May 2008
36 posts
Cybersquatting 2.0 →
When FriendFeed announced the availability of ”rooms,” my podcast co-host, Neville Hobson, set one up for our show, FIR. We’ve implemented a variety of means by which our listeners can…
May 31st
Al Qaeda Burnout →
In 1968 and Egyptian scholar, going under the pen name of Dr. Fadl, began writing some of the early treatises justifying Jihad. One of his students was Ayman al-Zawahiri, the ideological leader…
May 31st
The New iPhone’s New Winner →
Depending which iPhone rumor you believe, the 3G version of iPhone has either been delayed or already landed on U.S. shores and is on its way to being announced at Apple’s WWDC in San…
May 31st
400 Mbps ADSL →
Bonded DSL rings promise speeds of up to 400Mbps
May 29th
Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax? →
Aren’t fax signatures the weirdest thing? It’s trivial to cut and paste — with real scissors and glue — anyone’s signature onto a document so that it’ll look real when faxed. There is so little…
May 29th
I'll Never Get on a Plane Again →
Holy cow, am I the last person in the world to see this? Forget Cathay Pacific’s first class seat, this is the way to make a speech in a far away land: Cisco/Musion Systems TelePresence…
May 29th
Announcing OEmbed - An Open Standard for Embedded... →
Pownce is the best way to share media with your friends online and one of the best parts of Pownce is the embedded images and video. When you post a link-type note with a URL to an image site…
May 29th
Windows 7 debuts at D6: Video! Multi-touch! And a... →
Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7 What with an exciting (ahem) interview and a batch of kind of insane screenshots of Windows 7 already blowing up the internets today, you’d…
May 28th
It’s Time To Rethink Copyright Law (33) →
Shared 33 times Tagged Company & Product Profiles (2092) YouTube (2063) There was more posturing today in the big YouTube-Viacom copyright showdown that began around the time that …
May 28th
"The Coolest Picture Ever" →
Balloons were in the news over the holiday. First, the big news. Mars Phoenix, a device intended to dig into the Martian surface and analyze ice and soil, touched down safely near Mars’ north…
May 28th
NewsGator Online Adds Recommended RSS Articles ... →
In an exciting new development for those of you who use NewsGator Online, we have recently introduced  a partnership with Uprizer Labs’ SenseArray collaborative filtering capabilities to…
May 28th
12 Tools and Techniques for Building Relationships... →
Image by Michael Sarver A recent question asked in the Q&A widget was from a reader asking me to write about: “How to go about building relationships with other bloggers?” Building relationships with…
May 27th
Why I deleted my Twitter account →
A few weeks ago I got tired of listening in on people engaging in random public chatter so I set a target of twenty people to follow. It’s not that I have anything against using Twitter as IRC, its…
May 27th
Telkom trialing 8 Mbps ADSL →
Telkom is looking at an 8 Mbps ADSL service
May 27th
Loyd Case on installing solar panels →
Over at Extreme Tech, Loyd Case has put together a wonderful little write-up about his experience installing solar powers on the roof of his Californian home… from talking to…
May 27th
Lawsuit against AllofMp3.com dropped by RIAA →
Remember AllofMP3.com, the easy to use, consumer-friendly music downloading site based in Russia? It got shut down last July amidst threats that Russia wouldn’t be able to join the World…
May 27th
Fasting may prevent jetlag →
A study conducted by Harvard Med School researchers has concluded that a 16-hour fast prior to long-distance travel can cause the brain’s circadian clock to reset, beating jetlag: Normally, the…
May 27th
The Perfect Productivity System →
The perfect productivity system is the web worker’s Holy Grail. But, like the Grail, this productivity system is surrounded by myth. Is the perfect productivity system just out there waiting to…
May 27th
12 Tools and Techniques for Building Relationships... →
Image by Michael Sarver A recent question asked in the Q&A widget was from a reader asking me to write about: “How to go about building relationships with other bloggers?” Building…
May 27th
In London, a Glimpse of a Broadband Future →
London is one of those few fortunate cities to have a surfeit of telecom competition. From broadband providers to mobile operators, Londoners have a choice. They have decent broadband speeds…
May 27th
Windows 7 to make appearance at D6 Conference →
A very tired little birdie who flew all the way from Seattle to Australia has chirped to me Windows 7 will be publically disclosed for the first time at the D6: All Things Digital Conference…
May 25th
Macworld | Facebook security snafu could... →
May 25th
Things brings the sync →
Filed under: Software, Productivity If you love Things, you just got a whole lot more to love. The folks at Cultured Code have finally added iCal sync, and they’ve done a spectacular job…
May 25th
Canonical CEO says Ubuntu Netbook Remix build... →
Filed under: Laptops You never really know what all will emerge from a simple interview, and thanks to a recent sit-down with Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth, we now know that…
May 25th
Friendfeed And Twitter: Between A Rock And A... →
There is a chorus of voices that suggest that Friendfeed should inherit the mantle of web sociality that Twitter has claimed in recent months. Steve Rubel twittered this, yesterday [first post at…
May 25th
Giving Twitter a Break: A Look at the Alternatives... →
With all the frustration, confusion, and support going towards Twitter this week, a break from Twitter might be just want the doctor ordered. This weekend users have been asking for…
May 25th
What's Killing Twitter: Twitter Gets Help Digging... →
Shared 36 times Tagged Products (711) Our beloved Twitter has been digging its own grave for several months now. Recently, the service has experienced an absurd amount of downtime….
May 25th
Around The World DSL Speeds (& Prices) Go Up →
DSL Speeds and prices around the world went up 4.7% and 9.3% during the first quarter of 2008, according to Point Topic, a consulting firm that tracks broadband tariffs around the planet. The…
May 25th
The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market (20) →
Shared 20 times Are Microsoft’s attempts to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more attempts to get back into the spotlight? Should Microsoft, Google…
May 25th
Mars Spacecraft Faces Riskiest Part of Mission →
If all goes well, a NASA spacecraft will land Sunday on the northern polar region of Mars to advance the study of whether the planet once supported life. Fewer than half of the world’s attempts to…
May 25th
Write Reviews that Add Value and Solve Readers’... →
Today Dustin M. Wax writes about how to write Review Post on your blog. Reviews are one of the mainstays of blogs. By now, everyone in the world is familiar with Problogger’s own Darren Rowse’s…
May 25th
“A man see three fellows laying bricks at a new building. He approached the...”
– joan borysenko
May 25th
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180 degrees on my Clippings feed
I really enjoy using Tumblr for odd bits and pieces I find on the Web.  Heck, I use a bunch of other services for that too including del.icio.us, Pownce, FriendFeed and more.  I also like to share interesting items in my feeds and the challenge is how to get that out there without adding yet another feed item to all my aggregators.  Initially I was using Tumblr to import those items and a couple...
May 25th
““It is true that the MDC used the escalating inflation, prices of goods and...”
– The Zimbabwe Gazette Daily News Online - Elections were not Free and Fair - ZANU PF
May 17th
The future of the Firefox address bar | Webware :... →
May 16th
4 tags
May 3rd