma; About.me buys itself back from AOL; Mega is launched. Vine gets a mention too … remember that?  It was […]

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Pope Memes?

The Pope’s announcement yesterday that he was resigning at the end of the month has led, inevitably, to quite a few amusing images doing the rounds. Here’s a few we liked mostly from Facebook and Twitter. If you know of any others or are the original source please let us know Of course there are […]

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“Social” Wifi Hotspot

If you travel to the US then Karma might be viable option for you. It’s a wifi hotspot dongle with a difference. Not only does it give you access to the 4G network, but you can also earn bandwidth by sharing the hotspot and promoting the service to other users. They’re calling it “social bandwidth” […]

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Geektastic Traceroute Gives Star Wars

If you’re not a geek you probably won’t appreciate this .. A Sysadmin who obviously likes Star Wars and had a bit of free time has put together a pretty neat hack which you can see via traceroute: traceroute -m 100 216.81.59.173 traceroute to 216.81.59.173 (216.81.59.173), 100 hops max, 60 byte packets 1  202-194.ge0-0-2.acc-r01.bk2.39122.as (78.153.202.194)  […]

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About.me Buys Itself Back From AOL

About.me was acquired by AOL when it launched. However two years later the company’s founders Tony Conrad and Ryan Freitas have just announced that they’re independent again. The company is ambitious: Our commitment is to make about.me the web’s starting point for identity – we believe everyone will eventually have an about.me page they integrate […]

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