Myspace: The Movie
A movie about myspace… funny stuff.
The Last Podcast Opinionated Web 2.0 News and Commentary
links for 2006-01-25
Essay: Why Top Ten Sources is a Good Thing
Dave Winer defends Top Ten Sources after it has been accused of copyright violations by various bloggers.
(tags: scripting)
PriusChat – Toyota Prius Forums
(tags: prius)
stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site
(tags: collection:pod photos)
Guardian: Podsafe = Limited Appeal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1690638,00.html
“One noticeable difference between a radio show and its podcast
incarnation is that the latter has had all the music scrubbed off for
legal reasons (you can see why obtaining the rights for a song to be
included in a free downloadable MP3 file would be problematic).
However, if you are the kind of person who thinks the best [...]
links for 2006-01-19
Essay: Why Top Ten Sources is a Good Thing
Dave Winer defends Top Ten Sources after it has been accused of copyright violations by various bloggers.
(tags: scripting)
links for 2006-01-18
FeedBurner – Point your feed here. We’ll do the rest.
Improbable Research — What’s New
Weird academic research.
(tags: blogs academia science research)
Yahoo Earnings
Yahoo didn’t earn what "the market" expected. Stocks tumbled. I wonder what will happens when Google misses its mark and "the market" realizes that those $600 shares were a bit exaggerated.
Yahoo falls 12% after missing forecasts
By Richard Waters in San FranciscoPublished: January 17 2006 22:11 | Last updated: January 17 2006 23:53
Yahoo Shares of Yahoo [...]
Google Getting into Radio and/or Podcasting Advertising?
Google bought dMarc Broadcasting, a radio ad company, with 4600 stations using its ad scheduling and “studio automation” software. They sell a broad range of very sophiticated and highly specialised software solutions for the radio industry (voice tracking, time shifting, servers etc.).
I can’t help but think of them as an ‘evil’ company…
Here is part of [...]
links for 2006-01-17
Poynter Online – Writing Tool #1: Branch to the Right
(tags: writing grammar language)
CESG – Codices Electronici Sangallenses
(tags: middleages)
ORLive
(tags: collection:Default oregon newspapers)
stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site
(tags: collection:pod photos)
PriusChat – Toyota Prius Forums
Gadgetizer.com
Worst – Video – Ever
Found this one on Andrew Sullivan’s re-designed webpage. I usually don’t post political stuff here, but this one is just too good to miss:
America We Stand As One
IFILM – Viral Video: America We Stand As One -
technorati tags: video, america, worst video, crap, music, patriotism
Catching Up
I have been happily travelling for a while, so its time to catch up on the news.
MacWorld:
First of – MacWorld. A bit of a disappointment there. No new iBooks, though it makes sense to upgrade the PowerBook line first. Not sure why somebody thought MacBook was a good name, though.
I am waiting for the iBook [...]
The Digg of Porn
Socialporn.com – pretty much a version of digg – but for porn. If anything is a social activity, it mustbe sex… oh, well, not every kind of sex of course…
Technorati Tags: socialporn, socialporn, web2.0, sex
Flash Based iBooks?
There are rumors flying around that Apple might use flash-based cache memory in its new line of noteboosk to speed up start-up time and perfromance. If true, it would be nice to see some inovation in the notebook market beyond larger/smaller screen, bigger harddrives etc. What seems to be without doubts now is that Intel [...]
Mac Core’s MacWord Predictions
The Apple Core decided to assign odds topossible announcements Apple might be making at the San Francisco MacWorld. Here they are the top three, which make perfect sense to me (and not just because I am holding out for that Intel iBook…)
3. 1GB iPod nano. The iPod shuffle has been sold out for weeks and [...]
