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I’ve been kicking the idea of a central way to manage accounts on many social networking apps for a while now. I think it starts to go beyond just managing social-network accounts because what your really doing is managing identity.
Some are saying that 2008 is the time for this sort of “killer app”. Google have also started to chip away at the problem offering a way to update your status in many places at once.
Continue reading ‘Managing scattered online Social Life on multiple Social Networking sites’
I found this amongst the 241 the comments on mininova for a movie torrent by the now infamous ‘aXXo’ who is known for releasing “quality” Hollywood movie rips. He seems to some how produce these while the movie is still in cinemas.
Our Ripper, who art on mininova,
aXXo be thy name.
Thy torrents come.
Seeding will be done,
Here as it was on suprnova.
Give us this day our latest rips.
And forgive us our leeching,
As we forgive those that leech from us.
And lead us not on to private trackers;
But deliver us from the MPAA:
For thine is the ripping, the seeding, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
aXXo seems to have become the Robin Hood of the movie torrent scene and has many fans and rivals. By putting his name on the end of his releases it makes them easy to find but it is also in the spirit of the graffiti tagger who makes themselves notorious in a certain area. Living in Kreuzberg Berlin I know the tags ‘1UP’, ‘Just’ and ‘THC’ well as they are on every street. This gives you a feeling of place I find in a large city.
This is a great little video that explains what RSS is about. I’m always looking for these sorts of things to help people with the “tricky” stuff about the web.
(by the way you can subscribe to this site if you like :)
The name AJaX comes from one article written in January of 2005which was the first to use the acronym AJaX. In it is mentioned the technology (i..e the one function ‘XMLHttpRequest’) had been around for some time and is probably the only significant contribution that Microsoft has made to the internet’s development to date.
Continue reading ‘The significance of AJaX’
I great screencast about where the Internet/Web/Super-Information-Highway is going and where its come from.
The Webbys were just on and Erika was a jduge and attended the ceremony. If you want win a webby award you have to try and scrore high the following:
Continue reading ‘Webby Awards judging criteria’
Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, doesn’t think that building a series of separate virtual worlds is a good strategy, director of marketing Catherine Smith says. Business Week
I’ll bet she doesn’t, it would completely destroy Linden Labs thats for sure. Its like having one server for webpages controlled by one company that makes a lot of money off it. The bigger the internet become the better it became. This furthers to strengthen the idea of a 3D web platfrom.
The Washington Post asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the 2006 winners:
Continue reading ‘New words’
The music industry is going down. The Label executives are going out kicking and suing but we all know its over. The music production model has changed and there is no room for them anymore.
In Michael Calore blog post on Wired, ‘The Web’s First Rock n’ Roll Success?’, Michael touts proof of what everyone has know since Napster started up: File sharing of MP3s is good for the consumer and bad for the old school Record Industry:
“Their story is remarkable because of one fact: grassroots communication channels like MySpace and P2P file trading networks worked better than the major-label hype machine. The Arctic Monkeys became hugely popular because they wrote good songs, made them available to their fans for free, and encouraged them to share the MP3s with their friends.”
The Arctic Monkey, after this sort of promotion realised “the fastest-selling independent debut in UK history”. The article/post goes on to say “The major labels are still scratching their heads wondering why the kids aren’t buying records they way they used to.”, and teh answer to that is, I say, is because the stuff the record companies have been pumping out is not art, its manufactured shite. They spend X million on promotions and more than double their money before the teeny boppers figure out that its shite. Now, the teeny boppers are downloading the one song on the album an realising the rest is garbage and before they go out and buy it (if they still intended to) the next fad hits them and they have forgotten about what they were just listening to.
I noted an article back in 200x called ‘The New Economics of Music: File-Sharing and Double Moral Hazard’ in which the same argument is put forward but using economic theory:
Fundamentally, I’m going to argue that consumers download music, as much to derive extra value from getting something for free, as they do because they want insurance against buying something they didn’t want in the first place. File-sharing is as much about risk-sharing as it is about the ‘theft’ of value. Technological changes have made this possible - but the way the business model of the music industry is at odds with the implicit contract it signs with listeners is what makes it probable.
Ultimately it means that the record industry has to start finding real artist rather than manufacturing fads. Good for real music artist, good for us the consumers. Everyone wins except the fat middle men. Maybe the internet can eliminate all the middle men of the world. I hope Real Estate agents are next.