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  1. Forecasting the Fate of Mysteries

    → Digg / Science | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:04 am MDT

    Six physicists weigh in on the impact of the LHC and where science goes from here.

  2. Amazing Picture of International Space Station Over Miami,FL

    → Digg / Science | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:04 am MDT

    The turquoise waters of Miami, Florida, gleam underneath the International Space Station as it floats some 240 miles (390 kilometers) above the Earth's surface. The orbiting lab has hosted a rotating international crew since November 2000.

  3. You are your domain: .tel and .mp

    → Webware.com | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:02 am MDT

    Two domain-based identity sites will be in the media this this week: Telnic's .tel, which launches at DemoFall, and Chi.mp, whose team will be holding court across the street from the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco on Monday and Tuesday (clever strategy, that). I think these two companies make a trend, but I'm not convinced it's a long-lived one.

    The simple concept behind both companies is this: You'll get your own name in a domain, a .tel or .mp, and then use it as a hub for your online identities and content. The sites will offer some blend of a business card function, like Plaxo, and personal feed aggregaton, like Friendfeed. The pitch from both is similar: Instead of sending people to a page that's heavily branded by someone else (for example, Facebook), you can give out your domain. Keep that updated with your contact info, and then as long as people know your domain, they'll have a way to reach you.

    I would not be surprised if both of these sites also became OpenID authenticators (Chi.mp already is). It's convenient for users. Chi.mp founder Tony Haile's vision for Chi.mp's utility is quite similar to the promise of OpenID and to the concepts in DiSo and the Social Graph API, emerging protocols for sharing social network data between sites.

    The .tel product will allow its subscribers to control which networks their contacts reach them on, if I understand the preview info I saw correctly. Telnic also has a plan in place to allow people to claim their name -- a critical function, since there can be only one BobSmith.tel.

    While I think the idea of using a top-level domain with a vanity URL as personal calling card is a gimmick -- unless there's only one TLD, which there clearly won't be -- the idea that every person can have a permanent location on the Net that's about who they are and not what they do does make some sense. And maybe we need that destitation to not be a social site like Facebook. Maybe it needs to be, basically, unsocial. My site, by me, for you -- under my control. Social site profiles do allow that, but they don't feel the same. But it's also quite possible that the subtle difference between appearing to own a site and owning a slice of another site isn't enough to sustain this new idea.

    For my part, I bought rafeneedleman.com ages ago (I don't update it anymore). I'm also holding the .com domain names of my wife and son in reserve, just in case. These personal .coms don't t have the functionality of the services I discuss here but perhaps that points to a workable alternate business model: Provide contact and aggregation features that people like me can use from domains they already have.

    See also: .name.



  4. You are your domain: .tel and .mp

    → CNET News.com | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:02 am MDT

    New personal domain services are more than landing places for blogs and social profiles.

  5. Say Where brings voice recognition to iPhone apps

    → CNET News.com | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:00 am MDT

    Forthcoming iPhone app from Dial Directions aims to give users a way to get information from sites like Yelp, MapQuest and others by speaking instead of typing.

  6. New iPhone app helps users find healthy food near them

    → CNET News.com | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:00 am MDT

    A service called Mealsearch from startup WebDiet is designed to, among other things, give users a way to find restaurants near them that meet their dietary criteria.

  7. Rebus brings desktop search to scanned documents

    → CNET News.com | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:00 am MDT

    The company's Recollect Desktop software makes it possible to search for information in documents scanned into a computer.

  8. Apple looks to revive that special event magic

    → CNET News.com | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:00 am MDT

    Tuesday's event should give Apple a strong iPod lineup to sell during the holiday season, so long as the company puts a buggy couple of months behind it with the new products.

  9. Want top search results? Tread carefully

    → CNET News.com | 8 Sep 2008 | 5:00 am MDT

    In the business of promoting Web sites to top search results, some push limits to find what tricks are allowed. But there's evidence the trade is getting more respectable.

  10. New weapon in the war against viruses (quantum dots)

    → Digg / Science | 8 Sep 2008 | 4:57 am MDT

    Virologists have a new weapon in the war against viruses – a way to tag and track individual viruses that are too small to be viewed with light microscopes.

  11. Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos

    → Digg / Science | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:30 am MDT

    Tesla coils, superconductors, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about physics. Here are some of our favorites.

  12. America's Decline in Science

    → Digg / Science | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:28 am MDT

    This is the beginning of the America's dark future.

  13. Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

    → ZDNet Blogs | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:08 am MDT

    Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February that was approved Aug. 28. The patent outlines a concept that would not only be savvy engineering, but deliver great returns. Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge called Google's patent a "startling new take on data center engineering." I'd call it brilliant engineering, but the financial engineering could be even more impressive. To wit: Google could power these data center pontoons with wind potentially and cool them with water. You could argue that these...

  14. The week ahead: Demo, TechCrunch 50, Apple; SAP TechEd; CTIA

    → ZDNet Blogs | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:08 am MDT

    Programming note: We have a busy week ahead and it's truly a demo fiesta. Here's a look at the moving parts. Sam Diaz will be covering Demo; Andrew Mager will be covering TechCrunch 50 (which is trying to kill Demo); I'll be at SAP TechEd in Vegas and covering its Demo Jam live (sort of this American Idol type thing for enterprise apps); Sam will hop over to the Apple iPod shindig on Tuesday, which will probably be focused on Steve Jobs and what he looks like; And at the end of the week we have CTIA where there'll probably be some wireless things of note. Just a heads up of what's coming down the pike this week. We'll be...

  15. Video: Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?

    → ZDNet Blogs | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:08 am MDT

    ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the perks and pitfalls of the newly released browser from Google. Diaz also reveals why Sergey Brin is bugging the Chrome team on a daily basis.

  16. News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

    → ZDNet Blogs | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:07 am MDT

    Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Launch LA Times Blog: Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 — and 20 Garett Rogers: Google turns 10: Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions Video: Google turns 10 AP: Advertising group opposes Yahoo-Google pact Heather Clancy: Flipping the switch saves The Planet about $140K annuallyMatthew Miller: Review: Aerovation Checkpoint Friendly Laptop bag simplifies security process Roland Piquepaille: 1,500 ships to fight climate change? Adam O'Donnell: DDoS + Web2.0...

  17. The Human Tongue as Computer Control Pad

    → Digg / Science | 8 Sep 2008 | 3:02 am MDT

    The tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, helps kiss and swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, and turn it into a computer control pad.Georgia Tech researchers believe a magnetic, tongue-powered system could transform a disabled person's mouth into a virtual computer...

  18. CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang

    → Digg / Science | 8 Sep 2008 | 2:10 am MDT

    It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday, eagerly anticipated by scientists worldwide who have awaited this moment for two decades

  19. Technorati Popular: Top 100 blogs

    → Delicious/tag/technorati | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:30 am MDT



  20. Mozilla Updates Firefox 3.1 With Lot More Goodies

    → Digg / Technology | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:30 am MDT

    Mozilla Corp. on Friday launched the second alpha of Firefox 3.1,adding new video support and boosting the speed of some JavaScript computations.Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2, code named "Shiretoko," will be the last in a short series of alpha editions; Mozilla has set a late-September code freeze for Beta 1, & will be available for the general public in Oct

  21. Commercial development strategies

    → ZDNet Blogs | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:15 am MDT

    For large scale, commercial, software development the right recipe starts with a Unix development and testing environment - even if you plan to sell mainly on Windows. The reason for that is simple: business success is more about how you build your sales than it is about how you build your software - and going Unix "at home" leads to more sales.

  22. Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0

    → ZDNet Blogs | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:00 am MDT

    As I'm clearing my desk to prepare for Citrix's event this week, I thought it would be good to post about Fortisphere's recent move. Fortisphere, a Kusnetzky Group Client, recently launched version 2 of its Virtual Essentials. Virtual Essentials is a tool that provides agentless, policy-based mangement of virtual machines. When the company first pulled the curtains aside and announced their existence back in November 2007, I posted this: Fortisphere launch. This is a company that has done its best to address the issues found in the KG white paper Visibility and Control are Inside Jobs. What Fortisphere had to say about its product Fortisphere, a leading provider of policy-based virtualization management software, today announced the release of Fortisphere Virtual...

  23. What we expect from Apple's iPod event, plans for coverage

    → Digg / Technology | 8 Sep 2008 | 1:00 am MDT

    Tuesday, September 9 descends upon us, and Apple fans know what that means: it's almost time for Apple's traditional fall iPod event, this time dubbed "Let's Rock." The event, which Apple indirectly announced last week by sending out invites to media contacts, has been widely expected for several months now, as the company has held special events

  24. Return of the 17 Year Cicadas (time-lapse photography)

    → Digg / Science | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:40 am MDT

    Using time-lapse photography and real-time digital video, plant biologist Roger Hangarter and undergrad filmmaker Samuel Orr captured this remarkable life cycle in a 5-minute film complete with soundtrack and descriptive text.

  25. The 10 most beautiful experiments of all time

    → Digg / Science | 8 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am MDT

    Whether they are blasting apart subatomic particles in accelerators, sequencing the genome or analyzing the wobble of a distant star, the experiments that grab the world's attention often cost millions of dollars to execute and produce torrents of data to be processed over months by supercomputers. Some research groups have grown to the size of...

  26. Learn 10 More Good UNIX Usage Habits

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:40 pm MDT

    As a follow-up to Michael Stutz's excellent article, this article provides 10 more good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up!

  27. Anti-Piracy Scam Emails Target BitTorrent Users

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:10 pm MDT

    A new trend is surfacing, as spammers have sent out millions of emails targeting BitTorrent users. The emails that claim to come from MediaDefender, warn the receiver that he or she has been logged using BitTorrent and points them to an attachment supposedly containing evidence, but which is in fact infected with a virus.

  28. Google upgrades Gmail for IE 6 users

    → CNET News.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:07 pm MDT

    The online e-mail application is faster for those using the 7-year-old browser and gets features already available to more modern browsers, Google said.

  29. Google upgrades Gmail for IE 6 users

    → Webware.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:07 pm MDT

    There's a lot of action in the browser market these days: Google just launched its Chrome browser, Firefox 3.1 is due in months, Apple hopes Safari will spread across the world of Windows, and Microsoft is touting its second beta of Internet Explorer 8.

    But a huge swath of Internet users is still getting by with IE 6, which is no doubt is why Google just released a new version of Gmail for the vintage 2001-era browser.

    The update means IE 6 users will get access to colored labels for messages, Gmail Labs features, integration with AOL Instant Messenger, and invisible mode for IM, Google engineer Jon Perlow said on Google's Gmail blog on Friday. The upgrade catches IE 6 users up to features available to users of Firefox 3, IE 7, and Safari 3.

    Google said it worked with Microsoft's IE engineers on some of other issues, including memory-related performance issue when running JavaScript programs in the browser, and Google pared back some user interface features that had been causing trouble for IE 6 users.



  30. Will Incumbents Stifle Innovation?

    → GigaOM | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:33 pm MDT

    Earlier today, I spent a delightful hour with Vinnie Mirchandani, a well respected analyst in the enterprise software industry, mostly because he knows how to figure out the impact of big technological trends on software. Accompanying him was George Gilbert, formerly an enterprise software analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston, a Wall Street firm. While [...]

  31. Understanding Algae As An Alternative Fuel Source

    → Digg / Science | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:20 pm MDT

    The technology will be utilized in the development and creation of various algae species targeted to high yield per acre and high levels of usable alternative oil for heating and fuel.

  32. Top 10 Apps Worth Jailbreaking Your iPhone to Get

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:20 pm MDT

    The iTunes App Store is becoming a trendsetter for other companies in the mobile market. With a thousands of apps to choose from with over 60 million downloads total, what more could you ask for? Apparently a lot. Users still aren't satisfied with the offerings nor the apps that Apple is choosing to not let into the App Store.

  33. TI does energy efficiency on a chip

    → CNET News.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:00 pm MDT

    Its line of Piccolo microcontrollers can reduce power consumption significantly of home appliances, hybrid cars, LED lighting, and even solar panels.

  34. Intel ships low-power chips for servers

    → CNET News.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:00 pm MDT

    New server chips from processor giant draw as little as 12.5 watts per core.

  35. Google at 10: Larry, Sergey & Me

    → GigaOM | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:59 pm MDT

    It is not clear how old Google is - some argue that world’s largest search engine operator is 13 - after all it operated in stealth for about 3 years before launching in September 1998. Many major news organizations are going with September 2008 as the tenth anniversary so I am going to play along. [...]

  36. F|R: 5 Reasons to Go All Angel à la Lookery

    → GigaOM | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:58 pm MDT

    This week, Lookery, the ad network launched last July to serve über-cheap ads into Facebook applications, has announced a new $2.25 million round of funding. It’s a nice sum for the 14-month-old startup, which now sends Facebook some 3 billion ads a month, according to Lookery’s CEO, Scott Rafer. But here’s what’s really interesting: Rafer [...]

  37. Opening up video game pitches and gameplay design

    → CNET News.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:45 pm MDT

    How video games get to market is black magic. These documents may help to shed some light.

  38. Weather Pictures and Video

    → Delicious/tag/technorati | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:29 pm MDT

    The purpose of this site is to display and bring you weather related items in all forms of media. There will be podcasts, video, pictures and any other media that we can get our hands on. Some of the video and images will be our own stuff.

  39. Samsung, Sony in Wi-Fi Photo Frame Shootout

    → ZDNet Blogs | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:03 pm MDT

    One of the big holiday gifts over the last couple of years, digital photo frames are a convenient way to show off photos that might otherwise languish on your hard drive. But a lot of them are sold by no-name companies at budget prices with limited feature sets. Other manufacturers like Kodak and D-Link figured out a great way to improve the device is by building in Wi-Fi, which opens up a lot more sources to display photos from than a memory card or the frame's internal memory, whether it's from your PC or online. Now, the heavy hitters are joining the fray, as Samsung and Sony have announced new Wi-Fi-enabled frames that will be available this fall. Samsung is...

  40. 12 Life-Enhancing Programs For Your Mac

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:00 pm MDT

    Extend the way you use your Mac for phone calls, enjoying music, sleeping, and more

  41. 102 Minutes That Changed America: "Mesh" reporting comes of age

    → ZDNet Blogs | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:50 pm MDT

    This week, in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the History Channel is releasing an unusual documentary, entitled "102 Minutes That Changed America". If you are a DIRECTV subscriber and have access to their On Demand service, you can actually download the program to your DVRs now. If not, you'll want to set your TiVo's or tune in at Thursday, September 11, 9PM EST or Friday September 12, at 1am EST. This is a show you absolutely do not want to miss. Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below for more. There have been numerous documentaries and specials about 9/11, but none of them have been as gripping...

  42. Flipping the switch saves The Planet about $140K annually

    → ZDNet Blogs | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:45 pm MDT

    The results of The Planet's "lights out" pilot are in: By adopting a workday-hours lights-on policy and shutting off the lights after hours, the hosting company is saving roughly $140,000 per year across its six data centers in Houston and Dallas. The reduction in annual energy consumption achieved through this policy was about 1.4 million kilowatt hours. Aside from lights, all heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems are scheduled to run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Engineers working swing or graveyard shifts in certain zones of the building can switch on lamps as necessary. The rest have been programmed to switch on and off as mandated by the company's schedule. The Planet also has rigged motion-sensor lighting to work in...

  43. Apple admits it didn't invent the iPod

    → CNET News.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:05 pm MDT

    Kane Kramer claims that Apple has finally admitted that he is the real father of the iPod.

  44. Bookmarklets to add to your surfing

    → Delicious/tag/technorati | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:45 pm MDT



  45. Mystery of the 'couple' buried arm in arm 1,000 years ago

    → Digg / Science | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:30 pm MDT

    Archaeologists have unearthed the mysterious remains of what first appears to be a couple buried together arm in arm more than 1,000 years ago.

  46. Apple admit Briton DID invent iPod, not getting any money

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:30 pm MDT

    Apple has finally admitted that a British man who left school at 15 is the inventor behind the iPod. Kane Kramer, 52, came up with the technology that drives the digital music player nearly 30 years ago but has still not seen a penny from his invention.

  47. What do you want me to cover at TechCrunch50?

    → ZDNet Blogs | 7 Sep 2008 | 5:40 pm MDT

    I'll be on the floor of the San Francisco Design Center this week, trying to liveblog the events of TechCrunch50. The list of companies for Day 1 will be released at 6:30 a.m. PST on each day of the conference. Send me an email or post in the Talkback below and let me know which startups you want to know more about.

  48. How to Spot a Terrorist on the Fly

    → Digg / Science | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:10 pm MDT

    The man in the cheap brown jacket stood slumped in line, staring at the ground. His hands were fidgety, reaching repeatedly into his inside jacket pocket, or patting it from the outside. A momentary look of anguish, just 1/15th of a second or so, occasionally flashed across his face

  49. How to Disappear in the Battlefield: Camouflage Technology

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 3:00 pm MDT

    Military technology: Advances in camouflage, concealment and deception are revolutionising an age-old art of warfare. Even the most common form of camouflage—the coloured patterns printed onto combat fatigues—is being given a high-tech twist, as designers work with new software that incorporates neuroscientists’ understanding of human vision.

  50. Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal

    → CNET News.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:43 pm MDT

    Association of National Advertisers announces it has sent a letter to the top antitrust chief for the U.S. Department of Justice, issuing its objections to the controversial Yahoo-Google search ad partnership.

  51. Stunningly Intricate: Curta Mechanical Calculator (PICS)

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:40 pm MDT

    What if Babbage's Difference Engine spawned a "laptop"?It's hard to find a more desirable and satisfying (in a tactile sort of way) mechanical fetish item from the age of early computing...

  52. DemoFall preview: 10 to watch

    → Webware.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:34 pm MDT

    The DemoFall and TechCrunch50 conferences launch Monday. Demo's posted its list of it 72 presenting companies. TechCrunch will post a part of its list, we're told, at 6 a.m. Monday.

    You can see the full Demo list at the end of this post. But here are the top 10 companies I'd be paying the most attention to if I were going to Demo (I'm going to TechCrunch with Josh; CNET News writers Elinor Mills and Daniel Terdiman will be at Demo). I'll do a list, or lists, for TechCrunch too, time permitting.

    Rafe's Top 10 previews from Demo
    (Please note that I haven't talked to all these companies yet, so my understanding of these pitches is incomplete, and my post-conference Top list will likely be different.)

    (Note #2: I have replaced one my original picks due to a press embargo error on my part.)

    • Clintview by Clintworld: This is a financial analysis tool primarily for mobile phone carriers. It simulates customer behavior related to pricing and helps create pricing tiers and plans that generate the most revenue. It brings a disciplined approach to pricing services, which I think is smart. Might be applicable to paid Web services as well.
    • CrowdSpring Private by CrowdSpring: The company is not new, but I still love the idea. It's a new twist on the open marketplace for intellectual work. At Demo, the company will unveil CrowdSpring Private, which lets companies create their own, closed markets, so creativity doesn't leak out onto the Web, heaven forbid.
    • Infovell: Very interesting new search service. It lets you type in arbitrarily long queries, and then ranks results based on importance and frequency of word clusters. Also lets you use entire Web pages as queries, generating a "more like this" function that doesn't currently exist. Could be great for researching complex medical or legal topics.
    • Avego by Mapflow: Adds intelligence to casual carpooling with a car-service-like gizmo that tells drivers where riders are that want to go where they are going. It's hitchhiking 2.0: Scary but cool, and very green.
    • PaidInterviews: Pays job candidates for going on interviews. Totally whacked economic model, if you ask me, but that makes it interesting.
    • Plastic Logic: New science for electronic books, possibly competitive to existing e-Ink technology. Real chemistry at a start-up conference. What a breath of fresh air.
    • SpinSpotter: Claims to spot bias and inaccuracies in news stories. Helpful, if it works. Although it will probably expode if pointed at the blogosphere. And who watches the watchmen?
    • .tel by Telnic: One of several new companies that lets users create personal calling card Web sites using a new top-level-domain. I am highly skeptical of this model, but I want to see how it develops.
    • WebDiet: Location-based diet helper. Gives you food advice based on what's close to you. Unknown if it gives you an electric shock and shrieks, "Keep walking!" when you pass a McDonald's.
    • Xumii: Makes a service that access all your social sites from your mobile phone. Could be very useful for the younger, multiply-connected set.

    See full Launch Week coverage of DemoFall and TechCrunch.

    The DemoFall lineup is after the jump...

    The DemoFall companies:



  53. DemoFall preview: 10 to watch

    → CNET News.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:34 pm MDT

    If you can only watch 10 pitches from DemoFall, these would be good ones.

  54. The Road To Automation

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 7 Sep 2008 | 2:31 pm MDT

    When WordPress 2.3 was released into the wild, one of the new features was an update notification which told you when there was a new version of WordPress or a plugin available for download. This was possible thanks to the API service called api.wordpress.org. Earlier this year, I had the privilege of attending WordCamp Dallas

  55. Facebook Users Rally to Keep Old Site Layout

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:30 pm MDT

    If a post on Facebook’s developer blog is accurate, you have less than a week to make your call for no change. A group of members have coalesced behind a petition, massing together “Against the ‘New Facebook’” to send Zuckerberg a message: Don't get rid of the new layout, just give current users the choice to keep the old one.

  56. The Horror of 24 Hours without Google

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 1:13 pm MDT

    I wish Google didn't make me think of tentacles. It never did before I tried avoiding it for 24 hours -- a doomed exercise that began as a challenge and morphed into a horror show.

  57. Some News

    → ChrisMerriman.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:41 pm MDT

    Some friends know already. Apologies to those that didn’t for being a little late in telling you. To everyone else… Other Posts Singapore & Thailand Dasha Is A Mum Again! Food Glorious Food Recent Plugin Additions, Chimps Go Hunting And Kazakh Crap Items For Sale The Modern Choice in Displays Alex Is Back

  58. Rap about world's largest science experiment is YouTube hit

    → Digg / Science | 7 Sep 2008 | 12:10 pm MDT

    The start up of the biggest experiment on the planet has inspired a science rap song that has become an unlikely global hit.

  59. How Many Reviewers Should Be in the Kitchen?

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:30 am MDT

    Web sites that welcome customer reviews have evolved significantly, producing work that increasingly approaches that of their professional forebears.

  60. Creating a 'Facebook for spies'

    → CNET News.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:30 am MDT

    The CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency are reportedly testing a social-networking site designed for use by analysts within the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.

  61. Dual Citizenship for the Woolly Mammoth

    → Digg / Science | 7 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am MDT

    Woolly mammoths migrated to North America, then back to Siberia, according to a new scientific analysis.

  62. Report: More competitive processors due from AMD

    → CNET News.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 10:10 am MDT

    AMD will bring out processors by early next year that appear to be much more competitive with Intel offerings.

  63. Technorati: Front Page

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  64. Looking Forward To Wordpress 2.7

    → ChrisMerriman.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:37 am MDT

    Why? Because I have just had to go back and edit another handful of posts where I had stupidly forgotten to assign them a category. So? Wordpress used to have the category selection box towards to the top of the page, above the fold on the post creation page. It currently resides below the fold. There are plugins [...]

  65. Chrome's JavaScript challenge to Silverlight

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:20 am MDT

    "I think that the next 18 months we're going to see a 100- to 1,000-fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going to kick us all in the arse and make our JavaScript jittered," Microsoft senior program manager Scott Hanselman told the audience Friday, days after Google released its Chrome browser.

  66. Nero 6 Lying To You?

    → ChrisMerriman.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:18 am MDT

    If you are like me, you will have found Nero 7 and 8 to be just too bloated. Because of this, I stuck to version six. One problem with this version is that the speed you are actually recording at is not displayed. Although Nero informs you that you are burning a DVD at 16x [...]

  67. http://technorati.com/technology/?source=all

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  68. Hubble Repair Mission More Risky than You'd Ever Imagine

    → Digg / Science | 7 Sep 2008 | 9:00 am MDT

    If you think that the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope is going to be boring, you haven't seen this yet.

  69. Belated Update

    → ChrisMerriman.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:53 am MDT

    As previously mentioned, I’m not exactly in tip-top health still, so please excuse random blips in the posting regularity here. Anyway, I just wanted to post a quick link to the BBC article on the hotel that had refused a room to a soldier now apologising and ‘clarifying’ what had gone wrong. Cpl Tomos Stringer, the [...]

  70. Buffalo vs. Lion … … vs. Croc

    → ChrisMerriman.com | 7 Sep 2008 | 8:39 am MDT

    Ignore the advert (you can just click the little ‘X’ to remove it), and make sure you watch the video from beginning to end. The title of this post gives you a clue as to the main players, but you wouldn’t necessarily be able to guess the outcome of each battle. Don’t get all misty-eyed [...]

  71. Technorati Tag Generator

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  72. Blogging like your future depends on it

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  73. This is one bad ass book scanner! [VID]

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 6:23 am MDT

    In this video you see the presentation of an automatic book scanning machine, called ScanRobot.

  74. What to Expect From Google in The Next 10 Years

    → Digg / Technology | 7 Sep 2008 | 4:38 am MDT

    Thanks to Chrome and its subsequent pairing with Android, Google will extend beyond being the No. 1 search engine to being the premier Web applications provider in the world by 2018.

  75. Technorati: Front Page

    → Delicious/tag/technorati | 6 Sep 2008 | 9:00 pm MDT

    News about blogs.

  76. Technorati Popular: Top 100 blogs

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  77. Technorati Popular: Top 100 blogs

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  78. Technorati Support: Site Guide - Blog Directory

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  79. 6 Key Ways to Measure Your Blog's Success

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  80. At the TechCrunch50, an unfair advantage?

    → Webware.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 5:33 pm MDT

    It stands to reason that TechCrunch the blog will have an unfair advantage in covering the TechCrunch50 event. The same team produces both products, and the company has put a gag order on companies accepted to present on stage. Only the TechCrunch team knows who's going to be pitching at the event. So it will be easy for them to organize their coverage and even prepare stories on the presenting companies ahead of time.

    This kvetch may smack of inside baseball to many readers, but it's been bugging me. Do I really want to spend three days covering an event where I am at such a decided disadvantage, where I'm competing with the event itself? DemoFall, for comparison's sake, doesn't compete with other journalists or blogs; It has its own site but it doesn't have the readership, stature, or aspirations of TechCrunch.

    But I believe TechCrunch's unfair advantage in covering its own event will be mitigated by policies that TechCrunch50 co-host Jason Calacanis relayed after talking with CNET News Editor in Chief Dan Farber. Quoting an e-mail from Calacanis:

    Mike [Arrington, TechCrunch founder] has agreed that:

    a) he will not allow TechCrunch editors to bank stories [write them ahead of time].

    b) TechCrunch will not cover the live demos until after each session--giving other press outlets first shot at the stories (like an HOUR advantage!)

    c) TechCrunch will link to other publications in TC's coverage.

    Good for you, Jason and Michael. I still have issues with the way the event is set up, but if your team holds true to these policies, at least I'm not going into this event with the deck completely stacked against me.

    This move is also a sound business decision. It makes sense to keep the press happy at TechCrunch50, since press coverage is one of the key drivers for events like this, and since the TechCrunch50 event is such a big moneymaker for the TechCrunch company. Even a blog of TechCrunch's size can make only so much money from advertising. The real money for a business of TechCrunch's scale is events, and TechCrunch50, with its 800 to 1,000 (my estimate) paid attendees at $2,995 each, and its roster of five-figure sponsors, is this operation's big revenue producer.

    For other coverage of TechCrunch50 and the competing DemoFall conference, see CNET's Launch Week page, our special Twitter feed, and the other major Web 2.0 blogs like Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, and CenterNetworks. If you like the inside-the-beltway skinny, ValleyWag is also sure to have some fun items.



  81. A Consuming Experience

    → Delicious/tag/technorati | 6 Sep 2008 | 4:39 pm MDT



  82. 1000 things I’ve learned about blogging from OJB

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 6 Sep 2008 | 3:31 pm MDT

    1000 things I’ve learned about blogging from the Online Journalism Blog.: An interesting and long-ish list of lessons that the author (I could not figure out who wrote this article from their list of authors. I am assuming it was Paul Bradshaw. Multi-author blogs really, really need to think about adding the name of the

  83. sun microsystems: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati

    → Delicious/tag/technorati | 6 Sep 2008 | 2:37 pm MDT



  84. DjangoCon 2008: GvR speaks on the future of App Engine

    → Journals.ars | 6 Sep 2008 | 1:35 pm MDT

    DjangoCon 2008 opened this morning with a keynote speech by Guido van Rossum on Google's App Engine and how it pertains to Django. Also: the future of App Engine.

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  85. Forrester Defines the Cloud, But We Beg to Differ

    → GigaOM | 6 Sep 2008 | 12:42 pm MDT

    A new report out from Forrester takes a chart-filled look at cloud computing, offering the analyst firm’s own definition of the cloud and attempting to dispel three myths they have noticed. Since we at GigaOM buy pretty heavily into two of these so-called myths — namely that a cloud is comprised of a scalable virtualized [...]

  86. On iTunes 8 and hunches; also iPhone 2.1 for Tuesday

    → Journals.ars | 6 Sep 2008 | 11:10 am MDT

    We have received word that iTunes 8 is finally confirmed for Tuesday's special event, and that it's also expected that iPhone 2.1 will land as well with some hidden features we don't know about.

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  87. More leaked iPod nano pics: for reals this time

    → Journals.ars | 6 Sep 2008 | 9:43 am MDT

    Orange and lime: not just fruits anymore. Allegedly-leaked photos of the fourth-gen iPod nano made the rounds overnight and they're pretty much what you would expect, except in some rare colors for the nano.

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  88. Mozilla releases second Firefox 3.1 alpha

    → Webware.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 9:27 am MDT

    The Mozilla Corporation has released an advance testing version of its popular Firefox Web browser, just days after Google revealed its competing Chrome software.

    The second alpha of Firefox 3.1 was made available overnight. The software, code-named Shiretoko, is at this stage intended for software developers and testers only, with the stable and recommended version of Firefox being 3.0.1.

    Firefox logo

    In a statement, Mozilla said the testing version of Firefox introduced several new features, including the browser's highly anticipated support for a new video tag element introduced with the HTML 5 standard to provide more functionality around the amount of video that is increasingly being delivered through Web browsers.

    In addition, Shiretoko allows users to drag and drop tabs between browser windows, improves performance in some areas and provides better integration with Windows Vista's Aero 'Glass' theme for those wanting to add extra themes on top of Firefox.

    The new software also adds some speed enhancements to the browser, particularly in the area of JavaScript handling, which was one area Google highlighted as being a strength of the Chrome browser it launched this week, also in testing form.

    Mozilla is planning to integrate a faster JavaScript engine, dubbed TraceMonkey, into Firefox. However the organization noted that technology was not included in the software released overnight, although it could be tested by following a set of instructions posted online.

    The alpha release of Firefox 3.1 can be downloaded from Mozilla's Web site.

    Renai LeMay of ZDNet Australia reported from Sydney.



  89. Chrome's JavaScript challenge to Silverlight

    → Webware.com | 6 Sep 2008 | 8:43 am MDT

    Chrome logo

    SYDNEY--The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe Systems' ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference here.

    "I think that the next 18 months we're going to see a 100- to 1,000-fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going to kick us all in the arse and make our JavaScript jittered," Microsoft senior program manager Scott Hanselman told the audience Friday, days after Google released its Chrome browser, which features faster JavaScript technology.

    Jonas Follesø, senior consultant at Cap Gemini, agreed, saying that JavaScript would continue to get speedier and that Chrome will become "massively" faster than it is.

    "Now Google has stepped up and released a browser with jittered JavaScript and JavaVM, making this really, really, really fast," he said.


    ZDNet video: Can Chrome give IE a run for its money?
    ZDNet's Sumi Das and Sam Diaz talk about the perks and pitfalls of the
    newly released browser from Google.

    The consultant said that whenever he thought people had reached a limit about what could be done inside a browser using just JavaScript, some "cool JavaScript writer" came up and showed him how to do more.

    "It's going to be hard to tell if it's going to be Silverlight or JavaScript we're going to use for our applications," he said. "I think in the end JavaScript is going to be a bigger competitor to Silverlight than Flash is."

    An audience member questioned the panel of experts later on whether he should "be out buying JavaScript books" now the language had been "put on steroids."

    Harry Pierson, Microsoft program manager, answered that he thought "JavaScript is a very odd language for most developers" and that it was more interesting to do higher-level development and if necessary compile it down to JavaScript.

    Hanselman had a different opinion, saying that although it was a "freaky, weird language," it was possible to do object-oriented programming. "The JavaScript I used and hated in Netscape 4 is not the same JavaScript we have today," he said. "So yeah, I think you should get some JavaScript books."

    Follesø said that even if souped-up JavaScript became dominant, he thought Silverlight was going to be big, especially in the enterprise when "fun" Web 2.0 applications come to roost. "For the intranet, when the users expect the same kind of user experience it's not that easy to really build that stuff in HTML and JavaScript, so Silverlight might be a lot easier alternative," he said.

    Suzanne Tindal of ZDNet Australia reported from Sydney.

    Click here for full coverage of the Google Chrome launch.



  90. WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/06

    → Weblog Tools Collection | 6 Sep 2008 | 6:51 am MDT

    Vipers Video Quicktags Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the

  91. Technorati Marks

    → Delicious/tag/technorati | 5 Sep 2008 | 9:57 pm MDT

    My technorati marks

  92. Explore Picasa's latest and greatest community shots

    → Webware.com | 5 Sep 2008 | 6:16 pm MDT

    On Friday, Google's Picasa Web Albums rolled out a new page that highlights community photography, with featured shots from its users, a stream of live updating uploads, and a game that makes use of media that's been geotagged.

    Of all the new features, the "Where in the World?" game is the most fun. It lets you guess where a photo was taken by clicking on a giant world map. You're awarded points for how close you were, with closer guesses racking up massive points. It does this using shots that have been geotagged, although that doesn't necessarily make it easier. Success in the game comes from shots that contain landmarks or language markers with local signage. If the shot doesn't have any of that, which seems to happen more often than not, you're playing with pure luck.

    Picasa's new Explore section outlines some of the newest and most interesting photographs from Picasa users. (Click the image for a larger version.)

    (Credit: CNET Networks)

    The featured photo section is also a great start but hardly the exploratory experience competitor Flickr has established for itself. There's no way to sort by date, and Google has not made it clear how the photos have ended up on the front page by hiding how many people have viewed and bookmarked each shot.

    One thing missing from the equation is more ways to explore the actual users. You can still get to someone's profile with all their public shots, but there's not yet a community spotlight for interesting photographers.

    The Where in the World game lets you guess where photos were taken. You're lucky if there's some sort of language or landmark...otherwise it's anyone's guess. (Click the image for a larger version.)

    (Credit: CBS Interactive)


  93. CIA, FBI embrace 'Facebook for spies'

    → CNN.com - Technology | 5 Sep 2008 | 6:08 pm MDT

    When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook, you might suspect those workers are slacking off. But that's not the case at U.S. intelligence agencies, where bosses are encouraging their staffs to use a new social-networking site designed for the secret world of spying.



  94. Friday evening Microsoft links, CPU-Z edition

    → Journals.ars | 5 Sep 2008 | 6:02 pm MDT

    One Microsoft Way presents a roundup of links for your weekend reading pleasure.

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  95. Thanks to our GigaNET Sponsors

    → GigaOM | 5 Sep 2008 | 6:00 pm MDT

    We’d like to say thanks to this month’s GigaNET sponsors: Brightcove: “The 2008 SEO Video Playbook” (free download) Accenture: “The Innovation Dilemma: How to Achieve High Performance through Superior Research & Development” (free download) Interop: Register for a free expo pass — New York, Sept. 15 - 19. Server Beach: By geeks, for geeks Volo Media: Dynamic advertising for downloadable [...]

  96. Making Word multiuser: Plutext

    → Webware.com | 5 Sep 2008 | 5:59 pm MDT

    To my mind, the killer feature of Google Docs is not that it is Web-based, per se. It's that it makes real-time collaboration easy. You can invite a user into a document you currently have open, and you both can edit the file at the same time. It's not a feature you're going to need all the time, but when you're on a deadline and need to get sign-off from one or more other person on a document right away, it's a life-saver (see also: Zooos).

    Plutext adds new collaboration functions to Word.

    (Credit: Plutext)

    Fighting this killer feature is Microsoft Word's own killer feature, which is: Everyone in business has Word, and most people know how to use it effectively. There are plenty of people who would use a simultaneous editing feature in Word if it had one, and who aren't going to switch to Google just because it does.

    A new service, Plutext, currently being developed, will bring nearly live editing to Word documents. I saw a demo at the Office 2.0 conference.

    The service works as a plug-in to Word, adding a collection of buttons in the "Review" tab. These new functions let you invite users into a document, push your changes to the Web, and read in new changes.

    While Plutext does not support strictly simultaneous editing (you have to intentionally publish your changes and get new updates), neither does it let two users get out of sync by letting them work on different versions of the same file. You really can have a dozen people in the same document at the same time. Plutext uses Word's existing Accept and Reject Revisions function to review changes other people have made on your open document.

    With Plutext, you won't have the problem of multiple versions of the file floating around with different revisions in them, nor will you run into the issue of trying to open a document to edit it only to find that some other user has it opened and locked for changes, and is out to lunch.

    There's also a wiki-like revision history that acts as an audit trail of all the work done on a document. Revisions in this report are flagged either by paragraph or section heading (user's choice); the latter could make reading updates on technical and legal documents much easier than it would be otherwise.

    The system creates readable audit trails of changes.

    (Credit: Plutext)

    Plutext Managing Director Jason Harrop told me that real-time co-editing is technically possible with his platform, but that his research says users want the level of control that the intentional publishing gives them.

    Plutext is also going to release a free Java-based editor, Docx4all, that natively supports Word .DOCX files as well as the Plutext system. It's not a pure Web-based editor, but it will allow document authors to send links to active versions of their files to users who don't have Word.

    The demo I saw was early and a bit rough; taking a file from standard single-user mode to collaborative looked complicated; Harrop says the system will be cleaner when it ships in October.

    Plutext will be available as server-based software for companies that want their documents stored inside their own firewalls; a cloud-based Plutext service may also be forthcoming.

    See also: Expresso, EditGrid, Sharepoint. And keep an eye on Docverse.



  97. The 10 Laws of Cloudonomics

    → GigaOM | 5 Sep 2008 | 5:23 pm MDT

    Public utility cloud services differ from traditional data center environments — and private enterprise clouds — in three fundamental ways. These three key differences in turn enable the sustainable strategic competitive advantage of clouds through what I’ll call the 10 Laws of Cloudonomics.

  98. NetSuite boasts of Google Chrome support

    → Webware.com | 5 Sep 2008 | 5:14 pm MDT

    Google Chrome will work with NetSuite's online accounting and customer-relations software, the company said Friday.

    Elements of the company's online tools, including editing text and drag-and-drop operations, benefit from Chrome's fast JavaScript, NetSuite said. However, Google's assertions of compatibility with Apple Safari notwithstanding, NetSuite said it will gradually extend support to its customers, finishing by mid-October.

    The company boasted it's the first online business application to support Chrome, just as it was the first with native support for the iPhone's version of Safari and the new Firefox 3.0.

    But that sort of support seems more like a reasonably clever attempt to capitalize on the Chrome buzz than anything customers truly are clamoring for.

    After all, NetSuite is geared toward businesses that typically are the kinds of conservative and technologically unadventurous customers who aren't first in line to try the latest beta version of a Web browser. One of the reasons Microsoft won't frog-march us all to Internet Explorer 7, much less IE 8, is that many businesses have set up operations using IE 6, even though it was introduced in 2001.

    Click here for full coverage of the Google Chrome launch.



  99. Earthscape for iPhone to Add Geotagged Photos

    → GigaOM | 5 Sep 2008 | 4:51 pm MDT

    I moderated a panel on the future of mobile phone technology for accessing MMOs at the Virtual Worlds Expo in LA this week, but one of the most interesting demos showcased there was a very cool iPhone application for the real world: the ability to upload geotagged photos onto a 3D map of the [...]

  100. Friday afternoon Apple links: Cthulhu edition

    → Journals.ars | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:45 pm MDT

    This Friday's Apple links preps us for the September 9 Apple Event by not touching on it whatsoever. Instead, we look at the iPhone's sales, Adobe CS4, a Cthulhu game for the iPhone, some tips for screen sharing in Leopard, lightsabers, and the military using iPods.

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  101. VoIP Like You Give a Damn

    → GigaOM | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:44 pm MDT

    When I checked out Google’s blog post Tuesday about its Free the Airwaves project, which aims to convince the FCC to approve the use of the white spaces between the spectrum vacated by analog television channels for broadband access, I saw it offered the ability to phone your Congressman. I thought that was kind of [...]

  102. Joost To Kill Desktop Client

    → GigaOM | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:32 pm MDT

    Exclusive: In what is likely to be a major shift in the company’s strategy, peer-to-peer startup Joost is going to stop making its desktop client. The decision to suspend the client is likely to be announced soon, I am told. The company is going to a browser-only strategy, in which much of its content is [...]

  103. Science outreach done right: the LHC

    → Journals.ars | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:24 pm MDT

    Some of the people behind the Large Hadron Collider are doing a great job of dispelling the myth of the dull scientist.

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  104. Umbrella Today keeps you dry, informed about moisture

    → Webware.com | 5 Sep 2008 | 3:07 pm MDT

    Umbrella Today is a refreshingly simple service that helps you figure out whether or not you should bring an umbrella out into this crazy world we live in. You just plug in your ZIP code (sorry international users) and it will give you a simple yes or no answer.

    Rain or shine, you're given the option to sign up for an SMS alert service. It lets you know the next time you should bring an umbrella for that selected ZIP code whenever precipitation is in the forecast. You can also set what time of the day you want them delivered--like before you leave the house.

    Related: Rain and shine hit Google Maps and Google Earth

    [via BuzzFeed]

    Wondering whether or not you'll be needing some rain protection? Umbrella Today gives you the heads up.

    (Credit: CBS Interactive)


  105. AT&T, T-Mobile, 3 to Speak at Mobilize

    → GigaOM | 5 Sep 2008 | 2:52 pm MDT

    As most of you know, this summer we have been working hard to put together our next-generation mobile conference Mobilize 08, which will look at the emergence of new devices and their impact on mobile data — in particular the opportunities they present for entrepreneurs. Unlike some of the existing events, which focus almost exclusively on [...]

  106. Down and out at the September 9 Apple Event?

    → Journals.ars | 5 Sep 2008 | 2:28 pm MDT

    Consensus from rumormongers and analysts coalesce around modest iPod updates and no Macs on September 9th, but something is coming.

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  107. Ilda & MattG’s Turn

    → ChrisMerriman.com | 5 Sep 2008 | 2:22 pm MDT

    … for an electronic Happy Birthday. Hope your days go well. (MattG has appeared enough times in this blog for people to hopefully know he is a friend of ours from Britain, and Ilda is Balzhan’s son). Other Posts Lovely Screen, Shame About The Contents Borrowing With Some Intelligence Slowly Returning To A State Of Normality Their, Robot Failing Blog Scally Choppers

  108. Don't get hopes up, 15s Windows 7 boot time is just a goal

    → Journals.ars | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:41 pm MDT

    Michael Fortin, who leads the Fundamentals feature team that is Windows 7's Core Operating System group, discusses what Microsoft is doing to improve boot performance for Windows 7. Ars takes a quick look at the important points of what Fortin has said.

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  109. Ditching the USB hub may help reduce iPhone sync times

    → Journals.ars | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:31 pm MDT

    Some iPhone users are finding that bypassing the USB hub and plugging directly into their Macs helps in reducing lengthy sync times. It may not work for everyone, but it's at least worth a shot if you're experiencing this issue.

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  110. Microsoft considering splitting Windows Home Server in two

    → Journals.ars | 5 Sep 2008 | 1:23 pm MDT

    In response to demand for more than 10 users and 10 computers, Microsoft is considering making "basic" and "advanced" versions of Windows Home Server. Is that what WHS users want?

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  111. Poll: Is the New Microsoft Ad Any Good?

    → GigaOM | 5 Sep 2008 | 12:50 pm MDT

    What's Your Take On The New Microsoft Ad? Bill being funny. That's good. I like it. Oh man -- this is worse than their dinosaur campaign. I am Mac...I don't PC Microsoft has launched its largest consumer marketing campaign focused on the broad potential of Windows across PCs, the web and mobile devices to date. The [...]

  112. Sting and Tool to appear/contribute to Guitar Hero: World Tour

    → Journals.ars | 5 Sep 2008 | 12:31 pm MDT

    As the battle to get cool performers in music games continue, Sting and Tool have sided with the next Guitar Hero entry.