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Rejoice ye programmers! You can now access Google's URL shortener via a simple API. It can either be accessed in a brute-force "gimme a short link now" way; or you can make authenticated requests, which puts shortened URLs into your Goo.gl dashboard, allowing clickthroughs to be analyzed. In the announcement, Google also points to Royal Pingdom's research into the fastest and most reliable URL shorteners. Not only does Google match Bit.ly for reliability, but it blows the competition out of the water when it comes to speed. Goo.gl is about three times faster than Bit.ly, and two times faster than Is.gd. The main difference seems to be that Google has servers all over the world, whereas Bit.ly seems to only have a North American presence. Don't forget, Google also applies its excellent spam and malware filters to all Goo.gl-shortened links. Is there any reason to not use Goo.gl...?Google URL shortener Goo.gl now has an API originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Hotmail users have only just had their email inboxes restored after a few long, worrying days. The data loss began at the end of December, with the Windows Live Solution Center spawning over a thousand "help, my inbox is missing!" threads, and only now is posting beginning to dry up. The exact number of affected users is unknown, but could easily be in the millions. Microsoft hasn't yet stated the cause of the massive data loss, but considering some users lost email inboxes spanning years, we should be glad that adequate backups were kept. The data loss occurred around December 28, and it affected everything in Hotmail accounts, including sent items. Some users reported that the only message they had been left with was the classic "Welcome to Hotmail" email. Still, it seems like everything is now back to normal. Considering just how much data was lost, it was probably a crashed database server which then had to be restored -- but hopefully Microsoft will let us all know what really happened. Update: Microsoft says that 17,355 accounts were affected by the outage, which was apparently caused by "mailbox load balancing between servers."Hotmail users lose entire email inboxes, Microsoft restores them 5 days later originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tim Ferriss is a 33-year-old Silicon Valley angel investor, consultant, Singularity University advisor, and former entrepreneur who in 2007 published a book called The 4-Hour Workweek; in 2008 won Wired's "Greatest Self-Promoter of All Time" prize; and last month published a sort-of-sequel, The 4-Hour Body. His books seem roughly equally divided between really worthwhile, interesting advice and totally ridiculous crap. What's most interesting about them is their approach. In his own bizarre yet effective way, Ferriss has become the world's first hacker-guru. And I hate to admit it, but I must confess: I have halfway become a devotee. The 4-Hour Body attacks self-improvement in the same way Silicon Valley startups strive for success: data-driven decision-making, A/B testing, iterative development, willingness to pivot. This isn't new. A sizeable subset of the hacker community has been "hacking their body" for years, and sites like Lifehacker have grown around that approach. Ferriss, though, is the first to promulgate that ethos to the general population - and he has been wildly (and deservedly) successful. 4-Hour Body rocketed straight to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/K90Xh2wnT2A/
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The next generations of telecom technologies are called ?LTE? or ?4G?. China?s Huawei believes that by 2015, it will hold 15?20% of the worldwide patents in these technologies, and that these will it at least 1.5% of the sales price of every device?every cell phone, laptop, and tablet?that uses them. Huawei is on track to achieve its goals: in 2007, it held just 152 patents; by the end of 2009, it had applied for 42,543 patents, of which 11,339 had been granted in China, 215 in the United States, and 1282 in Europe. Huawei?s rival, ZTE, claims to hold 7% of the world?s LTE patents and plans to increase this to 10% by 2012. Emboldened by these successes, the Chinese government has initiated a nationwide program to make China the world leader in patents in every important industry. The New York Times reported that the government is offering cash bonuses, better housing, and tax breaks to individuals and companies filing the most patent applications. According to the Times, China?s goal is to increase the number of its yearly ?invention? patent filings from this year?s 300,000 to one million by 2015. And it wants another one million ?utility-model patents?, which typically cover items like engineering features in a product. In comparison, there are 500,000 invention patents granted every year in the U.S. The requirements for ?utility-model patents? are so mundane that they are not even recognized in the U.S. as a legitimate criterion for the existence of intellectual property. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LdUlusIALOk/
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The next generations of telecom technologies are called ?LTE? or ?4G?. China?s Huawei believes that by 2015, it will hold 15?20% of the worldwide patents in these technologies, and that these will it at least 1.5% of the sales price of every device?every cell phone, laptop, and tablet?that uses them. Huawei is on track to achieve its goals: in 2007, it held just 152 patents; by the end of 2009, it had applied for 42,543 patents, of which 11,339 had been granted in China, 215 in the United States, and 1282 in Europe. Huawei?s rival, ZTE, claims to hold 7% of the world?s LTE patents and plans to increase this to 10% by 2012. Emboldened by these successes, the Chinese government has initiated a nationwide program to make China the world leader in patents in every important industry. The New York Times reported that the government is offering cash bonuses, better housing, and tax breaks to individuals and companies filing the most patent applications. According to the Times, China?s goal is to increase the number of its yearly ?invention? patent filings from this year?s 300,000 to one million by 2015. And it wants another one million ?utility-model patents?, which typically cover items like engineering features in a product. In comparison, there are 500,000 invention patents granted every year in the U.S. The requirements for ?utility-model patents? are so mundane that they are not even recognized in the U.S. as a legitimate criterion for the existence of intellectual property. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LdUlusIALOk/
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Don't you just hate scrolling through blogs and news websites with front pages that go on for ever? Sure, scrolling with the mouse wheel, arrow keys, or Page Up and Down works, but it always feels a bit clunky. Sometimes you scroll a bit too far, or not far enough. The worst bit, though, is that annoying microsecond where your eyes have to hunt for the right block of text to read; you hit the bottom of the page, press Page Down, and then your eyes have to scroll back to the top of the page and find the last word you read -- gah! With TitleQ, a tiny little Firefox add-on, it all becomes so much simpler. At just 7KB, TitleQ does just one thing: it lets you hit Ctrl+Down Arrow to move between headline elements (H1, H2, H3, etc.) on a page. It works for any website that uses proper HTML, which includes Download Squad, Engadget, TUAW, Gizmodo, Lifehacker -- and so on. With TitleQ the story headline is always at exactly the same position on the screen, which makes things so much easier for your poor, over-used eyes.TitleQ for Firefox lets you easily move between blog and news headlines with your keyboard originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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