Pandora is a great music service but was for-pay only and in the U.S. only. I just got an email from them though stating that they were introducing a free version supported by ads. Not sure on the U.S. only status but hopefully we can all use it now.
Weblogs Inc. (Engadget and that auto blog) was bought by AOL today for a rumoured 25 mil. Nice... what the heck did they buy again? Oh yeah. Viewers and ad-clickers.
South Africa finally joins the rest of the world in getting a Tivo like service through our for-pay satellite broadvaster, DSTV. Usual features of 80hours recordable on a HD, watch multiple channels etc. Very nice.
We used to have this old geography textbook that we called the Green Mamba. It was thick, old and green. I was using it in 1997 when it was last updated in 1987. Geology is slow but not that slow. So Wikibooks is a Wikimedia (founders of Wikipedia) project aimed at building a comprehensive set of textbooks. They will form a curriculum that anybody can follow for free. I imagine they will print these and distribute them like they are doing the Wikipedia.
Pragmatic Programmers are releasing "mini" books, essentially a chapter, on specific technical topics for roughly $8. Good quality and now you don`t have to pay for extra verbage you don`t need.
Google could be bringing television shows to your browser. At first free but if the Google PayPal app rolls out then you could be paying to watch television shows from the States.
More column goodness in CSS/HTML from ALA. First a discussion of current browser support (Firefox 1.5 beta does!) and then a jump into a JS solution. Handy.
Internet Explorer is 10 years old today. Say what you want about the current state of affairs but IE 3/4 bought proper browsing to most of the wired-world. I used IE 4/5/6 for many years, only changing to Firefox when it came out.
A lot of consumer level glossing over in this article but there are some revealing quotes on just how tough Longhorn (now Vista) has been to put together.
A bit of a nothing movie. Not bad, not great, can do without seeing it but if you do you won`t care. Felt like something the Shrek guys put together while waiting for Shrek 2 to render. And such great voice talent! Ah well.
I don`t have FuseFS (new Linux thing) but this sounds interesting. Using RailsFS you can mount a database as a file-system in Linux through Ruby on Rails and through that FuseFS thing. So you can browse your tables and rows in your file explorer. Weird!
Six Apart`s Comet project is for your mum... hoo boy, they are going to have fun explaining this one. Basically take the "can my mom use it?" line and turn it into "does my mom want to use it?" and you have Comet. Blogging for moms... hah. Sorry Mena :)
Thousands of buttons (some people call them chicklets ?like the bubble-gum?) for your website from XML to RSS to Atom to XHTML (oh wait, all XML) to blogs, birthday stones and so forth. Useful for proclaiming your standards slut factor.
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