Time to short Google?
This can’t be good: Google closed at $288 today. John Batelle’s search blog is quoting someone as saying it will hit $300 I say, short the puppy, big time! Technorati Tags: google
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Counting blog impact
Interesting article about counting blogs makes a good point right off the bat: > “First, let’s step back and consider why we’re counting blogs at all. You no longer see articles that attempt to demonstrate the legitimacy of the Web by stating how many Web pages there are. But blogs are still in the process of entering mainstream consciousness, so numerical credibility is important; bloggers themselves cite the statistics a lot.” (from Wall Street Journal Online) Technorati Tags: blog
Come on over, the water’s fine! Look who is recommending Macs!
I love my Mac, as y’all know. I was amused to read about Intel CEO Paul Otellini who publicly recommended getting a Mac. He was being interviewed by Walt Mossberg at the “D” conference: > ‘… Asked whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security...
Read more →VC: Rumors of its demise are probably premature
Not that I’m an expert or anything… In the last few days there have been several articles about the problems in High Tech Venture Capital. One particularly interesting one was in the New York Times on Sunday talked about the exodus of recently minted venture capitalists from the busines...
Read more →Great musical: Falsettos at the Huntington Theatre
I Just came back from seeing ‘Falsettos‘, an unusual (and unusually good) musical, at the Huntington Theatre, in Boston. The themes cover the gamut from family, children, love, judaism, homosexuality, life and death. The music is unusual and complex and very nice. I recommend it highly. So much that I also just got the music from iTunes! Technorati Tags: music, recommended
Sharing a keyboard, mouse and multiple screens
Check out Synergy: > “Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).” Cool! Technorati Tags: interesting
[BLOGBRIDGE] Check out BlogBridge 1.6: SmartFeeds are starting to appear!
The latest weekly build has been posted, BlogBridge 1.6. Check it out! There are lots of bug fixes but the major new functionality is Phase 1 of SmartFeeds. Read our blog for more details, and download it here. Technorati Tags: blogbridge, RSS
Very Cool: iTunes supports Podcasting!
Nothing to add: > “Not only will you be able to subscribe to whatever podcast you would like using iTunes, but producers will be able to submit their podcasts for inclusion in the iTunes Music Store so that people can find them” (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) Technorati Tags: mac, podcast, itunes
Boston is thinking about city-wide wi-fi access
Michael Feldman of Dowbrigade has a really interesting report on something that I didn’t even know was going on in Boston. Apparently they/we are thinking about providing wi-fi access across the c...
Read more →Dowbrigade and Bridge BlogBridge
Just a quick note of the very nice mention of BlogBridge by almost-famous Dowbrigade blog by the incredibly prolific Michael Feldman. > (Emphasis mine, throughout) Blog Bridge is the amazing new RSS reader and aggregator from Pito Salas. Sure, it m...
Read more →[BLOGBRIDGE] BlogBridge tracks unread articles!
One of the cool things about BlogBridge’s (free) companion service, is that keeps track for you what you have and have not read, *even if you are using BlogBridge on more than one computer! * In other words, please sign up for the service, and set your synchronization options the way you want them ...
Read more →What happens when your car’s (software) crashes?
Just an amusing little bit from the Wall Street Journal about the Toyota Prius: > “Some buyers of Toyota MotorCorp.’s Prius gas-electric hybrid cars are complaining that their vehicles are stalling or shutting down at highway-driving speeds, a problem Toyota attributes to software problems in th...
Read more →New Radio Show: Open Source
Welcome back Chris Lydon! Those of you who have lived in the Boston area for a while (and who are NPR listeners) will recognize the name. Chris has been on local and national TV and radio, and a couple of years ago did some really early, innovative p...
Read more →BlogBridge 1.5 Weekly released today
Check out the BlogBridge blog and site for the latest weekly release. Technorati Tags: blogbridge
What Windows’ defenders should know about Mac OS X Tiger
I often hear folks beat up Microsoft Windows for being a breeding ground for viruses, spyware, and all sorts of malware. Bad Microsoft for being so sloppy! There was a recent exchange between Scoble and [Dan Gillmor](http://bayosphere.com/n...
Read more →Eating your young
I came across this bit: > “Are we going to be a player in VoIP? Absolutely. Are we going to be prepared to disrupt our own business? Absolutely, Why? Because if not, somebody else will.” ([Techdirt](http://techdirt.com/articles/20050516/00322...
Read more →Bloglines Killer? Aren’t we being a bit premature?
Richard MacManus made a statement in a post last week which elicited a lot of very interesting responses: “Competition for Bloglines: We’re nearly halfway through 2005 and there’s still no heavyweight competition to Bloglines, in the web ...
Read more →Comment! Spam! Again!
A really interesting article about Blog Comment Spam. This is one person’s attempt to really follow all clues to their sources. It doesn’t end all...
Read more →New BlogBridge web site, including a blog
Good morning sports-fans. We recently totally revamped the BlogBridge web site. Take a look, and let me know what you think. Importantly, it now includes a group blog where the BlogBridge team posts bits of interest to anyone interested in the project. We have started a new series of posts there called: “Did you know”where every day we (try to) post a short article describing a feature or capability of interest to users. Check it out! Technorati Tags: blogbridge, UI
Link to Susan Senator!
Susan Senator has published a book: “Making Peace with Autism”: > “It’s her memoir about our family, and how we have dealt with the autism th...