for years now we as consumers have been abused by the riaa in their fight to make every consumer a criminal and to protect the financial interests of the recording industry not the artists. sure we have heard about the occasional court case where some judge has slapped them around a little for their tactics in suing grandmothers students and single moms but nothing has really been done to put......
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today i came across a post by steven hodson letting out the secret that he wants a zune . after commenting on his post abby asked me shey why do you love your zune and why a zune over an ipod. but before the ipod fanboys and fangirls and microsoft haters start getting on my case keep in mind that these are my preferences you arent going convince me to go get an ipod k ......
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steven hodson via winextra shared by 6 people i love programs. that is a fact that i have never tried to hide and while my real love has to be utility programs for windows i am also hooked on programs of all types for the operating system. the problem i have always had is being able to find a reliable source of leads for quality software. sure there are a lot of software dow...
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there is a court case going on in the united states that could potentially make everyone with an alias or an anonymous account at any of the many social media sites a criminal. anyone following the lori drew case will know what i am talking about. for those of you who dont heres a short back story. back at the beginning of the year a young girl by the name of megan meier committe......
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welcome to the sob cafe we offer the best in thinking 8211artic les on the business of blogging written by the successful and outstanding bloggers of successful blog. click on the titles to enjoy each selection. the specials this week are remarkable communication is offering an intelligence hack. in fact he tended to think of his customers as an annoying necessity. they kept calling ....
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numerous users of the latest version of the firefox web browser 3.0.4 released yesterday are reporting memory issues causing the browser to freeze up or crash. firefox 2 was plagued with memory management issues but users had thought mozilla had put these behind them with firefox 3. in my own case firefox 3.0.4 has become nearly unusable. the first couple of firefox 3 releases were f......
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aka steve hodson a cranky old fart wandering the internet causing mayhem as he goes. more continued here......
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se ha armado un poco de revuelo ante unas declaraciones de steve ballmer en las que apuntaba a que el software libre es inte resantequ ot y ponaa como ejemplo el caso de webkit y su uso por parte de apple . hasta aha creo que las reacciones han sido bastante exageradas lo que mas remarca ballmer en su charla es que la innovacian vendra en su opinian por parte del software propi......
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microsofts ceo steve ballmer is always good for a controversial statement. his latest came during a qa session after a speech to developers in sydney australia. after a question about the relevance of internet explorer ballmer commented that microsoft may take a look at using the open source browser engine webkit for internet explorer. while this was surely just a throwa......
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image via crunchbase people who know me know that i am not a microsoft lover. i am more on the hater side of that argument but i have always felt that they do some things very well. they always targeted developers and tried to get adoption of their platform. this gave them the monopoly on the desktop operating system that they maintained for years. however this success did n......
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inside every web browser is something called a rendering engine. the browsers get most of the glory but its actually the rendering engines that do the heavy lifting. firefox uses gecko opera uses presto chrome and safari use webkit and internet explorer uses trident. there are a few others as well but those are the main ones. gecko and webkit are open source presto and trident are proprie......
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microsoft has been spending a lot of money over many years to ramp up their data centre infrastructure. once again the difference between microsoft and google becomes apparent when we look at their data centre build strategies. first up microsoft with the recent announcement of its azure cloud based os microsoft once and for all committed to a cloudbased future. hot on the heels of the ......
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the travesty. it has been a week since i last blogged dont worry not a sign of things to come but rather a sign of a crazy week. i have loads of posts lined up including the costs of not being involved in social media clarifying my stand on make sure your product doesnt suck a guest interview with todd murray of active channel my worries over feedburner an ......
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author unknown via winextra shared by 6 people back on october 20th i wrote a post at the inquisitr about the slowing adoption rate of rss feeds called......
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windows 7 libraries picture courtesy of ars technica since the pdc recently held by microsoft where they let the developer crowds in on their next version of windows weve been getting reports about some of the new features we can go here to read the resta windows 7 gets ready to go all library on you......
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yesterday i saw a breaking news blog entry relating to outbrain and disqus . its a very small update in the outbrain widget that detects if disqus is being used and asks if the person rating an article would like to leave a disqus comment as well. although the integration isnt huge it did catch my attention and i decided to install outbrain on my blog. outbrain is a plugin content ......
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.... in the initial trial run they had almost 200 people request the book the faith of barack obama with almost 70 of the people posting reviews about it.......
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as some of you may know im not a big fan of advertising and i made a decision when i started this blog to keep it free of ads. in particular i assumed that the tiny amount of revenue i might generate via adsense would not offset the cost of annoying or even losing readers. and back in june i even questioned the taint of sponsorship in discussions at mashable and winextra . but l......
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make no mistake about it we are headed to the clouds. there is too much money invested and continuing to be invested for us to turn back now. amazon and google have been there already in differing ways and with the announcement today at microsofts pdc of the windows azure platform the company has made it quite plain that it plans on being a dominant player in the cloud mar......
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will you come im writing this special invitation to every successful and outstanding blogger whether youre on the list or not. ive been putting up that list for 157 weeks of successful and outstanding bloggers in last week ive combed over the sob list. what a memorable walk that was. i got the full impact of how many blogs had grown and how many ......
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image via wikipedia i have been posting less and thinking more about social media lately.a i have been thinking about social media the software the trend its application in business and how we are treating it as something separate and distinct and not as part of a greater whole.a im much more of a holistic type than a compartamentalizer so i have been bothered by this others maybe......
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note this is an entry to the blogging challenge of the week created by perfcast . this week the challenge was to link to your favorite blogger in a post about why you like their blog or the blogger themselves. this challenge was an easy one for me because the blogger featured in this post is steve hodson. the reasons why i like the guy and his work are pretty simple he keeps it real. steve d......
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by paul j. weber 2 days ago dallas ap an ailing democratic fundraiser has obtained an experimental cancerfighting drug through the mayo clinic according to his son despite the drug makers refusal to sanction the treatment. fred baron a prominent political donor linked to the john edwards mistress scandal received the drug tysabri after a legal basis8......
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its my new word for linksharing posts. the category still remains linksharing. after some thought ive deactivated the stumble plugin and will at most put up one post per week with some selected tidbits ive stumbled across. words into hype tongue in cheek definitions of literary terms my personal favourite is experimental fiction women writing science fiction voices......
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lets look back again to the talk the future conference there so many interesting theories like the wikinomics by don tapscott the exaflood by bret swanson or enterprise 2.0 by andrew mcafee had been discussed providing us profound insights about the changes happening around us and inspiring us on how to use them for business success. what is the theory of wikinomics by don tapsc......
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