"meme wars" entries

Links: Nov 11, 2005

Jumbo list of links today, to make up for my quiet next week. We fly to NZ on Monday and put all the house furniture into the shipping container this weekend. Next time I post it'll be from the other land down under … Inside Digg–BusinessWeek article with the founders of Digg, talking about how it works, why it works,…

Links: Nov 10, 2005

It's like oatmeal but tastes better and isn't good for you! It's the link round-up … Linux backers form patent-sharing firm–another step along the path to finding a sane solution to the problem of software patents. A lot of people are building these patent communes. I wonder when we'll find the TCP/IP of patent indemnity offerings, something that everyone can…

Links: Nov 8, 2005

You pull your left link out, you pull your right link out, hide all the politics and shake your tech about … Stanford Center for Position, Navigation and Time–center of excellence for GPS and related technology, featuring one of the original architects of the GPS system, [via] [via Yade X–Mac tool to rip individual chapters of a movie. I used…

Links: Nov 7, 2005

Holy links, Batman! Video content accompanying Halo 2 Hacks–up on the bungie.org servers. Congrats to Brian Jepson and Stephen Cawood (author of Halo 2 Hacks). Getting Things Done With Yahoo!–nice writeup of building your GTD system around Yahoo!'s services. Google Maps on Cellphone–downloadable Java app. The Paul API–Paul Kedrosky lets both barrels rip against people who leave out key features…

Yahoo! Maps Pranks Google

According to Silicon Valley Sleuth, Yahoo!'s new maps service (which I covered here) had a bogus local business listing for Google: "The Dude's Fish Store". The Sleuth's web site has a screen shot, but I found more proof (and more irony) by Googling for "The Dude's Fish Store"–it showed up in Yahoo! Local's list of "Toys in Mountain View" (View…

Links: Nov 3, 2005

Islands in the clickstream, that is what we are: Open Source at Nokia–Nokia releasing the first of many open source projects. I wonder what the tension between product, research, and platform is within Nokia–how are each of these projects considered for open source release and what expectations are upon each of them to determine their "success". Of interest, Sofia-SIP, an…