Archive for December, 2007

David Sterry: Tweet Scan — search Twitter for “tweets” matching a pattern

Monday, December 31st, 2007

David Sterry runs Tweet Scan, a service that searches Twitter postings (“tweets”).

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David Sifry’s Hoosgot (“who’s got…”) Service

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

David Sifry has released Hoosgot, where you ask people of the web “who’s got…” (whatever you are looking for). Brilliant.

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Skype for Interviews

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Doug Kaye and Paul Figgiani explain how to use Skype to record broadcast quality audio interviews. Very informative.

Jaiku.com — Repeated 504 Gateway Time-outs

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

For several days I have not been able to log into Jaiku.com. Is this happening to other’s?

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Are you a Right- or Left- Brain Person?

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Gina Smith points to this cool optical illusion, which her buddy Steve Wozniak shared with her.

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Windows XP on Virtualbox, running on Ubuntu

Monday, December 24th, 2007

I am writing this blog post using Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows XP. Big deal, right? Keep reading.

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Tomasz Klekot: TextOpus Text Tools

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Tomasz Klekot created TextOpus, a web service offers several handy text modifications, as well as hashing, number base conversion and more.

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HearYa: Best Albums of 2007 with MP3’s

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

HearYa has posted a list of the best albums for 2007, with MP3s. Very cool.

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Metavid video archive of US Congress proceedings

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Sarah Allen writes about the Metavid video archive of proceedings in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. You might call it the YouTube of American politics. Or not.

Amazon’s Dynamo, a highly available key-value storage system

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Werner Vogels writes about Amazon’s Dynamo,

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To Buy: Netgear SPH200W dual mode phone $89 at Amazon

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Please explain why I should not buy the Netgear SPH200W dual mode phone (DECT for regular phone service, Skype for free/low-cost VoIP)? With discount and rebate, net price for this killer phone is $89 at Amazon, with FREE shipping.

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Evan Williams: How to Evaluate a New Product Idea

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Evan Williams writes Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea.

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