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Category: Hacks

  • First vehicle on the information superhighway was a rundown van

    First vehicle on the information superhighway was a rundown van: “A lot of people think the Internet just happened,” says Vint Cerf, one of its proud papas. “But it was a lot of hard work.” That’s why we need events like the one Wednesday at the Computer History Museum to mark the 30th anniversary of…

  • 20+ Customer Management Tools

    20+ Customer Management Tools 20 Customer Management Tools November 7, 2007 — 12:48 AM PST — by Sean P. Aune After all the ways we’ve shown you how to set up a web business, now it’s time to actually manage all of your customers and clients. This list comprises 20 customer relations systems to help…

  • Words that don’t exist in English

    A sampling from a new collection of words and phrases from around the world for which English has no direct counterpart (e.g. Pesamenteiro — Portuguese: one who joins groups of mourners at the home of a dead person, apparently to offer condolences but in reality is just there for the refreshments, and Poronkusema — Finnish:…

  • Points of Entry

    A flash game created by Persuasive Games lets users compete to award Green Cards under the Merit-Based Evaluation System included in legislation recently considered by Congress. http://select.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/20070621_IMMIGRATION_GRAPHIC.html Powered by ScribeFire.

  • Knowledge Is Priceless but Textbooks Are Not – New York Times

    Knowledge Is Priceless but Textbooks Are Not – New York Times Bookfinder.com, an umbrella search site that sifts through the inventories of hundreds of thousands booksellers worldwide, started a simple, easy-to-use textbook search tool. The way it works: enter a title, I.S.B.N. or author’s name in Bookfinder’s textbooks search box to navigate a huge database…