| 1. |  | CES 2005 Video is Online  - Captured: 20-1-2005 23:12:29
Apparently the CES
2005 video is (finally) online. Watching the show made a couple of thing crystal
clear:
1.) BillG and humor
Formerly I imagined Bill to be the kind of person who could say funny things
about his work, the kind of person who doesn't take himself too seriously in public
and who could answer to a humorous comment equally amusingly. I kind of missed that. If
something breaks on stage (And, thanks to Murphy, thats quite often) it's...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 2. | | Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam - Captured: 22-12-2004 11:33:00
I was surprised a few years back when James, a friend of mine, introduced me to what looked like "Spam sushi" - nori seaweed paper rolled around sushi-vinegared rice and a big long hunk of spam. I made the normal protests ("I'm too hip and cool for this Spam business ") and then shut the <blank> up and tried it. It....was.....AMAZING. I couldn't believe it. The official Hawaiian dish is called Spam musubi and you can find a recipe here, but you should really follow the traditional s...
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| 3. | | Should your SEO firm give you a guarantee? - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
Many search engine optimization firms still tout guarantees of top ten rankings. A specific ranking or position guarantee on organic search engine listings is not practical for a couple of reasons:
1. Search Engines are in Control - SEO firms do not have control over how search engines algorithmically rank pages. We can identify the strong influencers and use what has worked in the past to
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| 20. | | This XML over HTTP thing was supposed to be easy, he says... - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:15:05
From the Java quarter, a suggestion that those who "are creating a publically available webservice", to "make sure it is available over HTTPS and encourage people to use the HTTPS version":
There are way too many badly behaved firewalls and proxies (from companies that should know better) that munge things in ways that are very hard to debug. ... For instance (just as a totally random example that I swear has caused me no pain what-so-ever over the last few weeks...), Checkpoint's NG55 firewa...
From: The Mountain of Worthless Information |
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| 21. | | MP3tunes Launches Without Label Support, Or Very Much Compelling At All - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:19:14
As expected, Michael Robertson has launched his new music download store that doesn't sue any copy protection at all, and offers straight MP3s at $0.88 a pop. Of course, also as expected, none of the major labels were willing to work with him, so it's all independent bands. That's cool in the sense of supporting indie acts, but might make it more difficult to attract actual users. In fact, it's really not that different from a few other sites, like eMusic. While, to some extent, he's simply ...
From: Techdirt |
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| 22. | | EU Worried About DRMs Privacy Implications - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:19:14
It appears that the EU is taking at least a slightly more thorough look at the deeper issues related to intellectual property protection. After all, they've (for the time being) fought off the issue of software patents, and are now suggesting that digital rights management technology can have implications for an individual's privacy. Of course, they don't necessarily say what should be done about it, but it's an important issue to at least bring up. In the past, when you bought something, tha...
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| 24. | | Not Really Mobile File Sharing - Captured: 11-2-2005 3:25:04
Plenty of people have been trying to warn content providers and mobile operators for ages that they're ignoring the threat of mobile peer-to-peer applications, and have even pointed to examples of prototype software from both SK Telecom and Nokia, but they still insist that they'll be able to charge ridiculously high prices for content on mobile phones. It looks like maybe the industry is trying to prevent this just a little bit with industry-supported file sharing offerings, such as a new one ...
From: Techdirt |
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| 25. | | Norway Wants To Make Most Of Its Citizens Criminals - Captured: 11-2-2005 23:19:14
It looks like Norway is trying to make sure that a large percentage of its citizens are criminals, by passing legislation that would make it illegal to rip a CD to MP3s and move it to an MP3 player. The legislation seems a bit convoluted, because they would let you copy a CD to another CD or let you break copy protection for things they deem is "appropriate." So... why should a government determine how exactly you can listen to your music? What public benefit does this serve? The only real re...
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