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Archive for February 2008

February 14th, 2008

m5-rc14

There’s been high level changes in the M5 release of the Android SDK.
Jason Chen…
“We’re excited about the progress that we’ve made and look forward to making additional updates in the future as the platform evolves towards production-readiness.”
There are a couple of changes in m5-rc14 I’d like to highlight:

New user interface - As I mentioned when […]

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February 13th, 2008

A Fundamental Reminder

Loren Baker on “Five Situations Where You SHOULD Use NoFollow for Linking”

Use NoFollow when linking out to ScanAlert’s HackerSafe, Better Business Bureau or Verisign.

“HackerSafe won’t miss it… according to Yahoo they already have over 95 million incoming links.”

Use NoFollow when linking out to you Feedburner RSS feed

“If you’re worried about duplicate content and your blog’s […]

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February 12th, 2008

Jeremy Zawodny Interviews Matt Mullenweg

They speak about;
* Turning 24
* Surprising uses of WordPress
* The next big WordPress release (new features)
* Scaling Automattic and WordPress.com
* bbPress (Automattic’s message board software)
* PHP4 vs. PHP5
[…]

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February 11th, 2008

Participation Details For Sun Sponsored $1Million Innovation Awards Program

We looked into this a few weeks ago and the specifics hadn’t been posted… they are now.
Directly from Sun’s site;
Open Source Communities Announce Participation Details For Sun Sponsored $1Million Innovation Awards Program
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), and the GlassFish, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC communities announced details on how developers and community members can […]

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February 11th, 2008

Net Neutrality Links 02-11-2008

Ars technica calls Scott Cleland on his bs - and I enjoy it…
Net Neutrality’s not anti-property, it’s about our property
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
Scott Cleland, founder of telecom analyst firm The Precursor Group, is out blasting the developments, saying that open access and “net neutrality” advocates are “antiproperty” according to the IDG News Service. Nothing could […]

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February 9th, 2008

Online Lead Generation Best Practices

I think it’s cool that someone, anyone, finds the worthiness of setting ethical, good conduct guidelines of any type! Certainly there are some organizations that could make use of a positive power of example…
IAB Defines Online Lead Generation Best Practices for U.S.-Based Advertisers and Publishers
Reflects Interactive Industry’s Commitment to Consumer Privacy and Protection
New York, NY […]

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February 8th, 2008

New CrunchBoard Job Board

If you’re about to begin a job search in these fields;
Architecture and Engineering
Arts, Design, Entertainment, and Media
Business Operations
Computer and Information Technology
Engineering / Technical Services
Internet
Management and Executive
Sales and Marketing
You might want to visit TechCrunch’s new CrunchBoard.

Very quickly conjured up in partnership with Personforce after being unceremoniously abandoned by their previous supplier Edgeio by way of LookSmart, […]

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February 7th, 2008

Do You Believe This?

I don’t…
From the “Wireless Industry’s Daily Monitor” (which ought to say “something.”);

FCC: 98% of U.S. has choice of 3 carriers
“According to the FCC’s annual wireless competition report, 98 percent of Americans in 2006 had three or more carrier options, while 94 percent had four or more carriers to choose from. The number of counties with […]

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February 5th, 2008

Net Neutrality Links 02-03-2008

Well, that’s when they would have been published if history had dictated it… (is Hawaii a bit out of sync timewise?)
Grant Gross obviously has no idea that Scott Cleland is a paid shill for the Telcos, not a critic - wake up Grant.
Maybe you should not be neutral about Net neutrality
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
Tiered pricing […]

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February 4th, 2008

Whoa! Hey - How Does This Work?

Everyone is calling Microsoft’s takeover bid “hostile.” Despite my not seeing it that way and excited at all the possibilities, I still cannot wrap my head around this;
Another Potential Deal For Yahoo!s Chairman
No, not the obvious - how many items are on Roy Bostock’s plate, this -
“It’s also worth mentioning that Mr. Bostock’s other board […]

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February 4th, 2008

More Self-Publishing Options

Since many of us have an interest in self-publishing…
Here are a couple of additional resources, both from Amazon;
Digital Text Platform (beta)

“Digital Text Platform is a fast and easy self-publishing tool that lets you upload and format your books for sale in the Kindle Store.”
If you have an account at Amazon you can upload and sell […]

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February 3rd, 2008

Gonna Watch The Super Bowl

And then I’ll be back…
Meanwhile, this is where my heart is;

And this is what my brain tells me;

[Yes, I’ve duplicated this post elsewhere…]
Tags: Android, Android-Developer-Challenge, Google, Mobile-Applications, Open-Handset-Alliance

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February 1st, 2008

Microsoft Yahoo! Makes Perfect Sense

The proposed merger of Microsoft and Yahoo! makes perfect business sense, to me, but what do I know?
I like the idea of the combination of teams of hard-working, extremely intelligent people. I like the idea of instantly conjuring up major competition to Google. Not that I dislike Google… I believe that competition drives people into […]

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