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Vying For Your Attention

In an effort to vie for your attention in the Check In Wars, Gowalla now lets you check in on Facebook and Foursquare. In an effort to vie for your attention in the TV and Movie Watching Wars, Netflix is willing to shell out big bucks for in-season TV shows. Good thing because the prospect [...]

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Song from Google Nexus S Video

It wasn’t all that hard to find, but I bet a lot of people will be looking for the song from the Google Nexus S video since they don’t credit it in the video or on the YouTube page. (And since my wife is a French teacher, I thought maybe I could help other French [...]

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Change or Add SOAPAction Header

It wasn’t the easiest thing to find, so I wanted to link to this page on how to change the SOAPAction header of a message in CXF. This is especially useful if you have a SOAPAction header that is = “” and causing issues when trying to connect to a .NET or WCF server with [...]

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Best Yet: Twitter Movie Trailer

This one not only has its own song, but the best parody of the magnitude quote with “140 words per post?” “140 characters.” (Brought to me to you by TechCrunch, of course)

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YouTube Movie Trailer

Awesome. Thanks TechCrunch

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Evidently AT&T Does Know What Kind of Phone I Have

This one is a much better sell than the previous marketing email. Still kind of odd they’re going for the upsell iof adding a line with the 3GS instead of the 4G, but perhaps they did some checking and saw that I’m not actually eligible for the 4G just yet.

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Doesn’t AT&T Know What Kind of Phone I Have?

Maybe they make more off the BlackBerry since they don’t have to give as much back to the manufacturer of the phone?

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Weekend Reading: Is HTML5 Hot or Not?

Scribd is ditching Flash for HTML5, but Tim Bray says HTML5 ain’t all that big a deal.

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Apple Shutting Down Lala, Another Great Startup Obliterated

First: I Was A Lala User Second: Why Do Good Companies Ruin Startups? I Was A Lala User I’ll give Apple credit for giving a month of advance notice, but on the other hand (that first part was the first hand), why are they shutting down Lala before they launch iTunes.com? I must conclude that [...]

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As the iPhone evolves, so does Gmail

But none of the recently announced innovations are making my eyes light up like a kid first gazing on his Easter basket. First, from the Gmail Blog: Nested Labels and Message Preview. The Nested Labels thing actually did have me excited as though it were a chocolate egg or perhaps a Peep. But then I [...]

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