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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Amazon Gobbles Up Audible – January 31, 2008
Amazon, the world’s leading book e-tailer, is getting larger by acquiring Audible. Audible is the leader of audible books sales on the internet with some 80,000 titles in the stable. Reuters is reporting that Amazon will pay $300 million for … Continue reading
Google AdWords, CrowdSpirit – January 28, 2008
Google Knows How Old You Are Google recently began offering a new tool to advertisers; the ability to select a demographic segment to target web ads to. Publishers who sign up for the beta test can send demographic information to … Continue reading
Don’t Forget the Hackers… January 23, 2008
A few years ago there were a lot of executives talking about network security. Now, most of them had no idea how to get it, but they were concerned because they were reading lots of stories of break ins and … Continue reading
WordPress Storage & Second Life Grid make News – January 22, 2008
WordPress, a very substantial blogging engine and CMS, has recently announced that all WordPress.com hosted blogs now have 3 GB of storage, up from the 50 MB they previously had. This is huge news. Blogger, the Google offering, today hands … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Blogger, Google, Second Life, TypePad, widget, Wordpress
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Online Software vs. The Shrink Wrap – January 20, 2008
For many of us that have grown up using MS Office, the thought of using an online office tool from a third party vendor is a bit scary. I have been using Word, Excel and PowerPoint for so many years … Continue reading
Widgetmania and my new assistant, Enso
Widgets are a hot topic, we have covered them here on Technology Story (search: widget), and it seems like the momentum is only growing. I am excited about seeing the new J.J. Abrams movie Cloverfield, so I hit the site … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Clearspring, enso, Facebook, gadget, Google, Humanized, iGoogle, iPhone, Netvibes, OpenSocial, widget, Yahoo
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MacWorld Announcements – January 16, 2008
I feel somewhat obligated to continue my post on Apple and the role they will play in the world – especially since they made their annual set of announcements at MacWorld yesterday. It was not the same blockbuster type of … Continue reading
Apple’s Assimilation of the World – January 13, 2008
I have to start this off by admitting that I have been working with PC’s since 1981. Sadly, that is longer than some of the developers that work for me have been alive. Having hung around the technology world for … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, China, IBM, Intel, IT, MacBook Pro, Steve Jobs, Wintel
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Outsourcing, Crowdsourcing, and Banks Closing – January 11, 2008
So, I had a strange experience this week because I was in a meeting with a few bankers and I started talking about Second Life, and started to tell them about the banks that are opened there. Half of them … Continue reading
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Tagged Banks, crowdsourcing, Internet, outsourcing, Second Life, Yahoo
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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) – Can it really change the World? Jan 9, 2008
As I mentioned previously, I ordered an OLPC laptop through the program where you buy two and receive one, while the other gets donated to a needy person overseas. I have been playing with it as I have time, and … Continue reading
