Race to Linux 2.0
Race #3: WeShareMap
Why Not the Dell Shack?
Michael Dell is ready to consider some fundamental changes to the business model that made his namesake company famous and, more recently, troubled. That's the takeaway from an April 27 e-mail he sent employees. After years of selling only via phone and the Internet, Dell told his troops that "the direct model has been a revolution, but is not a religion."
With 'Iron' Grip, Cisco Tightens Network Defense
Cisco closes on the acquisition of Ironport and announces the Self Defending Network version 3.0.
Man With Large Knife Arrested Outside Obama's Hotel
Ohio man with large knife arrested outside White House hopeful Barack Obama's Iowa hotel.
Re: recovery Senario
Sure it's in the docs, it's called Tablespace Point in Time Recovey (TSPITR).
359 Choices
Editor's Note: 359 reasons why the "too many distros" argument is just plain wrong-headed.
Friday Fun - Help Matt Cutts Fight SEO Spammers
One of my clients GSINC has put together a fun Flash SEO game where you get to help Matt Cutts fight spam - literally! Jump into the boxing ring and take on Hidden Text Kid, Keyword Stuffer, Cloaking Monster and more. That should keep you busy until Monday! Pilgrim Partners: Unleash the New Google [...]
WOW! A Thousand times more impressive and awesome than Bonds 756 homerun:
I dunno if you caught it on Letterman last night, but this is one of the most awesome things I've ever seen. This guy plays Bizet by rollerblading through a series of bottles and catapulting golf balls. Check it out: (Read on Source)
357 Mad Dog Hot Sauce Silver Collector's Edition "The World's Hottest Sauce"
Ashley Foods, makers of award-winning sauces and extracts, introduce the latest addition that's sure to win over the fiery souls of super hot sauce aficionados everywhere. 357 Mad Dog Silver Collector's Edition is an all-natural sauce, carefully crafted with 6,000,000 Scoville Pepper Extract, to create blistering heat that hits the 750,000 Scoville Units mark. At 20% hotter than the regular Mad Dog Collector's Edition, this sauce is a must-have addition for heat seekers who want "the world's hottest sauce". (PRWeb Aug 22, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/U2luZy1JbnNlLVpldGEtSGFsZi1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Plaintiff Wants New Literature Excluded From Testimony
PHOENIX - A PPA plaintiff says in her July 6 reply in support of her motion to exclude the testimony of two defense experts that defendant Bayer Corp. is attempting to untimely introduce new medical literature in support of their testimony and that it should be excluded (Pamela Stowe v. Bayer Corp., No. CV-01-526-TUC-BPV, D. Ariz.; See August 2007, Page 11). Full story on lexis.com
Salaries, Overlap, and the Perils of Phrase Searching
Summer's over, so it's time to start posting and updating SearchEngineShowdown again. I'll start off with yet another screencast of unique results found at only one or two search engines, but this search is also an example of the peril of relying too heavily on lengthy phrases for finding the best answers. The story: I ran a quick search at ... (Read on Source)
Website designing is the meadow of today.
Website designing is the meadow of today. Number of web sites is increasing at a very fast speed on the Internet; the web designing is also rising as a skill and talent which is a well paying commerce...
Cheap Refurbished Computer System Guide
Save money buying a Cheap Refurbished Computer System.
U.K. police give parents data on McCann kidnapping
A British police force agreed Monday to give the parents of Madeleine McCann 80 pieces of information about its investigation ...
LXer Weekly Roundup for 20-Jul-2008
LXer Feature: 20-Jul-2008
In this weeks Roundup, the judge in the SCO v. Novell suit finally hands down a ruling, a member of the Brazilian group that analyzed the OpenXML standard speaks out, debunking the Linux virus myth, a review of 12 web browsers for Linux, finding the fastest filesystem, a test drive of OpenOffice.org 3.0 and what Linus Torvalds thinks about BSD developers. On the lighter side, we end with a review of the Linux Hater's Blog by Steven Rosenberg and Unix and Linux humor - know your SysAdmin.
Low-Road Express
Well, that certainly didn’t take long. On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened his doors to disciples of Karl Rove from the 2004 campaign and the Bush White House. Less than a month later, the results are on full display. The candidate who started out talking ... (Read on Source)
Ultamatix May be a Worthy Successor to Automatix For New Ubuntu and Debian Users
Linux.com: "Some Ubuntu fans out there may remember Automatix, a tool for Ubuntu that allowed easy access to many popular non-free applications and commonly-used audio and video codecs. It debuted a few years ago, and got negative reviews from Ubuntu developers and experienced users due to the risk of breaking dependencies... Now Ultamatix hopes to continue where Automatix left off."
Cyclones.com
AMES, Iowa - While Iowa State is breaking in new starters at high-profile positions like quarterback and receiver, there is a changing of the guard at tight end as well. Iowa State will be looking to replace three-year starter Ben Barkema MORE (Read on Source)
Beijing Games off to Smooth Start
It was all systems go for China Friday evening as the 2008 Olympics got underway with the games' opening ceremonies.
Testing Debian's Lenny KDE beta
... Now, Ive been a strong supporter of Debian on desktops, in servers, and in devices ... several years, and only recently moved to Ubuntu in an effort to support the Black ...
NTP Can't Leave Well Enough Alone Concerning RIM
In one of the biggest travesties of the patent system, over two years ago, RIM agreed to pay NTP $612.5 million for patent infringement, even though the USPTO had been rejecting NTP's patents on re-exam. The patents were highly questionable: extremely broad patents covering pretty basic concepts about making email "wireless." Beyond combining two existing ideas in a rather obvious way, there was a fair amount of prior art as well. Yet, under pressure from both the judge and its own shareholders, RIM decided it was worth paying out over half a billion dollars rather than dealing with the potential uncertainty of an injunction forcing it to shut down its service.
You would think that this would have kept NTP happy. After all, NTP was basically built out of the ashes of a company that had failed in the marketplace. It was unable to come up with a product that anyone wanted. RIM, on the other hand, had done the real innovation of figuring out what customers actually wanted, and packaging it in an appealing manner. All that was left at NTP was a bunch of lawyers, who now had $612.5 million for failing in the marketplace.
But NTP won't stop. It's kept suing a bunch of other companies. However, the courts have put its latest lawsuits on hold while the USPTO continues to review the legitimacy of NTP's patents (why RIM wasn't allowed the same consideration has never been explained).
So now NTP is taking another strategy: claiming that RIM unfairly influenced the Patent Office's re-exam of its patents. Yes, the company already won the lawsuit and $612.5 million, but is still claiming that the other side cheated. Of course, there's not much "there" there in the accusations. Basically, RIM had representatives who tried to find out what was happening at the USPTO and what the process was for the re-exam. As various patent attorneys outline towards the end of the article, it doesn't appear that RIM did anything wrong here, but NTP is doing whatever it can to try to bloody RIM, even given the fact that it won the lawsuit. What we're seeing here is a case of extreme rent-seeking, where NTP will do pretty much anything to try to keep milking its highly questionable patents, diverting hundreds of millions away from innovation and into the pockets of folks who failed in the marketplace.
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FDA Warns Against Use Of ED Supplements
ROCKVILLE, Md. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to avoid a number of Chinese dietary supplements being marketed for erectile dysfunction (ED) because they contain undeclared active ingredients that are otherwise found in prescription ED drugs. Full story on lexis.com
At WiMAX World, a Technology in Search of Its Niche
WiMAX is here, but its role is still up in the air.
Facebook's Other Founder Goes Off to Found Some More
One of Facebook's two cofounders is jumping ship to start his own Internet company. Dustin Moskovitz announced he'll leave the social networking site in about a month. He and colleague Justin Rosenstein, a Facebook engineering manager who previously worked at Google, will launch a new enterprise software business.
DiNovo Edge Mac Edition Keyboard
Ever since Logitech released the Windows-only diNovo Edge keyboard, back in 2006, many Mac users have wished for a Mac...
Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.
Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It's almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.
If you quit now, you're in good company. Notorious chatterbox Jason Calacanis made millions from his Weblogs network. But he flat-out retired his own blog in July. "Blogging is simply too big, too impersonal, and lacks the intimacy that drew me to it," he wrote in his final post.
Impersonal is correct: Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones. Most are essentially online magazines: The Huffington Post. Engadget. TreeHugger. A stand-alone commentator can't keep up with a team of pro writers cranking out up to 30 posts a day.
When blogging was young, enthusiasts rode high, with posts quickly skyrocketing to the top of Google's search results for any given topic, fueled by generous links from fellow bloggers. In 2002, a search for "Mark" ranked Web developer Mark Pilgrim above author Mark Twain. That phenomenon was part of what made blogging so exciting. No more. Today, a search for, say, Barack Obama's latest speech will deliver a Wikipedia page, a Fox News article, and a few entries from professionally run sites like Politico.com. The odds of your clever entry appearing high on the list? Basically zero.
That said, your blog will still draw the Net's lowest form of life: The insult commenter. Pour your heart out in a post, and some anonymous troll named r0rschach or foohack is sure to scribble beneath it, "Lame. Why don't you just suck McCain's ass." That's why Calacanis has retreated to a private mailing list. He can talk to his fans directly, without having to suffer idiotic retorts from anonymous Jason-haters.
Further, text-based Web sites aren't where the buzz is anymore. The reason blogs took off is that they made publishing easy for non-techies. Part of that simplicity was a lack of support for pictures, audio, and videoclips. At the time, multimedia content was too hard to upload, too unlikely to play back, and too hungry for bandwidth.
Social multimedia sites like YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook have since made publishing pics and video as easy as typing text. Easier, if you consider the time most bloggers spend fretting over their words. Take a clue from Robert Scoble, who made his name as Microsoft's "technical evangelist" blogger from 2003 to 2006. Today, he focuses on posting videos and Twitter updates. "I keep my blog mostly for long-form writing," he says.
Twitter — which limits each text-only post to 140 characters — is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004. You'll find Scoble, Calacanis, and most of their buddies from the golden age there. They claim it's because Twitter operates even faster than the blogosphere. And Twitter posts can be searched instantly, without waiting for Google to index them.
As a writer, though, I'm onto the system's real appeal: brevity. Bloggers today are expected to write clever, insightful, witty prose to compete with Huffington and The New York Times. Twitter's character limit puts everyone back on equal footing. It lets amateurs quit agonizing over their writing and cut to the chase. @WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook?
Paul Boutin (paul@valleywag.com) is a correspondent for the Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag.
Blogging can be a sort of regularly-updating advertisement for your online business! Posted By : Nar
Most people who are experienced with search engine optimization would know the basic procedure on how to attain a higher Google Page Rank for a website. With most SEO strategies, one can be sure about an increase of about two or three ranks within three months or so, but it doesn't hurt to gun for more.
SEO Chat Forums - Best Organic traffic source?
Date: November 28th, 2008 02:06 PM - Niche - Untitled Post: Organic traffic to me means traffic from the search engines I.e you try and rank well for your keywords and the traffic comes to you Not sure I get your question...
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