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Get your free tickets for the P2P financing conference here

March 16th, 2010

Because we’re sponsoring the Peer Financing Conference , we have free tickets for the first 25 people who register for the event. At the conference, you’ll see first hand the innovative funding solutions that top developers, content creators, and entrepreneurs can use to their advantage. When : Friday, March 19, 8:00 a.m.

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Trilliant combines local and wide area networks to build an even smarter grid

March 16th, 2010

Trilliant , one of several companies providing the wireless networks that carry energy use data from smart meters back to utilities, announced today that it can now seamlessly connect wide area networks and local (neighborhood) area networks . The new service gives utilities total — and more secure — control over where data and energy flow, and at a lower cost. Redwood City, Calif.-based Trilliant acquired SkyPilot Networks , a provider of mesh broadband coverage, last June.

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Twitter’s Evan Williams: Openness is a survival strategy

March 15th, 2010

During his keynote interview at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin today, Twitter chief executive Evan Williams talked about why Twitter has chosen to make itself open to search engines, third-party developers, and other services.

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Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs

March 15th, 2010

A number of humorous yet undocumented features are hiding beneath the surface of some of the most popular open source software applications.

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Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs

Europe trashes ACTA as Obama praises it

March 15th, 2010

Earlier this week, we noted that the major parties in the European Parliament had all agreed on a resolution trashing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and the secret process that has been hashing it out. That resolution has passed Parliament by a huge margin —633 yes votes, 13 no votes, and 16 abstentions.

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Marketing games: the art of the pole dance

March 14th, 2010

Let’s get one thing out of the way first: True Crime looks good . The game was demoed for me in a private suite, played live, and talked up by the developer

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The Weird Science of toilet plants and rhythmless reindeer

March 14th, 2010

Well, that’s one way to get a balanced diet: We all know that carnivorous plants have evolved in regions where the soil isn’t very nutrient-rich, and they use their prey to supplement what they don’t get via roots.

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GamesBeat 2010 in pictures – Part 2

March 11th, 2010

The audience paid close attention to things onstage. The audience attended GamesBeat 2010 in large numbers

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GamesBeat 2010 in pictures – Part 2