April 2011
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The High-Pressure, Debt-Heavy World of For-Profit... →
Campus Progress, an arm of the Center for American Progress, details how many of the non-traditional schools make money (federal grants), who they hire (recruiters), and the typical student (often saddled with debt, and usually dropping out).
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Google Talk Guru →
Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support Google Talk.
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AllMyApps Aims to Be App Store for Windows →
AllMyApps originally launched in 2009, with the idea that the site could suggest a suite of free apps that could be installed on a new PC.
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Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% →
Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.
By Joseph E. Stiglitz (via @migueldeicaza)