Sunday, October 29, 2006

Call for legal copying of own CDs

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"Copyright laws are "out of date" and must be updated so MP3 player users can make copies of CDs without breaking the law, according to a think tank."

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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