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Katie Hafner writes about the design process of TiVo’s remote control. I own a Sony TiVo SVR-3000 with a Harmony Remote SST-768. My main complaint with my SST-768 is the overlap of the directional buttons and the number pad, leading to never getting the action I really wanted….
The Republic of Ireland has just tied world champion and #1 ranked Brazil 0-0 in Dublin. The game was just a friendly, but Brazil did bring their full squad. Brazil’s starting 11 were: Dida, Cafu, Lucio, Roque Junior, Roberto Carlos, Kleberson, Gilberto Silva, Ze Roberto; Ronaldinho, Kaka, and Ronaldo. Ireland was ranked #15 in the world as of this morning according to FIFA….
Yahoo! Search locates RSS alongside the Web page results. A search for Dave Winer allows you to view Scripting News’ RSS feed as XML, or add to My Yahoo!. I do not have the same luck with my feed….
Datawhorehouse put together an Orkut Member density map by crawling Orkut’s member database. Map of the Bay Area is pretty interesting….
Yahoo! dumped Google yesterday and started using a new crawler, Yahoo! Slurp. Maximum index size is now 500K and includes PDF and Microsoft Office documents. Personalization is next….
KeyComputing’s Xkey incorporates a microprocessor, a database, an application server, an Exchange client, a crypto engine, an embedded VPN, and 256 MB of flash storage onto a keychain device. Remote users can now carry a keychain and have access to their full Exchange store with no need for a client application or VPN install….
Mainsoft Visual Mainwin allows Visual Basic and C# developers to compile J2EE bytecode. It also supports ASP.Net and ADO.Net class libraries. Supports BEA Weblogic 8.1, IBM Websphere 5.1 and Tomcat 5….
Apple now has a RSS information page. NetNewsWire and FeedDemon get a mention too….
Tonight I attended ConCon, a one hour briefing of talks and ideas from O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Kevin Marks introduced Technorati’s services. Ralf Muehlen introduced me to SFLAN. Cory Doctorow thinks that e-books now are where online music was in 1996: no one saw a reason why anyone would give up the tangible quality of a work. Kevin Burton is working on a plugin for Mozilla to export Orkut data for import into other formats such as FOAF. Scott Draves talked about his Electric Sheep project which is a very cool distributed genetic graphics engine. Tantek gave a quick overview…
Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post writes about the features of the search engines of tomorrow and what role, if any, Google may play….
Newsday reports that the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers are finalizing a trade of Alex Rodriguez for Alfonso Soriano and a minor league pitcher. Yankees would pay $112 million of Rodriguez’s remaining salary, the Rangers would pay $40 million. Alex Rodriguez would play third base….
Scientists believe that love is little more than an influx of bonding hormones, namely oxytocin and vasopressin, according to The Economist. “[A] relatively small area of the human brain is active in love, compared with that involved in, say, ordinary friendship.” “Parts of the brain that are love-bitten include the one responsible for gut feelings, and the ones which generate the euphoria induced by drugs such as cocaine. So the brains of people deeply in love do not look like those of people experiencing strong emotions, but instead like those of people snorting coke. Love, in other words, uses the…
Next week is a small event in San Francisco, ConCon, for all of us who could not go to O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference last week. RX Gallery 132 Eddy Street @ Mason Monday, February 16, 7-10 P.M….
Jürgen Klinsmann officially joined the Los Angeles Galaxy yesterday as Technical Advisor. Jürgen has been working witht he Galaxy for some time, but the new title gives the Galaxy and Jürgen more recognition for their work together. One of Jürgen Klinsmann’s new interests is how technology can be better used to promote soccer, and I hope to work with him on such projects in the future….
With number portability in full effect, eBay has some listings for phone numbers. Would you like to own 212-867-5309? I have thought about wanting this number (in the 415 area code), but you would get so many crap calls it might not be worth it. I would rather have 362-4368 from AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap than a Tommy Tutone song….
Gnomedex 4.0 is going to take place from September 30-October 3 at Harrah’s in South Lake Tahoe. I should actually be able to drive this time! I will wait to see the conference schedule before confirming….
Today Del Martin, 83, and Phyllis Lyon, 79, took their wedding vows in San Francisco’s city hall, becoming the first same sex couple to be officially married in the United States. The couple will celebrate their 51st aniversary this Saturday….
Ever wonder what would happen to an exploded water balloon in zero gravity? NASA answers the question with 3 liter balloons….
Seth Schiesel interviews Bram Cohen in today’s New York Times. Bram created BitTorrent while unemployed. His solo effort led to a job at Valve Software starting in October 2003….
SecurityFocus.com reports that the huge blackout of Northeast states on August 14 spread from Akron, Ohio due to a software bug in GE Energy’s XA/21 software system. 50 million people in eight states without electricity. The North American Electric Reliability Council is now directing power companies to be sure their software has the latest patches installed….
If you live in San Francisco, New York City, or Washington D.C. you can now fight your parking ticket over the phone and/or Internet using ParkingTicket.com. They claim 75% of parking tickets submitted through their system are completely dismissed. Designed for corporate fleets, but good for the individual as well. They guarantee the ticket will be dismissed. They take 50% of the parking fee in return for its dismissal. Interesting idea, and they might be able to pull it off with a New York staff applying similar ticket tactics across the country. Looks interesting enough to try out. I wish…
Dave Winer’s lecture at Microsoft Research is now available online. Addresses “Weblogs, RSS, aggregators, OPML, content management, how we can work together, and the care and feeding of online communities.”…
Apple’s new store in San Francisco’s Union Square is scheduled to open on Saturday, February 28 at 10 AM. It will have an Internet Café with 12 computers, a 32 foot Genius Bar, and a nice theater….
On the front page of today’s Washington Post is an article by Yuki Noguchi about Google’s proficiency at locating confidential documents that may have publicly revealed themselves for only a brief moment in time….
Microsoft Watch: “Four former Microsoft executives have banded together to form a new company that is developing social-networking software and Web services that will build on top of .Net and Microsoft’s forthcoming Longhorn Windows operating system.” The principals behind Graw Group include Jeremy Jaech and Ted Johnson, the co-founders of Visio. Dennis Tevlin and Peter Mullen are the other two members of the group….