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02:58 AM Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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It’s been nearly 10 years since Scott McNealy famously admonished a bunch of reporters: “You have zero privacy. Get over it!” Nowhere has this statement been driven home harder for me than the few minutes I spent on pipl and ZabaSearch , free websites
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12:09 AM Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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Many American parents cringe when they learn about their offsprings’ behavior on the web. Salacious messaging, saucy photo sharing, revealing of intimate personal details – oh my! But the results of an IAC/JWT survey of 18-25 year olds in urban China
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02:18 AM Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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One of my favorite quotes from the book Fooled by Randomness is Wittgenstein's Rule : Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table, you may as well be using the table to measure the ruler. I believe that
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06:03 PM Monday, April 21, 2008
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Golf is an activity that requires a tremendous amount of overhead. Aside from actually learning how to swing, aspiring players also have to set aside continuous time blocks of 4 hours, gain membership at a suitable course, acquire an expensive bouquet
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02:13 AM Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Despite energetic community efforts and the blooming of a thousand identity initiatives , the path to profits for online consumer identity services has proved remarkably elusive. Sxip Identity , one of the best-known identity startups and helmed by identerati
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02:37 AM Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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One of the more intriguing ideas to bubble out of the virtualization ecosystem is VMCasting – the notion of distributing virtual machines via RSS feeds. Coined by Enomaly , an open source consulting firm best known for Xen management tool Enomalism and
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11:57 PM Monday, January 28, 2008
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Not too long ago, a China-based VC told me that nearly all the startups he was seeing were of the “Copy To Asia” or C2A variety. Each pitch inexorably led to the goal of becoming the “Google of China” or “Facebook of China” or “YouTube of China” etc.
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10:17 PM Monday, January 21, 2008
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As a young techie, it was hard to resist the temptation of looking for space aliens with my PC. And so I became an early adopter of SETI@Home, a project that now counts 3 million users who contribute their spare PC processing power to scanning radio-telescope
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02:13 AM Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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How do you know if it’s a real human trying to sign up for an account on your website or posting a comment on your blog, or whether it’s simply a software bot leaching your resources? The most common way today is to subject the alleged human to a CAPTCHA
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03:00 PM Tuesday, January 01, 2008
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The past few years have been especially unpleasant for publishers of newspapers and purveyors of encyclopedias. What if they could, with minimal effort, translate & index their archives into multiple languages, thus broadening their target audiences
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