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| Texbook Torrents |
| 2008-07-02 10:12:31 |
This has been previously published on ITToolbox here and this raises some seriously interesting questions about colleges, text books, and the culture of free sharing. Not sure if this is good, bad, or ugly.
With the high cost of textbooks, there is no surprise that a group has gotten together to develop and deliver a [...]...
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| Lawsuits and Books |
| 2008-07-01 09:31:33 |
I have been working on a book on how to be an Amazon seller, some of the tricks and tips that I have learned in nearly a year of selling books on Amazon. Just as I was getting into getting the proof developed with the publisher, along comes a person threatening to sue because they [...]...
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| Web 2 point 0 meets video in John TV |
| 2008-06-30 08:25:25 |
There is a lot of humor here, and of course this is going to feed every prurient interest out there, but John.tv is a video vigilante site that features, you guessed it, people buying sex from prostitutes. This is one site you just do not want to end up on.
By using home cameras, YouTube, [...]...
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| Radio is piracy too |
| 2008-06-24 12:04:50 |
Utter sheer amazement, the sad part is that it is perfectly true, the music industry is all over radio right now to pay royalties for the first time ever; saying not to pay the artists for air time is tantamount to piracy.
The interesting part, read the wired story here, is that while Rome burns [...]...
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| When does do not be evil really mean do not be evil |
| 2008-06-12 11:04:29 |
In one of the weirdest looks at people’s thinking, let’s ask the audience first what does “Don’t be evil” mean to you. Did you immediately think of Microsoft, RIAA, and Big Oil? The Hillary Obama issues. Republicans? What did you think of, odds are highly likely you might have also thought of Google’s famous tag [...]...
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| How to sabotage a company |
| 2008-06-11 14:05:18 |
BoingBoing, Enterprise 2.0 and Joho the Blog are all covering a talk given by CIA folks at the Web 2.0 conference about the Intellipedia, or how to kill a company in some easy business oriented steps. Quoting an old 1944 “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” from the US Strategic Services, they quote, most of the things [...]...
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| It is not piracy that is to blame its Wal Mart |
| 2008-06-10 06:59:58 |
Maybe the music industries issues are not all about piracy, but also a secondary confluence that we have heard of but did not really think about. The Motley Fool though comes wading into the RIAA and its minions against everyone on the planet with an interesting take on things.
Maybe it is not piracy that [...]...
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| Intermittent problems with Amazon continue |
| 2008-06-10 06:47:24 |
Amazon suffered intermittent outages yesterday and into today with their platform, and theories run amuck, from DDoS to their new video platform causing issues, the point here is that no one over at Amazon is really saying what the issues are, or what is really happening. When you provide the back end [...]...
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| Loath to sell Google ads on my video blog |
| 2008-06-09 11:47:18 |
Ad Age is running an article on selling ads on your self created YouTube videos, and given the content that I have the sales of advertising is something that I am loath to do. Not because the videos are bad, I am actively seeking a sponsor, but that because most of my videos are about [...]...
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| VC Humor Gary Snoman |
| 2008-06-08 07:45:12 |
Blue Print Ventures has a series of videos featuring the entrepreneur Gary Snoman, that are about fall down funny to read. Some of them are also out on YouTube, meaning you can cut and share them. So what it is really like being a Venture Capitalist, let Gary show you the way.
There is something [...]...
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| Data retention laws alter human behavior |
| 2008-06-05 08:42:08 |
Kreativraschen has an English language blog entry on how Germany’s new data retention law is altering human behavior when it comes to using telecommunications systems, such as the phone. Germany enacted a data retention law that requires telecommunications companies to log who called who and store that information for six months so that law enforcement [...]...
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| Map of Seattle Software Companies |
| 2008-06-05 07:29:51 |
Marcelo posted a note that Adam MacBeth has been building a Google map of all the software companies in Seattle. It is self service, if you own a software company, then you can pin it on the map. It makes an interesting contrast to the map of Silicon Valley that we are all so familiar [...]...
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| Ahh yes the cold realities of work hitting millenials |
| 2008-06-04 10:16:13 |
Truly interesting, and thanks to CBS for allowing the embed below, but this 60 minutes clip talks about how to deal with Millenials as they hit the work force. Managers and co-workers beware, the “coddled” are just not prepared to work for your company.
How much of this is fear, how much of this is [...]...
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| Obama wins democratic nod whats going to happen to technology |
| 2008-06-04 07:38:54 |
This one is interesting, with the democratic race sewn up for the presidential primary, who has a more comprehensive technology platform, McCain or Obama. It is still Obama who actually has a technology platform to work with.
Read Obama’s technology platform here and it is enough to warm up the hearts of many folks who [...]...
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| eBay auctions are dead welcome to fixed price buying |
| 2008-06-04 07:19:50 |
Even though many Amazon sellers are whining that sales are down on the Amazon sellers’ site, the general trend for people to purchase things fixed price, which has been Amazon’s strength, is now being hotly pursued by eBay. This has both good and bad connotations; people who picked up things at flea markets will have [...]...
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| Turning a classroom into a video studio at CityU of Seattle |
| 2008-05-31 09:10:54 |
I know it has been very quiet this week on Techwag, but what has been keeping me busy is teaching Web 2.0 to some great students over at CityU of Seattle. The video is being edited, but these are some rush photo’s from the shoot. There is nothing better than teaching students how to use [...]...
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| Name dropping being compared to Robert Scoble |
| 2008-05-30 08:47:45 |
Over at my other blog on ITToolbox, one of my friends got a marketing letter from IEntry about wanting to syndicate their content. I have my ITToolbox stuff syndicated by IEntry as well, and it has worked out to be great for name recognition. What is interesting is that in their marketing proposal to my [...]...
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| Ryan Stewart also feels the pain of being banned in Google |
| 2008-05-26 09:59:02 |
Interesting that another word press blogger would suddenly wake up and find themselves in the “Google has banned me” listing, and frankly it is important to get these stories out. Not that anyone is going to blame Google, word press, or space aliens for the recent spate of hacking against many sites, the problem is [...]...
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| Phoenix Mars Lander makes it to touchdown sends pictures |
| 2008-05-26 09:41:57 |
Last night the Phoenix mars Lander touched down perfectly and has started transmitting pictures from its local area. While most of the pictures right now are “situational” in that they are looking to make sure that the craft has deployed properly, and that the local area is fairly dull or benign when it comes to [...]...
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| Twitter dances on the edge of very dangerous territory |
| 2008-05-23 08:14:15 |
If you never followed the Kathy Sierra debacle then go quickly catch up on this one, then start following the saga of Ariel Waldman.
Kathy Sierra who has been silent for far too long at the hands of trolls and people who were truly evil is just one example of when otherwise good [...]...
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| Do not lick or otherwise expose your body to a Game Console |
| 2008-05-23 07:39:49 |
Green Peace has gone off the deep end yet again screaming that game consoles are not green enough, pulling out a list of chemicals that they say exist in game consoles, which probably really exist in just about any environment that we live in at this point.
Meaning you should not make love to your [...]...
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| You can not trust everyone you hire |
| 2008-05-21 07:51:21 |
More disturbing news coming out of the information security business today about the McAfee hacker safe program that is fairly disturbing in the longer run. Not just for the industry at large but for people who tend to trust that web sites and other sites are doing the right thing to keep their customers safe. [...]...
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| Novel Political use of Web two ohhhh |
| 2008-05-20 15:50:34 |
There is nothing more interesting than a raw political campaign, the addition of web 2.0 elements to change people’s minds is something that we saw early in 2004, the use of YouTube videos, fact checking, and the rest of it. This year, 2008, we are seeing an increase in the use of Web 2.0 technology, [...]...
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| Techmeme Search hits the web site |
| 2008-05-20 14:58:07 |
In the “about time” department, Techmeme announces that they now have a search capability locally on site. This is good, bit late, but better late than never. Gabe Rivera posted on the techmeme blog today some cool information about the feature, this one caught our attention.
What’s next? Search for Techmeme’s sister sites are planned [...]...
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| Polluting ISP advertising tracking |
| 2008-05-18 09:33:20 |
With ISP profiling for advertising companies, as well as other ways that the ISP’s can work out a profile of who you are, there are some likely ways that you can pollute the results just to make some poor advertising executives day, and your ISP’s day just a tad bit more annoying.
This is akin [...]...
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| Twitter Boycott Looming as a group temper tantrum |
| 2008-05-17 08:50:15 |
May 21rst is the “Boycott Twitter Day”, which is generally, refuse to use twitter for one day because people don’t like the outages that Twitter has been having. Twitter is a great service, that has seen its own share of outages and performance issues, but is that worthy of a boycott?
Probably Not.
So is this [...]...
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| Stumbleupon Outage this morning |
| 2008-05-17 07:19:59 |
Stumbleupon is having a major database error this morning, and clicking on just about any link equates to the happy ERROR Database Failure.
If you are running around and thinking that you are actually going to be able to run around your personal screens on Stumbleupon, this might not be your morning.
Tags: stumbleupon, outage, [...]...
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| Stumbleupon gets into banning sites |
| 2008-05-15 08:38:59 |
In another rude surprise from stumbleupon, but probably one that is good for everyone, stumbleupon also has a banning system in place for all those who are quietly stumbling their own sites, or hitting up their friends to stumble each others sites as well.
There are a whole lot of folks leaning about this as [...]...
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| Yahoo Wounded vultures circling prey |
| 2008-05-15 08:01:33 |
Another interesting flash across the news wires this morning was that Carl Icahn is planing on nominating his own board of directors to Yahoo’s board, and wanting to have Microsoft come back and make another play.
The interesting part, wounded Yahoo after pissing off just about everyone by not selling out to Microsoft, and now [...]...
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| Comcast buys Plaxo time to be very afraid |
| 2008-05-15 07:37:01 |
Comcast buys Plaxo, which is making me really thank everyone that I never really got into plaxo, and while I am a comcast customer, it might be time to bail. Here is the nightmare scenario, comcast knows what I watch, and if I used plaxo it will also know my friends, and they will monitor [...]...
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| Kindle Conversion issues DTP not good today |
| 2008-05-13 14:31:40 |
I am working on getting a book uploaded into the Kindle system at Amazon, and noticing that there are some serious conversion errors in the document as it moves from Word or PDF into the Kindle HTML system that could seriously preclude using kindle if you are writing a dense rich document and thinking that [...]...
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| What bloggers challenge you |
| 2008-05-12 13:14:27 |
Louis Gray is wondering about people coming and people going in the blogosphere, what is interesting, and makes a nice rebuttal to his point of “I am missing those that used to challenge me”, is that after a while those that challenge your assumptions either become co-opted and agree with you (not very satisfying unless [...]...
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| Bloggers spat over proper attribution |
| 2008-05-12 10:51:37 |
Not to degenerate Venture Beat at all, but really a spat over attribution is one way to start out Monday morning, probably not the best one we could think of, but there it is all the same. Reminds me of academic honesty, there are no consequences for plagiarism on the internet, but boy do schools [...]...
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| PR Spam bacon tofu WTF are people going on over now |
| 2008-05-11 09:27:57 |
Public Relations, the name alone is enough to give people nightmares, the incessant droning of public relations flyer’s in the e-mail system. Unsolicited, and in many cases unwanted flyer’s over the latest shiny new toy. Now a bunch of bloggers are whining about the whole thing, and while I am sympathetic to the issue, one [...]...
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| The logistics of Disqus compelling reason still not found |
| 2008-05-11 08:57:49 |
After an interesting appeal to use Disqus, a comment management system for blogs, from AVC, sure I’ll go take a look and see what the hoopla is about. Then start coming up with problems on the reasons why I probably will not use it.
The biggest downside is that there will be two places to [...]...
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| Rude encounter with the Stumbleupon upper friend limit |
| 2008-05-11 08:36:19 |
Ran across the stumbleupon friend limit today, which is odd, but looking like you can only have 200 friends in stumbleupon. Very sad.
While I probably will not have 5000 friends, putting an upper limit on friends is an interesting trick to pull, and this is the first time I have seen this error. Anyone [...]...
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| Can you Copyright your Twitter Stream |
| 2008-05-10 09:49:21 |
Jason Calcanais posted on twitter the question “Question of the day: Can you copyright your Twitter stream? Can anyone republish anyone’s twitter stream? Thoughts?” It is an interesting idea, how ephemeral is 140 words or less, and if they are pulled and reproduced like in the image below, who owns what? Does it in the [...]...
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| Guy Kawasaki circa 1996 |
| 2008-05-09 08:28:44 |
If you have ever tooled around archive.org it has some of the most fascinating materials that are available to you to watch. We ran into this video featuring Guy Kawasaki from 1996 and just about fell over laughing. You can walk away from this thinking that Guy is one of the smartest kids on the [...]...
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