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POPSGreen technology creating 'green collar' jobs I stand strongly behind my belief that if this country committed ourselves to becoming energy independent with the same determination that we committed to putting a man on the moon, that we could do it and we could create millions of new jobs in the process. It would be an enormous driver of economic growth and strengthen our leverage in the Middle East because we would no longer be reliant on their oil.
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POPSWeb 2.0 Continues As Most Used New Internet Term While it's no longer quite so fashionable to label your Internet startup a "Web 2.0" company these days, the popularity of the term remains extraordinarily high and is presently used today both far and wide in traditional media and social media.
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POPSWhat AntiVirus products do what? A really great article that should be required reading for every user online. Like a yearly requirement. ya know, to keep these facts fresh in your spongelike, thirsting for knowledge mind.
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POPSScribd - online publishing One of early problems Scribd encountered was that there was no good format for displaying its documents, as formats like PDF, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint were designed before the Internet existed. In response, Scribd created iPaper, the first document format built for the web. Like YouTube's player did for video formats, iPaper standardizes all document formats into one viewer that can be seamlessly integrated into webpages. Recognizing the value of this technology, Scribd released the Scribd Platform, which allows any website to use iPaper to display their documents.
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POPSbarcamp Houston Missed it again, but love how StartupHouston.com always gives me the scoop. Startup Mom's LOVE startup Houston!
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POPSA San Francisco-based startup called 12seconds is a video version of Twitter, but how useful will it 12seconds borrows heavily from the concepts of Twitter, an increasingly popular tool for so-called microblogging, in which people write pithy, 140-character updates on the status of their daily lives. A posted "tweet" can be published on Twitter's main page and sent directly to people who are following the person who posted. While initially laughed off as a waste of time, Twitter, founded in 2006, has slowly been gaining traction as more and more people and companies are finding it a useful way to quickly share information with a broad audience.
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POPSLocal recommendations, conversation-style Docoloco allows you to post, discover, and request recommendations in your area. An Australian startup -- not much coverage in the rest of the world yet, but looks to be worth watching. Via Mashable.
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POPSFREE All-In-One Utility To Optimize, Clean PC Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder and more. All Glary Utilities tools can be accessed through an eye-pleasing and totally simplistic interface.