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Archive for October 2005

Congratulations to Warner Crocker, new Tablet MVP!

I just found out it’s official, Warner Crocker has been awarded MVP by Microsoft. Warner is a great source of news and enthusiasm for the Tablet PC and I am thrilled to see him get this official recognition. Welcome aboard, Warner! Read More »

OS X Reproduced in Flash

I came across this site via Digg. In concept, it is very similar to FlyakiteOSX that Josh featured a while back. However, iFizzle is a bit more visually, if not technically, appealing. The opening of the apps, behavior of the dock, and … Read More »

 
 

Broadband Around The Planet

Update: Folks, all of you who have responded to the call, my heartfelt gratitude. It is nice to see so many believers who agree that we need an independent resource that collects all the information. Special thanks to Ross Mayfield of Social Text, who has set … Read More »

YouTube Gets Sequoia’s Cash?

The Web 2.0 funding frenzy is in full effect. YouTube, a self described “Flickr of Video” was one day being told to go raise less than a million dollars and grow the business. A few weeks later the word is that they have raised $5 … Read More »

Sergey and Dave All Gevil

Flickr as a merger predictor?Sergey of Google and Dave of SimplyHired are all buddy buddy. Does that mean SimplyHired gets buddy buddy with Google? Hmmmm! Read More »

Blodgett’s Mea Culpa

Henry Blodgett, who is trying to refurbish his reputation posts a mea culpa of sorts. Forgive and forget? Read More »

Google just dropped a feed reader

Bloglines you got competition. First impressions : it has a nice interface, with all the Ajax goodness we expect from Google. It has the same look and feel as Gmail. It has labels which can help with creating groups and all. I think just like … Read More »

New Tablet PC site to watch- homeschooltablet.com

There is not much content on homeschooltablet.com yet since it has just launched but I have a feeling that anyone interested in Tablet use in education should keep an eye on it.  To quote the site: So what is this about? Well, I don’t really know … Read More »

PDF Annotator releases version 1.2

The program that provides the best way to ink in PDF documents has released a new version 1.2.  PDF Annotator, winner of the Microsoft Tablet PC contest “Does Your Application Think in Ink?” PDF lets you open any PDF document and write on it … Read More »

Verisign buys Weblogs.com

Dave Winer and Verisign have confirmed that Verisign has purchased Dave’s Weblogs.com for a few million dollars.  Dave says that it’s a good deal as Verisign has the traffic handling capacity that Weblogs desperately needs and it’s good to see him get something out … Read More »

Using the iPod with car radio

So you have an iPod and would like to use it with the radio in your car but you don’t know the best way.  Have no fear, PC Magazine has published Linking iPods and Car Radios that describes six different ways to join the two … Read More »

And 5 More Things About Web 2.0 conference

I am tired-to-the-bone and will try and sum up day two in a few lines. 1. Interestingness, engagement, tagging, collective intelligence, social apps… proof that we don’t need Henry Blodgett’s help to come up ephemeral metrics. We are doing quite well on our own, thank you … Read More »

More Must Reads

Marty Cooper, one of the pioneers of cellphone business is not the retiring sort, and speaks his mind. At Broadband WorldWide Conference in Madrid, Spain he said that the concept of free wireless in the cities supported by advertising is a disruptive idea, but warned that … Read More »

I am thrilled to announce that jkOnTheRun has been named a Top 100 Blog by CNET’s news.com!  What is a CNET Top 100 Blog? jkOnTheRun has been selected as part of the News.com Blog 100, a feature in which News.com editors and reporters are … Read More »

MacMove.com is offering its readers a fantastic discounted rate on subscriptions for MacAddict magazine. For a limited time, a year long basic subscription (without the CD) can be acquired for only SEVEN DOLLARS!! Besides the fact that this is an amazing offer, … Read More »

Sprint’s decision to sue Vonage and a couple of other VoIP providers had left many scratching their heads. Business Week’s Olga Kharif writes, ” have to say that this is the tiniest, and the least detailed lawsuit I’ve ever seen.” Martin mocks Sprint’s decision … Read More »

PublicGyan, The Public Knowledge Exchange is the futures prediction market in everything. You can get the odds of say, an Indian winning a Formula One race. Its sort of like what Google is doing inside their firewall. This is part of the whole trend … Read More »

It has been quite a blur, but there were some exciting side notes which I wanted to report from Web 2.0 conference. 1. The Web 1.0 party at the House of Shields was rocking, and well it was a massive success. You knew it was … Read More »

Gateway made Tablet news recently with the announcement of the Gateway CX200 Convertible Notebook as it is the first Tablet PC with a wide-screen display.  A lot of people have been waiting for the new Tablet to appear in the wild because it seems like a … Read More »

James Enck is so sick and tired of all the VoIP conferences, that is forced to wonder aloud – if there are actually more VoIP conferences than actual users. Surely, James had his tongue firmly in cheek, but he does have a point. I must … Read More »

Zimbra’s Ajax-based email is worth a look. It is one of the many dozens of companies that have popped up, and one reason to take them seriously – well they are backed by Eric Hahn, the man behind Lookout Software, which was a “search” application … Read More »

Don Dodge on how Napster came unglued. An insider’s perspective and what others can learn from their mistakes. Put this on your must read list for this weekend. Read More »

ThinkSecret is reporting that the Apple special event scheduled for October 12th will not bring video iPods, contrary to what has been widely reported. The site suggests that Apple will instead release an updated line of iPods, slightly smaller, with capacities up to 80GB. Other possible … Read More »

TRFJ spotted a unique pointing device from Japan, the Reversible Mouse.  Basically it’s a normal mouse on one side but flip it over and it’s a little trackball of some sort.  Now this is one of those weird devices that might actually be useful. Read More »

Dwight Silverman of TechBlog points to incompetech, a web site that offers PDF templates for all sorts of lined and graph paper you can print yourself.  They also have some cool templates like Cornell Note Taking System paper, Music Notation Staves and … Read More »

PaidContent.org is reporting that Weblogs Inc. (WIN), the blogging network founded by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey, is being bought out by AOL.  I’m not sure what AOL would want with WIN but they are reportedly paying $20 – 35 million dollars for the network … Read More »

PaidContent’s Rafat Ali reports that America Online is buying Weblogs Inc., the weblog company behind brand name uber blogs like Engadget and The Auto Blog. The terms of the deal have not been announced as yet. If this is really happening, I guess Jason and … Read More »

Today’s episode of MacTV is absolutely brilliant. The episode, narrated by Apple’s text-to-speech technology, follows Microsoft’s progression as a company, and focuses on Microsoft executives. Of course, all of this is from the perspective of a Mac zealot, and many a jab is taken. I … Read More »

Covad has snapped up fixed wireless company NextWeb and will use its infrastructure in five key markets – San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Orange County (CA), Santa Barbara and Las Vegas. The deal is pegged at about $24.7 million – $4 million in cash … Read More »

My day has gotten off to a rough start, because I just heard, Henry Blodgett is blogging here. I thought we were done with him, but apparently not. Look at his might wisdom on the Google-Sun thing right here. What next? Mary Meeker and … Read More »

One post I thought, weird.  Two posts, strange.  Now after seeing this thing on no less than half a dozen posts I too must contribute to the madness and mention the Sonic Grenade.  It’s only $18US and is capable of emitting three different ear shredding … Read More »

Web 2.0 conference attendees have not even started landing and the news of deals is coming thick and strong. Today Newsgator confirmed it was buying Ranchero, the makers of Net News Wire. Yahoo has acquired Upcoming.org, an event site started by Andy Baio, and … Read More »

According to AppleInsider, Apple has begun to produce a new version of the iPod, which will have video capabilities. The new iPod is likely to be announced at a press conference a week from tomorrow, on the 12th October. This will most likely be … Read More »

I just came across a fairly easy way of getting high resolution album art for any album in your iTunes library. Navigate in the iTMS to the album for which you want the art, right click on the album title in the top frame, and copy … Read More »

I see your 30gigs e-mail and raise that to 1000 gigabytes Read More »

Sprint Nextel Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Vonage. Oops…. now Vonage IPO has some problems. Sprint says it has patents, “that protect a series of innovations that enable the processing and delivery of packetized voice and data communications, including Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) communications. … Read More »

The Google-Sun announcement in the end turned out to be nothing…. or as someone just said on the IM. “Let’s do something useless so we can say we did something so Sun can get some press because we’re dying slowly…” Harsh but true, given … Read More »

Yes, I am back from the Redmond visit and while it was an amazing week I am glad to be home.  You’ve probably noticed my blogging slowed down while in Redmond due to a complete lack of time.  Since coming back on Sunday I have been … Read More »

Nokia has announced the new release date for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is now Q4 2005, with rumors placing it anywhere from November to before Christmas.  They cited the release has been moved back “to enable more mature software at launch. A decision that we … Read More »

I am sitting here hitting my head against the wall. Literally.  In a move that no one on the planet can understand Macromedia has stopped providing the free Flash Player for Pocket PC and replaced it with a paid stand alone program that costs $499.  I’m … Read More »

Lora has issued a request for developers looking to get their work published to contact TabISV@Microsoft.com. Read More »

As always, Om Malik’s got some inside information regarding NewsGator buying NetNewsWire. Do you readers believe NewsGator picked the right Mac RSS reader? Would this actually be good for NetNewsWire? Dan had done a fairly extensive review of News Readers a while back. And … Read More »

Web writing tools are coming in thick and fast – it all started with Writely, and was soon followed by the JotLive, Zoho Writer, and more recently Writeboard. Ross Mayfield today is pointing to Synchroedit, a collaborative tool for editing over … Read More »

The much talked about 24 Hour Laundry has come out from under the covers as Ning. This is Marc Andressen’s latest and has some seriously smart people working for the company. What they have done is developed a meta app, a framework that allows … Read More »

Update: here is the confirmation. Existing NetNewsWire full-version customers will receive a free 2-year paid subscription to NewsGator Online. Yup, good enough reason to switch to NewsGator from Bloglines. “Synchronization is set to be the killer feature of the next generation of feed reading software,” … Read More »

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