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Changes on the Horizon
You may have noticed a lack of updates on this site lately. Fortunately, this time around the dry spell is not due to my laziness. I’ve actually been somewhat productive this past month, it’s just been for another site. For the past month I’ve been freelancing at Daily Bits, a recently launched technology blog by [...]
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Why Doesn’t Emusic Carry Over Unused Tracks Every Month?
I’ve grown very fond of eMusic lately. In a world where online music retailers have only recently begun to offer DRM-free tracks eMusic lies ahead of the pack. Their claim to fame is that they shun DRM completely with high-quality DRM free MP3s. Not only was it a wise business move to forgo DRM (it [...]
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Uncovering The Web2.0Effect.org Hoax: How Virante Marketing Solutions & Burton Hosting Fooled the Web
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You might remember this site from the waves it made a few weeks ago at social news sites. It was a seemingly useful experiment meant to compare the uptime of several inexpensive hosting providers when faced with a flood of traffic. Dubbed the “Web 2.0 Effect: Which Host Will Survive?”, a term they invented to [...]
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Del.icio.us Link Stroll: How Google Gears Could Kill Microsoft, Google Elucidates “Net Neutrality”, Judge Makes Life Difficult for the RIAA
Welcome to another leisurely stroll through my recently collected del.icio.us links. As always, feel free to add me (”Tenken” on del.icio.us) to your network if you’d like to share your own links with me. You can also subscribe to this RSS feed of my del.icio.us findings.
How Google Gears Could Foreshadow Death for Microsoft: I’ve [...]
Del.icio.us Link Stroll: Getting Buried is OK, Harry Chooses HD-DVD…
I realized just today that I’ve been religiously linking stories to my del.icio.us account for months now and never actually did much with all of that data. I mainly started using del.icio.us to serve as an easy way to share notable stories with my friends, but it’s now evolved to the point where [...]
Digsby Gunning for Trillian Astra’s Social/IM Aggregation Throne