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Well the big Selling point of Bing is that you can ask direct questions.
So i had my very first question to ask bing.
We got a file today, labeled with a .mso extension. Email opens it fine, but once out of email I have no idea hat to open it with, so i turned to bing with a question. “what is .mso” . Number one answer is “Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra”.
Didn’t like that answer at all lol. So I look deeper. Nothing identifies the use of the period/point mark showing that was not an abbreviation, but it was a file extension. Nothing for pages. So I tried a few simple ones. Sure that was fine and dandy, but why show me the simple ones but not the hard ones??
so I did the same search in google. Top answer was the same but in like the 8th spot, there it was.
Sure it’s more difficult to locate things in Google sometimes, unless you know the tricks for locating specific details. like plus minus quote and so on.
My opinion, Bing is still being developed into a blue version of yahoo search and is not ready yet for competing with anyone other than old msn search.
The whole pop up description thing is anoying
Bing= but it’s not google!!!???….(with a sad face)
No.
When you say “bing”
no one knows what you are saying.
when you go to bing, it looks like an ad-ram
feels very Yahoo.
Do I like google? Not so much.
Feels very “private FBI” Ish.
Do i like msn?
No feels alot like some rich kid disconected from reality, trying to be cool.
Prizes for Completing missions Platinum
How to get your Hitlist Value up
Effective Accounts on Mobsters
I created a forum on one of my other websites and started to just blot down all the stuff I notice as I go along
Weapons list reflects typical weapons as you are at my level . Cliche is just a list of crap I am sick of hearing, and well when you are a pro at the game, anything you say from that last, will just irritate someone who is not as new as you… really saying something you have seen said so many times, does not qualify you as something greater.
How to get 200 energy, well it tells you how without installing crap or giving your password out. When you read it and find out, you are going to kick yourself for not seeing it. lol it is litterally under your nose.
full screen mobbies, just takes you to the mobsters flash ap circumventing the myspace iframe. I use it because that stupid messenger is poorly coded and uses some of my screen relestate. I bought a large screen so I can see more, force me to block my screen a bit and you really upset me.
How to get your hitlist value up, well if your value goes up, you get more people adding you to top mobbies, giving you more energy for missions. and you are more costly to HL.
Effective accounts on the game?? WEll simply stated, you can create all the accounts you want, meaning you can create some accounts for specific tasks while in battle.
And yes I link to my other website, because I want you people to add stuff, so sign up and add to the stuff in my list, or heck argue with me.
WordPress of course developed another fine version of WordPress.
Of course the auto update did not work well for me so I had of course tomanually install it. just download and walk-through the instructions, nothing more, nothing less.
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.zip
Ok the simple skinny break down.
China decides that it will crank down harder on it’s people’s internet usage by mandating an installed software that allows the government to snoop and monitor people’s usage.
Looks like everyone is hard at proving that the software can be reverse engineered and then software can be created to manipulate the usage of said software for malicious use, or theft. Yes the software is meant for a filtering system , to reduce the people of china from seeing specific things, but it also is set for checking and double checking for modifications. Let’s call this a true
Zero Day Notification.
Digg.com, Has been an internet Leviathan for a couple of three years. It has been mimicked and cloned .but those who try and use some of that idea, miss the one big selling point of digg.com. You get news out before anyone. (If Kevin read this far, the gears would be cranking in his already and he probably would be off building this). Everyone gets to see your post become the most popular and you get to claim some forgotten pride of producing this piece of information to the world of the less informed.
Twitter does that also. In tiny little squirts. You can become a known source of information and become dependable, at a faster pace than what digg allows you now. Digg has (for good reason) locked out all easily detectable spam methods, by slowing down the process in which you submit and verify your news. Understandable, because it was getting bad.
What twitter has that digg needs, is a phone texting measure, and a way to submit images. You can be on scene and send pictures, videos, audio instantly as news happens. You can get this to the public faster than if you sent it to some news station where “Brad” the smiley plastic head gets the credit for your work and find.. What would be the motive for doing this??
Well Chris Pirillo and his http://www.lockergnome.com/ Allows you (as I do here on my site also) to embed your adsense code into your main page of the site, allowing you to generate well deserved income from your works. Letting you establish an income from your credible reports. Believe me if you post junk, people stop taking you serious.
That’s what Digg can do with a Simi Twitter idea.
Let’s say it’s a twitter motivated idea.
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Sorry just stumbles across this on twitter. Following http://twitter.com/NewsWorldNow
http://www.reuters.com/article/paidmediaAtoms/idUS56214459820090611
Let reuters tell youthe story.
Sorry I don’t have a hands on and I don’t even have a picture, let alone a video.
So read up. but man They sure make it sound like a nice machine.
http://iworkwithpeople.ourbusinesstoolbar.com/
Can do alot of stuff with this.
It is an add on to your web browser and allows you many things
like office extensions and add ons, along with some games and chat .
the chat is all tech related so you can ask the people within the chatrooms for some help
with tech issues you might have.
there is an rss reader tool also so you can add your favorite news feeds or podcast feeds.
I preloaded a few podcasts I find to be very informative of tech news.
slash dot review
The tech guy
Diggnation
Caffination
and of course a couple feeds from hulu, like Dr House Episodes and Burn Notice.