Mebane Faber over at WorldBeta consistently has good useful posts. This one is no exception where he points out some research that he has come across to better understand inflation numbers as well as how you can supposedly duplicate the RenTec Inst

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Today I was fortunate to get invited into the Jango beta. I am really excited about Jango. My wife and I have been big fans of Pandora for about a year now. However, Pandora offers no social features. Pandora also does not do a great job of introduc

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I have been testing the ScratchBack widget in my sidebar (Are You In My TopSpots?). ScratchBack, currently in Beta, is a creation of marketer Jim Kukral. This review shows it from the perspective of the publisher as well as of the advertiser. You c

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Last week I wrote about Jango a cool social Internet radio site that is in private beta (you can get an invitation to Jango here). Do you love music? I do. Here are some great places to discover new music on the Internet.
1. Jango - This new social

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ScratchBack is an online "tipping" system. It allows you, the publisher, to accept tips and "give back" links* or images* in return. You name your price on your tips, and you earn money from every interaction through our easy-to-use automated sy

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In this session of the Best of the Sphere, I give you links to great posts I found all over the blogosphere. You'll also find links to the best posts I wrote on TechnoMoney. Some of the posts mentioned are: The Big Juicy Twitter Guide, Where to STA

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When Apple moved the Mac from PowerPC to Intel x86-based processors two years ago, everyone was talking about running Windows on their sexy little MacBook Pro’s. But is it possible to run OSX on a PC?

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A couple of week ago, I got an invitation email from Patrick Gavin from MediaWhiz, AuctionAds, Text-Link-Ads, and now ShoppingAds. I’ve tried AuctionAds for several months then removed from my sites from poor performance. I’m sorry to report that Sh

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WOW! How come I didn’t think of this idea? I’m really glad to hear that the Rubicon Project has secured $6 million in funding to get an idea like this launch to public very soon.

Rubicon Project

After watching the 3 minute demo video, I’m thin

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Debian based Linux distributions, like Ubuntu, use just one program to download, install, update and uninstall programs - the Synaptic Package Manager.

I'll show you why it's so amazing with a video. I'll install Firefox 3 beta in me

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I’ve been using beta versions of Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer almost exclusively since May of this year, and have just seen the product get better and better. Here's why I think you should consider using it to edit your blog.

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Andy Beard goes into more detail about SocialSpark and the implications to paid blogging, blog advertising, and Google smackdowns. Andy's one of the beta testers for SocialSparks and promises to keep all interested up-to-date on what's happening.

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Tonight I received my Jooce beta invite. If you have not heard of Jooce, it is a Web based virtual desktop. What this means is that it can be accessed from any Internet enabled computer. If that was all it offered, it wouldn’t provide too many advantages over similar offerings. Jooce goes a bit further, by providing both personal and public d

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The first beta release of Firefox 3 has "hit the shelves" and is available for download and testing. This is an over view of some changes based upon the release notes. A more in depth review of functionality and user friendliness will be forthcoming when I've had more time to give it a fair testing.

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When the Iphone made its first appearance, many stock market analyst assumed that it would quickly come to an conclusion of thinking it would boost apple stocks momentarily and recede back in a matter of time. At that moment of time Apple was sold at approximately 32 times the profit it brought in or as analyst may say" trail earnings" of $

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