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I just had the pleasure of going through the initial set up of Windows Vista on a brand new HP notebook. Here are some of my impressions: - It’s pretty, with translucent window title bars and colors. Somewhat mac-like, but really the Windows XP influence is just below the surface. Listening to Mic...
Read more →This is a topic that I’ve gotten somewhat interested in. If you search for Ruby Domain Specific Languages in google, you will find a ton of hits. Here are two that I particularly liked: - Building a DSL in Ruby, Part I - Building a DSL in Ruby, Part II
I love Craig’s List. If you’ve heard of it (!) and are interested in online factoids, you’ll may be interested in this post from Compete Blog: ** "Analysis of eight major American cities shows erotic services consistently garners the highest number of individual visitors for February – almost always twice as many as the next ranking category, averaging 265,000 people per city." (from**: Craigslist’s Dirty Little Secret)
Today we hear that EMI is going to sell DRM-free music over the iTunes Store. I haven’t studied the fine print yet, but it’s clearly a big deal no matter how it reads. Here’s an interesting look back at Napster who in a w...
Read more →Read this essay describing the feelings of someone who will soon be a first time parent. It sounds like many of the things I was thinking when I was in the same boat. Check out this post from furia log: ** [snip…] Not...
Read more →I sometimes feel like I don’t multi-task quite as well as "everyone else". So I was interested in this post from 43 Folders: > Yesterday’s New York Times front page ran an article pulling together the results o...
Read more →I don’t want to label myself as a fuddie-duddie. I keep thinking back to this talk at ETech. Quinn Norton is a engaging and funny speaker who talked about “body hacking” (click to see the slides) I learned things l...
Read more →I’m at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, aka “ETech”… really interesting. One ‘trick’ that just occurred to me is working well. When confronted with a series of sessions in the same time slot, instead of just going by the title of the talk, a qu...
Read more →Is this a sign of the times? President Bush is on TV right now giving a speech about why he’s right about Iraq. To bolster his case, he quotes two bloggers located in Baghdad! (Jokingly: “yeah, they have bloggers in Baghdad too, heh, heh”) Of course he doesn’t cite the sources or the links so I can’t tell anything about where the flowery quotes come from. Still it’s a sign of the stature that blogs are getting in the public discourse.
Look for our BlogBridge Release 5.0 in the next several days. You will get automatically updated, so just sit back and enjoy it. When we actually release it we will also post to this blog with some pointers to the highlights of the new release. Also, I will be attending O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (aka “ETECH”) in San Diego (USA) next week and will be getting together a meetup or BOF of BlogBridge users and others with an interest. If you want to join me in San Diego, please send me an email, and I will get in touch with the where and when.
I just stumbled (get it?) across this: > “Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday that it plans to acquire start-up Tabblo, citing an interest in the photo-sharing site’s technology that facilitates printing from the Web.” (from C|Net News) Nice going guys!
Check out this post from Consumerist: > Use your .edu email to access TimesSelect, the subscription section of the New York Times. It’s free f...
Read more →Check out this post from Consumerist: > uy has confirmed the existence of a second "secret" website that looks identical to BestBuy.com, but has different prices and i...
Read more →Check out this post from Apple Gazette: > 
TUAW points us toward a really cool iTunes plugin that does something very simple, and very well. This is really useful. (from: DockArt – Change your iTunes icon to Album Art)
Useful and interesting information from Google for Webmasters. Chec out this post from Google Operating System: > Google Webmaster Central shows the most popular 100 phrases used by other sites to link to your site. If you go to Statistics / Page analysis, you’ll find a list of anchor phrases, obtained by removing punctuations. Google’s algorithms use those keywords to understand a page better. (from: The Most Popular Anchor Phrases for Your Site)
I am participating in the “Institute of Management Consultants” New England Chapter program tonight, entitled “Help prospects find you (and your clients) using Web 2.0.” For those who might be interested, here are the notes I prepared for my part of the show. “RSS: What’s In it For You”
I’ve been a member of Costco for years. Yeah, you always buy more stuff there than you intended, but it’s so much fun! I uncovered today that Costco also has great discounts for travel, rental cars in particular. If you are not part of a big corporate program, call Costco Travel, ask for your rental car company, and you get connected to their ‘Costco Desk’ (is it a real desk?). Anyway, the point is I got a real nice discount over what the default Hertz web siteprice or Kayak deal was. Just a LifeHack for you.
If you are a Mac user, you might find a hint or three here to help your computer’s performance. Check out “The Efficient Mac User”
These are really funny and clever: Transparent Screens
Daylife is a new news oriented web site that came onto the scene a little while back to a lot of fanfare. I’ve used it on and off and it’s ok. It’s certainly a lot prettier to look at than things like Google News. Daylife’s emphasis on d...
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