http://www.unfortune.com from riches to rags Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:02:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Read full story for latest details. http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/06/the-dollar-stuck-in-a-funk/ Read full story for latest details. http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/06/congress-long-to-do-list/ The high cost of gas is one thing Americans didn't celebrate this holiday weekend. http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/06/gas-prices-higher-in-record-territory/ Twitter is still far larger than its much younger competitor Friendfeed in aggregate terms. But an interesting trend is developing - many longtime Twitter users are noticing that the number of followers they have on Friendfeed is growing far more rapidly than on Twitter. And the conversations at Friendfeed are ... http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/05/friendfeed-v-twitter-half-the-followers-in-five-months/ Webaroo Technology has confirmed a $10 million round of funding for their product SMSGupShup, an SMS-based community site in India. The round, the third for the company, was co-led by Helion Venture Partners and Charles River Ventures. SMSGupShup is a community site that enables users to join groups ... http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/05/webaroo-raises-a-10-million-round-for-smsgupshup/ Holiday weekends, especially the ones that bracket the summer months, tend to be stress tests for the tech media. With the proliferation of smart phones, social media aggregators, and of course the Twitter clonestakes, it’s now trivial to get a snapshot of what is going on throughout the “time off.” Is ... http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/05/plus-ca-change/ Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems - which had the best forwarding and group ... http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/05/think-before-you-voicemail/ Read full story for latest details. http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/05/offshore-oil-drilling-an-early-jump-in-florida/ Read full story for latest details. http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/05/g-8-global-warming-and-oil-top-agenda/ Yahoo Shortcuts automatically finds and underlines interesting items in articles and provides additional information via a pop up window (Yahoo Shortcuts also refers to shortcuts in Yahoo Search for common things like travel search). “People, places, organizations, and other things of interest are underlined,” says the FAQ. One blogger is pointing ... http://www.unfortune.com/2008/07/05/yahoo%e2%80%99s-helpful-shortcut-to-pictures-of-underage-girls/