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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Updated: Some Thoughts on the Start.com's RSS Extensions — I mentioned last week that currently with traditional portal sites like MyMSN or MyYahoo, I can customize my data sources by subscribing to RSS feeds but not how they look. Instead all my RSS feeds always look like a list of headlines.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Questioning RDF — I've been a long time skeptic when it comes to RDF and the Semantic Web. Every once in a while I wonder if perhaps what I have a problem with is the W3C's vision of the Semantic Web as opposed to RDF itself. However in previous attempts to explore RDF I've been surprised …
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Doug Mohney / Inquirer:
Anti-Skype software kills IM, P2P too — Bandwidth bandsaw released — LAST WEEK, Verso Technologies (www.verso.com) announced the rollout of a "carrier-grade applications filter" that can block so-called bandwidth drains such as Skype, P2P messaging, streaming media, and instant messaging.
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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Restraint Of Trade — I don't think any long time readers will need to think hard to figure out where I stand on the subject of port blocking as I've been rather transparent on that front almost from the start of my blog posting. — That said I also view my user agreement with Skype …
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O'Reilly Network:
Call for Participation — Proposals Due: September 19, 2005 Jump to the form. — We're five years into the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, covering peer-to-peer networks to person-to-person mobile messaging, web services to weblogs, big-screen digital media to small-screen mobile gaming …
QuadsZilla / SEO Black Hat:
Jensense Cases Study: A Lesson in Search Engine Spamming — Situation: You're a search engine spammer / SEO Black Hat who owns some legitimate web properties. — Problem: How can you link to some of your spam sites without annoying you reader? — Solution: Call it a case study!
Michael Kanellos / CNET.com:
Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with an inexpensive way to prevent digital cameras and digital video cameras from capturing that secret shot. — The technology they've devised detects the presence …
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CNN:
Hold the phone: Trump on your cell — Paper reports that the developer and reality tv star will sell his voice as a cell phone ringtone. — NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Donald Trump is reported set to announce the deal that could put his voice on your cell phone.
Dan Goodin / Wired News:
My IPod for a Random Playlist — With the advent of the iPod, the masses learned just how cool it can be to play huge collections of songs in random sequences. No longer forced to listen passively to an entire CD all the way through — and in the prescribed order — hordes of music lovers flocked to the randomized playlist.
Matt Cutts:
Filing a reinclusion request — Hmm. Everybody wants to hear about SEO-ish stuff instead of gadgets. I'll still subject you to pure geekery now and then, but let's tackle how to do a reinclusion request. — First off, what's a reinclusion request and why would you want to do one?
Voidstar:
Why Longhorn will be the end of MS — First understand where I'm coming from. I've been using windows since V1.0 I run a heavily tweaked and minimalist XP with Classic windows and theme. I don't use IE6, Outlook, Outlook Express, Office except in emergencies or to check things.
Newsweek:
Hip Ma Bells? — As content becomes ever more important, even phone companies are starting to distribute music, games and movies. — Newsweek International — Sept. 26 - Oct. 3, 2005 issue - This isn't your mother's Ma Bell. On the ground floor of a buzzing London office building …
ABCNEWS:
Fed Ex in a Fit Over Furniture — Company Lawyers Threaten Man Who Furnished Home with Fed Ex Boxes — Sept. 16, 2005 — Ever think about what you can do with everyday products? Here's a clever idea. You can make a couch out of Fed Ex boxes, or a desk, or even a bed.
