Amazon On My Tivo

posted: 2007-03-11 00:35:59

aot Tivo has finally found a partner to distribute content via broadband to their series 2 and 3 boxes -- Amazon.com. So AppleTV has a competitor. Who's going to be first to let me get Ze Frank in my living room? Or build youtube channels?

Am I full of shit? Tell me why. [ 122 remarks ]

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HackerMojo.com is using a fluid layout based upon work by Dave Reeder. I'm trying to take CSS a little more seriously; but I'm having a hard time because of all of the bad syntax, browser compatibility hacks, and non-fluid layouts. If any of the other technology I used were like CSS, I'd have to set myself on fire and jump off of a cliff.

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One Laptop Per Child

posted: 2007-02-24 20:27:31

I got to play around with one of the first production OLPC machines today. It is incredible. As you can tell from this shot I took during its first boot, it runs linux. But once it is up it has a really cool gui and a fast hibernate-awaken facility that makes full reboots relatively uncommon.

They have been rewriting as much of the software stack as they can in python. Why? Because they want to ...

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Google versus Krugle

posted: 2007-02-17 15:26:03

Man, Yahoo is firing on all cylinders these day. I've been using Google's codesearch for quite some time, but I just gave Yahoo's Krugle a second look and man it just blows google out of the water.

Usable and Secure

posted: 2007-02-17 07:11:04

Registration has always been a controversial topic for newspapers.
They need to know who their users are because they are ad-supported and the news doesn't really lend itself to product tie-ins. No one wants to see ads for dog food on the same page that has an expose` on ...

The power of Zero

posted: 2007-02-14 22:43:24

So I've been on this minimalism kick for a couple weeks. Basically applying a "less is more" philospophy to software. This time I'm building a site that has no content of its own, no network configuration of its own, no database, etc. I'm trying to build it ...

Yahoo Pipes

posted: 2007-02-09 06:30:32

Yahoo has created a mashup engine in the for of Yahoo Pipes. It's like a visual editor for our classifieds feed manager which is pipe driven -- you define data sources, transforms and outputs -- but this is based on rss and various search apis. You get to plug them ...

Toast

posted: 2007-02-06 03:28:12

Am I the only one wondering why no one has made an external storage device that looks like a toaster? You know, one that backs itself up to dvd-rw's that load via slots in the top when you depress the lever? Or maybe one of the slots works as an ...

Yahoo Tag Maps

posted: 2007-01-20 08:58:26

These days I've been following the developer api's from Yahoo and Google more closely than usual. A recent release from Yahoo is for Tag Maps. Basically, they use the geo-coded tags from flicker images to gather up a set of tags that have been applied to those images and overlay ...

Will it Ben?

posted: 2006-12-31 11:10:45

Yes, it* will! ( * where 'it' refers to set of all digestable objects. Who needs Blendtec? )