Great Panels @SxSW 2010
South by SouthWest’s Panel Panel Picker for 2010 was released recently and there are some great panels this year. Here are some to take a look at and hopefully take a moment to vote on. The panels below are by African-Americans and/or deal with race or identity. This year’s panel picker voting process is much easier consisting of a simple ‘yes’ (thumbs up) or ‘no’ (thumbs down) so voting should literally take a few seconds. I know I am missing some panels here, I haven’t gotten through the extensive list of panels for Interactive this year, so please add you’s in the comments and I can update the list in this post. Check out the panels I’ve found so far below:
Read MoreSilicon Valley Freedom Riders of Technology Honored
An important part of the Digital Revolution was left out (or was never included depending on how you look at it!) of its history, but is now being brought to the mainstream in the form of a documentary by technology historian John William Templeton. The name of the documentary is ‘Freedom Riders’, which chronicles prominent African-American Silicon Valley technologists from the 1950s and 1960s.
Read MoreLifeIO Basically Brings it All Together
LifeIO is a service currently in private beta that allows you to handle everything in one place. One of the primary reasons we begin to feel overwhelmed is because we have too many inboxes and too many open loops. Even though you may not be looking at them, all those unread emails, Twitter replies and [...]
Read MoreTagged.com Engaged In Identity Theft and Spamming Says New York Attorney General
Tagged.com, one of the fastest growing social networking sites, has more than eight million monthly visitors – but New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo charges that the company built its following by raiding email address books, stealing identities and spamming millions of people. Cuomo has served Tagged with formal notice that his office intends to sue the company for deceptive email marketing practices and invasion of privacy.
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Is Facebook Destroying Our Relationships?
As if we didn’t have enough relationship problems, looks like Facebook causes you even more grief. According to a recent study, many of us just seem to act a little stalkerish online. The four main causes for this jealousy?
Read MoreNew Digsby Includes Realtime Search and Global Status Updates
Disby just pushed out a new release that includes some very interesting and useful features. Besides a flashy new Windows 7 skin, Digsby has made some major changes under the hood. Their Infobox has been upgraded to a full blown web browser based on WebKit. WebKit is actually the same engine that powers Safari and the Google Chrome browser. This puts a lot of power into Digsby’s hands and removes the need to authenticate Facebook using Internet Explorer.
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