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May 17
5 Things to Avoid Before Buying A Home [Credit]

With low mortgage rates and a battered housing market, it’s a ripe time to buy a home. Here are five credit score related things you should avoid doing before buying a home.

A lender doesn’t…
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Wolfram Alpha, the Answer Engine Wolfram|Alpha launched yesterday and it’s an useful complement to a general-purpose search engine like Google. Wolfram|Alpha doesn’t search the web, it uses data from authoritative databases and an…
May 16
The whole truth about HD [Pic]
May 15
Ajax Frameworks Decision Center Why choose which Ajax framework you can use, when you can let The Machine tell you! Jim Briggs of Athenz has pointed his decision machine at the age old problem of choosing which darn library to…
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OpenID.net: Google and JanRain Release Support for the OpenID User Interface Extension This morning, Google released an upgrade to their OpenID Provider to support the draft OpenID User Interface Extension along with JanRain who added support for it to their Relying Party service…
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Developer shows eight minutes of BioShock 2 Take-Two Interactive only announced BioShock 2 two months ago, but the game already looks pretty close to completion. At least, one would think so after looking at an eight-minute gameplay clip…
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Ten lessons in bootstrapping from the founders of Urbanspoon

[Editor’s note: We asked the guys at Urbanspoon — fresh off their sale to IAC — to share some tips on what it takes to build a business without venture capital.]

Adam Doppelt: Ah, the romance…
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Creating Your Vision, Mission, Strategy and Plan

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here.

This was a hard chapter to write. It feels like a chapter…
May 14
Error'd: Password... Protected!

“Dear Monster,” wrote Eric, “why does it matter what words I use in my password?”

“Thankfully, I ordered a Veggie burger, Onion Rings, and a Medium Pepsi,” Josh Bavari wrote,…
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Gmail Tip: Twitter Gadget

Written by Jenny Kortina.

gadgetTwitter is has become a crucial part of my online life: I use it for my personal brand management, as a news source, and as a resource for answering any…