I don't want everything to be full-text
I use my RSS feeds as notification. I want to scan. — I want to somehow squeeze the juice out of a couple of hundred feeds, leave the pulp behind, and spend the real time on the six to nine posts a...
99 USEFUL RUN COMMANDS
Do you use the Run feature in Windows XP? For most, this feature remains unused (or rarely used). Why is that? Well, First off nearly all of the Run Commands Correspond to a particular Control Pane...
Calling Out the Cable Guy
TERRY DENSON and Dan York are not exactly boldface names in entertainment industry circles, but perhaps they should be. After all, nearly $30 billion and the future of two Baby Bells hang in part on ...
300GB disc set to challenge DVD
Holographics enters the mainstream — A computer disc about the size of a DVD that can hold 60 times more data will go on sale in 2006, according to its American developer InPhase Technologies, a Luc...
Electric Clothing Stain Remover
I wonder if this gadget works as well as it says because if it does, I can think of countless times when the electric stain remover would have come in handy. Stains always seem to get me as I'm about...
Another desperate attempt to discredit Massachusetts OpenDocument adoption
It was on the front page of the Boston Globe newspaper today, and the lead article on their web site—an investigation that normally would be buried in the City & Region section of the paper.
Greedy Grateful Dead widow burns down online show-library
A reader writes, … This is pretty disappointing. Deadheads made the Grateful Dead some pretty substantial fortunes over the years by acting as unpaid, volunteer evangelists for their commercial offer...
A new content distribution plan for online publishers
Dick Costolo of Feedburner published his view of the future of RSS and where his company fits into it on the Feedburner blog. Among several interesting ideas, he states a vision of the future based o...
Time to allow hard drives pre loaded with Music....and change Harry Fox
its the simplest of ideas. Take any MP3 player, Ipod, PSP, whatever and pre load it with songs. With 30, 60 and 100gbs capacities, the potential is amazing. How simple it would be if the user could...
Outlining by the fittest
At the moment, my prediction is that XOXO gets sidelined by OPML, insofar as expressing ideas and data in outline form takes off in general.
Wireless Moves the Cash Register Where You Are
When Michelle Dubé, a golf instructor in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., finishes a lesson, she whips out her BlackBerry wireless device - to schedule the next appointment, sure, but also to swipe the...
Microsoft plans 300,000 Xbox 360s at Europe launch
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Microsoft will have around 300,000 of its new Xbox 360 games console available for its European launch on December 2, a Microsoft executive said in an interview published on Sund...
Why aren't Bloglines or Newsgator OPML Editor compatible?
I kept trying to open my OPML file in the OPML Editor and it wouldn't open. I had a few complaints about that as well. I tried both the OPML file that NewsGator exported as well as the one that Blog...
User Agents
I woke up this morning thinking about User Agents (ok - I was also thinking about Naomi Watts and Sean Penn who were amazing in 21 Grams.) A commenter on my Personalize Feed post pointed out that mos...
Skype Paparazzi, add me to the list please
OK well Jeff Pulver was the one who coined the term, but I like it and think that his latest post Enough with the Skype! Gossip, needs some commenting on. — First, you cannot argue with what Skype ...
New Tools, Video Trials, and Services from AOL and MSN
During my daily work I come across lots of interesting, often non-search related items, (yes, it's possible) that I think are deserving of notice. Sometimes, as in today's roundup, they come from som...
Ten Rules for Web Startups
#1: Be Narrow — Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be useful. Most companies start out trying to do too many things, which makes life difficult and turns ...