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October 28 2009
Daring Fireball: Regarding Joe Wilcox's 'iPhone Cannot Win the Smartphone Wars' Piece
This is a great article. I want to share it. This is just some sample text to show Paul how Delicious works.Garmin, TomTom Shares Sink On New Google Navigation Feature
Shared by Josh Bancroft
Wow.
Ben Charny, reporting for the WSJ on the aftermath of Google’s announcement of maps navigation in Android 2.0:
The move sent shares of the top two navigation device makers reeling. Shares of Garmin fell 17.2% to $31.88 on very heavy trading, foiling any lift shares would have seen from an upgrade Wednesday from Goldman Sachs, which raised its Garmin rating to...
Makers, my new novel: free downloads, donate to libraries and colleges, signings and tours
Shared by Josh Bancroft
Ooh! Ooh! Gotta get this, ASAP. :-)
Today is the launch of my new novel, Makers, a book about people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet. Weirdly, I wrote it years before the current econopocalypse, as a parable about the amazing blossoming of...
October 25 2009
VIDEO: OnStar calls Hennessey after tuned CTS-V pulls .99 g
On its way to doing the 1/4-mile in 11.07 seconds at 128 mph, a Hennessy-tuned 700-horsepower Cadillac CTS-V hit .99 longitudinal G as it left the start line. By the end of the run the phone inside the car was ringing, and it was your friendly neighborhood OnStar representative wondering "What the h...
October 22 2009
Reading gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking
(Cross-posted with the Official Google Blog)
Today, we're launching two changes to Google Reader to help you discover more interesting content faster. Just as the launch of Personalized Search improved search results based on your search history, these changes use your Reader Trends to improve your reading experience.
- Explore section - We're always trying to help you discover new stuff in...
October 19 2009
Ignite Portland 7 tosses a couple more logs… err presentations on the fire
It’s getting to be that chilly time of year in Portland. And you know what that means? That’s right: people using coats to save seats at Ignite Portland. But it also means that the Ignite folks are looking to reward us for braving the inclement weather to come watch presenters sharing their burning ideas.
What’s the reward? More content of course. They’ve managed to cram an additional two...
20 Reasons to Attend Ignite Portland 7 - The Lineup
And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for…
I’ll spare you the details on the agonizing deliberations undertaken by your humble Ignite Portland organizers in narrowing down the field of great talk ideas for IP7. We love our “jobs”. 
Here’s what you *really* want to know - what are the talks you’re going to see on stage on November 19? Wait no longer - here’s the talk lineup for Ignite...
October 17 2009
Social marketing vs publishing -- funny!
Shared by Josh BancroftIn the New Yorker's "Shouts and Murmurs," Ellis Weiner writes up a pitch-perfect parody of a certain kind of manic social-media-expert publishing marketdroid (thankfully, not any of the absolutely wonderful marketing people at my publishers are like this!):
I don't sound like this, do I? Do I?! ;-)
To start: Do you blog? If not, get in touch with Kris and Christopher...
October 14 2009
OpenMoko offline reader puts Wikipedia in your pocket
Ars Technica - subscriber only full text feed.
Shared by Josh Bancroft
Back in the day, I loaded the entire text contents of Wikipedia (which at the time could fit in a 1GB SQL dump file on an SD card) into HanDBase on my old iPAQ Pocket PC, just so I could walk around and say that I had the entire contents of Wikipedia in my pocket. That pickup line didn't work then, and I doubt it will work now.
Today, I already have one of these. It's...
October 13 2009
SEO FAQ
So yesterday I had a bit of a rant about SEO and I’ve gotten a few common questions so I thought I’d try to answer them. Here goes.
Gosh you seem angry.
Damn right. I publish a magazine and I know a lot of magazine publishers. And they are forking over embarrassing sums of money to charlatans who say they can raise their search engine rankings. These magazines can barely pay their writers...
October 12 2009
Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
Shared by Josh Bancroft
Amen.
Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned.
First came the web, and it was a mess. Servers went up everywhere, the net connected them all, pages bloomed like flowers, and no one could find a damn thing.
Then came the search...
October 08 2009
Is App Addiction a Real Thing?
Shared by Josh Bancroft
I'm not an addict. I can quit any time I want. #seriously #notanaddict :-)
Do you jokingly refer to yourself as an "app addict?" That is, are you someone so obsessed with your mobile phone applications that you've filled numerous screens full of apps, play with them anytime you have 5 minutes to spare, and sleep next to your phone just so it can be the first thing you ...
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New Sysinternals utility released today, Disk2vhd v1.0 – Yes, creating a VHD from a physical hard drive, even an online one, is now a couple clicks away… - http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2009...
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October 06 2009
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Seriously people...gaming and laptop don't even spend time in the same zipcode...they are arch enemies. Never was this more apparent than at the Intel truck at PAX 2008. They had "gaming" laptops and desktops from Alienware side by side running Crysis and it wasn't even funny the difference. So to recap, gaming and laptop hate each other.
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October 02 2009
The First Google Wave Search You Must Know
Shared by Josh Bancroft
Saved both of these searches. Nice start - thanks, Gina! It's especially fun since there's no other way (I can see) to look at the "public timeline" of waves from everybody.
If you’re one of the lucky folks who got into Google Wave this week, your excitement probably turned to “Now what?” when you logged in and realized you had no one to wave with. If anyone on your...
Initial Press and Blog Coverage of Intel Atom Developer Program
Wow! I’m still counting the number of technical press articles, blog posts, forum posts, and tweets we've received since announcing the Intel Atom Developer Program at IDF on Sept. 22 in Paul Otellini's keynote. The Intel Software Network Article, "New Opportunities for Software Developers" went live during Renee James 9/23 keynote which featured a deeper dive announcement of the program.
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September 30 2009
Get In Early with the Atom Developer Program. (And win!)
Based on a projected addressable market of well over 400 million units (media phones) and a multi-million pre-existing netbook user base, it would be crazy for software developers to ignore the potential of Moblin, the Intel Atom Developer Program and App-store. Despite that, Intel want to give you even more reason to start early. They are giving away 100 netbooks for the first 100...
September 26 2009
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"Dude, it's a Katamari game. Of course you're going to buy it. Why even read the reviews?" <~ my wife :) http://www.amazon.com/Katamar...
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September 24 2009
Starting in Leopard, you can access your iTunes, iPhoto,...
Shared by Josh Bancroft
Starting in Leopard, you can access your iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture, Photo Booth, iMovie, and ~/Movies media from “Open File…” dialogs. This is convenient if, say, you want to upload a photo or video to a website. You no longer need to first open iPhoto, find the photo you want, and export or drag a copy to the...
MOBLIN v2.0, The Moblin GARAGE, and Moblin v2.1
The Moblin steering committee is pleased to announce three exciting new developments within the Moblin project.
- The project release of Moblin v2.0 for Intel Atom* Processor based netbooks.
- A preview of the Moblin Garage and Moblin Application Installer.
- A community preview release of Moblin v2.1 for Intel Atom* Processor based netbooks and nettops for early development.
Moblin v2.0:
The...
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