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Blakley Responds

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

On Burton: “

It’s always disconcerting to be discussed in public… Jamie’s post
touches all sorts of topics which hadn’t even occurred to me. I suppose
there’s a lot that could be said about many of these topics, but the
only thing I really want to say is that if you want to know why I chose
The Burton Group [...]

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Testing inline photos

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

It works on blogger, but not manilla. Odd.

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Better news about delicious

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

More Stats on Del.icio.us, This Time Positive: “

This is an update on the post I wrote about del.icio.us earlier today that showed massively decreasing traffic on the site according to Comscore, and flat traffic from Alexa.
I
spoke with del.icio.us founder Joshua Schacter this afternoon as well
as Eckart Walther, VP Product for Search (Joshuaís boss) and Melissa
Rische, [...]

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Wireless Headphones

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

Onkyo announces MHP-A1 wireless headphones: “

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Wireless
Onkyo’s certainly be a fan of all things wireless,
so it should be no surprise that the company is turning out yet another
pair of cordless headphones, the MHP-A1s (not to be confused with the

OK, I’m a gadget freak. These look great. No wires.

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Adsense is quite literal

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

I recently added some adsense links to my blog. (Sold out to the man). My blog is hosted by www.weblogger.com which uses Userland Manila software.
Adsense insists on posting links to travel packages to Manila. Very funny.

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10x Growth predicted

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

Market for Online Video To Increase 10-fold By 2010 (Erik Sass/MediaPost Publications): “

Market for Online Video To Increase 10-fold By 2010 
ó  THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR ONLINE video content will expand tenfold by
2010, topping 130 million households, according to a new report titled
“Online Content AggregatorsóAOL, Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AppleóSlowly
Defining the Future of Television Ö
Source:   [...]

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Ubuntu kicks butt

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu (Tony Mobily/Free Software Magazine): “

Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu 
ó  I don’t like writing controversial editorials.  Controversy is an
effective means to get a lot of accesses: most people seem to enjoy
reading controversial articles, maybe because they like torturing
themselves.  (And yes, I used to [...]

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Jamie breaks ranks

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

Jamie comments on hiring Bob Blakley at Burton Group.
On Blakley: “

As several folks have noted (see here, here, and here), Bob Blakley left his position with IBM to join us. His official first day with the company was this past Tuesday.
To
be honest, I was unsure about commenting on Bobís hiring here. I am, of
course, [...]

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Steve Job’s blog–who’d a thunk?

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Aged 51 1/2
Very funny. Thanks to Doc Searls for the link.

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Del.icio.us Traffic Plummets

August 4th, 2006 · Comments Off

Del.icio.us Traffic Plummets: “
Unique
visitors have dropped by 22%, and page views have dropped by a whopping
75%, erasing all gains in traffic this year. Del.icio.us is effectively
at the same traffic levels as they were when it was acquired in
December 2005
 
I know I quit posting to del.icio.us., don’t know why. It’s not much of a hassle. Scoble [...]

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