PALO ALTO, CA (MARKET WIRE) NutshellMail, the social networking tool which allows users to monitor and manage their social Web lives via email, announced today that it has been named a Ning Appathon Competition finalist in the Best Ported Apps category. Judged by a panel of industry experts, the competition recognizes the top innovators and leaders in developing original and ported applications for...
LeWeb has published its schedule for the upcoming global conference for tech in Paris, and it's looking pretty good. TechCrunch Europe is a media partner and is helping to organise the startup competition, so that's our interest declared. That said Loic and Geraldine Le Meur have clearly finessed the event back towards tech companies and brought a new focus on Europe I think. Here are some highlights...
LUCKNOW: The final day’s proceedings of 19th Asian table tennis championship here appeared almost like a high-intensity Chinese training session. For nearly eight hours, barring a half-hour period when the Koreans joined the Chinese in ...
The Adventures of Mary and Joseph – The Road Movie presents a re-telling of the nativity with a series of nine short videos. Simply go to the Paperless Christmas website and the story should load (I had to use IE to view it). The screen displays an open road with a series of billboards to either side which is a neat alternative to the atheist billboard campaign . Click on the arrow to travel...
The FREE 2009 K-12 Online Conference officially kicks off a week from today, on Monday, November 30, 2009. Five new teaser trailers have been added to our Conference Ning in the past week, and also posted to the conference blog. Check them out, and if you have not already: Join the K12Online Ning Subscribe to K12Online in [...]
You used to feel you knew about vampires. You put in the hours reading Byron, Bram Stoker and Sheridan Le Fanu, you watched Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and George Hamilton (in Love at First Bite) deploying their mittel-European, Draculan accents ("Goot eeef-ning") and radiating elegant menace. And you picked up semi-scientific facts: vampires sleep during the day, are afraid of sunlight,...
1. The therapist who sent me down this path 2. The Ning network for supporting Grace in Small Things 3. That well over one thousand members have made and will continue to make GiST one of the happiest and warmest little social networks on the... Click on the title to view the full weblog entry. 10% of Schmutzie.com's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Schmutzie.com is a donation to a worthy...
It was earlier this year that I reviewed an online community for pet lovers, and in that time span since, we’ve seen online communities pop up around the internet for just about any specific niche thinkable. Ning is a popular niche community building site, and in that popularity we’ve seen interests mix, people network, and [...]
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I found this cartoon on Hugh’s blog today, followed by this explanation: I drew this cartoon this morning, while thinking about a conversation I had a couple of years ago: I was on the phone to an old friend of mine, a guy in his late forties, who was born and bred in Michigan, and is living there [...]
This week's podcast is a session from ESUG 2009 - Arden Thomas' "Multi-Core Playground" talk. In this presentation Arden spoke about some experimental work in Cincom Smalltalk toward supporting multi-core and multi-cpu systems in a straightforward fashion. That work is shipping with VW 7.7 and OS 8.2 as "preview" code - so in a few weeks, you'll be able to take a look at it yourself....
This week's podcast is a session from ESUG 2009 - Arden Thomas' "Multi-Core Playground" talk. In this presentation Arden spoke about some experimental work in Cincom Smalltalk toward supporting multi-core and multi-cpu systems in a straightforward fashion. That work is shipping with VW 7.7 and OS 8.2 as "preview" code - so in a few weeks, you'll be able to take a look at it yourself....
World number two Ma Long defeated compatriot Zhang Jike 4-2 to bag the men's singles title, while Ding Ning won the women's singles by snatching a 4-3 victory over Li Xiaoxia.
The Super Series China Open 2009 is being held in Shanghai at the Yuanshen Sports Center from 17th to 22nd November. What a start to the tournament proper with world number 1 Lee Chong Wei being stopped right in the track by the ‘young … Wang Lin’s game against Yip Pui Yin (HKG) was one [...]
On each of these Ning Networks (sometimes called “families” or “covens”), fans are using the built-in features — namely the profile pages and blogs — to assume the identity of their favorite characters and act them out. http://blog.ning.com/2009/11/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-acted-out-on-more-than-the-big-screen.html http://www.thetwilightsaga.com http://cullencoven.ning.com/...
I've turned in the first edits for Coming Home , and I'm waiting to hear back from my editor on any further changes she might want. It's an intense process, making sure all your appostrophes are facing the right way, your formatting is correct, and any grammatical errors are corrected. And once I turned them in, I decided to take a little break. Well, break's over. I haven't heard from editor yet,...
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