Monthly Archives: June 2004
WinFS is a Database Platform
Samuel Druker the Microsoft Development Lead for WinFS speaks on Channel 9 in video and in the threads about how WinFS will mean much more than simply full-text searching. (via Philipp Lenssen) Quotes from Samuel regarding WinFS differences with respect … Continue reading
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Revamped MSN Search (soon)
My buddy Martin over at BA-Insight (who incidentally kicked-off a great new blog on enterprise search) sent me a link to this article on CNET about comments Bill Gates made during a media briefing in Sydney Australia regarding the new … Continue reading
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Billy G’s Blog
The Seattle Times has an article saying Bill Gates may become a blogger (via Anil). “Yes, the world’s richest man may start his own blog, one of those online diaries that have been the rage among techies for the past … Continue reading
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NewsGator Closes Series A Funding
I just wanted to say congratulations to Greg! “DENVER, CO – June 23, 2004 – NewsGator Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of content aggregation tools and services, announced today that it has closed a round of funding with Mobius Venture … Continue reading
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Broadband Syndication Synergies and P2P
Today, there was a /. post about a new MythTV plug-in called Torrentocracy that extends the included MythNews RSS Aggregator to support RSS Enclosures and Bit Torrent. Torrentocracy is not the first to mesh RSS Enclosures, Bit Torrent and PVRs. … Continue reading
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Blinkx Contextual Search
Om Malik praises the new contextual desktop search tool called Blinkx, which is currently available in a downloadable beta client as well as a web only interface. Om goes on to cite some attractive examples such as… “BlinkX is all … Continue reading
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Earning Money without Patients
Granted it has been a 15 year vesting period and the payout is a partly $1.2 million or E1 million in comparison to other web pioneers, but Tim Berners-Lee finally gets his due with the Millennium Technology Prize from the … Continue reading
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Parenting Blog
Weblogs, Inc. new Blogging Baby weblog is like Slashdot for Parents (sans all the MSFT bashing ;-) Of course there are a few RSS feeds too — no Atom feed though.
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BitTorrent While You Sleep
Ray Slakinski put together a wicked little Python application called Nucleus, which will monitor a BitTorrent Tracker RSS file for .torrent files that match a series of keywords. Once a match is found, the file is queued for download. Using … Continue reading
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Digital Photography Composition Tips
Another Photography-related link found via /. points to a recent post on the Digital Photography Blog where they have assembled a collection of Photography Composition Tips found on the net. Most of these are obvious to the professional photographer, but … Continue reading
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Canon EOS-300D Firmware Hack
UPDATE: June, 16 2004: New beta version B7.1: download here Yesterday the news of the Russian Canon EOS-300D Firmware Hack hit /. Spurred largely due to the 300D’s similarities with the 10D, rumors of the potential for hacks have been … Continue reading
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Comment Spamming: Pointless Practice
I couldn’t take it anymore! Last night I took Burningbird’s suggestion and turned-off commenting on any post older than 30 days. I may turn commenting off entirely if this weekend is any indication of the logarithmic growth in comment spamming. … Continue reading
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