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Google eBookstore Online

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Google eBookstore Google’s eBookstore has opened their virtual doors with the goal of capturing some market share away from other eBookstore’s including Amazon for the Kindle, Apple’s iBooks, Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Kobo from Borders with over 3 million titles from some 4,000 publishers.

Google provides a web reader but the iOS and Android apps have been released as well allowing synchronization of your bookmarks and library.

What I like about the Google library is that you can download the book as either an ePub or PDF format. ePub is the open source ebook format. With these formats you can view and print on just about any device not to mention “loaning” books to friends.

OtherInBox aims to sort and summarize your e-mail inbox

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OtherInBox logoIf you’re like me, then you awaken every day to an e-mail Inbox filled with at least 25+ new messages, and that’s not even counting the other messages that were already filtered to folders/labels. Those new messages come in all shapes and sizes, and more than a few are from commercial senders, such as banks, retailers, etc. And those messages continue to pour in throughout the day.

If you treat your Inbox like a To Do list, then this can seem overwhelming. Gmail has decided that one way to tackle this is by prioritizing your e-mail. You assist Gmail’s built-in brain by marking e-mails up or down in priority/importance. While this may work for you, you may not wish to spend any incremental time continually training it like a puppy or a child.

Enter OtherInBox. OtherInBox (OIB) assesses all of your e-mail, organizes it based on sender and presents you with a dashboard summary of those messages. It will also summarize and send you a daily digest. The aim here is to get those e-mails out of your way and leave your inbox more slanted to personal messages. …

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A few of our favorite Cyber Monday Deals

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We’re not about to try to match the quantity of listed deals that other shopping and coupon sites do, since that’s not what we do, but we just thought we’d share with you some of our favorite deals that we spotted for today, Cyber Monday.

Other than that, there are literally thousands of deals out there, and you only need to take a look at practically any vendor to find their deals for the day. Shop fast!

Diaspora, open-source Facebook-like network launches alpha testing

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Diaspora open-source social network

The open-source social networking site called Diaspora just opened up its site to a limited number of alpha testers. Diaspora is the result of a backlash to Facebook’s closed network and sometimes contentious privacy policies. Two of Diaspora’s main goals are to let users own all of their data and decide how and with who it gets shared. …

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Blekko and DuckDuckGo team up to enhance their search results

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DuckDuckGo and Blekko partnershipTwo of the newer search engines that we’ve featured previously, blekko and DuckDuckGo have joined forces to enhance their respective engines with technology from the other.

For example, DuckDuckGo (DDG) now uses blekko’s slashtag technology to automatically filter out spammy website results, and blekko is using DDG’s ‘zero-click info’ which provides some summary info about a result.

Although not anywhere near Google or Bing’s level of traffic, both DDG and blekko provide some very nice features not found in either search engine and until ‘intelligent’ search technology advances to where we don’t need to qualify our searches, then human-driven intelligence will still be needed, but assisted by tools such as found in these search engines.

Nissan pushing its Electric Car, the Leaf, hard

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Nissan Leaf electric carAfter the infamous ‘death of the electric car’ (or was it murder?), the electric car has arisen from the dead, and now there are multiple models out there (ex: Tesla and Chevy Volt), with more on the way. What’s even better are all the perks that are being handed out with them in an effort to increase interest and sales.

Take the Nissan Leaf for example. Apart from the usual tax credit, Nissan is pushing the Leaf hard – to the point of sending reps out to visit potential buyers at home or calling them personally.

The Leaf costs about $33k, but with the various federal and state credits, that price could easily be more like $20-23k. The Nissan Leaf goes on sale in December.

7 Things You Can Do on a Windows Phone 7 That You Can’t Do on an iPhone

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Windows 7 vs iPhoneWith the recent launch of the new Windows 7 smartphones, this article courtesy of Retrevo.com comparing the iPhone to a Win7 phone is timely.

By Sarah Martin of Retrevo.com

With this week’s North American debut of the Windows Phone 7 we decided to dive into the Microsoft vs Apple fray and see how Windows Phone 7 is going to stack up with iOS 4. (Full disclosure: Retrevo was selected by Microsoft to be a BizSpark One partner.) Since its 2007 release the iPhone has dominated the smartphone market recently its supremacy has been challenged by the Android OS, and now Microsoft is going to do its best to snatch some of that market-share as well. To have any hope of doing so however, Microsoft has to be able to offer something new or innovative to consumers. In that vein, here are a few things WP7 does that the iPhone does not. …

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