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If you haven’t yet seen the latest feature of Google Maps – Street View – do check it out in select major cities on a computer near you. You can see fun things like this guy, scaling a fence and caught red-handed by the Google Street View van trying to break into someone’s house. You […]

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I’ve always wanted to map out my family tree, but have never found a good way to do it. Until yesterday when I read about Geni on TechCrunch. Geni rules. I signed up yesterday and added my wife, my immediate family, a good part of my extended family, and my in-laws. And this morning, my […]

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How cool is this word? Katzenjammer.

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Oh look! My own Google search. You can get your own here right here. (Thanks, NYT!)

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I posed the question a week ago about what feed reader you use. Thanks to those of you who responded! This week I ask: What’s your start page? That is, what site fires up along with your browser every day? What’s your window into the world? For the longest time, my start page was My […]

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I’m shocked that I haven’t previously written a blog post on LinkedIn. But I just searched my archives and confirmed that I haven’t. LinkedIn is simply the best online networking tool I’ve seen. It’s like Friendster or Orkut for professionals, leveraging the whole six degrees of separation concept. You can search by names, titles, location, […]

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For a while, I had been experiencing this really annoying problem with Firefox — I’m using the latest version, Firefox 1.5 — wherein opening a new tab (or control-clicking a bookmark to open a new tab, which I do often) would cause the whole browser window to resize slightly. Depending on the smaller size of […]

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As I’ve written about recently, Google Video is a lot of fun. Along with watching all the awesome things it has to offer, you can add your own movies, in the true spirit of a grassroots site. Not long ago I uploaded a couple of my own videos for all the world — and you! […]

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My wife is an Internet rock star and I didn’t even know it. Those of us who have been involved in this Web thing for a long time no doubt know about the Wayback Machine, a very cool site that archives the Web as it evolves. For example, do a search for gabeanderson.com and you’ll […]

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My friends and brothers: The Apostrophe Protection Society. It’s comforting to know that someone besides me is looking out for protection of the apostrophe as we know it. The Apostrophe Protection Society was started in 2001 by John Richards, now its Chairman, with the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much […]

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