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In America money is life

In America money is lifeWhat a crock[i]while the U.S. is both rich and powerful, it is “woefully behind when it comes to providing opportunity and choices to all Americans to build a better life.”[/i] OK, let me get this straight. There is someplace else in the world that...

Tags: Warm-Weather, Woody Allen

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Heart lessons from sudden death

Heart lessons from sudden deathI hope my death is by heart attackA heart attack seems like a good way to go. I've seen the slow deteriorating deaths many of my relatives are currently living or have lived through. Seeing that I'd much rather die suddenly of massive heart attack in...

Tags: heart attack, heart lesson, Woody Allen

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

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Numark iDJ2 Mixing Console for iPod

Photo gallery:Numark iDJ2When Numark unveiled the first iDJ iPod mixer in 2005, the half-baked product required two iPods, and lacked many essential features. After three years back at the drawing board, Numark's iDJ2 ($599 retail, $499 street) finally makes good on the promise of a professional iPod DJ mixer....

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, console, Numark iDJ2, Apple iPod

Product reviews 2008-09-05

Office 2.0 Conference day one

Office 2.0 Conference day onewhere's day zero?Productivity and collaboration seem like key issues at office 2.0 this year.There's an interesting article about Wednesday at Office 2.0More on David Allen in this interesting article

Tags: Office 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Office 2.0 Conference day one

David Allen discussed his 'getting things done' methodology with conference creator Ismael Ghalimi during the opening keynote session at the Office 2.0 conference at the St Regis Hotel, San Francisco. The core of the methodology is to free up the sophisticated processing unit that is your brain...

Tags: Google Inc., General Electric Co., Conference, Office 2.0, Matthew, Cloud Computing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Want to know what key political players are reading?

This is an interesting idea -- Google's now sharing with the world what is catching attention from presidential candidates and political commentators. Political news isn't hard to find online -- it's basically everywhere. Popular news featured on Google News is often political in nature, and there is certainly...

Tags: Google Inc., News, Blogging, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack

With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Attack, Imitation, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

William Shatner signs off on video autographs

Customers of Live Autographs get not just a signed photograph, book or napkin; they receive a customized video clip with a short personal message from the star. LOS ANGELES--William Shatner sat in a drab office staring at a TV monitor displaying a message he was supposed to read to...

Tags: Autograph, TV, Star Trek, William Shatner, Julien, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Reuters, video, personalized greetings, Live Autographs

News items 2008-08-15

Day 2: iPhone Dev Camp 2

Yesterday I learned a few lessons about live blogging. Not many people are refreshing it as much as I was. I should list my posts with most recent at the top instead of the other way around. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, App, Melodies, Medialets, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-03

Office 2.0 Conference September 3-5

I've attended every Office 2.0 conference so far and found it to be a fascinating cutting edge experience, and a source of both great contacts and intriguing and useful information. Office 2.0 is a collective experiment organized every year in San Francisco, CA and aimed at discovering...

Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, Conference, Office 2.0, Collaboration, Groupware, Game Players, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-31

(Photos: Microsoft's computer in the round)

(Photos: Microsoft's computer in the round)Sphere who needs it?Now what use is a ball with photos on it? What practical use can this concept have? Looks like another Microsoft failure and will put more tears in Gates eyes. Microsoft should be working on practical concepts that people want...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., photograph, computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Ex-Googlers launch Cuil, but maybe too early?

Ex-Googlers launch Cuil, but maybe too early?Cuil vs. GoogleAccording to some of the most public and powerful media sources, that inevitably pump 'edited facts' into the minds of the general public, portray Cuil as being a dismil attempt to tackle google. "Google has become so synonymous with Internet search that...

Tags: SEARCH, Cuil.com, Ex-Googlers launch Cuil

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Wanted: Alcatel-Lucent new leaders to fix merger debacle

Wanted: Alcatel-Lucent new leaders to fix merger debacleRelying on CDMA sales? LOL. CDMA is dead.Verizon Half of Sprint Nextel is IDEN, Japans' KDD, Korea Telecom, and India's Tata TeleServices are the last remaining CDMA strong holds. The rest of the world has moved to GSM and related technologies and this...

Tags: Cellular phones, Mergers & Acquisitions, leader, penetration rate, Lucent Technologies Inc., CDMA, GSM, Alcatel, merger, merger debacle

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Ready for real Indian medicine?

Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Prohibition 2.0

Sunday's installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down...

Tags: Criminal, Larry Lessig, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Thoughts on Bill Gates

Thoughts on Bill GatesGood lawyeringOne thing that is often forgotten is the fact that, when Gates purchased and licensed dos to IBM, the contract was the "killer app".It required IBM to pay for DOS on every machine whether they used it or not, while allowing MS to license DOS...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

News to know: ICANN hacked; IE flaw; OpenSuse 11; Hyper-V; iPhone 3G

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride Matthew...

Tags: Apple iPhone, ICANN, Novell OpenSuse, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, 3G, Cellular Phones, Healthcare, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Q&A with LinkedIn's Allen Blue: Post-funding plans, Company Groups and corporate intranets

Last Tuesday LinkedIn announced that it had closed a $53 million round of funding. Yesterday I chatted with Allen Blue, LinkedIn's co-founder and vice president of product strategy, about its plans to grow the company's feature set, as well as its potential as a corporate intranet and my nitpicky concerns...

Tags: Corporate Intranet, LinkedIn, Intranet, Q., Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Icahn on Yahoo: I'd hire a 'talented and experienced' CEO

Icahn on Yahoo: I'd hire a 'talented and experienced' CEOGive me a breakI'd like to see Icahn actually create something from scratch.All these billionaires are so full of it. Yes they made their money, and once you have it you forget the effort to build up something from scratch.Paul Allen,...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Icahn

Discussion threads 2008-06-06