Portland Start-up Index for August 2008: Metafilter, Digital Trends premiere in top 10 (1)
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It’s that time again. Time for the Techvibes Portland Start-up Index, the monthly round up of Portland-area startup companies and products, ranked by the average of their Alexa and Compete rankings. Admittedly a work-in-progress, the Portland Start-up Index often premieres “new” entries that have been—in actuality—heavy hitters for far longer than some of the “old” companies and products on the list. This month’s list is a perfect example of that dynamic in action, as MetaFilter ...
Book Review | The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society (1)
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The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society, originally uploaded by caseorganic. In 1974, a society of Japanese futurists proposed a billion dollar digital society plan called “The Information Society” as post-industrial society. They believed that society could not continue to sustain itself if it relied on consumption and waste as top social and economic values. The project was tested in various households and included two-way communication systems that allowed users of the system to choose images ...
Time and Space Compression through Ubiquity (1)
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To a user, every click is a time-value liability. Every tab is a waste of time and space. The key is to reduce the amount of clicks needed . Mozilla’s Ubiquity is concerned with reducing the time and space it takes to transfer user relevant information. Do I trust that Mozilla will reduce the time-value liability incurred by the many modern managers of heavy data flows? Maybe. The project is headed by Aza Raszin, Head ...
Xbmc: XBMC for Mac (Now Plex) Redesigned (51)
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Mac only: XBMC for Mac—the open source media center software that offers a more flexible alternative to Front Row—has been renamed Plex, rebranded, and redesigned. Plex's most recent release sports a new logo, a new skin, and a slew of bug fixes. You've already seen how to turn your Mac into the ultimate media center with Plex (and the old, default, Project Mayhem skin). Now, take a look what the rebranded XBMC fork looks like ...
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Divino said:
Parece animal. Pena que não roda em Windows... e pena que onde ou para quê usar isso.
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Herschell / Special*Dark said:
Sexy.
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Jan said:
Looking forward to trying this out tonight
FBI ISP Letters May Have Violated Free Speech (8)
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Anti-Globalism sends in a Reuters account of an appeals court hearing in which an unnamed ISP is challenging the Patriot Act "National Security Letter" provision that allows the FBI to issue secret letters to ISPs and telecoms, demanding customer records. "A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a US government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret... Between 2003 and 2006 nearly ...
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Rick Dillon said:
I always wondered about this - gag orders should be *very* few and far between in these cases.
Secret Spying Court Stays Secret, Rejects ACLU Plea Again (8)
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For the third time in a year, a secret spying court rejects an ACLU request to let some sunshine pierce its dark curtains of secrecy, ruling that national security prohibits publishing even unclassified versions of court documents or allowing non-government lawyers to argue in the court.
Surveillance Society Sparks Psychosis (1)
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If you think someone is watching you, you're probably right. But this doesn't mean you're not also crazy, according to psychiatrists who say that our surveillance and reality TV society is spawning a new kind of psychosis. They're calling it the Truman Show delusion. Psychiatrists in the U.S. and Britain say they're seeing a growing number of psychotic patients who are paranoid that cameras are watching their every move. Not sure why they might think ...
3 Top Data Formats for Map Mashups: KML, GeoRSS and GeoJSON (12)
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Map mashups continue to mature in terms of sophistication and functionality, providing end users with an ever-expanding set of tools and applications. As a result, the intersection between traditional geospatial data and these new map mashups requires well defined ways to transfer, distribute, and consume geospatial data in a web-friendly way. Some new geospatial data formats have emerged in response to this need, enabling a broad spectrum of users and developers to mashup information in ...
Airport Fast Pass Lets Redskins Fans Cut Security Line (4)
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A fast-pass airline security company is now expanding its services to get football fans into their seats faster -- a breakthrough that opens the possibility of fast-pass lanes in every segment of society. Starting this season, Washington Redskins fans can apply for a $100 pass that lets them jump to the front of the security line at 19 airports around the country -- and get them into Redskins football games ahead of their fellow tailgaters. ...
Salesconx: Business Slow? Sell Your Contacts! (3)
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I’m getting really skittish about proclaiming some new Web 2.0 scheme spectacularly stupid, wrongheaded, or immoral. It seems like every time I do so the scheme immediately gets traction and the perp gets rich. So it’s with some trepidation I introduce you to Salesconx, a marketplace for the sale and purchase of personal business connections. Essentially you can sell access to your contacts–I mean the actual live people you know personally and/or have done business ...
Rights Group Suing AT&T for Spying Will Sue Government Too (17)
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A civil liberties group suing AT&T for helping the government warrantlessly spy on Americans isn't abandoning its lawsuit after Congress voted to give retroactive immunity to the nation's telcoms. Instead, the scrappy San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation now says that it will expand its efforts and sue the government over the spy program that operated outside of the court system for more than six years. "If Congress wants to shut down one avenue, we will ...
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Appeals Court Punts on AT&T Spying Case Appeal (3)
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More than a year after hearing oral arguments, a federal appeals court has declined to rule on whether lawsuits targeting the president's warrantless wiretapping of Americans are too secret to be challenged in court, according to an order released Thursday. Instead, the court deferred to Congress's recent passage of amnesty for telecoms that secretly helped the spying, returning the case to a lower court where the government will fight to have the suits dismissed using ...
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