tweaks as pets?
Month: August 2007
International news brands
Guardian Unlimited and TimesOnline have more American than British readers
not surprising really. there are only 2 newspapers in the US worth reading, NYT and WSJ.
3D Animation From Photos
Motion Portrait has developed a remarkable program capable of taking still photos of peoples faces and rapidly animating them in 3D.
Google in too many fights?
Google seems to be biting off a lot these days. In addition to making Microsoft “hell-bent” to kill them, creating a spat with eBay, frightening the news media, angering the big movie and TV studios, and fighting Yahoo and the other search engines, now Google is threatening the telcos.
translation: it is time for evolutionary pressure to weed out lumbering, customer-hostile giants.
Earmarks are winning
8 months after Democrats vowed to shine light on the dark art of “earmarking” money for pet projects, the new visibility has only intensified the competition for projects by letting each member see exactly how many everyone else is receiving.
Cappadocia
Imagine the Moab if it had been inhabited for 4000 years by a succession of Hittites, Christians fleeing Romans and Persians, Greeks and Turks and you have some idea.
Rainbows End
Dedication: To the Net-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives — Wikipedia, Google, and the others of their kind, now and in the future.
Romney Internet Censorship
YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other,” Romney explained.
Yahoo buying Orkut
What’s on Yahoo’s shopping list? Bebo, Friendster, Orkut, Friendster and Hi5 are potential targets. And of course, there’s Facebook.
the AAA type journalists at zdnet suggest yahoo buy orkut.
Amazon Flexible Payment
sensibly does not include stupid checks. this could, if implemented widely, be disruptive for the financial industry
Gregor J. Rothfuss 