Second Life on the cover of BusinessWeek
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Category: Technology
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Second Life on the cover of BusinessWeek
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Mmmm online storage for everything
Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. It even has a name for that future service: Live Drive. With Live Drive, all your information – movies, music, tax information, a high-definition videoconference you had with your grandmother, whatever – could be accessible from anywhere, on any device.
Google apparently has similar plans. An internal memo accidentally posted online in March spoke of company efforts to “store 100 percent of user data” and mentions an unannounced Net-storage system called GDrive.
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Never buy an Epson printer
FYI: I have an Epson RX500 printer/scanner combo unit. It has six individual ink cartridges. If you run out of magenta ink you can no longer print or scan anything until you’ve replaced that ink cartridge. You can’t even print a black text document! Brilliant concept Epson, make your product stop functioning entirely until customer spends more money on your overpriced and ridiculously over packaged ink cartridges. Here’s an idea, try not pissing me off so much that I tell the 1500-2000 citizens of the inkernets who pass by my blog every day to NOT buy your products.
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Seth Godin Gives a Talk at Google
Hyper-pixelated version on Google Video
Nice quality version (131 MB .mp4)
Obligatory linkage to Seth’s blizog and his feed.
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MySpace: 2.5 times more traffic than Google
NEW YORK – The Internet has a rising star whose name isn’t Google. Just over 2 years old, MySpace now has 2 1/2 times the traffic of Google Inc., and it quickly eclipsed Friendster as the top social-networking site where users build larger and larger circles of friends.
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Bush wants Google Data
MercuryNews.com | 01/19/2006 | Feds after Google data:
“The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases.”
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Flickr Vs YouTube
“You Tube. The San Mateo, California company was founded in February 2005, and a year later it is serving more than 3 million video views a day, receiving about 8,000 video uploads a day from users and transferring 16 terabytes of data a day.”
I think it’s safe to say people are ready for online video.
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See the New Vista Features Demonstrated by Mac OS X
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Hosting with DreamHost
So my hosting company DreamHost is awesome. For 15.95 USD a month I get 60GB of storage on the server and 1.6 TERABYTES of bandwidth per month! Check them out, they’re far and away the best hosting company. Why am I mentioning this? Well last night they quadrupled my disk storage and octupled my bandwidth for no extra charge. Any company that gives me quadruple what I paid for at no extra charge deserves major props. Not only that but the storage limits increase all the time. I get 16 more GB of bandwidth every month as well as 2 more GB of storage for no extra charge.
Well done DreamHost nerds, well done.
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Bloglines
The geeks at Bloglines updated their hardware last night and its much zippier this morning. I just wish they’d update their crappy interface as well.
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