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Entries from November 2005

Firefox and Identity2.0

November 21st, 2005 · Comments

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According to Identity 2.0, the Mozilla team is exploring [...]

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Why Podcasting feels familiar

November 21st, 2005 · Comments

In 1993 I co-created ElectricSpace, MIT’s weekly cyberspace-themed talk and ambient music show. As an on-air personality I split my responsibilities between taking about the emerging internet scene, interviewing internet legends before their time and mixing and eclectic mix of ambient and intelligent dance music.

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Music recommendation services

November 21st, 2005 · Comments

I wrote a comment over at SiliconBeat about my weekend experience with Pandora and last.fm.

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Terence Mckenna

November 19th, 2005 · Comments

I met Terence Mckenna 12 years ago at the Omega Insitute, where I was attending one of the first Virtual Reality Conferences. OVer the years I went to several weekends at Omega, meeting VR pioneers like Jaron Lanier, and Myron Krueger, generally considered the father of the field.

As a founding member and co-president of the [...]

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Great Video site

November 18th, 2005 · Comments

I found some cool videos at Apollo Pony.

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rocketboom logo

November 18th, 2005 · Comments

Most videoblogs I watch are 99% crap. On the other hand, there is RocketBoom, a three minute daily videoblog our of New York which is brilliant. Closest analogy is that it’s like BoingBoing with a straight-up sexy smart feamale anchor. Amanda rules.

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Video tools

November 18th, 2005 · Comments

Rocketboom has a great list of video tools they use in production.

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My GoogleBase page

November 18th, 2005 · Comments

Not much up there yet but here it is. http://base.google.com/base/search?q=author:relaxedguy

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Userplane AV blogs

November 16th, 2005 · Comments

One of these days I need to record another video podcast using Userplane’s AV blogger.

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The Flickrization of Yahoo

November 14th, 2005 · Comments

Business 2.0 has a good story on how Yahoo is opening up it’s services and API’s to developers. Will be interesting to see how this related to Yahoo Personals.

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