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October 31, 2006
Steve Rubel points out that Google has acquired JotSpot. Google continues to roll on with another acquisition. It just gobbled up JotSpot. And now the wiki service will be free and integrated with the rest of Google's suite of web-based...
CNET is reporting that Google has started cutting revenue sharing deals with video content creators: The search company has agreed to turn over most advertising revenue generated by the latest video from Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, creators of "The...
October 30, 2006
On October 23-25, 2006 Andrew and I attended The Ajax Experience 2006 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
Is HD Radio Worth It? (by Jeremy Zawodny) "The way I see it, most HD Radios seem to pretty expensive ($150+) and I'm not seeing much of a benefit. Therefore, I ask you (my technically minded often leading edge...
Jeremy Zawodny is sick of, "sharing." By "sharing," Zawodny is referring to the questionably helpful "Share This" type links sites provide in an effort to get you to email content to your friends: "Why is it that almost nobody can...
October 28, 2006
Back in February, Ben and I were whining about the poor job Amazon does differentiating between products available for free shipping through Amazon Prime and those that are not. As far as we can tell, it largely breaks down based...
iTunes 7 is causing a friend's PC to grind to a halt. As one song comes to an end and the next begins, iTunes is chewing up enough resources to cause songs to stutter. We tried disabling Crossfade Playback to...
October 27, 2006
Text-Link-Ads has created a new metric for blog geeks called Blog Juice that measures the popularity of blogs on a 1-10 scale based on a combination of Alexa, Bloglines, and Technorati stats. As of this writing Technology Evangelist scores a...
October 25, 2006
Treo Family Comparison Chart: Understanding The Differences: Treonauts "I have included all the specifications and highlighted the areas where there are clear differences between one or more Treo smartphones (most accessories will work across all Treo smartphones except the...
Why do some directories charge for submissions? Doesn't charging limit the number of submissions, thus making the directory itself a less valuable resource? This is something I've been trying to figure out while submitting a few sites I manage to...
The Technology Evangelist team recently had a chance to sit down with Nicholas Reville from the Participatory Culture Foundation, creators of Democracy Player. In the final video of this three part series we talk about the future of Internet Video.
Continue reading "The Innovators - Nicholas Reville of The Participatory Culture Foundation, Part III" »
October 24, 2006
Jon Johansen hacks FairPlay, the Apple iTunes closed system - October 30, 2006 "Johansen, now 22 and widely known as "DVD Jon" for his exploits, has also figured out how Apple's iPod-iTunes system works. And he's using that knowledge...
Email is not the most appropriate medium for newsletters. They clog up my inbox making it harder to find important messages, are too hard to scan, are impossible to link to, and should be set aside for an appropriate time...
October 23, 2006
Yahoo's syndication of local news to an national - actually international - market should help make the world smaller. While we've been able to track news of interest to us from local papers across the country and world for some...
O'Reilly Network -- Open Tools for MySQL Administrators "MySQL provides some tools to monitor and troubleshoot a MySQL server, but they don't always suit a MySQL developer or administrator's common needs, or may not work in some scenarios, such...
Have you ever had problems downloading songs on iTunes? Things were not working well for me on Saturday night while I scrambled to pick up some Bob Dylan for a party. The Essential Bob Dylan has 34 tracks. Only 3...
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