details of a global brain
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Exchange economy?
The diggnation guys are now also sponsored by Barterbee.com. It is some kind of rag-fair online for Movies, Music or Games. You can put stuff in that you want to get rid of. But instead of trading items for real money you get points which you can use to shop new items on Barterbee. The…
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USA on the verge of a dictatorship?
Jack Cafferty points out a problem with the NSA spying on US citizens.
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Old computers harm office morale
Ageing and unreliable office computers are making workers unhappy and more likely to claim sick leave, a new survey shows.
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Interviewing Web Developers
Seomoz.org has put together a nice compilation of questions for a job interview with web developers.
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AjaxOS
AjaxOS is a concept that allows an OS to use remote AJAX-based applications to be treated as if they were local. Michael Robertson presents his view of AjaxOS. He claims that moving software into services is going to be successful and a way to compete with Microsoft. Besides he admits that they never will clone…
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Is the Internet about to be disintegrated?
Network neutrality is a principle of network design. It asserts that, in order to promote innovation, network service providers such as telephone and cable internet companies should not be permitted to dictate how those networks are used (i.e., not permitted to ban certain types of programs, to ban certain types of devices connecting to the…
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Three Webmontag events today
Just a note: Today there are »Webmontag«-Events in Berlin (28 attendees), Munich (33 attendees) and Bielefeld (5 attendees).
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We love the funk!
No comment…
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Feedburned my RSS feed
I have decided to publish my RSS feeds through Feedburner.
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Eye-tracking websites
Jakob Nielsen in his Alertbox newsletter provides some results of a eye-tracking study.
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Create screenshots with different browsers
There are a couple of web applications out there that allow to test a website in different browsers. I think that is a service the vendors of all theses browsers should pay for, but anyway: Browsershots.org: Free but you need to wait a long time to see results. Browserpool.de: German; Uses remote access, so you…
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Ars Electronica 2006: Simplicity
The topic of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz this year is »Simplicity«.
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No one reads what you write?
I am considering a new writing style on this blog.
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Half of corporate PCs can’t run Vista?
If something is really shifting the market share in favour of Apple, than I think it is the fact, that Microsoft does have a real problem with innovating their OS on an outdated base of hardware. According to InformationWeek Gartner estimates that half of the PCs in corporations won’t be able to even run Vista.…
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Kinja.com
Somehow I missed the site Kinja.com completely: The about page says: Kinja is a weblog guide, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics, everything from food to sex. Or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers.Weblogs are much…
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Access point distribution
Today during a train ride between Cologne and Aachen I let MacStumbler scan vor access points that I passed by. During the 70km ride it catched signals of around 65 wireless LANs: Usually regular housing is only close to railways in cities. On the country site buildings are rather sparse. Taking these facts into account…
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