Leo Laporte’s Keynote to the ONA 2009 Conference
Posted on October 3rd, 2009 by Chris Heath
This was a great keynote.
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Here’s some embedded items from FriendFeed
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Chris Heath
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Stagnation
Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Chris Heath
So Heathbar’s Crunch has been, and is going to be, a bit stagnant for a while. Until recently the site has primarily been a link blog, i.e., a collection of my favorite digg stories that I’ve found over the past years. On May 26th 2009 digg removed the ‘blog this’ functionality. I [...]
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Another Reason why Time Warner Sucks
Posted on May 5th, 2009 by Chris Heath
In Wilson, NC, residents, upset with their choices in regards to internet and cable decided create their own network and charge only enough to cover the costs. Now, TWC is lobbying against the service claiming they can’t compete. Need any more evidence to support Time Warner’s suckiness?
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Digg Dialogg – Trent Reznor
Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Digg founder Kevin Rose sat down with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and poses the most popular questions as submitted and voted upon by the digg.com community. I think the best bits are in the first half where he talks about the changes that are coming and have already come to the [...]
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Where Are They Now? 25 Computer Products That Refuse to Die
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Chris Heath
These tech products and services may be forgotten, but they’re far from gone. How have these geezers managed to hang on for so long?
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There’s Twitter the company, and twitter the medium
Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Esteemed online voices @LeoLaporte and @DaveWiner are sounding the alarm about Twitter’s increasing platform dominance. “It’s a very dangerous network because it’s all centralized,” Winer said. Both critics have installed their own smaller, open-source micro-messaging systems outside of Twitter’s domain, i.e., Evan Prodromou’s Laconica.
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Facebook Copying FriendFeed, Which Originally Copied Twitter
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Chris Heath
Please Stand By
by Steve Gillmor
Facebook is counting on the same relative inertia that Twitter has so carefully cultivated. The calculation is that 175 million people are less likely to move away from something than they are to wait and see what is going to happen.
For the advanced user, an open Facebook stream and Track delivers [...]
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Wolfram|Alpha is Coming!
Posted on March 9th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Stephen Wolfram announces that Wolfram Research will soon be releasing Wolfram|Alpha, a computational knowledge engine accessing trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms.
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Linux tips every geek should know
Posted on March 5th, 2009 by Chris Heath
What separates average Linux users from the super-geeks? Simple: years spent learning the kinds of hacks, tricks, tips and techniques that turn long jobs into a moment’s work. If you want to get up to speed without having to put in all that leg-work, we’ve rounded up over 50 easy-to-learn Linux tips to help you [...]
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