http://buzzrun.com BuzzRun - For all the buzz all the time. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:41:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en $2.2 Million worth of prizes this year (including the home, suv and a ton of other stuff). So if you haven't already started entering "once per day", then don't start now ... cuz I want to win it! You can go here to see the details and here to enter now. . http://buzzrun.com/2008/02/07/hgtv-dream-home-in-the-florida-keys/ This is a great list from Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch on this year's new Tech Resolutions .... (I love the last one) ... Okay, I know, I’m late with these, but coming up with New Year’s resolutions is tough. And isn’t there a one-week grace period anyway? Rather than do ... http://buzzrun.com/2008/01/06/new-years-tech-resolutions-via-techcrunch/ ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2008) — A new study by two York University researchers estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the industry’s claim. he researchers’ estimate is based on the systematic collection of data directly from the ... http://buzzrun.com/2008/01/05/big-pharma-spends-almost-double-on-advertising-compared-with-r-d/ UPDATE: The Live Auctions is now Open for bidding. Now until January 10th. Take a look or start bidding. DomainTools.com announced that it's having their next Live Auction on Janurary 3rd. Out of over 2000 domain submissions only 170 made the cut (I actually was able to get three on ... http://buzzrun.com/2008/01/01/domaintools-january-3rd-live-auction-list-announced/ Google annouced they can now deliver real time status and info on your flights directly on the search results page (Google.com). Just type the name of the airline and flight number (e.g. American 123, ua226) into the search box, and they'll return the most up to date information from FlightStats.com. ... http://buzzrun.com/2007/12/31/check-flight-status-right-from-googlecom/ Here's a interesting read from ZDNet on using Wordpress versus a standard "clunky" CMS. He's got some good points and really nails-down the "IT geek". Story: In Scott Karp’s overall discussion asking whether blogs can do journalism–I think it’s all the same and chances are techies don’t care anyway–he touches on blogs ... http://buzzrun.com/2007/12/23/wordpress-vs-clunky-cms/   So it appears that other large news media companies are finally seeing through the crap that CNN puts out of their "so-called" news channel. The Los Angeles Times publishes a story regarding CNN's "self serving agenda ... set for the Republican debates". Read it for yourself here. A person is blind if ... http://buzzrun.com/2007/12/03/la-times-reports-cnn-corrupt-news-network/ Startup doctoc (competitor to startup scribd) is giving away a free iPod Touch every week this month to the user that uploads the most documents each week. Since the sites launch last week, they say they've "had thousands of documents uploaded". Sign up to get started, but you'll have some work to ... http://buzzrun.com/2007/11/06/docstoc-giving-away-itouch-for-most-docs/ Thought you might find this interesting ... how Google got it's name: Stanford student Sean Anderson was the guy who gave Larry Page the name of his search engine and company: Sean and Larry were in their office, trying to think up a good name -- something that related to the indexing ... http://buzzrun.com/2007/10/27/the-160-billion-domain-typo/ The AP reports that as part of a proposed settlement to a class-action suit Sprint Nextel has agreed to provide customers with the code necessary to unlock their phones, after they’ve finished the service and paid their bills. Sprint won’t have to pay financial damages under the terms of the ... http://buzzrun.com/2007/10/27/sprint-caves-in-and-agrees-to-unlock-phones/