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“Vudu scored a breathless write-up in the New York Times today for a new movie download service they’ll be offering something this summer that is long on overblown claims and hyperbole”
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“Google has gone so far as to build a prototype phone with its own software inside, according to one person who has seen it.”
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Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff have published a report, “Social Technographics,” that identifies six levels of participation in the realm of social media or the social Web in the U.S. based on a recent survey.
Monthly Archives: April 2007
links for 2007-04-29
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Google Testing Blog
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AAA’s Fuel Cost Calculator to see how much you might have to pay for gas.
links for 2007-04-28
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“Tread carefully, politicians — concerned citizens are watching your every move on the web. Their tools? Custom data mashups that use public databases to draw correlations between every vote cast and every dollar spent in Washington.’
links for 2007-04-27
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“Cozmo.Tv wants to create a TV 2.0 by changing the way you consume online video from a random walk to personalized content.”
links for 2007-04-26
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“Scribd’s mission is to create the world’s largest open library of documents”
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“At the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters show, ComVu Media demonstrated live video transmitting at 30 fps at 640 x 480 resolution from a mobile phone over a wireless data network.”
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Lance said, “I believe in Floyd, I believe he hasn’t had a fair shake.†… me too. go Floyd!
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“It’s a stationary bike, a learning center, and an arcade “game system—all rolled into one! Smart Cycle plugs right into your TV, ready to take kids on learning adventures like no other.”
links for 2007-04-24
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“Amazon is ready to “to launch an online music store next month … the (hopefully) forthcoming service will serve up at least some DRM-free tracks”
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“From the Economist: social networking sites will soon overtake porn as the most visited properties on the Web in the U.S.”
links for 2007-04-23
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“JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting in faster downloads. It also encourages a more expressive programming style because it eliminates the download cos
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“Atten.tv will track the clickstream of users to offer up a unique data set based in its members in order to create their network. This service can be used to see what’s popularly viewed on the web, as well as measure the success of your own video broad
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Time Warner Cable “will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.â€
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“a study of name recognition and reputation concludes that Google is now the world’s most valuable brand, worth more than $66bn. … G achieved its position with a minute fraction of the marketing spending of other tech companies such as Microsoft and IBM
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“the IAB released a letter asking that the twin pillars of measurement in the interactive advertising universe – Neilsen and Comscore – submit to audits of how they measure, and in general work with the IAB to better measure interactive audiences.”
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“Podcasting is one of the few audio platforms seeing significant growth. Awareness of podcasting has lept ahead of HD radio, and its audience is catching up with Internet radio’s audience.”
links for 2007-04-22
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“With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.”
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“…some guesses at what you might find in Google Apps in the future.”
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“Maintaining small, modular stylesheets can make development easier, and make it possible to deliver styles specifically to the pages that require them, reducing the total CSS served per page. But we are seeing now that there’s a price to pay in the HTT
links for 2007-04-20
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“RSSBus is a collection of tools and services that simplify the process of creating RSS Feeds with rich data extensions. Feeds are generated from RSSBus Connectors, reusable code modules that convert data into feeds.”
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“The WeoCEO program is designed for use on Amazon’s EC2 architecture by taking advantage of the ability to create and terminate computing resources at will.”
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Our rule of thumb is to increase the number of parallel downloads by using at least two, but no more than four hostnames. Once again, this underscores the number one rule for improving response times: reduce the number of components in the page.
links for 2007-04-19
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“Mowser takes HTML pages normally viewed on a computer and translates them so that you can see them when you’re on the go.”
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“The Bungee Connect on-demand development environment dramatically increases both developer productivity and application capability by automating Ajax interactivity, reducing web state management programming, and optimizing intelligent integration with mu
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PDF Presentation from the Web 2.0 Expo 2007 about Implementing OpenID
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“Google can buy out or clone any service that threatens their ad market and media dominance.”
links for 2007-04-18
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“Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed that Google will soon launch a PowerPoint clone, completing their basic office suite”
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I don’t think this is very surprising for an entrepreneur: “It seems like a trend: for entrepreneurs who sellout to Google, Google money is good, but working for Google, not so good!”
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“…beyond wireless, and in the decade to come, will there be a better business model than Google’s current Internet model?”
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rapid web development framework
links for 2007-04-17
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Agreement Makes Guaranteed Inventory Available to Google Advertisers On More Than 675 Clear Channel Radio Stations
links for 2007-04-16
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“IT developing into more of an interactive, bi-directional department that concentrates less on policing and more on supporting its employees.”
links for 2007-04-14
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“we are truly excited to announce our acquisition of DoubleClick. DoubleClick provides a suite of products that enables agencies, advertisers, and publishers to work efficiently, that will enable Google to extend our ad network and develop deeper relation
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Apple plans to launch new iPods featuring Wi-Fi in the second half of 2007. Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will produce the Wi-Fi modules and Foxconn will perform as the OEM system assembler, according to Taiwan portable music player component make
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“Fireclipse consists of a Firefox Extension that overlays Firebug and an Eclipse Plugin.”
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Don’t use this at home ;-) chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
links for 2007-04-13
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“my conclusion is that combining two locally-made recordings — one of which the interview will upload and I will download after the call — will yield the best outcome.”