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When choosing a map - especially a social network map - which do you prefer - pretty or useful? In an ideal world I would take pretty useful, but forced to choose between the two I'll take useful. Here are two social graphs taken from my Twitter following data. -Valdis Krebs, InFlow, Social Network Analysis Expert

Since the outstanding growth of Apps, and Mac's phenomenal tagline, everyone~ whether technologically savvy or unaware completely~ is saying "hey, there's an App for that.", for pretty much anything. Well, no need to hold your breath, 'cuz pretty soon we'll ALL be saying… "hey, there's a search engine for that!".

AN ACTOR talks about sex and if the number of partners you sleep with before settling down is important. Number of past sexual partners should not matter ... Hollywood star Chris Evans in a scene from "What's Your Number?" He said he was in a similar situation to his character Colin, who is a seducer. What's Your Number trailer"He is in that stage of life a lot of guys go through. He is kind of selfish and not looking for a relationship. He is not looking for any real responsibility. But he is a pretty sincere guy and pretty honest. I think everybody's looking for a soulmate, for love and a lifelong companion. That's what people want," Evans told

Are you looking for a pair of pretty earrings? In that case, these fabulous yellow and black earrings designed by Shilpa Puri

"I was typing an email on my iPad, and I got distracted. Some time later, I set the iPad down on my desk, and an icon on my Mac appeared. I clicked it, and in seconds the Mail app was running with that partially entered email in front of me. That's the Handoff feature in action, part of the iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite updates that will ship this fall. It's a sign of a change in computing that Google and Microsoft are also pursuing, not just Apple. Liquid Computing Welcome to the next tech revolution: Liquid computing Liquid computing: The next wave of the mobile experience Apple Watch: The Internet of things' new frontier iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite are both in beta, so I can't really talk about the details of Handoff yet. But I can say it works just as Apple showed off at its recent WWDC conference's public keynote. Handoff is the first big step into a future where the notion of a device will go through a radical transformation. [ Mobile and PC management: The tough but unstoppable union. | Subscribe to InfoWorld's Consumerization of IT newsletter today. ] At first blush, what Apple is doing is blurring the lines between mobile and desktop devices. That's true, but it's only part of the actual transformation under way. There's no real name for this transformation yet, so I'm calling it liquid computing until someone else comes up with a better name. In a nutshell, what Handoff -- and liquid computing in general -- portends is a world where both data and activities move around as needed. The device isn't the center of the universe, as it has been since the first computer. Think back to the early PC era, when people first started getting PCs at home, not just at work. Remember the effort we all spent in making sure we copied our files to a disk for use at home? We had to bring our data with us or else use a network connection to a file share. That model has persisted to this day, which is why the biggest loss of corporate data remains the lost or stolen thumb drive or

pretty crazy app... would it work as an individual's blog/twitter replacement?

pretty crazy app... would it work as a blog/twitter replacement?

The new MySpace is pretty. It incorporates many of the trends in modern web design and social media - big visuals, responsive design, easy discovery - and gives them a clear focus: connecting through music. And it really works.

American model and actress Christie Brinkley came on NBC's "TODAY" show.She joined the show to discuss her upcoming and interesting role as Roxy Hart in the climax hit "Chicago".Everythings going fine on the show but surprisingly when the host Matt Lauer questions about her pathetic divorce than christie was pretty emotional and her eyes filled with tears.Since for the first time its hapened after ending there 10 years marrage.Whatever happened today it was very cunning and shameless display to her.Her X husband Peter Cook fired back also told about the matter-He allegation Christies teary appearence "Christie was totally dishonest about the circumstances surrounding the current court action which was precipitate

WordPress is an open source, database driven CMS system that allows to manage content, pages, media, menus, etc. infect, it gives power to take control of your website without ANY web administrator's help. WordPress, out of the box, doesn't look pretty. The front page of any site, when installed, is very basic, simple and rather boring. WordPress has dramatically evolve in recent years. The graphics and coding of themes have gone beyond simple blogging to full functional websites.

"Stripes is a presentation framework for building web applications using the latest Java technologies. The main driver behind Stripes is that web application development in Java is just too much work! It seems like every existing framework requires gobs of configuration. Struts is pretty feature-light and has some serious architectural issues (see Stripes vs. Struts for details). Others, like WebWork 2 and Spring-MVC are much better, but still require a lot of configuration, and seem to require you to learn a whole new language just to get started."

The Dependent Web is dominated by companies that deliver services, content and advertising based on who that service believes you to be: What you see on these sites "depends" on their proprietary model of your identity, including what you've done in the past, what you're doing right now, what "cohorts" you might fall into based on third- or first-party data and algorithms, and any number of other robust signals. The Independent Web, for the most part, does not shift its content or services based on who you are. Who we believe we are in the world is pretty fundamental to being human, and as we bleed our actual identity into our digital one, it's worth recalling that so far, at least, we don't have a system that lets us really instrument who we are online in a fashion that scales to the complexity of true human interaction. I sense an opportunity to create a new kind of social identity..one that is far more personal and instrumented...

Reading between the lines and past the Adobe Flash Lite Distributable Player, Adobe's announcement prior to this year's Mobile World Congress isn't all that exciting.In short, the full version of Flash is coming to most smartphones - Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile devices, as well as Palm Pre - in early 2010. Which pretty much means they'll really be announcing it at the next year's MWC.

So you have a new blog and you think the posts are pretty good? Don't know how to get more loyal and valuable readers to your blog? ok then let me tell you some cool tips that i have learnt and implemented with my blogs with you.

Submitting your content to a bunch of social bookmarking communities such as reddit, digg, and delicious by hand sucks. Below is a list I've aggregated of some pretty decent web applications to submit your website's links to social bookmarking communities with.

wow, a pretty significant increase in online shopping according to this survey. i thought this one could give some ideas for angles to take in online marketing messages.

cool search engine (Wikia like - social search). functions pretty well.

According to Reuters, Twitter currently has no plans to monetize its traffic with advertisements this year. Biz Stone claimed that Twitter is doing pretty good right now and is currently focused on features and paid commercial accounts for 2009.

Now you can Stumble outside of the shadow of the mega-corporate overlords at eBay - two years after Stumble founders Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith cashed out and handed their baby over to the ecommerce giant, they've come back with a team of investors and bought StumbleUpon back from eBay. It's pretty exciting.

This tool helps you to calculate an individual grid layout for your Blueprint-based web site or web application. Being a static grid framework you usually start with defining the total with of your grid and then seperate your workspace into columns. By default Blueprint comes with a 950px grid, which is devided into 24 columns. However, often this configuration is not sufficient to create the kind of layout you have in mind. On the web I found a Blueprint CSS generator, which actually worked pretty nice but lacked the functionality to preview the grid and to compare different grid configuration. As I was tired of the guesswork required to calculate a reasonable grid, I created this little tool to calculate and compare different grid configurations.

" I did some digging to see what people had previously built, but the landscape was pretty bleak. The only one that I could find was one made by Erik Arvidsson - a simple SAX-style HTML parser. Considering that this contained only the most basic parsing - and none of the actual, complicated, HTML logic there was still a lot of work left to be done. (I also contemplated porting the HTML 5 parser, wholesale, but that seemed like a herculean effort.) However, the result is one that I'm quite pleased with. It won't match the compliance of html5lib, nor the speed of a pure XML parser, but it's able to get the job done with little fuss - while still being highly portable."