Metallica is Suddenly OK with Piracy (11)
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Metallica’s new album has leaked out a week or two early, unsurprisingly. It isn’t surprsing because it’s Metallica, but that it happens to most every artist these days. Some record store somewhere will sell a copy or two earlier than they should, one of those folks will share it with their friends, and lickety-split, it’s all over the Intertubes. In this case, that’s almost exactly what happened, according to Blabbermouth METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich has ...
Do your kids play with your iPhone? (4)
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Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhoneOnce my kids were beyond putting random technology into their mouths, I have let them play with gadgets. But what about my iPhone? It started innocently enough: a Leapster for a birthday. Then I cleaned out the garage and let them "borrow" a few antique Palm devices. Then I got them hooked on an old iBook G3 running OS 9 and some great old classics (the original "Toy Story" interactive ...
Google Chrome: Object in Mirror is Much Larger Than it Appears (5)
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Google Chrome has been grabbing the tech world’s attention for a few days now, and its impact on the market is showing to be significant. Massively significant. Permanently significant. That goes for everything from conceptual execution to the download count. According to Hitslink Market Share, it’s already grabbed north of 1% of the browser market. And Hitwise shows Google’s Chrome page to be nearing the top 10 of sites offering software downloads of any kind. ...
Social Media for Real World Social Change (16)
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The Real World Change 2.0 series with Leslie Poston is an ongoing look at how people are using social media tools and their personal and professional social media networks to bridge the chasm from the Internet and social media bubble to the real world to do a variety of things to effect true change. Change can come in waves or inch along in baby steps. When you have a great need for positive change, worrying ...
What is FriendFeed’s Affect on Blogging? (18)
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There’s an interesting meme that was picked up by Duncan Riley over at the Inquisitr earlier this evening with regard to the effect of FriendFeed on traditional blogging. It’s an interesting meme and something I’ve been spending a not insignificant amount of time thinking about myself. I’m in the midst of writing a long series of long posts for my personal blog on journalism with relationship to New Media, and I’m currently working on the ...
Government 2.0: Whatâs Your Brand? (5)
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This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here. I’m a member of Generation X, and it seems to me that when I was young the character of Uncle Sam was still used on television, radio, and in common conversation. What’s our brand now? Sam’s getting a little old, invented in the early 1800’s as he was – What’s Sam ...
Is Y Combinator the University of Internet Startups? (20)
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There was interesting talk about venture capitalists and their role in Internet startups last week. It started with a post by John Casasanta of Taptaptap simply entitled “Fuck the VCs.” Responses from Hacker News and John Furrier, among others, led to a lot of heated debate over the role and significance of venture capital. Although I clearly cannot provide justice to the topic of venture capital in one or even a thousand articles, I did ...
Chrome is Not a Windows-Killer (21)
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I’ve been reading all sorts of starry eyed accounts as to how the new browser from Google dubbed Chrome is going to kill Windows. As someone who is absolutely dazzled by Chrome, I’m here to tell you that it isn’t the case. Certainly, we may be looking at one of the best browsers to date, particularly for the Windows platform. It’s sleek not just in appearance, but load times and memory usage. That said, it’s ...
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Simon said:
One point missed here is that via Prism, users could already have webs on the desktop
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Haltse said:
finally some sanity. I really like it and so far It has made some really slow apps I have to use run spritely
Google Chrome a Killer Browser Already (screencast) (18)
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So, I’ve finally completed my search for a new browser to fall in love with. I don’t say this as a Google fanboy, nor do I say this as someone who hates Firefox. Firefox has served its purpose, but Google Chrome (now available for download here) seems to beat it out in every way I’ve tested for so far. I did a quick screencast earlier so as to record my initial findings and give a ...
Are Ping.fm & Co. Solving the Problem or Exacerbating it? (12)
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Ping.fm finally announced its open beta today and not everyone is rejoicing. When I first started monitoring these services that allow you to send messages across multiple platforms I was happy. I thought, like many people still do, that these services would unite us with friends and colleagues that are using different social networks, without everyone having to move their profiles to the same service. After watching people use these services for a few months ...
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everyone loves a wee sombrero said:
I don't go so far that I'd ignore any message that has "from Ping.fm" on it, but I did cut down the number of sites I use with Ping for this reason. Just Twitter, Jaiku, Kwippy and Identi.ca, because I actually have friends on those sites and engage in conversations there. I post to FF via their IM bot, I tend to put geekier posts there.
Hulu Unveils Fall Lineup Complete With Major Network Premieres (9)
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While autumn has not yet technically arrived, the television industry is already rolling out its seasonal debuts. Fox issued its first opener in the form of a two-hour Prison Break special on Labor Day in the US. And it’ll be in the latter half of October by the time most new series show up once more (or for the first time). In order to put some more color into its slightly tired archive, Hulu is ...
Why Google Chrome Really Matters (2)
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Filed under: Google On Sunday we watched a short segment on CBS Sunday Morning about Google. The company, 10 years old this month, represents the best of what came out of the dot-com bubble in the 90's. Today they are madly profitable, focused on their core services and yet, still crazy after all these years. Massages, naps and gourmet food? Why, that's the kind of hubris that brought down dozens of companies in the first ...
Si las empresas locales fuesen como Google, ¿nadie trabajaría? (1)
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Estoy bastante caliente con este tema. Resulta que en Infonegocios, hace un par de días salió una nota que aportó Ricardo Luque para la sección InfoGerentes, donde decía que si las empresas locales aplicaran el “estilo Google“ de trabajo en su dinámica de trabajo, NADIE trabajaría. Esto me sacó. ¿Cómo va a opinar del tema un tipo que no tiene ni siquiera un atisbo de lo que hace Google a nivel management? Ni hablemos de ...
John Resig - Google Chrome Process Manager (1)
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About the just-leaked Google Chrome browser: Google also say they’re using a “multi-process design” which they say means “a bit more memory up front” but over time also “less memory bloat.” When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome’s task manager, “placing blame where blame belongs.” If this is true and there's a process manager which allows you to see how many resources are being consumed ...
When Does Subscription Turn into a Relationship? (6)
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Recently this has been an ongoing thought in my head: Do online relationships have the same depth as relationships off line? Can they obtain the same meaningful purpose as your friends you see in day-to-day life? I have had some interesting conversations recently with people on Seesmic and Friendfeed about the friendship dynamics between online and off line relationships. I have only been debating this because of the increased time I have been spending on ...
When Bloggers Aren’t Bloggers (smcb) (9)
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Over the weekend, a number of bloggers and the New York Times rose to defend what they termed as a number of bloggers and podcasters who were arrested in Minneapolis. Podcasting News called it “a pre-emptive attempt to stifle protest and independent media coverage.” The truth is a little bit different from the story presented there and at BoingBoing, Salon and a dozen other blogs. It’s a really attractive story, though. I was prepared to ...
2008-2009 Pittsburgh Penguins Roundtable (1)
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We’ve assembled a plethora of Penguins staffers, columnists and bloggers joining me in a great roundtable discussion about the Penguins and the NHL as we inch closer towards dropping the puck on Oct. 4th in Stockholm. Joining me on the roundtable will be; Sean Leahy (SL) - Going Five Hole Matt Bodenschatz (MB) - Faceoff Factor Hooks Orpik (HO) - The Sweater Ted FrankD (FD) - Pensburgh Joe Sager (JS) - Pittsburgh Penguins Director of ...
Cosplay vs. Cosplay (1)
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Hace unos días entré al foro de Gaia Online donde se estaba discutiendo un tema que me pareció interesante compartir con todos ustedes y que, de ser posible, también expresen su opinión respecto a lo siguiente. En dicho foro hay varios subforos que hablan de lo mismo: ¿el cosplay japonés es, realmente, mejor que el cosplay americano? Cabe aclarar que sólo se limitaban a los "americanos" pero voy a hablar de todos en general (mexicanos, ...
PHP frameworks? Think again. (1)
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This is the fist time I have heard Rasmus Lerdorf speak and it was entertaining to say the least. Refreshing would another way to describe it, I enjoy hearing real opinions and not holding back — Rasmus doesn’t hold back.Just a short background, Rasmus Lerdorf is the creator of PHP and still continues as a core developer to the PHP project.
