The Electric Sheep just landed $7 million in funding for 3rd party metaverse development; as Tateru just pointed out to me, 7 mill is almost as much as Linden Lab itself got in their first round of funding. New World Notes interview with Sheep CEO Sibley Hathor.
I’ve been using Open DNS for a few weeks and see a definite increase in reaching websites. Nothing however can help speed uppage loads in Firefox on my Powerbook. After using a new MacBookPro, my loaded PB feels sluggish.
Upgraded to 2.1. Ability to subscribe TheProgressBar RSS feed and Comment Feed fixed.
This is excellent, in an annoying kind of way. MP3 tunes for your car horn from Horntones.com.
A few summers ago I headed up to sunny Portsmouth, NH to met Chris Brooks, founder of Talkr. Talkr turns blog posts into MP3 audio files, so you can listen on your iPod. I used the service for a while, but soon found that not many people were using the feature. Other blogs have had a fair number of people subscribing to the audio version of the blog.
Chris recently sold Talkr to LiveOnTheNet for around $50k. Congrats to Chris, I wonder what he’s going to do next?
Via Read/WriteWeb, more here.
Illegal but this is what happens when programmers don’t catch exceptions well.
Took me a while to figure out why Ecto wasn’t downloading posts. turns out WordPress 2.1 has a bug. Fix via NSLog();
Lot’s of startup hype about Habari. Me no download for a while, too much fun/work/time invested in WP 2.1
I’ve upgraded just about everything on the blog today. WordPress 2.1, TerrraFirma theme and found several new versions of plugins. Ability to subscribe TheProgressBar RSS feed and Comment Feed fixed. Tags showing up at bottom of posts, the tag search page is having problems with multi-word tags joined by the “€œ+â€?€Â? sign. Somehow I have to tweak Ultimate Tag Warrior to let multi-word tags link to their respective tag pages. Still need to import embedded Technorati tags as well, hopefully sooner rather than later. Then maybe I can get back to actually blogging.
This is scary. Hitachi has created RFID chips that are 0.05 x 0.05mm. Reminds me of various Bruce Sterling, William Gibson and Neil Stevenson stories.