http://timruder.com Online media news summary of todays online advertising news Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:57:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Credit where credit's due Respect the man who made the science metaphor. Plus, watch a video about David Miller's Higgs analogy. The Illusion of Streaks He's not on fire. Nope. Men misperceive sexual interest in women A new study may indicate why. Edison...Wasn't He the Guy Who Invented Everything? Behind every great inventor is a great rival...who ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seedmagazine-all/~3/261584838/seeds_daily_zeitgeist_412008.php I spent some time this weekend updating my personal blog to WordPress 2.5 which was released Saturday. I've been a WordPress user for a while now, and it's worth noting that version 2.5 is one of the biggest updates since the release of version 2.0 back in late 2005. ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/webware/~3/261456609/8301-1_109-9906555-2.html We've been hearing that impending layoffs have DoubleClick employees fearing for their jobs after Google finishes its takeover. Why? Working there sucks. Ask any Googler. Below, four reasons why DoubleClickers should welcome their liberation from the Googleplex: http://valleywag.com/373636/4-reasons-why-doubleclickers-should-ditch-google Blink, and six months go by. Ever since I made the move from Time Inc. to TechCrunch, my life has become a whirlwind of nonstop blog posting, little sleep, and a growing addiction to news feeds, Techmeme, and my Blackberry. Last week, I wrote my 600th post (this ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/260813057/ Seattle based Redfin, a service that you use in lieu of a buyers broker or agent when buying a house. We explained their model in detail when they launched in mid 2006. A year later the company was interviewed on 60 Minutes. And all along the way there have been lawsuits ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/257627289/ Mixx, a Digg-like site that ranks news stories based on reader voting, will launch a new “breaking news” feature later today that should get real news onto the home page very, very fast. More on that below. Since launching just last September, Mixx has been on a tear to release new ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/257577447/ Google’s original chef Charlie Ayers claims in a new book that much of Google’s success comes from free beer and sushi. In Eat Yourself Smart, he argues that Sushi made Google’s engineers work better: “The fat found in fish helps make the cell membranes round the brain more elastic and more ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/257353681/ A Cambridge, Mass.-based company is launching a free Web site that maps news articles to their location on a map. MetaCarta indexes more than 1,400 sources, including stories from the Associated Press, Reuters, and other news sites and blogs. You can search for a place name or zoom into the map ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/webware/~3/257001317/8301-1_109-9901084-2.html OpenID, a distributed single sign on solution that allows people to sign into different services with the same login credentials, gained significant momentum over the last year as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL all pledged their support for the initiative. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/256985623/ Orbiter Endeavor Launch Watch the March 11 launch from a dashboard-mounted computer. This is how astronauts act as they go into space. (via BA) Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled Dawkins and PZ chat about the incident. Distinguishing Artificial From Natural Is Possible, for Now Our mimicry may get better, yet. The odds of ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seedmagazine-all/~3/256782971/seeds_daily_zeitgeist_3242008.php