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At some point I need to get one of these and set it up. — #   03/29/2007

Random Question

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Fun Choose Your Own Adventure piece on Dethroner today about buying an HDTV. The question of 720p vs. 1080p (and what’s the difference between 1080p and 1080i? is there a 720i?), HDMI inputs, as well as the concurrent debate of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray has sparked a random question in my head. Do you think the [...]

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The Apple Blog: How To Setup Development Domains On OS X — #   11/21/2006

Interesting write-up on video search with some q&a from Dabble's Mary Hodder. "Every time someone does something to a video (bookmarks it, tags it, searches for it, e-mails a link to it, marks it as a favorite, blogs about it outside Dabble, embeds it into another Website), Dabble considers that a "gesture." It tracks about 25 gestures[.]" — #   11/20/2006

GigaOm's Robert Young on Yahoo: "They made a very big and expensive mistake by bringing in a traditional broadcast TV executive to run this group… one that AOL seems destined to repeat with their recent executive shuffle. The rules of broadcast media are antithetical to the factors that drive social media, and the thing that I will agree with Brad on is that such insights and visions must be something that is intuitive and native for the leadership at the top." — #   11/20/2006

Fred Wilson on Yahoo: The same point was made by Randy Befumo of Legg Mason, in today's New York Times in the piece about Yahoo! being a "value stock": "If you have a traffic problem, then you have a fundamental business problem because you have nothing to convert into revenue dollars," he said. "But if you have a monetization problem, which is what Yahoo effectively has, you always have options." — #   11/20/2006

Read/Write Web: The Road to the Semantic Web, "[t]here are billions of fairly unstructured HTML pages which contain no annotations and metadata. The fundamental engineering question is how can we go from today's unstructured web to one rich with semantical information?" — #   11/14/2006

Profile of Matt Mullenweg in the Guardian. "Now you see people with no technical ability creating really amazing sites reaching audiences they would never have imagined reaching." Also profiled: Ev, Joshua Schachter, Dick Costolo, Caterina Fake & Stewart Butterfield. — #   11/6/2006

"I often find myself saying, 'I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature.'" — #   11/6/2006

Farecast is one of those things that changes how you look at a topic. In this case: airtravel. — #   11/6/2006

Open Letter to Cory Doctorow, "But, where we draw the line, and this is important to us, and I think it should be important to you, as a writer, are tools that: Modify the meaning of our writing." /n I've been thinking a lot - meg.hourihan.com — #   10/15/2006

What The?

Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Is it funny or troubling that MSFT is asking another company (one that makes printers) to assist its employees with its own software. Wh—-WHAT? My first inkling is that this would shake the confidence of people. I mean, if MSFT can’t help its own people, how is it supposed to figure out [...]

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