Archive for January, 2008

Nine Million — Helping Refugees

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Ninemillion.org is raising money to help nine million refugees. [via Twitter: loiclemeur of Seesmic)]

Survey of Consumer Video Viewing Preferences by 1Cast

Friday, January 18th, 2008

A friend shared this link showing data of consumer video viewing preferences.

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Seth Godin on Music Lessons

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Seth Godin writes about the music industry. Insightful.

Video demo of Logitech Duet (with “Jive” controller) for SqueezeBox

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Watch this detailed video showing the Logitech Duet controller (code name “Jive”). This will be an awesome product when it ships. So cool… and it’s not expensive, either.

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Seesmic — Video Conversations

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Darren Waters and Loic LeMeur talk about Seesmic in this video recorded with Seesmic.

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Aruni Gunasegaram: Funding Toolkit

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Aruni Gunasegaram writes about her Funding Toolkit. Check out her blog for an article about other people’s money, and see her (still under development) BableSoft site. [via Twitter: FoundRead]

Kevin Mitnick: Nanorobots (”nanoids”) to be used by 2040 for warrantless searches

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Kevin Mitnick predicts nanorobots a.k.a. “nanoids” will be used by 2040 to conduct government searches.

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ScreenSteps — Simple Screencasting for Windows and Mac

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

ScreenSteps is a new (to me) screencasting package, similar (I think) to Camtasia.

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Twitter Releases Starling Routing Engine as Open Source

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Twitter has released Starling, it’s core message routing system, as open source. That’s a brilliant move.

How Jaiku Handles Feeds

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Jaiku explains details of how they fetch feeds.

Frank Gruber: 2008 List of Web 2.0 and Technology Conferences

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Frank Gruber maintains a comprehensive list of Web 2.0 and Technology conferences. There is also a shared Google Calender for these events.

Jaiku Performance — Much Improved

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Jaiku scheduled a 24 hour outage to fix the worst of their performance problems, such as frequent 504 errors that kept me and others from using Jaiku.

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