Archive for the 'Afternoon squeeze' Category
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Forget battling with autoshapes in MS Office and Visio – now Forbes.com is offering a Wiki org chart maker.
With the turnover of executives being so high, it’s hard for research and media organizations to keep up with who’s in what position. We’ll see if the collective Web community can do a better job.
See if [...]
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
It’s getting to be crunch time for taxes.
If you haven’t started yet, you better get crackin’.
We came across this post and thought it might be helpful for navigating through all the online tax prep offerings that are out there.
You could save a few bucks and take a bit of the sting off the [...]
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Need some copy and wonder where you can score some dummy text?
Head on over to www.loremipsum.de and you can get as much as you need.
It’s a free service for copywriters, graphic designers, and more.
Interested in its history? Read on:
After telling everyone that Lorem ipsum, the nonsensical text that comes with PageMaker, only looks like [...]
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
Head on over to USAtoday.com to get a completely redesigned home page fraught with the latest social elements that (might) make reading the newspaper online just a little bit more interactive.
We’re not going to tell you what they did, you can check it out on your own.
We liked the welcome note that explained the new [...]
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
We have to side with the boys over at 37signals on some issues related to Weather.com.
Today they just might have totally redeemed themselves.
Since many of you have commented on how you like the tools that we highlight here on the pulp, here’s another one for you:
Weather.com unveiled a new – surprise surprise – Flash-based interactive [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Obsessing over minute-to-minute changes on the stock market? If you are, get some help.
If you’re just looking to quickly check out a stock or index, however, there are some new tools to use that enable you to crunch stock data until your eyes start to sizzle. These new tools are pretty [...]
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
This just in:
XM Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: XMSR) and SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which the companies will be combined in a tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with a combined enterprise value of approximately $13 billion, which includes net debt of approximately $1.6 billion.
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The combination [...]
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
We’re really diggin’ Daylife’s new look and the site is quickly becoming one of our favorites.
If you haven’t visited the site before, it’s worth a drop on by. There are different ways to enjoy what Daylife is all about – rounding up some top stories from the week and presenting them in way that [...]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
If you tried to head over here and typed in PRpolp (imagine someone actually owned that domain and littered it with adwords), then you clicked on an ad to get over to the real PRpulp, you would have benefited from a practice called domain tasting.
Domain tasting takes advantage of a loophole in the registration process [...]
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Now that you’re inspired by the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods, you need to be able to graph your data. Google spreadsheets isn’t quite there yet, so you need some help.
Enter Swivel.
Swivel is a social-based online graphing system that can also make your private data look good. It starts to cost money when [...]
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