links for 2007-08-31
August 31st, 2007
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“Acknowledging its proprietary audio technology was a marketplace flop, Sony Corp. is shuttering its Connect digital music store and will open its portable media players to other formats.”
links for 2007-08-28
August 28th, 2007
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“Facebook’s fastest-growing demographic consists of people 35 or older: Every community must negotiate the imperatives of individual freedom and collective social order, and Facebook constitutes a critical rebalancing of the Internet’s founding vision of
links for 2007-08-25
August 25th, 2007
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“… Pocket Podcasts gives [Windows Mobile] a free podcatcher that, unlike many projects in this category, runs stably and offers a well-featured interface.”
links for 2007-08-21
August 21st, 2007
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“Assistant Editor and novice shooter Kathleen Davis challenges herself to take her photography to the next level. What amateurs and pros alike can learn along with her.”
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“Facebook users no longer have to go “out there” in the rest of the Web to get new sites, they can pull them through Facebook, either with invites from the app providers or, more effectively, through their social network itself. The cumulative impact of t
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Self-serving: “SurfControl looked at the phenomenon, and found Australian workers who keep a close watch on their Facebook profile page were costing their employers up to A$5 billion ($4 billion) a year.”
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“…the downturn in stock market, helped by the continued speculation and goosing of the rumors of a Yahoo sale, could spell trouble for the Internet portal.”
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“Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks said on Tuesday it struck a digital music partnership with online music service RealNetworks Inc. and Verizon to compete against Apple Inc.’s iTunes.”
links for 2007-08-20
August 20th, 2007
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“The only way such a spin-out would work would be if Digital was almost completely independent–free to use the brand and content to compete with the print publication, poach employees, make competitive acquisitions, replace NYT content with third parties
links for 2007-08-19
August 19th, 2007
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Numbers from Facebook’s corporate communications group … “Over 150,000 registrants daily. That’s 1 million a week since January.”
links for 2007-08-17
August 17th, 2007
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“Subcon allows you to store your essential system configuration files in a subversion repository and easily deploy different configurations to machines in a cluster.”
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Calculate the monthly costs for EC2, S3 and SQS
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Note: This may not be true: “In what is by far the largest Facebook application acquisition to date, travel company TripAdvisor has reportedly acquired Where I’ve Been from Craig Ulliott for $3 million.”
links for 2007-08-15
August 15th, 2007
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I was saying this on the ODM Podcast a few weeks ago — “Google needs to own Flash because, as anyone who has used YouTube knows, this software is currently the prevalent method for playing and authoring Internet video.”
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“if data needs to be distributed because there’s so much of it, and managing a lot of data is consequently difficult, but not core to most business or personal operations, a data grid is a potentially huge utility market to be part of.”
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PlentyOfFish is a hugely popular on-line dating system sla… while making $6 million a year from Google ads.
links for 2007-08-14
August 14th, 2007
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a community tool collective, co-operatively run, by its members, that provides a full bike shop, skilled “…volunteer mechanics, and access to new and used bike parts. Using our donated used parts anyone can learn, hands on, to build a bike. We also sell
links for 2007-08-13
August 13th, 2007
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“SOA will become one of those things that sets the groundwork for better things to come within IT.”
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“Pligg, a controversial but popular open source content management system that lets developers quickly create Digg-like clones, has put itself up for sale.”
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“Kontera’s main product is in-text advertising. They’ll take popular keywords within the text of an article and put double lines below them to signify it’s an advertisement.”
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“CreateSpace … The newly minted CreateSpace service line-up now includes print on demand books, DVDs, CDs, direct download video, audio books, and HD DVDs (Blu-ray coming soon).”
links for 2007-08-12
August 12th, 2007
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“While food safety is a prime concern, refrigerating and freezing food properly also is about TASTE. Proper refrigeration and freezing practices help assure both safety and quality. Here’s how to do it …”
links for 2007-08-10
August 10th, 2007
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“…how to broadcast your Facebook status to Twitter.”
links for 2007-08-07
August 7th, 2007
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Extensive online database of Web 2.0 Applications
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“automatically create a blogroll from the feeds you’ve subscribed”
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“We definitely agree that organizations who are implementing SOA middleware are more likely to achieve higher performance than those that are simply implementing Web services.”
links for 2007-08-03
August 3rd, 2007
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Video clip of Gary Vaynerchuk on Conan
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the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email
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The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon’s reliable and scalable payment infrastructure.
links for 2007-08-02
August 2nd, 2007
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“Contrary to earlier reports, Walt Disney Co., not Sony is buying Club Penguin, a kid-focused virtual community based in Kelowna, BC in Canada. Club Penguin”
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“Rock group AC/DC, one of the last remaining big-name holdouts to digital distribution, has announced an exclusive deal with Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music’s digital music service to deliver their entire music catalog digitally.”
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“Forrester evaluated the iPhone’s capabilities, and we believe that the iPhone signals the beginning of the end for the mobile Web as we know it today”
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“Yahoo calls this ROBO — Research Online Buy Offline. It’s the latest in an increasing body of empirical data, much of it from Yahoo studies, that show how significant the Internet has become as a driver of local/offline consumer purchase behavior.”
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“Right now though, tangible evidence is mounting that finally, keyword prices in several key verticals should be affected by an economic downturn.”
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“”This insulated the Journal from some of the harsher, short-term demands of the market. It also insulated Dow Jones’ management from feeling market pressure to make any moves that might have made the company bigger—and thus much harder for News Corp. t
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