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"Copyright laws are "out of date" and must be updated so MP3 player users can make copies of CDs without breaking the law, according to a think tank."
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Sunday, October 29, 2006
Google rivals Microsoft with free Web applications
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"If Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and the other members of the Microsoft billionaires club don't feel something mighty hot breathing down their necks, it's probably because they don't have accounts for Google's free online productivity packages."
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"If Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and the other members of the Microsoft billionaires club don't feel something mighty hot breathing down their necks, it's probably because they don't have accounts for Google's free online productivity packages."
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Interview with Digg
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"Kevin Rose is the founder and Chief Architect of Digg. Prior to Digg, he co-hosted TechTV show The Screen Savers until May 2005. He is also the founder of Revision3, a company that produces technology related videos. Visit the company blog here."
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"Kevin Rose is the founder and Chief Architect of Digg. Prior to Digg, he co-hosted TechTV show The Screen Savers until May 2005. He is also the founder of Revision3, a company that produces technology related videos. Visit the company blog here."
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A story of how the
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"I liken the experience to lighting a firecracker, realizing it has a short fuse, and quickly throwing it away. Then you realize it landed in your house, exploded, and lit everything on fire. As you watch your house burn down, everyone stands around staring and wondering ?What were you thinking??. Still, it sure is exciting watching the flames."
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"I liken the experience to lighting a firecracker, realizing it has a short fuse, and quickly throwing it away. Then you realize it landed in your house, exploded, and lit everything on fire. As you watch your house burn down, everyone stands around staring and wondering ?What were you thinking??. Still, it sure is exciting watching the flames."
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LED Headlights Find Their Way to High-End Automobiles...
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""While LED taillight technology has found its way into a wide range of sedans, wagons, sports cars and SUVs/crossovers, LED headlights are just now starting to find their way into the automotive sector.""
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""While LED taillight technology has found its way into a wide range of sedans, wagons, sports cars and SUVs/crossovers, LED headlights are just now starting to find their way into the automotive sector.""
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Saturday, October 28, 2006
Wikipedia Leaves $100M on the Table
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"I sat next to Jimbo at a Wikipedia dinner over the summer. I begged him to put a leaderboard on Wikipedia and told him I would get AOL to sell it and host Wikipedia--for free. He declined saying there will never be ads on Wikipedia. I then explained to him in detail how that one leaderboard could make over $100M per year."
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"I sat next to Jimbo at a Wikipedia dinner over the summer. I begged him to put a leaderboard on Wikipedia and told him I would get AOL to sell it and host Wikipedia--for free. He declined saying there will never be ads on Wikipedia. I then explained to him in detail how that one leaderboard could make over $100M per year."
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Diggnation T-shirt + Asian girl = hot
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"This cute Asian girl takes some pics of her wearing the black Diggnation t-shirt."
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"This cute Asian girl takes some pics of her wearing the black Diggnation t-shirt."
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L8ter: Overloaded Web Page Reminders
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"L8ter is a small and simple service that informs you when an overloaded website is available again. Everyone knows that being linked to by websites such as Slashdot and Digg can temporarily cripple a website and bring service to a halt. Now, instead of bookmarking it or forgetting about it, you can have l8tr keep an eye on it: L8ter.org"
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"L8ter is a small and simple service that informs you when an overloaded website is available again. Everyone knows that being linked to by websites such as Slashdot and Digg can temporarily cripple a website and bring service to a halt. Now, instead of bookmarking it or forgetting about it, you can have l8tr keep an eye on it: L8ter.org"
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22% of Americans spend 1 to 3 hours on e-mail each day
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"Study that breaks down how long Americans spend time writing and reading emails."
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"Study that breaks down how long Americans spend time writing and reading emails."
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The most expensive TV in the world
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"The really expensive bit is the workmanship, the design and the fact it?s plated in white gold and studded with 160 diamonds (4 gm) of diamonds."
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"The really expensive bit is the workmanship, the design and the fact it?s plated in white gold and studded with 160 diamonds (4 gm) of diamonds."
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Consumer RSS Readers a Dead Market Now, Pluck RSS Reader Shuts Down
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"All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web edition will be discontinued on 1/5/2007. The RSS Readers have served our community of end users well for several years, but with Pluck's focus in other business areas, the venerable RSS readers are set to be retired from our product line."
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"All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web edition will be discontinued on 1/5/2007. The RSS Readers have served our community of end users well for several years, but with Pluck's focus in other business areas, the venerable RSS readers are set to be retired from our product line."
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SED Next-Generation Flat-Screen Display. The best of CRTs and LCDs in one.
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"For simpletons, this explanation will do, but for those who are brave, read on for more details on what will undoubtedly revolutionize display viewing."
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"For simpletons, this explanation will do, but for those who are brave, read on for more details on what will undoubtedly revolutionize display viewing."
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Facebook To Rule Social Bookmarking?
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"With the epic battle between Digg.com, with its 500,000 users and 20,000,000 pageviews, and Netscape.com looming over our heads, here?s one possibility we never contemplated: Facebook entering the social bookmarking arena."
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"With the epic battle between Digg.com, with its 500,000 users and 20,000,000 pageviews, and Netscape.com looming over our heads, here?s one possibility we never contemplated: Facebook entering the social bookmarking arena."
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Ten events we never imagined would happen this NFL season
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"The season is not even halfway through, and things have been wild. Some of these things you wouldn't expect to happen in a few decades. Like 6 field-goal attempts being missed, in a single game ... in a domed stadium!"
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"The season is not even halfway through, and things have been wild. Some of these things you wouldn't expect to happen in a few decades. Like 6 field-goal attempts being missed, in a single game ... in a domed stadium!"
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GDrive domain transferred to Google
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"As you know, I like watching Google domain names. Over the last couple days, Google has been the recipient of some interesting domain transfers. Remember GDrive? It is software currently being used by Googlers under the codename Platypus ? giving them online storage for their files."
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"As you know, I like watching Google domain names. Over the last couple days, Google has been the recipient of some interesting domain transfers. Remember GDrive? It is software currently being used by Googlers under the codename Platypus ? giving them online storage for their files."
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Parenting Social Networks: Parents Connect
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"Joseph Morgenstan once said, "Children are gleeful barbarians." So how do parents handle "gleeful barbarians?" Parenting is not an easy task but parents are no longer alone."
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"Joseph Morgenstan once said, "Children are gleeful barbarians." So how do parents handle "gleeful barbarians?" Parenting is not an easy task but parents are no longer alone."
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Why Facebook Won't Accept $1 Billion from Yahoo
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"A Facebook insider claims that the Facebook founder will hold out for more than $1 billion."
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"A Facebook insider claims that the Facebook founder will hold out for more than $1 billion."
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AMD Showcases
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"AMD is making the most out of their marketing departments brain-child for the new upcoming AMD 4X4 platform that enables a pair of dual core Athlon 64 CPUs in a dual socket motherboard. Tee-shirts with a green emblazoned mug-shot of Don Vito Corleone and a sleeve branded "In The Family" -- you get the feeling AMD means business, capiche?"
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"AMD is making the most out of their marketing departments brain-child for the new upcoming AMD 4X4 platform that enables a pair of dual core Athlon 64 CPUs in a dual socket motherboard. Tee-shirts with a green emblazoned mug-shot of Don Vito Corleone and a sleeve branded "In The Family" -- you get the feeling AMD means business, capiche?"
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Detailed analysis of Web 2.0 in education
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"Analysis and real-word examples of Web 2.0 used in the classroom covering blogging, photo sharing, podcasting, wikis, video sharing, and more."
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"Analysis and real-word examples of Web 2.0 used in the classroom covering blogging, photo sharing, podcasting, wikis, video sharing, and more."
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Web 2.0 and Higher Ed
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"There has been a lot of talk about Web 2.0 over the last year. I stated in a previous blog post that the University of Arizona is going to be offering courses in conjunction with IBM about web 2.0 and the integration therein with the business world."
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"There has been a lot of talk about Web 2.0 over the last year. I stated in a previous blog post that the University of Arizona is going to be offering courses in conjunction with IBM about web 2.0 and the integration therein with the business world."
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Maya’s Mom Raises Angel Round, Launches
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"The heart of Maya?s Mom is their ?Talk? section. Rather than following the article format of Minti, Maya?s Mom allows you to post about any questions you have publicly, anonymously, or to specific friends. Users can subscribe to the most recent questions via RSS."
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"The heart of Maya?s Mom is their ?Talk? section. Rather than following the article format of Minti, Maya?s Mom allows you to post about any questions you have publicly, anonymously, or to specific friends. Users can subscribe to the most recent questions via RSS."
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Friday, October 27, 2006
Dell recommends 2 GB of memory for Vista
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"After Samsung, Dell is the second major company that tells its customers that Vista may need more system memory than what Microsoft is listing in its system requirements. According to a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (SPI), chief executive officer Kevin Rollins promoted an upgrade to 2 GB."
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"After Samsung, Dell is the second major company that tells its customers that Vista may need more system memory than what Microsoft is listing in its system requirements. According to a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (SPI), chief executive officer Kevin Rollins promoted an upgrade to 2 GB."
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Japanese Wiis Are Unsurprisingly Small (w/ Pictures)
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"The Wii Kiosks are going up all over Japan, allowing Nintendo faithfuls, a.k.a. the entire population between 2 and 80, to have a go at the Wii before launch. And by "have a go", we mean look but don't touch."
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"The Wii Kiosks are going up all over Japan, allowing Nintendo faithfuls, a.k.a. the entire population between 2 and 80, to have a go at the Wii before launch. And by "have a go", we mean look but don't touch."
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Google Re-Org Rumors: Streamlining Ad Business
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"Google is planning to make it easier to utilize different types of ads (CPC, CPM, CPA, etc) over all media channels - search, mobile, video, audio, etc. This puts the likes of Feedburner, Meebo, edgeio and Commission Junction squarely in Google's sights as potential acquisitions."
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"Google is planning to make it easier to utilize different types of ads (CPC, CPM, CPA, etc) over all media channels - search, mobile, video, audio, etc. This puts the likes of Feedburner, Meebo, edgeio and Commission Junction squarely in Google's sights as potential acquisitions."
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DRM, Your Rights, and the Future
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"One of the guys over at Bit-tech.net has written an article to talk about DVD Jon's move to making DRM instead of breaking it. In the article, he takes a trip through some of the history of DRM, the issues it's raised, and what our rights are in the US and EU."
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"One of the guys over at Bit-tech.net has written an article to talk about DVD Jon's move to making DRM instead of breaking it. In the article, he takes a trip through some of the history of DRM, the issues it's raised, and what our rights are in the US and EU."
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Is Microsoft Office Doomed?
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"Browser-based productivity tools may be the way of the future. But today, they're a promising, intriguing, sometimes infuriating mixed bag."
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"Browser-based productivity tools may be the way of the future. But today, they're a promising, intriguing, sometimes infuriating mixed bag."
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Facebook Officially Launches
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"Regardless of what it is you want to share, starting today you can do it efficiently and easily on Facebook. Now when you find something on the Internet that you think is cool?articles, photos, videos, and so on?you can paste the link into a field on the My Shares page and then choose to send a preview of the page directly to friends or post it up."
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"Regardless of what it is you want to share, starting today you can do it efficiently and easily on Facebook. Now when you find something on the Internet that you think is cool?articles, photos, videos, and so on?you can paste the link into a field on the My Shares page and then choose to send a preview of the page directly to friends or post it up."
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MySpace Founder Acquires Majority Stake in Flurl.com
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"Brad Greenspan, the founder of MySpace, has acquired a majority stake in Flurl.com, the largest independent video search website which indexes over 1000 online video sites... With this acquisition, LiveUniverse intends to begin discussions with potential strategic, financial, and content partners focused in the online video space."
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"Brad Greenspan, the founder of MySpace, has acquired a majority stake in Flurl.com, the largest independent video search website which indexes over 1000 online video sites... With this acquisition, LiveUniverse intends to begin discussions with potential strategic, financial, and content partners focused in the online video space."
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Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
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"Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will want to use it.So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel it at all. There's no"
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"Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will want to use it.So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel it at all. There's no"
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RIAA on the ropes in (another) Oklahoma filesharing case
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"The RIAA is fighting hard to prevent yet another dismissal with prejudice of a filesharing lawsuit. In the end, suing individual citizens in effort to stop worldwide piracy makes as much sense as trying to hold back the Mississippi River with an umbrella."
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"The RIAA is fighting hard to prevent yet another dismissal with prejudice of a filesharing lawsuit. In the end, suing individual citizens in effort to stop worldwide piracy makes as much sense as trying to hold back the Mississippi River with an umbrella."
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Core 2 Quad Launches November 2nd
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"Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core Processor QX6700 will hit the wires on November 2nd 6AM time in continental Europe. These CPUs will be available on the November 14th and this includes retail and etail for systems based on it."
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"Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core Processor QX6700 will hit the wires on November 2nd 6AM time in continental Europe. These CPUs will be available on the November 14th and this includes retail and etail for systems based on it."
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Dell to launch sub-$500 AMD laptop next month
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"Digitimes is reporting that contract manufacturers in Asia have confirmed that 500,000 notebooks with AMD Turion processors will be available through Dell beginning next month. Dell, always known for low prices, will try to win over the value crowd with a sub-$500, 15-inch laptop. A 17-inch model will follow next year."
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"Digitimes is reporting that contract manufacturers in Asia have confirmed that 500,000 notebooks with AMD Turion processors will be available through Dell beginning next month. Dell, always known for low prices, will try to win over the value crowd with a sub-$500, 15-inch laptop. A 17-inch model will follow next year."
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Big broadcasters want to control more media outlets
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"Major broadcasters let the FCC know this week that they want the agency to relax or remove most of its media ownership rules. They claim that this would be good for customers, but four academic studies and one FCC Commissioner aren't so sure."
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"Major broadcasters let the FCC know this week that they want the agency to relax or remove most of its media ownership rules. They claim that this would be good for customers, but four academic studies and one FCC Commissioner aren't so sure."
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File search (free music)
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""Pop in a search term - like "death cab" - and a file type - like "audio" - and Briefli searches open directories all over the web as well as Amazon for links to download or buy music, all Ajaxy-like..." - via lifehacker"
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""Pop in a search term - like "death cab" - and a file type - like "audio" - and Briefli searches open directories all over the web as well as Amazon for links to download or buy music, all Ajaxy-like..." - via lifehacker"
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Digg Users - Stop Double Posting
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"In the span of 1 hour and 19 minutes there were 18 submitted stories about the release of the new Mac Book Pro. None of the 18 cited included any new commentary or speculation. They were just re-hashes of the same material. Culprits are named! This practice must stop!"
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"In the span of 1 hour and 19 minutes there were 18 submitted stories about the release of the new Mac Book Pro. None of the 18 cited included any new commentary or speculation. They were just re-hashes of the same material. Culprits are named! This practice must stop!"
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Mystery surrounds Easynet 'robbery'
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"Easynet suffered a large and embarrassing robbery earlier this week and is doing its best to keep what happened under wraps."
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"Easynet suffered a large and embarrassing robbery earlier this week and is doing its best to keep what happened under wraps."
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Battle ensues over 1998 anti-porn law targeting Internet
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"Salon.com, Nerve.com and other plaintiffs backed by the American Civil Liberties Union are suing over the 1998 Child Online Protection Act. They believe the law could restrict legitimate material they publish online - exposing them to fines or even jail time."
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"Salon.com, Nerve.com and other plaintiffs backed by the American Civil Liberties Union are suing over the 1998 Child Online Protection Act. They believe the law could restrict legitimate material they publish online - exposing them to fines or even jail time."
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Fox to Debut Sinking TV Episodes on MySpace
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"Fox Interactive announced this morning that the first and second episodes of Warner Bros. Television?s THE O.C. this season will be available on MySpace and Fox affiliate sites as much as a week before they show on TV"
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"Fox Interactive announced this morning that the first and second episodes of Warner Bros. Television?s THE O.C. this season will be available on MySpace and Fox affiliate sites as much as a week before they show on TV"
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Ringtones deserve a compulsory license
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"Copyright owners have great control over the way in which their works are used, but that control is not unlimited. Music publishers were reminded of this fact when the US Register of Copyrights decided last week that ringtones fall under the compulsory license provisions of copyright law."
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"Copyright owners have great control over the way in which their works are used, but that control is not unlimited. Music publishers were reminded of this fact when the US Register of Copyrights decided last week that ringtones fall under the compulsory license provisions of copyright law."
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YouTube names names: why is anyone surprised?
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"YouTube turns over user information in response to a subpoena from Paramount. Some people are surprised at this. They shouldn't be."
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"YouTube turns over user information in response to a subpoena from Paramount. Some people are surprised at this. They shouldn't be."
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Official Google Blog: Eureka! Your own search engine has landed!
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"We're thrilled to tell you that the search for your own search engine is over. Today we are launching the Google Custom Search Engine. As you might imagine, it's a simple and straightforward product to use and understand."
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"We're thrilled to tell you that the search for your own search engine is over. Today we are launching the Google Custom Search Engine. As you might imagine, it's a simple and straightforward product to use and understand."
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BitTorrent support inside routers, network storage devices
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"Today BitTorrent announced licensing deals with hardware manufacturers Asus, Planex, and QNAP that will lead to storage devices and network routers capable of handling torrent downloads without the need for a traditional computer."
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"Today BitTorrent announced licensing deals with hardware manufacturers Asus, Planex, and QNAP that will lead to storage devices and network routers capable of handling torrent downloads without the need for a traditional computer."
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Libya to Buy 1.2M Linux Laptops?
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"With a population of approximately 5.7 million, I have to wonder just how accurate is this number? Quote: Libya will pay the OLPC $250 million, according to the Times. In return, it will receive 1.2 million OLPC computers for students, one server/school, a team of technical installation advisers, satellite Internet service, and other infrastructure"
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"With a population of approximately 5.7 million, I have to wonder just how accurate is this number? Quote: Libya will pay the OLPC $250 million, according to the Times. In return, it will receive 1.2 million OLPC computers for students, one server/school, a team of technical installation advisers, satellite Internet service, and other infrastructure"
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Microsoft to open up its e-mail technology to fight spammers
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"E-mail quickly became the killer app of the Internet, and it didn't take long after that before spam became the number one aggravation of using e-mail. Now, Microsoft is proposing to help clean up the morass that e-mail has become, by announcing that they are opening up their specifications for their Sender ID e-mail framework."
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"E-mail quickly became the killer app of the Internet, and it didn't take long after that before spam became the number one aggravation of using e-mail. Now, Microsoft is proposing to help clean up the morass that e-mail has become, by announcing that they are opening up their specifications for their Sender ID e-mail framework."
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Monday, October 23, 2006
Freebie search engine for Craigslist
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"This is a cool search engine for craigslist. Comizo turns up freebies from 35 major U.S. cities in one interface."
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"This is a cool search engine for craigslist. Comizo turns up freebies from 35 major U.S. cities in one interface."
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If computers ran the NBA, Shaq would be benched
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"Shaquille O'Neal may be one of the best basketball players on the planet, but he should have been benched in this year's National Basketball Association championships."
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"Shaquille O'Neal may be one of the best basketball players on the planet, but he should have been benched in this year's National Basketball Association championships."
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We're Google, So Just Sue Us
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"Any company that is large and successful is going to attract lawsuits, and Google's deep pockets make it an especially big target. But as it rushes to create innovative new services, Google sometimes operates in a way that almost seems to invite legal scrutiny."
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"Any company that is large and successful is going to attract lawsuits, and Google's deep pockets make it an especially big target. But as it rushes to create innovative new services, Google sometimes operates in a way that almost seems to invite legal scrutiny."
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How Blogs Hurt Google News
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""Is it just me, or has Google News become useless? Their definition of "news sites" seems to include an ever increasing number of simply bizarre Web sites that aren't even the top in their category of site. Meaning, they've tried to include blogs, but only some blogs, and many of the ones they have you'll never have heard of...""
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""Is it just me, or has Google News become useless? Their definition of "news sites" seems to include an ever increasing number of simply bizarre Web sites that aren't even the top in their category of site. Meaning, they've tried to include blogs, but only some blogs, and many of the ones they have you'll never have heard of...""
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What Comes After YouTube
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"The next few months will see the unveiling of a slew of innovative approaches to dishing up video. They range from the much anticipated launch of something called the Venice Project, by the founders of Skype Ltd., the Internet phone service, to the rebirth of BitTorrent, the video piracy software of choice as a legitimate business."
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"The next few months will see the unveiling of a slew of innovative approaches to dishing up video. They range from the much anticipated launch of something called the Venice Project, by the founders of Skype Ltd., the Internet phone service, to the rebirth of BitTorrent, the video piracy software of choice as a legitimate business."
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The Feds Launch Their Own MySpace Clone
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"First WalMart, now the Feds have their own MySpace clone. Launched today, YoungFeds.org features blogs, message boards, video and career information. And yes, it kinda sucks."
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"First WalMart, now the Feds have their own MySpace clone. Launched today, YoungFeds.org features blogs, message boards, video and career information. And yes, it kinda sucks."
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YouTube: The Next Napster?
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"Up until recently, it seemed that media companies would go after YouTube when copyrighted content was uploaded to the site. Now, it seems some content owners are pursuing the uploaders themselves."
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"Up until recently, it seemed that media companies would go after YouTube when copyrighted content was uploaded to the site. Now, it seems some content owners are pursuing the uploaders themselves."
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Google Links Blog Search to Google News
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"Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page. This minor change is just the kind of integration of services the company has said it was going to focus on; something Sergey Brin might call a ?feature not a product.?"
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"Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page. This minor change is just the kind of integration of services the company has said it was going to focus on; something Sergey Brin might call a ?feature not a product.?"
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There's a new #2 in the BCS, it's the #1 team's arch rival: Michigan
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"Michigan jumped ahead of USC in the latest BCS standing after a 20-6 win against Iowa. It's the first time since 2001 two teams from the same conference are 1 and 2. November 18th, current #1 Ohio State hosts current #2 Michigan, neither plays a team with a winning record up until that game."
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"Michigan jumped ahead of USC in the latest BCS standing after a 20-6 win against Iowa. It's the first time since 2001 two teams from the same conference are 1 and 2. November 18th, current #1 Ohio State hosts current #2 Michigan, neither plays a team with a winning record up until that game."
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Cisco Unveils HD Video Conferencing System
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"Network equipment maker Cisco Systems on Sunday unveiled a high-definition video conferencing system that it says can grow into a billion-dollar business in five to seven years."
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"Network equipment maker Cisco Systems on Sunday unveiled a high-definition video conferencing system that it says can grow into a billion-dollar business in five to seven years."
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Sunday, October 22, 2006
The top 25 best free quality fonts
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"There are a ton of fonts out there, but how to separate the wheat from the chaff? Web designer Vitaly Friedman tackled this dilemma and decided to make his own list of the top best free quality fonts."
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"There are a ton of fonts out there, but how to separate the wheat from the chaff? Web designer Vitaly Friedman tackled this dilemma and decided to make his own list of the top best free quality fonts."
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Learn To Say
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"This site contains lists of greetings such as hello, goodbye, and how are you from over 800 languages, including 14 versions of English and 42 versions of German."
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"This site contains lists of greetings such as hello, goodbye, and how are you from over 800 languages, including 14 versions of English and 42 versions of German."
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Saturday, October 21, 2006
The best of
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"There are only a fraction of the illegal websites there was not more than 5 years ago. It is so easy to get software now a days from torrents and IRC sites it?s ridiculous."
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"There are only a fraction of the illegal websites there was not more than 5 years ago. It is so easy to get software now a days from torrents and IRC sites it?s ridiculous."
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Can you hear me now? Uh-oh
[Quote]
"Tony Utegaard wears a Bluetooth wireless headset roughly 12 hours a day. But is he damaging his hearing? A test of one Motorola model produced a maximum volume of 106 decibels, enough to damage the hair cells of the inner ear even if used only five minutes a day, a new law suit claims."
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"Tony Utegaard wears a Bluetooth wireless headset roughly 12 hours a day. But is he damaging his hearing? A test of one Motorola model produced a maximum volume of 106 decibels, enough to damage the hair cells of the inner ear even if used only five minutes a day, a new law suit claims."
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Microsoft to develop future Xbox chips
[Quote]
""Chipping away from former and current hardware partners Intel IBM, Microsoft has decided to develop game console processors itself, reports The New York Times. Design and testing of new chips is headed to Microsoft's own internal labs in Redmond, WA and Mountain View, CA...""
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""Chipping away from former and current hardware partners Intel IBM, Microsoft has decided to develop game console processors itself, reports The New York Times. Design and testing of new chips is headed to Microsoft's own internal labs in Redmond, WA and Mountain View, CA...""
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Quantcast - The World's First Open Internet Ratings Service
[Quote]
"Quantcast is a team of web analytics experts who want to make accurate and insightful internet audience information as widely available as possible."
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"Quantcast is a team of web analytics experts who want to make accurate and insightful internet audience information as widely available as possible."
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Boy Scouts get MPAA-approved copyright merit badge
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"The Motion Picture Association of America has partnered with the Los Angeles Boy Scouts to produce a "Respect Copyrights" merit badge. Unfortunately, this is not a joke."
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"The Motion Picture Association of America has partnered with the Los Angeles Boy Scouts to produce a "Respect Copyrights" merit badge. Unfortunately, this is not a joke."
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Businesses Embracing Firefox As The Other Browser
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"JupiterResearch has recorded a large jump in the number of businesses allowing Firefox and is predicting that the latest IE7 release might drive even more acceptance."
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"JupiterResearch has recorded a large jump in the number of businesses allowing Firefox and is predicting that the latest IE7 release might drive even more acceptance."
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University to teach students to implement BitTorrent, Web 2.0 in business
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"With the help of IBM, the University of Arizona will put together a course designed to essentially teach people how to apply Web 2.0 services like BitTorrent, blogs, wiki's and social networks in a business setting."
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"With the help of IBM, the University of Arizona will put together a course designed to essentially teach people how to apply Web 2.0 services like BitTorrent, blogs, wiki's and social networks in a business setting."
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The Ultimate Search Engine Marketing Glossary
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"Aaron Wall just wrote like the Ultimate Search Engine Marketing Glossary. This is a must for any search engine marketer beeing the most complete list of SEM terms I have ever seen."
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"Aaron Wall just wrote like the Ultimate Search Engine Marketing Glossary. This is a must for any search engine marketer beeing the most complete list of SEM terms I have ever seen."
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Google Acquires SpaceShipOne?
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"Categorize this as another unsubstantiated Google rumor, but the word on the street is that Google has acquired SpaceShipOne and is putting it inside building 43 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. No word on the purchase price, or if this was a donation, or why the ship is not being placed in a museum."
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"Categorize this as another unsubstantiated Google rumor, but the word on the street is that Google has acquired SpaceShipOne and is putting it inside building 43 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. No word on the purchase price, or if this was a donation, or why the ship is not being placed in a museum."
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Tiki Barber: nothing can change my mind on retirement!
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""I've been talking about retirement for years now, and it has nothing to do with being physical or money or Hall of Fame," Barber said. "It's all about my desires, and for me to change them would compromise my integrity and would compromise who I am as a person and what I've always stood for.""
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""I've been talking about retirement for years now, and it has nothing to do with being physical or money or Hall of Fame," Barber said. "It's all about my desires, and for me to change them would compromise my integrity and would compromise who I am as a person and what I've always stood for.""
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Web 2.0 as a metaphor for 'rip-off'
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"In one of those delicious ironies that history occasionally dishes up, quasi-socialist Europe turns out to be leagues ahead of the capitalist United States when it comes to protecting intellectual property on the Internet."
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"In one of those delicious ironies that history occasionally dishes up, quasi-socialist Europe turns out to be leagues ahead of the capitalist United States when it comes to protecting intellectual property on the Internet."
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Friday, October 20, 2006
When Running a Website Can Result in Death Threats...
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""For five years my website has been a beacon in the endless sea of the illicit trade in the artworld. It didn't bring me a billion dollars as in Mel's case, neither did it bring me history, but neither, Baruch Hashem, did I pay the ultimate price.Today is also the Day that I received photos of one of my children at my doorstep...""
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""For five years my website has been a beacon in the endless sea of the illicit trade in the artworld. It didn't bring me a billion dollars as in Mel's case, neither did it bring me history, but neither, Baruch Hashem, did I pay the ultimate price.Today is also the Day that I received photos of one of my children at my doorstep...""
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Web Numbers: What's Real?
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"Competing methods of measuring traffic online leave advertisers, investors, and even Net companies almost flying blind. [published in 23.10.06 which is 3 days from now..]"
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"Competing methods of measuring traffic online leave advertisers, investors, and even Net companies almost flying blind. [published in 23.10.06 which is 3 days from now..]"
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TV on Mobile Phones: Heat or Hype?
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"Eddie Hold, vice president of wireless services for research group Current Analysis and an expert on mobile phones, said he thinks TV-streaming tools like SlingBox are useful. But he also said he's not sure that cell-phone TV is the eye candy it's cracked up to be. "My personal feeling is that most people want a phone to be a phone," he said."
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"Eddie Hold, vice president of wireless services for research group Current Analysis and an expert on mobile phones, said he thinks TV-streaming tools like SlingBox are useful. But he also said he's not sure that cell-phone TV is the eye candy it's cracked up to be. "My personal feeling is that most people want a phone to be a phone," he said."
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Facebook’s Stupid News Feed Ads Go Live
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""Facebook raised some controversy when it was announced that they?d be including ads in the widely-criticized news feed feature. That anger was tempered when it was noted that Facebook wouldn?t tell your friends about the ads you?d clicked, as some sources had reported. But today the ads are live, and they?re just as annoying...""
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""Facebook raised some controversy when it was announced that they?d be including ads in the widely-criticized news feed feature. That anger was tempered when it was noted that Facebook wouldn?t tell your friends about the ads you?d clicked, as some sources had reported. But today the ads are live, and they?re just as annoying...""
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RIAA gets the best of Creative - Disables FM Recording In Zen
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"The removal of the FM recording feature is a result of potential violation of copyright. Queries to tech support were replied to by saying that the ?FM recording feature is removed due to licensing issues.?"
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"The removal of the FM recording feature is a result of potential violation of copyright. Queries to tech support were replied to by saying that the ?FM recording feature is removed due to licensing issues.?"
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Ten reasons to go to film school
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"Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo looks at ten reasons why going on your own isn't always a good idea."
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"Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo looks at ten reasons why going on your own isn't always a good idea."
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Does a Great NFL Logo Help Win Games?
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"25 expert designers rank the NFL team logos best to worst, and 5 of their top 10 choices are top ten 10 teams, according to ESPN. Also, rank the logos to see if you agree with the "experts.""
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"25 expert designers rank the NFL team logos best to worst, and 5 of their top 10 choices are top ten 10 teams, according to ESPN. Also, rank the logos to see if you agree with the "experts.""
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Sony's Blu-ray Player Delayed Yet Again
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"Sony?s BDP-S1 has been delayed, again, three times to be exact. (at least that?s my count) Originally scheduled for release on August 15th the player was then bumped back to October 25th and now SonyStyle.com states new window ?Targeted Availability: On or about December 4, 2006?."
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"Sony?s BDP-S1 has been delayed, again, three times to be exact. (at least that?s my count) Originally scheduled for release on August 15th the player was then bumped back to October 25th and now SonyStyle.com states new window ?Targeted Availability: On or about December 4, 2006?."
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HP takes #1 PC shipments spot from Dell, Apple creeping up on Gateway
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"During the third quarter of 2006, HP regained the number one position in PC market share from big rival Dell. The other X factor is Apple. In its quarterly earnings yesterday, the Mac maker set a new record for computers shipped, and they are poised to surpass Gateway to take the #3 spot."
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"During the third quarter of 2006, HP regained the number one position in PC market share from big rival Dell. The other X factor is Apple. In its quarterly earnings yesterday, the Mac maker set a new record for computers shipped, and they are poised to surpass Gateway to take the #3 spot."
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And so it begins: YouTube nukes 30,000 videos
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"YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos after being contacted by the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers."
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"YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos after being contacted by the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers."
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Fuel cell powered hybrid train
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"With two 65-kilowatt fuel cells and six hydrogen tanks under the floor and a secondary battery on the roof, the clean train emits only water and runs without receiving juice from power lines. The train can travel at a maximum speed of 100 kph (60 mph) for 50 to 100 km (30 to 60 miles) without a hydrogen refill."
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"With two 65-kilowatt fuel cells and six hydrogen tanks under the floor and a secondary battery on the roof, the clean train emits only water and runs without receiving juice from power lines. The train can travel at a maximum speed of 100 kph (60 mph) for 50 to 100 km (30 to 60 miles) without a hydrogen refill."
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Students being punished for posting on MySpace and blogs
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"The policy informs students and teachers that they will be held legally responsible for anything posted online, including material deemed defamatory, obscene, proprietary or legally libelous. The policy targets threats or other comments posted online that could cause a disruption in the school or threaten the safety of a student or employee."
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"The policy informs students and teachers that they will be held legally responsible for anything posted online, including material deemed defamatory, obscene, proprietary or legally libelous. The policy targets threats or other comments posted online that could cause a disruption in the school or threaten the safety of a student or employee."
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Nielsen to track video gaming alongside TV viewing
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"Nielsen Media Research is looking to leverage its TV measurement infrastructure to report console gaming statistics as well. As part of the recently launched Anytime Anywhere Media Metrics (A2/M2) platform, Local People Meters installed in about 10,000 households across America will use audio matching technology to identify what games panelists"
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"Nielsen Media Research is looking to leverage its TV measurement infrastructure to report console gaming statistics as well. As part of the recently launched Anytime Anywhere Media Metrics (A2/M2) platform, Local People Meters installed in about 10,000 households across America will use audio matching technology to identify what games panelists"
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Can an American judge take a British company offline?
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"The fallout from a legal battle in the US has sparked talk of a constitutional crisis for the net"
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"The fallout from a legal battle in the US has sparked talk of a constitutional crisis for the net"
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WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN PURCHASING AN IBM MODEL M KEYBOARD
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"The IBM model M keyboard is that rare piece of computing technology which is both a vintage collectible item and also a useful tool in today's computing environment. IBM model M keyboards are unique in that each one is individually labeled with a serial number and the "date of birth" is printed on the back."
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"The IBM model M keyboard is that rare piece of computing technology which is both a vintage collectible item and also a useful tool in today's computing environment. IBM model M keyboards are unique in that each one is individually labeled with a serial number and the "date of birth" is printed on the back."
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
10 positives the Cardinals can take from the loss to the Bears.
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"#1. There were probably a million or so people who went to bed before the end of the game last night, and they all woke up this morning thinking you are awesome, Cardinals. So don't worry -- not everyone is making fun of you today. Although they will once they see the score and learn how you blew that game. Because, man -- that was pathetic."
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"#1. There were probably a million or so people who went to bed before the end of the game last night, and they all woke up this morning thinking you are awesome, Cardinals. So don't worry -- not everyone is making fun of you today. Although they will once they see the score and learn how you blew that game. Because, man -- that was pathetic."
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A Question of Choice? Maybe, Maybe Not.
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"Choice: it's one of the key ideas at the heart of free software. The right to choose how to use your software, the right to choose who you share it with. Who could be against choice? Certainly not the Initiative for Software Choice, except that it has a slightly different view of what choice implies."
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"Choice: it's one of the key ideas at the heart of free software. The right to choose how to use your software, the right to choose who you share it with. Who could be against choice? Certainly not the Initiative for Software Choice, except that it has a slightly different view of what choice implies."
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Should CableCARDs be required? TiVo says yes, industry says no
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"If CableCARD were to disappear, TiVo would be at the mercy of the cable companies, which would have to provide TiVo with some way of accessing their signals. So when TiVo learned that operators have already begun asking the FCC for waivers to the integration ban, alarm bells sounded at TiVo HQ..."
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"If CableCARD were to disappear, TiVo would be at the mercy of the cable companies, which would have to provide TiVo with some way of accessing their signals. So when TiVo learned that operators have already begun asking the FCC for waivers to the integration ban, alarm bells sounded at TiVo HQ..."
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What if the NFL used the BCS System?
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"Using the BCS-like formula, a title game is announced: The undefeated Bears take on the one-loss Chargers.Peyton Manning and the undefeated Colts are left to play in the Chik-fil-a Bowl."
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"Using the BCS-like formula, a title game is announced: The undefeated Bears take on the one-loss Chargers.Peyton Manning and the undefeated Colts are left to play in the Chik-fil-a Bowl."
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US: Terrorists telecommuting to work
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"Michael Chertoff, head of US Homeland Security, warned that people don't need to travel to a country with "-stan" in its name to become radicalized and commit acts of violent. Instead, they can now turn to the Internet. "They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else an"
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"Michael Chertoff, head of US Homeland Security, warned that people don't need to travel to a country with "-stan" in its name to become radicalized and commit acts of violent. Instead, they can now turn to the Internet. "They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else an"
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DSL for $10?? AT
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""AT&T didn't say in its letter to the FCC specifically if the $10 price would only be a limited-time offer. But it did say it would offer the service, which will provide up to 768 kilobits per second, for at least 30 months after the BellSouth merger closes...""
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""AT&T didn't say in its letter to the FCC specifically if the $10 price would only be a limited-time offer. But it did say it would offer the service, which will provide up to 768 kilobits per second, for at least 30 months after the BellSouth merger closes...""
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Philanthropy Through Technology
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"Let me guess: you?re sitting at your computer, skimming through this article looking to see if anything applies to you, so you can get back to that list of ALL those things that you simply MUST accomplish. I?ll save you some time: it DOES apply to you, so slow down and ingest?"
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"Let me guess: you?re sitting at your computer, skimming through this article looking to see if anything applies to you, so you can get back to that list of ALL those things that you simply MUST accomplish. I?ll save you some time: it DOES apply to you, so slow down and ingest?"
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Russian site goes on media offensive to deny violating copyright laws
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""The company has been unfairly characterized as a pirate Web site," Vadim Mamotin, AllofMP3.com's director general, said through a translator. "Nothing could be further from the truth." AllofMP3.com typically charges under $1 for an entire album and just cents per track."
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""The company has been unfairly characterized as a pirate Web site," Vadim Mamotin, AllofMP3.com's director general, said through a translator. "Nothing could be further from the truth." AllofMP3.com typically charges under $1 for an entire album and just cents per track."
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Monday, October 16, 2006
Final release of Firefox 2.0 browser code due by tomorrow
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"The latest release candidate 3.0 (RC3) for the new Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Web browser should be posted for free download by later today or tomorrow as the project's developers finish last-minute code checks and tie up loose ends."
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"The latest release candidate 3.0 (RC3) for the new Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Web browser should be posted for free download by later today or tomorrow as the project's developers finish last-minute code checks and tie up loose ends."
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Perl script leads to MySpace sexual misconduct arrest
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"The things you can do with a little script! A Wired reporter is telling the story of how a Perl script he wrote led to the arrest of an online sex offender. The magazine is set to release the script under an open-source license in the near future, so you can refine it and help making MySpace a tougher playground for those flagitious felons."
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"The things you can do with a little script! A Wired reporter is telling the story of how a Perl script he wrote led to the arrest of an online sex offender. The magazine is set to release the script under an open-source license in the near future, so you can refine it and help making MySpace a tougher playground for those flagitious felons."
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A car that knows the speed limit
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"If you've ever found yourself driving in unfamiliar territory, wondering if you are exceeding the speed limit, Siemens VDO has developed a new system that could help you out?in a few years. It's an "electronic traffic sign recognition function" that uses cameras and special software to scan the road ahead for speed limit signs, which the system.."
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"If you've ever found yourself driving in unfamiliar territory, wondering if you are exceeding the speed limit, Siemens VDO has developed a new system that could help you out?in a few years. It's an "electronic traffic sign recognition function" that uses cameras and special software to scan the road ahead for speed limit signs, which the system.."
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How to easily tell if you are being lied to
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""The following techniques to telling if someone is lying are often used by police, and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams and other deceptions.""
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""The following techniques to telling if someone is lying are often used by police, and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams and other deceptions.""
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E3 reborn into summer show in Santa Monica
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"Hotel suites, invite-only meetings, and a airport hangar. No, it's not Dr. Dre's next video shoot, it's the new E3. The new show will be rechristened as the E3 Media and Business Summit when it takes place from July 11-13 in Santa Monica, California, next year."
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"Hotel suites, invite-only meetings, and a airport hangar. No, it's not Dr. Dre's next video shoot, it's the new E3. The new show will be rechristened as the E3 Media and Business Summit when it takes place from July 11-13 in Santa Monica, California, next year."
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5 Reasons Why RSS Feeds are Not Popular
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"Only geeks use RSS feeds. Is this true? Unfortunatly yes. Why? well because like most things in web technology and computers only geeks can understand that nothing is one hundred percent all the time. Here are five other reasons why the average internet user does not use RSS."
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"Only geeks use RSS feeds. Is this true? Unfortunatly yes. Why? well because like most things in web technology and computers only geeks can understand that nothing is one hundred percent all the time. Here are five other reasons why the average internet user does not use RSS."
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Lee Odden's interview with Chris Pirillo from Lockergnome
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"Lee Odden's interview of Chris Pirillo. Chris started Lockergnome in 1996 and hosted TechTV?s ?Call for Help? show for 2 years. He hosts a popular conference every year called Gnomedex which has been sponsored by the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Lee emphased the "social aspects" in the interview."
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"Lee Odden's interview of Chris Pirillo. Chris started Lockergnome in 1996 and hosted TechTV?s ?Call for Help? show for 2 years. He hosts a popular conference every year called Gnomedex which has been sponsored by the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Lee emphased the "social aspects" in the interview."
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Sunday, October 15, 2006
The Story of Friendster's Failure
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"Google offered Friendster 30 million dollars in in 2003. The young CEO said no, figuring his portal site would be worth billions in a matter of years. Ouch."
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"Google offered Friendster 30 million dollars in in 2003. The young CEO said no, figuring his portal site would be worth billions in a matter of years. Ouch."
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Brawl breaks out in FIU-Miami game
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"South Florida's newest rivalry has already overheated. Miami beat Florida International 35-0 Saturday night in a game marred by a wild brawl in the third quarter that had fists flying, helmets swinging and even crutches being used as weapons."
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"South Florida's newest rivalry has already overheated. Miami beat Florida International 35-0 Saturday night in a game marred by a wild brawl in the third quarter that had fists flying, helmets swinging and even crutches being used as weapons."
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40+ Ways to Make Money on the Internet
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"Things you can use to legitimately make money online - Everything from Getting Paid to review software to good ole' Adsense."
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"Things you can use to legitimately make money online - Everything from Getting Paid to review software to good ole' Adsense."
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Leo Laporte: All TWiT.tv podcast feeds are down
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""The hard drive on one of my servers died this morning. As a result leo.am, leoville.tv, and Leoville Town Square are down. So are all the podcast feeds (they live on leoville.tv).""
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""The hard drive on one of my servers died this morning. As a result leo.am, leoville.tv, and Leoville Town Square are down. So are all the podcast feeds (they live on leoville.tv).""
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P2P Speeds Cut in Half by Australian ISP
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"The Australian ISP Exetel has decided to cut bandwidth for P2P traffic in half from noon to midnight. This move will save Exetel about $45,000 per month, while it only takes $75,000 to implement the bandwidth throttling mechanisms."
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"The Australian ISP Exetel has decided to cut bandwidth for P2P traffic in half from noon to midnight. This move will save Exetel about $45,000 per month, while it only takes $75,000 to implement the bandwidth throttling mechanisms."
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Saturday, October 14, 2006
Firefox: Mission Accomplished
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"Mozilla is averaging about 350,000 downloads a day from its site, up from about 200,000 per day a year ago. Mozilla figures it has about 70-80 million active users. Most of them are in the early-adopter and Web 2.0 crowd, but there's also evidence that people within large enterprises are using the product. The peak use day for Firefox is Wednesday-"
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"Mozilla is averaging about 350,000 downloads a day from its site, up from about 200,000 per day a year ago. Mozilla figures it has about 70-80 million active users. Most of them are in the early-adopter and Web 2.0 crowd, but there's also evidence that people within large enterprises are using the product. The peak use day for Firefox is Wednesday-"
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Create Animated Gifs from your Pictures [Generator]
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"It's very simple and fast to create an animation: Just upload some photos from your computer (up to 10 files per one animation), and get a link with your animated gif. You'll also get a code to place in your site/blog and share it with your visitors and friends. The service support PNG, GIF, and JPEG formats."
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"It's very simple and fast to create an animation: Just upload some photos from your computer (up to 10 files per one animation), and get a link with your animated gif. You'll also get a code to place in your site/blog and share it with your visitors and friends. The service support PNG, GIF, and JPEG formats."
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Record Unique Voice Greetings for Anyone who Calls you!
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"YouMail is the new voice mail for cell phones. Among many features, it allows you to record unique voice greetings for anyone who calls you, based on their caller ID. Individualize your voice greetings for friends, family or important callers while maintaining a standard greeting for work and unknown callers."
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"YouMail is the new voice mail for cell phones. Among many features, it allows you to record unique voice greetings for anyone who calls you, based on their caller ID. Individualize your voice greetings for friends, family or important callers while maintaining a standard greeting for work and unknown callers."
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AMD's Proposed Aquisition of ATI Receives Approval
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"Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and ATI Technologies Inc. today announced that the proposed acquisition of ATI by AMD has been approved by the Minister of Industry under the Investment Canada Act, satisfying one of the conditions to the closing of the acquisition."
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"Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and ATI Technologies Inc. today announced that the proposed acquisition of ATI by AMD has been approved by the Minister of Industry under the Investment Canada Act, satisfying one of the conditions to the closing of the acquisition."
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Oldest computer on campus FOUND!
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"These people at UI held a contest to find the oldest, most obsolete personal computer still in regular use on campus and applaud that member of the UI community who has held their ground against the march of planned obsolescence."
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"These people at UI held a contest to find the oldest, most obsolete personal computer still in regular use on campus and applaud that member of the UI community who has held their ground against the march of planned obsolescence."
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Coming Soon - YouTube on your TV
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"One thing that is going to be pretty revolutionary about the Wii is the fact that it includes a free, fully-featured web browser. This means for $250 you get instant-on web access on your TV. This is something that the XBox can?t deliver for fear of cutting into Microsoft?s PC market."
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"One thing that is going to be pretty revolutionary about the Wii is the fact that it includes a free, fully-featured web browser. This means for $250 you get instant-on web access on your TV. This is something that the XBox can?t deliver for fear of cutting into Microsoft?s PC market."
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Microsoft eyes another chance to be a TV player
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"The success or failure of Microsoft's Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) initiative could determine the fortunes of a number of telephone companies betting billions that the company can help them encroach on cable television operators' home turf."
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"The success or failure of Microsoft's Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) initiative could determine the fortunes of a number of telephone companies betting billions that the company can help them encroach on cable television operators' home turf."
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The Yahoo! Time Capsule: One World. Many Voices
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""Like everything Yahoo! does, it?s about you ? our amazing users. We think there?s no one better suited to teach future generations what the world was like in 2006. For 30 days, from October 10 until November 8, Yahoo! users worldwide can contribute photos, writings, videos, audio ? even drawings ? to this electronic anthropology project.""
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""Like everything Yahoo! does, it?s about you ? our amazing users. We think there?s no one better suited to teach future generations what the world was like in 2006. For 30 days, from October 10 until November 8, Yahoo! users worldwide can contribute photos, writings, videos, audio ? even drawings ? to this electronic anthropology project.""
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Friday, October 13, 2006
Adsense now allows multiple custom channels
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"It is now possible to assign multiple custom channels to a single ad unit, which can be very useful when you want to track one ad unit across several different metrics simultaneously."
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"It is now possible to assign multiple custom channels to a single ad unit, which can be very useful when you want to track one ad unit across several different metrics simultaneously."
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List of acquisitions by Yahoo
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"This is a listing of corporate acquisitions made by Yahoo!, since 1997. (wikipedia)"
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"This is a listing of corporate acquisitions made by Yahoo!, since 1997. (wikipedia)"
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Why Microsoft’s future OS could be open source...
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""Microsoft has long had a love-hate relationship with software piracy. On the one hand it sees this practice as its number one business problem in areas where it has succeeded in establishing market dominance, and on the other Microsoft has, since the QDOS deal with IBM, consistently made it easy for people to copy...""
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""Microsoft has long had a love-hate relationship with software piracy. On the one hand it sees this practice as its number one business problem in areas where it has succeeded in establishing market dominance, and on the other Microsoft has, since the QDOS deal with IBM, consistently made it easy for people to copy...""
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University Of Wisconsin Joins Google Library Project
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"The University of Wisconsin has agreed to take part in Google's bid to scan book collections of the world's great libraries, joining a second wave of backers for the controversial project, the two organizations said late on Wednesday."
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"The University of Wisconsin has agreed to take part in Google's bid to scan book collections of the world's great libraries, joining a second wave of backers for the controversial project, the two organizations said late on Wednesday."
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Leo Laporte: Don't Buy My Book
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""Never again will you have to hear, "buy my book," unless you happening to be watching the O'Reilly Factor. And if you are, you're getting what you deserve.""
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""Never again will you have to hear, "buy my book," unless you happening to be watching the O'Reilly Factor. And if you are, you're getting what you deserve.""
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Looking Forward To Firefox 3..
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""We are currently in the early development stage for Firefox 3, and would like to collect all the ideas for feature enhancements in a single place. Our goal is to create a single index that lists what sorts of things we're thinking of doing, with links to more detailed ideas about implementation specifics or concerns...""
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""We are currently in the early development stage for Firefox 3, and would like to collect all the ideas for feature enhancements in a single place. Our goal is to create a single index that lists what sorts of things we're thinking of doing, with links to more detailed ideas about implementation specifics or concerns...""
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Lack of Talented People in India, Says Google.
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"There may be more than a billion people in India, but even an Internet superstar like Google Inc has trouble recruiting talented locals in its South Asian operations, a board member said here. "I know first hand that we?ve had a bit more of a challenge trying to hire engineers for Google in Bangalore compared to other parts of the world,""
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"There may be more than a billion people in India, but even an Internet superstar like Google Inc has trouble recruiting talented locals in its South Asian operations, a board member said here. "I know first hand that we?ve had a bit more of a challenge trying to hire engineers for Google in Bangalore compared to other parts of the world,""
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Thursday, October 12, 2006
YouTube community worried by Google deal
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""Since it was the `people' that made YouTube, why aren't they being paid billions?" wrote a user named winofiend. A frequent poster of videos named Renetto replied with sarcasm: "You actually learned how to post a video on your own Web site. This is breaking news.""
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""Since it was the `people' that made YouTube, why aren't they being paid billions?" wrote a user named winofiend. A frequent poster of videos named Renetto replied with sarcasm: "You actually learned how to post a video on your own Web site. This is breaking news.""
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AMD CPU Shortage Looms
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"AMD has to supply millions of its products to Dell, as it was written (probably in blood) in that AMD-Dell contract signed in Mikey Dell's house a while ago. However, it seems that channel is getting the wrong end of the stick, since we are hearing reports about shortages of AMD CPUs."
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"AMD has to supply millions of its products to Dell, as it was written (probably in blood) in that AMD-Dell contract signed in Mikey Dell's house a while ago. However, it seems that channel is getting the wrong end of the stick, since we are hearing reports about shortages of AMD CPUs."
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Options scandals claim more Tech CEOs
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"Two more CEOs from the tech world resigned in the wake of options backdating scandals at their companies. CNET Networks chairman and CEO Shelby Bonnie left the online media giant after a committee investigating backdating issues at the company discovered that he was partially to blame for options backdating that occured between 1996 and 2003"
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"Two more CEOs from the tech world resigned in the wake of options backdating scandals at their companies. CNET Networks chairman and CEO Shelby Bonnie left the online media giant after a committee investigating backdating issues at the company discovered that he was partially to blame for options backdating that occured between 1996 and 2003"
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Interview with a Pirate King - Ashwin Navin of BitTorrent
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"BitTorrent is going legal. President and co-founder Ashwin Navin said his childhood dream was to work at Apple, which is pretty ironic considering he?s now heading a company that is very likely to offer them some major competition."
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"BitTorrent is going legal. President and co-founder Ashwin Navin said his childhood dream was to work at Apple, which is pretty ironic considering he?s now heading a company that is very likely to offer them some major competition."
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
100 Million people watching Diggnation (and shows like it) by 2010
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"Is IPTV poised to take over the world? That's the claim being made by Alcatel's Michel Rahier, who spoke at the Broadband World Forum being held in La Défense, Paris. "I think there will be about 100 million subscribers to IPTV by 2010," Rahier told his audience of industry professionals, according to Reuters."
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"Is IPTV poised to take over the world? That's the claim being made by Alcatel's Michel Rahier, who spoke at the Broadband World Forum being held in La Défense, Paris. "I think there will be about 100 million subscribers to IPTV by 2010," Rahier told his audience of industry professionals, according to Reuters."
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YouTubers Ponder Google: What Will the New Owner Do With the Place?
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"On YouTube, where members are encouraged to express themselves through amateur video, it took only a few hours before they started chiming in on Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of the popular online video site."
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"On YouTube, where members are encouraged to express themselves through amateur video, it took only a few hours before they started chiming in on Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of the popular online video site."
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Walk-on comes out of the stands to replace suspended BC kicker
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"Last year, Steve Aponavicius was in the stands, with his face painted, cheering on the Boston College Eagles. On Thursday night, the left-footed walk-on will sub for suspended placekicker Ryan Ohliger. It's not just Aponavicius' BC debut; it will be the first time he's ever played in a football game."
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"Last year, Steve Aponavicius was in the stands, with his face painted, cheering on the Boston College Eagles. On Thursday night, the left-footed walk-on will sub for suspended placekicker Ryan Ohliger. It's not just Aponavicius' BC debut; it will be the first time he's ever played in a football game."
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A Third Way on Network Neutrality
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"To supporters, net neutrality protects innovation by ensuring that all Internet traffic is treated equally. To opponents, it threatens innovation. "In reality, both are right.""
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"To supporters, net neutrality protects innovation by ensuring that all Internet traffic is treated equally. To opponents, it threatens innovation. "In reality, both are right.""
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Format wars: Blu-ray to come out on top?
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"The next-generation optical format wars have begun, and so far the most common response from consumers is a collective yawn. Market research firm Forrester believes that those yawns will ultimately translate into a victory for Blu-ray down the road, but with adoption of either next-gen format moving at a glacial pace in the near term"
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"The next-generation optical format wars have begun, and so far the most common response from consumers is a collective yawn. Market research firm Forrester believes that those yawns will ultimately translate into a victory for Blu-ray down the road, but with adoption of either next-gen format moving at a glacial pace in the near term"
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GoogTube: Mobile Implications?
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"Perhaps the biggest indication of any mobile results is in the content deals announced by both companies just before the merger, which is mostly with music labels and is for music videos. There?s talk of free music videos supported by Google?s advertising nouse. Music videos, as well as the user-generated content, is perfect for mobile devices."
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"Perhaps the biggest indication of any mobile results is in the content deals announced by both companies just before the merger, which is mostly with music labels and is for music videos. There?s talk of free music videos supported by Google?s advertising nouse. Music videos, as well as the user-generated content, is perfect for mobile devices."
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Leo Laporte suggestion to change Podcast to Netcast is ridiculous
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""His suggestion was Netcast and although the suggestion is not necessarily bad this move will add more confusion to the marketplace. I understand that Leo thinks the general public is completely confused about the term podcast. But I also think his suggestion only confuses the matter even more. To illustrate this point...""
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""His suggestion was Netcast and although the suggestion is not necessarily bad this move will add more confusion to the marketplace. I understand that Leo thinks the general public is completely confused about the term podcast. But I also think his suggestion only confuses the matter even more. To illustrate this point...""
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Kevin Rose will be on the new Tom Green show LIVE wednesday night!
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"TUESDAY - Jackass's Steve-OWEDNESDAY - Digg.com's Kevin RoseTHURSDAY - Rappers Blackalicious and Pigeon JohnFRIDAY - Something ridiculous TBDShows are on every day at 11 PM EST."
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"TUESDAY - Jackass's Steve-OWEDNESDAY - Digg.com's Kevin RoseTHURSDAY - Rappers Blackalicious and Pigeon JohnFRIDAY - Something ridiculous TBDShows are on every day at 11 PM EST."
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Monday, October 09, 2006
The Future of Social Networks - Communication
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""There is another critical aspect of social networking, however, that I have not yet addressed? and it?s one that will serve as the anchor component for social networks as they begin to enter their next stage of evolutionary development. The component I?m referring to is the communications layer embedded within social networks.""
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""There is another critical aspect of social networking, however, that I have not yet addressed? and it?s one that will serve as the anchor component for social networks as they begin to enter their next stage of evolutionary development. The component I?m referring to is the communications layer embedded within social networks.""
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CNET’s Getting Its Groove: relaunches TechRepublic
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"CNET sure has been busy fixing up its community sites lately. In addition to recent updates to Consumating, Webshots, and Chow, the launch of AllYouCanUpload and the acquisition of UrbanBaby, CNET relaunched popular Tech news and community site TechRepublic today."
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"CNET sure has been busy fixing up its community sites lately. In addition to recent updates to Consumating, Webshots, and Chow, the launch of AllYouCanUpload and the acquisition of UrbanBaby, CNET relaunched popular Tech news and community site TechRepublic today."
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Bill Gates meets with Nigerian president
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"Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates met President Olusegun Obasanjo this weekend for talks on fighting poverty and disease on the world's poorest continent, a senior official said Sunday."
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"Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates met President Olusegun Obasanjo this weekend for talks on fighting poverty and disease on the world's poorest continent, a senior official said Sunday."
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Wii Will Have an Updatable Linux OS
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"The Wii is reported to operate on top of a proprietary form of the Linux kernel, although there are already efforts to make a GNU/Linux for the console. So, the answer to the age old question is that it already runs Linux."
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"The Wii is reported to operate on top of a proprietary form of the Linux kernel, although there are already efforts to make a GNU/Linux for the console. So, the answer to the age old question is that it already runs Linux."
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Sunday, October 08, 2006
1980’s Solid State Hard Drive - Biological Storage Device!
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"A 100 Gigabyte Solid state storage device from the 1980?s, it works using green and red lasers to store and read the data. As explained in the video, the problem they had is that in the process of reading the information it also destroys the information."
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"A 100 Gigabyte Solid state storage device from the 1980?s, it works using green and red lasers to store and read the data. As explained in the video, the problem they had is that in the process of reading the information it also destroys the information."
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How-to Make Money with YouTube Videos
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"I made this site tonight in my spare time and thought i'd share it with the digg world. It's called Greedtube.com. Videos are played on the site with YouTube embed code and 50% of the ad revenue is paid to the people that submit the videos using Google adsense."
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"I made this site tonight in my spare time and thought i'd share it with the digg world. It's called Greedtube.com. Videos are played on the site with YouTube embed code and 50% of the ad revenue is paid to the people that submit the videos using Google adsense."
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Saturday, October 07, 2006
Encrypting Instant Messaging Conversations
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"Whenever you talk online with your instant messaging (IM) client of choice, your conversations can be, and in all probability are, recorded, monitored, and read. Any data which travels over a network can be viewed using programs known as packet sniffers, with some specially crafted programs.."
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"Whenever you talk online with your instant messaging (IM) client of choice, your conversations can be, and in all probability are, recorded, monitored, and read. Any data which travels over a network can be viewed using programs known as packet sniffers, with some specially crafted programs.."
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Create your own Digg-like site with Pligg beta 8!
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"Pligg, the widely used open source "Digg-like" CMS, released its long anticipated Beta 8 today. Pligg's dynamic structure allows users to quickly and effortlessly install and customize their sites. Pligg acts as a framework for many successful sites such as VH1's Best Week Ever and VideoSift. The community currently consists of over 2,151 members."
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"Pligg, the widely used open source "Digg-like" CMS, released its long anticipated Beta 8 today. Pligg's dynamic structure allows users to quickly and effortlessly install and customize their sites. Pligg acts as a framework for many successful sites such as VH1's Best Week Ever and VideoSift. The community currently consists of over 2,151 members."
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The Largest BitTorrent Search Engine on the Web?
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"A week ago several respectable sources including Digg and Slashdot reported that Btjunkie is the largest BitTorrent search site on the web. But both the methodology and the legitimacy of the source are doubtful."
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"A week ago several respectable sources including Digg and Slashdot reported that Btjunkie is the largest BitTorrent search site on the web. But both the methodology and the legitimacy of the source are doubtful."
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John Elway:
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"It is known, simply, as "The Drive." Great QB John Elway led the Denver Broncos back from defeat numerous teams, but his performance in AFC Title game against Cleveland Browns topped the list of his heroics, Trailing 20-13 with 5½ minutes left in the fourth quarter at Cleveland, Denver took over on its Two, 98 yards away from the tying touchdown."
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"It is known, simply, as "The Drive." Great QB John Elway led the Denver Broncos back from defeat numerous teams, but his performance in AFC Title game against Cleveland Browns topped the list of his heroics, Trailing 20-13 with 5½ minutes left in the fourth quarter at Cleveland, Denver took over on its Two, 98 yards away from the tying touchdown."
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Interview with Digg.com's Owen Byrne
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""I've had the pleasure to get a chat interview with Owen Byrne, the co-founder of Digg.com, which is one of the top 100 sites on the web.""
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""I've had the pleasure to get a chat interview with Owen Byrne, the co-founder of Digg.com, which is one of the top 100 sites on the web.""
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Compilation of Web 2.0 Office Applications for School
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"Compilation of Web 2.0 Office Applications for students and teachers. The article also compares four popular web-based word processors and asks if Web 2.0 applications are ready for education."
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"Compilation of Web 2.0 Office Applications for students and teachers. The article also compares four popular web-based word processors and asks if Web 2.0 applications are ready for education."
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Upgrading to Vista will cost companies $3,250-$5,000 per User
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"That's each and every Vista user. Money will go to Microsoft for Vista and Office 2007, to hardware vendors for new PCs and components, and possibly a few bucks to Apple for those users jumping to a Mac. After all, if Apple's higher cost has been the factor keeping your company from trying a Mac, that factor just washed away."
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"That's each and every Vista user. Money will go to Microsoft for Vista and Office 2007, to hardware vendors for new PCs and components, and possibly a few bucks to Apple for those users jumping to a Mac. After all, if Apple's higher cost has been the factor keeping your company from trying a Mac, that factor just washed away."
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Free computer science and engineering books
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"This site lists free online computer science and engineering books and lecture notes, all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet."
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"This site lists free online computer science and engineering books and lecture notes, all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet."
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T-Mobile lays out plan for new spectrum
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"T-Mobile USA was so intent on winning new cellular licenses in the recent federal auction that it began upgrading its New York City wireless network with next-generation equipment even before the bidding began two months ago."
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"T-Mobile USA was so intent on winning new cellular licenses in the recent federal auction that it began upgrading its New York City wireless network with next-generation equipment even before the bidding began two months ago."
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Friday, October 06, 2006
Fuel Cell Technology for Powering Portables
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""Based on direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology, the Mobion technology is a truly wireless solution, potentially liberating us from slavishly plugging in our chargers to power outlets. Instead, refill the fuel cell with neat (100%) methanol to recharge the battery.""
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""Based on direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology, the Mobion technology is a truly wireless solution, potentially liberating us from slavishly plugging in our chargers to power outlets. Instead, refill the fuel cell with neat (100%) methanol to recharge the battery.""
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Why Facebook matters
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"It's not just for arranging dates. And it's not just another social network. Facebook offers sophisticated tools for maintaining social relationships."
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"It's not just for arranging dates. And it's not just another social network. Facebook offers sophisticated tools for maintaining social relationships."
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Technology: Then Vs Now
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"What certain technologies looked like when they were first introduced and what they look like today."
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"What certain technologies looked like when they were first introduced and what they look like today."
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Google to Subpoena Yahoo, Microsoft
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"As part of their fight over copyright lawsuits over their book-scanning product, Google plans to subpoena information from Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon.com. Google is seeking book lists, costs, estimated sales, dealings with publishers and possible benefit or harm to copyright owners. It is alleged their product exposes copyrighted book text."
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"As part of their fight over copyright lawsuits over their book-scanning product, Google plans to subpoena information from Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon.com. Google is seeking book lists, costs, estimated sales, dealings with publishers and possible benefit or harm to copyright owners. It is alleged their product exposes copyrighted book text."
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Dell knew cause of battery woes last year
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"Dell knew exactly what was wrong with its Sony battery packs a year ago, but thought the scope was limited and did not issue a wide recall at that time. Documents obtained by CRN under the Freedom of Information Act show that Dell reported overheating problems to the Consumer Product Safety Commission last October."
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"Dell knew exactly what was wrong with its Sony battery packs a year ago, but thought the scope was limited and did not issue a wide recall at that time. Documents obtained by CRN under the Freedom of Information Act show that Dell reported overheating problems to the Consumer Product Safety Commission last October."
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Top 41 Digg Users and What They Digg The MOST
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"Sure, you could go to the Top Digg Users section and visit each of their pages to find out what their number #1 diggs are. But why do that, when someone else has done it for you? Dig Stars digitalgopher, p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, gwjc,BloodJunkie, dirtyfratboy, supernova17, aaaz, CLIFFosakaJAPAN, bonlebon,DarkHack, Aidenag, capncaveman, tommytrc, msaleem..."
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"Sure, you could go to the Top Digg Users section and visit each of their pages to find out what their number #1 diggs are. But why do that, when someone else has done it for you? Dig Stars digitalgopher, p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, gwjc,BloodJunkie, dirtyfratboy, supernova17, aaaz, CLIFFosakaJAPAN, bonlebon,DarkHack, Aidenag, capncaveman, tommytrc, msaleem..."
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US Commerce Department Targeted; Hackers Traced to China
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"Hackers operating through Chinese Internet servers have launched a debilitating attack on the computer system of a sensitive Commerce Department bureau, forcing it to replace hundreds of workstations and block employees from regular use of the Internet for more than a month, Commerce officials said yesterday."
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"Hackers operating through Chinese Internet servers have launched a debilitating attack on the computer system of a sensitive Commerce Department bureau, forcing it to replace hundreds of workstations and block employees from regular use of the Internet for more than a month, Commerce officials said yesterday."
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Indian call center staff sold data, TV show says
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"An undercover TV investigation claims to have infiltrated criminal gangs selling thousands of U.K. credit card and passport details for as little as $9.50 each from offshore call centers."
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"An undercover TV investigation claims to have infiltrated criminal gangs selling thousands of U.K. credit card and passport details for as little as $9.50 each from offshore call centers."
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Why It's So Hard to Value Social Networking Sites
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"Valuing advertising-driven sites is particularly hard because the same numbers -- such as the number of users or page views -- can mean different things depending on how the advertisers are billed, Holthausen adds. "How often do they get paid for that advertising? Is it just when the advertisement appears? Or does there have to be a click through"
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"Valuing advertising-driven sites is particularly hard because the same numbers -- such as the number of users or page views -- can mean different things depending on how the advertisers are billed, Holthausen adds. "How often do they get paid for that advertising? Is it just when the advertisement appears? Or does there have to be a click through"
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Writely mostly hits the mark : A Review by AP Reporter
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"As a reporter, I'm never sure when the muse will strike or an editor will call. That's why I send copious notes and drafts of stories to myself by e-mail. As long as I'm within range of a computer with an Internet connection, I know I'll be able to tweak the latest version or do a quick fact check."
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"As a reporter, I'm never sure when the muse will strike or an editor will call. That's why I send copious notes and drafts of stories to myself by e-mail. As long as I'm within range of a computer with an Internet connection, I know I'll be able to tweak the latest version or do a quick fact check."
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Why Powerset (unlike Snap, Kosmix, Clusty, and Eurekster) will beat Google
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"High on the "will this startup tank after five months" checklist is "Does this company want to be the next Google?" Here are the reasons that search engines like Clusty and Eurekster aren't catching on, and why one new search startup actually has a chance."
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"High on the "will this startup tank after five months" checklist is "Does this company want to be the next Google?" Here are the reasons that search engines like Clusty and Eurekster aren't catching on, and why one new search startup actually has a chance."
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Who will lobby for our right to copy?
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"In the US you have "fair use" in the UK we don't. Ripping a CD to your HDD is illegal under section 16 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which prohibits any copying in relation to "a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work", including storing it by "electronic means"."
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"In the US you have "fair use" in the UK we don't. Ripping a CD to your HDD is illegal under section 16 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which prohibits any copying in relation to "a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work", including storing it by "electronic means"."
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Thursday, October 05, 2006
Mod chip seller hit with million-dollar damages
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"Mod chip seller Divineo and two other defendants are on the hook for over $9 million in damages after a federal court judge found that they had violated the DMCA by selling mod chips for consoles. The defendants were accused by Sony of trafficking in mod chips as well as the application HDLoader."
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"Mod chip seller Divineo and two other defendants are on the hook for over $9 million in damages after a federal court judge found that they had violated the DMCA by selling mod chips for consoles. The defendants were accused by Sony of trafficking in mod chips as well as the application HDLoader."
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Meebo: 500,000 User Accounts in 8 Months
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"How many times do people login every single day? 950,000!! You may ask how many of those are â unique About 670,000. It turns out most of you happen to log in about 1.4 times per day. how many network accounts do you all log in with on average? Also 1.4 ¦which means 1.35 million network ID are logged in daily"
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"How many times do people login every single day? 950,000!! You may ask how many of those are â unique About 670,000. It turns out most of you happen to log in about 1.4 times per day. how many network accounts do you all log in with on average? Also 1.4 ¦which means 1.35 million network ID are logged in daily"
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Diebold's Solution To E-Voting Problems: Don't Touch!
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"Remember last week, when Diebold insisted that it would have a total fix in place for the problems they faced in the recent Maryland election? Yeah, well... it appears that isn't going so well. The state ran a daylong test, and found plenty of problems still to overcome. (via TechDirt)"
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"Remember last week, when Diebold insisted that it would have a total fix in place for the problems they faced in the recent Maryland election? Yeah, well... it appears that isn't going so well. The state ran a daylong test, and found plenty of problems still to overcome. (via TechDirt)"
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Competitio.us: track your competitors online
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"A web startup teams to keep track of their competitors, you start by creating a project like ?Ajax startpages? or whatever field you are interested in. You then add competitors by URL. Competitio.us hits the web and brings back each company?s blog, recent blog posts, related blog posts from off site and detailed traffic data from Alexa."
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"A web startup teams to keep track of their competitors, you start by creating a project like ?Ajax startpages? or whatever field you are interested in. You then add competitors by URL. Competitio.us hits the web and brings back each company?s blog, recent blog posts, related blog posts from off site and detailed traffic data from Alexa."
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One boob == 963,000 FCC complaints
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"rs has compiled a surprising set of statistics on the practice, drawn from the FCC's own quarterly reports. They show a generally low level of complaints punctuated by massive?but occasional?spikes, most of which are fueled by "family-friendly" activist groups like the Parents Television Council ("Because our children are watching")."
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"rs has compiled a surprising set of statistics on the practice, drawn from the FCC's own quarterly reports. They show a generally low level of complaints punctuated by massive?but occasional?spikes, most of which are fueled by "family-friendly" activist groups like the Parents Television Council ("Because our children are watching")."
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US Interior Dept. Computers used for Shopping, Sex
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"Interior Department employees aren't just using their computers to oversee parks and wildlife, an investigation found. They're spending thousands of hours a week visiting shopping, sex and gambling Web sites."
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"Interior Department employees aren't just using their computers to oversee parks and wildlife, an investigation found. They're spending thousands of hours a week visiting shopping, sex and gambling Web sites."
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US 'invents' software to track press
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"A GROUP of US universities, backed with Homeland Security Department cash, is developing software that could let a government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders."
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"A GROUP of US universities, backed with Homeland Security Department cash, is developing software that could let a government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders."
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Time For A Silver Bullet
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"MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the headlines again; Bebo is growing incredibly; Tribe relaunched; Cyworld, Hive7 and SecondLife are nothing short of a phenomenon; LinkedIn is becoming 'People Search'; ITToolbox relaunched with a host of social networking features; Friendster is now refueling itself to enter the market again."
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"MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the headlines again; Bebo is growing incredibly; Tribe relaunched; Cyworld, Hive7 and SecondLife are nothing short of a phenomenon; LinkedIn is becoming 'People Search'; ITToolbox relaunched with a host of social networking features; Friendster is now refueling itself to enter the market again."
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AT
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"In a move that's good for consumers everywhere, AT&T has refreshed its DSL pricing and removed the 12-month contracts that used to be standard in order to get the service. Ars has confirmed that it is indeed now possible to sign up for month-to-month DSL service from the telco,"
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"In a move that's good for consumers everywhere, AT&T has refreshed its DSL pricing and removed the 12-month contracts that used to be standard in order to get the service. Ars has confirmed that it is indeed now possible to sign up for month-to-month DSL service from the telco,"
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
The new Google Groups experience
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"Today, the Google Groups team launched a new beta version, available to anyone at groups-beta.google.com. It may have been awhile since you thought of Groups as cool or sexy if you ever did but I couldn't have been more excited to work on the team responsible for making the current Google Groups better."
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"Today, the Google Groups team launched a new beta version, available to anyone at groups-beta.google.com. It may have been awhile since you thought of Groups as cool or sexy if you ever did but I couldn't have been more excited to work on the team responsible for making the current Google Groups better."
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Building eBay 2.0
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"Clobbered by Wall Street. Fierce competition from Google. Meg Whitman's had a rough couple years. Fortune's Adam Lashinsky finds out how she's trying to turn eBay from ultra-hot to built-to-last."
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"Clobbered by Wall Street. Fierce competition from Google. Meg Whitman's had a rough couple years. Fortune's Adam Lashinsky finds out how she's trying to turn eBay from ultra-hot to built-to-last."
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The New iPod: Ready for Battle?
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"Next month marks the fifth anniversary of one of the most successful products of the digital era, Apple Computer's iPod music player. Since 2001, potential iPod-killers have come and gone like autumn foliage. Apple claims an astonishing 76% market share in the U.S. for the iPod and an equally amazing 88% share of the U.S. legal music d/l market."
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"Next month marks the fifth anniversary of one of the most successful products of the digital era, Apple Computer's iPod music player. Since 2001, potential iPod-killers have come and gone like autumn foliage. Apple claims an astonishing 76% market share in the U.S. for the iPod and an equally amazing 88% share of the U.S. legal music d/l market."
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NFL now banning postgame video online
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"Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the NFL is now restricting local news sites from posting video of postgame press conferences or locker room interviews. ?Video from our stadiums on game day is one of our most valuable assets, including video of our people, players, coaches talking about the game,? said the NFL's vice president."
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"Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the NFL is now restricting local news sites from posting video of postgame press conferences or locker room interviews. ?Video from our stadiums on game day is one of our most valuable assets, including video of our people, players, coaches talking about the game,? said the NFL's vice president."
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How to Fix YouTube's Two Greatest Problems
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"YouTube Problem #1: Copyright abuse. Cant live with it (lawsuits), and cant live without it (traffic), and its drowning out the original voices.YouTube Problem #2: Haters. Script-kiddies with bots are "flagging" videos as inappropriate left and right, and causing grief to the community.This video offers workable solutions for both issues."
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"YouTube Problem #1: Copyright abuse. Cant live with it (lawsuits), and cant live without it (traffic), and its drowning out the original voices.YouTube Problem #2: Haters. Script-kiddies with bots are "flagging" videos as inappropriate left and right, and causing grief to the community.This video offers workable solutions for both issues."
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What's the world's fastest supercomputer used for?
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"The world's fastest supercomputer will probably never be known at the world's fastest supercomputer. RIKEN's MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break the petaflop barrier -- that's 1 quadrillion calculations (floating-point operations, to be specific) per second -- and it's three times faster than the currently ranked fastest computer in the world,"
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"The world's fastest supercomputer will probably never be known at the world's fastest supercomputer. RIKEN's MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break the petaflop barrier -- that's 1 quadrillion calculations (floating-point operations, to be specific) per second -- and it's three times faster than the currently ranked fastest computer in the world,"
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Study: surfers just as careless on social networking sites
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"Social networking site members are also putting themselves at risk of identity theft, according to the CA/NCSA study. 74 percent have willingly given out personal information on the Internet, which seems high until you consider that the study's definition of personal information includes e-mail addresses."
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"Social networking site members are also putting themselves at risk of identity theft, according to the CA/NCSA study. 74 percent have willingly given out personal information on the Internet, which seems high until you consider that the study's definition of personal information includes e-mail addresses."
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... The Nobel Prizes
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"The king who tried to kill the prizes, what goes through the minds of cockroaches as they watch Star Wars, and more."
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"The king who tried to kill the prizes, what goes through the minds of cockroaches as they watch Star Wars, and more."
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A Statistical Debunking of the Madden Curse
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"Guy takes year-by-year look at the players on the cover of Madden, only to find out that there's no such thing as the Madden Curse. Unless you're Shawn Alexander. Or Michael Vick. Anyway, good read."
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"Guy takes year-by-year look at the players on the cover of Madden, only to find out that there's no such thing as the Madden Curse. Unless you're Shawn Alexander. Or Michael Vick. Anyway, good read."
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External
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"Most notable is the external USB drive they had under glass (pictured), which should be out by the end of this year, bringing plenty of HD DVD good times to all sorts of laptops and desktops that weren't privy to a built-in drive."
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"Most notable is the external USB drive they had under glass (pictured), which should be out by the end of this year, bringing plenty of HD DVD good times to all sorts of laptops and desktops that weren't privy to a built-in drive."
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AJAX: Roller skates for the Web
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"AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web application development can be roller skates for the Web; it must be used appropriately or it can be dangerous, said Jesse James Garrett, the IT consultant credited with coining the term "AJAX.""
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"AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web application development can be roller skates for the Web; it must be used appropriately or it can be dangerous, said Jesse James Garrett, the IT consultant credited with coining the term "AJAX.""
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
The other Google
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""Google has created a search site without any Google branding to test new features. The site, SearchMash, has a simple blue and white interface with a search bar and an option to click on "popular searches." Once keywords are entered, the results page features links to results running down the left side of the page....""
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""Google has created a search site without any Google branding to test new features. The site, SearchMash, has a simple blue and white interface with a search bar and an option to click on "popular searches." Once keywords are entered, the results page features links to results running down the left side of the page....""
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Wired: Zune Won't Kill the IPod
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"Microsoft's new MP3 player has a lot going against it, even without the iPod around. It's not cool, the DRM will be a pain and wireless sharing is just another way for people to lie to strangers."
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"Microsoft's new MP3 player has a lot going against it, even without the iPod around. It's not cool, the DRM will be a pain and wireless sharing is just another way for people to lie to strangers."
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Monday, October 02, 2006
The WordPress Podcast: Episode 7
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"WordPress users helping other WordPress users. Episode 7 of this Wordpress user-generated podcast includes topics on: Being dugg, WordPress Dashboard, WordPress 2.0.5, Wordpress.com?s VIP hosting, Round 5 of the 9rules Network membership, Digg.fx plug-in, Spamgarden, Flickrss & FAlbum plugins, Democracy survey plug-in and much more!"
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"WordPress users helping other WordPress users. Episode 7 of this Wordpress user-generated podcast includes topics on: Being dugg, WordPress Dashboard, WordPress 2.0.5, Wordpress.com?s VIP hosting, Round 5 of the 9rules Network membership, Digg.fx plug-in, Spamgarden, Flickrss & FAlbum plugins, Democracy survey plug-in and much more!"
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Sunday, October 01, 2006
All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize
Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of hackers, press and others on Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day. The winning project, called Blogging In Motion, combined a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures.
You can read more about it here.
You can read more about it here.
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