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Robin Good has interesting predictions

Robin Good has some interesting predictions and prognostications.  > “If you stop looking for a second at the hundreds of interesting ne...

Using AJAX to do word processing on the web

You may not have heard of this, but we are now starting to see quite decent word processing applications implemented directly in the browser, using a technique that has become known as “AJAX” – Asyncrhonous Javascript And XML. As usual there is debate about what AJAX really means, who invented it (M...

They are all fake…

Check out these amusing images which I came across on the Advertising/Design Goodness Blog. Yes, they are all fake, but very cool!   Technorati Tags: advertising, attention, cool

Long tail UI Widget

This is kind of cool. I am playing around with the Last.FM music service. Among the many things it does, is that It ‘watches’ ever...

Web 2.0, I knew ye well. Here comes Web 2.5

Check out Liam Breck’s new blog. > “Next, the religion of The Network Is The Computer has indoctrinated the congregation to ignore an obvious issue with connectivity: We depend on PCs only because electricity is ubiquitous and reliable. If the power is out, you’ve usually got acts of god in progress, and little divine inspiration for work.” (from Web 2.5: Always-on-you Web 2.0 Tools) Welcome, Liam! Technorati Tags: web2.0

[GEEK] Maybe Attention.xml and OPML shouldn’t always travel together

Cori Schiegel convinced me: > “Personally, I want the data the AttentionRecorder is collecting to be used, but I don’t want to freight porting my feeds from one platform to another with those additio...

[GEEK] Unified name space for aggregator extensions for OPML?

There’s been a lot of discussion (follow these links for more links) of late about how to extend OPML, including...

Goodnight Irene – Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly

Tivo will be able to transfer videos to Ipods… But…

Hot news for Tivo and iPod Fans. Coming soon to a computer near you! > “TiVo Inc. today is expected to announce a service that allows its digital video recorders to save programs to iPods and PlayStation Portables, further untethering television from time and place.” (from [LA Times](http://ww...

Big news from Iraq, if it’s true…

Zarqawi probably killed! according to Iraq the Model. > “According to these two sources, Iraqi and US military forces in Mosul think that Zarqawi, al-Qaeda leader in Iraq was possibly killed in a raid on a house where members ...

Dilbert Torture

According to Dilbert (or is it Scott Adams) we are approaching the whole question of torture in the wrong way: > “The objective is to think up a form of torture that’s effective but doesn’t sound so bad when the rest of...

Very funny: Build a better Bush

** **Click here for more hilarity! (Thanks Larry) Technorati Tags: funny

The $100 Laptop

You might have heard of Nicholas Negroponte’s (Wikipedia bio – maybe better than the one he wrote himself!)  project to create a so-called hundred dollar laptop. He spoke about it at the recent Pop!Tech conference, and the first prototype was unveiled last night. Andy Carvin got a chance to play with it and prepared this very interesting video documentary about it. Check it out.

Web 2.0 — mash ups — Kayak — and nude beaches ?!

Did you know that Curacao is the 7th favorite place that travelers from Boston consider when they are looking for nude beaches in the Caribean? Miami is the first, Aruba the second. This important bulletin brought to you by Kayak Buzz, a ...

All you ever wanted to know about Crypto

Looks like this is practically an online book on the topic. Also, WikiPedia has a detailed entry on the subject. (Via Digg) Technorati Tags: crypto

Ray Ozzie’s Blog V3

Glad to see that Ray is blogging again. Now that he is at Microsoft running the big new initiative this should be a really interesting one to follow! > “A couple of weeks ago, Bill and I brought life to a new initiative that, over the course of the months...

Interesting Wired article about War Blogs

I came across this a little while ago in Wired about War Blogs. Pretty amazing stuff: > “Strong opinions throughout the military ranks in and out of wartime are nothing new. But online technology in the combat zone has suddenly given those o...

Did MSFT leak on purpose, or did they know they could easily be leaked?

I’ve read several accounts relating to Microsoft’s recently ‘leaked’ documents about the new strategy, for example, Cringely says: > “While ostensibly written solely for internal discussion, the documents from Bill Gates and new Microsoft CT...

Roku Roku Roku: Aint Technology Great?

This little gem really works! A **Sta...

What blogs are good for: Learning about Microsoft

So can you learn anything useful from a blog? I’ve often spoken admiringly to friends about Microsoft blogging. I’ve said that, it’s not so much that people are giving away any trade secrets. You learn stuff that are not secret, but you probably would only fin...