Craig Burton

    Jamie turned me on to Pandora. He read on my quests that so many music services are lame.

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    Torvalds critical of new GPL draft (Stephen Shankland/CNET News.com): “

Torvalds critical of new GPL draft  ó 

The second draft of a revised General Public License has been
released, but Linus Torvalds–founder and leader of the best-known
software project governed by the GPL–remains unconvinced of its
merits.

Torvalds’ concern is with the clause in the GPLv3 second draft
regarding digital [...]

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    An Imprint All His Own - Now a Solo Act at Microsoft, (Robert A. Guth/Wall Street Journal): “

An Imprint All His Own 
ó  Now a Solo Act at Microsoft,  ó  Ballmer Stresses Innovation,  ó  On
June 16, Steve Ballmer woke up and knew his life had radically
changed.  ó  For 26 years, the chief executive of Microsoft [...]

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    I was blown away by Zillow. I know it doesn’t have data everywhere, but it does major cities including phoenix. This is a good idea.

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    25 Products That Defined 25 Years of Personal Computing: “
In
full knowledge that what we omit will spur as much comment as what we
include, eWEEK Labs puts forward this list of the 25 most influential
products of the first 25 years of enterprise personal computingónot
only as a look back, but also as a spur to innovators [...]

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    Microsoft to Start Charging for Office 2007 Beta 2: “
Microsoft
has decided to start charging $1.50 per download for Office Server 2007
to help the company recover costs, officials said on July 28.

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This is so stupid, the free office apps, Zoho and so on, are going to
kick ass. Microsoft is just making it worse. [...]

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    digg - 13 Great Firefox Extensions for Web Professionals
Good list. I have most of them. Jamie
has none of them. (Sorry dude, I just have to give you grief.) I’ll bet
he doesn’t have Mozilla, the beta 3 of IE7…I understand, I just don’t
agree. Live on the edge.

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    Fingerprint tool guards multimedia content: “
Researchers
at the University of Maryland have developed a digital fingerprinting
technology that they say can better protect multimedia content from
unauthorized copying and distribution. “Sony is very interested in this
and has donated over US$120,000″ toward equipment for a multimedia lab.
Hollywood movie studios are also interested.
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As I have said in previous posts, [...]

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    A Sandbox to Play In: “

Pamela Dingle, who always has the intestinal fortitude to ask the best darn questions at Catalyst (and other conferences), has posted a good ìquick startî guide for anyone wanting to play around with Windows CardSpace. Via that post, I found this CardSpace ìsandboxî site, which has some interesting pointers [...]

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    Here is what the Otavo point system looks like.

Points are awarded as follows:
35 Points for inviting a user
15 Points extra when invited user registers
35 Points for posting a Quest
20 Points for posting a Blog entry
20 Points for posting a StoreMark (link)
15 Points for posting a Forum topic
15 Points for posting a comment
Top users get [...]

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