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Archive for August, 2005

Build anything you can imagine - way too cool.

Need to relax?

31Aug05

Open this link in a new tab.
Keep doing whatever you’re doing. Just listen as you work or surf.

Yes, yes, it’s expanding, increasing, growing so fast it’s exploding, but that’s not the subject of this post. Rastin Mehr is blogging, and that’s A Good Thing™.
Rastin is in the Technology Solutions department at Premier, which I used to lead, and he’s doing all kinds of cool stuff there and on his own.
He’s got at […]

I’m doing some consulting work for The Linguist … mostly blogging at the Linguist blog, and I’ve been thinking about money-back or risk-free trial offers that make sense.
Here’s one at Bigha. (I recently blogged about their Starseeker chair.)
It’s for a revolutionary bike - a very expensive bike. And there’s a money-back guarantee. But you’ve got […]

So, the labels want more for their songs.

It’s well known that many record labels aren’t happy with the ‘one price fits all’ approach to digital music sales taken by iTunes, and there is speculation that when the contracts come up for renewal early next year some labels may not renew them unless Apple changes its […]

This is a very cool idea - outsourcing to rural USA - that I hope catches on.
The cost of living in rural USA is a quarter what it might be in a major city, so the wages can be lower, but the people are smart, local, able to communicate, and in a convenient time zone. […]

Imagine

19Aug05

… an enterprise app built with this sensibility in mind.

I just saw this software in Macintouch’s RSS feed.
Very cool - great software for web developers and bloggers.
The app is called DreamCatcher, which couldn’t have anything to do with a certain web design app, could it? DreamCatcher is desktop software that runs on Mac OS X - Just set it up with a URL, it’ll […]

Life caching

16Aug05

OK, I’m not quite here:

I blog/Flickr/Del.icio.us, therefore I am.

But it’s great to remember, and it’s fun to share, and it’s interesting to peek.

I am so sick of Technorati searches ending in this pitiful statement:

Sorry, we couldn’t complete your search because we’re experiencing a high volume of requests right now. Please try again in a minute or add this search to your watchlist to track conversation.

[ update August 16 ]
See assorted links. Now the rumors are that it’s […]



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