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Gettin' Real Yo

Last week I attended the 37Signals “Getting Real” workshop where they indoctrinated the attendees on their parsimonious approach to building and running web applications. Getting Real is an exciting approach to software development currently largely practiced by Mac-toting revolutionaries. But … Continue reading

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More music madness – Songbird, a time-lapse mashup and other music miscellany

40 years of pop music summaried in 37 minutes Before I get to one of the more interesting pieces of music aware software I have seen lately, I need to credit Alex Gelfand with another interesting music nerd article in … Continue reading

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Inventor of the web weighs in: Tim Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality

Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web finally weighs in on the Net Neutrality debate in a blog entry. It is accompanied by a video which is currently only available in RealVideo format, hopefully someone will upload it to Google … Continue reading

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Spread 'em!

Organizing information is about to get easier. It has been more than 20 years since the spreadsheet application Lotus 1-2-3 became the first true killer application for the personal computer allowing us to organize and analyze information faster and in … Continue reading

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Location, location, and location

In search, its all about where you show up. Look at the user attention data picture below from this study. Small wonder that paid search is now being placed in a small bar at the top of the search results, … Continue reading

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Musical genetics and the future of radio

What if the radio just knew what you wanted to listen to? Could a radio station learn what kind of music you like? Would you listen to a channel that can play songs you have never heard but will probably … Continue reading

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Adding Adwords

So I opened a Google “Adwords” account, mainly to figure out how it works and whether the links really are relevant to the content I post. Basically the idea is Google gets to advertise on my site, and will dynamically … Continue reading

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Google hosting takes its first steps

Google takes baby steps into hosting as we predicted here. Looks like they are starting with e-mail, which as we have mentioned is probably their “stickiest” service. Interested organizations are encouraged to sign up for the beta service here. What … Continue reading

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Mashups: from hobby to art form to controversy

An interesting collection of musical mashups is posted online. Mashups are an ever popular form of musical expression albeit mostly illegal as they are derivatives of copyrighted material clearly exceeding the currently accepted boundaries of “fair use”. Nonetheless these “bootlegs” … Continue reading

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A "new" breed of Web Spam

Whereas in the old days squatters would hold domains hostage to sell them to the highest bidder, the new strategy is to attract as much traffic as possible and serve up ads that generate a revenue stream thanks to targeted, … Continue reading

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