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  • Record-setting 100 Tesla Magnetic Field Emits An Eerie Howl

    Record-setting 100 Tesla Magnetic Field Emits An Eerie Howl

    Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s biggest magnet facility succeeded last week in producing the world’s first magnetic field surpassing 100-tesla, an achievement that produced a magnetic field roughly 2,000,000 times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field. The official measure was 100.75 tesla, or T, which was created using a “100-tesla pulsed, multi-shot magnet, a combination of seven coils sets weighing nearly 18,000 pounds and powered by a massive 1,200-megajoule motor generator.” While other stronger magnetic fields have been produced before in other labs, those performances create such force that the magnets blow themselves apart in the process. The team at LANL, however, managed to produce the 100-tesla magnetic field without any destructive repercussions.

    Chuck Mielke, director of the Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos, said, “This is our moon shot, we’ve worked toward this for a decade and a half.”

    Mielke added that, concerning recent experiments, “the new magnet has allowed our users and staff to pin down the upper critical field of a new form of superconductor, discover two new magnetically ordered states in a material that has eluded scientists for nearly 30 years, observe magneto-quantum oscillations in a high temperature superconductor to unprecedented resolution, determine a topological state of a new material, and discover a new form of magnetic ordering in an advanced magnetic material.”

    Check out the video below of the researcher’s breakthrough. If you’ve ever seen The Princess Bride (and of course you’ve seen The Princess Bride), you’ll notice that the 100-tesla produces a howl that sounds somewhat similar to the screeching eels of that movie. It kind of makes your dorsal hairs stand up when you think on how that primal howl was emitted from a magnetic field. Screaming magnets.

    It’s hard for the laity to really conceive of how powerful a 100+ tesla magnetic field is, but to put it into perspective an MRI machine usually measures a 3-tesla. Above 10T you’d be able to cause small critters to levitate, as seen in the trippy video of a frog below:

    So at 100T? We officially become mutant pinball wizards.

  • Earthquake Hits Japan, Causes Minor Tsunami

    A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked northeastern Japan today, causing the Japanese Meteorological Agency to issue a tsunami warning. It struck about 170 miles off the east coast. A spokesman for Tohoku Electric Power, which operates two nuclear power plants in the area, said they were unaffected.

    The tsunami hit the eastern coastline later but no reports of damage have been filed as of yet. Local residents were warned to evacuate well before the wave struck. Early reports say the waves hit two locations in Aomori, which was one of the most devastated areas in last year’s tragedy, in which an 8.9 magnitude quake caused a tsunami which claimed over 19,000 lives and was declared Japan’s worst post-war disaster.

    The quake comes just three days after the one-year anniversary of that disaster, and on Sunday the cities of Japan were silent as families remembered the losses suffered in the disaster. Last year Google used their Street View cars to compile before and after pictures of the areas struck by the tsunami, and the results were staggering. As a good many people affected are still trying to pick up the pieces in the aftermath, many here in the states and beyond are offering prayers and thoughts to Japan.

    My prayers go out to those who are affected in the Japan Earthquake. Our prayers go out to you. #prayforjapan.(image) 35 minutes ago via Mobile Web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    1 year later after the Tsunami and Earthquake…Japan…I’m still thinking of you. My heart goes out to you.(image) 3 days ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Another earthquake off the coast of Japan. No reports of injuries. Please join us in prayer for Japan.(image) 36 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

  • $100,000 Later, Still No Reliable Transportation

    A fun story for those of us who think are cars suck because we’re poor and we can’t afford anything better. Consumer Reports purchased the new Fisker Karma, electric hybrid plug-in to test and evaluate for their readers. It cost them nearly $108,000 and as they put it, “It is super sleek, high-tech—and now it’s broken”.

    They only have around 200 miles on the odometer and haven’t finished checking it in to get it ready for their normal series of road tests and intense analysis before they report back to readers what they’ve found. Apparently they pulled it out into the track to calibrate the speedometer, which is a common test, and the transmission deactivated as the dash flashed an alarm claiming there was a “major fault”. That doesn’t sound good?

    After letting it sit, the light went out, but the transmission still wouldn’t engage. That left them with just two options- park and neutral. According to the staff, they don’t recall a time, even after purchasing over 80 automobiles, that one has ever left them stranded like this. So don’t feel bad if your decade-old ride is giving you trouble. It seems even spending $100,000 doesn’t buy you the peace of mind you’d think it would.

    Check out their video:

    The car looks awesome! I don’t feel like this is a good bit of press for an up and coming car company. The dealership was 100 miles away from Consumer Reports test track, so that’s not exactly convenient for anyone. I hope it gets sorted out, I would really like to hear them review the car. As for the rest of us, we can just be happy our POS are getting us to work everyday. Thanks for the entertainment Consumer Reports.

  • Electric Car Pollution Worse Than Gas?

    Conventional wisdom tells us that berthing car exhaust is bad. It further tells us that electric cars would cut down on emissions and thus be better for the breathing population.

    But, some new studies focusing on China have brought up some challenging observations on that topic. What if electric cars were worse? How could that be?

    Findings from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers show that electric cars in China have an overall impact on pollution that could be more harmful to health than gasoline vehicles.

    Chris Cherry, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, and graduate student Shuguang Ji, analyzed the emissions and environmental health impacts of five vehicle technologies in 34 major Chinese cities, focusing on dangerous fine particles. What Cherry and his team found defies conventional logic: electric cars cause much more overall harmful particulate matter pollution than gasoline cars.

    “An implicit assumption has been that air quality and health impacts are lower for electric vehicles than for conventional vehicles,” Cherry said. “Our findings challenge that by comparing what is emitted by vehicle use to what people are actually exposed to. Prior studies have only examined environmental impacts by comparing emission factors or greenhouse gas emissions.”

    Particulate matter includes acids, organic chemicals, metals, and soil or dust particles. It is also generated through the combustion of fossil fuels.

    For electric vehicles, combustion emissions occur where electricity is generated rather than where the vehicle is used. In China, 85 percent of electricity production is from fossil fuels, about 90 percent of that is from coal. The authors discovered that the power generated in China to operate electric vehicles emit fine particles at a much higher rate than gasoline vehicles. However, because the emissions related to the electric vehicles often come from power plants located away from population centers, people breathe in the emissions a lower rate than they do emissions from conventional vehicles.

    The findings also highlight the importance of considering exposures and the proximity of emissions to people when evaluating environmental health impacts for electric vehicles. They also illuminate the distributional impact of moving pollution out of cities. For electric vehicles, about half of the urban emissions are inhaled by rural populations, who generally have lower incomes.

  • 2013 Honda Fit EV Joins Google’s GFleet

    Last June, Google announced that it begun including next-gen plug-in vehicles in its car-sharing program for Googlers, which it calls “GFleet”.

    Today, Honda announced that its 2013 Fit EV has been delivered via a demo program to Google, (as well as to Stanford University), and it will be used in GFleet.

    Here’s the part of Honda’s announcement that pertains to Google:

    The delivery of the Fit EV to Google Inc. was marked by an employee ride and drive. Nearly 100 ‘Googlers’ took the Fit EV for a spin around the Google Mountain View, Calif., campus. Google will now use the Fit EV as a part of its G-Fleet, an employee car-sharing service that features numerous plug-in vehicles. Google’s participation in the Honda Electric Vehicle Demonstration Program will involve analysis of vehicle usage including CO2 reduction, energy consumption on a miles/kWh basis and overall energy cost.

    “The goal of the Honda Electric Vehicle Demonstration Program is to better understand the challenges and opportunities associated with the advancement in battery-electric technology,” said Steve Center, VP of the Environmental Business Development Office at American Honda. “Honda has a long history with electric vehicles beginning with the introduction of our first battery-electric car, the EV Plus, nearly 15 years ago. Honda’s experience and the unique feedback that Google, Stanford University and the city of Torrance will provide will be valuable to the future introduction of battery-electric technology.”

    Here’s a broader look at GFleet itself:

    Google, along with Stanford and the city of Torrance, California are conducting general testing on the Fit EV, to give feedback to Honda for the future introduction of electric vehicles.

    I wonder if anyone will tell them that, like some electric cars before it, it kind of looks like a new-age mini van.

  • Wireless Charging As You Drive For Electric Cars

    Wireless Charging As You Drive For Electric Cars

    A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The long-term goal of the research is to develop an all-electric highway that wirelessly charges cars and trucks as they cruise down the road.

    The new technology has the potential to dramatically increase the driving range of electric vehicles and eventually transform highway travel, according to the researchers. A wireless charging system would address a major drawback of plug-in electric cars – their limited driving range. The all-electric Nissan Leaf, for example, gets less than 100 miles on a single charge, and the battery takes several hours to fully recharge. A charge-as-you-drive system would overcome these limitations. You could potentially drive for an unlimited amount of time without having to recharge.

    The wireless power transfer is based on a technology called magnetic resonance coupling. Two copper coils are tuned to resonate at the same natural frequency – like two wine glasses that vibrate when a specific note is sung. The coils are placed a few feet apart. One coil is connected to an electric current, which generates a magnetic field that causes the second coil to resonate. This magnetic resonance results in the invisible transfer of electric energy through the air from the first coil to the receiving coil. Wireless power transfer will only occur if the two resonators are in tune. Objects tuned at different frequencies will not be affected, including humans.

    In 2007, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used magnetic resonance to light a 60-watt bulb. The experiment demonstrated that power could be transferred between two stationary coils about six feet apart, even when humans and other obstacles are placed in between.

    The MIT researchers wondered if their system could be modified to charge a car moving at highway speeds. The car battery would provide an additional boost for acceleration or uphill driving.

    Here’s how the system would work: A series of coils connected to an electric current would be embedded in the highway. Receiving coils attached to the bottom of the car would resonate as the vehicle speeds along, creating magnetic fields that continuously transfer electricity to charge the battery.
    To determine the most efficient way to transmit 10 kilowatts of power to a real car, the Stanford team created computer models of systems with metal plates added to the basic coil design.

  • Who Wants An Electric Car Anyway?

    Let’s look at the names of the current hybrid gas-electric cars which are available for the American public to buy. The Prius, The Volt, The Leaf. No offense to owners of these vehicles, but they all sound pretty lame. If you don’t think a name matters, check again. Yukon, Wrangler, Escalade, Mustang, Raptor, Firebird; these names sound much more inspiring and have been much better sellers in the past. Whether it makes any logical sense at all, vehicles are a status symbol in America.

    I know the comparison between a Ford Mustang and Toyota Prius is not fair but I’m trying to make a point about visual appeal and product marketing. Why aren’t manufacturers attempting to get sales of hybrids based on lust and status. Why does a hybrid vehicle look more like a broken Rubik’s cube than a tank from the Thundercats? Why do they call it a Leaf instead of a Titan or Jackhammer? It sounds stupid, but we know it translates into sales. Aesthetic appeal combined with product positioning and bold connotations equals sales. Doesn’t it? Can’t we be cool and get good gas mileage too?

    Come on folks, look at this thing. It looks like a new-age mini van:

    I don’t have an awe inspiring vehicle in my driveway, but I’m certainly not lusting after the Prius. Take a look at the Leaf, from Nissan.

    Yes, equally hideous and unappealing! Who designed this thing, Bill Gates? It looks more like a PC than a car. Next we have the Volt. “The Volt” sounds like a toy I might of had when I was a kid:

    Actually, I like the looks of the Volt a lot more than the others. Still, the name has to go. This is nobody’s dream car. Maybe the Chevrolet “High Voltage” would have sounded more…..conducive to sales.

    So the exciting, and not so surprising news is that hybrid and electric car sales aren’t doing so well. Prius, the ugly new generation hippie bus, is actually selling the best; over 11,000 in january alone. The Volt had less than 600 units sold this past month and the Leaf, nipping at the heels of the Prius, sold 10,000 units in January.

    Other reasons why these cars aren’t selling include less than impressive gas mileage when compared to other economy gas powered vehicles, high sticker prices, and limited qualified repair people at the service shop. If you examine the whole package, it leaves very few sensible reasons to buy one.

    Manufacturers will have to do better than,”it’s good for the environment” to get consumers to demand their products. I think hybrid is a great idea but why isn’t it more cost effective and physically attractive? Apple can make iPods look cool, why can’t Toyota do the same thing with a car?

  • Google Correlate Expands to 50 Countries

    Back in May, Google launched Google Correlate, which is sort of like Google Trends in reverse. It looks at search trends, and attempts to apply them to real-world situations.

    Google described it as an experimental tool enabling the user to find queries with a similar pattern to a target data series.

    Users can upload data sets (by state or time series, and Google Correlate will compute the “Pearson Correlation Coefficient” between your time series and the frequency time series for every query in its database.

    Google Correlate

    Previously only available in the U.S., Google announced today that the service is being extended into 49 new countries.

    “Since our initial launch, we’ve graduated to Google Trends and we’ve seen a number of great applications of Correlate in several domains, including economics (consumer spending, unemployment rate and housing inventory), sociology and meteorology,” says Google software engineer Matt Mohebbi. “The correspondence of gas prices and search activity for fuel efficient cars was even briefly discussed in a Fox News presidential debate and NPR recently covered correlations related to political commentators.”

    “Health has always been an area of particular interest to our team (Matt Mohebbi, Julia Kodysh, Rob Schonberger and Dan Vanderkam),” says Mohebbi. “Correlate was inspired by Google Flu Trends and many of us worked on both systems. So we were very excited when the BioSense division at the CDC published a page which shows correlations between some of their national trends in patient diagnosis activity and Google search activity. With just three years of weekly data, relevant search terms are surfaced. For example, the time series for bloody nose surfaces ‘bloody snot’ and ‘blood in snot’.”

    “While these terms shouldn’t come as a surprise, there are others which are more interesting, including searches related to static electricity, dry skin, and red cheeks,” says Mohebbi. “Of course, correlation is not causation but we hope that Correlate can be used as a method for researchers to generate new hypotheses with their data.”

    For more on Google Correlate, check out this FAQ page.

  • Angry Birds: The Christmas Lights Version

    Angry Birds: The Christmas Lights Version

    It’s the Holiday Season, and you know what that means, especially when you’re dealing with the Internet crowd. More and more, Christmas decorations are mimicking the things we see on the Internet on a day-to-day basis. Considering just how much the tech industry consumes our lives, this shouldn’t be a surprise.

    With that in mind, allow us to introduce Ric Turner, the proud maker of the Angry Birds Christmas Light Game. Judging by the name, you might be expecting another version of Angry Birds that’s been reskinned for the Holiday season. In regards to Turner’s creation, however, the description let’s you know exactly what you are getting: a real life version of the Angry Birds game, done with Christmas tree lights.

    The video:


    As The Daily What points out, the YouTube page description provides the necessary details about the Angry Birds creation:

    Help! The pigs are trying to ruin Christmas. Grab the sling shot and fire those birds! From the people who brought you the Guitar Hero Christmas Light game! Running on two computers and 10 Light-o-rama 16 channel controllers, uses more than 20,000 lights and less than one cent of electricity per game. Audio is broadcast on 99.1FM, and the controller has a long enough cord for people to play in their cars on the street. Easier than the iPhone version, and bigger too.

    It should be noted that Turner’s creativity didn’t just appear out of nowhere. Before he turned his talents to killer Christmas light displays, Turner used to ply his trade with Disney, which helps explains his animation abilities.

  • Super Batteries Use Silicon, Tiny Holes To Improve Life, Recharge Time

    Batteries are on everybody’s mind these days. As smart devices evolve to perform more complex actions, the batteries that power those devices must hold up their end of the deal and provide sufficient charge time. Battery issues have plagued the newest release of the most popular smartphone in the world: the iPhone 4S.

    Will the lithium-ion batteries of the future hold a charge for over a week and only take 15 minutes to fully recharge? According to engineers at Northwestern University, that reality is only 3 to 5 years away.

    When creating their new super-lithium-ion battery, the researchers attempted to tackle two big problems of the technology – “energy capacity and charge rate.” Basically, how long the battery holds a charge and how quickly you can charge it back up from dead.

    Lithium-ion batteries work through a reaction that sends ions back and forth between the battery ends, the anode and cathode, through the electrolyte. As of right now, lithium-ion batteries are limited by the charge density – or how full you can pack the ends with the ions. That affects how long the batteries last. They are also limited by how fast ions can travel from the electrolyte to the anode. That limits how fast they can be recharged.

    Here is the current state of these batteries:

    In current rechargeable batteries, the anode — made of layer upon layer of carbon-based graphene sheets — can only accommodate one lithium atom for every six carbon atoms. To increase energy capacity, scientists have previously experimented with replacing the carbon with silicon, as silicon can accommodate much more lithium: four lithium atoms for every silicon atom.

    Except silicon is unstable during the charging process. The engineers have apparently fixed that issue:

    To stabilize the silicon in order to maintain maximum charge capacity, they sandwiched clusters of silicon between the graphene sheets. This allowed for a greater number of lithium atoms in the electrode while utilizing the flexibility of graphene sheets to accommodate the volume changes of silicon during use.

    So the addition of silicon allows for the batteries to hold a charge longer, lasting 10 times as long as current lithium-ion batteries. As far as the speed of the recharge is concerned, the team uses tiny holes to create “shortcuts” for the ions traveling back to the anode. This apparently reduces the recharge time tenfold.

    iPhones, tablets, even electric cars could benefit from this research. Can you even imagine a world where your smartphone only needed a charge once a week and that charge only took a few minutes? Let us know in the comments.

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  • Google Lobbying Plus One: Nevada Legalizes Autonomous Cars

    Google Lobbying Plus One: Nevada Legalizes Autonomous Cars

    In case you’re still looking for futuristic flying cars, you may want to rest your gaze on the state of Nevada, thanks to some lobbying by Google. The state of Nevada has just passed legislation allowing the Nevada Department of Transportation to create rules and regulations governing the use of driverless automobiles. While the new law, Assembly Bill No. 511 (PDF), doesn’t necessarily make autonomous cars legal, the fact is, the legal groundwork concerning the operation of these vehicles will now take shape, courtesy of the state of Nevada.

    WebProNews previously discussed Google’s participation in the process, which saw Google hire a Las Vegas-based lobbyist to promote Assembly Bill 511. Clearly, the lobbying was successful, although the details of what methods were used are scarce, although, it wouldn’t be surprising if some Nevada officials were having the time of their lives in Vegas, all on Google’s dime. Greasing the wheels, and all that.

    As for the legislation itself, Forbes quotes Ryan Calo, a Stanford professor who says the legislation is a big step towards autonomous vehicular operation:

    The law charges the Nevada DOT with setting safety and performance standards and requires it to designate areas where driverless cars may be tested.

    While this is a long way towards the flying cars of the future, it’s refreshing to see the future embraced on such a practical level. The new law also makes it hard not to watch the end of Back to the Future and actually have some hope renewed.


    Granted, Google’s advances in the driverless vehicular operation are a long, long way from Dr. Emmett Brown’s creation, but this is still a step in the right direction. Who knows? If Google masters autonomous driving, maybe they’ll turn their attention to cars that can fly. From the looks of it, Google’s doing rather well with the driverless car thing, so maybe it is time to expand those horizons:


    Concerning Nevada’s new law, something just occurred to me: Will driverless police cars be tasked with enforcement if driverless civilian vehicles go to fast? Food for thought.

  • Toyota Friend, Salesforce Take Social Media to the Street

    Toyota Friend, Salesforce Take Social Media to the Street

    Is driving the car the best time to engage in social media? Probably not, but what if the car helped with these tasks, reducing the “need” for mobile device use while driving? Would a car that’s social media savvy appeal to today’s drivers?

    That’s what Toyota wants to find out, and thanks to their partnership with Salesforce.com, consumers will be able to find out, as well. The partnership was made to power the “Toyota Friend” program, a social network designed to engage other Toyota drivers/owners. According to the release, Toyota Friend is a social network that connects Toyota owners to their car, the dealership, and with the Toyota company, providing things like maintenance tips and other service-related information. An example used in the announcement introduces the concept of Toyota Friend informing hybrid owners if their battery isn’t sufficiently charged.

    Powered by the Salesforce Chatter network, which is described as a “private social network for business,” Toyota Friend will issue “tweet-like” notifications to the owner’s mobile device, which seems to ignore the elephant in the room. Aren’t we in a time of informing people about the dangers involved in mobile device use during vehicular operation? Doesn’t such a service bring the temptation of driving while playing with a mobile device? Questions for another day, I suppose.

    While the Toyota Friend social network will be a private one, members can connect to their friends on other social networks like Twitter and Facebook, an idea that seems to court the potentially deadly combination of mobile device use while operating a vehicle even further. Killjoy reactions aside, Toyota President Akio Toyoda likes where the partnership is going:

    “Social networking services are transforming human interaction and modes of communication. The automobile needs to evolve in step with that transformation. I am always calling for Toyota to make ever-better cars. The alliance that we announce today is an important step forward in achieving that goal.”

    Unfortunately, it’s doubtful Mark Schaefer will approve of this latest social network capability. How about you? Does the idea of a socially-networked vehicle, one that let’s you connect with other social networks, appeal to you? Could you see yourself driving a socially networked vehicle, one that issues messages about the condition of your car? As for the service, will you be able to “friend” other Toyota drivers you see out and about? Something like, “hey, did you see that babe in the Camry? Send her a friend request, dude!”

    If so, Toyota Friend’s potential just increased a great deal.

    The service is scheduled to debut in 2012, and will be initially offered in Japan to hybrid and electrical Toyota owners.

  • Google Invests $168 Million In “Solar Power Tower Plant”

    Last week, Google announced that it was investing $5 million in a German solar power plant, and many people nodded in appreciation.  Only it turns out the search giant was just warming up, as the company announced today it’s now putting almost $170 million into a solar plant much closer to home.

    Rick Needham, Director of Green Business Operations at Google, wrote on the Official Google Blog, “We’ve invested $168 million in an exciting new solar energy power plant being developed by BrightSource Energy in the Mojave Desert in California.  Brightsource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will generate 392 gross MW of clean, solar energy.  That’s the equivalent of taking more than 90,000 cars off the road over the lifetime of the plant, projected to be more than 25 years.”

    Then, while noting that this does represent Google’s largest clean tech investment (“to date”), Needham continued, “The investment makes business sense . . .”

    That should come as a relief to investors who are concerned about how Google will perform under Larry Page.  And that’s starting to be a serious factor, too, since the company’s stock has dropped 2.43 percent since Page took over as CEO a week ago.  (For reference: the Nasdaq’s lost just 0.65 percent and the Dow is up a tiny bit over the same period.)

    Anyway, the “Ivanpah Power Tower,” as the solar project’s known, is supposed to be finished in 2013.  NRG is an additional supporter, and the U.S. Department of Energy is providing clean energy technology loan guarantees.

  • iPhone App Shows Map Of Charging Stations

    Drivers of electric cars can now access an app called PlugShare that shows a map of charging stations in their area.

    The PlugShare app was created by a Palo Alto-based start-up called Xatori which focuses on software for electric vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt.

    PlugShare is available for iPhone and iPod touch users for free via the iTunes App Store. Xatori also plans to release PlugShare for Android soon.

    The app allows drivers to share their own charging locations with each other. Users can contact other electric car owners and ask for permission to recharge. PlugShare users have to create an account to view address and profile information.

    Other features of the PlugShare app include:

    *Browse a listing of public charging stations

    *Call or text other PlugShare members

    *Set privacy and notification settings

    *Get directions to shared outlets or charging stations

    “Many people won’t have EVs right away, but everyone has an electrical outlet,” said Forrest North, CEO.

    “Sharing electricity from a standard outlet only costs about $0.15 an hour, a small price to lessen our dependence on oil.”

  • Top Tech Blogs in The UK During August

    Next week, European search engine and news portal Wikio will be publishing the rankings for August 2010 of their lists of the top blogs in the many categories under which they’re classified.

    For the past 18 months, I’ve been posting an advance look each month at the top 20 or 30 technology blogs in the UK from the data my friends at Wikio have let me see. Last month, that advance look also included the top 30 online marketing blogs in the UK.

    I’ve just received the latest details for both categories:

    Top 30 Tech Blogs in the UK: August 2010

    1. TechCrunch Europe
    2. Geeky Gadgets
    3. Electricpig.co.uk
    4. Econsultancy blog
    5. Coolest Gadgets
    6. dot.Rory
    7. Gadget Venue dot com
    8. The Red Ferret Journal
    9. All About Symbian
    10. Speckyboy – WordPress and Design
    11. The Next Web UK
    12. Gaj-It.com – UK Gadget News
    13. Photography Blog
    14. currybetdotnet
    15. Carsonified!
    16. Zath
    17. Telegraph Blogs – Technology
    18. andrewallen/blog
    19. Mark Shuttleworth
    20. TechDigest
    21. Wonderland
    22. GadgetLite Blog
    23. We Are Social
    24. Blog.Spoon Graphics
    25. eWEEKeurope
    26. Boagworld
    27. jonobacon@home
    28. Dial-a-Phone
    29. NevilleHobson.com
    30. The Ed Techie

    Full list at Wikio: Top 100 Technology Blogs in the UK

    Top 30 Online Marketing Blogs in the UK: August 2010

    1. Econsultancy blog
    2. We Are Social
    3. SEOptimise Blog
    4. iCrossing
    5. SEOgadget
    6. Distilled
    7. BlogStorm
    8. David Naylor a UK SEO
    9. FeverBee
    10. Hobo
    11. FreshNetworks Blog
    12. Murray Newlands
    13. Chris Garrett on New Media
    14. SEO Chicks
    15. Blending The Mix
    16. UK Offer Media Affiliate Blog
    17. SEO Consult
    18. No Man’s Blog
    19. that canadian girl
    20. 360innovate blog
    21. Vertical Leap Blog
    22. SEOidiot
    23. Feeding the Puppy
    24. How To Make My Blog
    25. Tim Nash UK SEO Blog
    26. furtherandfaster
    27. Smart Insights Digital Marketing
    28. SEO Blog
    29. SEO News from Just Search
    30. SEO Positive Blog: SEO Blog Updated Daily

    Full list at Wikio: Top 100 Online Marketing Blogs in the UK

    If you want to suggest others blogs for inclusion in Wikio’s tech or online marketing lists that aren’t there already, either let me know or apply on the Wikio website.

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