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Resigning from Yahoo

Stewart Butterfield, the cofounder of Flickr, has tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. Flickr was purchased by Yahoo for the tune of $35 million three years ago!



Here is Butterfield's full resignation letter:




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Procrastination

Have you ever wondered what is the true meaning of Procrastination? Well, here it is ;-)



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iPhone 3G

Apple new iPhone 3G is finally official! Starting at $199 for 16GB version, and available on July 11th, 2008.



Read: iPhone 3G


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Tim Ferriss & Marci Alboher at Google

Authors of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich and One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success at a recent Authors@Google presentation. This is a long video, but I think it's well worth watching.



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Green Plug

Every AC-powered device uses a common cable and connector. Yet, DC-powered devices use so many incompatible, device-specific cables and connectors that the cables and connectors are normally useful only for one specific device, and thrown away at the end of the device's life. In United states only, over 400 million of such adapters are thrown away every year.

Green Plug is leveraging the universality of the USB connector for delivering power to low-power devices. Unmodified, standard USB cables can be used to connect Green PlugTM-enabled power supplies to low-power devices that get power over their USB connectors. Since USB provides for low-power only, Green Plug has extended the connector in a very innovative way such that high-power devices can all use the universal connector for power.





Read: Green Plug


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Wii Fit hits the market

Finally, the Wii Fit hits the US market. It's one of the most popular games in Japan, and will open the door for "Active" entertainment in US.

Read: Nintendo’s New Wii Fit Makes Fitness Fun


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Time Boxing



By fixing the amount of time we spend on a given set of tasks, we can focus on doing the things that matter, give us motivation to start, prevent overruns and use our “null” times effectively. In contrast, if we worked on things until completion in one sitting, we’re less likely to start on complex tasks, more likely to overrun on open ended tasks and leaves us with less time and motivation to work on the next set of tasks.

Source: David Seah


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Zero eMails in your Inbox

Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website in a presentation at Google Headquarters talks about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email.



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Get a wine cork out of a bottle

How can you get a wine cork out of a bottle without breaking it? Is it even possible? ;-)

Not only possible, it takes only a few seconds! Just amazing, even after watching the video, I still can't believe how simple it really is ;-)


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My Best Web Apps


Webware 2007 is complete and the awards are given based on public voting.

Here are the Apps I personally use on regular basis. They are mostly Free for the user (except for eBay & PayPal which I tend to use less and less) :


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