Archived Posts for October, 2006

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Bunchball Raises $2 Million for MySpace Games - Mashable!: Pets.com……. someone had to say it.

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Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal - Blog Maverick: yes Mark. You were right.

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VentureBeat » MingleNow launches new bar/restaurant social networking site:
“The initial business model, of course, is advertising online.” - hi. that can’t and shouldn’t be your primary revenue model.

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Don’t I Know You from the Internet?: I find it ironic that no matter how hard consumer generated media tries to be “media” vs. “MEDIA,” they still have MEDIA envy in their harts, and think to only parlay success into how much they are appreciated by MEDIA, rather than be comfortable in their media state of being. Make sense? Do I need to write a post about the aspirations of the long-tail? Probably.

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Techcrunch » Blog Archive » My CarsDirect Experience: I bought the last two of my cars online. I concur with this article. Consumer research and knowledge out-trumps idiotic and frustrating sales people every time. And when in doubt, walk out.

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BitTorrent lands new hardware deals | CNET News.com: I think the real boon for BiTORRENT will be when protocol awareness is in the level 2 routers that the ISP’s use, not just consumer routers. Could you imagine if the 1 hop up-stream was a seed? Wow. And then we could charge for its use. Wow! Monetization of content!

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/Message: Goplan: it might kill BaseCamp just on the flexibility of permissions/ownership and hierarchal tasks. Just might. Basecamp is quite restrictive to one method of working.


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Hi, I want traffic, so I'm going to write about a subject I know jack-shit about in order to get said traffic. Call me Mashable. We plan parties! We don't do research however. Just blanket judgements about subjects we know next to nothing about.

[From Music Tax: Because Cocaine Doesn’t Buy Itself]
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the last windows phone I had that had similar (but not great) features had 4 hours battery life regardless of what I did.

[From Apple's iPhone Battery Advice | 43 Folders]
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WHY??????

[From Flock Launches Gloss; Customized Browser for Fashion and Entertainment | CenterNetworks]
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Ooohhh. This is very useful. I have a list of "to reads" that I can now use this for. Score.

[From Instapaper ]
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Not just a nice little feature, but it really changes the way you use your AppleTV

[From Daring Fireball: Distant and Remote]
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Great moments in journalism: this app works like ass.

[From First Look: Twinkle - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)]
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May I remind the world that R.E.M. did an open source video for Supernatural Superserious.Supernatural Superserious.

[From Is Radiohead the latest band to go open source? | Technology | The Guardian]
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Someone needs to make a messenger/laptop bag with an integrated charger in it that can charge USB devices when plugged in and also on the go (using a larger battery)

[From Backup Battery for iPhone / iPod - DX001]
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No Jeff, you should be even more worried that they run their "blog" on Cold Fusion. If that's not a case-in-point, I don't know what is.

[From BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The future is past]
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Hats off to Jennifer Bird at ATO/TBD and the excellent band o' Radiohead for pushing music videos further into irrelevance, and Music Software as the new means of getting content out.

[From Official Google Blog: No cameras. No lights. Just data.]
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