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Manchester United 1-0 Chelsea: Champions League Quarterfinal First Take

magician — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:38:52 +0000

Manchester United 1-0 Chelsea: Champions League Quarterfinal First Take
Manchester United took Round 1 of their Champions League Quarterfinal match-up against Premier League rivals Chelsea, with a hard-fought 1-0 victory. Wayne Rooney scored the match’s only goal while Chelsea failed to break apart the United defense. The Blues were the more dangerous side at times, but United dug in and held on for the win. Chelsea had a definite argument for a penalty near the end …

DROID X by Motorola First Impressions

magician — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:40:15 +0000

www.droid-life.com – Check out our full review coming up at the blog!

Newcastle back in Premier League at first attempt as Forest falter

magician — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:49:27 +0000

Newcastle back in Premier League at first attempt as Forest falter
Newcastle United clinched an immediate return to the English Premier League with six matches left in the season after promotion rivals Nottingham Forest were held to a 0-0 draw by Cardiff on Monday.

Beckham returns to his first soccer home

magician — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:12:20 +0000

Beckham returns to his first soccer home
For the first time in nearly seven years, the soccer world’s most bankable name returns to Old Trafford, the stadium where he once played for Man U.

First Look at SnapGroups: A Delightful Tool For Lightweight Discussion

magician — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:45:41 +0000

Mark Fletcher builds software, that’s just what he does. He may have sold the system that became Yahoo Groups for $400 million, and then made millions selling Bloglines to Ask.com as well, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stop making software. And it’s not just any software he makes, either. Those two projects changed millions of peoples’ lives.

Fletcher will unveil his newest creation, a lightweight group communication tool called SnapGroups. You probably going to like it a lot: it’s easy, it’s clear, it’s got good social design and it’s real time. Check out the screenshots below.

SnapGroups makes it really easy to create a group discussion around a particular topic, invite people, set variable privacy controls and then participate in that conversation as part of a whole “newsfeed” style stream of updates from all your various groups in one place. Fresh comments, likes and dislikes get pushed to your browser live using a home-made bit of AJAX and the whole thing couldn’t be much simpler. It’s a lot of fun to use, in fact.

Fletcher says this is only the beginning, that all kinds of features are still to come, but he’s focused on the basics for now. He started working on the site in October and says his favorite part of the project was “learning about the new technologies that have sprung up in the past couple years.” “The various databases that have come out recently are great,” he told us. “I’m using Mongo, but there are many interesting projects now.” The core of the site is written in C++.

Fletcher says SnapGroups will go live tomorrow morning. You should try it out when it does. Invites to groups will no doubt be flying around Twitter and Facebook. It may very well become something you want to use regularly. Hopefully there will be a way to export your conversations easily. Fletcher is a pretty straightforward guy and will probably implement just about anything that enough people ask for and that isn’t too hard to do.

Mark Fletcher has a habit of building relatively simple things, like the first major email list system and the first popular RSS reader, that end up being a defining player in the rise of a new era online. Simple, real-time group communication? Not at all hard to imagine that being a big new thing as well.

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First lady gets moving at soccer clinic

magician — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:58:54 +0000

First lady gets moving at soccer clinic
First lady Michelle Obama kicked soccer balls with youngsters to encourage them to get the recommended hour of daily exercise as she promoted her campaign against childhood obesity.