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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
www.change.gov, originally uploaded by David-Wayne.
I have to love Obama's use of internet media (now officially mainstream media according to many). This is really is Change.
Change.gov
Weekly Youtube address
CTO for the White House
Maybe there's also hope for net neutrality and control over what I believe will be ridiculous price spikes on bandwidth ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Update: QIK is cooperating to find out more about the stream. Street level view, address, etc. Thank u google and qik.
Here is a video taken by the people who stole my iphone (or the people who purchased it from them). They finally re-activated it and figured out how to ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
original photo via CC Champan - Flickr
Damn it twitter! Such a great tool but sometimes fails miserably when you need it. Much of the advanced functionality (i.e. tracking) seems to never work. Tracking allows you to receive messages based on keywords you are "tracking," very similar to Google news alerts. ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Update:It's a negative. There's only one port on the device for headset/charge/usb. This means I can't keep my phone charging and use a wired headset for long conference calls. argg! (BTW I don't like the bluetooth headsets b/c the battery is always dead - I forget to charge it.)
Yesterday ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Passwords are an obstacle. We are too often forced to remember numerous combinations of numbers and letters for our various online accounts, devices, computer logins, and even home entertainment systems.
Can't we do better than the good ole character password system? Here's an example I just went through opening a new ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Just learned today that JungleDisk and Slicehost were picked up by Rackspace.
$28M including earn out. Pretty good return for 14 Months ;)
Rackspace now looking very much a Utility Computing player.
hmm..Wonder what Rackspace competitors will do to respond?
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I always have this pile of business cards that I end up throwing away every few months. I meet people at meetings and conferences, scan their cards into my address book with my IRIS card scanner, and then I forever have their information in digital format. I do not need ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
This is Robin, a person I wish everyone could meet. I met her on my flight home from San Francisco. It was the best conversation I've ever had on an airplane with a complete stranger, and I got off the plane feeling like I'd just been cured of some disease ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
The headlines are only stirring up unnecessary anxiety and depression (I wonder how George Bush deals with it?) - probably takes this advice....
"Put wax in your ears. People are more afraid of flying than driving because the press does not report car accidents. I never watch the news. Only listen ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Scott Jordan - Successful Ohio State entrepreneur with a great product!
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
The meltdown of the U.S. financial markets was jump started by several factors. The housing bubble, American consumers overspending, trade deficit and on the story goes...
I put my 4 year old house on the market this summer and was able to experience the housing bubble burst with my own eyes. ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
It's called seasteading. Only $100M for a pototype - it can be done!
Just a few concerns about ...umm. safety and order on a concrete island absent of government? Don't think Walt Disney covered that one is his Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow (EPCOT) ;)
Maybe these would make for better tourist ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
There is speculation that Google's new Chrome browser is the Microsoft IE killer, or will slowly be the demise of Firefox. It's pretty much been the headline news in the tech world this week.
Here's some food for thought. Google only has one profitable product, and that's adsense. They exist for ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
.....made me laugh
In case you've never heard of piratebay - it's everything on itunes and amazon for "free" ;)SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "world view from piratebay", url: "http://www.georgetuvell.com/world-view-from-piratebay/" });
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