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August 2005

129 posts

Google Talk!

I overslept this morning so I had no time to check e-mail when I woke up but when I did, I literally had about 50 invites to Google Talk in my inbox. Installed it and my first impression and question is will I be able to use this with Trillian and I am not overly impressed with the feature set.

Pimping your Pagerank for Profit

Isn't that a great Title it came from Rogers Cadenhead Weblog A very good discussion on several websites today have me thinking about all the weird offers I have been getting for the past couple of months on doing link exchanges. The latest one was from a company that sells watches. Why would they ever think I would even consider

Welcome High Tech Hawaii TV Viewers!

If you tuned into Oceanic Channel 55 tonight at 8pm you caught Peter Kay, Ryan Ozawa and myself on TV tonight. I am sure some of you will have more questions and I encourage you to drop me a line at geek@geeknewscentral.com Be sure to check out my podcast and I hope you enjoyed the show.

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Engadget has went Retro

A look into the past as Engadget takes you back to the 80's today. [engadget.com]

P2P TV

This is a great interview with some great insights on P2P TV. [The Long Tail]

Some lessons here!

Their are some lessons here from Alan Meckler that anyone looking for VC money should pay attention to! [Alan Meckler]

So what is PCN “Podcaster News Network”

You will find out soon! Tonight I had about a dozen podcasters online, and gave them a taste of the site layout, and vision behind what we are about to start beta testing. Here is a small quote from an e-mail I received after the meeting. "PCN has serious value, and disruption potential (to the mainstream media)." Ohhh I love

Mambo Project in state of War!

The award winning Mambo CMS that thousands of websites are running under is in the news. Seems the company "Miro" that owns the copyright to the Mambo name have upset the entire core group of open source developers to the point were they have decided to continue developing the product separately, and in all likelihood under a new name. This

Length of Quantum Memory Extended 100,000 Times

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicists have demonstrated a version of quantum computer memory that lasts longer than 10 seconds, more than 100,000 times longer than previous experiments with charged atoms (ions). These experiments pave the way for reliable quantum computers that will not be harnessed to the limitations of transistors and silicon-based hardware.

Light Speed: Turn It Down, Turn It Up

Light always travels at 186,000 miles per second (300 Million meters per second) in a vacuum. Well, almost always. A team of scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique F

No More Pencils, No More Books, Now I’ve Got an iBook

Well written and accessible electronic texts are the holy grail of the digital classroom, and now, an otherwise traditional public school in Tucson, Arizona, Empire High School, has issued Apple iBooks to each of its 340 students, making the notebooks a core component of the academic environment. Students will have access to electronic text books, rather than printed texts.

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