A few weeks ago now, I had to decide whether I would renew my domain name for this blog or just kill it off. I must admit the temptation was there to simply pull the plug on it and in less than dramatic fashion, let it slip away into the depths of […]

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I started writing the following post about three weeks ago but it was never completed. Life has been a bit of a whirlwind lately with conferences and other work projects dominating most of my time. Like many fellow bloggers, I think there is something too that comes with the transition from winter to spring that […]

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The idea of service “mashups” really resonates with me. We’ve all seen some pretty wild and incredible examples of what happens when creative people meld different services together. Something about Upcomingscrobbler (where Audioscrobbler meets Upcoming) made me sit up again and pause — i think because the site serves as a really good example […]

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This Alexa graph compares the user adoption rate for Flickr and YouTube. It doesn’t so much reflect an adoption curve as it does an adoption wall climb. In the past week, I’ve observed several different students watching videos off YouTube. Requests for headphones are increasing and demand on bandwidth is likely going to skyrocket on […]

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“Best of” Stanford Cooperation Lecture Videos: “A 14 minute, 11 megabyte Quicktime movie of selected excerpts from the Stanford Literacy of Cooperation Course lecture videos is now available, featuring Howard Rheingold, Andrea Saveri, Peter Kollock, Paul Hartzog, Peter Corning, Jimmy Wales, Steve Weber, Ross Mayfield, Zack Rosen, and Bernardo Huberman”

(Via Smart Mobs.)

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Totally interesting. And a good lesson on labels.
Google Book Search: “we’ve been thinking lately that Google Print should really be called Google Book Search.
Why the change? Well, one factor was all the comments we got about how excited people were that Google Print would help them print out their documents, or web pages they visit […]

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I had to read the news twice just to believe it — TiVo is now available in Canada. From their site:
TiVo.com | Most Popular FAQs
s the TiVo service available in Canada?
The TiVo Service is now available in Canada. Canadian residents will be given special instruction to follow when activating service. Please look for the link […]

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Google Maps is a great example of what can happen when you let users “under the hood” and let them decide for themselves how they want to make use of your information.
It was really interesting to read in The National Post about Canadian Mike Pegg and the popularity of his site, Google Maps Mania, […]

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Jut ran across another novel use of the Flickr API: Announcing Flickrfs! - a virtual file sharing system.
Flickrfs is a virtual filesystem based upon FUSE for Linux. It can be mounted on your computer and then can be accessed using the standard commands. But, here are the twists. The filesystem uses threads, and hence, improves […]

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Google Print gets its start today with a live index of works already in the public domain. Current legal undertakings of course put a bit of a damper on the launch, but nevertheless, I suspect its not a fight that Google plans to give up on easily. It was interesting to read that Google will […]

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