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This show is a wild ride and I get pretty wound up. Big thanks to all the loyal fans that are part of the Geek News Central Ohana. Are you going to Podcamp Boston? Sponsors: Sponsor: Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes see our Promo Code Page [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No credit card needed.]
When a New Zealand man was annoyed at a book he ordered from Amazon never arriving, he found an interesting way to vent his anger. While he earned a living as a motion capture artist in the movie industry he had trained in patent law in the past. Stewing about his undelivered book he started thinking about the Amazon one-click patent and recalled another similar patent application he had seen.
Microsoft has a “pre beta” version of a new tool called Photosynth. This tool stitches together multiple photos from either your personal collection or from online photo sites like Flickr. The result is the ability to move around a wire-frame model of the location in 3D and select the points of view you would like to see. For an early stage product it looks interesting. You can look at the tech demo at MS Live Labs.
Monster show it really is a pile of new tonight and a equal number of voice mails and email comments. I am going to start calling you the most engaged audience in podcasting. Sponsors: Sponsor: Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes see our Promo Code Page [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No credit card needed.] Check
Cory Doctorow has an interesting point about the growing difficulty we all have dealing with the sheer amount of information we have access to. With notices from Facebook friends, Digg hot sites, delicious feeds, twitter and RSS subscriptions, email, etc, the amount of information at our fingertips is huge and growing.
As a 43 year old entrepreneur whose primary skills in life up to three years ago was working in advanced electronics in the United States Navy, you would not think I would get the startup bug.
A group of researchers at the Information Sciences Institute have conducted what they are calling a census of the Internet. The methodology they used for this was to ping each address in turn and map out the type of responses they received. In the end they don’t seem to have received much at all with only 4.4% of addresses responding to a ping. They started this project in 2003.
We all know that Microsoft has been trying unsuccessfully for years to knock Google from its dominant search position. From the early versions of MSN search, to forcing default search to MSN on IE and changing branding to Live, Microsoft have struggled to make a dent in the Google spot. Recently they have been trying to get into the ad-sense market as well, including offering big incentives to some popular sites to entice them to MS (e.g. Digg).
Over the past two months we have had a Indian development firm under contract to develop for us a shopping cart that we were going to roll out over a month ago.
Blogging is a powerful thing it can cause those of us on the fence to make a decision one way or the other on using a service in this instances that service is an airline.
Who are they kidding. I half laughed this morning when reading the referenced article in BusinessWeek. Seems the chair of Universal Music is enlisting the help of other music companies to roll their own music service.
The hacker battle continues fix is in for 1.1.1 version iPhone and iBrick Phones. Please help us raise $400.00 to give a laptop to a child! Sponsors: Sponsor: Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes see our Promo Code Page [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No credit card needed.] Twitter Me http://www.twitter.com/geeknews My Facebook Profile Comments to
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