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Microsoft is making available a public preview of Windows XP SP2 RC1. If you have a Tablet PC, this download provides RC1 of the new Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, codenamed “Lonestar.” Lots of security updates which could impact your applications….
Jena McGreggor discusses corporate weblogs in the April issue of Fast Company. Some of the uses mentioned, such as project status, seem like candidates for a wiki instead of a weblog. The article makes Scoble seem like a marketing arm of Microsoft, in the same class as Macromedia blogs. I would have liked to see mention of Scoble having a Userland weblog and not a MSDN weblog. Robert Scoble may well be one of the most powerful people in Redmond right now. A trusted group of employees started blogs to answer users’ questions, and the blogs have grown into online…
Kapust-Allen Enterprises is looking for college students interested in wearing a different temporary tattoo on their head every week. “The average student will earn $150 per week.”…
According to the Inquirer, Intel is showcasing its concept of the digital car at CeBit. Powered by what I assume is the HP tc1100. WiFi access point built-in to the car along with UMTS and GPRS connections. Not many details on the full setup, but interesting….
HP announced the HP Rugged Tablet tr3000 today. Can withstand 26 three foot drops onto plywood over concrete. Rainwater resistant. Up to 3 RF modems. It has a 8.4 inch screen and weighs 3.7 lbs. Starts at $3500….
Eric A. Taub of The New York Times writes about fans of personal video recorders and their best known brand: TiVo….
Sam Ruby has observed Wiki spammers reaching his sites through Google crawls. The WikiSpam has begun….
I am enjoying Mark Cuban’s new blog. An inside look at the industry from a well known source. During his 60 Minutes interview aired February 15, 2004 Steve Kroft mentions that “his email address is posted on the Mavericks’ Web site so he can get feedback from the fans. He answers as many as he can during halftime.” In today’s entry Mark Cuban creates a 360 degree view of reporter and his subject, and invites the public into an otherwise private conversation. I told them that rather than providing any commentary or quotes to them on this matter, or on…
Bathroom Mania has a new urinal, Kisses, “shaped like a woman’s mouth, dolled up with red lipstick, wide open and ready for business.” Fashion Wire Daily reported on these new additions to the new Virgin Airways Clubhouse in New York’s John F. Kennedy airport….
Heath Row of Fast Company posted a partial transcript of Jonathan Abrams’ keynote at SXSW Interactive. A lot of people want to create a viral service. Friendster goes beyond this viral marketing that people talk about. It’s something I call viral nagging. People get peer pressure from their friends to sign up, improve their profile, and change their photo. That’s more powerful than anything I could do. Instead of a site like Match.com where you build a site and hope your friends find you, you build your site with them….
FOAF Vocabulary Specification is updated to include a primary topic, personal profile document, and a tipjar. Version 1.56. I updated my FOAF file to include the personal profile document….
Apple will introduce a spoken interface as part of the next major relaease of OS X. (via Jason Kottke)…
Smack is a XMPP Java client library for instant messaging and presence. Open source under the Apache License. Add Jabber to your apps. (via Don Park)…
Apple today released OS X 10.3.3 via Software Update and standalone installer. Now supports Bluetooth 1.5, AppleTalk Browsing is now on by default, and many more features….
Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram newsletter is now available as a RSS feed….
Paul Boutin of Wired News profiles a new tool by Andrew Grumet to combine RSS and BitTorrent….
MEMRI, The Middle East Media Research Institute, has translated the full text of the letter the Abu Hafs Al-Masri Brigades of Al-Qa’ida sent to the Al-Quds Al-Arabi newpaper. Their conclusion is the “statement does not seem to be an authentic Al-Qa’ida document.”…
SpotShop captured a few screenshots of a Fossil cobrand site today with listing MSN Direct channels coming soon. Customized sports, current traffic, dining guide, movie finder, and daily diversions….
The Olympum Group released Caffeine.Net 0.1 after about a year of development. Use the best of both worlds. Caffeine transfers APIs between .NET and Java and can run code written for one platform on the other platform. Caffeine.Net is based on Mono and has a MIT license. (via Cafe au Lait Java)…
Bram Cohen released BitTorrent 3.4.1 yesterday. Better support for peers with dynamic IPs. (see track.py) Clients also cache peers longer. Bencode is also faster, using int instead of long….
Starbucks will launch its own digital music offering next Tuesday, March 16, according to BusinessWeek. 250,000 songs accessed through a HP Tablet PC and burned in the store. Minimum purchase is 5 songs for $6.99 ($1.40 a song). The service will expand to 2,500 stores in the next two years….
PubSub lets you create a RSS feed for any company or individual with a central index code in the SEC database. Very cool….
Next week Las Vegas Hilton will open Star Trek: Borg Invasion 4D. The Hollywood Reporter reviews some of the technical aspects of the attraction. First Star Trek production to be shot digitally. They liken the picture quality to when stereo became surround sound. I was at the opening of Star Trek: The Experience in 1998 and I was impressed. The cast members supposedly had to go through 18 months of training before opening day, preparing them to deal with the toughest trivia Trekkie. The casino area surrounding the attraction is decorated to look like a casino from the 24th century:…
Salon Media Group will expand operations and reopen its Washington, D.C. office. The office is led by Sidney Blumenthal, former aide to President Clinton, and former staff writer for The New Republic, The Washington Post and The New Yorker. Salon.com has more than 3 million readers a month, of which 74,000 are paying subscribers….
KartOO is a search engine aggregator that focuses on the relationships between your search results. Graphical representations are shown in Flash. (via Scoble)…