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Thursday, August 30, 2007

The Gphone is coming; how Google could rewrite the rules

I'm frothing at the mouth at the prospect of a Google phone. Bring it on! Maybe I could have an iPhone and a GPhone.

From the article
If done right, the Gphone and not the iPhone will be the one to change the face of the wireless industry.

Apple’s iPhone, at least in its initial release, has not upended the wireless industry, particularly in the United States, as much as hoped. The iPhone certainly has pushed the cell phone envelope a bit further, and it hints at what’s to come, but so far the iPhone is still playing by the rules.

Google, if it enters the fray as expected with its so-called Gphone, may truly rewrite the rules. What it plans to do is an ongoing topic of discussion and speculation on the Internet, not unlike Apple’s plans for the iPhone before its release at the end of June.


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Google & Yahoo Maps Feature to be Available in Mercedes-Benz Cars

That's nice but I don't like the Mercedes-Benz so I won't be rushing out to buy one.

From the article
Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Yahoo and Google to offer some new features for its S, CL, and C class models, called Search & Send. The features is set to launch next month, on September 5th.

The new Search & Send feature will let you send directions from either maps service to the car’s navigation system with its new “Send to Car” icon. Pressing the i-button on the car’s Tele Aid system will download the directions and make them available to you.


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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

10 Steps to becoming Facebook Guru

More and more people are flocking to Facebook. This article has some great steps to follow that will help you become a Facebook Guru.

From the article
Over the past couple of months I have introduced a number of my friends to Facebook. Generally I have always had the same response back, “I’m not sure what to do” or “Bebo is easier”. I agree getting started with Facebook is not straight forward as it could be. So here are ten simple slides to get you started with Facebook.

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Beijing police launch Web patrols

I'm glad I don't live in China. I would hate having 1/2 hour cartoon alerts. This is going to lead to internet rage.

From the article
Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.

Starting Sept. 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 of China's top portals, including Sohu and Sina, and by the end of the year will appear on all Web sites registered with Beijing servers, the Beijing Public Security Ministry said in a statement.


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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Godfather of the internet, predicts the end of TV

Well he has got one thing right. The TV as we know it will disappear. Times are changing. I'm not sure about surfing the net on Mars.

From the article
Thirty years ago he helped create a technology that has revolutionised millions of lives around the world. But yesterday the man known as the "godfather of the net" laid out his vision of where our online future might be, including a time when we download entire TV series in seconds - and even surf the web from Mars.

Talking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Vint Cerf - one of the handful of researchers who helped build the internet in the 1970s - said that the television industry would change rapidly as it approached its "iPod moment".

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MySpace To Allow Ads on Profile Pages?

This would certainly be a complete turnaround from MySpace. If they go this route though it is just going to open the door for spammers to infest the site even more.

From the article
Reports today say that MySpace may allow users to place ads on their pages, lifting the ban on user ads that’s been in place for most of the site’s history. The move would aim to increase MySpace’s revenue, so no doubt MySpace would demand a cut of any ads you put on your pages. Certainly, we know it’s very hard to monetize the unpredictable content on profile pages: perhaps they could get the members doing that job for them.

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Google Fixes Blogger Flaws; Adds Video Support

I like the video idea. Anyone though find it a little strange that Google have build a video upload feature into blogger. I would have thought they would want you to put your videos on YouTube.

From the article
Blogger, Google's free blogging service, underwent some updates this week, the first of which involved a technical problem with the blog publishing and hosting service and introduced a new feature that gives publishers the ability to upload videos to their sites.

Publishers who use Blogger had been experiencing trouble performing various editing and posting operations last Monday and Tuesday. Google was quick to notice and repair this issue, as it was no longer a concern by Wednesday.

Wednesday, however, was the day that Blogger and the Blogspot hosting platform suffered an outage that lasted little over an hour. Apparently this setback affected the entire community of hosted bloggers.

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Apple iPhone Buzz Remains Strong in Online Discussion

The reason for the decline in traditional media is that they get bored easily. As for the real people in this world. eg us online users. We know when something is interesting and the iPhone is interesting hence we like to talk about it.

From the article
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) August 17, 2007 -- Biz360® Inc., the leading provider of media and market intelligence solutions, today released its analysis of the Apple iPhone launch, which shows a strong increase in consumer buzz for July, following the frenzy of the pre-launch hype. Apple launched the device on June 29, 2007. The iPhone posted the increase in online discussion despite a 27 percent decline in mainstream media coverage for July (broadcast, print and online news stories).

While the iPhone generated strong buzz for a new product launch, it fell far short of the record for product launches tracked by Biz360. The Nintendo Wii, which launched in November 2006, generated more than twice the online discussion for the month following its launch than did the iPhone. The Nintendo Wii's holiday buzz was a prelude to sales that would follow as it beat out the other newly launched game consoles in January 2007 and overtook the market leader in monthly sales, the Sony Playstation 2, in April 2007.


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Friday, August 24, 2007

50+ Google Reader Extensions and Scripts For Firefox

Google Reader is my feedreader of choice. Now you can get some great extensions for it.

From the article
Don’t get us wrong, Google Reader is our favorite feedreader. But sometimes, we just wish it was a little…better. Here are 50 Firefox extensions and scripts to make Google Reader your own.

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Illuminating the net's Dark Ages

I find the history of the Internet to be quite a fascinating subject. A rather interesting article from the BBC on this subject.

From the article
Imagine a history of World War 2 that failed to cover the events in 1930s Germany. Conventional histories of the internet are that incomplete, according to a researcher.

It is difficult to conceive of a world without the internet - today more than a billion users worldwide are connected - but just 25 years ago global network connections were vanishingly rare.


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Thursday, August 23, 2007

MySpace for Spies: A-Space

I wonder if there will be a limited number of public invites. Just imagine the sort of videos and pictures that will be shared on the A-Space social network. Sure will be more interesting than some of the rubbish on MySpace.

From the article
The Financial Times today reports on a planned social network for the U.S. intelligence community -- a sort of MySpace for spooks, dubbed A-Space. Idle question: are users referred to as "a-holes"? Anyway, snip:

The Director of National Intelligence will open the site to the entire intelligence community in December.


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Digg Images is Coming

I'm not sure why it has taken them so long. Maybe it was technically too hard for them to do. Just kidding. Anyway I reckon Digg Images should have been done ages ago.

From the article
Hey everyone — over the last few months we’ve been working on some new features based on your feedback. The development team is hard at work on multiple concurrent projects (home page, images, comments, etc.) which we’ll be releasing over the coming months.

We’ll soon be rolling out improvements to the home page that allow you to see all content, including news and videos, on a single page we call “All”. If you prefer just News or Videos, you’ll still be able to switch back to that view and set it as your home page.

We know you’re eagerly awaiting a dedicated images section. In terms of navigation and back-end code, the home page update helps pave the way for images - which we’re excited to roll out in the October timeframe.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Microsoft Launches Taffiti, A Silverlight Search Tool

Another search tool. Just what we all need. But this ones different. It’s built by Microsoft utilizing there recenltly released Silverlight technology. Off course I tried to access it at work and it says I need to install Siverlight. End of story. Will have to check it out when I get home.

From the article
Tafiti is a new search tool created by Microsoft, utilizing its Silverlight technology.

This product aims to bring specialized search tools and a rich web experience together on the web, so with Silverlight’s integration, you’ll get a more visually appealing aesthetic that extends to the very interaction of your search. This emphasis on design is notably Microsoft’s mantra.

With tafiti, you can start your search like any other. Skinned to look like notes taken on a sheet of lined paper, next to a file cabinet system, your search results appear in a list format, and those you’d like to save for later reference can be placed on your shelf, which displays as a standard thumbnail icon along the right-hand side of the page. You can tag each item saved to your shelf, and if you’re a Windows Live user, these saved search results can be attached to your account and accessed at a later date. Otherwise, they’ll disappear once your search session is over. There are filtering options, as well as search items options, allowing you to perform an RSS, images, books, news, or a web search (no video). The books search is especially helpful as it includes the in-depth text views you’re accustomed to with Windows Live Books.

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30 Mac Apps to Run your Business By

For those of you who use Macs this list will be extremely helpful. While I’m sure you have heard of a lot of these apps there is bound to be some on here that you haven’t

From the article
I’ve been a Mac user for many years now and a business owner for just as many. I’ve needed apps for everything from invoicing and time tracking to contact and money management. I’ve used literally hundreds of applications over the past few years and know how frustrating it can be to find something that works for you.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Dot-com crash won't repeat

Here’s hoping this is true. Once bitten, twice shy as they say.

From the article
It may seem that there's another Internet bubble afoot, given companies like Shelfari.com--"show off your books!"--receiving venture capital funding.

But an eminent Harvard economist says it's not true. "The IT boom is not coming back," Dale Jorgenson, a Harvard university professor, said on Monday. "On the other hand we're not in the midst of another dot-com crash."

Jorgenson, who gave a morning presentation at this year's Aspen Summit organized by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, displayed a series of graphs showing that while hardware prices have fallen (measured either by computer prices or component prices) in the last few decades, software prices have remained constant when adjusted for inflation.

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Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters

This message appears in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. Makes you think doesn’t it. Try and hack my 18770 character password now!

From the article
Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes.
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Monday, August 20, 2007

Search Faster and Easier with Sputtr

Is it me or is there a little bit of growing dissatisfaction with Google search. I just have that feeling in my bones. Anyway I like the fact I can pick my search engine with this new site.

From the article
With all of the hype and attention that Google has been getting for every single move it makes, it is somewhat refreshing to see an innovative, useful search tool come along that is not associated with the billion-dollar giant.

There are so many search engines and websites with databases full of information that, often, it is hard to decide where to start. For instance, if you want to find a news story, you might begin with Google News, but to find an actress, you would probably start at IMDb. With so many decisions it can be hard keeping up with all of the choices, which is where Sputtr steps in to provide a solution.

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StumbleUpon Adds New Look to Profile Pages

I quite like the new layout. As the article says it gives the site a bit more of a social network feel. Gets my approval. What do you think?

From the article
StumbleUpon has launched a new look for your user profile. Similar to Yahoo Mail, it’s testing this look out in “beta,” letting you toggle between the classic and updated look for your StumbleUpon site.

The main difference between the two pages is simply the layout. With the updated look, you’ll get more of a social networking feel, benefiting both yourself as a StumbleUpon user, and those that visit your StumbleUpon page. Easily access your Favorites, your messages, Friends, and What’s New.

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Friday, August 17, 2007

Share news stories without permission, get fined?

Good thing then that we don’t publish the full articles. Also good that we always link back to source.

From the article
If you're fond of occasionally circulating the full text of news stories to amuse your workmates, you may be in the clear, copyright law-wise. But systematic copying and blasting of articles for money-making purposes could get you into trouble, as evidenced by the latest settlement reached by an antipiracy trade group.

The Software Information & Industry Association (SIIA) on Thursday announced a $300,000 truce with a California-based market research company called Knowledge Networks over the company's distribution of "press packets" containing copyrighted news articles without permission or licenses. (Here's a PDF of the press release.)

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Don’t buy an iPod right now!

Is there a new iPod coming? We wait in anticipation. Maybe Apple are slowing down production in an attempt to drive more people to the iPhone.

From the article
We've gotten a deluge of emails over the last week from readers and insiders speculating about the next iPod release; after all, it's been a couple months since Apple loosed the iPhone, the new iMac is official and living large, and current iPods have seen a price drop -- something that only comes strictly mandated by Apple HQ. What's more, sources at retailers are continuing to tell us that Apple is slowing down iPod shipments, strongly suggesting the company is running out its current stock to make room on shelves for new product.
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

The L.A. Times Has a Homicide Google Mashup

This is putting Google maps to good use. Now I know where not to go in LA.

From the article
The L.A. Times has added a Google Maps mashup to its Homicide Report, with several geo-tagging and search filter attributes.

The Homicide Map shows every homicide that the newspaper knows of in the L.A. County. This visual data adds context to the existing Homicide Report, and offers perspective for readers and researchers. It helps users to see the trends over a given geographical area, and even taps into relevant demographics as well. Users can filter homicides by gender, cause of death, race, age or day of the week. Narrow the map’s findings to a smaller region surrounding an address or zip code. You can also view photos of victims, and subscribe for custom RSS updates. The L.A. Times reporter Jill Leovy will also pin some of her published articles on the map, for additional access.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Travel Toolbox: 75+ Online Travel Resources

Great list of travel sits all categorised for you. Travel is big business son the Internet hence the huge number of sites. Check out the social networking ones.

From the article
If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, there’s still time to enjoy a summer vacation. We’ve rounded up 75+ sites to help you on your way, including travel search, deal sites, travel social networks and user-generated reviews. Bon voyage.
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iTunes Killer!! GBox to sell DRM-free music

I’m not sure about it being an iTune killer. I’m all for healthy competition though. As the article suggests I think Google will make oodles of cash. I hope the songs are cheap.

From the article
Universal Music Group (UMG) is teaming up with Google and a new start-up company called gBox, Inc., to sell DRM-free music on an experimental basis, in what many will interpret as a direct challenge to Apple’s iTunes Music Store (iTMS).

The way gBox is expected to work — it debuts August 21 and ends January 31, 2008 — is that the service will get referrals through ads that UMG purchases from Google at standard advertising rates. When users search for a band or a song using the Google search engine, ads will appear next to the results directing them to gBox.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

How To Make BIG Money From YouTube Copyright Violators

I so want this job. How cool would it be to watch YouTube all day and get paid for it.

From the article
A lot of people watch YouTube videos at work. A few are actually paid to do it.

A former bartender named Joe Bersik sits in front of a flat-screen monitor about eight hours a day, pulling up Internet videos. His job is to find pirated material and get it taken off the Web.

Mr. Bersik works at BayTSP Inc., an eight-year-old start-up with big clients like Viacom Inc., the parent of MTV Networks. BayTSP employs more than 20 video analysts -- sometimes called "hashers" -- who watch videos looking for copyright violations.

Tethered to his computer by headphones, Mr. Bersik on a recent day played the music video of R&B singer Akon's hit song "Don't Matter" on YouTube. The logo of the MTV Jams TV channel was visible at the bottom of the clip. The 53-year-old Mr. Bersik watched for a minute then fired an alert to a colleague who sent an email requesting that YouTube take it down.

In about two hours, the video was gone.

Mr. Bersik and the eight men around him staring at monitors are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the people who post copyrighted clips on the Web. Working from a leafy office park on the fringes of Silicon Valley, they are key players in the legal battle over Internet copyrights between Viacom and Google Inc., which now owns YouTube.

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Hotmail users get a storage bump

Do people still use Hotmail? There must still be a few users out there. Anyway as always Microsoft are late to the party. Guess it’s better late than never.

From the article
Microsoft on Monday made a series of updates to its Windows Live Hotmail service, chief among those being an increase in the size of its inboxes. Standard users now get 5GB of storage, while paid MSN Premium and Hotmail Plus accounts now get 10GB of storage.

The move follows Yahoo's decision to offer its mail customers unlimited storage. Google's Gmail currently touts 2.89GB worth of free storage for its accounts. Apple also recently upped its .Mac storage limit to 10GB, split between mail and file storage.

In addition, Microsoft said Windows Live Hotmail is also adding the ability to accept and decline meeting requests from Outlook accounts, as well as a tool for eliminating duplicate contacts and an easier way to switch to Hotmail from other mail services.

Responding to complaints from users and gripes in the blogosphere, Microsoft is also bringing back the option to choose to see one's inbox, rather than a Today page of MSN News, upon login.

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Vista SP1: Everything’s Gonna Be Alright

If you are a Vista user then don’t panic, help is on it’s way. SP1 is coming. Actually this might be cause to panic more. How has your Vista experience been?

From the article
Microsoft’s first service pack for Vista will apparently increase system performance considerably. Hallelujah.

According to James Bannan at APC Magazine, “there is a very noticeable performance increase…There’s far less hard drive thrashing and in general the system seems much smoother and more responsive.”

The service pack contains mostly bug fixes and enhancements plus a new “Create a Recovery Disc” application that can be used to create a system restore DVD.

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30 Most Popular Blogs

Some of the blogs on this list are fantastic and really deserve to be there. I am off course talking about the ones I subscribe to. A couple I hadn’t heard off so am going to check them out.

From the article
There are many blog popularity-ranking services on the web, but unfortunately, they all rely on only one piece of data for their rankings. Either link popularity, RSS feeds or some sort of traffic-ranking service. We at eBizMBA have decided that in order to get a more accurate picture we needed to combine data from multiple sources. So here, we offer the 30 Most Popular Blogs ranked by a combination of Inbound Links from Yahoo Site Explore (entire site not including internal pages), Alexa Rank, and Compete and Quantcast U.S. Unique Monthly visitor data.
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Friday, August 10, 2007

Netflix Hack: Sign of Things To Come for Blockbuster?

Everything is hackable in the tech world. As long as humans build it, humans will be able to crack it. Simple as that. Personally why would you bother when it comes to movies. Once I have seen a movie once I don’t want to see it again.

From the article
On Thursday, Blockbuster announced the purchase of Movielink, a Web site that offers online streaming of Hollywood movies. The acquisition positions Blockbuster to compete head-to-head with Netflix's "Watch Instantly" service, launched in January.
"We're taking a fresh look at the future of Blockbuster," Blockbuster CEO James Keyes said. "The popularity of (online rentals) convinced us that customers are ready for more convenient forms of digital delivery that we think Blockbuster can successfully enter."

But news of a hack emerging to get around the Netflix program's digital rights management (DRM) software, supplied by Microsoft , might give Blockbuster some pause. Movielink relies, in part, on Microsoft-supplied DRM.

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Man gets four years in prison for counterfeiting Windows

Seems a pretty harsh sentence. How about just taking all the guys money and beating him with a big stick. That would cost the tax payer a lot less than locking him up for 4 years.

From the article
What do you get when you sell fake Windows certificates? In the U.S., apparently you get nearly four years in prison. A man convicted of pirating copies of Windows and selling fake certificates of authenticity along with them was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison, giving Microsoft reason to celebrate:

"Microsoft applauds the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their efforts to protect consumers and intellectual property in the first prosecution under the Anti-Counterfeiting Amendments,"

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Google Removes “Supplemental Results” Tag

I see good and bad in this. I guess it makes it difficult to identify your sites that need more work which is something I found useful from having the supplemental tag. Mind you if your site is not on the front page of Google then you need to keep working on it.

From the article
The changes we make must focus on improving the search experience for our users. Since 2006, we’ve completely overhauled the system that crawls and indexes supplemental results. The current system provides deeper and more continuous indexing. Additionally, we are indexing URLs with more parameters and are continuing to place fewer restrictions on the sites we crawl. As a result, Supplemental Results are fresher and more comprehensive than ever. We’re also working towards showing more Supplemental Results by ensuring that every query is able to search the supplemental index, and expect to roll this out over the course of the summer.
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iCool Phone Is Two Phones In One

This phone is truly odd. I can’t see the point myself. I wonder if there will be much demand for it.

From the article
World traveler, are ya? You, my friend, need the new iCool G700. It looks like a Vertu candybar phone on the outside, but flip it open and hoo boy, there’s another phone that looks like a Motorola RAZR clamshell phone (except much fatter).
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Apple Debits Money From The Wrong Account, Now You Can’t Pay Your Mortgage

This is a real shocker on the part of Apple. How could they get this so wrong. I shouldn’t be surprised though. You here so many stories about companies making mistakes all the time and having trouble fixing them.

Message to Big Companies, Sort your systems out.

From the article
Julie would really like to pay her mortgage, but she can't. Why not? Because when she tried to help her son buy a MacBook, Apple decided to debit $1517.27 from her account without permission. When she called to tell them they'd pulled the money from the wrong card, causing her account to over draft, they apologized and told her they'd fix it. Instead, they debited another $186 from Julie's account, and another $1517.27 from her son's account.

Now Apple has over $3300 of their money and they can't pay their bills.

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Monday, August 06, 2007

New Undocumented iPhone Features

The iPhone keeps getting better. Off course I don’t actually have 50 people I would want on my favourites list but if I did then it’s good to see I could have that many.

From the article
Since the iPhone’s recent software update, several new undocumented features have been uncovered. Walt Mossboerg has an article highlighting some of them.

The favorites list in the “Phone” module now accepts 50 entries instead of 20, there’s a new e-mail setting that allows you to BCC yourself on every message you send, and apparently the iPhone now works better with iPod car adapters.

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eBay Sale Is A Sale, Court Rules

Fair enough too. People need to realise that when you item on ebay sells you are have in effect signed a legally binding agreement to sell that item. You can’t back out of it. This case might send the message to others who do this kind of thing.

From the article
There will be no more weasling out of eBay sales after a judge today ruled against a man who has been refusing to hand over a $250,000 vintage plane he sold on the online auction site.

In a case that reached the NSW Supreme Court, Peter Smythe sued Vin Thomas after he changed his mind on the sale of a 1946 World War II Wirraway plane after the eBay auction had ended.

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Friday, August 03, 2007

Web Networking Boom Blasts Into The Workplace

I wish more businesses would embrace social networking. Too many organisations are so scared of the Internet and social networks that they block access to them altogether.

From the article
After years of socializing, Facebook and MySpace mean business.

The sites, which started as a way to help people stay connected with friends, in the past year have begun catering to professionals, offering networking and advertising opportunities.

Some companies are embracing the trend, while others are trying to shut the Internet's virtual doors as firmly as possible.

Barbershop owners Erin Portman and her husband, Michael, of Austin, Texas, created a page on MySpace.com, the site owned by News Corp and especially popular with teens.

MySpace "friends" of Bird's Barbershop often post photos and comments about their haircuts on the music-filled MySpace page, with links back to their own personalized MySpace pages.

"We started collecting 'friends' before we were even open," Portman said. "I definitely think it has boosted our business." The shop now has more than 2,100 MySpace 'friends,' many of them customers.

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Apple Exploring MultiTouch Interface Gestures

I have given my computer plenty of hand gestures over the years and it hasn’t understood any of them. Maybe I need to use more than the middle finger.

From the article
This particular patent is credited to John Elias and Wayne Westerman who were founders of Fingerworks, a company who had done much work in the field of touch-interfaces. Apple acquired Fingerworks in 2005.

Elias goes on to describe how multi-touch gestures can have a broad vocabulary and invoke a number of actions. The patent application describes how to implement dictionary of gestures ("chords") which are made up of a combination of fingers, thumbs, and/or other hand parts.

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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Elton John hates the Internet

Poor Elton. He just doesn’t get it does he. Does he not realise that the Internet is probably helping him make even more money. I suppose he doesn’t care though as he has truck loads already.

From the article
Elton John wouldn't mind seeing the sun go down on the Internet.

He may have a lot of fans on the Internet, but he's no fan of it. The opinionated Rocket Man told the The Sun that the Internet, bloggers and technology in general are hurting people's creativity and that he would like to see the Net shut down.

"The Internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff," he told the British tabloid. "Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK, but it doesn't bode well for long-term artistic vision."

The self-described technophobe, who says he doesn't even own a cell phone, said he hopes the "next movement in music will tear down the Internet."

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How To Inverview An Expert

Everything in this article makes perfect sense. Know I’m off to find some “experts” that I can grill about anything and everything.

From the article
First off, interviews in my opinion are some of the best content that you can produce:

Expert verbiage, industry jargon, synonyms, related terms - basically all of the keyword / theme stuff that Google and friends are looking for - you just can't "fake" or auto-generate this level of content - TRUST ME I HAVE TRIED Also ghostwriters, freelancers will never hit the mark either as they are not "living the niche"
(more on Theming / LSI in a future post)
Other bloggers TALK about and LINK to interview content - check out the blog reactions on technorati
It is an excuse to contact other bloggers directly who did not find their interview on your own - and a great reason to leave a comment on their blog with a LINK back to your interview / post. This is not spammy at all and I haven't seen any bloggers delete my comments / links related to an interview!
Media attention - it's a great excuse to do a press release - which also gets you more LINKS
Rich media - if you can score an audio / phone interview you can turn this into podcasts, or you can do a series of video follow ups / case studies

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