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+[Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child][1] (OLPC) initiative is preparing to launch it's $100 laptop dubbed the 2B1. Quanta Computer of Taiwan, the world's largest manufacturer of laptops, will ship 5,000 test units later next month.

When you write about the happenings of the tech world Muammar Qaddafi doesn't come up much, but in this case he's one of the first customers of the 2B1 and he hopes to put one in the hands of every child in Libya. China, Argentina, Brazil and others are also slated to receive the new machines.

But it seems that no good deed must go uncriticized and in this case the winner of the Monty Burns Jackass Award is Intel CEO Craig Barrett who has roundly criticized the project and, according to Forbes magazine, wrote an internal memo claiming "the OLPC represents a limited version of the modern PC, reliant on old hardware that limits its functionality."

I think what he means by this is that the 2B1 uses cutting edge hardware from rival chip maker AMD. Bill Gates is no big fan of the project either. Would it shock you to learn that the 2B1 ships with Linux pre-installed? I didn't think so.

Having just returned from traveling in some of the countries slated to receive these machines I thought I'd share a few thoughts. First off no one who's living a small rural village cares whether or not they have the latest hardware or software. Many of the potential recipients of these machines would be happy to get running water or electricity.

The other thing that I think get's overlooked quite a bit in the 2B1 coverage is that these machines can form an ad-hoc wireless network with each other. I haven't been able to track down distance specs for the network, but one of things that limits the lives of people in remote locations is lack of communication and anything that addresses this need is going to be welcome.

If current plans hold, OLPC will ship at least 50 million 2B1s a year by the end of 2008. That's more than all the laptops sold worldwide last year.

[1]: http://laptop.org "One Laptop Per Child"
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+As we mentioned earlier today, Yahoo has updated/released a new service called [Yahoo Bookmarks][2]. At first I thought Bookmarks was an improvement for the existing Yahoo MyWeb service (which has long offered a bookmark storage service), but it turns out it's a separate product. What makes it all even more confusing is that Yahoo actually acquired De.lico.us some time ago so now they technically have three bookmarking services (Del.icio.us users there's no need to freak out, [Del.icio.us isn't going anywhere][1]).

Yahoo's services have always been a bit of a jumble (go the home page and try to find a link to MyWeb) and frankly I still haven't figured out a way to get to the new Bookmarks service without typing it straight in the url. But it is in beta so we'll leave that alone for now.

If you'd like to see what all the new Bookmarks service has to offer there's [an excellent screencast available][3], but I'll give a quick overview anyway.

Yahoo Bookmarks has all the standard bells and whistles we've come to expect in bookmarking sites such as annotations, tags and thumbnails. It also offers a caching feature much like [Ma.gnolia][4] which stores the content of the page so it's accessible even if the page disappears. Personally this is the reason I switched from Del.icio.us to Magnolia some time ago so kudos to Yahoo for offering this feature.  Unfortunately the "view saved copy" link didn't actually work when I tested it, but it may just take a little while for Yahoo to actually cache the page.

The integration with the Yahoo toolbar is seamless and quite nice, something I wish other services  were better at providing. Yahoo also claims it's working on integrating with FireFox which would be nice for users that don't want to be bound to the Yahoo toolbar.

While at first glance Bookmarks looks a lot like a better designed, AJAX heavy De.lico.us, they're really quite different. For one thing, Yahoo Bookmarks is not a social bookmarking site, it's a way to store your bookmarks online. You can share bookmarks by emailing them to others, but there is no "community pool" feature and no searching through other users bookmarks such as del.ici.ous offers. 

There are more powerful bookmarking sites out there, but Yahoo's interface is nice and for existing Yahoo users the addition of Bookmarks will no doubt prove useful. As for those already using Del.icio.and other services, or those wanting the sharing aspect of social bookmarking site, Yahoo's new service may leave you wanting. 

And finally I should note that Safari had some issues with Yahoo's JavaScript features, but everything worked well in FireFox. Your mileage may vary.


[1]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/24/Yahoo-bookmarks-enters-21st-century/#comment-298831
[2]: http://beta.bookmarks.Yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Bookmarks"

[3]: http://beta.bookmarks.Yahoo.com/welcome "Yahoo Bookmarks Screencast"
[4]: http://ma.gnolia.com "Social bookmarking with Ma.gnolia"
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+While it's nothing you can't do on your own, the recently launched [Briefli][1], provides a nice AJAX frontend to some advanced Google search features. Using the <code>inurl</code> and <code>intitle</code> operators, Briefli allows you to search for music, videos, torrents and more in open directories. You type in your search and the results load into the page in realtime.

Briefly is simple and efficient. I was able to very easily find a PDF manual for my Canon s50 camera without wading through the results of a traditional search. Briefli ignores links in pages in favor of the actual files those links point to, making it more efficient for finding files than an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search.

Along the same lines is the nice [GMBMG][4] (Give Me Back My Google), which strips out affiliate links in Google searches. 

And yes I know I can do all this stuff myself on Google, but services like Briefli and GMBMG save me from having to remember all those keywords and operators. 

For those that have never explored the extensive list of keywords and operators that Google offers for refining searches, check out the [Advanced Operators][3] documentation.

[1]: http://www.briefli.com/
[2]: http://www.marcandangel.com/2006/10/13/turn-google-into-napster-2000/ "Google Advanced Search Techniques"
[3]: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html "Google Advanced Operators"
[4]: http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/ "Give Me Back My Google"
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+[Parlophone][1], a British record label under the EMI umbrella, [announced earlier this week][2] that it will now accept music submissions in MP3 format via an online portal. A new piece of software designed by a former musician allows aspiring artists to upload their music files directly to the Parlophone site.

It's almost like a record company has suddenly realized what century it is. But not really, because after an hour on Google I'm no closer to finding a link to said service than I was when I read about it yesterday. Oh there's half a dozen pages of news blurbs culled from Parlophone press releases, but nothing like an actual link. Parlophone's own website resembles a link spam page and offers nothing more than links to its artist's websites.

Assuming Parlophone (and the several other labels that already use this service) ever get their act together and provide some information to these struggling artists they purport to support, the question remains -- will the kids today even care?

Let's see, upload your music to Parlophone and hope a suit will hear the money in your songs, or upload it to MySpace and reach millions of fans directly... Gosh. It's almost like, uh, maybe we don't need these record companies anymore.


[1]: http://www.parlophone.co.uk/newsite/ "Parlophone Website"
[2]: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1930202,00.html "Guardian Article on Parlophone Announcement"

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*	 Windows Defender [the free anti-spyware package][1] from Microsoft has entered the final release phase. Finally. After two years. 

*	Yahoo announces [Yahoo Bookmarks][2] a delicious like bookmarking service for Yahoo members.

*	[Amazon has said no to Google's request][3] for information about Amazon's book search feature. Amazon lawyers claim Google wants "essentially all documents concerning Amazon's sale of books on its Web sites, and all searching and indexing functions." Ya think? Google says it needs the information to fight copyright infringement allegations from a group of authors and book publishers.

*	[Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop][4] is going into production in November. The goal is to provide cheap technology for children around the world. 

[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=435BFCE7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en "Download Windows Defender"

[2]: http://beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Bookmarks"

[3]: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8KV7AUO0.htm "Google wants Amazon Search Info"

[4]: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391805/ "$100 laptop starts production"
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+If you've been putting off the purchase of a new PC or laptop because you're waiting for Windows Vista, wait no more. No Vista isn't here, but at least if you buy a new machine now you won't have to pay to upgrade to Vista when it finally does arrive. Yes, that's right, Microsoft announced that new hardware purchases made from October 26th onward will be eligible for a [free upgrade to Windows Vista][1].

Or a nearly free upgrade since the exact process varies somewhat between manufacturers. [NotebookReview][2] has a detailed rundown of what different vendors are offering in terms of rebates.

The upgrade program is good from October 26, 2006 thru March 15, 2007. In some ways there's never been a better time to buy a new machine since you'll effectively get both Vista and XP for the price of one.

[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/expressupgrade.mspx "Free Upgrade to Vista for eligible Purchases"

[2]: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3302
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