Friday, November 19, 2010

Top GigaOM Content for Friday, November 19, 2010

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Top Articles for Friday, November 19, 2010

GigaOM

Cox Launches Consumer-Friendly Wireless
Kevin C. Tofel - Cox Communications, the third largest cable provider in the U.S., today entered the wireless market after more than two years of planning. Incumbent carriers should take note: Cox Wireless customers get refunds for unused minutes, plan pricing is competitive and ETF charges are pro-rated properly.
Formspring Got $10 Million in New Funds, RedPoint VC Leads
Om Malik - Formspring, a San Francisco-based social Q&A startup, has raised $10 million in fresh funding in a round led by Redpoint Ventures. Formspring.me is also part of a group of companies trying to capture a piece of a massive web trend: personal expression.
Twitter and the Power of Giving People a Voice - Mathew Ingram
Why Gravity's Interest Graph Effort is Un-Interesting - Om Malik
Medialets Rides iAd Wave, Offers Rich Media Tools - Ryan Kim

Earth2Tech

PHOTOS: Electric Cars At the LA Auto Show
Katie Fehrenbacher - The LA Auto Show, which kicked off on Wednesday and is now open to the public, featured a wave of the next-generation of plug-in cars from big auto makers and startups alike. Here's a couple dozen more of my photos from the past couple of days:
Proterro: Sugar From Sunlight and CO2
Jeff St. John - Ethanol is pretty easy to make from pure sugar. It's getting the sugar — either from corn and sugarcane, or hard-to-digest cellulosic materials — that's the challenging part. That's where Proterro, a startup that has engineered a microbe that can turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into sugar comes in.
NRG: Nation's First Privately Financed Vehicle Charging Network - Jeff St. John
Volvo's Electric Car the C30 Hits the Road - Katie Fehrenbacher
Smart Appliances: Slow Growth, Big Influence - Jeff St. John

jkOnTheRun

Gift a Kindle E-book via Email This Year
James Kendrick - Amazon is bringing the e-book more in line with the paper variety with the ability to give Kindle e-books as gifts this year. Giving that special book to a friend or family member is always a good gift, and now that includes the digital variety.
Mobile Tech Manor #107: Apps and Things
James Kendrick - Mobile Tech Manor is my home office where all sorts of gadgetry is always arriving. In this column, I look back at the week in the Manor and recount the happenings and lessons learned. I love sharing my weeks with you, so welcome to the Manor.
Study: FDA Hampering Technology in Healthcare - James Kendrick
Angry Birds Coming to Low-End Android Phones - James Kendrick
Medical Minder Allows Treatment at Home Over 3G - James Kendrick

NewTeeVee

Vid-Biz: Google TV-FiOS, Senate on Retrans, Yahoo Connected TV
Ryan Lawler - Today on the Net: Google TV Ads will now be available on 50 channels on Verizon FiOS, cable distributors and programmers appeared before a senate subcommittee meeting on retrans fights and Yahoo Connected TV is rolling out Paid Widgets beginning next year.
How Obama Created A Branded Web Series By Accident
Liz Shannon Miller - One joke from President Obama, made two weeks ago during a press conference, has kicked off a national branded campaign led by a daily episodic web series, thanks to 7-Eleven and Happy Little Guillotine Films. Obama, however, holds the key to the show being a success.
Time Warner Cable's New Bundle: Under $40, No ESPN - Ryan Lawler
Read That Amazon Studios Contract Carefully, Kids - Liz Shannon Miller
Nielsen: Viewers Watched Less TV Per Month In Q2 - Ryan Lawler

TheAppleBlog

T.J. Maxx and Marshalls Offering Cheap iPad Scavenger Hunt
Darrell Etherington - Apple's own Black Friday deals never seem to be that impressive, but this one from T.J. Maxx and Marshalls is sure to attract consumer attention. The retailers are going to be offering the 16GB Wi-Fi version of Apple's iPad for only $399 during the holiday weekend.
Track Your iPhone's Data Usage With DataMan
Nick Santilli - The days of AT&T's all you can eat data plans are dead and gone. Now, your options for data on the iPhone are 200MB or 2GB of data per month. Regardless of which plan you're on, keeping track of usage is useful. Enter DataMan.
Poking Holes in RIM's Anti-Apple Rhetoric - Liam Cassidy
The Apple Anti-Gift Guide - Darrell Etherington
25 iPads Combine to Form Giant Interactive Display - Darrell Etherington

WebWorkerDaily

Bridging the Gap: How to Improve Communication Between the Office and Remote Workers
Celine Roque - Some teams are made up of some members who work on-site and some who work remotely. While most research shows that little difference in performance between the two groups, this kind of team poses a challenge, because the on-site workers tend to ignore the remote workers
Dooity: A Lightweight HTML5 To-Do List
Simon Mackie - Dooity is a free lightweight online task management app. It's simple, written in HTML5 and is very fast. It also has a few neat features, like tagging, keyboard shortcuts, an API and offline access, that make it worth checking out.
The Web Worker's Advantage, Part 2: Flexibility (and the Freedom to Wear Pajamas) - Amber Singleton Riviere
Sharing Large Files With a Distributed Team - Thursday Bram
harmon.ie Aims to Make Corporate Email More Social - Simon Mackie

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