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Network effects (n.) (2/11/2008) I can already feel the red hearts and jewelry commercials swooping in to fill the vacuum left by Christmas, when it finally packed up after six months. With all this sweet romance being pushed on us at every corner I have a confection — I mean confession — to make: I'm not a fan of this Hallmark holiday. (2/11/2008) Glassbooth.org is a nice parlor-game style Web site. Its stated mission is to help find the presidential candidate who most closely matches your preferences. (2/11/2008) Twice burned by companies that published and then shut down online versions of its most ambitious project ever, Spokane's Cyan Worlds is looking at options and seeking new partners to keep its offices open. Last week online video game site GameTap said it would shut down Cyan's vast and multilayered game, Uru, within 60 days. (2/11/2008) People have been competing against machines ever since the first steam engine came along. Just ask John Henry (or Google him). We wondered whether a completely automated shopping site or a site that uses human assistance would find the best results. (2/11/2008) I read a lot of books — partially it's my job (university professor) and partly because I enjoy reading. But any real reader knows that buying books presents a problem: What to do with them once you've read them. (2/11/2008) How do I … change my iPod settings to stop auto synchronizing? (2/11/2008) Every week another product comes out declaring it's the best around to knock out spyware. Or it's the best not just for spyware, but for malware, viruses and adware. (2/11/2008) For our 11th .TXT Video Challenge, we're asking readers to identify an aircraft found in a recent YouTube video called "Spokane Armed Forces and Aerospace Museum." (2/4/2008) The campaign Web sites of the main presidential candidates run the gamut. On one end is the impressive Web juggernaut behind Illinois Sen. Barack Obama; on the other is the energetic, no-nonsense site backing Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who uses the Web more effectively than any other candidate this year, pundits say. (2/4/2008) U.S. electronics retailer Best Buy has pulled a line of popular digital photo frames from its online and in-store shelves, following reports that many of the devices shipped with computer viruses. (2/4/2008) Significant online buzz has followed the advertising war launched via Web videos by fast food chain Quiznos against its chief rival, Subway. (2/4/2008) Tons of Web site names are registered to people who have no purpose owning them other than financial speculation or advertising manipulation. (2/4/2008) Want to totally get stuck for an hour (at least) working your way through an addictive Web puzzle? (2/4/2008) The winner in our No. 10 .TXT Video Challenge is Jo Donnald of Spokane. She correctly identified the second little critter in a recent Blip.TV video called "Nate the Reptile Guy." For being the first to identify it as a Cayman Islands Rock Iguana, she'll get a $5 coffee card. That video was produced by former Spokane artist Snakegirl. (2/4/2008) Scott Seigal was awakened one early morning by a cell phone text message. It was from his girlfriend's mother. His friends' parents have posted greetings on his MySpace page for all the world to see. And his 72-year-old grandmother sends him online instant messages every day so they can better stay in touch while he's at college. (2/4/2008) Most of us are pretty confused by the ongoing rollout of new products from Google, aka the Company that Ate the Internet. (2/4/2008) How do I … identify bogus or phishing e-mails? We're getting plenty of phishing messages in our e-mail inboxes. (2/4/2008) Im in ur … (insult). This is an online declaration, usually delivered by chat or by e-mail, telling someone they've been beaten or outmaneuvered in some game or contest. It's considered a nonthreatening boast. (2/4/2008) This is tax preparation time, but it also pays to consider the possibility that someone, somewhere, owes you money. (2/4/2008) SMS, or short message service, came out of a collective effort by the phone companies in the 1980s to find a simple way to send quick messages to mobile devices. (1/28/2008) Business e-mail is often full of smoking guns that can harm a company if and when a dissatisfied employee, customer, vendor or regulator files a lawsuit. (1/28/2008) RFID (acronym) Radio frequency identification — an evolving system of low-power radio signals to link two or more devices. Most RFID systems involve a passive unit with a chip that stores and processes information and active units that have some form of antenna for transmitting a signal. (1/28/2008) If you like search results in a varied and visually interesting manner, we'd suggest trying Tafiti, a cool new site designed by Microsoft. To use it you have to download the Silverlight Web video tool developed by MS. Then you simply log on to Tafiti and do a search. (1/28/2008) I walked into my school's tech lab the other day just in time to overhear someone shouting: "Computers exist to make my life harder!"
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