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Apple and AT&T have been struggling with unlocking for as long as the iPhone has been around. Finally, with their announcement today of a 3G iPhone in 2008, they are on the right track.
The way to keep users in your system is to offer a highly compelling experience. Apple and their hardware is top of [...]

Well it seems to make sense why Digg is receiving all this acquisition attention, as Google and Facebook are both getting into the game with their own social voting features being rolled out.
Google has pushed this item from their Google Labs department, and here is their quote:
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by [...]

Ever wanted to know how to convert a file into a pdf, jpg, gif but didn’t know how to do it?
I know I’ve personally tried to convert my .doc resume into a PDF, but didn’t know how to do it in Word. Hello Zamzar.
They also cover a number of other formats:
Image – bmp, gif, png, [...]

No sooner do I do a post on how Compete works, do we see a great example of how Alexa does NOT work.
Also, interesting note: I could not get the graph to appear correctly on first try, yet another disaster with Alexa.
According to Alexa, MySpace and Facebook are equal in regards to traffic, even though [...]

EMI was bought by Terra Firma for $4.7 Billion a couple of months ago, and now TF is struggling with their decision to buy this failing giant, especially at that high price point.
Warner Music Group is now trading at $7 per share, down $20 from its $26 point last year, and is valued at only [...]

I’m in a long distance relationship, and I travel a lot for work, so I’m often living out of a suitcase.
As a result, I’ve learned to pack light, and enjoy the merits of being free from restrictions like possessions
Here are my 3 tips to keep myself sane and organized while traveling.

Prepare a travel [...]

Looking for lyrics from your favorite artist — go directly to the source, the aggregation source in LyricsDirectory.
They aggregate all of the song lyrics on the internet, and place them in an easy, recognizable search box for your indexing pleasures.
You can’t actually upload any lyrics, rather they just pull in lyrics from other sites on [...]

For those of you looking for those cheap Hannah Monatana concert tickets, look no further than SongKick.
You simply download their library integration tool, it scans your library, and then delivers a custom “playlist” for you that recommends you a bunch of concerts you should go see.
From your account page, you can also subscribe to bands, [...]

Use Gmail to automatically archive all of your emails, make them easy to search for, and also get the benefit of spam filtering, all in 5 easy steps !
Everyone should have a gmail account, even if you prefer to use a desktop email client like Apple Mail etc.
For me, I don’t like to use the [...]

I thought it would be insightful for me to share some of my experience from my job at Grooveshark, and a good howto.
We are a young web2-0 startup, about 1.5 years old, and are about to move to the next level as we look for Series A funding.
Everyday at work, we’re faced with a myriad [...]

Do you have any idea how many users come to your site everyday? If you’re a webmaster, I’m sure you’ve mastered Alexa, but have you considered Compete.com for traffic estimates?
Compete provides better metrics than Alexa, comScore, and Hitwise

Compete has 2 million+ sample versus 120k in comScore
Compete distinguishes US traffic to International, unlike Alexa
Compete uses Clickstream [...]

Have you ever been spammed by a guy, but didn’t have an address finder?
Well now’s your lucky day — as long as you have his IP, you can find out what city he’s in. Then, depending on how badly he F’ed you over, you can give his ISP a call, and get some citizen justice [...]

It seems like life is a continual run of job after job, with the majority of us never being truly happy in their respective jobs.
If you are in this boat, and are looking for a new job, the first place is to start is by breaking out your old resume and fixing everything that’s wrong [...]

FreeTVOnline is a great new site I found that searches the Internet for all of the free tv episodes that are out there, and lets you watch them in streaming on-demand TV shows, documentaries, and a bunch of stuff.
I tried to watch a couple of Ali G Shows, but gave up before I could find [...]

To save a lot of money on laptops, you should always go for used when it comes to Apple — no reason to support their ridiculous stock price any more.
I’ve probably sold over 50 Apple laptops, all refurbished, on eBay in the past year, and in all of my sales, I’ve had maybe 2 or [...]

I don’t know what Arrington and crew’s such big gripe with PayPerPost is?
I’ve read all of their negative reviews of PayPerPost, but I hadn’t ever checked out PayPerPost until today.
PayPerPost is basically a site where you get paid to write ads — pay per post, and bloggers can sign up to be a provider and [...]