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Just download and install Acid Search and the next time you restart Safari you'll have a customizable search menu in your toolbar.
Acid Search comes with a whole boatload of predefined search customizations, which it calls "search channels" and allows you to add your own. It's a handy way to switch between searching Google, Technorati, del.icio.us and any other site you want to add. Even better, you can add prefix and suffix terms to your urls. For instance if you'd like to search Google but add the suffix string that [GMBMG][3] adds you can create and search with the normal Google search URL and then add GMBMG's <code>-inurl</code> terms in the suffix field (just make sure you use the URL encoded string).
Acid Search also allows you to assign each custom search channel a keyboard shortcut so it's simple to switch between your various search engines.
If you're aware of similar functionality for Firefox or IE let me know in the comments.
[1]: http://www.pozytron.com/?acidsearch "Acid Search"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/google_announce_1.html
[3]: http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/ "Give Me Back My Google"
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####How it Works
The process of saving a bookmark is simple. Just drag del.icio.us' bookmarklets to your browser toolbar and, whenever you're on a site you want to bookmark, click the button and it will be automatically added to your del.icio.us account. The bookmarklet will take you to the "post" page on del.icio.us where you can then fill any additional information you want to add such as a description, notes, tags and privacy setting.
By default del.icio.us sets all your bookmarks to public which means anyone can see what you've bookmarked. If you'd like to make them private you need to check the "do not share" box when you create a new bookmark. Del.icio.us also auto-suggests tags that might fit your bookmark which can save you some typing.
Once you've saved your bookmark, del.icio.us will return you to the page you were viewing.
The whole process is actually much simpler than it may sound; it takes far more time to describe it than to actually do it.
####Give the People What They Want
Once your bookmarks are in del.icio.us you can share them in a variety of ways. There's a search feature that pulls in results from everyone's bookmarks including yours. And you can also search just your bookmarks to find that lost site you've been looking for.
Del.icio.us also allows you to share your bookmarks with designated people through a feature called "your network." To add people to your network you just enter their screenname, and viola! their (public) bookmarks will be added to your "network" page.
Your network is useful for sharing with friends, family and coworkers, but if you want to see everyone's bookmarks, tags are the way to go. To do this you can use the subscriptions feature. Subscriptions can be by tag, person or both. In other words you can limit a subscription to just Uncle Albert's bookmarks tagged "deer trophies" or you could subscribe to all bookmarks tagged "deer trophies" and so on.
It's also possible to designate individual bookmarks for other del.icio.us users. When you save a new bookmark if you add a for:username tag to it, they will see your bookmark under the "for you" link the next time they log in. This sharing feature works for both public and private bookmarks
Nearly every page in del.icio.us has an RSS feed of some sort, whether it' by tag, user, your network or your subscriptions you can always stay up-to-date via your RSS reader. There's also a nice backend API if you'd like to access your account directly with outside programs.
####Personal Gripes
I may be overly anal or perhaps just old-fashioned, but I rather like putting my bookmarks in folders. I suppose you could argue that tags are a kind of folder, at least on the metaphorical level, but tags are really the only organizational tool del.icio.us offers. The newly redesigned Yahoo Bookmarks has folders though, and since Yahoo owns del.icio.us it's possible this feature could find it's way to del.icio.us at some point.
Many people complain about del.icio.us' rather primitive interface, other people love the minimalist look, you'll have to decide for yourself, but in terms of functionality, del.icio.us has been, and continues to be, one of the sites to beat.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Simple and easy to use
* Good sharing features
* Nice backend API
**Cons**
* Not enough organizational options
* No screen captures (The bookmarks on the main page have them, but individual pages don't)
* Bookmarked pages aren't cached
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One of the annoying things about torrents is that the trackers are often spread all across the web making it time consuming to search each site individually. FullTorrent makes it easy to search over half a dozen such trackers in one spot. And if FullTorrent doesn't currently search your favorite tracker, you can send them a note asking them to add it.
FullTorrent also allows you to set the timeout limit for your search to avoid long page loads for those sites that respond slowly.
The one downside to FullTorrent is it doesn't take you straight to the actual torrent, but dumps you on the hosting page for whatever site is tracking that torrent. While this is slightly annoying, it's still better than searching each site individually.
And please, there are a lot of perfectly legal torrents, let's limit ourselves to those, mmmkay?
[1]: http://www.fulltorrent.net/ "Fulltorrent.net"
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* [Youtube][2] has undergone a partial redesign. While the homepage remains unchanged, other sections are a bit more colorful with "channels" and "groups" now under colored headers.
* Apple [announced a new AJAX webmail interface][3] for its .Mac members complete with drag-and-drop, keyboard shortcuts and more. Welcome to the 21st century Apple.
* The Google blog is announcing a [new Google Alert for blogs][4]. Type in your search params and Google Alert will send you an email whenever there's a new post that fits your search.
[1]: http://www.flurl.com/ "Flurl.com"
[2]: http://www.youtube.com/index "YouTube.com"
[3]: http://www.mac.com/web/en/Tips/825D5958-DE09-499C-94A5-6FC8839DA398.html ".Mac webmail update"
[4]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/on-alert-for-bloggers.html "Google Alerts"
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I think we'll probably limit this specifically to sites that let you share bookmarks with other people. Services like Yahoo's Bookmarks and Google Bookmarks are more *storage* sites than *sharing* sites, but I'm sure there are other bookmark sharing sites out there that I don't know about so here's your chance to educate me.
And while we're at it, can anyone explain why social bookmarking sites like to put dots in their name?
[Note that our comments feature strips out html so just type the address in directly and it'll show up.]
[1]: http://del.icio.us/ "del.icio.us"
[2]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "Ma.gnolia"
[3]: http://wink.com/ "Wink.com"
[4]: http://www.stumbleupon.com/ "StumpleUpon"
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Ubuntu now ships with Firefox 2.0 installed as well as version 2.8 of the Evolution mail client. Ubuntu 6.1 also features F-Spot, a nice looking photo organizer that can upload to many popular photo sharing sites including Flickr. Also included is the very handy Tomboy, a wiki-style note taking tool. For full details see the [6.1 release notes][1].
The new version promises faster boot times and features a new optimized kernal and GNOME 2.16.
I've been playing around with running various Linux distributions under Parallels on my MacBook and I can definitely say if you've never used Linux before, Ubuntu is a great place to start.
Disk images and torrent files can be downloaded from [the Ubuntu site][3].
[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseNotes "New Ubuntu Released"
[2]: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/610released "Release Announcement for Ubuntu 6.10"
[3]: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/download?action=show&redirect=download "Download Ubuntu 6.10"
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Fanpop's concept is simple. Browse links by category. When you find a link that piques your interest, click it and you will be taken to that site. Fanpop leaves a simple, unobtrusive toolbar across the top of your browser window and the external page is in a frame -- very similar to the results from a Google image search. The Fanpop toolbar enables you to jump back to Fanpop to rate or comment on the link and of course you can close the frame and leave Fanpop behind.
Fanpop is built around the concept of "spots" which is really just a poor name for groups. Like groups on say flickr.com, you can join whatever Fanpop "spots" you like and contribute links to a community of like-minded users. All groups have rss feeds you can subscribe to.
Fanpop is an interesting concept, I'm not sure how much the social networking aspect will appeal to people but it seems to me there is a need for some kind of human-filtered means of searching the web. Who wouldn't like to have Google results rated by quality rather than simple page rankings (which admittedly aren't simple)? And what if that quality rating came from people you knew you could trust?
Fanpop is sort of a halfway point, it searches its user posted listings which more than likely came from searching something else. I'd like Fanpop a whole lot more if it limited itself to essentially providing Google-like search results with user ratings... Perhaps there is something like that out there, anyone care to educate me?
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* Google added links to [Google Blog Search][1] on the front page of [Google News][2] this weekend, a quiet reminder that they haven't forgotten about the underused Blog Search service.
* [YouTube wiped nearly 30,000 files][3] from its website this weekend after copyright complaints from Japanese media companies.
* Tomorrow will see the release of the official version of Firefox 2.0 but it appears the new version is [already on the Mozilla foundation's FTP servers][4].
* Regretting those pics from last year's Christmas party that linger on flickr.com? A newly-launched service, [Reputation Defender][5], can help you monitor and erase such info. And if the site in question won't remove the content, Reputation Defender can set the lawyers on them.
* It's that time of year: Google Earth adds U.S. election guide. The new overlays include information with candidate names, parties and links to register to vote. [[Lifehacker]][6]
[1]: http://blogsearch.google.com/ "Google Blog Search"
[2]: http://news.google.com/ "Google News"
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061020-8038.html "Google removes Video files"
[4]: http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/4242/44/ "Firefox 2.0"
[5]: https://www.reputationdefender.com/
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/google-earth/google-earth-adds-us-election-guide-209430.php "Google Earth Adds Election Guide"
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The free component cuts off at three message reminders per day. It's possible to buy more, but I was unable to find a price list. Also note that your mobile service provider may charge you for incoming SMS messages depending on your service plan.
The javascript heavy interface may put some people off, but the demo was responsive and easy to use when I tested it. It's not the most attractive interface, but the functionality is impressive.
The SMS test widget that mymemorizer provides worked fine on my phone (cingular) your milage may vary.
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Realtravel is not aimed at finding airfares or buying tickets online, though it does have some links and price listings, instead Realtravel's main focus is on user stories, tips and reviews.
Realtravel offers far too many things to cover in a short post, but my favorite section is the destinations tab. Under destinations you'll get a map with the world broken into regions for easy browsing, or you can pick a country from the "most blogged" list. Once you select a country you'll be taken to that country's page which has a wealth of information ranging from dining reviews to travel ideas and everything in between. From there you can continue to tunnel in a get more detailed information by city.
What makes Realtravel worthwhile for travelers is their user-generated content. Anyone can buy a guidebook, but do you know how long it takes for a guidebook to get printed and onto the shelf? Most guidebooks are hopelessly outdated before they even get into your hands. Realtravel and other sites like it are invaluable for their up-to-the-minute stories, reviews and trip suggestions from travelers who've just been in, and in some cases, currently are in, the places you're headed for.
I wish I could say Realtravel has a great interface for creating your own travel blog and contributing to the community, but unfortunately the sign up process is somewhat long and more convoluted than seems necessary and once you have an account set up the process of posting to it is fairly arduous as well. Still if you're willing to jump through the hoops, you can get a free blog, picture uploads, and more.
[1]: http://realtravel.com/ "Real Travel"
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<p>Reputation Defender claims they will monitor sites like MySpace, Facebook, Xenga, Bebo, Flickr, LiveJournal and a whole host of others for any material that might be damaging to you. If they do find something they will, on your behalf, ask the site owner to remove it. Should the site owner refuse, Reputation Defender will "use our array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web."</p>
<p>Reputation Defender is a paid service with rates starting at $15.95 a month for six months. </p>
<p>The site also offers two other related services they call "mychild" and "myprivacy." My child searches and collects information on your child and provides a monthly report. Setting aside the vaguely Orwellian feeling that gives me, I can see where, with the recently announced number of registered sex offenders on MySpace, this would be an attract service for many parents.</p>
<p>The "my privacy" feature is not yet available but promises to do something about the massive number of companies that buy and sell personal information, much of which is often inaccurate. This sounds like something I'd actually want.</p>
<p>The site didn't have an answer to the first question that popped in my mind — what about duplicate names? For instance there is a Scott Gilbertson serving time in prison in Michigan for something or other, how will Reputation Defender know that's not me?</p>
<p>Another thing I haven't been able to sort out from browsing the site is the exact legal status of the "destroy" component of Reputation Defender. After all, just because you're applying for a job, why does that mean I have to take down those pics from the Animal House-style Halloween Party of 2002? And if I refuse is there any legal ground to compel me to take them down? The user agreement on the site says, "[Reputation Defender] does not guarantee or warrant that it will be successful in effecting removal or alteration," which seems to imply that there may not be a legal way to force content removal.</p>
<p>I'm no lawyer so if you have any insight please leave your thoughts in the comments section.</p>
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In other Skype-related news, there's a new site, [Anothr][2], that allows you to get RSS feeds delivered via your Skype account. I was impressed with the idea until I ran across this tidbit in the company's blog: "Skype is not only a cool voice-over-IP tool, but also a perfect P2P application platform with high security."
If anyone out there thinks the VOIP protocol has "high security," contact me for some important real estate listings you don't want to miss.
[1]: http://www.Skype.com/download/Skype/macosx/ "Skype 2.0 of Mac"
[2]: http://www.anothr.com/ "RSS to your Skype Account"
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Ilike has all the familar trapping of a social networking site, create a profile, various ways to meet new members, upload pictures, and more, but iLike also has some very nice tools for finding new music.
The main tool is the iTunes sidebar. The iLike sidebar is an iTunes plugin that adds a sidebar to your iTunes application and makes music recommendations based on what you're listening to at the time. The sidebar adds a little bit of startup time to iTunes, but once it's running it doesn't seem to add any load to the application. Naturally you must be connected to the internet for the iLike sidebar to work.
There are two categories of recommendation from the iLike sidebar: established artists and new, unsigned artists. When you're listening to a song and you see an iLike recommendation you like just click the arrow beside the name and iLike pauses your iTunes playback and streams the new song from its host site. For the established artists you get a 30 second sample and link to buy the song (from iTunes Music Store).
Music for the unsigned artists comes from iLike's partner site, GarageBand and you can listen to the whole song. If you decide you like the song there's a link that will open your web browser and download the file. It would be nice if iLike could somehow just download the song in the background and automatically add it to your library, but that currently isn't possible (if you use Safari this more or less happens anyway).
iLike accounts offers a sort of privacy control that lets you hide "embarrassing" artists which is a good way to hide that fact that I'm currently rockin' the Dio. Not really. Seriously. I'm not.
The search and recommendations feature is fairly good. I tried throwing a few more obscure artists at it and it was stumped by some them, but it surprised me by finding recommendations for many of them. Interestingly enough, while a few randomly selected Sun Ra tracks turned up nothing in the way of matches, other Sun Ra songs did -- go figure. I suppose as time goes on and more members give more information, the recommended tracks will likely become better.
ILife also claims they will be adding support for other music players in the future (in fact they're openly soliciting programmers to help them if that's your bag).
I will confess to being initially ill-disposed toward iLike and I can take or leave the actual website and social network aspect of the service, but the iTunes sidebar is very slick. It integrates nicely with iTunes and it's a great way to explore both established and new, emerging artists. I try out a lot of stuff for this blog and most of it I forget about a month later, but iLike I might actually keeping around.
[1]: http://www.ilike.com/ "iLike Music Networking site"
[2]: http://garageband.com/ "GarageBand.com"
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How does the data collection process work?
What methods do you employ for gathering the data on people -- is it all spiders/bots or is there a human element as well?
How do you sort out name collision? For any given name there are usually several individuals in the country, how do you know who's who? And how do you a pontentially libelous statement is directed at your client and not another person with the same name?
From the site:
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"Our trained and expert online reputation advocates use an array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web"
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What methods do you use to eliminate content?
Is there a legal component and if so on what basis? Obviously libel law applies in some cases, but what about "embarrassing" content, can you effect the removal of that as well? i.e. drunken prank video on YouTube etc.
How do you handle material posted on sites outside U.S. jurisdiction?
I realize the "myprivacy" feature is in "coming soon" status, but can you say anything about how you plan to get these companies to stop selling personal data?
And finally, this is a bit more abstract, but...
There was a comment on a mashable.com post on reputation defender that talked about human nature being more reactive than proactive and thus people are more likely to care about things of this nature after it's too late (in otherwords after they don't get the job etc). Do you have any response to this thought?
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It's an interesting way to dig through census data (or at least I'm assuming the information is coming from census data) without loosing yourself in the numbers. The color codes on the map could be a little bit starker in contrast, sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what shade you're looking at, and deeper zooming on the maps would be nice, but Neighboroo is great at what it does.
Handy for anyone who's moving or thinking of moving and I'm sure there's other uses as well. Found via Folksonomy.
[1]: http://www.neighboroo.com/ "Neighboroo.com"
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* Struggling podcast site [Odeo][1] was acquired today by [Obvious Corp][2] a new company founded by, among others, Odeo's own founder Evan Williams
* Social music service [iLike][3] launched its public beta last night. Similar to Last.fm, iLike is a social networking site built around the music you listen to. iLike helps connect you with emerging artists based on similarities with music you already like.
* Adobe Labs has release a public beta for a new piece of software it calls [SoundBooth][4]. Soundbooth is designed to allow you to easily clean up and edit your audio recordings.
* And finally here's something for the bored: [all 200,000 Enron emails][5] in a searchable database. From Trampoline: "The Enron Explorer lets you investigate the actions and reactions of Enron's senior management team as the noose began to tighten."
[1]: http://odeo.com/ "odeo.com"
[2]: http://obviouscorp.com/ "Obvious Corp"
[3]: http://www.ilike.com/ "iLike.com"
[4]: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundbooth/ "Adobe Soundbooth Beta"
[5]: http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/ "Browse Enron emails"
[6]: http://veeker.com/veeker/Login.html "Veeker.com"
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The user interface and layout is vaguely reminiscent of Flickr, clean, simple and slick. There is no way to directly customize the code of your pages but Vox gives you a ton of page "themes" (165 of them to be exact) to choose from so your pages can have your personal stamp. Even better, adding external content like YouTube movies dead simple.
There's also very minimal advertising on the site pages, most of the ads are confined to the inside editing pages. Within your page there are monitized Amazon affiliate links and other small things, but for the most part you don't notice it when browsing through the site.
As much as I would like to call Vox a potential MySpace killer, the truth is I think they're after a much different demographic. I don't know that the kids will flock to Vox, but older users looking for a non-technical way to join an online community should be very happy with Vox.
No word on how this affects the future of LiveJournal.
[1]: http://www.vox.com/ "Vox.com"
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As a Mac user, Windows updates tend to slip by me, but Media Player is somewhat cross-platform and I would like to be able to watch .wmv movies on my Mac. Unfortunately Microsoft ceased development on the Mac version of Windows Media Player back at Windows Media Player 9.
Since that time [Flip4Mac][1] has released a set of codecs that allow you to watch .wmv files via Quicktime (Flip4Mac's free offering is essential a set of codecs that allow Quicktime to read .wmv files). With Microsoft's own website pointing Mac users to Flip4Mac, this seems to be the only option at this point.
I've been quite happy with Flip4Mac and in some ways I like .wmv better than Quicktime movies, but with the imminent release of a new version of Windows Media Player it's possible that we Mac users won't be able to view movies made with the new player.
Does anyone have an suggestions on alternate ways a Mac user can view wmv files? Are there any alternative to Flip4Mac? And does anyone know of a Mac program that can handle Windows Media DRM files (something neither Flip4Mac nor the old official WMPlayer 9 can do)?
[1]: http://www.flip4mac.com/ "Flip4Mac"
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The look and feel of Fedora Core 6 have changed a bit too with a new default font and theme. Naturally the new version ships with the latest releases of GNOME and KDE, as well as "some additional options in window managers."
Red Hat claims users will see a noticeable speed boost in application start up, particularly for memory heavy apps like OpenOffice. From the Red Hat press release:
>Enhancements in performance in Fedora Core 6 build upon established, underlying systems. The start-up boost that applications such as OpenOffice.org receive is gained from being rebuilt with DT_GNU_HASH. This hash is optimized for speed and data cache accesses. Another area of enhanced performance is in network file systems, including NFS.
Grab the [torrent from the Fedora site][3].
[1]: http://fedoraproject.org/static-tmp/ "Fedora Core 6 released"
[2]: http://fedoraproject.org/static-tmp/FC6ReleaseSummary.html "Core 6 release notes"
[3]: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ "Download Fedora Core 6 via torrent file"
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I just gave it a shot and indeed it works as advertised. After you make your request and before you get your answer you have have to sit through fifteen seconds of adverts. I guess the real question is, what do you value more -- those fifteen seconds of your time, or the $1.25 traditional 411 charges?
[1]: http://www.free411.com/index.php "Call information for free"
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A number of competing sites like [Rollyo][2] (which we have [covered in the past][3]) have offered similar services for some time, but the big difference in Google's offering is the ability to monotize your search engine. Which is of course jargon for "it connects to your AdSense account."
Setup is relatively simple. You create a search engine, give it a name, description and some keywords to indicate what it's targeting. Then you add the sites you want to search. According to Google's docs, "you can specify single web pages, entire web sites, and patterns that match certain pages or directories on a site." Which means that target only the content you want found. For instance, if you're including your blog in your search engine, you can tell Google to ignore the homepage (which may change frequently and therefore not be up-to-date in Google's index) and only search your permalinks or individual pages. You can also exclude whole domains using wildcard characters which allows you to build a search engine that can search the whole web, but ignore known link-spam sites (in fact someone has already [start such a search engine][9]).
Once your search engine is built you can collaborate with others by inviting them to contribute to your search engine. Contributors can add sites to include or exclude in your search engine and apply search refinements to them, but they can't change the look or feel of your search, nor can they make money from it. The contributors feature can be open to the world at large or limited to people you invite. This will likely be a popular feature with large organizations looking to build a customized search engine that serves a whole company.
Another useful feature is the "refinements" option which allows you "annotate the websites in your search engine with labels that help users narrow down their search." The labels appear as links at the top of your search results pages and when a user clicks the link that site is given priority in search results.
One nice feature of Rollyo that Google's offering thus far lacks is the [Rollbar][4]. True, Google has [a bookmarklet for easily adding sites to your search][10] as you find them, but the Rollyo Rollbar takes this a step further and let's you search whatever page you're on, whether you add it to your search engine or not. Hopefully Google will offer something similar soon.
You can customize the look and feel of your search engine, colors, logo, and more. And there's about half a dozen other [tweaks][6] and [customizations][5] you can apply that I don't have time to cover in detail.
####But what does it all mean?
Well there's really two possibilities here. One is for web users like you and me who want to be able to control which sites get searched and, perhaps more importantly, which sites *don't* get searched. There is also the potential to earn some revenue via AdSense, but let's be honest, for the average user that isn't going to be much.
And then there's the other side of it for those looking to build a custom search feature into a webpage. For instance, if you have a blog where you write posts but you also pull in photos from your Flickr page, you might want to make a search engine that will search both you blog posts and your Flickr pages for a given term. Most blogging software can do a fairly decent job of searching your posts, but it's useless for the Flickr content. By embedding your custom Google search page in an iframe, you've suddenly got a more powerful search with very little setup effort. To see a real world example of a customized Google search try using the search feature at [RealClimate][7].
All and all Google's new customized search is a very impressive offering, but there are some downsides. if you use the service on your site in an iframe you'll get Google's text ads in addition to your results (you can only get rid of adds if your site qualifies as a "501(c)(3) non-profit, university, or government agency website"). Then there's the whole iframe concept, which is annoying. Thankfully Google is offering what they call an [AJAX Search API][8] for advanced users.
Now if I could just figure out how to get Safari's toolbar Google search to automatically use my new customized search page....
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html "Google Announces new Customized Search"
[2]: http://www.rollyo.com/ "Rollyo.com"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/08/rollyo_introduc.html "Monkeybites on Rollyo"
[4]: http://www.rollyo.com/bookmarklet.html "Rollbar Bookmarklet"
[5]: http://www.google.com/coop/docs/cse/cse_file.html "Custom Search Engine XML Specification"
[6]: http://google.com/coop/docs/cse/label_file.html "Annotations label file "
[7]: http://www.realclimate.org/ "Try Real Climate's implementation of Google's Customized search engine"
[8]: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/ "Google Custom Search AJAX API"
[9]: http://www.putch.com/
[10]: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/marker "Google marker bookmarklet"
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The internet has been all abuzz since MediaFire launched last weekend and so far the reaction seems positive. This is one of those services where I keep waiting for someone to find the hidden catch, but to the best of my knowledge no one seems to have found a catch.
MediaFire acts as a file transfer and storage facility. You upload a file and MediaFire stores it for you. Pretty simple. Transfer times will depend on your internet connection speed.
Once you've uploaded a file MediaFire gives you some cut-and-paste links, one for direct download url, one to create links on your site and one even give you the link in forum code for phpBB and similar bulletin boards. You can also chose send a link via AIM or Yahoo messenger services, or you can send out an email to notify people of your upload.
As some users have pointed out, the email sent vaguely resembles spam, which could cause problems if you have aggressive spam filters, but otherwise the site is excellent. The interface is simple and easy to use with nice AJAXy progress bars and upload status information.
Though you don't have to, you can sign up for a free account.
There's no ads on the site, and in fact Mediafire might be one of the simplest sites I've seen in a long time. There isn't much in the way of advertising either which is nice. The only thing I can't figure out is how they plan to make money. Of course that never stopped YouTube.
[1]: http://www.mediafire.com/ "MediaFire.com"
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* [Apple computer announced][1] that "its entire MacBook Pro line of notebooks now includes the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor and delivers performance that is up to 39 percent faster than the previous generation."
* Google launched a customized search service this morning. Called [Google Co-op][2], the service allows a user to create and launch a search engine with just a few specific websites included in the results.
* [IBM is suing Amazon][3] over some e-commerce patents, most notably the technology that powers the product recommendation features.
* CrunchGear is reporting an interesting rumor (note that, *rumor*) that Microsoft's upcoming [Zune mp3 player will offer referral payments][4] which you can cash in for free songs or other items from the Zune Marketplace.
*
[1]: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/oct/24macbookpro.html "New Macbook Pros"
[2]: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ "Google Co-op"
[3]: http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=47239 "IBM sues Amazon"
[4]: http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/23/zune-to-pay-you-back-for-sharing-songs/ "Earn credits for sharing music? Maybe."
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I found the user content more appealing, but Travelistic does license some fairly big-name video content like ThirstyTraveler and others. The site also claims to be looking for "Rocketboom of Travel" so if you feel you've got the talent... (Note to Travelistic: I think this would be more compelling if advertised as "the Ze Frank of travel").
Travelistic also has a super handy feature named "mapify" that lets you generate cut-n-paste code to drop a Google map on your profile page so others can track where you are in the world.
[1]: http://www.travelistic.com/ "Travelistic.com"
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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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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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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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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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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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You probably think of Amazon as a store, but Amazon would like to change that impression. Today's Business Week has a long article entitled *[Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet][2]* that focuses on Amazon's attempt to transform from an e-commerce giant to a software company.
One of the big problems with e-commerce packages is that they're either too customized or not customizable enough. Amazon's strength lies in the fact that Amazon, as an article on [Web Services Journal][3] puts it, "eats it's own dog food."
To solve this problem of the gap between what a programmer thinks is necessary in a web service and what a business actually wants, Amazon effectively forked itself into components. As it set about developing web services for internal use, Amazon became a consumer of its own services. The feedback that happened internally at Amazon has led to a package of web services that take some remarkably complex engineering problems and wrap them up in easy to use APIs. That Amazon has turned around and started offering various web service APIs to the world at large, is indicative of it's transformation from online store to online service provider.
And the services that Amazon is now slowly releasing are in fact the same tools it uses to power it's own e-commerce offerings.
From an engineer point of view what makes Amazon's offerings, for instance the S3 storage service, compelling is that the services are completely decoupled from each other. If a small business wants to use S3 to store data but doesn't want any other service from Amazon and in fact wants to use a competing service for the other areas of their business, that's fine. The S3 service has no lock-in with anything else. Amazon has essentially just taken the core principles of Object Oriented Programming and scaled them to encompass whole web services.
While this is a somewhat technical point that may be lost on many observers, for savvy web 2.0 startups this means they aren't entangled in a spider web of interconnected components. It also means Amazon's services scale well. Because of the loose coupling between them, Amazon makes it easy to add new services as a company grows or to discard services that are no longer needed.
It might sound too simple to be remarkable, but Amazon's greatest strength in the web services game may be that it has taken to heart an old engineering quip, do one thing and do it well. In Amazon's case this means have each individual part do one thing and do it well. Doing one thing well is far often more valuable to businesses than a huge unwieldy service that attempts to do everything and ends up doing nothing very well.
But as the Business Week article points out, Wall Street is still scratching it's head trying to figure out where the money is. Analysts seem so far skeptical of a model that takes e-commerce necessities like search, storage, lookup and management of data and turns them into pay-per-use services.
And In some respects Wall Street is right, the target market here is small and medium size businesses, larger companies may well stay with in-house solutions. Is Amazon betting on the long tail effect for revenue? That remains to be seen, but it is worth noting that some big players have already taken advantage of Amazon's services, most notably Microsoft which uses the Elastic Compute Cloud service to help speed software downloads.
Amazon will very likely be rolling out some more services and an overview of it's strategy at next week's Web 2.0 Conference.
Monkey Bites coverage of the Web 2.0 Conference begins on Wednesday, be sure to check here for all the latest news.
[1]: http://Amazon.com/ "Amazon.com"
[2]: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_46/b4009001.htm "Business Week"
[3]: http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/262024.htm "Web Services Journal"
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According to [The Hollywood Reporter][2], the new site plans on "offering a syndication capability allowing users to grab and embed their favorite clips for posting on their own Web pages."
Hmm. That sounds like another site I've heard of.
The new site will also feature clips in Flash for better cross-platform capability (the current site shows .wmv movies).
The good news is that the Comedy Central website has no where to go but up. The current site is a disaster, the kind of site the haunts Jakob Nielsen's darkest nightmares
In researching this post, the current site managed to crash Safari three times and in Firefox produced a bizarre flickering effect and overlaid content on top of the menus. Hopefully these and myriad of other issues will be addressed in the revamping.
It's nice to see Comedy Central trying to improve their site and reaching out to viewers wanting online content, but I can't help thinking that a partnership with YouTube might make more sense. I manage to watch The Daily Show almost every day and until today I'd never actually been to the Comedy Central site. I suspect that I am not alone in this.
YouTube already offers a distribution network exactly like what Comedy Central claims they are building, why not use it? Comedy Central may be a destination channel on the dial, but that doesn't translate to a destination website, which is something corporate media companies fail to understand. The audience doesn't want all their Comedy Central video content in one place, they want *all* their video content in one place.
[Update: It would seem that the flickering effect I witnessed was actually due to an adblocking plugin. But hey, if you can't block the ads, what's the point in browsing the internet?]
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/comedy_central_.html "Monkey Bites on CC and YouTube"
[2]: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3iBJfr5p%2BGfIe4f6SRiNPJ7w%3D%3D
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With the "Evoca Browser Mic", you can let visitors post audio comments. The comments are private and accessible only by the site owner. To get your comments you need to login to your Evoca account.
I suspect that the default private comments setting will change fairly soon as I think most people would be more interested in public audio comments.
There are currently plugins for TypePad, Wordpress and Blogger.
There are other services that have previously offered similar features, but none that I'm aware of offer the plugin support that Evoca gives.
Can't wait to hear the first audio spam comments
[found via [Mashable][2]]
[1]: http://www.evoca.com/ "Evoca.com"
[2]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/03/evoca-launches-voice-comments-for-myspace-blogs/ "Mashable.com"
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The developers' goal was to create a GNU/Linux distribution where all sources, from the kernal itself to the applications in the system, were free and available to user.
Ted Teah, the FSF's software directory maintainer says, "with all the kernel firmware and restricted repositories removed, and the reliance on Ubuntu's proprietary distribution management tool gone, this distribution is the most advanced GNU/Linux distribution that has a commitment to be 100% free."
The developers added that their aim is "to produce a fully free distribution, not to have as many features as possible."
I want to get behind this because I'm a big supporter of free software, but there seems to be something perverse about ditching features and therefore usefulness just to gain total freedom. What good is freedom if I can't use it? And I get the pun in the name, but I also can't help wondering if perhaps the FSF isn't becoming more of fringe "nuisance" than a viable "new sense."
[1]: http://www.gnewsense.org "gNewSense"
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* Apple is offering a [free 30-day trial][1] of their post-production photo tool, Aperture. The trial gives you an uncrippled version of Aperture, but it doesn't come with samples or tutorials and it expires 30 days after the first launch.
* One of the first things I noticed about Firefox 2.0 was that it ditched the option to block 3rd part cookies. [Here's a thread in the MozillaZine Forums][2] that tells how to restore that setting.
* CNet reports that Microsoft's failed MSN music site will soon be [redirecting to the Zune Marketplace Web][3].
* Did you know the NSA uses Linux? Did you know you can [download their "security enhanced"][4] version?
* And finally, there's an interesting (and long) [story on IEEE Spectrum][5] about a new project named Parakey, from Blake Ross the creator of Firefox.
[1]: http://www.apple.com/aperture/trial/
[2]: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=478545&sid=dc67fdf31128b1926968063cd7f6247f
[3]: http://news.com.com/MSN+Music+presses+mute+on+downloads/2100-1027_3-6132201.html
[4]: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/code/download0.cfm
[5]: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696
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Travelhiker is looking for people to write detailed city guides. Travelhiker calls this "[The Travelhiker Project][2]." Once you've signed up for an account you enter your Google Adsense ID and you'll get half the revenue generated by your page. It's a nice incentive to get people contributing and its always nice to get a little something for your writing. I don't think anyone is going to get rich, but in many places a little bit of money can go a long way.
The interesting thing about Travelhiker's program is there's really no need to be a traveller to take advantage of it. In fact hometown knowledge is usually better since you can offer inside information and cool hidden treasures for out-or-towners looking for things the guidebooks will miss.
Travelhiker has another cool feature that isn't new. There's a whole section of site devoted to helping you plan a trip and find people who might be interested in going with you. Some places can be overwhelming on your own (India comes to mind), and this way you can kind find other people interested in going to the same places you're headed.
Travelhiker is relatively new and doesn't have a huge user base yet, but I expect the site to grow. I should note that the site didn't work very well in Safari, but it was fine in Firefox.
[1]: http://travelhiker.com/index.php "Travelhiker.com"
[2]: http://travelhiker.com/about_travelguides.php
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Microsoft claims it's aiming Office Accounting Express at eBay sellers and other home and small businesses, which probably accounts for the give away. Such users are unlikely to be willing to spend money on new software when they already have Excel and other programs.
While the basic software is free certain online premium services are also available for additional fees.
Office Accounting Express 2007 requires Windows XP, 2003 Server or Vista.
[1]: http://www.ideawins.com/ "Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007"
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Ma.gnolia works very similar to del.icio.us and offers almost all the same basic features but it adds a few more. Ma.gnolia allows you to rate your bookmarks using a 5 star rating system (very similar to NetFlix), and ma.gnolia allows you to cross post with del.icio.us so you can in effect use both at the same time.
Ma.gnolia also recently added a feature they call "roots." Roots is a javascript bookmarklet that you can save in your browser and when you're on a page, just click the bookmarklet and a javascript window will overlay the page and display how many ma.gnolia users have linked to that site and give their ratings and descriptions of the site.
I switched to ma.gnolia because of their backend API. I love online storage of bookmarks and I like the sharing aspect of all these services, but I also like to share bookmarks through my own site. Both del.icio.us and ma.gnolia offer programming APIs which allow you to connect and pull out bookmarks, but del.icio.us truncates the description field and ma.gnolia doesn't.
This was the main reason I switched (though in fairness this was some time ago and it's possible that del.icio.us no longer does that). The ma.gnolia API is both deep and rich in methods allowing you to do just about anything you want with the data retreived.
Ma.gnolia also has an [API that mirrors the del.icio.us API][2] so that tools built for del.icio.us can also work with ma.gnolia.
Ma.gnolia has a very well designed user interface and makes nice use of AJAX without being bogged down in useless tricks.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Feature rich and actively developed
* Screen captures and page cache
* Excellent backend API
**Cons**
* No folders for organization
* The interface design is nice, but some may find it slower than del.icio.us
Previously reviewed:
[del.icio.us][3]
[1]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "Ma.gnolia.com"
[2]: http://ma.gnolia.com/blog/2006/08/23/the-mirrord-api "Ma.gnolia's del.icio.us API mirror"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html "Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us"
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Some people claim they can't tell the difference so don't expect miracles, but i've noticed that javascript seems to execute faster (making GMail much quicker) and the overall memory footprint seems smaller.
All of my Firefox plugins and add-ons work perfectly and updating them in one build also updates the other builds. I haven't tried running both versions at the same time since that seems like asking for trouble.
Swiftfox offers a similar set of [optimized builds for linux users][1], and further digging revealed that Mozilla has a [whole forum full of different optimized builds][3]
[1]: http://getswiftfox.com/ "Swiftfox optimized Firefox builds"
[2]: http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2006/10/26/firefox-20 "Beatnikpad Mac-optimized Firefox Builds"
[3]: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=42 "Third Party/Unofficial Firefox builds"
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* On a similar note, [MySpace is expected to announce a partnership with Gracenote][6] today. Gracenote will help MySpace "detect and block copyrighted music from being posted on MySpace member pages." [via [TechCrunch][7]]
* The very first global [Internet Governance Forum][1] gets together starting today to discuss the future of the internet [via [LifeHacker][2]]
* [Minglenow][8] is a new social networking site based around the club and bar scene, providing yet another excellent resource for stalkers. [via [Mashable][9]]
* The NBA kicks off its season this week and with that in mind here's a link to a set of [RSS feeds from the official NBA website][3]. [via [MicroPersuasion][4]]
[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6087174.stm "The BBC of the Internet Governance Forum"
[2]: http://www.lifehacker.com/ "LifeHacker"
[3]: http://www.nba.com/rss/index.html "NBA RSS feeds"
[4]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/10/sports_finds.html "MicroPersuatsion.com"
[5]: http://www.newscloud.com/read/75528 "YouTube Removes Comedy Central materials"
[6]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/29/myspace-moves-to-protect-copyright-holders/ "TechCrunch: MySpace Moves to Protect Copyright Holders"
[7]: http://www.techcrunch.com/ "TechCrunch"
[8]: http://minglenow.com/ "Minglenow.com"
[9]: http://mashable.com/2006/10/30/minglenow-launches-myspace-for-events-and-nightlife/
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On the storage side, Wink offers many of the same features as del.icio.us and ma.gnolia, but focuses more on the search and discover aspects of social bookmarking. Wink offers a feature that allows you sync your del.icio.us bookmarks with your Wink account, making it easy to migrate from del.icio.us to Wink, or simply use both sites. That said, I couldn't get it to work for me. Clicking the "sync with del.icio.us" link opened an AJAXy window on top of the page, but never displayed anything else.
For adding bookmarks Wink provides the same sort of bookmarklet setup that other sites offer, just drag it to your toolbar and click it whenever you're on a page you want to save. Beware that Wink's bookmarklet opens in a popup window which some browsers may block. Of course if you know Javascript, you could change this behavior.
Wink links can be shared among fellow users by creating what Wink calls "collections." Collections are roughly analogous to what over sites call groups or subscriptions. Collections are tag-based and you can make new collections or join and contribute to existing ones.
In addition to the bookmarks users submit and store, Wink also scrapes tags from del.icio.us, Yahoo MyWeb, Flickr and other sites to provide search results based on those tags. What you end up with is a Google Search with a Wink tags search on top.
Wink's genius lies in a search results feature that it calls "PeopleRank." PeopleRank allows anyone to rate the quality of the results which Wink then stores and uses next time it serves up results for that search. In theory it could add a nice human element to all the search algorithms out there. Of course it could also lead to results slanted toward the preference of the heaviest Wink users, only time will tell.
Wink is interesting and I'll be keeping a closer eye on it since I think the "PeopleRank" concept has some merit, but on the whole there are better places to go for social bookmarking.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Search Engine crawls other sites offering better listings
* Can sync with del.icio.us
* Search results rating system
**Cons**
* Poor Documentation
* JavaScript errors abound
* No page cache
Previously reviewed:
[del.icio.us][3]
[ma.gnolia][4]
[1]: http://Wink.com/
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html "Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html "Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia"
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>Yes, we work with Microsoft and do plan support for upcoming codecs as needed. One common misperception is the new Windows Media Players. The introduction of the player doesn't necessarily mean the introduction of new codecs (as in recent player introductions). We currently support [the codecs listed on our website][1].
As for MPlayer, yes, it does support most WMV codecs. You can check [the complete list on the official website][2]. It also turns out you *can* use MPlayer to view movies in [Mozilla browsers][3]. I haven't tested mplayerplug-in on a Mac, but it claims to work on any *nix platform so it should be possible to use it on a Mac. Your mileage may vary.
As for DRM, Microsoft has thus far limited its DRM technology to the Windows platform so there is no way for Mac (or Linux) users to view Windows DRM protected movies, nor, based on reader comments, does there seem to be much demand for the ability to do so.
[1]: http://www.flip4mac.com/images_06/wmv_supported_codecs.jpg "Flip4Mac Codecs"
[2]: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html#vc "MPlayer official list of supported codecs"
[3]: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ "MPlayer Plugin"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/wmv_on_a_mac.html "The original MonkeyBites post"
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Like most of the iTunes Music Store, the focus is on mainstream artists and at the moment the selection is a bit wanting (particularly in Brazilan Jazz) but hopefully that will improve in the future.
There is also a whole section of Spanish language podcasts, audio books and music videos. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any Spanish language movies at the moment.
Many of the artists now in the iTunes Latino Store were formerly listed under the "world" genre, but there are also new artists as well. It's nice to see Apple at least partially abandon what I've always considered the most meaningless of genres, "world," in favor of something that makes sense.
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* [Gmail for mobile devices][1] launched this morning. Prior to today, you could only access Gmail via a mobile browser. Requires a java-enabled phone and data plan.
* [CNet reports that a denial-of-service bug has been found in Firefox 2.0][2]. According to the CNet report, "The vulnerability lies in the way the open-source browser handles JavaScript code."
* Microsoft's [Zune.net][3] is now up and running.
* Utube, an American piping and tubes manufacturer, is [suing YouTube][4] seeking damages for bandwidth usage by millions of users seeking the video sharing network. See, the internet really is a bunch of tubes. [via [TechMeme][5]]
[1]: http://www.google.com/mobile/ "Gmail for mobile"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6131624.html?part=rss&tag=6131624&subj=news "CNet on a Firefox 2 bug"
[3]: http://www.zune.net "Zune.net"
[4]: http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6131594.html "UTube sue YouTube"
[5]: http://www.techmeme.com/ "Techmeme"
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Of course that announcement only applies to business customers, consumers will have to wait until January 30 2007 for the consumer versions. November 30th will also see the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 which works with the upgraded Outlook 2007.
Vista is the first major new release of the Windows operating system in over five years.
Vista has previously been announced and then pushed back a number of times, but with the beta release now in "release candidate" stage it seem likely that Microsoft will in fact deliver on their promise to ship Vista in 2006.
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In a former life I ran a restaurant kitchen for five years and I have something of a fetish for online recipe collections. [Epicurious][2] has always been my favorite food destination on the web, but Yahoo's new offering looks nice and in fact includes recipes from the the Epicurious database.
Yahoo Food has a sleek user interface with good search features to help you sift through thousands of recipes. You can search by ingredient, course, cuisine, dish, "taste," and more. I was intrigued by the taste search filter, I'm not aware any other recipe sites that let you search for recipes that "taste" "creamy" or "cheesy."
Like many other sites, all of Yahoo's recipes are user rated and you can leave comments, tips and suggestions for other cooks. Recipes can be shared via email and IM. If you sign in to your Yahoo account, Yahoo Food will show a list of your recently viewed articles, recipes and searches.
Yahoo Food is also integrated with Yahoo Answers, which will now highlight relevant questions about food, and Yahoo Local, which has dining guides, restaurant ratings and reviews from around the U.S.
As with so many food websites Yahoo Food focuses heavily on celebrity chefs and their branded recipes and product plugs. While it may be my own snobbishness nothing turns me off to a food site quicker than seeing a recipe from Rachel Ray on the front page (today we'll be making learning how to make *toast* in 23 seconds).
But in spite of the inevitable celebrity chef emphasis, Yahoo Food is a very well done and comprehensive food site.
That said, I'd really like to see a true "social" site for food that doesn't rely on over-hyped celebrity chefs, but instead allows users to post their own recipes, videos and advice. I want a site that doesn't just pay lip service to the concept of the "everyday cook," but actually draws it's content from everyday cooks.
[1]: http://food.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Food"
[2]: http://www.epicurious.com/ "Epicurious"
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Yourminis is a Flash-based web app that creates a homepage with a number of little widgets that pull in whatever web services you'd like to track. The default set includes a Google search widget, quote of the day, RSS feed reader, weather, YouTube videos, Flickr images and more.
I was always impressed with the UI of Goowy, which has to be one of the more impressive attempts to duplicate your desktop within a browser window, but the appeal of yourminis is kind of lost on me.
Is it just me or does it seem like lately we're living in some revenge of the portal movie? I've been playing with yourminis off and on for most of the day and the more I look at it the more I have flashbacks to Lyco's "homepage portals" of yesteryear. Of course yourminis is better looking, infinitely more functional and easier to use, but the concept is essentially the same.
Then again, I've never used Apple Dashboard app either. Maybe I'm just not a widget guy, if widgets and homepages are your thing, yourminis is certainly a very impressive rendering of the concept.
[1]: http://www.yourminis.com/ "yourminis.com"
[2]: http://www.goowy.com/ "goowy.com"
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A quick glance at my applications folder revealed five small, one-off programs on my whose sole purpose is to convert various document formats. It makes so much more sense to have a web service to take care of this process.
Zamzar allows for multiple file conversions (provided all files are to and from the same formats) and will send and email with a link to your converted file(s).
I frequently have to send .doc files to clients and since I don't have an office program, this has always been quite a pain for me. Zamzar easily converted my plain text file into .doc format, eliminating the one headache of not having an office program.
Video and audio conversion will of course have some loss of quality when moving between compressed formats. I didn't tested those features, but Zamzar did successfully convert a cvs file to a MS Excel spreadsheet.
Currently Zamzar has a size limit of 100mb, but frankly even uploading that over http is masochistic, I don't imagine there's too great of demand for bigger files.
Thanks to [LifeHacker][3].
[1]: http://www.zamzar.com/ "Zamzar.com"
[2]: http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php "Zamzar conversion types"
[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/conversions/online-file-conversion-with-zamzar-211968.php "LifeHacker on Zamzar"
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For those that aren't familiar with Amarok, it's somewhat like iTunes, but has additional features like integrated Wikipedia entries for bands, auto-discovery of newly added songs, lyrics download, and more. And yes it does sync with your iPod.
Amarok version 1.4.4 is a free download and requires the KDElibs.
OS X users interested in Amarok can install the package via Fink, though it's good to have some experience with the command line before attempting an install. There are [instructions on the Amarok Wiki][2].
[1]: http://amarok.kde.org/content/view/84/66/ "Amarok 1.4.4"
[2]: http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/On_OS_X "Install Amarok on OS X"
[3]: http://www.magnatune.com/ "Magnatune.com"
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Furl works according to the same principles that should be familiar by now if you're following this series. To aid in the collecting of bookmarks, Furl offers bookmarklets for your browser or, if you use IE or Firefox, you can download and install a toolbar which will give you access to your bookmarks without having to go to the site.
Sharing and searching features are on par with the field and, Furl caches bookmarked pages for you. Furl also allows you to export your archives, cached pages and all to a zip file for easy backup. All your bookmarks are available via RSS as well.
Furl offers tagging, though it refers to tags as "topics," and also adds the ability to save keywords. I'm not really clear on what the difference between "topics" and "keywords" is other than what the FAQ says: "the keywords you assign are search hints." But aren't tags search hints as well since I can search my bookmarks by tags?<img alt="Furladdnew" title="Furladdnew" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/furladdnew.jpg" border="0" style="float: left; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />
Furl also allows you to save considerably more metadata than competing services. In fact the edit form is almost overwhelming, but thankfully you needn't provide any more than a url and title. For those that like to store more information about their bookmarks, this is the site for you.
Furl offers one thing I haven't found on other sites, the ability to leave comments on other people's bookmarks. Naturally Furl has privacy controls so if you don't want comments on your bookmarks, you can make the bookmark private, but comments allows people to stop by and say "hey, if you liked this you might like..." all without you having to lift a finger.
Furl also offers a number of export options above an beyond the ordinary HTML/XML formats that most of these sites use. With Furl you can export your bookmarks to some obscure formats like MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE, BibTeX, RIS/EndNote citations. Just to test this out I exported my del.icio.us bookmarks to HTML, imported those into Furl and then exported them again as BibTex and I am happy to report that it worked. This could be very handy for academics and other authors who frequently collect and quote online sources.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Excellent wide range of export options
* Browser toolbars available (IE and Firefox only)
* Caches page and allows export of cached pages
**Cons**
* Organizational options are limited
* No thumbnails
<p>Previously Reviewed: <br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html" title="Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html" title="Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia">ma.gnolia</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html" title="Monkeybite's review of wink">Wink</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_3.html" title="Monkeybite's review of StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a></p>
[1]: http://www.furl.net/ "Furl.net"
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* According to CNN, Yahoo may be trying to [acquire AOL][7]
* [FairGame][3] will strip Apple-DRM protected iTunes Store purchases leaving you with an unprotected .mp3 file that can be used as you see fit. [via [BoingBoing][4]]
* [FindMeOn][5] attempts to keep track of all the social networks you have joined. According to the site, "FindMeOn is a new way to assert and verify ownership over online elements , identities and personalities. We empower you to verifiably extend your true identity across social networks and blogs, essentially creating an ad-hoc social network out of everything you join." [via [LifeHacker][6]]
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/spot-on.html "Google acquires JotSpot"
[2]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/10/google_buys_jot.html "Micro Persuasion"
[3]: http://seidai.50webs.com/Seidai%20Software.html "FairGame"
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/31/fairgame_cracks_itun.html "BoingBoing"
[5]: http://findmeon.com/ "FindMeOn.com"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/social-networking/findmeoncom-identity-aggregator-211211.php "LifeHacker"
[7]: http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/28/magazines/fortune/yahoo.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2006102810 "Yahoo acquiring AOL?"
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As its name implies, StumbleUpon takes social bookmarking into the realm of randomness -- instead of searching, you stumble. Of course you can search too, and technically you could achieve the randomness of StumbleUpon with any of these sites, but StumbleUpon makes it easy and fun. The biggest downside to StumbleUpon is that it requires the installation of a toolbar which is only available for IE and Mozilla browsers.
Once you have the toolbar installed and your account set up, just click "Stumble!" and you'll be transported to a random page that fits your preferences. Your preferences are based in part on what categories you specify an interest in, and also what tags you use. You can change these settings at any time by visiting your profile page. You can also import tags from your del.icio.us account.
Of course you don't have to use the stumble button, you could just use StumbleUpon like any of the other sites we've looked at -- find a page you like, click the "I Like It" button in the toolbar and it's saved -- but after a few clicks of the Stumble button you'll probably find yourself hooked. You might even find that you start getting emails from your editor that read, "uh are you gonna post anything today...?" or maybe that's just me.
When you're using the stumble feature you can filter results by a number of categories like, video, photos, news, Wikipedia and more. Of course what sites fall in which categories is determined entirely by other users, but you always have the option to correct their mistakes.
StumbleUpon keeps track of the pages you view so if you decide later that you'd like to see a random site again, you can browse back through your history.
Your saved bookmarks are sorted a number of ways, for instance you can view sites you found, sties you stumbled upon and liked, sites you didn't like and more. It's not exactly folders, but it is the best organizational tool out of the sites I've reviewed.
Like Wink, StumbleUpon puts additional emphasis on *using* bookmarks rather than simply storing and sharing them. Thanks to the simple and yet feature rich toolbar, StumbleUpon makes browsing fun again. Beware productivity drops.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Fun, random way to browse
* Can import del.icio.us tags
* Good bookmark organization options
**Cons**
* Requires toolbar (Mozilla and IE only)
* No thumbnail or page cache
* Highly addictive
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Never mind the imitators, let's have a look at BlinkList.
Signup is painless and once you verify your account via a link BlinkList will send to your email address, you're ready to go. During the signup process BlinkList served up the usual bookmarklet for my browser toolbar, but unfortunately it didn't work in Safari. Switching to Firefox solved the problem. Your mileage may vary.
BlinkList allows you to import links from a browser, del.icio.us or Furl. Once you've got things set up and all your bookmarks imported, you can share them with other users via RSS, friendslists or email.
BlinkList has some nice options for those that want to display link or tags on their blog. BlinkList will give you Javascript widgets to show both links and tags, just cut-and-paste the provided code into your site, MySpace page or where ever you like.
BlinkList has a star ratings system like ma.gnolia, and BlinkList also allows you to mark links or tags as favorites. Favorites then show up at the top of your profile page so you can get to them quickly.
The standout feature for me though was BlinkList's ability to take any highlighted text on the screen and auto fill a bookmark's description field with the text. This is really nice for quickly getting snippets of descriptive text into your bookmarks.
BlinkList has a very intuitive interface and a nice clean design that makes it simple and pleasant to use. And as a sidenote I always like to see a company with a sense of humor, the folks behind BlinkList have a Ozzy the Labradoodle as their offical PR rep.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Can import a number of formats
* Has bookmark thumbnails
* autofill a description field
**Cons**
* No backend API
<p>Previously Reviewed: <br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html" title="Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html" title="Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia">ma.gnolia</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html" title="Monkeybite's review of wink">Wink</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_3.html" title="Monkeybite's review of StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a></p>
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_4.html" title="Monkeybite's review of furl">Furl</a><br />
[1]: http://www.blinklist.com "BlinkList.com"
[2]: http://blog.mindvalley.com/2006/10/20/copyright-in-web20-blatant-code-theft-of-a-web-20-site/ "Wirefan steals BlinkList Design"
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With a new version of Ubuntu announced recently I thought it was high time I installed Ubuntu and gave it a hands on trial.
My options are as follows, I could install Ubuntu under Parallels on a new MacBook or I could install the PPC version of Ubuntu natively on an old G3 iBook.
I would prefer to run Ubuntu without the virtualization of Parallels just so I know that any problems I might have are not connected to the virtual environment. But at the same time, a PPC G3 processor is pretty outdated and I don't know how Ubuntu performs on PPC chips, let alone ancient ones like my iBook.
If you have experience with either set up and can offer any tips or recommendations let me know in the comments section below. And *please* let's not let this degrade into an OS superiority contest. I like OS X, I like Windows and I want to like Ubuntu. Every operating system has its merits and weaknesses and none is better than the other, they're just different mmmkay?
[1]: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks "Mark Pilgrim switches to Ubuntu"
[2]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/29/mark_pilgrims_list_o.html "Corey Doctorow switching to Ubuntu"
[3]: http://www.ubuntu.com/ "Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings"
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I've never actually had any stability issues with iTunes, but I can say that the update does indeed address the performance issues that appeared with iTunes 7.0. Since upgrading to 7.0, iTunes had been almost unusable for me on a MacBook Core Duo. But the new update returns iTunes to its former snappy self.
Before upgrading importing new music was one of those tasks that I would start and then head off for a cup of coffee while iTunes effectively locked up my computer until it was complete. The 7.0.2 update vastly improves importing times. Just to test it out I threw a large import of five new albums at once (I've been avoiding iTunes) and it handled it quite nicely. The gapless playback processing that used to hold things up, slipped by without me noticing its existence. I was able to create new playlists and interact with the UI while the songs imported, something that was largely impossible with earlier 7.0.x releases.
I highly recommend the upgrade for all iTunes 7.0 users based on the speed improvement alone. That said, I have no way to test the Windows version and I believe that the Windows version was even worse than what we Mac users have been putting up with. If you install the new version on windows, let us know how your experience goes.
I'm happy with the new update, but having reviewed the Linux jukebox software, Amarok yesterday, I suddenly find iTunes somewhat lacking. Where is my integration with Wikipedia? Where is my nice tabbed interface? Are there any kindly Cocoa programmers out there trying to port Amarok to OS X (yes I know I can install Amarok via Fink, but a native port, would be so much nicer)? Apple needs a competitor in the software jukebox world, if for no other reason than to drive them to improve iTunes.
As for the shuffle, it looks nice, but personally I think I'd loose it by the end of the day. It reminds me a bit of the scene in Zoolander when Ben Stiller answers an impossibly, ridiculously small cellphone.
[1]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ "Download iTunes"
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Last.fm's bread and butter feature is it's collaborative filtering which is analogous to Amazon's recommendations and that remains unchanged. Instead today's update focuses on auxiliary features, an improved Flash music player, concert listings, free downloads, a "Taste-o-meter" and slightly redesigned music pages.
The most immediately noticeable change is the new Flash music player embedded in nearly music every page. The new music player means you can listen to Last.fm either through the browser or through the Last.fm client. To set your preference head to your user profile and adjust the setting to the playback method of your choice.
The ability to listen through the browser is nice, but the biggest feature in today's announcement is undoubtedly the addition of concert and event listings. The breadth of listings is subpar at the moment (apparently no one is playing in Los Angeles this week), but Last.fm has promised to add more listings and of course you can always add your own events. In addition to your own listings, you can view what events your friends are attending and Last.fm will recommend events based on your profile.
Last.fm offers free downloads for bands/labels that will allow it. Unfortunately finding tracks you want requires quite a bit of digging at the moment. Last.fm claims they're trying to come up with a better system, but until they do, the downloads feature is almost more work than it's worth.
The new "Taste-o-meter" is an extension of the collaborative filtering mechanism Last.fm employs. The taste-o-meter tells you at a glance whether you have any common musical ground with other listeners. Whenever you visit another listeners profile page, the taste-o-meter appears in the top left corner so you can see at a glance what music you have in common.
Judging by user comments on the site, the new artist pages aren't very popular. A number of people dismiss them as simply "ugly." As with the rest of the site, how you feel about the redesigned artist pages may be somewhat determined by how you feel about gradients.
Regardless of how the interface design strikes you, Last.fm's changes bring some welcome new features and should make users happy.
[*This post was written by Scott Gilbertson of [Monkey Bites][2] the Wired News blog covering daily developments in software and web services.*]
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59522,00.html "Wired News: Last.fm: Music to Listeners' Ears"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/ "Monkey Bites"
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And it might be the most useful site of the bunch. OnlyWire is really just a bookmarklet. Drag it to your toolbar like any other and when you're on a site you want to save, hit the bookmark.
But if OnlyWire doesn't save my page why would i want to to do that you ask? Because this is the one ring to, well, nevermind. When you click OnlyWire's bookmarklet your page and whatever descriptive info you fill in will be submitted to up to seventeen bookmarking sites.
Yes, this is for those that want it all. Just provide your sign in name and password for all your social bookmark sites and OnlyWire will submit the info to all of them. You can simultaneously maintain bookmarks on seventeen sites. And if that's not enough you can send OnlyWire a note asking them to add your favorite site.
Note that if I were to review two social bookmarking sites a day, I might be done by the holidays, but I'm cutting it off here. If your favorite site was omitted from out reviews, don't feel slighted, just plug it in the comments section.
And we'll have a complete wrap up for you in the very near future.
<p>Previously Reviewed: <br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html" title="Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html" title="Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia">ma.gnolia</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html" title="Monkeybite's review of wink">Wink</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_3.html" title="Monkeybite's review of StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_4.html" title="Monkeybite's review of furl">Furl</a><br /><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_5.html" title="Monkeybite's review of BlinkList">BlinkList</a><br /></p>
[1]: http://onlywire.com/ "OnlyWire.com"
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* [Apple has updated iTunes][1]. According to Apple, "iTunes 7.0.2 adds support for the [Second Generation iPod shuffle][2] and addresses a variety of stability and performance issues found in iTunes 7 and 7.0.1." The update is 25.7 MB and can be [downloaded from the Apple website][3].
* Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday that [Microsoft Office Live will be coming out of beta][4] on Nov. 15. Office Live is a set of Internet-based services for small business owners. [via [ZDNet][5]]
* [Last.fm][6], the popular music-centric social network, will apparently be [upgrading its services tomorrow][8]. New features include a new flash player, an events system, free MP3 downloads and revamped profile pages. [via [Mashable][7]]
* Scrybe, an online organizer and calendar application, launched its beta release last night. [via [TechCrunch][10]]
* Photo sharing site [Zooomr has increased user's monthly photo upload limits][11]. Free accounts now get 100 MB per month and pro accounts 4 GB per month, which is nearly double the offerings of rival Flickr. [also via [TechCrunch][12]]
[1]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/ "Apple iTunes"
[2]: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ "iPod Shuffle"
[3]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ "Download iTunes"
[4]: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/oct06/10-312007OfficeLivePR.mspx "Microsoft Announces Office Live"
[5]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=72 "ZDNet"
[6]: http://www.last.fm/ "Last.fm"
[7]: http://mashable.com/2006/10/31/lastfm-to-announce-free-mp3s-events-and-more/ "Mashable on Last.fm"
[8]: http://www.last.fm/updates/ "Last.fm upgrade"
[9]: http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php "Scrybe.com"
[10]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/scrybe-syncing-calendar-has-launched-in-beta/ "TechCrunch on Scrybe"
[11]: http://blog.zooomr.com/2006/11/01/trickr-or-treatr-pro-accounts-upgraded-to-4gbmo-free-accounts-to-100mmo/ "Zooomr upgrades bandwidth limits"
[12]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/01/zooomr-doubles-flickrs-monthly-photo-upload/ "TechCrunch on Zooomr"
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In fact Scrybe offers so much that it would take some time to run through everything, so instead of that I'll offer this official video that the creators of Scrybe released earlier today.
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I should note that the entire interface is done in Flash which may put some people off, but the ability to work offline and sync your changes the next time you're online probably necessitates Flash. And for the old-fashioned folks like me, the ability to print out foldable copies of calendars and lists is fantastic, but for me the real drool-worthy feature is the Thought pages which allow you to browse the internet a create a clipbook of images, text and sites.
I will confess to being somewhat ignorant of alternative offerings and should probably say that I'm not a heavy user of calendar apps and organizational tools (I still favor the offerings of Monte Blanc and Moleskine when it comes to this stuff). But, that said, if Scrybe is really capable of everything shown in the above video, it will likely prove a very popular offering.
[1]: http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php "Scrybe.com"
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But what about getting music off your iPod? That's not so simple.
In fact, using only the tools provided by Apple, it's impossible; there is no way to transfer songs from an iPod to anywhere else.
Ostensibly the reason is so we don't all go copying each others music from one iPod to another. Personally, I find this assumption of criminality irritating, there are in fact a number of legitimate reasons you might need to transfer songs from an iPod to your hard drive.
For instance, suppose you hard drive crashes taking all your MP3's with it? What if the capacity of your iPod is larger than your notebook hard drive and as you load music onto your iPod, you delete it off your hard drive to conserve space?
In short there are potentially dozens of reasons you might want to transfer music off your iPod and Apple has left you with no options, but they did leave the back door open so to speak.
There are no hardware or firmware restrictions that stop you from transferring music off an iPod and so a number of non-Apple, third party developers have released tools to help you get your tunes off your iPod and put them wherever you like.
Next week we'll be doing some reviews of this software and we'd like the hear from you. What tools do you use? We're especially interested in Windows and Linux options. Share your experiences and suggestions in the comments below.
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Although not currently available, the site promises to eventually feature a way to send notes via cellphones and email and plans to allow for scheduled reminders via SMS or e-mail.
The site is simple and easy to use, in fact it's layout felt somehow familiar... oh yeah it's an orange GMail. A lot of sites use fairly similar layouts and designs, and there is something to be said for a standardization of interfaces, but some may feel Nottr has crossed the line between imitation and rip-off.
Perhaps the derivative design is simply to ease the transition in the event of a sale to Google. I have to admit that Nottr on it's own probably won't be a regular destination for me, but if Google were to snatch it up and roll it into GMail it would fit nicely with the Gmail feature set.
I like Nottr and it think it has the potential to be useful for students especially, but at the moment its feature set is fairly limited. I would like to see a way to export saved notes to other formats. A simple text file export would be nice, multiple text files in a zip download would be even better. RSS support is conspicuously lacking which means there's little or no way to share your notes beyond your public page.
[1]: http://www.nottr.com/ "Nottr.com"
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Offertrax allows you to create what it call's "tracks." Tracks are bookmarks you make on products you interested in. Taking a tip from the social bookmarking scene offers a bookmarklet that allows you to add any page to your tracks with a single click.
Once you sign up, just drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar and go find a product you'd like to track. Click the bookmarklet and Offertrax will take ask you to give the bookmark a title, description and a choice of images to represent the product. You can then add the bookmark to any of your existing tracks, or create a new track.
In addition to bookmarks Offertrax lets you add reviews, notes and control wether or not your tracks are public.
So far it sounds pretty much like del.icio.us, but here's the difference: Offertrax gives you an RSS feed and will send you announcement whenever prices change or special offers are available. Offertrax sends out bots once an hour to check all the bookmarks in your tracks. If they find a change you'll be notified in your RSS reader (or on the site obviously).
Offertrax's bots did a great job with Amazon, but weren't able to find prices for some of the smaller sites I bookmarked.
Offertrax is a great time saver and looks very promising, but there are a number of features I would like to have seen. For one thing there doesn't seem to be an immediately obvious way to see other people's tracks. There are links to leave comments when you view your own profile so obviously there must be a way to do this for other people's tracks as well, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.
Also, while Offertrax lets you add reviews, the reviews are intended to be you doing the reviewing. That's fine and I like that, but what if I want to collect other reviews from around the web? I'd like to see is a way to bookmark existing reviews and add then to my tracks. For instance, if I'm sopping for new camera, I'd like to have all my camera bookmarks be joined with bookmarks to reviews on say dpreview.com in the same track container. That way I could see my research and track products all in one interface. As it is the track feature is the only dynamic off-site feature.
But Offertrax is in beta and I'm sure that they'll be adding new features in the future.
Offertrax is also offering it's services to online retailers in the form of a "track this" badge which can be added to the bottom of any page. Curious customers who might otherwise abandon the page can click the track this button and they'll be prompted to create an Offertrax account and start tracking that merchant. The pitch to merchants is that Offertrax can help them convert browsing customers into actively watching customers, which probably sounds good to retailers.
I suppose the cynical might point out that Offertrax stands to learn a lot about your online shopping habits, which is ture and there's no doubt that if the service catches Offertrax will have some valuable market statics at it's disposal. But in the end there's really no way to connect your Offertrax account to the final purchase so your privacy should be relatively secure.
Overall Offertrax is solid offering and well timed with the Holiday shopping season nearly upon us.
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* Internet analysts [ComScore released a study][1] today that finds more than 14 of the top 25 U.S. web properties draw more traffic from outside the US than within. There's a fair amount of buzz about this this morning, but I don't follow. Given that the vast majority of the world's population lives outside the U.S. this seems like a fairly obvious statistic.
* Walt Disney Co. announced yesterday that it has [sold 500,000 films][2] through its fledgling distribution deal with the iTunes Music Store. Total revenue for the sales is around $4 million, not bad for a the first two months.
* The W3C has [proposed a standard for widgets][3]. The W3C definition of widgets includes "clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters." The W3C proposal is currently in draft status and looking for comments. [via [MicroPersuasion][4]]
* FCC commissioner Mjchael J. Copps wrote an op/ed piece in the Washington Post yesterday [calling the U.S a laggard in broadband internet access][5]. Anyone living in rural America could have told you that. No word on the possible connection between this and point number one in today's reboot. [Ars Technica][6] has some suggestions for the FCC.
[1]: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1057 "Comscore Internet Usage Study"
[2]: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2222 "Apple Insider on Disney"
[3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/ "W3C widget Standard"
[4]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/11/w3c_proposes_wi.html "Micro Persuasion on the W3C"
[5]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110701230.html "Copps on Broadband"
[6]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061109-8185.html "Ars Technica on Broadband"
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As [TechCrunch points out in their write up][2], Wink's indexing is not simply pulling from MySpace's search features, they've actually indexed more than 100 million profiles.
The new People Search feature get's it's own tab at the top of the page next to "the web." The results show the user's name, gender and a few lines from their profile. Searches can be refined by specific social network, gender, age and relationship status.
When I reviewed Wink it stood out as fundamentally different than most social bookmarking sites and this announcement underscores those differences. What Wink seems to be aiming for in a search engine with human ratings more than a simple bookmark sharing platform.
Wink appears to headed more and more for the social search market which is so far largely untapped. With a new niche social network popping up nearly every day, Wink's indexing puts the site in a position to be the one stop search destination for all your social networks.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html "Monkey Bites on Wink"
[2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/10/wink-now-searches-myspace-linkedin-and-beebo/ "TechCrunch on Wink"
[3]: http://wink.com/ "Wink.com"
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Daily Strength is centered around health "wellness support," and aims to build a network for people who are, in the site's words "going through challenges." Some people might sneers at such semantics, but I expect it will be appreciated by those who don't like experiences like paralysis being referred to as a disease.
In addition to those directly affected, DailyStrength also has communities for caretakers, family and friends.
Daily Strength uses the term communities to describe groups that form around various health issues. But the site isn't limited to physical health alone, there are groups on parenting, mental health and addiction, relationships, sexuality and more.
Every user gets a "wellness journal" for sharing with the community, as well as a standard profile page. One of the great things about DailyStrength is that each member in a group lists what medical and psychological treatments they have undergone and whether or not those were effective.
Assuming the pharma companies don't start paying bloggers to write fake positive experiences, this could be a good way to get some advice if your doctor has recommended a treatment you know nothing about.
DailyStrength does a nice job of tracking numbers within communities. For each community there is front page bulletin that lists the top ten treatments for that ailment. Click on any of the links then take you to a list of members and how that treatment worked for them.
Each community also has news feeds that pull in headlines relative to the groups focus,
As with any online medical community, you'll have to decide what advice to follow and what is nonsense and it's certainly not an alternative to seeing a doctor. That said, DailyStrength does list a number of doctors as "community advisors" whom it claims are active in their relative areas of expertise.
With so many social networking sites that end up as little more than vanity mouthpieces, it's nice to see one that has a real purpose.
[1]: http://www.dailystrength.org/ "DailyStrength"
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The concept is pretty simple, given two photographs, which do you like better? The site then attempts to calculate what your choices say about you. Whenever the site thinks it knows something about you the brain turns pink and if you click on it the brain will tell what it knows about you.
The extrapolations based on your answers are bit far fetched, and yet can be creepily accurate. For instance, based on my choices of only five sets of photos Likebetter guessed that I lived in an apartment or condo, which is true. I went back through the photos and tried to figure out what might be the reasoning behind that, but I came away empty.
It is just a game though, and it's wildly inaccurate as often as it is correct (not only do I not watch a lot of television I don't even own one).
Some of the picture combinations are bizarre, like the one below, and it's tough to say what that choice might say about you.
As with anything remotely like a personality test I tried to game Likebetter to see if I could control what it thought about me, but for the most part Likebetter's image are too random for that. Really, what does it say about you if you choose a fat Elvis impersonator over Adam Sandler?
LikeBetter is hardly earth shattering, but it's a silly and fun way to waste a bit of the company time.
[1]: http://www.likebetter.com/ "What do you Likebetter?"
[2]: http://www.morehotter.com/ "Morehotter"
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For those that don't know, portable applications are packaged so you can carry them on a USB thumb drive, iPod, memory card, or any other portable memory storage device. They're compiled in such a way that your preferences are read and written to the portable drive so you can have your settings and preferences available on any machine.
The ubiquitous presence of USB stick drives has seen an growing demand for portable apps. There's several repositories of portable Windows application out there, but this is the first I've seen that is Mac specific. I suppose you could argue that there aren't as many Macs out there to plug your USB stick into which might make these less useful, but I'm sure Mac users will appreciate the possibility.
It's small point, but I'm curious why a group calling itself the Free OpenSource Software Mac User Group lists Safari and other Apple software that isn't open source.
[1]: http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/ "Portable Mac Apps"
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>Under the deal, Universal, the world's largest music corporation, will receive a percentage of both download revenue and digital player sales when the Zune and its related service are introduced next week.
Ever since I mentioned it in the morning reboot, I've be trying work exactly why Microsoft would cut Universal Music in on the deal. [Several analysts have suggested][3] that this [has the makings of a new business model][4] -- hardware manufacturers cut content producers in on the profits of device sales.
The logic is that since online music sales aren't picking up with near the pace at which retail CD sales are declining, kindly hardware manufacturers can cut them in on some profits.
That would make sense if Microsoft were a charity organization, but obviously it's not. But Google has reportedly reached similar set of agreements with various entertainment companies regarding YouTube, so maybe this idea is gaining some traction.
Canada tried to institute an "iPod tax" for a while in an attempt to compensate the music industry for what it perceives as lost revenue through file sharing. The law was later struck down by Canadian courts.
Apple's tactic so far has been to compensate the music companies through sales on the iTunes Music Store. But online music sales aren't exactly raking in the money. According to an unnamed study quoted by the Times: "Apple has sold an average of 20 songs per iPod."
Naturally music industry claims the decline in sales is directly attributable to file sharing. To a certain extent they're probably right. But presupposing that your entire consumer base is criminal, which is what something like the Canadian tax does, seems a bit extreme.
Perhaps this wouldn't be a bad model for the music industry to adopt. I for one would much rather pay $25 or $50 more for an iPod or Zune if I could avoid DRM and download whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.
Personally I think that with more and more bands selling their music outside the traditional realms of the music industry, and many of them making a healthy profit doing so, that alternatives to current structure are more likely. Already sites like [Amie Street][5] offer musicians better ways of delivering their music to the world and I expect we'll see many more similar services pop up soon.
Of course well established acts like U2 and Britney Spears aren't going to go this route, but the acts that will inevitably supplant them as the new industry leaders may well be coming from outside the existing industry.
What do you think?
[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/technology/09music.html?ex=1320728400&en=b380ce3d90e6a342&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "New York times says Microsoft to pay Universal Music a portion of Zune proceeds"
[3]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20061108/235014.shtml "Techdirt on the microsoft Universal deal"
[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/09/on-universal-music-groups-zune-tax/ "TechCrunch on the Microsoft Universal deal"
[5]: http://amiestreet.com/home.php "Amiestreet.com"
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* Google has fessed up to [accidentally sending out some e-mail containing the Kama Sutra mass mailing worm][1]. The official statement begins, "On Tuesday evening, three posts were made to the Google Video Blog-group that should not have been posted." Mmmhmm.
* And in other Google News, Mashable is reporting that [Google Video is being sued][2] for copyright infringement. The announcement comes straight from Google, but so far there are no details beyond that.
* MagiQ Technologies claims to have [developed an unbreakable encryption scheme][3] that exploits Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to generate cypher keys. While that sounds good, I can't help thinking that unsinkable ships sounded good at one point too.
* And finally in TSIA category: [Microsoft To Give A Cut Of Every Zune Sold To The Recording Industry -- Though It's Not Clear Why][4]
[1]: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127788-c,worms/article.html "Google emails Kama Sutra worm"
[2]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/09/google-video-sued/ "Google Video Sued"
[3]: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061106_302053.htm?campaign_id=bier_tcv.g3a.rssm1109z "Unbreakable Encryption?"
[4]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20061108/235014.shtml "Microsoft To Give A Cut Of Every Zune Sold To The Recording Industry -- Though It's Not Clear Why"
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<DT><A HREF="http://www.shauninman.com/mentary/">ShaunInman.com // Commentary</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.e-lusion.com/design/menu/">Free Menu Designs - e-lusion.com</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/09/16/minheight_fi/index.php">mezzoblue § min-height: fixed;</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://zovirl.com/2003/software/blosxom/">Zovirl Industries</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.theideabasket.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=26">The Idea Basket - News</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://zovirl.com/2003/software/blosxom/">Zovirl Industries</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.bstpierre.org/Projects/sublog/sublog">http://www.bstpierre.org/Projects/sublog/sublog</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://homepage.mac.com/barijaona/download/static_file">http://homepage.mac.com/barijaona/download/static_file</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.robotstxt.org/">robotstxt.org</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://scribbling.net/help_the_googlebot_understand_your_web_site">Help the Googlebot understand your web site [Scribbling.net]</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://usabletype.com/articles/2004/how-and-when-to-use-sifr/">How and when to use sIFR »Articles » Usable Type: Typography for the world wide web</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/106/106.css&page=4">css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.csszengarden.com/050/zengarden.jpg">zengarden.jpg 740x330 pixels</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/010/010.css&page=16">css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.couloir.org/js_slideshow/#1">Couloir.org: Resizing, Fading Slideshow Demo</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.typeworks21.com/">TypeWorks™</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/">Stopdesign | Examples</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Data_Formats/Style_Sheets/CSS/Examples/Layout/">Open Directory - Computers: Data Formats: Style Sheets: CSS: Examples: Layout</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/csslayout/2-col/finished.html">Simple 2 column CSS layout, final layout</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/09/16/minheight_fi/">mezzoblue § min-height: fixed;</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/">centricle : css filters (css hacks)</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://glish.com/css/">glish.com : CSS layout techniques</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/opinion/29brooks.html?ex=1275019200&en=9970f3282b0b87cc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">Karl's New Manifesto - New York Times</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200505/transparent_custom_corners_and_borders/">Transparent custom corners and borders | 456 Berea Street</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/contenttabs.shtml">Cut & Paste Content Tabs script</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/plugins/">Six Apart ProNet - Plugin Directory</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/bbedit_css_checker">Daring Fireball: BBEdit CSS Syntax Checker 1.0</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>MySQL</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL: The World's Most Popular Open Source Database</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>perl</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.perl.com/">Perl.com: The Source for Perl -- perl development, perl conferences</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://regexlib.com/">Regular Expression Library</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.karlnelson.net/nestedlists/">Expanding Nested Lists</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_examples.asp">CSS Examples</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/09/weblog.html">MacDevCenter.com: Build Your Own Blogging Application, Part 1</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/~epop/igal/">iGal: online image gallery generator</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/resources/programming/perl-tutorial/regex.html">Perl Programming Tutorial: Regular Expressions and String Manipulation</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.regular-expressions.info/perl.html">Perl Text Patterns for Search and Replace</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://members.fortunecity.com/scs245/245wisse/www.scs.carleton.ca/_weiss/courses/205/slides/Perl-3/lecture.html">http://members.fortunecity.com/scs245/245wisse/www.scs.carleton.ca/_weiss/courses/205/slides/Perl-3/lecture.html</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.infocopter.com/perl_corner/perlre.htm">Regular Expressions: Perl Scripts</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/regular-expressions/">Regular Expressions (Regex) Tutorial</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Regexp-Quote-Like-Operators">perlop - perldoc.perl.org</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://marvin.ibest.uidaho.edu/~heckendo/CS445/regex.html">A Regular Expression Primer</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://faq.perl.org/perlfaq6.html#How_can_I_hope_to_us">perlfaq6</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>rss</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/3.html">Introduction to RSS: WebRef and the Future of RSS - WebReference.com</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.newarchitectmag.com/archives/2000/02/eisenzopf/">New Architect: Features</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html?page=2">XML.com: What is RSS? [Dec. 18, 2002]</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>Design Theory</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/vismath/kappraff/kap3.htm">Repetition of Ratios</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://home.att.net/~vmueller/prop/theo.html">Proportions: Golden Section</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/vismath/kappraff/kap7.htm">Root 3 System</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2004/05/24/grey_box_method.php">Jason Santa Maria | Grey Box Methodology</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://porn.tblog.com/">Porn</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit.html">FontEditor BitfontMaker</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.uxmag.com/design/86/the-layers-of-design-the-style-layer">UX Magazine - The Layers of Design: the style layer</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://fenopy.com/index.php?keyword=oneida&x=0&y=0&select=c_1">Fenopy : Search results for : oneida</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://soundpedia.com/discover">SoundPedia : Music Community</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.cssremix.com/page/2/">CSS Remix: CSS-Based Website Gallery</A> - 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<DT><A HREF="http://fckeditor.wikiwikiweb.de/Developer's_Guide/Participating/Server_Side_Integration#Samples">Developer's Guide/Participating/Server Side Integration - FCKeditor Wiki</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://source.mihelac.org/x/simple_parser/tinymce.php">Simple Parser TinyMCE Example</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>Freelance Job Info</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.awpwriter.org/joblist/">AWP Interim Job List</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.journalismjobs.com/">www.journalismjobs.com</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.freelancewriting.com/forumdir/fjb/index.html">PAYING - Freelance Writing Opportunities</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.inscriptionsmagazine.com/Jobs.html">Inscriptions: </A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.sunoasis.com/jobpostings.html">SUNOASIS JOBS for Writers, Editors, and Copywriters</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.writersweekly.com/markets/122602-04.html">Markets and Freelance Writing Jobs - 12-26-02</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.journalismjobs.com/Search_Jobs_All.cfm">JournalismJobs.com - Job Listings</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/sls/7177448.html">Creative Maximizer</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://writerswrite.com/messages/tech.html">Writers Write Technical Writing Message Board</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.mamohanraj.com/Writing/porn.html">Porn/Erotica Magazine Resource List for Writers</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.nwu.org//hotline/hotsurv.htm">Writer's Rates</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.comteck.com/~tanuki/links/jobs.html">Freelance Mailing List: Links/Jobs</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/dec97/gak3.htm"> Job Online *Writers Write -- The IWJ*</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/jobs/">Graduate School of Journalism -- Jobs Database</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.writerswrite.com/cgi-bin/job.pl?job=1910">The Write Jobs: Job Listings</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.mymac.com/about/reviewinfo.shtml">MyMac.com: About</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.constant-content.com/">Constant Content - Web Site Content, Articles, Tutorials, Reviews and other Content</A> - 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N E T</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.zefrank.com/">ze's page</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://openguides.org/">OpenGuides - Home</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.chompy.net/blogs/jacob/">remake/remodel</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.mariesworldtour.com/">Marie's World Tour</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://agentofdiscord.blogspot.com/">everything or nothing at all.</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>Travel</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://nycsubway.eyebeamresearch.org/">NYC Subway Flash Overlay for Google Maps : Using VGMap by Eyebeam R&D</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.workonaboat.com/">Work on a Boat | Yacht Jobs, Crew Houses, and Cruise Ship Jobs</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.workonaboat.com/work-on-a-yacht">Work on a Yacht | Work on a Boat</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.boatcrew.com/">BoatCrew.com - Oceans of Opportunity</A> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>RTW</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.roundtheworldflights.com/">RoundTheWorldFlights.com</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.statravel.co.uk/index.asp?bhcp=1">STA Travel: cheap student flights and deals for young people, discounted travel, cheap flights New York, Sydney, Bangkok, Auckland, round the world, Hong Kong, Beijing, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Paris, Athens, San Francisco, Cairo, Boston, Brisbane, Prague, Delhi, Cape Town, Tokyo</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.thetravellerslounge.co.uk/round-the-world/rtwsurface_sector.htm">The Travellers Lounge: Your Round the World Flight Plan</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1864501588/thetravellerslou/026-5964431-0494025">Amazon.co.uk: : Explore similar items</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.talesofasia.com/cambodia-overland-bkksr-self.htm">Tales of Asia - Overland - BKK-SR - Self</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.airtreks.com/">Airtreks.com: Affordable International Airline Tickets</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.travellerspoint.com/round-the-world-tickets.cfm">Round the World Tickets & Airfares - Around the World Travel - Travellerspoint</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.teaching-abroad.co.uk/index.php">..:: Teaching&Projects Abroad ::..</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.ochealthinfo.com/mcah/immuniz.htm">MCAH - Immunization Services</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/000303.html">The Practical Nomad blog: Practical Nomad night at Airtreks.com in San Francisco</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/000031.html">The Practical Nomad blog: Overseas? Dial home on the cheap</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.thetravelinsider.info/roadwarriorcontent/quadbandphones.htm">Do you need a Dual Tri or Quad Band GSM Cell Phone</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_th.shtml">GSM Roaming - Thailand</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/cheap/20030923a2.asp#switch">Getting a deal on an overseas cell phone, page 2</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.pac-safe.com/wheretobuy.aspx?pId=641&pName=backpack%20&%20bag%20protector">Pacsafe</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&catalogId=40000008000&storeId=8000&partNumber=709207&memberId=-2000&link=1&source=9021">PacSafe 55 Security Web - Small from REI.com</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.vagabonding.com/about/000126.html">V A G A B O N D I N G > About > Press/Awards</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.wompom.ca/vietnam/vntrvext10.htm">VietNam | Getting There » HongKong » GuangZhou » VietNam | WomPom.ca /¯)/¯)/¯)</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.seat61.com/Thailand.htm">How to travel by train in Thailand - a complete guide</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.letsgo.com/connect/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7006&sid=74527036f13d34be84e25495438b3515">Let's Go Travel Guides | View topic - Must see places in Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.letsgo.com/connect/forum/viewforum.php?f=17">Let's Go Travel Guides | View Forum - Southeast Asia</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/">MapMachine--online dynamic atlas, street maps (National Geographic)</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.magellans.com/store/Electrical___Plug_AdaptorsEA256?Args=">Transformer Voltage Converter with Adaptor Plug Kit - Magellan's Travel Supplies</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201526&pcount=&Product_Id=182400#">Travel Surge Protector</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.magellans.com/store/Comfort___Security___Locks__Alarms___Safety_DevicesSP643?Args=">Door Stop Alarm - Magellan's Travel Supplies</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.escapeartist.com/global/photos.html">Diagrams of Adapter Plugs</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.nepalhomepage.com/travel/places/hilly/outktm.html">Nepal Home Page Travel Guide: The Most Comprehensive Guide to Nepal Travellers. News, Travel, Himalayas, Music, Food, Business, Arts, Society, Politics, Government, Chat, Discussion Forums, Economy, Yellow Pages, Phone, White Pages, and everything else you would ever want to know.</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.traveldocs.com/th/vr.htm">Thailand Visa Requirements Page</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www1.mobissimo.com/travel/search_airfare.php">Mobissimo Travel | Search airfare</A> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>_camping</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.recreation.gov/">Recreation.gov</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.nationalparks.com/">National Parks: Accommodations, Lodging, and Information for U.S. National Parks</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.nps.gov/">National Park Service - Experience Your America</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.reserveusa.com/">Camping and Campground Reservation Site</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.state.me.us/doc/parks/">Maine Department of Conservation's Bureau of Parks & Lands</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://gorp.away.com/index.html">GORP.com - Adventure Travel and Outdoor Recreation</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.hermitisland.com/">Hermit Island - Ocean Camping on Maine's Beautiful Rockbound Coast</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.mainecamping.addr.com/">Maine Camping Online - a directory of links to Maine campgrounds and rv parks with websites</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.baxterstateparkauthority.com/index.html">Welcome to Baxter State Park</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.greenmountainclub.org/hikes.htm">Hikes</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.summitpost.org/">SummitPost.org - Mountaineering, Climbing, Hiking</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.bettercamper.com/show/mountain_link.pl/mountain_id/2275">SummitPost.org - Stratton Mountain Climbing Information</A> - <DT><A HREF="https://www.trails.com/explore/subscription_order.asp?mscssid=2A9UVKF4KS8J9L3X9KEFUT7GFH2N13WB">Trails.com : Subscription Check Out</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.hike-nh.com/trips/readers/nancy.shtml">Hike-NH.com: Reader's Trips - Nancy and Noecross Pond</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.hike-nh.com/trips/nancy/index.shtml">Hike-NH.com: Nancy Pond & Norcross Pond Hike</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://sherpaguides.com/tennessee/lower_cumberland_plateau/bowaters_pocket_wild_areas.html">Sherpa Guides | Tennessee | The Tennessee Mountains | Lower Cumberland Plateau | Bowaters Pocket Wilderness Areas</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://goldstarmountaincabins.com/trails1.htm#virgin%20falls">Trails</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://gorp.away.com//gorp/resource/us_national_forest/nh_white.htm">White Mountain National Forest Campgrounds</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://mis.easygroup.co.uk/easyHotel/news/index.html">easyHotel.com : latest news</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.travelistic.com/video/featured">Travelistic</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.tripmates.com/">tripmates™ - the interactive travel community</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>Music</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1131/nmhtab.html">Neutral Milk Hotel Guitar Tablature</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.azchords.com/">AZChords.com >>> Tablatures, Tabs, Chords for Guitar and Bass</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/romeria/bittorrentsites.htm">500+ Bittorrent Sites @ BTsites.tk</A> - 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</DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>web not bell curve</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,972764,00.html">The Observer | Business | Web's lack of bell curve is alarming</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://reason.com/9808/fe.mccracken.shtml">Reason magazine -- August/September 1998</A> - </DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>reading on decline</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0524/p11s01-legn.html">Matching boys with books | csmonitor.com</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/22/reading_lists_speak_volumes_in_schools?pg=2">Reading lists speak volumes in schools - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Local - News</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0436,essay,56522,1.html">village voice > news > The Essay by Paul Collins</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.nea.gov/news/news04/ReadingAtRisk.html">NEA News Room: Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0465078443-0">Powell's Books - 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<DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://print.google.com/">Google Print</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.blogexplosion.com/directory/">Blog Directory - BlogExplosion.com</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://blogsearch.google.com/">Google Blog Search</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.bloglines.com/login?r=/myblogs">Bloglines | Log In</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://babelfish.altavista.com/">AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation</A> - <DT><A HREF="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=reader&nui=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Freader%2F">Google Reader</A> - <DT><A HREF="https://www.google.com/adsense/default?destination=%2Fadsense%2Fhome">Google AdSense</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/PTSInternetWeb/InterLabelInquiry.do">USPS - Track & Confirm</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/">The Scout Report -- Volume 11, Number 8</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/p/parmigia/convex.html">Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum</A> - 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Bittorrent Releases From Across The Web</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://69.25.58.102/index.php">CDDVDHeaven.co.uk</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.evolutiontt.org/browse.php?cat=6">Evolution :: Downloads</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.torrentreactor.to/index.php">Home - Torrentreactor.TO/.COM - The most active torrents on the web</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.torrentz.ws/">Torrentz.ws Rss BitTorrent Search Engine</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://btjunkie.org/">btjunkie - the largest bittorrent search engine</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.torrentportal.com/">Torrent Portal - Free Bit Torrent Downloads</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.fulltorrent.net/">FullTorrent.net - Search and find more torrents</A> - </DL><p> - </DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>Shopping</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><H3 FOLDED>lingerie</H3> - <DL><p> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.stardustlingerie.com/">Stardust Lingerie, Leather and Clothing</A> - <DT><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000TPOSE/sr=1-9/qid=1101664733/ref=sr_1_9/002-8690869-1450440?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=1036682&s=apparel&v=glance">arianne camisole black $28</A> - 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Tips, Tricks and Statement of Purpose That Got Me Accepted</A> - </DL><p> -</HTML> diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobe-logo.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobe-logo.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 4846189..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobe-logo.jpg +++ /dev/null diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobeopensource.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobeopensource.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f59fcde..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobeopensource.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -As we reported in this morning's reboot, [Adobe has open-sourced a bundle of code][1] to the Mozilla Foundation under the name Tamarin. The whooping 135,000 lines of code in today's release constitute the largest single contribution to the Mozilla foundation since its inception.
The code consists primarily of the source behind Adobe's ActionScript Virtual Machine, but that doesn't mean Adobe is open sourcing the Flash player.
ActionScript 3.0, the language used in the Flash Player v9.0, is based on an International Standard by the name of ECMAScript. ECMAScript is also the basis of Javascript, which is the language behind the ever-growing AJAX technologies.
But the difference between ActionScript and Javascript is more than just semantics. ActionScript requires the Flash plugin which handles the rendering of code. Javascript on the other hand, is processed and rendered by the web browser.
One of the problems for AJAX developers is that every major browser has its own Javascript virtual machine. Internet Explorer uses what it calls JScript, while Mozilla uses an implementation known as SpiderMonkey. Adobe's ActionScript on the other hand has always used a third renderer which is built into the Flash player.
While all three of these renderers are *based* around ECMAScript, they all vary somewhat on how they process the actual code. These variations make developing complex cross-platform AJAX applications difficult and sometimes impossible.
Today's announcement essentially means that the Mozilla and Internet Explorer now have access to the same rendering implementation that Adobe uses in ActionScript. Adobe hopes that this release will help build a standardized rendering engine for all implementations of ECMAScript.
Adobe claims it's "Just In Time" compiler can render up to ten times faster than Mozilla's SpiderMonkey.
The end result will see Adobe's virtual machine built into future versions of the Firefox browser in early 2008. Microsoft hasn't publicly commented on Adobe's release yet, but given the five years between IE 6 and IE 7 it seems unlikely we'll see IE incorporating the new VM any time soon.
[1]: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200611/110706Mozilla.html "Adobe releases Tamarin"
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* Adobe releases Flash VM as open source. The release has been named Tamarin and will be hosted by the Mozilla foundation. This doesn't mean that the Flash player is open source, just the EMCAScript 4 virtual machine, frameworks and garbage collection engine.
* [CNet reports that an "extremely critical"][2] vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft's XML Core Services. The exploit threatens Windows 2000, Windows XP SP 2, and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft's next patch release is scheduled for November 14, but so far [no word on whether this will be included in the patch][3].
* Time magazine has [picked YouTube as "Invention of the Year."][4] Nevermind that YouTube isn't exactly an invention.
* Microsoft has announced that it will be [offering movie and tv downloads][5] through its XBox Live online service. The movies will be playable for a 24 hour period and can't be burned to DVD and won't play back on other devices.
[1]: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200611/110706Mozilla.html "Adobe releases Tamarin"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6133028.html?part=rss&tag=6133028&subj=news "CNet Windows security exploit"
[3]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/927892.mspx?tag=nl "Microsoft Security advisory"
[4]: http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/youtube2.html "YouTube: Invention of the Year"
[5]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/technology/07xboxcnd.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1162917687-33kUEqXt4SBVXW9M9q2IgA "NYTimes on Microsoft Downloads"
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>In the last few years, Microsoft has been pushing the idea of Media Center PCs, which are meant to sit in the living room and supply music and video to the stereo and the television set. But the concept has not caught on, in part because of the complexity of setting up and using these systems.
Microsoft apparently hopes to change this by streaming movies not to your computer but to your XBox 360 which is, in most cases, already hooked up to the internet.
One of the interesting things about this is it seems to circumvent Microsoft's previous push of its "Media Center PC."
While the HD delivery is pretty cool, the size of the files is significantly larger and ruins the whole impulse purchase factor. You can still impulsively decided to order a movie, you just might have to wait an hour or two before it's viewable.
Microsoft is positioning this as movie-rental service. Licensing agreements and DRM will prevent you from moving your content from the XBox to any other playback devise.
Given the XBox 360's paltry storage capacity (currently 20gigs), this means you can only store about 4 hours of high-def video at a time. For movies this won't matter since they are "rentals" that expire after 24 hours. Television shows on the other hand can be stored and, to address the lack of storage space, Microsoft says that television shows you delete can be downloaded again at no additional charge.
The DVR market is currently saturated with some pretty awful technology, but hopefully with Microsoft entering the foray, consumers will see some better options become available.
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At the moment Like focuses on shopping searches and you can't upload an image, rather you start out with a text search and then Like gives you a choice of images based on your search terms. You can also browse by celebrity photos and find products similar to those that Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise and others are wearing in the pictures.
The idea is that if you find an item you like in a photograph, for example, a particular watch, pair of shoes, handbag or jewelry, Like will find related products by examining the actual image. Like.com then presents a link to purchase the item from Amazon an other online retailers.
I'm probably not the target market for finding shopping results based on celebrity photos, but the search results themselves are pretty impressive. And you can specify that like match against various criteria including, color texture and shape. So if you see a photo on the site of Paris Hilton in red shoes, but you decide you'd like to see them in black, just select black from the color picker and Like narrows your search. You can also weight your criteria's importance using sliders at the top of each results page. This way you can search by color, but emphasis results based on shape.
Because the site is currently limited to images already in its database, the experience is somewhat less than spectacular, but Like claims to be launching an image upload feature in the next few months. Although Like claims to be in alpha status, I had no problems using the site and I'm looking forward to using like with uploaded images wherever that feature becomes available.
[1]: http://www.like.com/ "Like.com"
[2]: http://riya.com/ "Riya.com"
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Mojiti offers what it calls a "Spot Ticker" which allows you to add a subtitle at any point in the movie.
To use Mojiti you just paste in the URL of whatever clip you'd like to annotate and then add your caption. Mojiti also lets you add highlights to parts a video, for instance to point out your crazy cousin picking his nose at the family picnic.
Aside from the obvious fun of doing more with your videos, Mojiti has a large base of users who add subtitles to foreign language clips. Of course there's no way to verify the accuracy of the translations, but it's nice to see people making an effort.
Once you're done adding your content you can host the new movie with Mojiti or download it and post it on your own site.
The Mojiti video player is not quite as nice as YouTube's and it seems to have a nasty habit of crashing the Safari browser, but Firefox was unfazed.
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* [Like.com][6] is a new image search engine that can search using an image as input. This has been the holy grail of image search for some time. If Like can do what it says it can do, this will be huge. [via [TechCrunch][5]
* [Skype has released v3 beta][1] which features, among other things, a completely redesigned UI. The beta is Windows only and has a couple of known issues you should review before jumping in with both feet.
* Google has announced it will be increasing its presence in the radio advertising market. Advertisers will be able to sign up via their AdWords accounts. Google Audio Ads should begin testing by the end of the year. [via [CNet][3]]
* Apple has [announced new MacBooks featuring the Intel Core 2 Duo][4]. Now where did I put that receipt for my month old Core Duo?
[1]: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/downloading_beta.html "Download Skype Beta 3"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-6133325.html?tag=nefd.top "CNet on Google Audio Ads"
[4]: http://www.apple.com/ "MacBook Core 2 Duo"
[5]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/08/riyas-likecom-is-first-true-visual-image-search/ "TechCrunch on Like.com"
[6]: http://www.like.com/ "Like.com"
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Flixster has a staggering amount of content. I played around with the site this morning and lost a good hour of productivity browsing through reviews and movie listings.
Imagine Netflix and IMDB mashed together and mixed with user generated pages and you'll have the basic idea. The most addictive thing on the site is the never-ending movie quiz, which is sure to suck you in after a few questions.
It may just be me, I'm a bit of movie freak, but I loved Flixster. With all the hallmarks of a successful social networking site, seamless integration with your existing MySpace page, YouTube hosted movie previews and skinnable user pages, Flixster has enormous potential.
I've always been disappointed in Netflix's offerings when it comes to reviewing and sharing movie reviews and now I find that I'm disappointed that Flixster doesn't rent movies. But it seems like a fairly obvious step for Flixter to eventually partner with movie studios for sales, rentals, downloads, promotions and of course advertisements.
[1]: http://www.flixster.com/ "Flixster.com"
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Google has tried venturing into the print realm before. Around this time last year Google tried brokering with some magazines to resell ad space to AdWords users, but the project met with limited success.
Round two sees Google with a prodigious number of big name newpapers on its side and looks like a much more promising venture. At the moment the Google Print Ads program is in "alpha" status and limited to
Google's partners in this new venture include some impressive names in old media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune and nearly fifty others. So far Google has declined to release a list of advertisers.
Google Print Ads begins its test run later this week and the initial period will last through January. Google claims that it will be adding weekly newspapers and magazines at some point in the future.
[1]: http://www.google.com "Google"
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Google torrents give you access to all the popular torrent reactors, plus whatever else happens to indexed on the Google servers. I few test searches turned up results from mininova, isohunt and other big trackers as well as a few I hadn't heard of before.
I have no idea why the folks behind the site chose to use the word Google in their name, but I suspect they'll be getting a cease-and-desist letter before too long. However, I also have no doubt that similar search engines will pop up soon. Heck, you could even make one just for yourself.
[1]: http://googletorrents.com/ "Googletorrents.com"
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Pop out opens your buddy list and chat screen in new windows, though if you have a popup blocker installed you may have to disable it get this working.
The new version of Meebo also reportedly boosts speed improvements and a fantastic selection of localizations, including Thai, Swiss German and a host of others.
The layout and design of Meebo is clean, simple and intuitive. I will confess to never using the old Meebo so I can't comment much on the redesign except to say that it has a very heavy Windows XP influence. If you're a long-time Meebo user and you like the old interface, you can revert to that by choosing a different skin.
My favorite feature of Meebo is that it doesn't require you to sign up for an account, just login with your existing IM information and Meebo will open up a chat session for you.
For those looking to do even more with Meebo, there's a Javascript widget, [Meebome][2] that allows you put a chat window on your website, MySpace page or anywhere else. Now you can chat with people as they browse your site.
Like the man said, the url bar is the new command line, and Meebo brings the ability to IM to any computer with a web browser. This should be handy for travelers and others who don't want to, or don't have the admin access to, install client IM programs.
[1]: http://wwwm.meebo.com/index-en.html "Meebo.com"
[2]: http://www.meebome.com/ "Meebome.com"
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* Wikipedia as a virus platform -- German hackers exploited the anyone-can-edit feature of Wikipedia to spread the blaster worm. The hackers added a note to the existing page on the Blaster Worm with a link to a "fix" which actually downloaded the worm. Wikipedia quickly changed the page. [via [Tech2][2]
* [Meebo][3], the web-based IM client, has announced its 1.0 release. New features include custom skins, drag-and-drop groups, and "pop-out," a feature that opens your chat session in a new window. [via [Mashable][4]]
* [WhoToTalkTo][5] is a new job search tool built around the idea of referrals. It's a simple but potentially helpful concept, post about places you know that are hiring and see posts by others. [via [Lifehacker][6]
* Fox Interactive announced a new desktop/browser widget platform this morning. The service, going under the name [SpringWidgets][7], offers customized news feeds, weather and more. The desktop version is currently limited to Windows. [via [TechCrunch][8]]
* Technorati has released a new "[State of the Blogosphere][9]" report
which claims, among other things, to now be tracking 57 million blogs.
[2]: http://www.tech2.com/india/news/telecom/wikipedia-hijacked-to-spread-malware/2667/0 "Tech2.com"
[3]: http://wwwm.meebo.com/index-en.html "Meebo.com"
[4]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/04/meebo-im-launches-10-version/ "Mashable on Meebo"
[5]: http://www.whototalkto.com/ "whototalkto.com"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/job-search/turn-job-referrals-into-new-jobs-212630.php "LifeHacker on WhoToTalkTo"
[7]: http://www.springwidgets.com/ "Spring Widgets"
[8]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/06/fox-interactive-launches-desktopwebsite-widget-platform/ "TechCrunch on SpringWidgets"
[9]: http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/11/161.html "Technorati: State of the Blogosphere"
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Similar to Snocap, the MySpace music player/store, SoundStation makes it easy to embed your music in a page and sell it, rather than having to redirect listeners to iTunes, Napster or other dedicated music store.
But SoundStation has it's work cut out for them. Snocap is already way ahead in terms of market share and profile, but SoundStation offer better royalty rates for musicians and in a world where nearly everything seems to be cut-and-paste simple, royalties could tip the balance.
SoundSation offers artists a slightly lower fee of $0.33 on a $0.99 track whereas iTunes takes $0.34 and MySpace Music and Snocap scrape a whopping $0.45 off every track.
As part of the service, SoundLoud automatically tracks all the activity of your SoundStation Music Stores. You can view your total visitors, plays, downloads, and earnings information at SoundLoud.
At the moment you are limited to selling 7 songs, but SoundLoud promises unlimited downloads and whole album downloads are both in the works.
Oh and a note to SoundLoud, just because you're building a Flash-based music paler is no reason to build your whole site in Flash. Yuck.
[1]: http://soundloud.com/ "SoundStation from SoundLoud.com"
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Fair enough.
Back when I [wrote about Reputation Defender][2] a bunch of comment came in suggesting that Reputation Defender should expand their services to track stolen blog content. The problem for many blog owners is that spam blogs (splogs) often scrape out content and then include it on their own sites.
Most of the time splogs aren't claiming credit for what you write, but they are taking your content and making money off it via advertising and that amounts to copyright infringement in many cases.
Copyscape lets you track these people down using their search engine. The premium version of the site allows for automated tracking at the rate of $0.05 per search and allows you to track your responses.
But Copyscape doesn't provide any way of actually dealing with people stealing your work, which is what people wanted Reputation Defender or someone else to offer.
But until such a service arises, you can at least use Copyscape to keep tabs on who's ripping off your content.
[1]: http://copyscape.com "Copyscape"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/need_someone_to.html "Monkey Bites on Reputation Defender"
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Curbly offers the familiar features of social networking sites, a blog, profile page, photos etc. Curbly also offers what it calls "clippings," for grabbing photos around the web. Just put the Curbly bookmarklet in your toolbar and next time you see a photo you'd like to save, click the bookmark and you're away.
the clippings feature works quite well too, I click a page rather than a photo and Curbly pulled out all the photos on the page and asked which one I wanted.
But the focus of the site is sharing design tips and home-decor projects with other users. if anyone has seen the DIY Photo Wall project that I've come across on several sites lately, well, that [comes from a Curbly user][2].
I discovered everything from bathroom remodeling tips to how to [make window blinds out of punch cards][3].
If you're looking to spruce up your home or just want a new DIY project for the weekend, Curbly is a good place to start.
[1]: http://www.curbly.com/ "Curbly.com"
[2]: http://www.curbly.com/alttext/posts/74-Easy-Photo-Wall-on-a-Shoe-s-string-s-wire-Budget "Easy Photo Wall Project"
[3]: http://www.curbly.com/benmoore/posts/84-DIY-Computer-Punchcard-Window-Blinds "Curbly project: window blinds out of computer punch cards"
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<p>At the same time it’s a nice way for film fans to find new work without having to wade through the overwhelming amount of video available on more traditional video sharing sites like YouTube. LiberatedFilms is not for posting videos of your cat chasing string, it’s a bit more highbrow than that.</p>
<p>To keep the quality of the site high, all uploaded films are screened and reviewed by a panel of filmmakers before they are made public. Of course this means there are less films posted everyday, but it also means you don’t have to wade through the massive amount of not-so-great content found on more public sites.</p>
<p>At the moment there are only 41 films and 62 members, but keep in mind when we say just launched we mean just launched as in hours ago.</p>
<p>Casual browsers can watch films in low-fi broadcast similar in quality to the best of what you see on YouTube, but LiberatedFilms also offers a hi-res alternative (for some films). Unfortunately but you’ll have to pay to access the hi-res versions; a one month membership is $4.99, but buying long subscriptions drop the rates somewhat. Of course keep in mind that not all films are available in the higher resolution format.</p>
<p>The remainder of LiberatedFilms functions like a typical social site, you can sign up for an account, reviews and rate films, leave comments for other members and more. There is also nice tagging support and browsing by genre.</p>
<p>As for the films, I only had time to watch two and while neither of them were exactly what I would call groundbreaking, they were light years better than the average YouTube upload. If you’re a film nut, keep an eye on this one it could prove interesting.</p>
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* [According to ITWire][2], German security company, SecurStar, claims that "Simply by sending an invisible and unnoticeable SMS message to a particular cellphone, spying on cell phone users has become child's play." The technique uses a SMS delivered trojan horse to make every call from the victimized phone a 3-way call.
* The EFF reports that [movie studios are suing to stop the loading of DVDs onto iPods][3]. The suit targets Load N' Go Video, a DVD to iPod transfer service.
* The BBC has announced it will be [paying citizen reporters][5] for their cellphone and camera footage. Now you too can discover just how little journalists actually make. [via [Micro Persuasion][4]]
[1]: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;839593139;fp;16;fpid;1 "Computer World on MS's Linux claims"
[2]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7216/127/ "ITWire on cellphone attack"
[3]: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005010.php "EFF on Studio's lawsuit"
[4]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/11/bbc_to_pay_citi.html "Micro Persuasion on BBC"
[5]: http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2006/11/bbc_will_pay_for_citizen_journalism.php
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Wesabe is a community site that lets users share their finance tips, suggestions and more in hopes that the advice will help you make better financial decisions and take control of your personal spending.
I should note upfront that I don't have a lot of experience with personal finance management, I haven't even seen my checkbook in two years, let alone balanced it. My finances are pretty simplistic, I round up whatever is under the couch cushions and deposit it once a week into a checking account. I tried using Quicken a few years ago, but found it tedious and in the end it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know -- I'm broke.
So let's just say I was prepared for Wesabe to bore me out of my skull and not much more. But as it turns out, I'm a huge fan of Wesabe.
Once you create an account Wesabe will let you upload your financial data using a desktop program which you can download (Mac & Windows) or you can manually export data from your bank or credit card accounts and upload it using Wesabe's web form.
I hesitated a bit about uploading my data, this is after all some pretty sensitive stuff, but after digging around a bit on site and reading some reviews I decided that Wesabe was probably just as secure as my bank website. For those that have similar concerns I recommend reading [Wesabe's security and privacy page][2]. Also bear in ming that Wesabe doesn't store you bank login information on their servers.
Imagine Quicken in a web interface with the tagging powers of Flickr and you'll pretty much have Wesabe pegged. Once I uploaded my bank data I used the Wesabe interface to add tags to all my expenditures.
Wesabe's tag system is incredibly smart, for instance I generally always fill up my tank at the Shell station near my house so I tagged one of those entries as "gasoline" and Wesabe added that tag to all the other entries with the same title. what's more, every time I upload a new statement Wesabe will automatically add that tag to the new entries.
One the right hand side of your account page there's a list of your tags and clicking a tag will take you to a page showing how much you spent on those items. As with any tagging-based site you can be a detailed and/or general as you want with your tags.
In addition to the organizational tools and account tracking Wesabe collects user submitted tips and displays relevant bits of advise based on how your tags overlap with other user's tags. Tips range from enlightening to obvious (hasn't everyone's mother been telling them not to grocery shop when you're hungry since you first moved out of the house?). If you have a tip to share you can add it to the site, or comment on existing tips with add insight or further suggestions.
Wesabe's third main feature is creating personal goals. You can choose from existing goals that other users have posted (such as saving up for new computer, paying off credit cards etc) or create your own. Like everything else goals are tied in with tips via tags, but you can also leave comments for the community.
There's a whole lot more to the site that I don't have time to go into, but I should note if you're not comfortable uploading your financial data you can still use Wesabe, you just won't have the personalized access.
My favorite part of Wesabe: at the bottom of every Wesabe page there's a "I'm Freaking Out" link that leads away from all things finance related and gives you a Flickr slideshow of kittens.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/09/wesabe_promises.html "Monkey Bites on Wesabe"
[2]: https://www.wesabe.com/page/security "Wesabe"
[3]:
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Blogmailr takes advantage of the Metablog API and uses it's own e-mail parsing tools to pull out your post, images, and tags and then posts that info to your blog via the Metablog API.
to get it working you sign up for an account, tell Blogmailr your blog address and login information and you're done. Blogmailr then generates an email address something@blogmailr.com. Just add that address to your address book with the handy vcard Blogmailr generates and you're ready to go.
Write your blog post however you normally do and instead of logging into your admin section, you just email it to your Blogmailr.com address.
Blogmailr supports most major blogging platforms. If yours isn't on the list there's a very good chance it doesn't support the Metablog API, which means there isn't a whole lot Blogmailr can do about it.
The range of support varies somewhat by blogging service, most allow file uploading via email attachments and tags give in the form <code>[tags: tagname1, tagname2]</code>
The usefulness of Blogmailr will depend somewhat on your work habits. Many people live in their email program and it's always open which makes Blogmailr an attractive way to post without having to open a new browser window. But the big appeal here seems to be posting from mobile devices. I haven't used it myself, but there's already a lot of buzz around the web attesting to how easy Blogmailr makes mobile posting.
Which means I could probably post to Monkey Bites from, say, Tahiti, just as easily as this apartment. Hmm.
Blogmailr is free, but will leave a "posted with blogmailr" badge at the bottom of your post. There is also a commercial version available. The Single-User commercial account is $2.99/mo per-user. Blogmailr asks that if you make more than $300/mo from your blog that you use the commercial license.
[1]: https://www.blogmailr.com/
[2]: http://telligent.com/
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But first a bit about Google Earth beta 4. Speed. Oh the speed. GE beta 4 sees much improved performance, particularly if you have a lot of overlays activated. Beta 4 is much faster at rendering, zooming and coming into focus.
GE Version 4 features a new icon set for markers and various overlays. There are also numerous improvements and new features like altitude for overlays. If you use [the popular Global Cloud Layer][2], you can now zoom through the cloud layer and pan back toward the sky and you'll see clouds instead of the generic blue. You can also set the clouds to cast shadows on the surface if you like. The altitude settings can apply to any overlay you want to add.
GE always was and continues to be a RAM hog, but that's somewhat expected given what it's capabilities. With about five overlays activated asking GE to zoom into Manhattan gobbled up almost 400 MB of RAM. As with the previous releases, the more RAM you have the better performance you'll see.
My favorite part of GE beta 4 is definitely the historical maps feature which allows you to overlay Rumsey Historical maps. Regular features like the state and national border overlay will still outline the current layouts so you can see how things have changed over the centuries. At the moment there are about twenty maps available, including the world globe of 1790, London in 1843, New York in 1836, the Lewis and Clarke expedition of 1814 and more. Below is a screenshot of New York in 1836 and one of the present day Manhattan.
Google Earth remains a one of kind program and beta 4 sees some great new features and a welcome speed boost. If your computer is up for it, I highly recommend downloading Google Earth beta 4.
[2]: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/09/global_clouds_w.html "Google Earth Global Could Overlay"
[1]: http://earth.google.com/ "Google Earth"
[3]: http://earth.google.com/earth4.html "Google Earth Beta 4"
[4]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=387 "ZDNet blog on Historical Maps"
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There are a couple of other sites out there offering similar services, but none of the ones I've tried have anywhere near the simple, streamlined and easy to use interface that Jamglue offers.
Jamglue is bit like a simplified version of Apple's garageband, living in the confines of your browser. After you set up your account, just upload any audio clips you'd like to play with. During the upload process you have the option to attach a creative commons license to your work, which is a nice touch. Alternately you can make use of clips that other users have uploaded.
The next step is to create a mix, give it a title, brief description, set the tempo and pick a license. You will then be take into Jamglue's Flash-based mixing app. For the most part everything is pretty intuitive and much of the interface is accomplished via very nice drag-and-drop features.
Once you're happy with your mix you can save it, share it with the Jamglue community or use some YouTube-style cut-and-paste code to embed it in any page you like.
Jamglue is a private beta at the moment so you'll have to sign up and wait for a while. Most people seem to have gotten an invite sent within a few days at the most.
The only real side to Jamglue was how quickly it revealed that I have no talent for remix tracks. But that's no fault of Jamglue.
[1]: http://www.jamglue.com/ "Jamglue.com"
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Podworks has a number of ways to recover your music from an iPod, the easiest of which is to simply click "Copy All," which copies everything on your iPod to whatever location you select. Alternately you can select a range of songs and only copy those songs.
Podworks can also send the songs straight into iTunes by using the "Send All to iTunes" or "Send Selected to iTunes" options.
Podworks lacks the drag and drop features of Senuti, but makes up for it by being smarter about duplicate songs. Podworks still doesn't warn or ask about duplicates, instead it just silently skips them (or overwrites them depending on your settings.
Like others, Podworks can play songs on your iPod though when I say play I mean literally play, not skip or fast-forward and changing views will stop playback.
Podworks is shareware and costs $8. There is 30 day trail version which is limited to 250 song transfers.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Doesn't duplicate tracks when transfering songs
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Easy to use
**Bad**
* Lack of Universal binary makes it a bit slower than others
* No way to view your iTunes Library along side your iPod
* No drag-and-drop transfers.
[1]: http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/ "Podworks"
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* Sun Microsystems announced today that it will [release the Java source code under a GPL license][1]. The software will be under the version 2 of the General Public License (GPLv2), which governs Linux and many other open-source products, but Sun is employing the so-called "classpath exception," so that programs shipping with Java, need not use the GPL.
* More on Microsoft/Universal deal: According to Universal CEO Doug Morris the iPod and Zune, "are just repositories for stolen music." He went on to [tell Billboard Magazine][2], "So it's time to get paid for it." So does this mean it's okay for Zune owners to steal music from Universal artists, since Universal has already taken their cut?
* Google has [introduced a new start page for Google Apps for Your Domain][3] which allows for more customization, including the use of GMail with customized addresses in place of @gmail.com.
* [Lycos announced a new service today called Lycos Cinema][4]. The company claims Cinema will combine online video and social networking. Lycos claims the technology it has created "allows for the virtual living room." No word on whether anyone has told them about YouTube.
[1]: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6134584.html "ZDNet on Sun Announcment"
[2]: http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003380831 "Billboard.com"
[3]: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/10413.html
[4]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061113/wr_nm/media_lycos_dc "Yahoo on Lycos"
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First up in our review of iPod circumventors is a [Mac-only program by the name of Senuti][1]. Senuti is free (as in beer) and open source, licensed under the GNU GPL.
Senuti's interface mimics that of iTunes circa version 6 and should be easy for most users to figure out.
You can copy songs in Senuti by simply selecting the songs on your iPod and clicking the copy button. You can also copy playlists via drag-and-drop. By default Senuti will copy the songs to the music folder set in your iTunes preferences, but if you'd like the change that you can do so in Senuti's preferences.
I had no problems copying songs with Senuti and even discovered some music I had forgotten about using the "Hide iTunes Songs" feature. Invoking hide iTunes songs will show only those songs that are only on your iPod, select them, click copy and your songs will be recovered.
The main downside to Senuti is that it doesn't know to not duplicate tracks. If you have a playlist with ten songs on your iPod and the same playlist already exists in itunes, Senuti won't warn your about duplicates. Instead is will simply make copies of songs so you end up with a playlist that now has twenty songs. You can stop Senuti from duplicating the actual song files by choosing "overwrite songs" in the preferences, but there doesn't seem to be a way to stop the duplication of songs within playlists.
Senuti can also copy movies just like songs and can even restore photos from you iPod.
Senuti is developed and maintained Whitney Young; if you like the program you can make a contribution by visiting [fadingred.org][2].
*Good*
* Easy to use, interface will be familiar for iTunes users
* Can copy songs from Windows or Mac formatted iPods
* Ability to view only songs not in your music library
*Bad*
* no one-click sync of iPod to iTunes (though this is listed in the Senuti roadmap)
* No way to avoid duplicates when copying playlists
[1]: http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/ "Senuti"
[2]: http://www.fadingred.org/ "fadingred.org"
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Clicking the link reveals a dropdown menu asking for your phone number. Enter your number and click "connect for free" and Google will call your phone number and automatically connect you to the business.
The call is free, but if you use a mobile number airtime minutes will still be used.
There is also an option to remember your number so in the future you can make calls with just two clicks.
It's a small but handy addition, especially since the call from Google will cause the phone number to show up on your caller ID in case you need later.
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/click-to-call-in-google-maps.html "The Official Google Blog"
[2]: http://maps.google.com/ "Google Maps"
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[According to a newly release U.S. government study][1], only one percent of the sites indexed by Google and Microsoft contain sexually explicit content. The study goes on the conclude that less than 6 percent of all searches return any sexually explicit results at all.
The government's new study, conducted by Philip B. Stark, a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, was commissioned by the Justice Department in the hopes of reviving the 1998 Child Online Protection Act.
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Child Online Protection Act in 2004, ruling that it would also stifle the free speech rights of adults on the Internet. The court went on to say that filtering software may work better than such laws.
Stark's research also looked at software filters and concludes that the strictest filter they tested, AOL's Mature Teen, blocked 91 percent of the sexually explicit Web sites. I'm no mathematician, but I think that means the odds of children finding porn on computers with filter software are, uh, low.
The less restrictive filters typically blocked about 40 percent of sexually explicit sites in Google and Microsoft's indexes.
The ACLU, which has long fought the Child Online Protection Act, is citing the new study as evidence that software filters are an effective alternative to legislation.
Additional Stark's study found that roughly half of all sexually explicit sites are foreign and thus beyond the reach of the Child Online Protection Act, whereas software filters retain their effectiveness regardless of the origin of the content.
The burgeoning field of image recognition software holds some promise that in the future software filters will get smarter and more effective, but in the mean time the debate over legislation will likely continue.
[1]: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16007733.html
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MP3.com, founded in 1997 by Michael Robertson, once had one of the largest collections of downloadable music on the net. A series of lawsuits forced MP3.com to pay out millions in copyright infringement damages. After being acquired by Universal Music in 2001 it was later sold to its current owner, CNET, in 2003.
However CNET only acquired the domain name not the millions of files once hosted on MP3.com's servers. CNET had transformed MP3.com into a music news and editorial site, but now the site is once again offering audio uploads for aspiring bands.
MP3.com is now offering band profiles, 100 MB of audio storage, and software to upload and edit music, videos, and photos. There's also a new Flash audio player that creates and saves playlists.
The feature set of the redesign seems targeted at going after MySpace Music, but having browsed around the site for the last hour, as much as I hate to admit it, from a band's point of view, I think MySpace is better.
The pages lack the customization features of MySpace (though the defaults look better than most MySpace pages) and the emphasis is less organic, community-based. MP3.com tries to integrate established artists with unknowns and claims to put them on equal footing, but in the end if comes off more like your favorite local band hired some slick PR company to turn them into an pseudo-established artist.
Like many CNET properties MP3.com feels like it's trying to do too much. And the advertising is prolific and annoying.
I want to be excited about MP3.com's redesign and new features, but frankly I found it less than compelling as a way to discover new bands.
[1]: http://www.mp3.com/ "MP3.com"
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The announcement is part 3's new "X-series" service which aims to more broadband services to mobile subscribers. The X-series service, which for now will only run on the Nokia N73 and the Sony Ericsson W950i, will come with Sling Player Mobile pre-installed.
Also included in the package are offerings from Orb, Google and Microsoft. For the time being 3 has declined to give any pricing details, but a SlingMedia spokesperson I talked to said the new package plans will move away from a bandwidth-based price structure to a subscription model.
The new service is available in the UK beginning December 1st.
SlingPlayer Mobile is software that allows you to watch their regular television on your mobile handset. The company first introduced the software earlier this year and currently supports Windows Mobile smart phones.
The version to be installed on UK phones will be running on the Symbian software found in popular Nokia and Erikson handsets.
Hutchinson, 3's parent company has 3G networks in eight countries worldwide and is expected to follow the UK rollout with similar offerings in its Australian, European and Asian markets.
This is the first time SlingMedia has partnered with a mobile carrier to deliver its software and services.
Entertainment companies and content providers have historically been reluctant to support any technology that delivers content outside the traditional channels, but Brian Jaquet of SlingMedia claims the company has been working with not against the entertainment industry.
"We've had a lot of discussions with content holders to address their concerns," he says adding, "It's a fine line that you walk, you want to deliver a great application and service, but you want to be mindful of the content providers rights as well."
I asked about the possibility of a similar U.S offering, but so far SlingMedia has no immediate plans. Jaquet says, "you can't look at it as a cookie cutter situation, every market is very different."
[1]: http://www.slingmedia.com/indexa.php "SlingMedia.com"
[2]: http://www.three.com/ "3 X-series"
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* [Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have agreed on a standardized format for sitemaps][1]. The structure, currently [available at Sitemaps.org][6], allows web masters to install an XML file on their servers that all three engines can use to track site updates.
* Google has added a new feature to Google Calendar that allows you to search public events. The search feature helps you find out what's happening in your area.
* [MP3.com officially relaunched][2] itself yesterday, with some nice new features for bands. The site now offers bands a profile page, 100 MB of audio storage and unlimited video hosting. [via [Mashable][3]]
* [Skype has released a new beta version its Mac software][5] with support for SMS and conference-calling. Skype 2.5 also lets you leave messages for offline users. It still doesn't have all the features of the Windows-only Skype 3.0, but it's getting there.
* Rumor: A number of news agencies are [reporting that production of the ever elusive Apple iPhone][4] has been contracted out to Hon Sio a Taiwanese manufacturing company. Rumor also claims that the iPhone will be sold unlocked. But just who is this "Rumor," That's what I'd like to know.
[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/11/15/microsoft-google-yahoo-unite-to-support-sitemaps.aspx "Microsoft, Yahoo and Google unite"
[2]: http://www.mp3.com/ "MP3.com"
[3]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/15/mp3com-to-challenge-myspace-in-music/ "Mashable on MP3.com"
[4]: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=AAPL:US&sid=a5skb65I7L4c "Bloomberg.com on the Apple iPhone"
[5]: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/25beta.html "Skype 2.5 beta"
[6]: http://www.sitemaps.org/ "Sitemaps.org"
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Anapod Explorer features all the basic stuff you'll find in the other programs, one-click back ups, duplicate file detection and drag-and-drop transfers. But in addition to that AE features the "Window's Integration," which allows you to browse your iPod like you would in Windows Explorer, but without the quirky file-names. AE can also sync your photos and movies as well.
AE includes a separate program, Anapod Xtreamer, which allows you to browse your iPod via any standard browser. Xtreamer makes it easy to transfer files, not just from your iPod to the connected computer, but to any computer on the network.
But the coolest feature in my opinion is the ability to do alter bitrates on the fly using AE's AudioMorph when transferring songs. This means you can keep high bitrate copies of your music on your hard drive and compress them during transfer to save space on your iPod.
Just in case all that wasn't enough for you, Anapod Explorer goes completely over the top and includes a database search engine that lets you execute SQL statements to search for music. Holy nerdy goodness.
There are about a dozen more features I haven't haven't touched on, but since most of them go far beyond our review goals (get music off your iPod) I'll leave them for you to discover.
It's not the cheapest way to get music off your iPod, but if you're looking to do more with your iPod and music, Anapod Explorer is worth a closer look.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Excellent additional features (too many to list)
* Avoids duplicating songs
**Bad**
* Not free
* Overkill if all you want to do is get songs off your iPod
Previously reviewed:
[Senuti][1] (Mac only)<br />
[Podworks][2] (Mac only)<br />
[IPod Access][3] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[IPodRip][4] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o.html "Monkey Bites on Senuti"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_1.html "Monkey Bites on PodWorks"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_2.html "Monkey Bites on iPod Access"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_3.html "Monkey Bites on iPodRip"
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Today's announcement puts Intel on top again in the never-ending chip race with AMD, whom Intel has been trailing for several years. AMD is planning on releasing its own quad cores sometime next year.
Intel claims the quad cores, which are essentially two dual cores sandwiched on the same chip, will give some applications as much as a 70% performance boost.
Before you get too excited, bear in mind that there isn't a whole lot of software out there that can really take advantage of a quad core chip. The most immediate beneficiaries of the new chips will likely be servers and grid computing projects. There are some high-end multimedia and scientific programs that are capable of using however many cores are present, but your average office and desktop programs will likely see only marginal performances gains from the new chips.
Intel's performance figures may however prove correct at some point in the future when software catches up with hardware. With more and more consumer machines already using dual cores and the new quad cores hitting the market, we will undoubtedly see more programs becoming multithread capable in the near future.
ZDNet has put together an interesting informal benchmark test using Intel's new quad-core Xeon 5355. The folks over at ZDNet reconfigured a Mac Pro to fit it with two quad cores, making an eight core machine, and [ran some benchmark tests][2]. In some tests the original Mac Pro actually out performs the new chips, though as ZDNet points out their custom machine does not benefit from optimized firmware or other components that Apple would likely add if they use the new chips.
So far Dell, IBM and a few others have announced plans to use the new chips. Apple, who typically does not announce such things, has so far not said anything about the new chips.
At $999 per chip, Intel's quad cores probably aren't going to fit most consumer budgets, but early adopters, gaming junkies and those who just have to have the latest and greatest will no doubt be excited.
[1]: http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=49E53381-F875-4EAE-96E8-DE26355F2A94 "Intel to Ship Kentsfield"
[2]: http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/0,1000000193,39284700,00.htm "ZDNet benchmarks"
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We tested iPod Access on both Windows and Mac with very similar results. The Mac interface is definitely not the most refined we've seen in our tests, but it functions well enough and gives you the information you need.
Ipod Access works very similar to PodWorks, just highlight the songs you want to copy and click "Add to iTunes." The trial version only allows you transfer five songs at a time, but I had no problems copying songs within the limit.
The "Clone Playlist" feature is not available in the trial version so I wasn't able to test it.
When it comes to handling song transfers, IPod Access gives you more options than the other programs reviewed, including the option to rename the songs in a variety of formats. Ipod Access did a great job of not making duplicate copies and offers the option to only overwrite existing files if the iPod copy is newer.
Like Podworks, iPod Access is not currently a universal binary so performance on Intel Macs is lackluster. In Windows XP we had no issues with speed.
Ipod Access may not be the prettiest of the bunch, but it offers the most features (albeit at the slightly higher price).
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Doesn't duplicate tracks when transferring songs
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Available for Windows and Mac
**Bad**
* Interface is basic (some might say ugly)
* Trial version had numerous errors/warnings
* No drag-and-drop transfers.
Previously reviewed:
[Senuti][1] (Mac only)<br />
[Podworks][2] (Mac only)<br />
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o.html "Monkey Bites on Senuti"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_1.html "Monkey Bites on PodWorks"
[3]: http://www.findleydesigns.com/products.html "iPod Access"
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IPodRip is shareware and costs $14.95. The unlicensed version is not crippled, but will expire after 10 uses, which means if you just need to recover from a hard drive failure or similar one-time problem, iPodRip can do it for free.
IPodRip features, drag-and-drop support for moving songs off your iPod directly into iTunes, as well as one-click importing to restore everything. Alternately you can select individual songs and import them one at a time or in groups.
<img alt="Ipodrip" title="Ipodrip" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/ipodrip.jpg" border="0" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px 10px 5px;" />IPodRip also has a very nice feature that allow you to restore all your playlists with one-click. IPodRip also allows for something it terms "smart sync" which allows you to copy songs based on various criteria (pretty much like "smart playlists" in iTunes).
IPodRip also features a number of nice extras not found elsewhere, such as a database check for your iPod DB, an option to export your library information to HTML or XML formats, and sync metadata between your iPod and iTunes.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Available for Windows and Mac
* Excellant additional features
**Bad**
* Not free (though it can be used 10 times with no limitations)
Previously reviewed:
[Senuti][1] (Mac only)<br />
[Podworks][2] (Mac only)<br />
[IPod Access][3] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o.html "Monkey Bites on Senuti"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_1.html "Monkey Bites on PodWorks"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_2.html "Monkey Bites on iPod Access"
[4]: http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=iPodRip "iPodRip"
[5]: http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/software/index.php "The Little App Factory"
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* Later today TiVo will [announce a plan to allow users to download videos][1] from the Internet and watch them from their television sets. For now the service will be limited to non-copyrighted material from services like YouTube, though TiVo hopes to add iTunes Music Store content in the future. This is reportedly only one of several new features TiVo will be announcing.
* Bloomberg.com reports that, according the Steve Ballmer, [Microsoft plans to add video-sharing and a phone feature][2] to future versions of its Zune music player.
* The AP reports you will be able to [buy Windows Vista licenses at CompUSA][3] starting November 30th. Microsoft claims the move is aimed at small businesses most of whom purchase software at retail stores. The licensing purchase is reported cheaper than the traditional boxed product.
* The U.K.-based [OpenStreetMap is collecting cartography information][4] from GPS wielding volunteers in hopes of creating a free, open-source wiki-style map of the planet. [via [CNet][5]]
[1]: http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/hold-for-release-1201-am-est-tuesday/n20061113191809990018 "TiVo to allow internet downloads"
[2]: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a6kJgarwWLeg "Microsoft's Ballmer on the future of Zune"
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_hi_te/vista_compusa "Microsoft to sell business license through CompUSA"
[4]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page "OpenStreetMap.org"
[5]: http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6134871.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on OpenStreetMap"
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The increase in buddy list size brings AIM up to speed with other popular IM services such as those from Yahoo and Microsoft.
Other features include a new "dashboard" which AOL says will make it easier for users to access mobile features like the new IM forwarding. IM forwarding allows you to have messages sent while you are offline forwarded to your mobile device.
AIM 6.0 also adds further integration with the new "AIM Pages," AOL's blogging and social networking feature. You can subscribe to your buddies page (via RSS) and receive updates in your instant messenger.
Some news reports have mentioned that the subscription abilities extend beyond AOL's limited offerings to include sites such as YouTube, Digg and Flickr, but I couldn't find anything about that on the AIM website.
The AIM service remains a lone wolf when it comes to interoperability. Unlike Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger, which both allow you to chat with members of either service, AIM is a closed system.
AOL says it is in talks with Google about the possibility of linking AIM with Google Talk. Presumably this would function somewhat like the way AIM works with ICQ or Apple's iChat.
AOL has provided an new open SDK for developers so those of us who use the AIM service but not the the client program can expect to see third party developers incorporate the new features soon.
The AIM 6.0 client is thus far Windows only and requires either 2000 or XP.
[1]: http://www.aim.com/index.adp?aolp=0 "AIM 6.0"
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I use LibraryThing to grab book covers for display on my blog, but I've never really tinkered with the site too much. However the new feature "UnSuggester" sounded interesting.
But let's start with LibraryThing's "BookSuggester." LibraryThing claims to have 7.1 million books and over 9.5 million user generated tags in it's database. The new BookSuggester feature combs through those books to find things you might like, based on the title of a book you know you like.
The obvious question is why use this over Amazon's recommended books feature? Well for one thing, Amazon's results are included so you get those plus more. LibraryThing also offers more results and separates them into tag-based results and actual humans-have-read-and-liked results.
At the top of each results page there's an intriguing link for Library Thing's other new search feature, called "UnSuggest" which offers "bad" recommendations.
[UnSuggester][2] is a recommendation engine turned on its head. Instead of telling you what you'd like based on what you already like, UnSuggester tells you what you wouldn't like based on what you like.
At first I thought it was a kind of funny, one-off feature that you play with for half an hour and forget about. After all, I don't need a search engine to tell me that a love of Immanuel Kant probably precludes a deep affinity for *Confessions of a Shopaholic*.
But then I started thinking about something Robert Anton Wilson writes about a lot: expanding your reality tunnel.
Based on the Unsuggester search results you can force expose yourself to other things that might otherwise pass quietly by you. The potential for new discoveries is actually much greater with negative suggestions than it ever will be with those that cater to your mold.
With the tunnel narrowing features like selective RSS news feeds and niche base social networks popping up everyday, it's become relatively easy to hear only what you already know you want to hear. UnSuggester can be refreshing chance to expose yourself to books outside your usual preference. And who knows, maybe I would like *Confessions of a Shopaholic.*
[1]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/14/librarything-creates-worlds-worst-recommendation-engine/ "LibraryThing on Mashable"
[2]: http://www.librarything.com/unsuggester/ "LibraryThing's Unsuggester"
[3]: http://www.librarything.com/ "Library Thing"
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* A phenomenon called "evanescent coupling" could [allow for wireless power sources][1]. The technology uses resonant frequencies to transfer energy without wires over a distance of several meters. So far the idea is just on paper, but the MIT scientists involved say they are working on a prototype, which frankly, would be the coolest thing since the wireless remote.
* Apparently [Zune is incompatible with Windows Vista][2]. Yes, as other have said that's ridiculous, but to be fair, Vista hasn't been released yet. If Vista is released and it still isn't compatible, then you can start jeering.
* [AOL announces version 6 of its popular AIM messaging service][3]. Among some of the cool new features is the ability to forward IMs to you phone when you're offline so you can see what you missed.
* [iTWire reports][4] that cellphone company BoostMobile has launched "a cellphone-based social networking service that enables users to plot the location of their friends on a map." No word on the accuracy of the service.
* And finally, news of the strange kind: [YouTube sent a cease-and-desist letter][5] to the popular tech blog, TechCrunch.
[1]: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10575-evanescent-coupling-could-power-gadgets-wirelessly.html "New Scientist Tech"
[2]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=104 "Vista and Zune not compatible"
[3]: http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/latest_win.adp?aolp=0 "AIM 6.0"
[4]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7141/990/ "iTWire on BoostMobile"
[5]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/huh-youtube-sends-techcrunch-a-cease-desist/ "TEchCrunch on their cease-and-desist letter"
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In addition, Yamipod will find and remove duplicate files on your iPod, though as with this feature in iTunes you have to be careful since you may have live versions and other "duplicates" that you want to keep.
Yamipod also offer some extra features not found in the other programs including the ability to create playlists, send information to last.fm, growl notifications and add lyrics to your iPod.
There's also a feature in Yamipod that I haven't seen elsewhere called "Find Lost Music," which will recover songs on your iPod but not listed in the library. I don't know how that happens and Yamipod didn't find any such files on my iPod, but if you've ever had music disappear from your library, Yamipod might be able to recover them.
Yamipod is a universal binary and was one of the fastest applications tested on my Macbook.
Stay tuned for a wrap up later this week.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Nice additional features
* Supports all major operating systems
**Bad**
* Some problems with video iPod and iTunes 7 (see Yamipod forums)
Previously reviewed:
[Senuti][1] (Mac only)<br />
[Podworks][2] (Mac only)<br />
[IPod Access][3] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[IPodRip][4] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[Anapod Explorer] (Windows) <br />
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o.html "Monkey Bites on Senuti"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_1.html "Monkey Bites on PodWorks"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_2.html "Monkey Bites on iPod Access"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_3.html "Monkey Bites on iPodRip"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_4.html "Monkey Bites on Anapod Explorer"
[6]: http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ "Yamipod"
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The popular photo sharing site has added three new features, guest passes, a new mobile version and the ability to search images by camera model.
First and most welcome is the new guest pass. Flickr has always been my favorite way to share photos, but it's annoying for people that don't already have a Flickr account.
I don't know about you're family is like but mine has been known to say "the internets" without a trace of irony. Consequently the odds of any of them bothering to open a Flickr account to see my photos is pretty much nil.
The good folks at Flickr have finally addressed what many consider to be the site's main downfall. The solution is a new guest accounts system.
Beside each of your Flickr sets is a new button that says "Share this set." Add up to fifty email addresses and you're away. Now the family can see your photos without any problems. Guest passes work with secret links so you can send a link yourself or have Flickr batch email it for you using the handy form.
Flickr has also [updated the mobile version][3] of the site. I was rather disappointed to discover that the new mobile version requires a Yahoo ID to login and further disappointed to note that apparently at some point all of Flickr with require a Yahoo ID. But word has it the new mobile site is much snappier and had better search features.
With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, this last feature with likely be very popular: [Flickr Camera Finder][2]. Camera Finder lets you search for images by camera so you can compare cameras by looking at the results.
Purists will point out that most images are probably compressed and may not be the best representative of a camera's true capabilities, but I did a bit of searching and actually found a number of high resolution images. Its especially handy for seeing things like the color noise and low light capabilities of your dream camera.
And for the curious, the most popular SLR on Flickr is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT.
[2]: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ "Flickr Camera Finder"
[3]: http://m.flickr.com/ "Flickr Mobile"
[1]: http://www.flickr.com/ "Flickr.com"
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A new online photo editing site, [Phixr.com doesn't think so][1]. Phixr offers most of the commonly used photo editing tools in an easy-to-use web interface. Phixr let's use adjust brightness and saturation, color, sharpen, remove noise and of course red eye reduction.
There's a number of sites out there that offer some of this functionality, but I haven't seen any that are as simple and intuitive as Phixr.
Phixr also offers integration with Flickr, Photobucket and more. I grabbed a photo out of my Flickr stream and Phixr imported it without any troubles. I was then able to edit it and upload it back to Flickr.
Naturally you can upload an image straight from your hard drive, work with it in Phixr and export it as a .jpg, .png, .gif and more.
If you happen to have a Livejournal account or use Fotolog, Phixr can upload your images as blog posts, just enter your login information.
If you're a professional photograph Phixr will probably leave you wanting, but if photoshop confuses you and you just want to crop an image, get rid of some red eye and adjust a few colors without getting a computer science degree in the process, Phixr will be a welcome relief.
[1]: http://www.phixr.com/ "Phixr.com"
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* [An article on ZDNet][3] yesterday led some people to conclude that Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage would put the Office Suite in reduced functionality mode if the software couldn't be validated. Turns out [that isn't true][4].
* According to Yahoo News, the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that web sites that publish inflammatory information written by other parties [cannot be sued for libel][2]. Should be a boon for flame wars everywhere.
* Nielsen Media Research started [gathering data on the audience for Apple's iPod][5]. It turns out that iPod users spend far more time listening to audio than they do watching TV or movies.
* And finally, TSIA: "[RIAA toilet paper][6]" [via [BoingBoing][1]]
[6]: http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?productID=285 "Wipe your ass with the RIAA"
[5]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061120/tc_zd/194424 "Ipod user habits"
[4]: http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/11/21/microsoft-confirms-no-kill-switch-in-office-2007/ "No kill Switch in Office 2207"
[3]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=111 "ZDNet get's it wrong"
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061121/ap_on_hi_te/internet_libel
[1]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/20/riaa_toilet_paper.html "RIAA toilet paper"
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The MPire plugin includes some nice features for comparison shopping. Similar to [Farecast][4], my favorite airline ticket site, there are predictive graphs indicating whether the price of an item is likely to go up or down based past sales.
Mpire can also point you to online coupons and other discounts as well as track Ebay auctions.
I'm very impressed with the new plugin. I've used the Mpire site a few times in past, but frankly I forget about it. With the plugin makes it's easier to take advantage of what Mpire offers without having to visit the actual site.
Right now the Plugin is only available for Firefox, but hopefully we'll see something similar for Internet Explorer in the near future.
[found via [TechCrunch][3]]
[1]: http://mpire.com/ "Mpire.com"
[2]: http://www.mpire.com/corporate/plugin.html "Mpire.com Firefox Plugin"
[3]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/21/mpire-offers-power-shopping-plug-in/ "TechCrunch on Mpire.com"
[4]: http://farecast.com/ "Farecast.com"
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* There have been a couple of minor security exploits found in Mac OS X this month, but today there's one that much more serious, though in fact it's been around a while. The exploit in question [allows a corrupted .dmg file to cause a kernal panic][1], which could be used to inject malicious code. Apple hasn't addressed the problem publically yet, but if you want to avoid any issues, just [disable Safari's auto-open feature][2] and avoid downloading .dmg files from unknown parties.
* CBS is reportedly happy with its YouTube experiment. CBS says that viewers are flocking to CBS TV shows after seeing the clips on YouTube. Perhaps this will encourage other companies to drop the lawsuits and embrace the future of video. [via [Mashable][4]]
* Microsoft Windows will be stumbling out of a bar blindingly drunk later this evening in [celebration of its twenty-first birthday][5].
* To celebrate the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft and Deal have partnered up to create a pretty sweet [special edition computer][6]. The new box features, among other things, a one terabyte raid drive and a 30' widescreen flat panel monitor.
* <b>Rumor:</b> Because everybody loves a good fantasy story, Read/Write Web has an [analysis of the as yet ficticious GoogleOS][7]. "There's no such thing as the GoogleOS in reality - but despite that, it is one of the most talked about Web products."
[1]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7375/53/ "ITWire on OS X exploit"
[2]: http://daringfireball.net/2006/11/dmg_kernel_panic "Daring Fireball on the .dmg kernal panic"
[4]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/21/the-youtube-effect-cbs-gets-massive-boost/ "Mashable on CBS"
[5]: http://www.mstechtoday.com/2006/11/20/microsoft-windows-is-21-years-old-today/ "MS Windows turns 21"
[6]: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/21/windows-vista-custom-pc-design.aspx "Windows Vista PC"
[7]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googleos_what_to_expect.php "The GoogleOS?"
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The signup process is painless, just pick a username, fill out some basic info, and enter your phone numbers. Zemble then sends you a text message with a confirmation number. Enter that number on the sign up page and you're done.
From there you can create your profile and invite friends. Zemble offers integration with MySpace and Facebook so you can batch email your friends from either social network. You can also import your address book from GMail, Yahoo, MSN or Hotmail. I'm sure you friends will love the spam invites.
Once you have a group of friends set up, the messaging process is pretty straight forward. Say you want to invite everyone in your group to Thanksgiving dinner, just go to the "My Zembles" page and create a new Zemble.
Once you've given your Zemble a name and description, Zemble.com will send you a text message with address for that Zemble. Then you add that address to your phone contacts, for instance thanksgiving@zemble.com, and whenever you want to send a message to that Zemble group, just send an SMS message to the address and Zemble will forward the message on to your friends.
To respond to a Zemble just sent a message to re@zemble.com and the message creator will get your reply. To reply to everyone that got a message, use the same address but begin your replay with an exclamation point.
Zemble has a nice feature set and if you can convince your friends to join it might be a good way to batch message invites.
[1]: http://www.zemble.com/ "Zemble.com"
[2]: http://twitter.com/ "Twitter.com"
[3]: http://www.3jam.com/ "3Jam"
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For $.99 cents a month you can buy "hotties" both male and female to add to your profile as friends and what's more they even post 2 comments a week. Oh and fear not, those comments will be germaine because you'll be the on writing them.
FakeYourSpace claims to make it "easy for any regular person to make it seem like they have a Model for a friend." Which is really all we want right -- the illusion of friends?
When I worked in a coffeeshop in college we found that starting off the morning by "seeding" the tip jar with a few dollars universally led to bigger tips, so will seeding your MySpace profile with models lead to more models finding your page?
[Update: In the time it took to write this, FakeYourSpace seems to have disappeared, the site now leads to generic, "this domain is for sale" page. Damn, I knew it was too good to be true. What is the world coming to when you can't even buy some decent looking friends?]
[1]: http://www.fakeyourspace.com/ "FakeYourSpace"
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* U.S. companies will have to [track all e-mail, IM and other electronic documents][1] created by their employees thanks to new federal laws that take effect today. The rules will require companies involved in federal litigation to show all "electronically stored information." Even better, making backups by re-burning a CD-RW could be considered "virtual shredding."
[1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_hi_te/storing_e_mails "Law requires Companies to track e-documents"
* Here's a shocker: Movie Studios are demanding that [Apple add more restrictive DRM][2] before they will sell their movies through iTunes. Among other things the studios want Apple to "reduce the number of devices that can use a film downloaded from iTunes."
[2]: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6c6aa286-7f08-11db-b193-0000779e2340.html "Movie studios want more DRM"
* On the brighter side of the DRM fight, Russian site [AllofMP3 is fighting back][3] against the U.S.-Russia trade deal which essential calls for the demise of AllofMP3. A lawyer for AllofMP3 told Ars Technica, "Legality is not decided by a legislative branch or an executive branch. It's decided by a court." It's nice to see AllofMP3 fighting the good fight, but personally I'd just head to the Bahamas, no legal hassles, better weather...
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061130-8330.html "Ars Technica on AllofMP3"
* And finally, more good copyright news: [The Internet Archive][5] has [won an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act][4] which will allow them to continue archiving the internets.
[5]: http://www.archive.org/index.php "The Internet Archive"
[4]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/internet_archive_copyright_reprieve/
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Stylefeeder is the shopaholics friend, rather than trying to maintain a wishlist on Amazon, Yahoo and others, you can keep everything in one place. Stylefeeder offer and nice bookmarklet that sits in your browser's toolbar. When you're on a site that has something you'd like to buy, just click the bookmarklet and it will be saved to your Stylefeed.
The bookmarklet features a nice piece of javascript that lets you select any image on the bookmarked page to use for that bookmark. It's so dead simple even your grandmother could use it.
Stylefeeder helps you create a wishlist or just track products your interested in. Stylefeeder has all the features you'd expect from a social bookmarking site such as tags, ratings, RSS feeds and groups.
Unlike a lot of more traditional social bookmark sites, Stylefeeder is decidedly not geek-oriented, in fact the Leica camera I bookmarked looked decidedly out of place on the front page, sandwiched between a kimono dress and a yoga outfit.
Once you add a page to your stylefeed you can keep track of it via RSS, share it with a group if you're a member or email it to a friend. There's also an OPML feed, which means if you're tech savvy you could pull your Stylefeed content into just about anywhere.
For those that want to display their wishlist on a blog or MySpace page, Stylefeeder offers some cut-and-paste code that will embed a nice flash widget on whatever page you would like. You should be aware that some blog sites block Flash plugins, LiveJournal comes to mind, so the widget may or may not work depending on the service you use.
In my cursory browsing I noticed that so far Stylefeeder's users aren't making heavy use of the comments feature which is a bit disappointing since half of what I look for when I'm shopping online is user commentary on a product. Perhaps as the site grows users will start taking advantage of the comments feature.
Stylefeeder does has a nice feature called Watchlist that lets you track what other users bookmark. This allows you in effect to use other Stylewatchers as personal shoppers, just find someone whose taste you like and every time they add a new product you'll get notified.
The one thing Stylefeeder doesn't feature that I would like to have seen is some kind of price tracking. Since [reviewing Offertrax for Monkey Bites][2], I've grown semi-addicted to the idea of tracking prices via RSS. Stylefeeder is decidedly more fun and better looking than Offertrax, but Offertrax has a feature set that's tough to beat.
[1]: http://www.stylefeeder.com/ "Stylefeeder.com"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/offertrax_an_in "Monkey Bites on Offertrax"
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The fundamental change in the contract is that it now allows the U.S. government sole control over .com price increases and sole control over whether or not VeriSign gets to renew the contract in 2012.
The international community has been pushing to turn this authority over to ICANN who oversees the internet, but the U.S. rejected that idea. As part of the contract VeriSign must recognize the authority of ICANN, but answers only to the U.S government, effectively neutering ICANN.
Currently the U.S. also oversees ICANN but that is schedule to end in 2009. What has irked many countries about the new contract is that it extends U.S authority three years past the point that internet is scheduled to be turned over to an international body. The new contract furthermore adds the option for the U.S. to extend that authority even longer should it choose to renew VeriSign's contract in 2012.
Although somewhat better than the original VeriSign contract revealed earlier this year, today's official announcement is unlikely to make many outside the U.S. very happy. As the UK newspaper [The Register rather sardonically puts it][2], "a decision with global implications was again decided by a few Congressmen in Washington."
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=governmentFilingsNews&storyID=2006-11-30T194653Z_01_N30191458_RTRIDST_0_VERISIGN-AGREEMENT-UPDATE-1.XML "VeriSign Contract Officially Accepted"
[2]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/usg_approves_dotcom_contract/ "The Register on VeriSign Contract"
[3]: http://www.verisign.com/ "verisign"
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If the Wii offering is any indicator, these sites should prove popular with fans of the represented brands.
Yahoo's Wii site is chock full of geeky fan goodness with everything from flickr photos showing people hooking up their new Wii, to del.icio.us links with various tips, sites and sale prices, to panel with questions and answers from the ever-growing Yahoo! Answers.
The design of the site is clean and simple, something Yahoo seems to be getting better at and it unifies the many diverse offerings that Yahoo often has a hard time bringing together in a cohesive way.
The buyers guide for instance, integrates Yahoo Shopping, EBay Auctions and Yahoo maps to create a nice one-stop destination for anyone looking to purchase a Wii (never mind that every retailer lists the Wii as out of stock).
Of course the primary focus is on content from Yahoo's offerings, which leaves the Video section for instance, a bit lacking, I imagine users would be better served by aggregating YouTube Video rather than relying on Yahoo's paltry offerings, but I don't image that will be happening any time soon.
What's interesting about the Wii portal and future plans is that Yahoo isn't asking permission or partnering with the brand companies in anyway. Yahoo says they hope brand companies will want to work with and support the Yahoo sites, but as Vince Broady, head of entertainment, games and youth properties at Yahoo, tells Variety, "we don't believe we have to have the participation of the brand owners."
If you're a fan of Nintendo's new Wii console you'll enjoy Yahoo's new site, and it will be interesting to see where this brand-universe strategy takes Yahoo.
[1]: http://wii.yahoo.com/
[2]: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954662.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&nid=2570
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With Google backing the massively popular YouTube, competitors have increasingly turned to paying contributers in an effort to lure them away from YouTube. [Metacafe launched a similar program called "producer rewards"][3] earlier this year.
In the case of Break, the only stipulation on getting paid is that your video must make it to the homepage. Unfortunately Break doesn't offer much info on how exactly your video can make it to the homepage
The one off payment model differs from sites like [Revver][4] which offer a revenue sharing model where the money earned is based on how many views your video receives. Revver and others like it seem to aim more for serial content (like that of lonelygirl15 or Ze Frank's *The Show* for instance) whereas clips likely to generate only one time views are probably better served by Break, Metacafe and other flat rate services.
A quick browse through the videos on Break failed to find much of what I would call quality content. But to be fair, Break's tag line is "the largest online site for guys," and the content clearly reflects that audience with innumerable videos of backyard stunts, and various sports misshaps as well as a whole NSFW section.
With the online video market still in its infancy, it's tough to gauge where these sites will be in a few years, but one thing is for sure, if you offer money, they will come. Break's homepage claims they have paid out over $300,000 to amateur producers so far.
[1]: http://www.break.com/ "Break.com"
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-26T080107Z_01_N24177992_RTRIDST_0_TECH-WEBVIDEO.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna "Break.com increases Video payments"
[4]: http://one.revver.com/browse/Editor%27s+Picks "Revver.com"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72022-0.html?tw=rss.index "Wired on metacafe"
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It may sound like a nice idea to donate your obsolete computer to someone overseas, but in reality you may be doing little more than shuffling junk off to foreign landfills. No one wants to discourage you from donating an old computers to developing nations, but what constitutes a recyclable machine and what is simply a piece of junk is so far open to debate.
According to the Reuters article, one study last year in Nigeria claims that about 500 containers of secondhand electronics arrive at Lagos seaport every month.
>But dealers said as much as three-quarters of the PCs, televisions and phones inside were "junk" -- so obsolete they could not be repaired. Many were burned at open-air dumps, releasing toxic fumes and leaching chemicals like barium, mercury and brominated flame retardants into surrounding soils.
Some of the proposals the U.N. will be hearing next week include a plan to make computer manufacturers take responsibility for the final disposal of their products.
The U.N. estimates 14-20 million PCs are thrown out every year in the United States alone.
Most major computer manufacturers in the U.S. currently offer some kind of recycling program, but few of these programs are set up to handle overseas waste.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-11-27T103113Z_01_L27347882_RTRUKOC_0_US-WASTE-UN.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-scienceNews-3 "Old Computers create environmental hazards"
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It seems Google was worried that Gaia's success would threaten Google Earth because of the licensing agreements Google Earth has with map and data providers which stipulates that the maps not be used outside Google's specific software clients.
It doesn't appear that Google resorted to lawyers or cease-and-desist letters, rather the developer of Gaia was contacted directly by Michael Jones, Chief Technologist of Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Local search.
According to Jones in a letter posted on the Gaia site:
>The data that we license for Google Earth and Google Maps is made available for use under the restriction that it not be accessed or used outside of Google's client software. These products -- Earth, Maps, and Mobile Maps -- each have a data protection mechanism tailored to their environment. ... In all three cases, the ToS are very clear that the data services used by the client software must never be accessed directly and that the
encryption, passkey, and other data protection mechanisms must not be circumvented.
Kudos to Google for not resorting to threatening lawsuits and an equal measure of praise to Gaia's developer for taking the project down, but that said, it's still a shame to see the Gaia project disappear. Perhaps someone could convince the data companies to loosen their license restrictions a bit.
Otherwise, any attempt to create an open source program similar to Google Earth will need to start from scratch and use open earth images from NASA or similar and such a project is certainly not for the faint of heart.
[1]: http://gaia.serezhkin.com/ "Gaia is no more"
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As with any software still in the development stage, this release is not intended for serious production environments or mission critical data. That said, I have the new version installed under Mac OS X's X11 environment and it seems to very stable.
The final release of version 2.1 is slated to feature some pretty cool new stuff, including a new extensions framework for third party developers. So far there are no actual extensions available, but given the functionality extensions have allowed in Firefox, I think the inclusion of an extensions framework could be the biggest thing to hit OO since it's debut.
I'll be doing a full review of Open Office when the official version is released (currently slated for later this month), by which time hopefully some extensions will be available.
[1]: http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html "Download OpenOffice 2.1 RC1"
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* Cray and IBM will [split a massive $494M grant][1] from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The money, which will be paid out over four years, is for developing the next generation of supercomputers. Cray says it will use AMD chips and the Linux operating system
[1]: http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/304963.htm "DARPA gives grant to Cray and IBM"
* According to a new British poll, [Britons who watch video on the internet spend less times watching TV][2]. The statistic is yet more bad news for the already beleaguered world of broadcast TV.
[2]: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-11-27T113007Z_01_L27856075_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-BRITAIN-DOWNLOADS.XML&WTmodLoc=TechInternet-C1-Headline-9
* You can now [download 2,500 hand-picked wikipedia educational articles][6] on a handy CD. The cd was compiled by volunteers from the children's charity SOS. The CD is free and should work on any platform. [via [Lifehacker][3]]
[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/download/download-of-the-day-wikipedia-cd-all-platforms-217250.php
[6]: http://torrentfreak.com/wikipedia-cd-distributed-over-bittorrent/ "Download wikipedia CD torrent"
* ITWire reports that the banking industry is increasingly [worried that Google may come crashing into their industry][4]. As the article points out, Google Checkout may be the first small step in a larger plan.
[4]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7490/53/
* [Microsoft may be guilt of patent infringement in South Korea][5]. Back in 1997 a Korean professor filed patents for technology used to automatically translate English into Korean within Microsoft Office applications. The CNet article reports that the case "may force Microsoft to temporarily halt sales of Microsoft Office in South Korea."
[5]: http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6138379.html "Microsoft patent violations"
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Zune Microsoft's [Media Transfer Protocol][3], but thanks to libmtp, a free open source library available for Mac and Linux which implements the MS protocol, you should be able to see your Zune in other OSes.
If you'd like to be able to see your Zune on your Mac, grab a copy of WentNet’s open-source program [XNJB][1] (it's free), which leverages libmtp, and you should be able to view your Zune songs.
XNJB was written to support Creative Nomad MP3 players, but some users have reported that they can read the Zune drive and see their music libraries from from a Mac using XNJB. So far no one has been able to transfer songs though. The problem with transferring is that Zune apparently refuses to transfer files with unknown hosts.
Zune may not actually work with other OSes yet, but I have no doubt that someday soon someone will figure out how to make it work.
If you're interested have a look at [this thread in the Zunescene.com forums][2].
[1]: http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/ "wentnet's xnjb"
[2]: http://www.zunescene.com/forums/index.php?topic=3550.0 "Zunescene forum thread on Mac connectivity."
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol "Wikipedia definition of MTP"
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Some time ago the Pentagon floated up an idea called the Policy Analysis Market, which would have allowed online traders to wager on the likelihood of future terrorist attacks. At first glance such a market may sound like a cynical and politically stupid move, which it was and that's why it was abandoned, but the idea behind the market is more than just a so-called death pool.
Decision markets, or predictive markets as they're sometimes called, operate on the same premise as the stock market; that is, a group of people buy and sell shares, but in this case the value of the shares are determined by the value of the judgments attached to them. [According to Wikipedia][4]:
>People who buy low and sell high are rewarded for improving the market prediction, while those who buy high and sell low are punished for degrading the market prediction. Evidence so far suggests that prediction markets are at least as accurate as other institutions predicting the same events with a similar pool of participants.
It may sound like little more than modified sports betting, but many economists believe that such markets can find hidden information about future events just like the soaring price of a stock can indicate a healthy company. [For the moment we'll ignore cases like Enron.]
Now thanks to Betocracy you can participate in this growing trend and easily create your own decision markets. The markets on Betocracy do not trade in actual money, but use a points system instead. Theoretically if the site takes off, shareholders with the highest points (i.e. those that buy low and sell high) will have a greater influence on the site.
I spoke briefly with Yaron Koren the man behind Betocracy about the site. Koren says he was "inspired to create the site by reading James Surowiecki's *The
Wisdom of Crowds*." He went on to add, "I was really struck by that idea of collective intelligence."
The idea behind Betocracy is to combine easy-to-use social internet tools with the predictive power of decision markets. Koren likens Betocracy to, "a cross between TradeSports and Blogger: bringing the concept of intuitive self-publishing to prediction markets.
The concept is fairly simple. Create an account, customize your page and create a market to display. You can choose to make your page public, publicly viewable but members only for usage or invite only.
I created a decision market based on [how the popular television show Lost will end][3]. My sample isn't probably the best since as I note on the page the results will be arbitrarily (and randomly I might add) decided by me. Hint: you can do better.
I'll admit that the whole things sounded a bit crazy to me when I first ran across it, but then again there were probably some folks that said the same thing four hundred years ago in Amsterdam.
Many thanks to the ever-prescient folks on the NoEnd mailing list for bring Betocray to my attention.
[1]: http://betocracy.com/ "Betocracy"
[3]: http://luxagraf.betocracy.com/market/8
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_market "Decision markets"
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One of the outstanding features of social internet sites is the ability to leave comments on just about anything, blog posts, saved links, uploaded videos, you name it and there's probably a way for you to express you opinions via comments.
But for amateur web developers creating a comments system can often be a complex and intimidating undertaking. JS-Kit reduces that undertaking to pasting a single line of code into your webpage. Just add this line to your site:
<script src="http://js-kit.com/comments.js"></script>
That line activates Walkin's comment code which then uses your IP address to fetch the comments from his server.
The script creates threaded comments so you can comment on both the main content and what other people have said. Other niceties including an option to be notified by email whenever some replies to your comment.
You can also embed multiple instances of the script on the same page if you'd like for instance, to have a photo gallery page with individual comments per photo.
For those with the CSS knowhow, it's fairly easy to customize comments to fit the design of your site.
JS-Kit is brand new and lacks a few important comment features like spam protection, but that and other new features are already in the works.
Some people will no doubt be a little nervous about storing their comment data on another person's server, after all what happens if that server crashes or just plain disappears? Perhaps in the future they're will be a way to store comments locally, but for now I don't know of a simpler way to add comments to your web pages.
Found via [TechCrunch][2].
[1]: http://js-kit.com/ "Embed Comments in any page"
[2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/29/quick-embed-code-to-add-comments-to-any-site/ "Techcrunch on JS-Kit"
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* It's official, [Windows Vista for Business launches today][1]. Microsoft has a new website to celebrate to occasion, complete with a video the ever creepy Steve Ballmer welcoming you to "a new day." Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 will also be today.
* AMD is expected to [launch the Quad FX Platform today][2]. The new chip consists of two of the dual-core Athlon processors connected to two Nvidia chipsets. The Quad FX Platform is AMD's response to Intel's Core 2 Extreme, but the Quad FX is slightly different in that it isn't two chips in one socket, rather two chips in two sockets. If you know what that means, then this could be the chip for you. AMD plans to release a true quad core chip early next year.
* Fast on the heels of yesterday's Verizon/YouTube deal, comes another announcement that [Verizon has a similar deal with Revver][3]. Revver typically adds adverts to the end of it's video streams, but that won't be the case with the mobile offering, instead uploaders will share in the licensing deal with Verizon.
* The NFL is [bringing live broadcasts to the web][4] -- sort of. The NFL Network's Thursday and Saturday telecasts will be available to Verizon's FiOS and DirecTV internet subscribers. The Reuters article has a great quote from NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, "it's not disrupting anything that's already available... It's taking advantage of the current technology." In other words, the NFL still doesn't understand the internet.
[1]: http://msnewday.com/ "Windows Vista - it's a new day"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1042_3-6139465.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "AMD Quad Core"
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_on_hi_te/verizon_wireless_revver "Verizon Revver deal"
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-11-30T114916Z_01_N30420400_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-NFL.xml&src=rss "The NFL goes online"
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Well, maybe. Searchmash is a bit different, and perhaps better, than most. According the the Lifehacker post by which I discovered it, [Searchmash is run by Google][2], which might explain why it generates almost the exact same results.
At first glance Searchmash isn't much, just a white page with a familiar results listing. But then when you look closer there's a number of features that improve on the basic Google Search concept. For instance you can dynamically collapse and expand the page descriptions and clicking the "more search results" link reveals another nice piece of Javascript which appends the results below the current ones rather than loading a new page. I'm one of those people that rarely delves into the second page of search results, but the ability to append them to current page makes more results somewhat more appealing.
Off the right hand side of the page are a series of collapsed links for images, video, Wikipedia and blog search results. Clicking the plus link opens a panel with the top results in that category. At the bottom of each panel is a link to "see more results," click that link that category becomes the main links for the page and the web pages result is shuffled off and collapsed in the right column.
Essentially Searchmash takes the results of Google's Web Search, Image Search and Blog Search, combines them with a Wikipedia search and video search, gives it an elegantly simple interface and integrates it into a single page. Very nice indeed.
Someone wrote in to the Lifehacker saying:
>(Searchmash) gives you a multi-page search view on one page and the ability to drag (yes drag) the 35th search result to the 3rd slot because you think it's more appropriate to your query.
Personally I can't seem to drag anything to reorder the results. I'm not even sure I'd want to unless there were some way to save the order, but if anyone can enlighten me as to how the drag and drop feature works, I'd at least like to try it.
The main downside to Searchmash is that it doesn't support very many of the advanced Google Search operators that I've come to rely on. Obviously <code>images:</code> works, as do common operators like <code>site:</code>, but more advanced ones like <code>filetype:</code> do not.
Did I mention the searches are lightning fast?
[1]: http://www.searchmash.com/ "Searchmash.com"
[2]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/search-engines/searchmash-google-interface-experiment-218217.php "Lifehacker on Searchmash.com"
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To sort out what might be the most confusing release of software ever, here's the rundown.
Today *business* users may purchase Windows Vista, Exchange Server 2007 and Office 2007 through Microsoft's volume licensing program. But purchase does not equate with use in all cases. Exchange Server 2007 will not be available for even business customers until the end of next month. Vista and Office are available for business customers today.
*Retail* customers, that would be you and I, will have to wait until January for the *retail* versions to hit the shelves. There will be no less than four *retail* versions of Vista -- Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate -- ranging in price from $199 - $299. For more details have a [look at the breakdown of version differences][2] on Microsoft's website (note that there's also an Enterprise version for large businesses and Starter version for sale in developing nations).
I haven't been able to find details on what versions are available today through the business volume licensing program, but it seems reasonable to assume that Business, Ultimate and Enterprise would be the primary targets for the business market. If you know more details leave them in the comments below.
To add to the confusion of today's Vista release/not release, many retail outlets actually resell the business software, so if you're planning to make your purchase via the volume licensing program, you *can* theoretically head down to a participating retailer and walk out with the software.
And just in case you're still reading, to further complicate matters many retailers are offering free or discount coupons for consumer versions of Windows Vista (to be released in January remember) with the purchase of a new computer today. So in a sense you can buy Vista today, you just won't actually get it until January.
* November 30: Business users get Vista, Office 2007
* End of December: Business users get Exchange Server 2007
* January 30: Retail versions of Vista and Office 2007
Everything clear now?
Oh and If you're wondering what new features Window's Vista offers, I stumbled across a thorough and [detailed Q and A][3] on the Dutch site Techworld, which should answer most people's questions.
[1]: http://msnewday.com/ "Window's Vista Launch Site"
[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx "Vista Versions"
[3]: http://www.techworld.nl/idgns/1651/windows-vista-faq.html "Vista FAQ"
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In my experience Boddit works best for casual browsing rather than targeted searching of specific products, but your milage may vary.
Boddit works by pulling in prices from a number of big discount internet retailers like Dealnews, Slickdeals, Fatwallet and many more. Rather than searching all those sites individually Boddit lets you search them all at once.
Boddit also offers what they call "web search, Boddit-style" which amounts to creating a frame with a toolbar on the left of your browser window and performing searches of other sites in another frame. Normally I hate anything that creates frames in my browser, but Boddit's was actually helpful and made searching multiple sites much quicker.
For instance with a single click I was able to jump from searching Pricegrabber to Froogle to Yahoo! Shopping and more. Unfortunately because Boddit apparently sends the search info as POST data, you back button will warn you about resubmitting a form, which is annoying, but worth the trade off in my opinion.
Boddit will also search and browse auctions on Ebay, Half.com and Yahoo! Auctions. You can also search Craig's List, but unfortunately this only seems to work when you start from the Boddit homepage.
Boddit also has a section called "Extras" that tracks various coupons and freebies available around the web, with deals range from printable coupons to mail-in rebate offers.
One thing Boddit lacks is RSS feeds for tracking prices, but even without them, Boddit offers an impressive array of search options and might well save you both time and money this holiday season.
[1]: http://www.boddit.com/ "Boddit - Bargain Shopping"
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Psiphon works by connected the user in an internet restricted country to a user in a none restricted country. The software needs to be installed on the host computer in a non-restricted country and then the user in the restricted-access country can then log into that computer through an encrypted connection and use it as a proxy to bypass any government filters.
According to the designers there is no way to trace the restricted user's tracks from their computer, though the host computer will know what sites the user has accessed.
The network works on a premise of connecting to trusted users found through a social network, but this seems to me somewhat vulnerable to exploitation. I'm sure China would have no problems setting up fake hosts outside of China to trick users into logging in.
That said, the Psiphon model does sidestep a number of pitfalls that have plague other attempts to bypass internet filters, the biggest draw being that it leaves no tracks on the censored user's machine.
Psiphon also has a distinct advantage of being easy to use and requires no software on the censored users end, just login to the host and you're done.
As the Psiphon site notes, bypassing censorship could violate national laws and have legal (and I'm sure much worse than legal) repercussions for users in restricted countries.
Reporters Without Borders recently released a list of thirteen countries they believe are suppressing freedom of expression on the internet including China, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Vietnam and more.
Psiphon will be publicly available for [download beginning December 1st][2].
[1]: http://psiphon.civisec.org/ "psiphon, censorship bypassing software"
[2]: http://psiphon.civisec.org/source.html "download psiphon starting december 1st"
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* Reuters reports that [nine out of ten emails worldwide are spam][1]. The United States, China and Poland are the main originators of the more than 7 billion spam messages sent this month. Remember when spam was just a funny sketch from Monty Python?
* Opera Software has [announced version 3.0 of its Mini browser][2] intended for mobile devices. The new version features enhanced photo sharing, an RSS feed reader and secure connections for mobile banking.
* The New York Times reports that [YouTube will finally be going mobile next month][3], partnering with Verizon. Unfortunately the service will involve a $15-a-month subscription to a Verizon's VCast service and will only feature films "approved by both companies." So more or less expect that to suck.
* Hot on the heals of the [UK SlingMedia/3 partnership][5] to stream video to cellphones comes a new company, [Phling, which claims it can do the same for music][4] and works here in the U.S. Found via [Lifehacker][6].
* [Ethernet will be speeding up to 100 gbps][7], which should make it up to ten times faster than the current 10-gigabit version. A study group from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently agreed on a target speed bump for the networking technology, but it may be several years before new products hit the market.
[1]: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/27/uk.spam.reut/ "9 of 10 emails are spam"
[2]: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/11/28/
[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/technology/28tube.html?ex=1322370000&en=0a1ba8ec248c869d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "The Times on Verizen/YouTube Deal"
[4]: http://www.phling.com/ "Phling.com"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/3_partners_with.html "Monkey Bites on SlingMedia/3 deal"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/mobile-phone/stream-your-music-collection-to-your-phone-217517.php "Lifehacker on Phling"
[7]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061127/tc_pcworld/128015 "Yahoo News on Ethernet speed increase"
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Anyone can create a custom Rootly homepage which will pull in news stories matching the topics you select. If you register with the site you'll also be able to bookmark stories for later reading, share them with friends and browse other users' bookmarks.
The personalized features more or less mirror those of a typical social bookmarking site, but the focus in Rootly is on breaking news rather than general web pages.
Rootly also offers a news search engine, but unfortunately, in my experience, the news search was dog-slow and didn't yield nearly as many results as a similar search on Google News typically returns.
The ability to customize the news feeds can make for some nicely targeted RSS feeds, though again, Google News and others offer nearly the same functionality. Rootly has a slightly less confusing interface than Google News, but the functionality isn't significantly different.
The Rootly homepage does have a nice AJAXy scrolling headline ticker that updates with new headlines about every ten seconds.
In the end Rootly seems like a nice start, but it's entering an already crowded market and doesn't have much in the way of standout features.
[1]: http://www.rootly.com/ "Rootly.com"
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For those that have never used it, Cooliris creates a Javascript pop-up preview whenever you mouse over a link. The pop-up lets you see whatever the link leads to without leaving the page you're on. Cooliris started out limiting its previews to Google, Ebay and other large sites, but now it works just about anywhere.
Simple drag your mouse over a link or thumbnail and Cooliris will automatically show a preview. I should note that this is not a thumbnail or simple image <p>it's</p>
the actual webpage and you can browse it like you would any other. In the case of video links you can watch the video within the preview window, which makes browsing through YouTube considerably less time consuming.
I've been using Cooliris for a few months now and I can honestly say there's a good chance it will change the way you browse the web. For instance, typically, when I searched for something on Google, I would open a few results in tabs and then work my way through them. After a few hours of this I used to have twenty or thirty tabs open and no real idea which were useful and which weren't.
Using Cooliris has streamlined my searching considerably since now I can quickly see and browse a page without leaving the page I'm on. If I decide the page is useful I go ahead and open it in a tab, if not I just move the mouse off the link and the Cooliris window disappears.
Cooliris is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Flock and Safari, but the exact features vary somewhat between platforms.
[1]: http://www.cooliris.com/ "cooliris"
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I can't say as though I ever used Google Answers so I won't be missing it and, according to Wikipedia that leaves Google with [eighty-five services/search engines/applications][1] so I doubt they'll miss it either.
Since removing the existing Q and A's would be, well, stupid, the site will remain but there will be no more Answers after the end of the year.
Google Answers, which generated only 800 Q and As over the past four years had long taken a back seat to Yahoo's similar offer, [Yahoo Answers][3].
What does this mean? I for one take this to mean that Google is not invincible and that you can in fact compete successfully against Google. It would seem that at least on some leave the long-tail, social model (Yahoo Answers) has a greater appeal than the authority of experts (Google Answers). Though perhaps it has more to do with free versus $2.50 an answer.
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/adieu-to-google-answers.html
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
[3]: http://answers.yahoo.com/
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* Nokia and Yahoo announced today that they will [expand their partnership][1] to include Yahoo's email and messaging services on new Nokia phones.
* Apple has [released a Mac OS X Security Update][2] that patches twenty-two security holes. The update does not, however, appear to address the most serious vulnerability which lies in Mac OS X's Disk Image handling code.
* According to CNet, the [BitTorrent company will launching a video download store][3] early next year. Customers will be able to download movies from some Hollywood studios such as Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox. In other BitTorrent news, it appears that [Bram Cohen is on his way out][4].
* Filed under the sky is still falling: A new study says [violent video games desensitize kids][5] and makes them <strike>more like adults</strike> have less self control.
* And finally, from our own Wired Magazine comes the best news I've heard in a while: [improvements are being made the venerable Jet Pack][6].
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-11-29T145244Z_01_WEN0453_RTRUKOC_0_US-NOKIA-YAHOO.xml&src=rss "Nokia and Yahoo expand partnership"
[2]: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ "OS X Security Update"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6139174.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on BitTottent/Hollywood Deal"
[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/29/bittorent-raises-25-million-bram-cohen-is-history/ "Techcrunch on Bram Cohen"
[5]: http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/11/28/hscout536261.html "YASD: Yet Another Story of Doom"
[6]: http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/start.html?pg=9 "Jet Pack improvements"
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MP3Realm allows you create m3u playlists out of your finds which can then be downloaded and streamed by popular audio software like Winamp. There are also playlist downloads for Windows Media Player.
MP3Realm can be searched by artist, title, genre or album. MP3Realm also index lyrics so you can get your words with your music. If you'd like to submit your own music files, you can submit urls to MP3Realm via an online form.
As for the legality of the search results, that depends. MP3Realm makes a point of saying they host no MP3 files, which might absolve them of responsibility. But Fox is [suing QuickSilverScreen][2] just for *linking* to copyright infringing materials, so who knows if MP3Realm will last. The Fox/QuickSilverScreen case has not been settled and legalities are so far rather confusing.
My search results on MP3Realm were mixed. A search for music from the band Wilco led me to some songs on the band's site, which presumably means they're legal and some other files where downloading them would probably constitute copyright infringement.
If you believe a file is under copyright, and to download it would infringe upon the copyright of the owner, then don't do it.
[1]: http://mp3realm.org/ "MP3Realm"
[2]: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/12/is_simply_linki.html "Fox sues QuickSilverScreen"
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Michael Schmitz's logo evolves over time based on a number of factors related to the company, from the post:
>Looking for a suitable design solution, Mika soon learned about cellular automata, especially Conway's famous Game of Life, subject of many art pieces. His software basically follows the same rules in creating a dynamic logo for MPI-CBG in time, but the parameters are coupled to certain factors: number of employees = density, funding = speed, number of publications = activity. Different logos are being "bred" and then picked by fitness in relation to the parameters or voted for by the employees. Thus, every time the logo is displayed on a website as an animated icon or printed out on a letter, it reflects the current state of the lab as a living organism.
Could semi-intelligent, evolving designs be the wave of the future? The logo reminds me a little of designer Shaun Inman's [recently launched experiment Heap][3] where the archives of his blog fade in color as you go further back in time.
[1]: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009179.php "Evolving Logos"
[2]: http://www.mpi-cbg.de/ "Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics"
[3]: http://www.shauninman.com/post/about/the_heap/ "About Heap"
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However the Ecma approval was not unanimous, IBM cast a no vote, but was in the minority. IBM vice-president for open source and standards, Bob Sutor, [writes on his blog][3]:
>we think the OpenDocument Format ISO standard is vastly superior to the Open XML spec. ODF is what the world needs today to drive competition, innovation, and lower costs for customers. It is an example of a real open standard versus a vendor-dictated spec that documents proprietary products via XML. ODF is about the future, Open XML is about the past. We voted for the future.
One thing that's important to note is that in spite of what its name might imply, Microsoft's OpenXML is not an open source spec like ODF. OpenXML will be licensed for free, but given the size of the spec (over 4000 pages) and the fact that it eschews industry standard tools like SVG and MathML, it may be difficult for other vendors to implement.
IBM and others fear that difficult in implementing OpenXML will mean only Microsoft will fully support OpenXML with other vendors only using a subset of its features. Obviously such a situation would give Microsoft a distinct advantage in the marketplace.
So what does this mean for consumers? IBM's concerns, while they have some merit, may be unrealistic. Having two standardized formats means venders have more work to do in supporting both, but that hasn't seemed to hurt the graphics sector. After all any number of graphic software packages can read and write jpeg, gif and other standardized image file formats.
If OpenOffice ends up supporting the OpenXML format it may be a more formidable competitor.
For now Open XML will likely have a better shot at compatibility with existing documents, but in the long run ODF's more open approach may gain ground. Many vendors like Corel and Novell have already said they will support both.
[1]: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061207/sfth087.html?.v=82 "Open XML press release"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/office_document.html "Monkey Bites on ODF"
[3]: http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1264 "Bob Sutor on OpenXML versus ODF"
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* More news on document formats: yesterday Microsoft's Open XML format (used by MS Office 2007) was [certified as a standard][1] by ECMA International. The certification means Open XML is on the fast track to ISO standardization, which will put the Open XML format on even footing with the [Open Document Format][9].
[1]: http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-6141777.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on MS Open XML standard"
[9]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/office_document.html "Monkey Bites on ODF"
* In other format news, according to Fox news China has announced a [third DVD format][2] to compete against Blue-Ray and HD-DVD. The new format, known as EVD, is part of China's efforts to create nationwide standards and cut down on outside dependence. EVD has actually been around since 2003, but hasn't caught on yet.
[2]: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,234877,00.html "China announces DVD format"
* Popular social news site [Digg][6] has [come under fire lately][3] because unscrupulous Internet marketers are paying users to promote stories and manipulate rankings. Of course the problem is not limited to Digg, but includes others like [Reddit][4] and [del.icio.us][5].
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6140293.html "Digg under fire"
[4]: http://reddit.com/ "Reddit.com"
[5]: http://del.icio.us/ "del.icio.us"
[6]: http://www.digg.com/ "Digg"
* It hasn't even been released to the world yet and pirates have already released cracks for Windows Vista's copy protection. The [latest crack][7] uses Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licensing activation server.
[7]: http://apcmag.com/node/4769
* Microsoft's Zune MP3 player will be [Vista compatible *on June 30*. The lack of compatibility between the companies new MP3 player and much touted new operating system surprised many people. No word on why Zune users will have to wait six months for Vista support.
[8]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7905/52/ "Zune/Vista compatibility coming June 30"
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That said, Yvo Schaap has done some [interesting statistical analysis][1] using Alexa's top 10,000 websites. The potential "damn lies" part of Schaap's analysis comes from his use of data from the controversial tracking site Alexa. Many have questioned the accuracy of Alexa's figures since its data collection relies on user-installed software.
Given that Alexa's user base if currently not that large, there may be some skewing of Schaaps initial data, but provided you take it all with the proverbial grain of salt, here's what he found:
* 10 percent of he top 10,000 websites are Adult oriented.
* The U.S. owns 44% of the top 10,000 websites
* 10 percent of all the homepages provide RSS feeds
* 6 percent of the homepages have Google ads
I find number three encouraging and number four helps to explain where Google's seemingly limitless revenue comes from.
But wait there's more, another batch of statistic from a [blog post at Compete.com][2] which Compete distilled into this nice graph:
Interestingly enough, though they're technically separate domains, if you were to combine Live.com, MSN.com and Microsoft.com, all of which are Microsoft properties, Microsoft would dominate the top twenty with 80 million hits.
The Compete post also points out some traffic shifts from this time last year. Adobe, Live.com, Wikipedia and YouTube are all newcomers to the top 20, while Expedia, Monster, Paypal and Weather.com have all moved off the list.
But lists aren't everything, as Compete notes, despite having fallen from the top 20, both Paypal and Weather.com have actually seen traffic increases.
For those that would like to know where and how these numbers are arrived at, Compete offers a [breakdown of the their methodology][4] and Schaap has released [the raw data][3] he used for your perusal.
[1]: http://www.yvoschaap.com/index.php/weblog/8_questions_about_the_web_you_always_wanted_answers_to/ "Yvo Schaap statistical analysis"
[2]: http://blog.compete.com/2006/12/07/top-20-most-popular-websites-unique-visitors-new-absent/ "Compete's list of the top twenty sites for October 2006"
[3]: http://www.yvoschaap.com/webanalyse/ "Yvo Schaap's raw data"
[4]: http://blog.compete.com/where-do-these-numbers-come-from/ "Compete - statical methodology"
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To be clear, that's something the USA Today author writes, not a quote from Zennstrom, but there's so much hype surrounding The Venice Project Zennstrom doesn't need to make any outlandish claims.
According to the website, The Venice Project will be "launching a secure P2P streaming technology that allows content owners to bring TV-quality video and ease of use to a TV-sized audience mixed with all the wonders of the Internet."
All the content for this everything-you-always-wanted-and-more service will be provided directly by the content owners and will most likely support all the appropriate content protection and ownership restriction. I'm not going to speculate on a service that isn't yet public, but that sure sounds like DRM.
Internet video delivery is heating up, Azureus recently [launched an HD video download service][3], BitTorrent seems [poised to do the same][4] and then of course there's YouTube.
If The Venice Project has any hope of succeeding in the already crowded waters of internet video it needs to do what Zennstrom has done with Skype -- take existing technology and make it easier to use.
Still no word on when The Venice Project plans to go public, but you can fill out an application to join the [private beta testing][5].
[1]: http://www.theveniceproject.com/ "The Venice Project"
[2]: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-12-06-zennstrom-internet-tv_x.htm "USA Today interview with Niklas Zennstrom"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72223-0.html?tw=wn_index_20 "Azureus launches HD download service"
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72272-0.html?tw=wn_index_3 "BitTorrent May Be Heading for TV Market"
[5]: https://www.theveniceproject.com/apply.html "The Venice Project Beta Test"
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AskCity mirrors Google Maps in appearance, but adds another column on the far left side of the screen that lets you flip between Businesses, Events, Movies, Directions and more. The layout and design of the site are clean and easy to use and there's a wealth of features without crowding the interface.
You can search for local listings in any category, whether you want to find a business, an event location, movie showtimes or just get directions, everything is kept on one simple page. AskCity trumps most other map providers by offering multipoint directions and walking as opposed to driving directions (of the others, only Yahoo offers similar features).
Like Google Maps, AskCity can show satellite or street maps and offer the option to overlay labels and other information in satellite view (refered to on AskCity as "aerial").
AskCity adds some nice features on top of what you've come to expect from online maps services, including the ability to draw, annotate, mark and save maps. At the bottom of each map panel is a toolbar with various drawing tools for annotating a map, you can then take a spanshot of your customized map or email a permalink to friends. In my testing the customized maps worked best in Firefox and IE.
You can also create your own markers on maps, just drag the marker tool to a location and AskCity will calculate the address and then you can search of things around that location.
While you're browsing through your search results AskCity provides links to send a listing to your phone via SMS or email, get directions, read reviews, search for nearby listings and more.
If you're searching for restaurants AskCity can narrow by cuisine or neighborhood and you can make reservations via OpenTable. Most events can be booked via Ticketmaster and movie listings provide purchase links to Fandango. Movie searches can also be narrowed by location or genre.
I've always been a big fan of Google Maps, but AskCity is a very impressive offering with a great feature set. I found it to be faster, easier to use and offer better results than Google Maps or other services. The three paned interface manages to pack a ton of tools into a single window without cluttering up the site or confusing users.
Combine the excellent features and search results with the ten plus years of reviews pulled in from CitySearch and AskCity may soon have other services scrambling to catch up.
[1]: http://city.ask.com/city "AskCity"
[2]: http://newyork.citysearch.com/ "CitySearch"
[3]: http://maps.google.com/ "Google Maps"
[4]: http://maps.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Maps"
[5]: http://www.mapquest.com/ "Mapquest"
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EListeningPost provides musicians with a way to distribute their music in "secure," limited-play formats via links or email. Customers can listen to a track up to five times before they need to buy it they want to continue listening. Artists can also chose to distribute a non-DRM version their songs.
EListeningPost also offers services to help artists manage mailing lists, track downloads and convert songs between formats.
But musicians take note, other than the clean, non-DRM MP3 option, none of eListeningPost's files will work on an iPod.
According to the site the fees are as follows:
* Onetime Setup Fee: US$45; UK£35; Euro €45; Canadian$55; Australian$65; Japanese Yen ¥6,800.
* Monthly Subscription Fee: US$9; UK£5; Euro €8; Canadian$10; Australian$12; Japanese Yen ¥1,200. Receive a FREE month for every referral you provide that signs up.
* Monthly Email and Contact Management Fee: FREE until January 15, 2007. US$5; UK£4; Euro €5; Canadian$6; Australian$6; Japanese Yen ¥900.
* Bandwidth cost per 10,000 downloads/previews (your first 10,000 previews are included with your setup fee): US$18; UK£10; Euro €15; Canadian$20; Australian$25; Japanese Yen ¥2,200.
We've looked at a few other music distribution channels in the past, see the Monkey Bite's review of [Snocap][2] and Listening Post's take on [Amie St.][3], and while eListeningPost may offer better percentages on sales, their set-up fees are steep for what you get and the over-reliance on DRM may put off some artists.
[1]: http://www.elisteningpost.com/ "EListeningpost"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/09/myspace_snocap_.html "Monkey Bites on Snocap and MySpace Music"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/11/amie_street_inc.html "Listening Post on Amie St."
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Tew's Million Dollar Homepage, which introduced the new concept of pixel advertising and earned him a cool million dollars in a few short months was unquestionable a novel and huge success. But can Tew repeat that success or has the novelty have worn off?
To his credit, the pixelotto project does add an interesting twist to the Million Dollar Homepage concept. This time around advertisers will pay two dollars a pixel and one lucky user will walk away with a million dollars for clicking the winning pixel, hence the lotto bit in the name.
According to early reports Tew is soliciting the same advertisers from Million Dollar Homepage to purchase advertising space on Pixelotto prior to tomorrow's public launch. The idea is apparently to give loyal customers the first shot at that prime pixel real estate in the center of the page.
With the chance at a million dollar pay-out driving users to view the advertisements, pixelotto could be even bigger than the Million Dollar Homepage. So, are you feeling lucky?
[1]: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ "Million Dollar Homepage"
[2]: http://www.pixelotto.com/ "Pixelotto.com"
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* Yahoo has announced a new partnership with the new organization Reuters which will make it easier for the public to contribute photos and videos of news events. The rather suspiciously named "[You Witness][2]," will be accepting uploads starting tomorrow and will apparently cross post your images to Flickr.
* Last week a U.S. District Judge [ruled that the FBI could use cellphones to spy][3] on you. The technique works by remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone to record nearby conversations.
* [Ask city is a new local search][4] and maps tool from Ask.com. Future plans call for a mobile version as well.
* TiVoToGo's DRM has been [cracked by some industrious hackers][5]. TiVoToGo DRM locks your saved programs once they're transferred to your computer and restricts what you can do with your recordings. [via [BoingBoing][6]]
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-04T114148Z_01_NAAD0401_RTRUKOC_0_US-YAHOO-REUTERS-EYEWITNESS.xml "Yahoo partners with Reuters"
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/page/youwitnessnews "You Witness"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html "FBI spies via cellphones"
[4]: http://city.ask.com/city
[5]: http://www.alt.org/wiki/index.php/TiVoToGo
[6]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/04/tivotogo_drm_cracked.html "BoingBoing on TiVoToGo Crack"
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>BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent as it recognized the merits of µTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together µTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.
We gave [µTorrent high marks][1] back in our [review of Bittorrent clients][2] for being lightweight and efficient. According to posts in the µTorrent forums, the new deal means, among other things, versions of µTorrent for Mac and Linux, although no timetable has been announced.
Cohen says, "Ludvig Strigeus, the developer of µTorrent, clearly put a significant amount of time into optimizing the client." Cohen went on to say, "BitTorrent recognizes µTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community." The FAQ claims that "bringing together BitTorrent expertise with µTorrent's elegance creates... what will be the best BitTorrent client hands-down."
For the time being the µTorrent client and website will remain and the client will continue to be freely available for download. The acquisition FAQ's go on to note that the µTorrent code base will remain closed source.
The merge means that many of BitTorrent Inc's patented delivery innovations will be rolled into the µTorrent client. While that's nice for users, the real reason for the deal may be that BitTorrent Inc, which just inked some deals with Hollywood, needs a lightweight codebase for potential mobile, television and other, non-PC markets.
In a [Wired Interview earlier this week][3], Cohen said, "We're working on making BitTorrent come preinstalled on many embedded devices, as one of the basic services they support in the same class as web browsers."
With the newly acquired lightweight µTorrent client, could BitTorrent-powered movie downloads be headed for a mobile device near you?
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/best_of_bt_torr.html "Monkey Bites reviews µTorrent"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71979-0.html?tw=rss.index "Wired: The best of bittorrent"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72222-0.html "Wired Talks to Bram Cohen"
[4]: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=17279 "Bram Cohen announces µTorrent acquisition"
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MOG is social networking site based around music. Like last.fm and others it offers a downloadable program (Mac and Windows) that can parse your music collection and display the data on your personal MOG page.
The functionality of the program mirrors that of similar offerings from last.fm and others, but Mog-o-matic supports an impressive array of jukebox software including iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp and many more.
Once the data is uploaded to the site fellow MOG users will be able to see your most frequently listened to songs in a top ten list. MOG also offers a number of widgets to display more targeted information about your listening habits, such as top albums by week and month. Note that there doesn't see to be a way to block listings, so while your friends on MOG may not know you were dancing naked at the time, they will know you put on that Warrant album.
MOG allows you customize your page with a number of skins and widgets using the "customize my MOG" page where you can also rearrange your page elements through a nice drag-and-drop interface. MOG offers a number of automatically updated widgets that pull data from your listening history as well as some manual widgets where you fill in the data yourself, such as, what shows you're going to or a list of your favorite clubs.
To find other listeners with similar tastes you can search using the browse features or use an automated search "find MOGs like me" which searches based on your listening habits. The browse page also allows you to search by zip code which means you can meet users in your area and get tips on local shows.
Overall MOG is a nice site, it's easy to use and has good range of listeners, but it lacks a killer feature to set it apart from the pack of similar services.
However, what it lacks in features, it makes up for in community. There are a ton of social network sites on the market, but few are as well-behaved and well-spoken as the members of MOG. The MOG community is one of the most mature and insightful that I've run across. There's nary a flame war or fan-boy post to be found, which was incredibly refreshing.
MOG also boast a number of active celebrity artists like David Lowery of Cracker and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie who both regularly update their pages. If you're looking to discover new artists through streaming audio and other instant gratification tools, MOG may leave you wanting, but if you want to be part of an impressive and active community of music lovers MOG delivers.
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72182-0.html "Wired on music services"
[2]: http://mog.com/ "Mog.com"
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* A new [report from environmental group Greenpeace][1] ranks Apple Computer last among top PC and cellphone makers for its lack of "green" policies and for contributing to adverse environmental effects.
[1]: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20061206/apple-greenpeace.htm
* Yahoo released its [top ten searches of 2006][4] and for the fifth year running Britney Spears is the most searched for person in the world. Yahoo eliminates porn terms, but otherwise claims the data is unmanipulated. Also check out the [interactive version of the results][3].
[3]: http://buzz.yahoo.com/topsearches2006/categories/ "Yahoo top searches by category"
[4]: http://buzz.yahoo.com/topsearches2006/lists/ "Yahoo Top searches of 2006"
* Yesterday and this morning have seen several stories proclaiming [the beginning of the end of DRM][6]. It would be nice if that were true, but reality is a little more mundane. A few record companies, most notably Britain's EMI, are [experimenting with non-DRM MP3 downloads][5]. In total there are probably less than a hundred tracks available, which hardly constitutes the end of DRM, but at least it's a small step in the right direction.
[5]: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16181982.htm
[6]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7849/1023/ "ITWire"
* [A new version of OpenSUSE Linux][2] has been released. The release, which brings the distribution to version 10.2, features redesigned GNOME and KDE desktops and uses ext3 as the new default file system.
[2]: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2006-12/msg00004.html "OpenSUSE announcement"
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The distribution of punk music has always made it an easy candidate for online dissemination since word of mouth has always fueled the scenes. Downloadpunk seems to have recognized this and skipped many of the social features other music sites are touting. Downloadpunk seems to operate on the premise that what punk fans want is an online record store, not an online community and download punk is a darn fine store.
All songs are in 192 bit encoding which should be fine for most punk bands. Users can choose between mp3 and WMA formats. When you sign up you have the option to chose a charity, and Downloadpunk donates 1% of sales to the charities listed on the site. Song prices range from $.79, to $.99. You can also download full albums which range in price from $7.99 to $9.99. Customers can preview a thirty second sample of each song before purchasing.
You can search Downloadpunk by Artist, Album Title, Record Label or Song Title or you can browse by filtering through the various Punk sub-genres. Unfortunately there's no tag-based searching and not much in the way of recommendations, but they again if you're part of the punk scene perhaps you don't need online recommendations.
And the best part? There's no craptastic DRM. Wouldn't be very punk if there was would it?
[1]: http://www.downloadpunk.com "downloadpunk.com"
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To use GoodSearch, just enter the charity you want to support in the provided field, and then enter your search. You can change the designated charity as often as you like and there's even browser based toolbars available for download.
The results will be the same as those returned on Yahoo (a Google option would be nice), so you don't have to feel like you're missing anything in the results and you'll be helping the charity of your choice earn money.
GoodSearch can also be used to donate money to schools. There are currently over 23,000 charities and schools listed on the site.
Thanks to [LifeHacker][2] for pointing me to the site.
[1]: http://www.goodsearch.com/ "GoodSearch.com"
[2]: http://lifehacker.com/software/charity/support-charities-while-you-search-the-web-219330.php "LifeHacker on GoodSearch"
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While neither of those shows is completely gone from YouTube the clips have become somewhat scarce and are uploaded less frequently than previously.
Comedy Central hasn't publicized the iFilm partnership, but Variety.com reports that "iFilm is receiving numerous three-minute clips from the two shows that add up to most, if not all, of an episode the day after it airs."
iFilm also boast a fair amount of other Viacom owned content such as clips from MTV's The Real World and Wondershowzen.
IFilm lacks the current popularity of YouTube, but the site does have an official partnership with Viacom, something YouTube thus far lacks, and may gain some ground thanks to Viacom-owned content, which makes me wonder why iFilm isn't shouting this one from the mountaintops.
[1]: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954999.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/youtubes_copyri.html "Monkey Bites on Viacom and YouTube"
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The IMDB has a long way to go before it can claim to be web 2.0, but the new design is at least easier on the eyes and seems to load a little faster. The IMDB could have benefitted from some collapsing menus or tabs, but the new design elements are primarily visual and not functionality overhauls.
Regrettable some of the new design could even be considered a step backwards in terms of functionality. The new homepage is significantly longer and several of the small top-ten link boxes are gone.
The new design does move the IMDB toward a more standards based layout, which for the most part eschews tables in favor of more semantic markup. As a poster at the [digg article where I discovered the redesign][2] points out, there are some funny bits in the new code, such as the CSS selector #nb15iesux.
[1]: http://www.imdb.com/ "The Internet Movie Database"
[2]: http://digg.com/design/IMDB_Gets_a_Face_Lift
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The project will partner MySpace with [Sentinel Tech][3] to built Sentinel Safe, a new technology which will enable MySpace to identify and delete profiles of registered sex offenders.
Because of MySpace's popularity with young users, the sex offender problem has plagued the site for some time and has lead to growing concern about how to address the problem. Wired's own [Kevin Poulsen wrote a program months ago][2] that had reasonable success in tracking down offenders.
The new technology, called Sentinel Safe, will draw on state and federal databases to find registered sex offenders. Interestingly enough, MySpace claims that this is first time anyone has collated data from the 46 individual state tracking systems into one national database.
If that claim is true, then the new technology may have appeal beyond MySpace as well.
Unfortunately, the ease with which users create fake identities on MySpace means the new technology will be only partly effective, since it can only find sex offenders that sign up under their real name.
To combat that issue MySpace has asked Congress to introduce e-mail registration legislation. under the proposed legislation sex offenders would have to register email addresses or face parole violations.
Also note that the new technology applies only to registered sex offenders in the United States, though MySpace says it is looking into similar programs for Europe and Asia.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-05T172807Z_01_N05296258_RTRUKOC_0_US-NEWSCORP-MYSPACE.xml&src=rss
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,71948-0.html "Kevin Poulsen on MySpace sex offenders"
[3]: http://sentryweb.com/ "Sentinal Tech"
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The idea behind ODF is to provide a way for any office program on any platform to share documents with any other office program. OpenOffice.org already saves files in ODF format and Google's web-based office apps support it as well.
Even Microsoft has grudgingly acknowledged the format and plans to release plugins for MS Office 2007 which will allow users to read and write ODF files.
In related news, Novell has announced that its version of OpenOffice.org [will support Microsoft's proprietary document format][2], the confusingly named Open XML (which is not "open" in sense of open source as its name might imply).
Novell also plans to release the code to the open source community so that all versions of OpenOffice.org *could* support the MS format if they wanted.
While it would be nice to see Microsoft adopt the ODF file format for MS Office, at least for the time being the Novel announcement means OpenOffice.org users will be able to trade documents with MS Office users.
Even if Microsoft never moves to using the ODF format by default, these two announcements are still a win for users as enhanced cross-platform capabilities will benefit nearly everyone.
The new version of Novell's OpenOffice.org does not have an official release date yet. Office 2007 [will be available to consumers January 30th][3].
[1]: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=43485&scopelist=PROGRAMME "ISO ODF docs"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/windows_vista_i.html "Monkey Bites on Office 2007 release dates"
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061205/tc_pcworld/128079 "Novell to support Open XML format"
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* Microsoft has [announced a new suite of tools for designers][1], as well as a preview of the much touted "Flash killer," Microsoft Interactive Designer, which now goes by the name Expression Blend. Expression Blend, along with the other three programs, are intended to compete with offerings from rival Adobe. The new software will be available in the second quarter of 2007.
[1]: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061204/sfm044.html?.v=73 "Microsoft Expression Software"
* According to the [Proximity website][2], Apple has [acquired the video and audio software publisher][3]. Few details are available but I would expect to see the software rolled into Apple media editing products like Aperture.
[2]: http://www.proximitygroup.com/ "Proximity Group"
[3]: http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.cfm?newsid=16659&pagtype=allchandate "Macworld on Apple/Proximity deal"
* Speaking of Apple, rumors are swirling this morning about the possibility of an [ultra-thin ultra-light MacBook Pro][4]. Pure conjecture as of yet. And to add to the Mac rumor fest [Toshiba has announced a new 100 gig 1.8 hard drive][11], can new larger iPod by far behind?
[4]: http://www.macscoop.com/articles/2006/11/17/sources-confirm-plans-for-a-smaller-ultra-thin-form-factored-macbook-pro "Macscoop on Apple rumors"
[11]: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/05/toshiba_intros_100gb_hdd/ "New Toshiba Drive"
* Following the [BitTorrent company's announcement last week][5], bittorrent client [Azureus has announced version 3.0][6] and an accompanying site called [Zudeo][7]. One more small step in bittorrents struggle to legitimize itself.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/bittorrent_cuts.html "Monkey Bites on BitTorrent announcement"
[6]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061204-8348.html "Azureus announcement"
[7]: http://www.zudeo.com/az-web/Index.html "Zudeo"
* The Halo 3 beta [officially opened for new registrations][8] yesterday. Be sure to check out the [system requirements][9] before you get to excited.
[8]: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Halo-3-Beta-Registration-Begins-Today-1893.html "Halo registration opens"
[9]: http://www.halo3.com/ "Halo 3"
* And finally our thought and prayers are with James Kim. For those that haven't heard, the CNet editor's [wife and two daughters were found safe yesterday][10], but the search for Kim continues.
[10]: http://news.com.com/CNET+editors+wife%2C+daughters+found+search+continues/2100-1028_3-6140676.html?tag=cnetfd.mt "James Kim still missing"
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The survey looked at 100 popular sites in twenty different countries and tested them against the [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines][2], the international guidelines for web accessibility.
While that's a pretty daunting statistic, and a dismal failure, the survey also outlined many of the problem areas and suggests most would be fairly easy to remedy.
The most common stumbling block was Javascript, which many so-called web 2.0 sites rely on for their graphical wiz-bang features.
followed closely by a lack of alternative text for images. Screen readers and other assistive devices rely on the <code>alt</code> descriptions in <code>img</code> tags to "show" visually impaired users the graphics on a page.
Another problem the survey touches on was the use of poorly contrasting color combinations, which make Web pages difficult to read for people with visual impairment like color blindness.
Looks like [Jakob Nielson][3] needs to write another book.
And the three success stories? The only websites that met all the minimum standards were the German chancellor's website, the Spanish government website, and the British prime minister's website. The only question is how those three sites ended up in a list of the internet's most popular.
[1]: http://www.nomensa.com/ "Nomensa.com"
[4]: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-05T224424Z_01_N05332044_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-INTERNET-DISABLED.XML&WTmodLoc=TechInternet-C1-Headline-9 "Reuters on UN Study"
[3]: http://www.useit.com/ "Jakob Nielson on web standards and accessibility"
[2]: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ "W3C guidelines for web accessibility"
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The Acrobat line of products now includes Reader, Elements, Standard, and Pro versions ranging in price from free for Reader to $449 US for the Pro version. Early 2007 will see the release of a fifth version, 3D, which features CAD and other 3D imaging integration.
Adobe, who controls the industry-standard Portable Document Format (PDF), is pushing the collaborative side of off the so-called office 2.0 arena. The new Acrobat reader opens with a dialog asking if you want to "go beyond Adobe Reader." The link then loads a full tutorial and overview of Adobe's sharing and online PDF creation tool, Adobe Acrobat Connect.
The new Reader features a vastly simplified toolbar. Gone are the multitude of toolbars and palettes that used to open by default when viewing a PDF file. Even better, Reader now offers user customizable toolbars, a feature I hope to see in other Adobe products.
Other new features include the ability to create PDF documents from any application that prints, including one-button creation from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Adobe Reader also sports a new option to let you fill and submit forms, save data and digitally sign documents.
Those forms can be created using the full versions of the Acrobat family and then sent out and anyone with Reader who can then fill in and digitally sign the documents.
The a new comments feature allows for online (and off) comments within the document space (see the screenshots below).
Another prominent feature (one of the few default buttons on the toolbar) is the "Start Meeting" button which will launch Adobe Acrobat Connect. Connect, the Adobe-hosted software, provides real-time online collaboration through Adobe Flash Player.
My testing revealed a couple glaring negatives, first the Mac installer has no uninstall and what's worse, if you run the installer a second time it will simply reinstall the program. I don't know if the Windows installer is any smarter, but Adobe certainly could have done better.
Interestingly, instead of going the Universal Binary route Adobe has actually released two separate versions of its Acrobat Line for Macs, one for Intel Macs and one for older PowerPC models.
Overall the new suite is impressive and the redesign elements and user customization features bode well for Adobe's other programs which are expected to be updated some time next year.
[1]: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Reader/8.0/index.html
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Live Search Books will offer full text searches of scanned books, but for the time being the collection is limited to public domain works from the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto.
Microsoft says they will be adding copyrighted books in the future, but only those submitted by publishers or authors. This differs from Google who has scanned everything in the participating libraries' collections, but only offers full text searches of public domain books.
Thus far several publishers and authors have sued Google, as has the US Authors Guild, Microsoft apparently wishes to avoid the lawsuits.
So far the searching is very limited with no advanced options or search operators available but hopefully that will change as the beta progress. If you find something you'd like to save or print Live Search Books offer PDF files for download including a link to download the entire book.
So far the site does not appear to support the Safari Browser but Firefox and IE work just fine.
Microsoft also announced the addition of medical content to the Windows Live Academic Search. Academic Search is a full texts search of journals for institutions that subscribe to them. Today's additions reported quadruple the amount of medical information in Academic Search.
[1]: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books
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The converters are free and Windows only.
Mac users and others those that don't have any version of MS office may want to try using
[Docx-Converter][2]. Docx-Converter is a free online document conversion service that will pull the readable text out of a .docx file and save it as plain text.
Obviously since the tile Docx-Converter generates is plain text, its far from ideal, but until the Mac converters arrive in Spring, it may be the only option available.
[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466 "download Microsoft Office Compatibility pack"
[2]: http://docx-converter.com/ "Docx-Converter"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/office_document.html "Monkey Bites on Office Document Formats"
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* Adobe has [released version 8 of their popular Acrobat Reader software][7]. Among the [list of new features][8] are web-based collaboration (via Connect), shared reviews, enhanced search options and more.
[7]: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html "Adobe releases Acrobat Reader 8"
[8]: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Reader/8.0/WS00E809B7-1119-4416-8731-033B20B684B3.html "Reader 8 new features"
* According to a new study, [cell phones *do not* cause cancer][1]. The studied 400,000 Danish cellular users, some of whom were tracked for two decades, and concluded that mobile phone usage did not increase the risk of cancer.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-06T152620Z_01_N05280092_RTRUKOC_0_US-CANCER-CELLPHONES.xml&src=rss "Cell Phones don't cause cancer"
* [MySpace is reportedly in talks with Cingular][2] to put the popular social network on Cingular phones. The deal would give the millions of MySpace users mobile access to the site, but so far there are no details on pricing or features. And there's no risk of cancer.
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/fool/20061205/bs_fool_fool/116534248119 "MySpace to go wireless"
* A serious [new flaw has been found in Microsoft Word][3] that allows an attack to excute malicious code when an infected Word file is opened. So far there's no patch and Microsoft recommends that you excercise caution when opening files from unknown or untrusted parties. See the above link for a list of effected versions.
[3]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx "Zero day attack"
* Microsoft is [releasing Live Search Books today][4], a competitor to Google Book Search. The service is in beta at the moment and only available via a browser, but in the future MS plans to integrate Live Search Books in the the rest of Live Search.
[4]: http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6141162.html "Live Search"
* Yahoo has undergone a serious executive shuffle/shakedown. Check out the Epicenter Blog for [some analysis][5] [on the changes][6].
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2006/12/more_on_yahoo.html
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2006/12/even_more_on_ya.html
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CBS has also signed a deal with Apple's iTunes Music Store to sell the revived label's music and videos.
The CBS Records label is apparently CBS's attempt to keep more of it's content in-house. Rather than paying licensing feeds to other labels for the use of their music, CBS Records will be hunting for unsigned musicians who write and perform their own songs which can be used to promoted CBS's prime-time TV shows.
By owning rather than licensing content CBS reduces costs and gains another source of revenue via online digital sales of the music.
In a CBS press statement CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves says, "with more consumers choosing the online download model as the preferred way to purchase their favorite songs, we have an opportunity to use our unique and broad collection of media platforms to create a new music label paradigm for a small price of admission."
For those less versed in jargon, I think what Moonves means is, people are spending a lot of money on online music and CBS wants some.
Once things get rolling CBS plans to integration music from CBS Records artists into the network's programming. At the end of each show CBS will display artist and purchasing information for interested viewers.
CBS, which recently [demonstrated the merits of giving away video on YouTube][2] seems to understand the online market a little better than many of it's rivals and I have no doubt that the new label together with it's iTunes tie-ins will benefit the company.
I would, however, like to know why companies that don't sell vinyl records insist on calling themselves "record companies," is "music company" just not catchy enough?
[1]: http://www.cbsrecords.com/news.shtml "CBS Records"
[2]: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i74d7f1097c5379d6e7722df5ec031798 "CBS YouTube channel a success"
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For those that may have overlooked it, Google became an accredited registrar of domain names almost two years ago, but this is the first time they've done anything with that approval. Rival services from Yahoo have been around for years.
The domain registration service has been rolled into the [Google Apps for Your Domain][2] offering. Google's service offers private listing, a DNS and domain management control panel and comes automatically configured to work with other Google services. You also get free email, calendar and IM services courtesy of Google Apps for Your Domain.
Google clearly wants to be the one-stop shop for small businesses looking to get started with the web and the auto-integration with other services certainly makes Google's new registration services tempting.
Google's new registration service sees the company partnering with [GoDaddy][3] and [eNom][4], and frankly the announcement is a little unclear on whether or not Google is handling the registration or whether it's really just doing a de-branded resale of GoDaddy and eNom's services.
So far Google doesn't have a bulk registration discount or pay-in-advance discount, but the $10 price tag is on par for the field and certainly better than old skool registrar, Network Solutions, who still charges $34.99 a year. Ouch.
[1]: https://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/new.html "Google Domain Registration"
[2]: https://www.google.com/a/ "Google Apps for Your Domain"
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy_Software "Wikipedia on GoDaddy"
[4]: http://www.enom.com/ "Enom"
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[1]: http://www.jamglue.com/ "Jam Glue open to public"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/jamglue_remixin.html "Monkey Bites on Wired"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72127-0.html?tw=rss.index "wired review of remixing sites"
* Reddit, which is owned by Conde Nast, who also owns Wired, [reports][4] that a disc containing usernames, passwords and some emails was stolen, possibly compromising users. But then again, who uses their real email address to sign up for web services? however on the outside chance you use the same username and password for other online accounts, Reddit recommends changing them.
[4]: http://reddit.com/blog/theft "Reddit data stolen"
* Possibly inspired by recent Flickr upgrades, Google's [Picassa Web Albums][5] have been updated to support videos, tags, bulk captions and online printing to its growing list of services. [via [Lifehacker][6]]
[5]: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en_US&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2F&passive=true&service=lh2 "Picassa Web Albums Upgrade"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/picasa/picasa-web-albums-adds-features-222154.php "Lifehacker on Picassa Upgrade"
* I try and try and try to ignore it, but it just won't go away. Yes it's true, Apple iPhone rumors don't die they just wander over to Gizmodo and get catchy headlines like, "[Gizmodo Knows: iPhone Will Be Announced On Monday][7]." I hope that's true, if only so the rumors stop.
[7]: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/gizmodo-knows-iphone-will-be-announced-on-monday-221991.php "Like the Shadow, Gizmodo knows"
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* Microsoft [strikes back][1]. In an effort to address Windows Vista cracks, a post on the Windows Genuine Advantage blog outlines what will happen to pirated copies of Vista: "Windows Vista will use the new Windows Update client to require only the 'frankenbuild' systems to go through a genuine validation check. These systems will fail that check because we have blocked the RC keys for systems not authorized to use them. The systems will then be flagged as non-genuine systems and the experience will be... losing certain functionality (e.g. Aero, ReadyBoost) and the system will have 30 days to activate with a good product key."
[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2006/12/14/the-frankenbuild-monster.aspx "MS Addresses Vista Piracy"
* [ThinkFree][2], maker of popular web-based office tools, will offer a [paid version of its application suite][3] that will give users the ability to work offline. The service will cost between $5 and $10 a month.
[2]: http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo "ThinkFree"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6143755.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "ThinkFree To Offer Offline Version"
* [eMusic][4], a DRM-free MP3 retailer for independent artists, has announced that is has now [sold over 100 million songs][5]. The lucky 100 millionth downloader will be immortalized in song by The Barenaked Ladies and will be featured as a bonus track on their upcoming new album.
[4]: http://www.emusic.com/ "eMusic.com"
[5]: http://digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com/2006/12/13/emusic-crosses-100m-mark/ "eMusic sells 100 million songs"
* It still doesn't appear to be on the main page of [Adobe Labs][6], but an enterprising Digg reader located the [download url][7] for the Photoshop CS 3 beta. Be forewarned: it's a 685 MB monster for Mac, the Windows version is 337 MB.
[6]: http://labs.adobe.com/ "Adobe Labs"
[7]: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Fphotoshop "Photoshop CS 3 beta download"
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This morning I found a link on Digg to a handy [list of Unix shell tips and tricks][1] that has already been saving me some time. Michael Stutz over at IBM's Developer Works writes:
>When you use a system often, you tend to fall into set usage patterns. Sometimes, you do not start the habit of doing things in the best possible way. Sometimes, you even pick up bad practices that lead to clutter and clumsiness. One of the best ways to correct such inadequacies is to conscientiously pick up good habits that counteract them. This article suggests 10 UNIX command-line habits worth picking up -- good habits that help you break many common usage foibles and make you more productive at the command line in the process.
One of my biggest annoyances in the shell is when I try to cd to a directory and only then discover that I haven't created that directory yet. This simple line from the article solves that issue by creating the directory if it doesn't exist:
cd tmp/a/b/c || mkdir -p tmp/a/b/c
I suppose if I were smarter I would have thought of that myself, but that's what the article is good at pointing out, tricks that, if you had the time to stop and think about them for a while, you'd probably solve yourself. But who has that time when there's work to be done?
[1]: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html "Unis tips and tricks"
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* Google had a big week. There were [updates][1] to the Firefox toolbar, a patent search engine [launched][2], Google Earth [added Wikipedia][8] content and more, the Google Web Toolkit [became][3] open source and finally Google [entered][4] the domain registration fray.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/google_upgrade_.html "Google Updates Firefox Toolbar"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/google_launches.html "Google Patent Search"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/the_google_web_.html "Google Web Toolkit goes Open source"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/domain_registra.html "Google Domain Registration"
[8]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/google_earth_ad.html "Google Earth updates"
* The Popular link sharing site StumbleUpon [released][5] StumbleVideo, a new video referral service.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/stumblevideo_ne.html "Stumble Video"
* Gotuit [released][6] SceneMaker, a new video-sharing tool that lets you identify scenes within videos from YouTube and Metacafe, then share just those scenes with your friends.
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/stumblevideo_ne.html
* Wikia decided to [give it all away][7], offering free software, free bandwidth, free storage, free computing power, free content over the internet and 100 percent of ad revenue goes to the site's owner. The business model was unclear.
[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/what_if_we_give.html
* We [took a first look][9] at Mozilla's Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 and liked what we saw.
[9]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/mozilla_has_rel.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1"
* And finally, our favorite Old Gray Lady, *The New York Times*, awoke to find herself in the 21st century with links to these newfangled "news-sharing" sites, Digg and Newsvine, embedded at the bottom her articles. Rumor has it that screen real estate is called "[Iconistan][11]."
[10]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/nyt_adds_sharin.html "NYT adds social site links"
[11]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72282-0.html?tw=wn_culture_10 "Wired on Iconistan"
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It turns out the answer is mainly yes, it is illegal in the United States to knowingly link to copyright infringing materials. There's an excellent and very thorough rundown of all the relevant legal precedents on [Webtvwire][2] that I encourage you to read.
But first some background; QuickSilverScreen is a link sharing site almost solely dedicated to helping its visitors find copyright infringing material. Because QuickSilverScreen itself doesn't *host* any of the video clips you might think that the site is perfectly legal.
But you would be wrong. In fact, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), even linking to copyright infringing material is illegal. The DMCA does provide certain "safe harbor" exemptions however, but QuickSilverScreen does not qualify for them. In order to obtain so-called "safe harbor" an online service provider must, according to the [docs on Wikipedia][3]:
>* not have actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing (512(c)(1)(A)(1)).
* not be aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent (512(c)(1)(A)(2)).
* upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, must act expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material. (512(c)(1)(A)(2) and 512(c)(1)(C))
* not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, in a case in which the service provider has the right and ability to control such activity (512(c)(1)(B)).
There are several more requirements but the above is sufficient to illustrate why QuickSilverScreen didn't stand a chance in court. The site is fully aware that the content it links to is infringing and that, at least in the U.S., puts them in violation of the law.
What's unclear legally is how far this trail of linking goes; for instance, I just linked to QuickSilverScreen, does that make me liable? If you link to this article which links to QuickSilverScreen does that make you liable?
And where does that leave blogs and other personal sites that might occasionally link to a copyright infringing video? According to Dr. Stephan Ott, a [lawyer interviewed on Webtvwire][4], "if you know that a video is pirated and you link to it, it is very likely that courts will see the link as unlawful."
So what happened to QuickSilverScreen? At first the site rather cleverly converted its links to text boxes, but in the end QuickSilverScreen has done what all questionably legal sites seem to do -- moved offshore beyond the reaches of the DMCA and Fox lawyers.
[1]: http://quicksilverscreen.com/
[2]: http://www.webtvwire.com/linking-to-infringing-content-is-probably-illegal-in-the-us/ "Webtvwire on QuickSilverScreen"
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCILLA#Requirements_to_obtain_the_safe_harbor "Wikipedia entry of DMCA Safe Harbor"
[4]: http://www.webtvwire.com/linking-law-expert-dr-stephan-ott-talks-about-linking-to-pirated-video/ "Webtvwire"
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It's tough to enter a market that Google is already in, but for those of you who love Analytics, Clicky still might have a few features even Analytics doesn't offer. For one thing, though it's nowhere near live, Clicky updates far more frequently than Analytics. And Clicky is promises a new service coming soon that is live; Clicky claims it will be much like Digg Spy, but personalized for your site.
Clicky offers all the standard features of site tracking services such as a list of IP addresses, type of browser, user operating system, unique visitors, total page hits and more.
Clicky offers the ability to track users individually and see how they got to your site, what pages they viewed and what content appealed to which users. You can also track custom data, for instance, if your site has user accounts, you can see who logged in and what pages they clicked.
The Clicky dashboard is easy to read and fully customizable, it even allows you to disregard IP address so your own click won't show up in your site data.
Clicky may not meet the needs of large businesses, but small site owners looking to track traffic may find it does the job well.
[1]: http://www.google.com/analytics/ "Google Analytics"
[2]: http://www.haveamint.com/ "Mint"
[3]: http://www.analog.cx/ "Analog"
[4]: http://clicky.roxr.net/ "Clicky"
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There's no need to update Google Earth, the new layers are automatically visible under the Layers menu. That said, if you haven't already, [check out the beta 4 version][4] of Google Earth.
To access the new content when you're using Google Earth just look for the Wikipedia globe icon or Panoramio "star" icon and click them to see the associated content. For Wikipedia entries you'll get the summary and a link to open the full entry in your default web browser. The Panoramio entries show the photograph and offer links to add comments or upload your own photos via the Panoramio site.
Clicking on a Panoramio photo in Google Earth will take you to that page on Panoramio which features integrated Google Maps that can give you directions to that location.
In addition to the Wikipedia and Panorama data, Google Earth now includes information from the [Google Earth community][3]. Represented in Google Earth by a yellow "i" icon, the content comes from user posts and uploaded photographs.
I've always been a huge fan of Google Earth and with the new content it just keeps getting better.
If you like the idea of user generated content on your maps you should also have a look at [Wikimapia.org][5], which isn't affiliated with Google Earth or Google in any way, but it does have some nice content.
[5]: http://wikimapia.org/ "Wikimapia.org"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/google_earth_ve.html "Monkey Bites on Google Earth beta 4"
[3]: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0 "Google Earth Community"
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/opening-my-eyes-to-whole-new-world.html "Google Blog on new Wikipedia content"
[2]: http://www.panoramio.com/ "Panoramio.com"
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To use Pikipimp just upload a photo and then you can drag-and-drop supplemental images into your picture. You can then drag, rotate and resize the beards, bikinis and other items to fit over the content of your image.
Below the main editing area is a layers "palette" with options that amount to a stripped down version of Photoshop. You can drag and drop to re-order the layers, control the transparency of a layer and manually enter dimensions.
When you're editing and resizing the images may at times be blurry or pixelated to reduce load time, but clicking the "preview image button" will show the sharpened final result.
When you have everything just the way you like it, you can save the image and Pikipimp will generate some cut-and-paste code you can post on any page you want. There's also a link to download a .jpg copy of your creation.
The photo below was at some point Wired columnist Tony Long who I felt, like the rest of us here at Wired.com, could use a makeover into a Nordic Jesus Pimp.
Pikipimp isn't going to change the world, but it is an impressive piece of online software and a fun way to while away the the last few hours of your monday.
[1]: http://www.pikipimp.com/ "Pikipimp.com"
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* IBM has [announced a new storage technology][1] it calls "phase-change" memory. The prototype, developed by a consortium of companies led by IBM, it reportedly 500 times faster than flash memory devices and uses half the power.
[1]: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/003280.html
* The New York Times has [added links to Digg, Facebook and Newsvine][2] to all its free articles. According to the press release, the tool is labeled "share" and positioned with the e-mail and print tools.
[2]: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20061211005683&newsLang=en "New York Times Adds Sharing Tools"
* The Listening Post blog [reports][3] that Creative Commons folks have "teamed" with Pump Audio, a commercial music licensing firm, to "promote their respective licensing programs to their respective clients."
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/creative_common.html
* Google added a feature to Gmail over the weekend which lets you check other POP3 mail accounts via the GMail interface. The new service, [Mail Fetcher][4], may not make GMail [perfect][5], but it's a welcome addition for those of us with multiple email addresses to check.
[4]: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=21288 "GMail Mail Fetcher"
[5]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/09/uh-oh-gmail-just-got-perfect/ "TechCrunch calls GMail 'perfect'"
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Openserving will run on an easy-to-use version of the MediaWiki software and seems aimed to compete with other packaged services like Movable Type's TypePad.
Wales announcement comes as part of the ongoing Le Blogs conference in Paris France.
The new hosting promises, according to the announcement, "free software, free bandwidth, free storage, free computing power, free content over the internet," and will give 100 percent of ad revenue generated by the site to the "bloggers and website owners who partner with Wikia."
If you're thinking what's the catch, well there doesn't seem to be one. The only requirement is that the sites link back to Wikia.com which generates its revenue from advertising.
To address the widespread incredulity and curiosity about Wikia's business plan, Wells said in a press release, "we don't have all the business model answers, but we are confident -- as we always have been -- that the wisdom of our community will prevail."
Wikia may not be concerned with revenue at the moment since they recently took four million in funding from private sources and last week Wikia partnered with Amazon for an undisclosed sum.
Interestingly, Amazon has its own low-cost, data storage and website-hosting services, but Wales says that's not part of Wikia's deal with Amazon at the moment. "Potentially," [he tells Reuters][2], "but this is really completely separate"
While back links to Wikia.com may get Wikia some additional traffic and therefore generate more revenue, even Google, king of free internet services, takes its cut of advertising revenue.
By offering everything for free and turning down the established web 2.0 revenue stream of advertising, Wikia has set sail in uncharted waters; we'll be keeping an eye on the service to see how it plays out.
[1]: http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_unveils_OpenServing
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&symbol=&storyID=2006-12-11T120348Z_01_N11490141_RTRIDST_0_INTERNET-WIKIA.XML&pageNumber=1&WTModLoc=InvArt-C1-ArticlePage1&sz=13 "Reuters on Wikia"
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Early in the week several security updates to Microsoft's Office for Mac software appeared on the companies site for download. Although never officially announced, many users found and downloaded the updates hoping to patch the recently disclosed "zero day" flaws in Microsoft Word.
It turns out that the updates were in fact pre-release software intended for internal testing and not meant for the public. Microsoft has apologized for what it calls a human error and removed the downloads.
The blog post goes on the say that users who installed the not-ready-for-prime-time updates should uninstall them, but fails to provide any suggestions for uninstalling. ITWire [reports][1] that the installers themselves do not have an uninstall option and no directions or how-tos can be found on Microsoft's site.
There are no specifics available on what the software patched or what potential pre-lease hazards there may have been, but the update apparently affected only 7 files. If you installed the software you might consider erasing the whole program and reinstalling from disc, just to the on the safe side. Alternately, if you have a second system with unpatched versions of the seven files in question, you could simply copy the unaffected files.
[1]: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/13/information-on-accidental-posting-of-pre-release-security-updates-for-office-for-mac.aspx "Mac for Office Update snafu"
[2]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8069/53/ "ITWire on Office update"
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Patent Search uses the same technology as Book Search, which means you can scroll through pages and zoom in and out on text and illustrations. So far you are limited to viewing the original documents but the [Google Blog][2] says that saving and printing features will be coming soon.
There's also an Advanced search feature that allows for additional criteria in your searches such as specific patent numbers, inventor name and filing dates. The advanced operators can also be used from the main search by entering the appropriate keywords like <code>ininventor:</code> or <code>intitle:</code>.
Google says there are currently 7 million patents in the database and many more will be added in the future. At the moment the patents stop around the middle of 2006, but the records go back over 200 years.
The records are limited to U.S. patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which has its own patent search available via its [website][3]. Google claims that its conversion of Patent and Trademark Office documents makes them easier to search that the existing format.
Many may be wondering how many people really want to search through patents, but Google has historically done well with its niche search offerings like Books, Maps and others.
That said, patents are little more obscure but, if nothing else, enterprising journalists and bloggers can now scour the patent office for patents from Apple, Microsoft and others to see what features and products might be in the works.
However, because Patent Search is currently limited to granted patents, juicy Apple or Microsoft patents that have been applied for, but not yet granted, won't be part of the results.
Google's Patent Search might not be an everyday destination for most people, but the speed and familiar Google results listing page sure beats the pants off the old Patent Office search engine.
[1]: http://www.google.com/patents "Google Patent Search"
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-you-can-search-for-us-patents.html "Google Blog on the new Patent Search"
[3]: http://www.uspto.gov/main/sitesearch.htm "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent search"
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* Google [announces a new patent search][1]. Using the full text of the U.S. patent corpus, [Google Patent Search][2] allows you to find interesting patents. Similar to [Google Book Search][3], Patent Search allows you to scroll through pages and zoom in on text and illustrations. Print and save features are said to be in the works.
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-you-can-search-for-us-patents.html "Google Blog on Google Patent Search"
[2]: http://www.google.com/patents "Google Patent Search"
[3]: http://books.google.com/ "Google Book Search"
* The internet is in a tizzy this morning about John McCain's [proposed internet legislation][4]. The legislation, aimed at catching child pornographers, would make any site with user registration, liable for the all the content on the site. In addition, webmasters would be required to "report all illegal images or videos posted by their users or face fines up to $300,000." That includes blogs with comments. Ouch.
[4]: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/13/mccain-war-on-blogs/ "Think Progress on John McCain's bill"
* In addition to launching a patent search engine, Google was [awarded a patent][5] yesterday for the design of the Google search page. Google's patent is a design patent covering the layout and visual look, rather than the function.
[5]: http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6143586.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on Google design patent"
* Bill Gates met with some bloggers who represent "leaders in various aspects of the web community" to answer questions. There were far too many softballs questions, but Steve Rubel has [a nice summary][6] of the session.
[6]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/12/our_sixty_minut.html "Bill Gates' blogger Q and A"
* Computer manufacturer Fujitsu has announced a [300 gigabyte notebook SATA hard drive][7]. The new drive utilizes perpendicular recording and should be on sale in February of 2007.
[7]: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2006/20061212-01.html "Fujitsu 300 gig hard drive"
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* A new service [Jaxtr][1] lets people call you from your MySpace, Friendster and other social networking site. With the Jaxtr widget a user enters their mobile number and their phone rings, on answering, a call is put through to your phone. Should be handy for stalkers.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-14T114828Z_01_N13329642_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET-TELEPHONE.xml&src=rss "Jaxtr debuts"
* Joining what will no doubt be a growing string of silly predictions as the year draws to a close, tech research and analysis firm Gartner claims that [Vista will be the last major update][2] to the Windows OS. According to Reuters, Gartner believes "the era of monolithic deployments of software releases is nearing an end and Microsoft will participate in the trend toward more flexible updates." Because as we all know the world's existing OS code bases cannot possibly be improved any more.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-14T135332Z_01_N13326302_RTRUKOC_0_US-GARTNER-PREDICTION.xml&src=rss "Gartner predicts no more windows"
* Attention Anton Levy fans, there is now a ["satanic" edition][5] of the popular Ubuntu Linux OS. Actually it's more like a theme than a bona fide distro, but who can pass up a slogan like "The Distro of the Beast?"
[5]: http://parker1.co.uk/satanic/disciples/ "Get your satanic Ubuntu"
* And finally, we do love a good "hack" even if it's not software, which is why we were blown away by this [scooter "hack"][3] on the Make blog. [found via [BoingBoing][4]]
[3]: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/12/scooter_hack.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 "Make Blog presents world's greatest scooter hack."
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/14/worlds_greatest_scoo.html "BoingBoing on scooter hack"
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With GWT, developers can code and debug AJAX applications in Java and then deploy applications using the GWT compiler to translate the Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript.
The [guidelines for the GWT][4] outline the following workflow:
>1. Use your favorite Java IDE to write and debug an application in the Java language, using as many (or as few) GWT libraries as you find useful.
2. Use GWT's Java-to-JavaScript compiler to distill your application into a set of JavaScript and HTML files that you can serve with any web server.
3. Confirm that your application works in each browser that you want to support, which usually takes no additional work.
One of the reasons Google initially created GWT was to use it for their own development. Programs like GMail are incredibly difficult to create and debug because of myriad of differences between web browsers.
As the GWT homepage puts it, GWT makes creating AJAX applications, "easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language."
Interestingly, in addition to open-sourcing the code, the GWT developers have also released their entire development process to the public. The new "[Making GWT Better][3]" page includes development discussions, code reviews, future milestones, and the codebase for developers to browse through.
If you're a web developer navigating the treacherous waters of AJAX development, you might want to give GWT a try.
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/making-ajax-development-easier.html "Google Web Toolkit initial announcement"
[1]: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ "Google Web Toolkit"
[3]: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/makinggwtbetter.html "Making GWT Better"
[4]: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/overview.html "GWT overview"
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The new service is aimed at business users and will allow users to click on a name in Office Word, Outlook or Communicator and determine that person's availability and make a phone call.
For example, when a colleague sends you an e-mail, clicking their name in Office Outlook will check their phone availability status and place a person-to-person call or arrange a conference call with others.
Office Communications Server is an extension of the previously named Live Communications Server 2005, which allowed for IM, chat and other protocols, but had no support for VoIP.
The new Office Communications Server will work with many existing corporate communications structures, such as those available from Cisco, Siemens and others.
Microsoft's VoIP will use the [Session Initiation Protocol][2], the standard signaling protocol for Internet conferencing and telephony, unlike Skype for instance, which uses its own proprietary network.
The new Office Communications Server also supports audio, video and web conferencing as well as the ability to handle call waiting, forwarding and transfers.
According the Reuters report, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has predicted that within 10 years all business communications will be Web-based, meaning hundreds of millions of people will change how they communicate.
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-12T055233Z_01_N11256623_RTRUKOC_0_US-MICROSOFT-VOIP.xml&src=rss
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The interesting thing to note is that for Swedish users there is no legal reason for Perspektiv to block traffic to allofmp3, rather the broadband provider elected to do so, according the The Pirate Bay, after meeting with Swedish and Danish anti-piracy organizations.
The Pirate Bay claims that Perspektiv Bredband "clearly states in their press release that it is a moral and not legal standpoint." I can't read Swedish, so I can't confirm that Perspektiv did in fact say that, but either way, given that allofmp3.com is not illegal in Sweden, Perspektiv's move to block the site is a bit odd at the least.
For some background on the Pirate Bay see Quinn Norton's [recent coverage][2] for Wired.com.
Many might be tempted to dismiss the whole thing as irrelevant given the questionable legality of TPB in the U.S., but what's interesting about this story is not necessarily the isolated case, but the larger implications.
What happens when your favorite site blocks you from accessing it because the ISP that provides your internet connection does something your favorite site objects to?
I'm not suggesting that ISP's have the right to block content, but it does happen. And this is hardly the first time a site has blocked incoming users, Google blocks all kinds of traffic coming from China as part of its partnership with the Chinese government.
Protest and protest actions like boycotting a product or company have a long history in the United States, but I'm not sure that such actions transfer well to the internet.
For instance, if consumers are unhappy with Acme widgets they can boycott Acme widgets, tell all their friends to boycott Acme Widgets and Acme Widgets may choose to change their policies based on lost revenue.
But even in the midst of such a boycott if you did not agree with the boycott, you can still go to Acme Widget and buy whatever you want. In other words the consumer is not directly effected.
However in this case the consumer is caught in the middle. Now not only can Perspektiv Broadband users not access allofmp3, but now they can't access TPB either. The end result *could* be that enough Perspektiv users complain that company gets rid of its blocking software, but either way the burden of boycott is not on Perspektiv directly, but rather its customer base who must complain enough to initiate change.
It's easy to understand the Pirate Bay's position (and please keep in mind that The Pirate Bay is one of the largest sites in Sweden and that allofmp3 is legal under Swedish copyright law), but the decision to target the users of an ISP rather than the ISP directly seems unwise.
While I agree that Perspektiv's site ban is ultimately a far more chilling threat to concepts like net neutrality, I also hope that we aren't headed toward a future where individual sites begin blocking users as an indirect way of sending a message to abusive companies.
[1]: http://piratbyran.org/perspektiv/english.php "Pirate Bay blocks Perspektive Broadband"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71543-0.html "Secrets of the Pirate Bay"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/the_morning_reb_7.html "Monkey Bites' Morning Reboot Dec 12"
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* Yesterday a Microsoft patent [surfaced that reveals][1] the company has filed for a patent for "DVR-based targeted advertising." According the the document Microsoft wants to create a database of ads on DVR players to serve up "fresh" advertisements on your DVR recordings. And here we thought DVR's main feature was to skip ads.
[1]: http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/10/microsoft-patents-dvr-application-to-provide-targeted-advertisin/ "Engadget on Microsoft DVR patent"
* Yahoo [opened its "Panama" advertising system][2] up to new users yesterday. The service was previously only available to existing customers, but yesterday marked the beginning of Yahoo's plan to phase out the old system by the end of Q1 2007.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-12T135537Z_01_N11163848_RTRUKOC_0_US-YAHOO-ADVERTISING.xml&src=rss "Yahoo to switch to Panama Advertising system"
* Yet another [flaw in Microsoft Word ][3]has been discovered. This one allows attackers to gain remote access to user's system. There's currently no patch, but the Microsoft advisory claims "the vulnerability is being exploited on a very, very limited and targeted basis." The flaw affects Word 2000, 2002 and 2003, but does not affect the upcoming Word 2007.
[3]: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/10/new-report-of-a-word-zero-day.aspx
* The Dutch are official the first nation to [pull the plug on analog television][4]. According the AP report, hardly anyone noticed the change which should be music to many a government ear. Similar plans are in place for the US as governments around the world try to free up much needed bandwidth in the broadcast spectrum.
[4]: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2716983&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
* The Pirate Bay is [fighting back][6] against a Swedish ISP that blocked Swedish comsumers from visiting the controversial Russian site allofmp3.com. According the press release, The Pirate Bay will block all traffic from the Swedish ISP, Perspektiv Bredband. Could this be the start of a new trend -- a roundabout way for site owners to get back at draconian ISP regulation?
[5]: http://piratbyran.org/perspektiv/english.php "Pirate Bay blocks Swedish ISP"
* And finally, as a blast from the past, Wired's Christopher Null has a great look back at the [10 gadgets That Changed The World][6].
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos6/2006/12/1_rca_model_630.html
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UCLA officials say the database accessed by the attackers contained personal records with the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, home addresses and other contact information. The database in question did not contain any banking or credit card information, but given the amount of personal data it did contain, the attackers could potentially steal the victim's identities.
So far the University says that there is no evidence that information has been used in any way, but UCLA officials will be sending out a letter later today to those effected by the breach encouraging them to keep an eye on their consumer credit files and consider enabling fraud protection.
According to the UCLA announcement:
>an unauthorized person exploited a previously undetected software flaw and fraudulently accessed the database between October 2005 and November 2006. When UCLA discovered this activity on Nov. 21, 2006, computer security staff immediately blocked all access to Social Security numbers and began an emergency investigation.
As noted above, the exploit and attacks appear to have been going on for just over a year. UCLA security technicians discovered the exploit when they noticed a series of suspicious database queries.
In the [UCLA press release][2] Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams says, "We take our responsibility to safeguard personal information very seriously." He went on to assure students, "my primary concern is to make sure this does not happen again and to provide to the people whose data is stored in the database important information on how to minimize the risk of potential identity theft and fraud."
The Los Angeles Times [reports][3] that there are no "comprehensive statistics on computer break-ins at colleges do not exist." However, the Times goes on to say, "in the first six months of this year alone, there were at least 29 security failures at colleges nationwide, jeopardizing the records of 845,000 people."
[1]: http://www.identityalert.ucla.edu/index.htm "UCLA security breach"
[2]: http://www.identityalert.ucla.edu/press_release.htm "UCLA press release"
[3]: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucla12dec12,0,7111141.story?coll=la-home-headlines "LATimes on UCLA security breach"
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The Nightly Build is a wrap up of stories we didn't have time to cover in depth, but deserve mention nonetheless. Note that The Nightly Build is currently an Alpha release.
* It had to happen eventually. [RemoteControlMail][1] will receive your snail mail, open it, scan it to PDF and email it to you. Just what I need someone reading my mail. [Via [Lifehacker][2]]
* German lawmakers are on a rampage. First they want to [ban video games][3], now they've added [online gambling][4] to the list.
* Microsoft VP Jim Allchin has [responded][5] to the fervor stemming from an old email that turned up as part of an [Iowa lawsuit][6]. Among some other brow-raising prose was this tidbit: "I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft." For at least one night Mac fanboys didn't need the Viagra.
* Is wifi a health hazard? The [debate rages][7] on...
[2]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/mail/check-your-snail-mail-online-221222.php "Lifehacker on Remote Control Mail"
[1]: http://www.remotecontrolmail.com/ "Remote Control Mail"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/12/germany_to_outl.html "Wired Blog Gamelife on Germany's attempts to ban FPS games"
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-12T203910Z_01_L1238361_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-INTERNET-GAMBLING.xml&src=rss "Germany wants to ban online gambling"
[5]: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/12/title.aspx "Setting the Record Straight"
[6]: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061209135113443
[7]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72265-0.html?tw=wn_technology_2 "Wired.com on Wifi health worries"
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Is MySpace really that popular? Well maybe, but comScore says that one month at the top could be an anomaly and comScore's figures differ from those published by Nielsen, which found that Yahoo held the top spot in November, with Fox coming in at number two for overall web traffic.
The comScore figures putting Fox at number one are based on page views per site rather than unique visitors. Even comScore's numbers still put Yahoo as the web leader in unique audience, pulling in almost 130 million visitors in November while Fox trailed at a distant sixth with just under 74 million.
In what could be a decided drawback to web 2.0 technologies, some analysts say that Yahoo's increasing use of AJAX technologies for maps, e-mail and other services may have lowered their overall page views.
Because AJAX fetches data in snippets, as it's needed, rather than reloading an entirely new page, Yahoo's traffic may appear to be less than it actually is. MySpace on the other hand relies on more traditional methods of page loading.
Either way the news isn't good for Yahoo which recently restructured with a major staff reorganization in hopes the change would help Yahoo overtake longtime rival Google in the advertising realm.
Pundits have long held that there's a statistic for everything, which may well be true, but one thing's for sure, MySpace is more popular than ever.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-12-13T024649Z_01_N12379148_RTRIDST_0_FOX-YAHOO.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna "Fox sites top Yahoo in traffic scores"
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For the most part the update catches the Firefox toolbar up to where the Google IE toolbar has already been for some time, but there's also some new things that haven't made it to the IE version yet.
The biggest thing missing from the Firefox version was the Google Bookmark menu which stores your bookmarks to your Google account so you can access them wherever you go. This feature already exists in IE, but now Firefox users can enjoy the same integration.
The other standout feature is one that hasn't made it to the IE toolbar yet. Taking a tip from [Zoho][3], The Google Toolbar for Firefox can now open certain spreadsheets and other office docs within the browser window via Google Docs and Spreadsheets. This eliminates the need to download the file first and makes browsing office documents online faster and easier.
There are also some new buttons for Google services that can be placed in the toolbar, including one for GMail, which provides tight integration with Google's popular email service. In the toolbar preferences you can check a setting to have all email links auto-open in GMail, and from the new GMail toolbar button you can snap directly to recent messages in your inbox.
There's also a new button to send links via GMail, SMS or Blogger.
Overall a very nice update that should make Firefox users happy.
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/nifty-toolbar-upgrades-for-firefox_12.html "Google Toolbar for Firefox upgrade"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/zoho_announces_.html "Monkey Bites on Zoho"
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Predictive modeling is all the rage lately, we even looked at a social networking site, [Betocracy][4] built around predictive market a while back. Microsoft's new demographics search purports to predict what sort of people are searching for your terms. The tool is intended mainly for businesses looking to understand their ad markets better, but it's kind of interesting just to play around with it.
The data is drawn from the MSN Search logs for the past month and can be searched by either url or search term. Microsoft says the data is collected anonymously.
There's bunch of other cool free tools in the Microsoft adCenter Labs aimed at businesses including my personal favorite, [Keyword Mutation Detection][2], which will show you the most common misspellings for a given search term.
Another interesting one is the [Detecting Online Commercial Intention][3], which rates the level of intent to purchase for each search query. For example, someone searching for "digital camera" is probably looking to buy someone, whereas a search for "Monkey Bites" is not a "commercial" search.
Microsoft adCenter Labs has some great business tools and best of all they're free.
[1]: http://adlab.msn.com/DPUI/DPUI.aspx "MS adCenter Labs search demographics"
[2]: http://adlab.msn.com/keyMut/default.aspx "MS adCenter Labs - keyword mutation"
[3]: http://adlab.msn.com/OCI/OCI.aspx "MS adCenter Labs - detecting online commercial intention"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/betocracy_is_a_.html "Betocracy"
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* In addition to charging a new monthly fee as we mentioned in the reboot, Skype also [released version 3][1] of their Windows app today. New features include public chats, music recommendations via last.fm and more.
[1]: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/ "Skype v3"
* One of Apple computer's top secret research labs flooded earlier today destroying all prototypes of the iPhone. Just kidding. About the iPhone. And the top secret lab. But an Apple building [really did flood][2].
[2]: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4848164 "Apple Building Floods"
* The New York Times has a great [blog post][3] about Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist confounding Wall Street analysts at a recent Q and A. When asked how Craigslist maximizes revenue Buckmaster said: "That definitely is not part of the equation. It's not part of the goal."
[3]: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/craigslist-meets-the-capitalists/ "Craigslist meet the capitalists"
* According to Wired Mag columnist Bruce Sterling, [the internet of the future][4], "will be wrapped in a Chinese kung fu outfit, intoned in an Indian accent, oozing Brazilian sex appeal." Sweet!
[4]: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/posts.html?pg=6 "Bruce Sterling on the future"
* And finally, the bossman extraordinaire, Chris Anderson, has a great [article on his blog][5] about what radical transparency would mean for the future of news organizations. And now that I know what that phrase, "radical transparency," means, I promise I'll never show up at the office wrapped in cellophane again. Man this stuff itches.
[5]: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/12/what_would_radi_1.html "Radical Transparency"
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* Wired has a [first look][2] at the official 1.0 release of Windows Vista along with some commentary on why you might want to [hold off][3] on upgrading.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos7/ "Wired photo gallery of Vista Screenshots"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/reviews/0,72295-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 "Why You Don't need Vista Now"
* Popular photo sharing site Flickr is giving users an early holiday gift in the form of [free bandwidth upgrades][4]. Flickr accounts now get 100mb worth of uploads a month instead of 20mb, and Flickr Pro accounts no longer have an upload limit are all.
[4]: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/12/ho_ho_ho_flickr.html "Flickr users get free upgrade"
* Mozilla has released the first [public beta of Thunderbird 2][5] the popular email client from the makers of Firefox. The new version features support for tags, improved filing tools, better support of extension and more. The release is intended for testing purposes only.
[5]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html#download "Thunderbird Beta 1"
* Skype [rolled out][6] a new $30 annual subscription plan this morning to make unlimited calls to mobile and land phones in the U.S. This is the first unlimited calling plan for the VoIP provider, previously the service was part of free promotion.
[6]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/technology/13skype.html?ex=1323666000&en=1ae098601517fc02&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "NYTimes on Skype announcement"
* Microsoft is now [offering a security patch][7] for one of the "zero day" flaws in MS Word. The second flaw, discovered more recently, is not addressed in the security update.
[7]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-dec.mspx "Microsoft Security pathc summary"
* Google is [planting solar trees][1]. From the Wired article: "search giant Google (is) joining other companies in planting groves of pole-mounted solar panels ... generating clean power and providing a little shade at the same time."
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72292-0.html?tw=rss.index "Google and other plant solar trees"
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When is comes to beta software some offerings are really beta in name only while others are sloppy, bug-ridden nightmares better labeled alpha. The first beta release of Thunderbird falls somewhere in the middle of that spectrum. Mozilla says beta 1 is intended for developer testing only, which is probably a good guideline since not all the new features are quite stable yet.
The final release of Thunderbird 2 is slated for early next year and if the initial beta is any indication a 2.0 should be impressive.
New features in the Thunderbird beta abound. The most immediately obvious change is the GUI and icons which have been redesigned and cleaned up considerably. Clearly the Thunderbird team has been working hard to improve usability and address design issues.
But the new features aren't all fluffy and eyecandy, there's some great new tools as well.
The beta release brings support for "tagging" mail messages as means of organization. Just select a message, add a tag and Thunderbird can recall your mail according to the tags you define. Tagging is even extended to saved searches which create "smart" mail folders based on your search criteria.
The smart folder concept will be familiar if you've ever used any of Apple's iApps, but the addition of tags makes it much more customizable and more powerful.
Other new features include back and forward buttons to move through your mail browsing history just as you would in a web browser. Curiously these two buttons were not in the default toolbar, I had to go digging to find them. Hopefully in the 2.0 release they'll be enabled by default because once you use them, you'll wonder how you got by without them.
There's also a number of small additions that refine the email experience but aren't immediately obvious. The most useful of these is what the release docs, call "folder summary popups." Summary popups act like link popups in a browser, mouseover a folder with unread messages and a small summary appears with sender, subject and body snippet. It's a handy way to get a quick synopsis of a new message when you're in another folder, without having to switch views.
Other nice touches include folder views in the folder pane. It's now possible to customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders and flip between them without effecting the other panes.
On the downside, IMAP performance in Thunderbird is still slow, though it is improved somewhat and in fairness there isn't really an email program on the market that has what I would call snappy IMAP performance. POP mail speed remains excellent and switching between folders, views and mailboxes is notable snappier.
Some of the performance boosts can probably be attributed to the beta being the first Universal Binary for Mac, I haven't tested Thunderbird on Windows or Linux.
So how beta is it? Too beta to use fulltime. There were a number of strange behaviors, lag times, hangs and crashes. However developers and others wanting to test the software and report bugs should go ahead and download a copy.
Be sure to see the [known issues list][3] on the Mozilla developer site.
The rest of us will just have to be patient, but by the looks of this early release, Thunderbird 2.0 will be worth the wait.
[1]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta release notes"
[3]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html#issues "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 known issues"
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The W3C is really isn't being hyperbolic when they say style sheets have "changed the face of the web." We've come a long way from those dark days of Angelfire-hosted tables-based layouts and that progress is in no small part a result of CSS.
By embracing the age-old programming concept of separating content from display, style sheets have allowed designers and amateurs alike to create the fancy and often truly beautiful web that we enjoy today.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of CSS, the W3C has launched an [improved validation service][2] for web programmers who want to test their designs for CSS standards compliance. The W3C is also inviting developers to [submit][3] their favorite CSS designs which will be integrated into the CSS 10 Gallery.
And the future of CSS looks good as well, browser support for CSS3 is already beginning to appear. Apple's Safari browser already supports several aspects of the new spec and other browsers are beginning to as well.
CSS3 is still in development, but it promises even more features and at the same time implementation easier. CSS3 includes all of CSS2 and adds new selectors, more powerful borders and backgrounds, vertical text, speech and more.
And for those that think CSS isn't helpful, consider this: it got me this job. Somewhere around 1998 I was trying to make one of those awful Angelfire "homepages" and in course of searching to understand just what the hell CSS was for, I ran across a Wired-owned tutorial site named Webmonkey. Just hit the fast-forward button and here we are. Thanks CSS.
So happy birthday CSS. I don't like to think about where the web would be without style sheets, it's not a pleasant thought.
[1]: http://www.w3.org/2006/12/css10-pressrelease.html "CSS 10 Press Release"
[2]: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ "CSS Validator"
[3]: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS10/reactions.html "CSS 10 Gallery"
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* [CSS turns 10][1]. Sorry we missed your birthday CSS, but truthfully the belated birthday cards are usually much funnier than the regular ones. Yes, Tuesday marked ten years of Cascading Style Sheets on the web. No word on the impending funeral services for the <code><table></code> tag.
[1]: http://www.w3.org/2006/12/css10-pressrelease "CSS turns ten"
* [According to Groklaw][2] Jeremy Allison (of samba fame) has "resigned from Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement, which he calls 'a mistake' which will be 'damaging to Novell's success in the future.'"
[2]: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061221081000710 "Allison resigns"
* It was bad enough that Microsoft touted RSS in IE7 like it was some revolutionary new technology, but now the Redmond giant is trying to [patent the technology][3]. According documents filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Microsoft is seeking a patent for "finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser." Time to stop drinking your own Kool Aid guys.
[3]: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060288011%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060288011&RS=DN/20060288011 "Microsoft RSS patent application"
* It's the first nerd restaurant. Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, has [launched][4] a new restaurant, uWink, where each table has touch-screens for ordering food and playing video games. Bushnell says the target audience is 21 to 35 year old women, though he also thinks it will appeal to kids. Ya think?
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-22T140035Z_01_NCE337636_RTRUKOC_0_US-FOOD-RESTAURANT-UWINK.xml&src=rss "Nerd Restuarant"
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Public outcry quickly followed since Microsoft had little if anything to do with the development of RSS. Dave Winer, the self-described inventor of RSS, [lashed out][4] via his blog claiming "Presumably they're eventually going to charge us to use it."
"This should be denounced by everyone who has contributed anything to the success of RSS," Winer writes.
But Winer is wrong about a couple of key points. First of all the documents in question are not patents, but *applications* for patents which have not yet been granted. Second of all, from my reading anyway, Microsoft is not patenting RSS, but RSS within Vista/IE7. Of course I'm not a patent lawyer, I could be wrong about that.
The big mystery is what Microsoft is planning to do with the patents if they are awarded them. The sad state of patent affairs in the United States has led to several cases of Microsoft being [sued ][5]for technologies they did arguably invent simply because some else owned a generic patent on them.
Nick Bradbury author of popular RSS application FeedDemon, [writes][3] on his blog:
>But before the geekosphere goes into "patent attack mode," let's take a breather and think about why this patent was filed. For example, quite often companies file patents just to protect themselves from lawsuits. There are plenty of sleazebags who file patent applications on obvious ideas, and then wait for someone like Microsoft to infringe those patents... Yes, it sucks that the patent process has devolved to such a state, but this is the reality of the environment that today's businesses have to operate in.
The only thing that's for sure is Microsoft did not invent RSS and the do not yet have a patent for it either. The RSS entry on Wikipedia [provides some background][3] if you're curious who did invent RSS. The short answer -- lots of people working together and separately.
It would be nice to see Microsoft release some information on what they plan to do with these patents, but for now we'll just have to wait and see whether the U.S. Copyright and Patent Office grants them.
[1]: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060288329%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060288329&RS=DN/20060288329 "Microsoft Patent application"
[2]: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/06/24/432390.aspx "IE blog on RSS in IE7"
[3]: http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/microsofts_cont.html "Nick Bradbury on Microsoft patent claims"
[4]: http://www.scripting.com/2006/12/21.html#aTaleOfCorporateAtrocity "Dave Winer on Microsoft patent claims"
[5]: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1661094,00.asp "Microsoft settles with InterTrust"
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The biggest new feature is the ability to digg podcasts. In an attempt to broaden its appeal, Digg is moving beyond web headlines to "deeper" content like podcasts.
Among the new features in the podcast section is the ability to listen to dugg podcasts within the Digg site. Dugg podcasts can be browsed by series and individual episodes which makes it easy to find podcasts by topic and jump to the most popular episode to see if you like it. Currently the podcasts section is in beta and will require a Digg account to use.
The new layout also sees Digg putting a greater emphasis on the video portion of the site. In addition to giving video its own spot on the top navigation bar, it's now possible to watch videos directly within Digg. Videos from supported services (YouTube, Metacafe and more) can be viewed in an AJAX overlay which embeds the video player and also provides a link to digg the video.
The news pages now offer the ability to sort based on the most popular stories within certain time periods, including the last twenty four hours, last seven days, last thirty days and the last year.
Another nice new feature is the "Top 10" list in the right hand column of most pages on the site which allows you to see at the glance what is "hot" right now on Digg. The new top 10 feature changes categories as you zoom into the the site, showing the top ten list for whatever category you're browsing through.
The new layout will be welcomed by Digg users with large monitors and the top navigation makes finding your way around much easier (which is how it should have been all along).
[1]: http://blog.digg.com/?p=57
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Google Maps Mars? Oh yes. The NASA press release says:
>As the first in a series of joint collaborations, Google and Ames will focus on making the most useful of NASA's information available on the Internet. Real-time weather visualization and forecasting, high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon and Mars, real-time tracking of the International Space Station and the space shuttle will be explored in the future.
NASA says there will be Google Earth flyovers available for the surfaces of Mars and the moon in the near future. Do you role that into Google Earth or is it time to re-brand -- Google Universe maybe?
The NASA data comes from the Ames Research Center which is not far from Google's Mountain View campus.
The Google-Ames partnership began to [take shape][2] last year, but this is the first announcement of practical applications and future plans.
So far there is nothing new on the Google site, but we'll be sure to keep you posted.
But the announcement is much more than cool nerdery like Mars flyovers, NASA and Google intend to collaborate in a variety of areas, including user studies and cognitive modeling for human computer interaction.
The announcement also mentions the possibility of "science data search utilizing a variety of Google features and products."
"NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity," says Chris C. Kemp, director of strategic business development at Ames.
"Even though this information was collected for the benefit of everyone, and much is in the public domain, the vast majority of this information is scattered and difficult for non-experts to access and to understand," he adds.
One line toward the end of the press release caught my eye, "NASA and Google also are finalizing details for additional collaborations that include joint research, products, facilities, education and *missions*." (emphasis mine)
Google *in* space? Now there's a thought. Perhaps Google will get around to that global free wifi I've been dreaming of and they've been denying.
[1]: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_Ames_Google.html "NASA-Google Parter for Space Act Agreement"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,69014-0.html "Wired on Google/Ames"
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* In addition to [partnering with NASA][1], Google also [announced][2] it has acquired [Endoxon][3] a European mapping company. According to the Google Blog, the Endoxon acquisition will "enhance Google geo products worldwide."
* Gizmodo wasn't lying, they were just misleading us in a crass attempt to generate page hits over the weekend (judging by comments on Digg, this may have been a bad idea on Gizmodo's part). Anyway Yes, the iPhone [arrived][4] today. The iPhone being a rather dull VoIP phone from Linksys, not the much rumored cellphone from Apple.
* The [Digital Watermarking Alliance][7] has come out in favor selling music in the MP3 format using . See Wired's [Listening Post][6] for more details.
* A company called KishKish has released a lie detector plugin for Skype. Ryan Singel over at Wired blog 27B Stroke 6 wants your help [testing it][5].
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/google_space_go.html "Monkey Bites on Google NASA deal"
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/mapping-europe.html "Google Blog On Endoxon acquisition"
[3]: http://www.endoxon.com/ "Endoxon"
[4]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6189145.stm "The iPhone"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/12/help_27b_test_s.html "Help 27B Stroke 6"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/labels_could_se.html "Listening Post on Digital Watermarking Alliance announcement"
[7]: http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/ "Digital Watermarking Alliance"
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* You, me, we are Time magazine's [Person of the Year][1]. It seems that our contribution to the web trend of "user-generated" content is more significant than Iranian nuclear weapons, delusional North Korean dictators and a host of other seemingly more important people. But then again, when the bombs start flying, it will be nice to have a decent collection of break dancing videos to watch while eating spaghettios and waiting out the U238 half life.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-17T134242Z_01_N15184106_RTRUKOC_0_US-TIME.xml&src=rss "You are Person of the Year"
* The Wall Street Journal will [launch an online stock tracking feature][2] next month. The online content is part of the WSJ's recent downsizing move. From what I can tell the new stock tracker will be free, though WSJ subscribers will access get additional content.
[2]: http://online.wsj.com/submkt/tourc/STARThere.html "Wall Street Journal Markets Data Center"
* [MySpace Mobile][3] will go live today. The service, which partners MySpace with Cingular, allows subscribers to post photos, blog entries and comments to their MySpace pages for $2.99 a month.
[3]: http://cingular.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=1801 "Cingular partners with MySpace"
* It's about time Santa got some geo tracking tech in that sleigh. With that in mind Google Earth is offering a [Santa Tracker][4] overlay. From the Google Earth homepage: "Every day from December 12th until Christmas Eve, a clue will appear outside Santa's North Pole workshop which, if you can solve it, will lead you to a toy hidden in a Google Earth satellite image. And every day, the location of the previous day's toy will be revealed."
[4]: http://earth.google.com/santa/ "Santa in Google Earth"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/12.18.06/Mon/sony.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/12.18.06/Mon/sony.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5f160d1..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/12.18.06/Mon/sony.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -According to London's Financial Times, Sony will soon be [offering movie downloads][1] for the popular PlayStation Portable (PSP) game console. The move will pit Sony against Apple's iTunes Store which began offering video downloads early this year.
The article claims the users will be able to buy a movie from Amazon and other Sony partners and download it onto a Sony MemoryStick. The user can then legally transfer the film via the MemoryStick to one Sony PSP.
Sony is currently distributing a 4 gigabyte version of the MemoryStick which the company claims can hold up to ten movies. Presumably they mean heavily compressed movie files.
For now Amazon is the only official partner onboard although Sony is said to be in talks with both MovieLink and CinemaNow about possible distribution deals.
One player decidedly not invited to the party is Apple's iTunes Store. Currently, the iTunes Store's movie selection is limited to offerings from Disney Studios, whereas Sony will offer films from the Home Entertainment of Sony Pictures.
With more than 20 million PSPs sold worldwide Sony, the demand for PSP movies certainly exists, at least in theory.
Sony expects to launch the service in the first quarter of 2007 after securing more deals with online video providers.
[1]: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f290b0ec-8df6-11db-ae0e-0000779e2340.html "FT on Sony Announcement"
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* AllofMP3.com [gets the legal smackdown][1]. Several major record labels are suing the Russian music site claiming it has been profiting by selling copies of music without their permission. Warner Bros., Arista, Capitol and others are behind the suit.
[1]: http://www.mosnews.com/money/2006/12/21/mp3court.shtml "Labels sue AllofMP3.com"
* Seagate, the worlds largest hard disk manufacturer, will [acquire EVault][2], an online data storage service for $185 million. Will Seagate drives start shipping with a one-click back-up-to-web storage solution?
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061221/ap_on_hi_te/seagate_evault_acquisition "Seagate buys EVault"
* [FeedYourZune][3] is a new podcast-to-Zune RSS program that takes care of automatic download and syncing of Audio and Video Podcasts to your Zune. The software also sports RSS video playback, playlists, favorites and more.
[3]: http://feedyourzune.com/ "FeedYourZune"
* Last week we told you about The Pirate Bay's decision to [block Swedish ISP Perspektiv Broadband][7] because Perspektiv had blocked its customers from accessing AllofMP3. Well, it seems that on some level The Pirate Bay's move worked, whether under pressure from negative publicity or some other reason, Prespectiv has lifted its ban of AllofMP3 and The Pirate Bay has in turn [stopped blocking Prespectiv customers][7].
[6]: http://thepiratebay.org/blog/46 "The Pirate Bay Blog"
[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/the_pirate_bay_.html "Monkey Bites on TBP"
* It's nearly Christmas and with that in mind, check out [The Luddite's Christmas gift guide][5] and If you haven't seen it yet, definitely take a look at the uncensored version of the Justin Timberlake SNL sketch *[A Special Christmas Box][4]* (NSFW).
[4]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA "YouTube - a Special Christmas Box"
[5]: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72335-0.html?tw=rss.index "The Luddite's Christmas Gift Guide"
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The reaction from consumers was massive. MacHeist sold 16,821 bundles, which though hard statistics are unavailable, given small size of the audience to begin with, might be the largest, most successful sale of Mac shareware ever.
MacHeist is the brainchild of Phill Ryu an eighteen year old mac user who previously created and hosted My Dream App, and John Casasanta, developer of iClip. "John came to me with the idea of a bundle sale, something similar to MacZot," Ryu says. "We started brainstorming about how to make it more fun than just another mac bundle sale and MacHeist was the result."
Ryu says they had no idea that MacHeist would be as successful as it was. "We weren't expecting the kind of sales we ended up with. We told the developers we were expecting somewhere around 5000 sales." The final numbers put MacHeist at over triple the initial forecast.
But the Ryu concedes that at least some of the additional sales may have come about because of controversy surrounding the event.
You might wonder where the controversy lies in a sales event that triples its expectations and donates $200,000 to charity.
According to some commentators, the most important people, the developers themselves, were left out of the equation. The controversy centers around how much money the developers were paid versus how much MacHeist itself made.
Though no figures have officially been released, some developers who declined to participate have reported that they were offered a flat rate around $5000.
Longtime Mac blogger, John Gruber, writes on Daring Fireball, "respectable agents or managers take no more than a 15 percent cut of their clients' revenue, and usually not more than 10 percent. That's true in sports, it's true for authors, and it's true for entertainers."
While that may be true, Mac shareware developers are hardly comparable to celebrities. Most sports celebrities for instance, make more than in an hour than all the developers of MacHeist bundle apps combined will likely make in the lifetime of their products. In other words %10 of a celebrity's profits is a lot of money, but 10% of the Mac developer's profits isn't.
What makes the supposed controversy even sillier is that none of the developers themselves are complaining. In fact most are quite happy with the sale. Oliver Breidenbach writes on his blog, "I don't care how much money the MacHeist guys make, I care about how much my company makes and how the Heist brings us forward towards our goals."
Additionally, because sales so exceeded their expectations, Ryu says MacHeist passed a bonus on to all the developers. "We've given pretty substantial bonuses, which work out to about double the money of the original agreements."
Ryu says that developer feedback has been positive. "Nine of the ten developers are very happy with the sale," he says. The tenth developer asked not to be named and delined to comment for the story.
"I feel like it brought a lot of focus to mac shareware." Ryu counters. "We had a lot of feedback from customers who said they had never even heard of shareware let alone bought."
If you missed out on the bundle, Ryu wouldn't give a date, but he did say that MacHeist will be offering another shareware app bundle sometime next year.
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* There's a new player coming to the field of facial recognition, Swedish startup Polar Rose will [launch a public test][1] of its software in March. Polar Rose's software analyzes digital photos to locate faces and convert to resulting data from 2D images to 3D models.
* The Federal Court of Australia has [ruled][2] that linking to copyright infringing materials is illegal. The case in question involves the now-defunct MP3s4free.net, a user-submitted link site leading to copyright infringing materials. But wait, I thought we were Person of the Year for our user-generated content? Oh, right...
* There are [reports][3] of a worm that may be circulating via a feature in Skype's popular VoIP service. The worm sends messages via Skype Chat, asking recipients to download and run a file called sp.exe. Sp.exe is a trojan horse that will then steal passwords and download additional files.
* The CEO of Phillips Electronics, Paul Zeven, has an interesting [op/ed piece][4] on CNet in which he wonders "if consumers really want all this. Have we gone too far? Are we in step with the needs of today's American consumer?" Needs? *Needs*? We don't need your stinking needs, just gimme my robotic vacuum cleaner and step away from the Wii.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-19T150920Z_01_N19231410_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET-RECOGNITION.xml&src=rss "Polar Rose to launch next year"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6144590.html "CNet on Australian Copyright Case"
[3]: http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=7841 "Skype Worm"
[4]: http://news.com.com/2010-1041_3-6144335.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "Do you need gizmos?"
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* Sony has finally [settled][1] with the State of California for a measly $750,000 on charges of violating "state laws prohibiting false or misleading advertising, unfair or unlawful businesses practices, and unauthorized access to computers." The Sony fiasco involved a CD that secretly installed a program on users hard drives as an attempt at DRM. There should definitely be at least two more zeros on the end of that settlement figure.
[1]: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005915959 "Sony settles with California"
* Popular social bookmarking site del.icio.us has a new [developer API][3] coming soon. Details are few thus far, but there is a screencast preview. Among the cool new features is the ability to display tags that other people have applied to your page.
[3]: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/12/preview_of_the.html "del.icio.us API"
* And just to balance the last item, Google has gotten rid of an API. The search giant quietly [removed its SOAP search API][4] earlier this month and is telling developers to switch to the AJAX API instead. Perhaps not coincidentally the AJAX API embeds ads on the users page, whereas the SOAP API did not.
[4]: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006996.html "Google ditches SOAP"
* The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Rago has an op/ed piece entitled *[The Blog Mob][2]* with the lede: "Written by fools to be read by imbeciles." Ah, thanks Joe. Wait a second, you're writing for a "Journal" and that journal displays its [entries in reverse chronological order][7]... Joe, are you saying you're a fool? (Note the first link may require registration -- natch)
[2]: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009409 "Fools and imbeciles"
[7]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog "Wikipedia definition of a blog"
* And finally, it has nothing to do with software or the web, but it's pretty darn remarkable: "Japanese man [survives][5] 3 weeks in the outdoors by hibernating." [via [BoingBoing][6]]
[5]: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/061220/K122004AU.html "Japanese Man survives by hibernating"
[6]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/20/japanese_man_survive.html "BoingBoing on hibernation"
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After the jump is the full text of an email interview with Wil Shipley, "Chief Monster" at Delicious Monster Software maker of the popular Mac application [Delicious Monster][1], which was part of the MacHeist Shareware bundle.
<b>There's was some negative reaction to MacHeist's profits versus that of developers, do you feel cheated at all?</b>
I don't feel "cheated," since I knew exactly what the terms of the deal were going in -- I agreed to a fixed amount so they could include my software in a bundle for a week.
The point that most of the detractors are ignoring is that none of us knew how successful the bundle would be -- not the developers, not the guys at MacHeist. They were taking as much of a risk as we were -- if all of their site's visitors had said, "Nice site, but I'm not interested in the bundle" then they would still have been liable to pay all of us developers a fixed amount. There was simply no way to accurately guess how many of the people who were on the MacHeist site might decide to buy the bundle at the end of the game. We were all gambling.
Now, in fact the bundle was enormously successful, more than any of us had ever thought, so MacHeist made a killing. I guess I could whine about this, but such is the nature of gambles -- they assumed more of the risk, and as such they got the bigger payoff when the jackpot hit. Plus, MacHeist actually decided to double what they are paying us developers after it hit so big.
Sure, it twinges a little to think they made something like half a million dollars in two months, but that's largely just jealousy. My reasoning behind agreeing to be in the bundle was pretty straightforward: the first version of Delicious Library has been out for over a year, and so it doesn't get covered a lot in the press -- nobody wants to review a product that is considered "old", and have everyone say, "Dude, I've been using that since, like, your mom used to ride her dinosaur to school!" Exposure is much harder to get at this point, so bundles and sales and other kinds of events are much more attractive to me.
If Phil had come up to me next year sometimes after Delicious Library 2 had shipped and offered me the same bundle -- well, he would have been turned down. But at this point what I have from the bundle is: (a) a pile of cash, (b) a ton of exposure, (c) a week of increased non-bundle sales from said exposure, and (d) 16,821 new customers who might potentially upgrade to 2.0 or recommend 1.0 to their friends.
My philosophy on software sales has always been, if I could GIVE my software to half the people in the world, and they would recommend it to the other half and they all would buy it, I'd be the richest guy who ever lived. The problem with that abstract theory is somehow figuring out how to divide the computer users of the world in half, because if you accidentally give your software to EVERYONE in the world you're boned. This bundle offered the opportunity to get my software into the hands of what I believe to be connected Mac users, at a steep discount for them.
<b>Would you do it again?</b>
If there's ever a MacHeist 2 or similar bundle, I'll certainly consider participating (depending on how long Delicious Library 2 or Delicious Interiors has been out, or whatever), but I'm going to ask for a lot more money. The MacHeist team is a victim of their own success here -- now that everyone in the world KNOWS how popular their bundles are, we KNOW that they aren't taking that much risk, and so the risk/reward calculation is different the second time, and we'll all ask for a bigger slice. C'est la vie!
[1]: http://www.delicious-monster.com/ "Delicious Monster"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72333-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 "MacHeist Is a Bundle of Joy"
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Previously Pandora was somewhat limited in its sharing tools. You've always been able to email station to friends whether or not they were Pandora members, but there weren't many tool for interacting with other Pandora users. The focus of the site was clearly on the music and search tools.
While the focus of Pandora hasn't radically shifted, the new features do put some additional emphasis on Pandora users and community, rather than just services.
All the new profile features come with privacy controls, users can set their profiles public or private and turn comments on and off. It would nice if Pandora had an option to control the privacy of comments rather than just turning them on and off, for instance perhaps an option to allow trusted users to comment but block everyone else. Unfortunately that isn't currently possible.
In addition to the new profile features, there's also a couple of new search possibilities that let you find other users with similar tastes. When you find another user with a station that fits your musical taste, you can add that person by clicking the blue "bookmark this person" button on their profile page (assuming their profile is public of course).
While not exactly revolutionary, the new features bring Pandora more in line with competitors like [last.fm][4] and give yet another way to discover new music. Of all the services I [reviewed][3] last month for Wired, Pandora continues to deliver the most exciting and varied recommendations.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/the_morning_reb_13.html "The Morning Reboot, Wednesday December 20"
[2]: http://www.pandora.com/ "Pandora"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72182-0.html?tw=wn_technology_software_9 "Fine Tune Your Music Discoveries"
[4]: http://www.last.fm/ "last.fm"
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* The new version of the popular blogging platform, [Blogger][2], is out of beta. [According][1] to Google: "the old version of Blogger is not dead, but it would like to retire for a little while... maybe go to Hawaii or play World of Warcraft all day?"
[1]: http://buzz.blogger.com/2006/12/new-version-of-blogger.html "Blogger out of beta"
[2]: http://www.blogger.com/start "Blogger"
* The Wall Street Journal [reports][3] that Ticketmaster has bought a 25 percent share of the social music site [iLike][4]. Ticketmaster hopes to use links on iLike to <strike>rip off consumers</strike> sell tickets. I really enjoy iLike, hopefully Ticketmaster won't screw it up.
[3]: http://users1.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-users1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116657976118655285.html%3Fmod%3Drss_whats_news_technology "WSJ on iLike-Ticketmaster deal"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/post.html "Monkey Bites on iLike"
* "It's Pat" as a ringtone? Apparently yes, for Cingular customers anyway. Cingular has [partnered with Saturday Night Live][5] to offer multimedia downloads, including video clips and "original material produced with the mobile screen in mind." And yes, famous sketches as ringtones.
[5]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-20T092931Z_01_N20333885_RTRUKOC_0_US-SNL.xml&src=rss "Cingular to offer SNL sketches, ringtones and more"
* Popular social music site [Pandora][6] has added some [new social features][7] like listener profiles with musical preferences and listener searches.
[6]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72182-0.html?tw=wn_technology_software_9 "Wired.com on Pandora and others"
[7]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/19/pandora-goes-social/ "Techcrunch on Pandora"
* The Free Software Foundation [launched][8] a new anti-Microsoft website called BadVista.org earlier this week. The FSF claims that BadVista.org has a "twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights."
[8]: http://badvista.fsf.org/ "BadVista.org"
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Zoho is pushing their wiki as "wiki for the rest of us," with some nice features like a WYSIWYG editing interface with spell checking, revision history and difference comparisons.
Creating a wiki is one-click simple, just fill in the form information and the wiki will be added under your username with the address something like: mywikiname.wiki.zoho.com. Note that the name of your wiki is not editable after you create it, though you can change the title at any time.
Under the settings button you can control outside access to your wiki by making it public, private or limited to a select group of members.
Wikis are customizable with number of skins available and in addition, users can upload a logo or other image. There's also an option to control the position of the nav bar on the public wiki pages.
Zoho wikis can handle a number of embedded Zoho objects like Zoho Sheet charts, Zoho Show slide shows and Zoho Creator applications, as well as outside content like YouTube videos and more. Any changes to the Zoho object are automatically synced both ways whether the edit is made in the Wiki or the Zoho app.
In total Zoho users can create three wikis and each of those wikis can contain an unlimited number of pages.
Like most of Zoho's offerings the new Wiki feature is free for registered users.
[1]: http://blogs.zoho.com/general/introducing-the-zoho-wiki/
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/zoho_announces_.html "Monkey Bites on Zoho"
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Or perhaps you just want to have two, three or even ten different designs available for your readers. Well it isn't hard to serve up multiple style sheets. Just add the appropriate <code>link</code> tags to your document's header.
Of course if that were the end of the story there wouldn't be a need for a tutorial. Naturally that isn't the end of the story.
The W3C spec says that browsers should offer users a way to switch style sheets, it even suggests that browser manufacturers offer a drop–down menu or tool bar. But there's one browser that fails to implement that suggestion, anyone care to guess which one?
So what to do for poor Internet Explorer users who have no way to switch style sheets? A List Apart (ALA) has the answer in a fine tutorial entitled *[Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets][1]*.
In the end you'll need to add a smidgen of Javascript to your pages, but don't worry, it isn't too difficult and ALA author Paul Sowden provides all the necessary code.
ALA is also a fantastic reference for all sorts of other CSS solutions including the famous [Suckerfish dropdown][2] menu.
[1]: http://alistapart.com/stories/alternate/ "Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets"
[2]: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ "Suckerfish dropdowns"
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* Listening Post tells you how to [turn your Wii into an iTunes Jukebox][1] using Opera.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/turn_your_itune.html "Listening Post on Wii"
* 27B Stroke 6 [points out][2] all the fun things about flying during the holiday season. "People who sneak lighters past security are heroes in airport smoking lounges."
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/12/27b_traveling_n.html "27B Stroke 6 on holiday flying"
* Gear Factor [claims][3] wireless USB is coming next year. "Expect printers, laptops, cameras and other devices to start sporting built-in Wireless USB after the middle of the year."
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2006/12/wireless_usb_co.html "Gear Factor on Wireless USB"
* Bodyhack [reports][4] that Cleveland doctor is all set to do face transplants as soon as the find suitable candidate. "For the transplant, the entire skin flap of a patient's face and possibly parts of the scalp, ears and neck would be replaced."
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2006/12/first_full_faci.html "Bodyhack on face transplants"
* John Brownlee over at Table of Malcontents makes me rethink my decision to give up caffeine; the man is prolific with a capital p. Today Table paid homage to [the world's oldest punk rocker][5], and [nude fencing][6]. Nude fencing. Is that really a good idea?
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/the_death_of_th.html "Death of the World's Oldst Punk Rocker"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/morning_thing_n_2.html "Nude Fencing"
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First there was a more than thirteen hour [blackout][1] of Google's social networking site Orkut. While few in the States may have even noticed, rumor has it panic and confusion reigned in the streets of Brazil.
The message on the site claimed that it was "under construction" which might imply that some new features were on the way, but not only is thirteen hours way too long for a feature upgrade, we've yet to see an announcement from Google explaining the downtime.
Next on Google's oops list came the revelation that some user accounts in the massively popular GMail service had [lost all their email][4]. Google representatives [emailed TechCrunch][3] to say:
>Regretfully, a small number of our users — around 60 — lost some or all of their email received prior to December 18th.
Then there was the case of the disappearing sex blogs which BoingBoing [covered][7] throughout the week. It seems that a number of sex blogs disappeared or dropped significantly in their google rankings. And mind you these are not porn splogs, but informational blogs like Violet Blue's [tiny nibbles][5] (note the landing page is okay but the rest is decidedly **NSFW**).
No one seems to know exactly what happened to the sex blogs, though Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land has a [thorough analysis][6] of what could have gone wrong. Whatever the cause, it was more bad news for Google.
Outside of soft/hard ware failings Google also took something of a beating in the blogosphere for their [annual Zeitgeist][5], the top ten search terms of the year.
Many readers were suspicious that the otherwise unpopular social networking site Bebo was the number one search term of 2006 according to Google. In Google's defense it's worth noting that Google Zeitgeist tracks the biggest "movers" in search -- the search terms that went from nothing to a lot over a period of time.
In other words, Bebo had the biggest amount of *growth* in 2006, measured in raw percentage, over 2005's numbers, which explains why it's number 1 -- **not** because it's the most-searched term on Google.
But fine print as never been the blogosphere's strong suit and the outcry was such the Google [posted a clarification][2] expounding the criteria behind the Zeitgeist.
The Zeitgeist controversy may be made of misunderstanding and hot blooded bloggers, but Blake Ross, wunderkind of Firefox fame, had a more serious [bone to pick][8] with Google. Ross says that Google's new self promotional tactics are eroding the public trust.
Earlier this week Google searches with terms like "blog," "photo album" and "speadsheet" began displaying "tips" which suggest Google's own services in those fields. Ross accuses Google of abusing its powerful position to promote the company's own products.
Of course Yahoo! and other search engines already do something similar, but many have always held Google to slightly higher standard and the new self promotional efforts seem, well, heavy handed.
For instance I frequently search for old Monkey Bites posts using the <code>site:</code> operator with the full Monkey Bites url. Because that url contains the term "blog" Google now adds a link to Blogger at the top of the page. What's irritating is that the term isn't even part of my search, the <code>site:</code> operator is simply restricting my search parameters.
Even a WWII era punch card machine could probably figure out I'm not looking for a blogging service.
Perhaps the most irritating thing is that Google tries to pass these off as "tips." These aren't tips, they're advertisements and calling them tips is misleading and, well, almost evil.
What ever happened to don't be evil? It was so simple.
At best Google's new self promotional drive is simply annoying and irrelevant, at worst Ross is right and users may lose confidence in the objectivity of Google's search results.
On the brighter side of an otherwise dismal week perhaps Google can take comfort in the notion that things go wrong at Google seldom enough that when they do, like Jennifer Aniston's bad hair days, they make the news. Paul Mitchell was unreachable for comment.
[1]: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1461015,00.asp "Orkut Outage"
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-we-came-up-with-year-end-zeitgeist.html "Google explains Zeitgeist"
[3]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/28/gmail-disaster-reports-of-mass-email-deletions/ "GMail Problems"
[4]: http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Problem-solving/browse_thread/thread/e19d6ab5d41e58eb/bd2a9386c2a1ad41 "GMail loses user email"
[7]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/27/google_disappears_se.html "Boing Boing on disappearing sex blogs"
[5]: http://www.tinynibbles.com/ "Tiny Nibbles"
[6]: http://searchengineland.com/061229-133230.php "Search engine Land on disappearing sex blogs"
[8]: http://www.blakeross.com/2006/12/25/google-tips/ "Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose"
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Of course there's always the chance that some of this stuff will find its way to our vaporware list by the end of next year, but in the mean time raise your glass with unbridled optimism as you peruse our list of Things We're Looking Forward To.
* [Windows Vista][2]. We've got some concerns about DRM and security, but we're cautiously optimistic about Redmond's new system. Here's to upgrades and security patches.
* [OS X Leopard][3]. Chock full of what looks like great features. We're looking forward to putting this one through the paces.
* We want our MP3s and we want them DRM-free. Okay maybe we've had too much of that special punch that's been fermenting since the office Christmas party, but we like to believe 2007 will see a DRM-free, **legal** alternative to the iTunes Music store. And by legal we mean legal in the United States (i.e. not AllofMP3.com).
* Thunderbird 2.0. Our tests of the first beta [whetted our appetite][4] for the real thing. Would a good IMAP mail client be too much to ask for in 2007?
* µTorrent for Linux and Mac. We [love][1] this little client and with BitTorrent Inc. at the helm chances are good that µTorrent will be cross platform by the end of the year.
* [OpenOffice.org][5] finishes the port to Mac OS X and/or NeoOffice improves. We have nothing against MS Office per say, but we [like open document formats][6]. And we like free -- in all senses of the word.
* Full release of the Adobe line. We're [lovin' the PhotoShop CS3 beta][7] and looking forward to the full suite which should arrive some time in the second quarter of the year, but what's up with those icons?
* Would it be too much to ask for an end to OS flame wars? Or is that punch kicking again -- who knew ergot fungi were so tangy? After all, as [Joel points out][8], software is just a tool to help you get laid.
* Speaking of which we're also hoping for more tall hot blonds, or perhaps we're misunderstanding the whole "long tail" thing again?
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/best_of_bt_torr.html "Monkey Bites on µTorrent"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/windows_vista_i.html "Vista Release Date Explained"
[3]: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/10/19/screenshots-from-the-latest-leopard-build/ "Leopard screenshots on TUAW"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/mozilla_has_rel.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 reviewed"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/open_office_21_.htm "OpenOffice RC1 available for download"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/office_document.html "Monkey Bites on ODF"
[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/elsewhere_on_wi.html "Monkey Bites on Photoshop CS3"
[8]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/15.html "Joel on Software: Software is a tool to help you get laid"
[9]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72370-0.html?tw=wn_index_6 "Wired's 2007 predictions"
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* Parallels, the popular Mac software that lets you run other OSes as virtual machines, keeps [cranking out the free betas][1]. Parallels Beta3 features improved USB 2.0 support, improved coherence mode and more.
[1]: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/ "Parallels Beta3"
* Good old Mainstream Media outlet Reuters [ran an article][2] today on RSS calling it the "coolest thing you've never heard of when it comes to the Internet." Rather depressingly the article cites media analyst group Forrester who claim that less than 2 percent of internet users use RSS.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-29T185423Z_01_N29192014_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLUMN-PLUGGEDIN.xml&src=rss "Reuters on RSS"
* I [picked on][4] Google earlier today, but there was one bright spot today for the search giant, Hitwise [reports][3] that traffic to Google's Blog search service now surpasses that of Technorati.
[3]: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2006/12/google_blog_search_surpasses_t.html "Google Blog Search beats Technorati"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/googles_bad_hai.html "Google has a bad hair week"
* Why writing down passwords is stupid. CBS 5 in SF [reports][5] that Unabomber Ted Kaczynski wrote his journals using code that security expert Bruce Schneier calls "the most complex cipher the FBI has seen since World War II." Neither the FBI nor the NSA could crack the code until they found among Kaczynski's notebooks a page entitled "Unscrambling Sequence." Doh!
[5]: http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_363002905.html "FBI cracks Unabomber security code"
* And finally, let's close out the year with this [incredibly creepy image][6] of the world's largest superconducting magnet. It looks like something out the machine city in the Matrix crossed with the big spider in Arachnophobic. Shiver.
[6]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/29/worlds_largest_super.html "BoingBoing on the world's largest superconducting magnet"
Happy New Year everyone, see you Tuesday.
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This could probably be filed in the same category as the drive to [abolish the caps lock][4] key -- admirable idea, but unlikely to succeed.
But perhaps there is a bigger need for a NSFW indicator. As strange as it might seem to those of us working at home, people actually get [fired][1] for clicking the wrong links at work.
Doland's proposal is to use the <code>REL</code> attribute to indicate when links contain content not suitable for work.
Under Doland's system links would look something like this:
<a href="" title="" rel="NSFW">link text</a>
Currently the <code>REL</code> attribute is mainly used by search engines to determine what links to follow on a site, for instance, adding <code>rel="nofollow"</code> to a link tag will cause Google spiders to ignore the link.
Most browsers ignore the <code>REL</code> attribute, but because it can be styled with CSS NSFW links could be marked with visual clues.
Doland admits that using the <code>REL</code> tag alone has some problems and he has an [expanded][2] his original proposal to also utilize the class attribute.
The idea is sound and would even help search engines by adding another bit of metadata to their indexes, but will it catch on?
[1]: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/3484 "Woman fired for reading MetaFilter"
[2]: http://pj.doland.org/archives/041577.php "NSFW Rel attribute spec"
[3]: http://pj.doland.org/archives/041571.php "Proposal for a NSFW indicator"
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71606-0.html?tw=rss.index "Death to Caps Lock"
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* Apparently the HD DVD hack we mentioned in yesterday's reboot is real enough that the companies behind the AACS encryption system are [looking][1] into it. Muslix64, the hacker who claims to have cracked AACS, has said he/she will post more code on January 2.
[1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061229/wr_nm/dvds_hacker_dc "Media Companies Investigate Hacker's Claim"
* In the wake of the earthquake which disrupted internet service in Asia, Asian telecom companies are [moving to install more underseas cables][2] to ensure that this week's internet outage does not happen again.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-29T054757Z_01_SP140905_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET-ASIA.xml&src=rss "Asian companies to add more cables"
* The French space agency [announced][3] it will publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online. The names of contributors will be kept secret to protect them from "space fanatics". Damn those space fanatics.
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-29T143450Z_01_L29796180_RTRUKOC_0_US-FRANCE-UFO.xml&src=rss "French to publish UFO reports"
* AT&T has agreed to concessions which will force the company to live up to net neutrality rules if its merger with BellSouth is approved, but not everyone thinks the concessions are enough. TechDirt [reports][4] that midway through the concession doc is this sentence: "This commitment also does not apply to AT&T/BellSouth's Internet Protocol television (IPTV) service." This phrase could mean that while any existing network is governed by the net neutrality in the concessions, future networks are not which paves the way for AT&T to charge companies for preferential bandwidth treatment.
[4]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20061229/001833.shtml "TechDirt on AT&T/BellSouth Merger"
* Laughing Squid, one of the recipients of the [laptops from Microsoft][7], is [auctioning][6] off the machine on eBay. Proceeds will benefit the [EFF][5]
[5]: http://www.eff.org/ "Electronic Frontier Foundation"
[6]: http://laughingsquid.com/windows-vista-laptop-on-ebay-proceeds-going-to-eff/ "Laughing Squid auctions laptop"
[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/microsoft_lapto.html "Monkey Bites on Microsoft Laptops"
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Allofmp3.com sells non-DRM downloads and charges roughly one dollar for albums and only a few cents for individual songs. The U.S.-based iTunes Store on the other hand sells DRM downloads at ten dollars an album and one dollar for songs.
The RIAA's lawsuit against AllofMp3 claims the website is an illegal service and infringes on copyrights owned by the RIAA's members. The RIAA alleges 11 million songs have been "pirated" using AllofMP3.com.
The RIAA lawsuit seeks $150,000 in damages per violation , which puts the total at over $1.65 trillion, which as some have already pointed out, is just slightly less than the Gross National Product of Great Britain.
Unfortunately for the RIAA, AllofMP3.com operates in Russia and appears to comply with Russian law so the odds of the suit being settled in a New York court are pretty much nil, which might explain the ridiculous damages figure.
AllofMP3 claims it has complied with Russian law by forwarding all necessary rights fees to the Russian royalty collection firm, ROMS.
Thus far there have been no lawsuits brought against AllofMP3 in Russia, though the U.S. has been pressuring Russian authorities to shut the site down.
[1]: http://blogs.allofmp3.com/allofmp3/2006/12/26/allofmp3-response-to-complaint-by-major-record-labels/ "AllofMp3 response to RIAA"
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I remember thinking at the time that America had made some massive consumer leap in my absence, vending machines having upgraded from candy bars to iPods. I thought it was a brilliant idea since the prospect of spending hours waiting in an airport surrounded by screaming babies and crackling passenger announcements would probably send even the most ardent of Apple haters scrambling to thrust their credit card in the machine.
Apparently I'm not alone in thinking the machines were a great idea. The Atlanta Journal Constitution [reports][1] that the iPod vending machines are wildly successful.
Mark Mullins, executive vice-president of Zoom, the company behind the machines, tells the AJC, "We put in some iPods and found we couldn't keep them in stock. We found no customer resistance to swiping a card and buying a $300 item from a machine. We're selling thousands (of iPods), and the machines at the Atlanta airport are major contributors to that."
Of course there's no way for the those shattered-nerved impulse buyer to put any music on their new pod, but another Zoom spokesperson says there are plans to add a music-download kiosk across from the iPod vending machine.
The machines are also in the San Francisco airport and are reportedly starting to pop up in hotels and other locations across the country. And for those who were wondering, no the iPod doesn't drop in the machine, a robotic arm grabs it and hands it to you.
[1]: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2006/12/26/1227metipod.html "Electronics vending machines are a hit"
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>As you write your review I just wanted to emphasize that this is a review pc. I strongly recommend you disclose that we sent you this machine for review, and I hope you give your honest opinions. Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding of our intentions I'm going to ask that you either give the pc away or send it back when you no longer need it for product reviews.
But I disagree with Kirkpatrick's commentary, I think Microsoft did the right thing by backpedaling a little.
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington [called me out][4] on his CrunchNotes blog yesterday, accusing me of "screaming" scandal for my post on the topic yesterday. I wasn't screaming; clearly Arrington was not at the table this holiday season when my cousin announced she was dropping out of high school to become a tattoo artist. Now that was screaming.
Secondly, I don't really have a problem with what Microsoft did, my criticism is more general -- I don't think bloggers are very good about disclosing promotional materials they receive.
A few points to consider: loaning out review hardware is standard practice, returning it when you're done is also standard practice. In those cases where manufacturers don't want the hardware back, the general practice is to give it away. Microsoft's second note is spot on and how it should have been from the beginning; the machine is not a gift, but for review purposes.
And I agree with Arrington that it's a smart move on Microsoft's part to send out the machines for blogger to use when they review Vista. Vista is a radical upgrade and requires newer hardware that the average blogger probably doesn't want to buy just to write a review.
My problem with Microsoft's move is that it seemed like they were trying to pass off a review machine as swag. That it happened to be sent out around the holiday's and included a note saying "you can hold onto it for as long as you’d like," didn't help Microsoft's cause.
Large news organizations generally have firm policies about how to handle these items. For instance, here at Wired we have "no junkets, no gifts" policy. When Wired writers cover a conference, promotional event or other company-sponsored press event we go on Wired's dime not the company in question. When we get gifts such as a laptop, we use it to test whatever we're supposed to be testing and then we send it back or give it away.
It's not that we don't appreciate such gestures or that we have some Ebenezer Scrooge tendencies, these policies exist so there is absolutely no question about our motivations.
I think it's high time that bloggers came up with their own editorial policies regarding promotions, gifts and swag they receive. The thing is bloggers of the world, we like you and we want to trust you, but you have to show all your cards when you call a hand.
But in truth the ethical burden in this case was never on Microsoft's plate, as Robert Scoble [points out][3] on his blog, it's the blogger's responsibility to disclose what they were given. I like Scoble's summary and hope bloggers everywhere take note of it:
>Now, regarding blogger ethics. Did you disclose? If you did, you have ethics. If you didn't, you don't. It's that black and white with me.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/microsoft_tries_1.html "Monkey Bites on MS laptop giveaway"
[2]: http://marshallk.com/microsoft-wants-its-laptops-back "Marshal Kirkpatrick on MS laptops"
[3]: http://scobleizer.com/2006/12/27/i-think-the-microsoft-vista-giveaway-is-an-awesome-idea/ "Robert Scoble on MS laptops"
[4]: http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=331 "Michael Arrington reads Monkey Bites?"
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* CNet [reports][5] that Red Hat will ship the next version of its premium Linux OS on February 28. The release was originally scheduled for the end of the year, but has been pushed back slightly.
[5]: http://news.com.com/Red+Hat+updates+premium+Linux/2100-7344_3-5576507.html
* Best reason to add learning GPG to your resolutions this year: the government may not need a warrant to search your e-mail. Ars Technica has [more details][1].
[1]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061227-8504.html "Government may not need a warrant to search your email"
* Oh the lists, the lists. Another of my favorite lists the BBC's [100 things we didn't know last year][2]. Number one: Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese."
[2]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/12/100_things_we_didnt_know_last_2.shtml "100 things we didn't know last year"
* If you're a young single woman looking to holiday in Jamacia with a total stranger, there's an [eBay auction][4] with your name on it. It may not be as creepy as it sounds, Reuters [reports][3] that 39 year-old Adam Croot had planned the holiday to propose to his partner, but then she dumped him. Ouch.
[4]: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160067295942 "Holiday with Adam Croot"
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-28T164844Z_01_L28711685_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-HOLIDAY.xml&src=rss "EBay Janacia vacation"
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This is just the stuff that's ready to ship out, not the inventory of the store, but it gives me some frame of reference. I'll refrain from any Raiders of the Lost Ark jokes.
But seriously, where is all that stuff on Amazon.com?
[1]: http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2006/12/amazonukbig.jpg "Amazon UK Shipping Warehouse"
[2]: http://gizmodo.com/ "Gizmodo"
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* Gadgets [make it easier to lie][1]. According to a survey done in the UK over half of the respondents said using gadgets like cellphones "made them feel less guilty when telling a lie than doing it face to face."
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-28T144304Z_01_L27198468_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-LIES.xml&src=rss "Lying easier with cellphones"
* A programmer by the name of muslix64 has [posted][2] a Java-based app he claims will remove the AACS copy-protection encryption from HD DVD movies. Muslix64 admits the code is highly unstable and it remains to be seen whether how generic it is since so far it only seems to work with one movie.
[2]: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871 "HD DVD cracked?"
* 10 Zen Monkey's wants your help [stopping][3] professional troll (and front-runner for least sexy... something), Michael Crook. The site says: "Are you a blogger or webmaster who tried to cover the story of DMCA fraudmeister, Michael Crook, only to be served a DMCA takedown notice by him? ... Please take some time to tell us your story. It’s the best way to help ensure that nefarious griefers like Crook are no longer able to use the DMCA to violate Free Speech and silence critical commentary." [via [BoingBoing][4]]
[3]: http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/12/27/crook-harass/ "10 Zen Monkeys fights Crook"
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/27/wanted_your_michael_.html "BoingBoing on Crook"
* Ack, the tubes is clogged. [According to CNN][5], "swarms of online shoppers armed with new iPods and iTunes gift cards apparently overwhelmed Apple's iTunes music store over the holiday, prompting error messages and slowdowns of 20 minutes or more for downloads of a single song."
[5]: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/12/28/itunes.slowdown.ap/index.html "Tubes clogged"
* If I understand this correctly, the top selling album of the year [failed][6] to reach 4 million in sales. Long tail effect anyone?
[6]: http://www.nypost.com/seven/12272006/business/worst_seller_business_peter_lauria.htm "The New York Post on Music Sales"
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Perhaps the most difficult thing to understand in CSS is the "box model." When people complain about CSS and cross browser incompatibility, the box model is responsible for 90 percent of the problems.
While BrainJar's tutorial covers many aspects of CSS position elements, it stands out for its dead simple explanation of the box model. From the tutorial: "For display purposes, every element in a document is considered to be a rectangular box which has a content area surrounded by padding, a border and margins."
How those spacial elements are rendered varies somewhat by browser, but Internet Explorer is the main culprit here since it fails to comply with the box model defined in the W3C's specs.
The box model is what requires the most hacks when trying to get cross-browser perfection from your style sheets, but fear not the hacks are fairly minor and generally don't mean all that much extra work.
And for the record, lest anyone think I'm Microsoft bashing, the problem with IE is not so much that it gets the box model wrong, but that it renders it differently than the W3C spec.
The way IE renders margin and padding on box elements actually makes sense once you understand it and is even occasionally preferable to the specs definition. But the fact remains, it doesn't adhere to the standards set forth by the W3C, which nearly every other browser uses.
As always, if you know of other tutorials, post them in the comments below.
[1]: http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/default.asp "CSS Positioning Explained"
[2]: http://www.aidejavascript.com/article93.html "positionnement CSS"
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Now it seems that at least one of the big telecoms thinks the Free 411 advertising model might be worth a try.
AT&T has [launched][2] a new free directory listing service, 1-800-YellowPages, which will play ads just before the requested number is given out.
According to AT&T's site, "the caller listens to a maximum of 4 ads, each 5 to 10 seconds, before receiving the number."
My big gripe with Jingle's service is that there is no auto-connect feature, you must hang up and dial the number. AT&T's new service offers the option to auto-connect, but curiously that option is in the hands of advertisers, not the customer.
The AT&T docs say that callers will "connected to the business at no cost if the advertiser has included automatic Call Completion as part of the ad design."
If I'm reading that correctly, and the automatic completion is at the advertiser's discretion, I can't see AT&T ending up with very many happy customers. Leaving a key feature, which would set the service apart from competitors, in the hands of an advertiser seems like a risky move on AT&t's part.
As a number of people have pointed out in the comments on the TechCrunch post where I first [read][3] about the AT&T service, AT&T is delusional if they think people will sit through up to forty seconds of ads just to save a buck fifty. Especially given that competing services play only one ad at 12 seconds.
As they say, time is money too.
in contrast Free 411 plays only one ad.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/make_free_411_c.html "Monkey Bites on Free411"
[2]: http://www.att.com/Common/1800yellowpages/product_description.htm
[3]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/26/att-acquires-infreeda-gets-into-free-411-business/ "Techcrunch on AT&t service"
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I will confess that I have only a dim idea of what makes the Dvorak keyboard better, but I understand that it's much faster than a qwerty keyboard if you know how to use it.
See the rest of [sjwalsh384's Macbook mod photos][1].
[1]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69631394@N00/ "Macbook Dvorak mod"
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The promotional effort comes just before the release of Microsoft's new Windows Vista Operating System, but Microsoft isn't a computer manufacturer so why are they giving away computers?
Typically when a company wants journalists to review their new software on a fast machine they loan it out for review purposes and then the machine gets returned. If Microsoft were to giveaway copies of Vista that would make sense and probably raise no eyebrows at all, but giving away a whole laptop understandably strikes some as little more than bribery.
Dan Warne a journalist at [APCmag][2] left a comment at the site linked above in which he points out:
>It's bizarre for one of the world's largest PR companies, Edelman, to think it could get away with this. Perhaps they don't know bloggers as well as they thought they did... now that some of the bloggers have disclosed the receipt of the gift, the public knows. Whatever the subtleties of the offer were, it comes across as nothing more than a bribe, and that is a very bad look for Microsoft.
[2]: http://apcmag.com/ "APCmag"
Companies have long sent promotional materials by the boatload to journalists who typically disclose that the item was a gift. Given the increasing influential power of blogs, it's no surprise that companies are beginning to try the same tactics on bloggers who often hold even more sway over tech-savvy consumers.
Earlier this month there was widespread controversy over the fact that companies have been offering money to prominent users of Digg in return for posting links to products and favorable reviews.
But getting paid a few pesos from PayPerPost or to put something on Digg is one thing, getting a $2000+ Acer laptop is a whole other ball of wax. As Warne says, now that the word is out, expect the negative publicity to be every bit as shrill as the positive which means Microsoft's PR move may well end up backfiring.
[1]: http://www.istartedsomething.com.nyud.net:8080/20061227/microsoft-free-ferrari/
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* Well, perhaps we were hasty in condemning Wall Street in the morning reboot, Apple's shares [rebounded][1] later today. Why do we care? We don't really, we actually like it when our cynicism turns out to be unfounded.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-27T205452Z_01_N27433638_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-SHARES.xml&src=rss "Apple Shares recover"
* Libraries in Georgia have [developed][2] an open source, enterprise-class library management system that may revolutionize the way large-scale libraries are run.
[2]: http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/06/12/04/1538214.shtml?tid=101 "Librarians stake their future on open source"
* [Renkoo][3] is getting some buzz for being a potential "Evite killer." The site is currently in public beta, though as of this posting it appears to be down for maintenance. Since I haven't used it I can't comment on its potential as an Evite killer except to say that I welcome anything even trying to kill Evite.
[3]: http://renkoo.com/ "Renkoo"
* The Captain Obvious award of the day goes to the Wall Street Journal for an article tantalizingly entitled "[Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble?][4]" I dunno Virginia, what do you think?
[4]: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116679843912957776-fF7CtrdMDTE4n1h5Ju5pv0HKhgM_20071227.html "Is Web 2.0 Another Bubble?"
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* Ack, the tubes are cracked. A major earthquake off the coast of Taiwan [created][3] an Internet blackout across much of Asia. The quake damaged the undersea fiber optic cables that serve China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Officials say the repairs will take some time, but declined to give a specific timeframe.
[3]: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/249389/1/.html "Earthquake disrupts internet in Asia"
* Things are heating up the in investigation of Apple stock options. Law.com [reports][1] that the case against Apple may involve "falsified" stock options documents. Law.com's claim is unverified, but Apple shares [fell][2] 4 percent this morning as Wall Street apparently believes most everything it reads.
[1]: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1167127308611
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-27T143635Z_01_N20358521_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARKETS-STOCKS1.xml&src=rss "Reuters on Apple Share Price Drop"
* It's my favorite time of year, list time. And my favorite list, the Wired [vaporware awards][4], just came out this morning.
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72350-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1 "Wired's picks for Vaporware 2006"
* Missed this one: Wired is [suing] AT&T over AT&T's alleged illegal participation in government surveillance. Wired (and some other, lesser news outlets) wants the judge to unseal the documents.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/12/wired_takes_on_.html "27B Stroke 6 on Wired/AT&T case"
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But Socialist is not just a del.icio.us frontend, it's also an RSS reader.
The design of Socialist mimics that of Apple's Mail.app so it should look immediately familiar to Mac users. Just enter your del.icio.us account information and you'll be logged in and the three-pane interface will show your bookmarks.
You can then subscribe to del.icio.us tags, other users feeds or any old RSS feed you enter by hand. Regrettably Socialist doesn't seem to recognize feed calls from Safari. Using Safari I set Socialist to be my default feed reader and then clicked on a feed link. Socialist came to the forefront, but did not auto-add the feed.
Once you've added your favorite feeds to Socialist, whenever you run across something you'd like to bookmark it's one-click simple to add it to your del.icio.us account. There's also a button to send it as an email, but it didn't seem to work in my testing.
Overall Socialist is a good looking app, it does what it says (except the email issue) and does it well. In addition to looking good, Socialist is lightening fast at loading and refreshing both del.icio.us and RSS accounts.
Because I'm not a del.icio.us user, Socialist is of limited use to me, but if it supported [ma.gnolia.com][4] and polished up its RSS features a little, I could see myself ditching my current RSS setup in favor of Socialist.
If you are a del.icio.us user and you're looking for a way to integrate your RSS feeds with your bookmarks, Socialist just might be exactly what you've been seeking.
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72070-0.html "Wired review of Social Bookmarking Sites"
[2]: http://del.icio.us/ "del.icio.us"
[3]: http://getsocialist.com/ "Socialist 1.0"
[4]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "ma.gnolia.com"
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I thought the next best thing would be to create a Tutorial o' the Day feature here on Monkey Bites. So here's how this will work: each week we'll pick a programming language, popular internet design trend or similar theme and everyday we'll link to a tutorial that will help you create something useful.
Since this was inspired by CSS I thought we'd start there.
There are thousands of CSS tutorials out there, but one CSS feature that it took me a while to understand is the <code>float:</code> feature. Floats are an easy way to create the multi-columned layouts that many popular sites utilize without resorting to table tags.
The best tutorial I've found on [how to use floats][1] comes from Max Design. But "Floatutorial" isn't just a one trick pony, it's actually a whole bunch of tutorials condensed into one easy to browse page. These tutorials will walk you through "the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts."
I should also note that Max Design has an excellent CSS showcase called [Listamatic][3] which will show you how to create a navigation menu of just about any shape, size and arrangement you want using a simple unordered list.
If you have other suggestions or recommendations for people just getting started with CSS or those hoping improve their existing skills, be sure to leave them in the comments below.
Also if you have ideas for future tutorial themes, email me at: scott_gilbertson@wired.com
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/cascading_style.html#comments "Read Comments on Cascading Style Sheets Turn 10"
[1]: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/index.htm "Floatutorial"
[3]: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/index.htm "Listamatic"
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