links for 2006-09-30
September 30, 2006
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On Saturday, at 3pm Free Culture @ NYU in collaboration with DefectiveByDesign.org will be protesting DRM and the iTunes Music Store at the Apple Store in Midtown Manhattan, which is at 59th St. and 5th Ave
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This paper by Paul Peters, the Senior Publishing Developer of Hindawi Publishing Corporation, has been written for publication in the conference proceedings of Online Information 2006. Peters presents different open access publishing models and explains w
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The Hufbtter Prize, established earlier this year, is fashioned after the Metuselah Mouse Prize mentioned yesterday — but where the M-Prize is set up in the quest for eternal life, the Hütter Prize is set up in search of artificial intelligence.
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Personal Kyoto provides New Yorkers the means to measure, track and share their progress towards meaningful electric use reduction.
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Zimki is designed to handle many of the mundane tasks of developers and allow them to get to the important, unique part of their application. As they said in their EuroOSCON session they host the developer’s application, back it up, monitor it and scale i
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
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This graphic extravaganza from mathematical physicist John Baez shows not only humanity’s nested time dimensions but how we expand our time perspective to understand and solve crises.
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Last night we nabbed an exclusive sneak peek at the oft-delayed Sony Reader, which we’re happy to report is finally getting close to coming out.
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It would be an interesting exercise to look at overdesigned business applications and consider how they might be designed to look less like a database and more like a conversation.
links for 2006-09-29
September 29, 2006
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Star Wars + PowerPoint
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Koreans are clever, forceful negotiators. They are not conditioned by any sense of fair play, of not taking advantage of a weaker adversary. They will take all they can get. There is also the very strong feeling that foreigners have so much and Koreans ha
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Koreans have their own set of social rules that they follow. If you understand these rules, you will have much more success at doing business, making good impressions and making friends. Here are some tips you should know.
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Every year Korea becomes more and more modern, but it is important to recognize that modern does not equal Western. Koreans will not expect you to be an expert on the nuances of their culture, but they will appreciate a show of interest in matters that ar
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Korea’s a modern place: it has multi-functional phones, futuristic architecture, sleek sports cars racing down elevated freeways and stylish women in couture gowns off New York runways.
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Korean society often appears formal with many conventions that are unfamiliar to Westerners. Most Korean visitors to the UK are very internationally aware. Familiarity with Korean conventions and putting these into practice will not only be appreciated bu
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Korean society is based on confucianist beliefs which means respect for superiors and parents, duty to the family, loyalty to friends, humility, sincerity and courtesy. One of the most important aspects of Korean society which the Australian business pers
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The Samsung Group is composed of numerous South Korean businesses including Samsung Electronics and Samsung Life Insurance. It is helmed by Chairman Kun-hee Lee. The name “Samsung” means “three stars” or “tristar” in Korean. Samsung was founded by Lee Byu
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Great primer in Korean business etiquette
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A high-pitched alarm designed to repel youngsters from shops is being used for the melody of a dance track after the success of a mobile phone ringtone.
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Somewhere in Germany there is a very big bug.
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boyd, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, explores how young people negotiate the presentation of self in online mediated contexts. Her research focuses on how this young audience engages with “digital publ
links for 2006-09-28
September 28, 2006
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Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
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Malcolm Gladwell on TEDTalks
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insect wallpaper
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Bruce Sterling gave a keynote at the UBICOMP 2006 conference in Orange County on 9/17/2006 titled either ‘The Spime Meme Map’ or ‘UBICOMP: The majesty of the ideas and the lyricism of the language’ depending on where you look for the title
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For a taste of Dawkins’ evangelical atheism and disbelief in belief, check out this interview with him on the BBC’s Newsnight Book Club. Link to YouTube video, Link to buy The God Delusion
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But most importantly, the Ning Video (and Photo) can help you pull in and organize videos from across all video services like YouTube and Google Videos. If you so desire, you can embed the videos in your blog, or MySpace page.
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In the mid-1990s, Marc Andreessen was one of the wunderkinds of Silicon Valley. After co-creating Mosaic, the first easy-to-use Web browser, as a student at the University of Illinois, Andreessen, then 23, headed to Northern California, where he co-founde
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“Watch DEMO Video” links on the right to view past demonstrator presentations, company profiles, insightful keynotes and lively panel discussions from our previous events.
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“While American B2C models have failed to succeed in China, Taobao’s model will make B2C a reality in China,” said Toto Sun, Taobao.com’s General Manager. “Because we are simply connecting large sellers to consumers, rather than taking possession of the g
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Jajah software handles certain types of calls made from the phone, bypassing the carrier entirely. When you place a call, Jajah routes the call to its own local number, moves the call over VOIP to the destination and calls the recipient via a local number
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Create a poll, enter your friend’s email addresses and boom, you have an instant spot to discuss and vote it out. Get rid of long back-and-forth group emails forever.
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BBC Monitoring supplies news, information and comment gathered from the mass media around the world.
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Britain-based New Medium Enterprises (NME) (NMEN.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it had solved a technical production problem that makes it possible to produce a cheap multiple-layer DVD disk containing one film in different, competing forma
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DRM by ~Churba
links for 2006-09-27
September 27, 2006
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BioVisions at Harvard Univesity produced a neat animation of the processes taking place inside living cells. I like the little walker thing pulling along a big wobbling, rubbery bag of something or other.
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What Does “Generative” Mean, Anyway?
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How I Explained REST to My Wife
links for 2006-09-26
September 26, 2006
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Shows great circle path between specified points on the globe with an aviation focus.
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The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, and stories about the visits, will then be posted here.
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Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Pluggd to make podcasts chunkier, searchable
This is one of the most compelling examples I’ve seen lately of a growing trend: making multimedia content more granular and letting users take even greater control over the media we consume. We don’t just want to consume what we wish, we want to cons
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YouTube Launches Comedian Accounts – Mashable!
YouTube, which is launching new features at a frantic pace these days, just rolled out YouTube Comedian Accounts, a special type of account for comedians who want to promote their work.
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SafePasswd – Generate Secure Passwords
Password generator like y0db@1255KO592UPB84?1478Ag3o(8
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Chaos by design – October 2, 2006
The inside story of disorder, disarray, and uncertainty at Google. And why it’s all part of the plan. (They hope.)
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» Salesforce.com previews Analytics and Dashboard Mash-Ups | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com
Today Salesforce.com announced additional new customization features for their upcoming “Winter ’07” version of salesforce.com. What’s interesting about this is that it lets users mashup data and bring it all together on a customized dashboard.
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MySpace TV Show: Project MyWorld – Mashable!
With a Bebo TV show being produced in the UK, it was only a matter of time before MySpace came to the small screen. El Segundo-based DirecTV, a satellite television provider, says it will produce an original series called Project MyWorld, which will follo
links for 2006-09-25
September 25, 2006
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Ray Ozzie’s Live Clipboard demo
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someday, you will be able to connect your clickstream to the root exchange for sale to lenders.
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If an algorithm is an operation that turns a certain input into an equally certain output, then it can be seen as expressing a unique and consistent identity. The extent to which this algorithm, in trying to faithfully represent a pre-existing identity, i
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Fungibility is a measure of how easily one good may be exchanged or substituted for another example of the same good at equal value.
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Securitization resulted in a significant increase in productivity resulting from price discovery that was largely unavailable in illiquid markets (with large elements of local monopoly), from decoupling and untying the typical terms of a complex loan agre
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“Will I be a bull in a china shop? Yeah, absolutely, without a doubt. Will I shake up things? Absolutely. I don’t care for people telling me what I can’t do.” – Lewis Ranieri
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find, rate, and evaluate buyers and sellers
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Riverbed Technology has become the first storage company to go public in around two years – it’s also one of the first WAN acceleration start-ups to go public.
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“Behaviours need to change to keep up with organisational structures and new technology. The studies show how the correct choice and use of communication media can create the shared identity and shared context that is so important to successful virtual te
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10 Commandments (well 8 really) for anyone wanting to create a blog to help their business.
links for 2006-09-24
September 24, 2006
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ScrumWorks is a project management tool designed to aid administration of Scrum and other Agile methods. ScrumWorks is a multi-user application designed for Scrum organizations from simple to complex enterprises:
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Yoz Grahame is the Developer Advocate at Ning.com, and while we touch on that briefly, what I really wanted to talk to Yoz about was his consultant role in the Channel 4 series, ‘The IT Crowd.’ What are some of the secrets of the set?
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The Web 2.0 Conference focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and defines how the Web will drive business in the future. Now that the Web has become a robust platform with countless innovations driving
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ell the discussion has finally shifted toward working out what Web 2.0 means in the enterprise. And more importantly: how Web 2.0 technologies fit in with the longer-term shift toward service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
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In UMG v. Lindor, the defendant Marie Lindor has made a motion to preclude the RIAA from introducing into the case songs as to which it has failed to produce the song files.
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Person 2184 is a three part machinima series running inside the game unreal tournament 2004 from epicgames. It shows strange happenings in an urban environment not very far from here and now. Gifted people, ubiquitous media and loneliness inside a crowd o
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Animated stamps – genius – just what is needed to brinf life back to snail mail
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Knowledge is sexy…
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Slates’s Paul Boutin noticed some search trends within the 36,389,629 queries AOL researchers published/leaked last month. He identified seven ways people search the web:
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MTV TODAY ANNOUNCED IT WILL acquire Harmonix, the developers of the wildly successful “Guitar Hero.” MTV plans to integrate the “Guitar Hero” experience, along with elements from Harmonix’s “Karaoke Revolution,” into its online properties.
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Jeff Yapp, executive vice president of program enterprises for MTV Networks’ Music Group, noted that the media models give rise to a new concept of social networking by combining two elements audiences love — popular television programming and emerging v
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You can now download Flare 0.4 – the first self-updating, stable release of Flare, the site-specific browser for 37signals’ Campfire web app.
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“Wouldn’t it be great if the Mozilla browser engine were an Active control that could be embedded as in applications?” That’s a question that myself and other had asked on the Mozilla groups soon after the Mozilla project began. And further: “Wouldn’t it
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Campfire is a great, web-based, business group chat service. It’s superior to IM in many ways, but we thought it could be even better on a Mac! Introducing Pyro:
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Who Is Jonathan Ive? is BusinessWeek’s in-depth look at “the man behind Apple’s design magic.”
links for 2006-09-23
September 23, 2006
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Islandoo is a new social network with a twist: it exists solely to find candidates for a UK television show called Shipwrecked, which airs on BBC America and the UK’s Channel 4.
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To such ends, Sumner Redstone (MTV) needs to unlock his video vaults and lead the market of MySpace competitors by giving each and every one a knife to fight with.
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Robert Young looks at what media programming means in the Internet age, and how the rise of social media is shifting control away from modern day Hollywood and established media giants…
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The phone is ringing, and I don’t recognize the number, All Caller ID says is, “NAME UNAVAILABLE”. Please help me figure out who is calling and what they want
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Do you have trouble visualizing product sizes when shopping online? If so, try this easy comparison tool
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Umbrella shows a Flickr stream on the inside surfaces
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Autechre
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Orgone motors are devices which can supposedly turn atmospheric orgone energy into a useful motive force.
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As of 2004, Laffoley claims to have executed over 800 works. His work over the last forty years is a dizzying mix of precise architectural-quality painting and ideas (both societally accepted and far on the fringe) from ancient times to the present. Laffo
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“The goal of our present endeavor is to produce a transdisciplinary world-view which will sustain human existence into a continuous future.” – Paul Laffoley
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And now Adobe Systems wants to replicate its success in video space in the Voice over the Internet (VoIP) arena, making it easy to embed voice into web applications.
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Entrepreneur. General Manager. Product Strategist.
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Meet the executives, entrepreneurs, and cutting-edge innovators who are setting today’s business agenda.
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A while back, we asked Hoffman to give us a quick rundown of his web 2.0 investment strategy, and we just received his responses yesterday.
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“I don’t care about the food they ate that day, I don’t care about the new poem they wrote, or the pictures of their birthday party,” he says.
links for 2006-09-22
September 22, 2006
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a device that has a fully open firmware that anyone can hack and improve. What’s more, they’re offering cash bounties to hackers who add various features to the device, including $1000 for a YouTube or Google video Browser, $600 for a Flickr Photo Browser
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Clay Shirky has written an excellent analysis of the flawed assumptions behind Citizendium, an expert-focused online encyclopedia from Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger. Sanger has long criticised Wikipedia and Wikipedians for failing to accord special st
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1. Experts are a special category of people, who can be readily recognized within their domains of expertise. 2. A process of open creation in which experts are deferred to as of right will be superior to one in which they are given no special treatment.
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Like the iconic carmaker, the Korean electronics giant is out to build a brand that people know instantly and desire, says its chief marketer
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Jasmin graduated this year from the RCA she has created installations and recently co-directed a music video for Audio Addiction. She is currentlyn working on an animated short film, Time Patrol. She has worked for some of the top post-houses and design c
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Kate has worked in experimental moving image doing projections for live shows, sleeve design and music videos for a number of years. Her slant towards dance music is illustrated in the piece she will show, ŒHeavy Mellow‚ was commissioned as a music vid
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It’s been over a year since the meteoric Wired Women of Spitalfields Festival (itself the climax of the Spitz’s monthly Wired Women night) hit Old Spitalfields Market in spectacular style, consuming it in a cloud of bagpuss installations, live music, ra
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“The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.”
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Urban games – activities that use the city as a game board – are pretty big over in the states. Pioneered by wacky college students with things like Pacmanhattan they now have their own festival – Come Out and Play.
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In 1998, South Korea’s leading consumer electronics major, Samsung Electronics Corporation (Samsung), entered into an agreement with the International Olympic Association to sponsor the 1998 Seoul Olympics. According to company sources, Samsung wanted to
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Martin Sorrell wants WPP to be the world’s largest marketing machine. With his most recent acquisition, he’s almost there.
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Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the Open Video Contest taking place now. The contest promotes flexible copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project.
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LONDON – Social networking site MySpace is to launch its first branded UK community with Unilever’s Lynx deodorant.
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This is the home of Joerg Baach.
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You are invited to offer me work as Internet Technologist, Web Programmer and Project Manager.
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The Open Co-op is establishing a global network of self-organised Local Open Co-ops. By harnessing the powers of Open Source software to pull together existing sustainable enterprises, community action groups and individuals in their area, Local Open Co-o
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China and the world discuss the environment
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As the Net continues to develop as a platform for interactive entertainment, look for girl game developers to be at the forefront. “So much of the Web’s power comes through orchestrating human interactions,” exclaims Heidi Dangelmaier. “The key to success
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Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character?
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HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. We present these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on will boost the natural search results of your site. It’s that
links for 2006-09-21
September 21, 2006
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“The world’s first social networking and organiser site for sport – it’s myspace with shorts on”
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InnerTee, the t-shirt remixing community, has entered private beta – they’ll begin to invite new users around September 24th. As mentioned previously, innerTee is a lightweight social network that allows artists to upload small designs for use on t-shir
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New York, NY (PRWEB) September 19, 2006 — Hacktivismo, an international group of computer security experts and human rights workers, just released Torpark, an anonymous, fully portable Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox. Torpark comes pre-configured,
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Former vice president Dan Quayle (R) scoffed to a reporter that “if Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.”
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Structured Blogging is all about giving bloggers the tools to create and syndicate structured information, such as reviews and events. We currently offer two Structured Blogging plugins for the popular blogging platforms Movable Type and WordPress. Using
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Yahoo and Current TV are teaming up to launch four new internet “television channels” that comprise the new Yahoo! Current Network, and all four go live tonight.
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Visio – Information Architecture tools and discussion – great for UX designing
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Further Processing, at the Kunstverein Medienturm in Graz, sees a round up of the latest and greatest works using everybody’s favorite open source generative software, Processing.
links for 2006-09-20
September 20, 2006
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Our technical skills include php, flash, perl, mySQL, javascript and we excel in finding and taking full advantage of open source solutions
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What happens when you match 3D printers with free computing power? Chapter 2 of “Themepunks.”
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OfficeMax is one example. It has hired Envirosell, a market research company based in New York that takes an anthropological approach to understanding how shoppers navigate stores. Other companies turn to statistical methods used in testing nuclear weapon
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The Internet has changed the way users watch and use media content. Users are no longer watching content passively but actively try to reuse, remix and then share their creations. Slowly but surely, the media world is changing from big broadcasters creati
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“We are not currently running any ads on Youtube, but we may in the future as Youtube has assured me that systems have been put in place to assure that this kind of thing does not happen.”
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“Thank you for bringing this to our attention. American Express has clear and strict policies in place to ensure the appropriate placement of our brand and advertising. This placement was in violation of those policies and we are currently investigating t
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Yahoo! stock has dropped more than 13% today since CEO Terry Semel told investors that ad revenue is slowing in the automotive and financial sectors. The company’s third quarter sales and profits will likely be at the low end of forecasts, the company�
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create an e-mail to send to the future
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MSN today announced the U.S. beta release of Soapbox on MSN® Video, a user-uploaded video service that makes it easy for people to express themselves by uploading, discovering and sharing personal videos with the Soapbox community and others around the w
links for 2006-09-19
September 19, 2006
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Incredible, award-winning rotoscoped anime mashup combining footage from over 100 anime movies to create a “Whacky Race.” Music by Weezer … all » and Island in the Sun.
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Microsoft is sending takedown notices to FairUse4WM hosters asserting that FairUse4WM violates Microsoft’s copyright in Windows Media Player. This is an odd claim — it may be that FairUse4WM is a DMCA violation because it circumvents Windows Media Player
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I thought I’d put together a set of provocations based on my learning from the day which essentially come under the heading – its all jolly exciting but proceed with caution.
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The art world NEEDS a Myspace – who knows – there might be a genius gene pool to come for us as well!
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I’ve noticed Paul Graham’s name popping up a lot recently in the blogs I read.
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In the immortal words of Monty Python, “Amongst [the Spanish Inquisition’s] weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms.” Truthfully, not a bad formula for sta
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Contradicting the Old Testament and Yoda in one fell swoop, Paul Graham discusses what it means to be an outsider in the programming world. He ties Rails developers’ outsider status to other disciplines such as art, and talks about the hopes and joys, f
links for 2006-09-18
September 18, 2006
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Banksy 2006 LA show – with the elephant…
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Napster gets desperate to hold onto users – presumably the males
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Netochka Nezvanova is the enigmatic author of NATO.0+55+3d software, a set of QuickTime externals for Max. The name Netochka Nezvanova, which can be translated roughly as “nameless nobody”, is widely believed to be a pseudonym taken from the name of the e
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the centerpiece pavilion of the the sixth swiss national exhibition is a suspended platform shrouded in a perpetual cloud of man – made fog, designed by architects elizabeth diller and ricardo scofidio. the cloud can host up to 400 visitors.
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People think that licensing imagery is simple, but there can be many underlying complexities that need to be considered when clearing content. Now, more than ever, agency producers are pressured to ensure that the content used in their commercials is “cle
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Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, has announced plans to give the public full access to all the corporation’s programme archives.
links for 2006-09-17
September 17, 2006
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Free Online RSS, Atom or OPML to PDF Generator
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In yet another indication of the growing power of social networks, MySpace launched a service called “The Black Carpet” today, giving members the ability to see advanced screenings of movies in Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and 2
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he Wii will let you browse the web. “You can download an Opera browser using Wii points and surf the web,” Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan told the audience, almost parenthetically.
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This is exactly what the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) is designed to protect against – if a user uploads copyrighted content to your site, your liability is limited. However, the lawyers are citing the Grokster ruling, which would require that
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Demonstration video made by engineers at Xerox in the early 1990’s, demonstrating a conceptual system for tangible interface.
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Connected thesaurus
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I Started A Blog Nobody Read
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Jeremy Keith on the Joy of API’s. Excellent homegrown geekery
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How tags exploit the self-interest of individuals to organize the Web for everyone.
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For Rademacher, there’s a moral to the story. Innovation is possible only when companies let you tinker with their creations. Too many good ideas are squandered, he says, because the tools needed to realize them are locked away: “To this day, there are ve
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One of the most interesting questions in the online world is who is LonelyGirl15? We think we know who she is.
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It is obvious to me that there is a high interest-level amongst European VCs in the sector, yet I was seeing a very low level of Web2.0 “done deals” in VC portfolios and on the deal sheets.
links for 2006-09-16
September 16, 2006
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The new science of synthetic biology is poised between hype and hope. But its time will soon come
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Cruel 2 B Kind is designed to be played anywhere in public, by 10 to 200+ simultaneous players, anywhere in the world there’s cell phone coverage. I know what you’re thinking: Why benevolent assassination? What’s wrong with the good, old-fashioned violent
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