Archive for June, 2004

MySpace continues to kick ass

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Networking website offers marketing opportunities for musicians.
The networking website trend, while not exactly new anymore, is still thriving. While Friendster.com was the first to reel users into the world of organized online socializing, MySpace.com has since caught up. Many formal Friendster loyalists have since moved over to MySpace for its added features such as instant [...]

Amplify.com

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

SMS speed record

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

SMS text speed record smashed
June 29, 2004
A SINGAPORE business student with nimble thumbs has broken the Guinness world record for the fastest SMS.
Kimberly Yeo, 23, clocked 43.24 seconds for typing 26 words.
The 160-character, 26-word text she typed read: “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in [...]

Boycott Apple

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Man oh man. So here I was - getting ready to write a big post on Apple’s Dashboard and it’s similarity to Konfabulator - and Russell Beattie does it for me.
Thanks Russ!
As bad as Microsoft is - Apple is worse. But they’re doing our R&D for us - so hey - [...]

Proud to be an American?

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Paolo is wondering why Apple went from orange to blue?

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

I assume that Paolo (by now) realizes that Apple will take standards and change them - just to be different.
It has happened with cables and connectors, browsers and now XML icons. I wonder what is next?
But we all love Apple - right? They’re doing our R&D for us!
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Here is Paolo’s post…..
Among [...]

iBlog

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

OK - so the inevitable has happened. It’s kind of neat that they used open source to do it.
Apple has gone bloggy!
Here’s Jason Lefkowitz’s report……
News from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC): the next version of OS X Server will include the Blojsom weblog package. (Blojsom is a Java-powered open source project.)
How cool is that?
[Ant's [...]

CitiTag in Bristol: setup, initialise, play, debrief!

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

This just in from Marc Eisenstadt….

KMi Takes To Bristol Streets
Marc Eisenstadt
16.06.04
CitiTag, the wireless multiplayer game designed and developed jointly between KMi, HPLabs Bristol, and the Royal College of Art, was rolled out to the streets of Bristol today, garnering an enthusiastic reception among the players.
The premise of CitiTag is that a game [...]

DIY-Conferences

Monday, June 28th, 2004

Here’s some interesting insights from Ted Leung.
Another reason that I’m not missing JavaOne or WWDC terribly much is that I would really like to see more meetings that have the flavor of the DIY-IT events that Doc is thinking about. I go to conferences for the people and for the chance to do something in [...]

Nova gets read to ship

Monday, June 28th, 2004

Danny Ayers review of Nova Spivacks From Semantic Web to Global Mind. I guess Nova’s getting ready to ship. Hopefully he’ll (Nova) be able to make it to our “micro-content” dinner in NYC at Keen’s on Aug. 19th.
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A post from Nova Spivack, From Semantic Web to Global Mind, in which he looks at…well, [...]