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Crowdsourcing, Threadless and Web2.0

Threadless on WGN - Around Town from Threadless.com on Vimeo.



You've no doubt heard the term crowdsourcing. Jeff Howe popularized the word in this Wired article and with his book,… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on July 3, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

How to enable internet tethering on iPhone 3.0

just chatted with the Byrne-meister, Alan, my former colleague I met while working in Dublin, Ireland. He's sitting in a cow pasture in somewhere in Belgium using his Mac tethered to his iPhone for internet access. I asked him how and he pointed me to this link. Said it took him no time at all to… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on July 1, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

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