Author: Ian Kennedy
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Containers as Commerce Packets
The first newspapers came about back in the 1700’s to fulfill a need for importers and others with an interest in trade with the New World to keep track of the shipping schedules and see who was due into port that day. Tucked away in the business section of some papers you still see announcements…
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IBM wants to play too
It was a busy day for Bay Area locals involved with startups. First there was the Under the Radar conference which featured a number of startups looking for a little extra attention. Later in the day, Business 2.0 gave a party for all the folks they recently nominated to a list they’re calling the Next…
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Cast Your Vote
Yahoo 360 added a cool little voting widget today so I took the opportunity to set up a snap poll on what Tivo is announcing tomorrow. I thought Yahoo Answers was cool, I can see myself creating all sorts of mischief with this feature! If have a Yahoo ID, click through to my 360 blog…
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Major challenge for WiFi phones
I used to think that wifi phone will be a real threat to cellphone providers in urban areas as we see things such as urban wifi networks take off. For a fixed fee you could get a phone number from a company such as Vonage or Skype and make all the calls you want. Wifi…
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Why you need to syndicate full text feeds
Many have writtten about the need to publish full text feeds. Most from the perspective of the reader who is not likely going to be bothered with excerpts in their reader. I subscribe to 74 feeds but only one of them requires me to click through (Good Morning Silicon Valley if you must know, I…
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Julia blowing bubbles
Now that we’re out of a kitchen, we mooch dinner whenever we can. This weekend we decended upon Mie & Dav’s place. Mie gave the kids a bubble set and Dav took this really great photo.
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Mac Porn
The sheer beauty of their design and packaging brings out a bout of technolust. Jason O’Grady posts a pictorial of the unpackaging of his brand new MacBook Pro. He even takes photos of the styrofoam cutouts!
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San Diego
We took a quick trip down to San Diego (photos) last weekend to escape all the banging and clanging going on because of The Kitchen Project.
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Apple embeds poem in Mac OS
Text of a poem that’s embedded in the new version of MacOS which runs on Intel chips. Apple today confirmed that it was put there to prevent piracy (or at least make those that pirate their software think twice.) There once was a user that whined his existing OS was so blind he’d do better…