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Lumo / The Reference Frame:
Fix: IE7 with Sitemeter: Operation aborted — This posting is primarily addressed to those webmasters who experience a similar problem. — If your web page contains a Sitemeter counter, Internet Explorer users eventually see an “Operation aborted” error message.
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Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Site Meter causing Internet Explorer failure — Traffic measuring tool Sitemeter is blocking users of Internet Explorer from accessing sites using the service. — According to a tip to The Inquisitr, the problem happens when anybody using Internet Explorer tries to open any sites …
Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins / Mashable!:
Attention Sitemeter Users: Your Site is Down — This just in from one of our regular tipsters here at Mashable - thousands of popular blogs are down tonight, from PerezHilton, ValleyWag, Consumerist all the way on down to LouisGray.com. Why? Because they use SiteMeter, a popular free traffic metrics utility.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Don't Want to Talk About It? Order a Missed Call — When Alexis Gorman, 26, wanted to tell a man she had been dating that the courtship was over, she felt sending a Dear John text message was too impersonal. But she worried that if she called the man, she would face an awkward conversation or a confrontation.
Rob Cottingham / ReadWriteWeb:
Tag Clouds R.I.P.? — I loved tag clouds from the moment I saw them, and I still do. Two years ago, they roamed the social web like buffalo on the pre-Columbian plains of North America... huge, thundering herds of keywords of all shades and sizes. And you'll see them to this day on many …
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
How “Janet” Fooled the Twittersphere She's the Voice of Exxon Mobil — The game is up, “Janet” is not an official Exxon representative — A few days ago, the Twittersphere was curious, interested, and excited to see a member of Exxon Mobil's employee ranks to join the twitter conversation …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mobile Web Wars Videos: Does Anybody Care About Android? — A week ago, I put together a roundtable about the upcoming mobile platform wars between the iPhone, Google's Android, and older platforms like Nokia's. One thing I discovered as I was organizing the event was that it was really hard …
GigaOM:
F| R: The Top 5 Reasons Tech Execs Fail — Regardless of the title your company's top technology executive uses — CTO, CIO, Chief Product Officer or VP of Engineering — your company will ultimately look to this person to produce the software and technical products upon which your business success depends.
The Technium:
People Want To Pay — Yes, everything will be free, but in my experience people want to pay. They really do! People, mobs of them, will grab stuff that is free. They will try stuff for free that they would never touch if they had to pay. They will always gravitate, on average, to the lowest price, and what is lower than free?
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
iPhone Calendar Syncing — With the 1.0 version of iPhone OS, calendar syncing between the Calendar app on the phone and iCal on your Mac worked like this: — Everything went through iTunes. — iTunes listed each of your iCal calendars, and you could choose which ones to sync to the iPhone.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
AOL is Getting Serious About Lifestreaming: Buys SocialThing — SocialThing, a lifestreaming/social aggregation site, has been acquired by AOL. We currently have no information about the final price of the acquisition, but given that SocialThing was still in private beta, we assume that it was relatively low.
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Fred / A VC:
The Lazy and Smarter Web — If you spend a lot of time reading web/tech blogs, you'll be familiar with the concept of the “lazy web”. The idea is instead of doing a lot of work researching/googling, you just ping/spam your social net with a question and get them to do the work for you.
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Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon — Big Microsoft Study Supports Small World Theory — Turns out, it is a small world. — The so-called small world theory, embodied in the old saw that there are just “six degrees of separation” between any two strangers on Earth …
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