The Unreasonable Man

Software, Methods

TiVo as a Web Platform

John Battelle’s Searchblog. 27 Jan 2004 John Battelle talked to Mike Ramsay, CEO of TiVo, and wondered what would happen if if we applied search engine logic to TiVo functionality? Ramsay gave an example of a typical TiVo wishlist (an ongoing set of instructions you give your TiVo) that includes, say, anything from Martin Scorcese.…
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TiVo as a Web Platform

John Battelle’s Searchblog. 27 Jan 2004 John Battelle talked to Mike Ramsay, CEO of TiVo, and wondered what would happen if if we applied search engine logic to TiVo functionality? Ramsay gave an example of a typical TiVo wishlist (an ongoing set of instructions you give your TiVo) that includes, say, anything from Martin Scorcese.…
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Glancing

Glancing: ETech 2004 Network awareness; expressive eyes…
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Social Software for the Dead

Don Park’s Daily Habit I mentioned before that a ‘center’ of a social network doesn’t have to coordinate or even be aware of the synergy he or she creates. Come to think of it, the center doesn’t even have to be alive. For example, people who met each other at a funeral forms a social…
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Social Software for the Dead

Don Park’s Daily Habit I mentioned before that a ‘center’ of a social network doesn’t have to coordinate or even be aware of the synergy he or she creates. Come to think of it, the center doesn’t even have to be alive. For example, people who met each other at a funeral forms a social…
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Privacy vs Social Networks

Onlineblog.com Was interested to see a piece on Romenesco in which a correspondent slated a Wall Street Journal reporter for quoting a Friendster profile. Friendster, for the uninitiated, is one of a swathe of personal networking sites on which you post your details and then link together with online chums to create a community of…
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CopyRip

Creative Commons iRATE Radio, an open-source application that sends users free-legal MP3s through its radio client, is now able to read the ID3 tags of MP3 files to identify Creative Commons license information. Enabling this kind of feature is exactly why Creative Commons put forth its MP3 embedding strategy many months ago, which defines a…
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CopyRip

Creative Commons iRATE Radio, an open-source application that sends users free-legal MP3s through its radio client, is now able to read the ID3 tags of MP3 files to identify Creative Commons license information. Enabling this kind of feature is exactly why Creative Commons put forth its MP3 embedding strategy many months ago, which defines a…
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UK signs up to XML

PublicTechnology.net The Office of Government Commerce has today announced the successful completion of its recently launched Proof of Concept XML assessment trials. The resulting single IT language will revolutionise the way government suppliers conduct business with the public sector. Order and Invoice messages were successfully exchanged electronically. A full report of the testing activity and…
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UK signs up to XML

PublicTechnology.net The Office of Government Commerce has today announced the successful completion of its recently launched Proof of Concept XML assessment trials. The resulting single IT language will revolutionise the way government suppliers conduct business with the public sector. Order and Invoice messages were successfully exchanged electronically. A full report of the testing activity and…
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