Alpha authors
- Dan Ackerman
- Rich Brown
- David Carnoy
- Bonnie Cha
- Brian Cooley
- Wayne Cunningham
- Robert Dubbin
- Matthew Elliott
- John Falcone
- Jasmine France
- Kent German
- Will Greenwald
- Lori Grunin
- Justin Jaffe
- David Katzmaier
- James Kim
- Nicole Lee
- Lara Luepke
- Kevin Massy
- Tom Merritt
- Tim Moynihan
- Rafe Needleman
- David Rudden
- Philip Ryan
- Michelle Thatcher
- Robert Vamosi
- Elsa Wenzel
- Molly Wood
- Felisa Yang
November 07, 2006, 4:14 PM PSTBuzz Out Loud Show Notes: Google Earth, I kill you!
Posted by: Veronica Belmont
--Veronica
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EPISODE 350 |
How to backup the settings and playlists.
The one point that always gets me. Everyone always says how great Korea is doing, but their population is concentrated. When you only have three cities to do.
Use your "space in space" to fly your name, signature, corporate logo, photograph, or other MIT-approved imagery. For $35 per centimeter - you can put your name, company logo, and so forth on a student spacecraft developed by Georgia Tech and MIT. A $100 space ad is available here. Finally, bringing cool stuff like this down--could be a cute way of saying something nice to your sweetie. :)
I just need to rant about Best Buy a bit. On Saturday night, I happened to be on the playstation.com forums, and someone pointed out that Best Buy just started doing pre-orders for PS3. I believe it was around midnight. Anyway, I jump on it and make sure I do everything correctly. YAY, I won't have to wait in line. I have next-day shipping, and everything was perfect...until tonight. Best Buy sent a letter, which I will append to the end of this, saying it was an accident that the preorder was made available. OMG!! All I got was a $10 coupon code toward a new order on their Web site! Is there anything I can do, or make them hold their end of the bargain? I mean, they did place a hold on my credit card for $646. This is a pretty big mixup. Thanks. Love the podcast...oh yeah...Holiday Helpdesk Live 2006??
Hey guys, love the podcast. Just wanted to say that I, too, have caught myself using the J-word repeatedly. My philistine friends (those people who do not listen to BOL) are often left wondering. However, I have caught one of them, a fellow coder, using it, too, after hearing me use it repeatedly.
You are now also immortalized in my source code comments.
// This is so janky, will redo at the end of the week.
// Someone janked this yesterday, see the SVN diff to figure it out.
Hope you have a rocking time.
j.
Fascinating...
Funny thing is, I thought of this when I first saw the Borat act.
I've just wanted to know... which teams do each of you root for? SF area teams? Or teams from your hometown?
C'ya
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November 07, 2006, 11:30 AM PSTSEMA selects the most aftermarket-friendly cars
Posted by: Wayne Cunningham Putting a new stereo in some cars requires cutting large holes in the dashboard, while on others it's a simple process of sliding the previous stereo out and dropping a new one in. That's the difference between cars that follow standards, such as DIN slots in the dashboard, and cars with extensively factory-customized controls. SEMA, a show devoted to all the neat things you can add to your car, has a vested interest in automakers taking the standardized approach, and gives awards every year for the cars that are most friendly to aftermarket customization.
This year, SEMA gave the awards to the Ford Shelby GT 500 won in the Car category, the Jeep Wrangler won in the SUV category, the Chevrolet Silverado Classic in the new Hybrid vehicle category, and the Toyota Tundra in the Truck category. So if you're looking for a car to customize, you'll just have to settle for a Ford Shelby GT 500.
(Photo: Ford Motor Company)
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November 07, 2006, 8:02 AM PSTThe official start-ups of Web 2.0
Posted by: Rafe Needleman
There are several new companies and products being unveiled at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week. I'll be reporting on as many of them as I can at our new Web apps blog, Webware.com.
Only 13 companies were selected to participate in the "Launchpad" sessions on Tuesday. Chosen from more than 200 applicants (I'm trying to get ahold of that list), these are supposed to be the most promising of the current crop of Web 2.0 start-ups. I'm not sure they are hands down the best the Web has to offer, but they are all very interesting. Here are the start-ups: 3B, Adify, In the Chair, Instructables, oDesk, Omnidrive, Pidgin Technologies, Sharpcast, Sphere, Stikkit, TimeBridge, Turn, and Venyo.
Of these start-ups, I think the most important is Omnidrive [my take], since it has the potential to integrate disparate Web applications. But the most immediately useful may be TimeBridge. Watch for my review.
Keep reading the Webware blog for impressions of these and other products as they are rolled out.
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