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World-Wide Media eXchange is an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research. Take a photograph, stamp it with longitude and latitude, and users can find your photographs on a map….
The October 6 issue of Fortune examines a gadget makeover at the hands of a team of geeks. (Dean Heistad, Ted Larson, and Paul Ross) "all they wanted to do was send digital pictures of the kids to Grandma. Heistad came back with a shopping list that would get them that, plus a home theater, a wireless network, new computing, a tricked-out music system, and GPS positioning capabilities."…
Today Yahoo released its new and improved shopping site, complete with comparative shopping. A search for a Sony Cyber-shot camera on Yahoo yielded 89 merchants and a PriceGrabber search found 69 results. Lowest final price on Yahoo was $520 compared to PriceGrabber's $598, a 15% savings. Does this make PriceGrabber a prime takeover target? Yahoo and Google now have their own comparison service. PriceGrabber provides Ask Jeeves with a cobrand. AOL and MSN have the cash to spend….
Nature profiles the work of Sarah Brosnan of Emory University teaching monkeys to exchange tokens for food. 80% of the monkeys rebelled if they did not receive an equal or better reward. Female monkeys were much more sensitive to the inequalities….
Philip Greenspun says "Java is the SUV of programming tools."…
COMPAQ Support Library on where to find the "Any" key….
Jon Udell writes about baseball lessons for software teams and the way we value developers….
LA Times (free registration required) : "Computer chip giant Intel Corp. and the leisure class bible Zagat Survey have produced a guide to the best restaurants and hotels in America that offer wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, Internet access." full article…
Mozilla 1.5 RC1 is now available….
John Hawkins interviews Milton Friedman. "all of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment" "Roosevelt's policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been."…
Google has a new coding competition, sponsored by TopCoder. Bypass Google HR and get your code recognized!…
WUSA, the Women's United Soccer Association, suspended operations this afternoon….
Chris now has his own sampler pack courtesy of Peet's Coffee. Very cool….
Tiny new 4 megapixel, 5.7x digital zoom camera from Canon : Canon PowerShot SD10. 3.6 x 1.9 x 0.7 in. and 3.5 oz….
Ever wonder what a $100,000 bill looks like?…
Johnny Cash died this morning of heart failure stemming from complications from diabetes….
News.com interviewed Janus Friis about Skype….
Skype is a new P2P telephony and instant message application created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the creators of KaZaa. The IM capability sounds like a good fit so people will be used to logging on and staying connected even when they are not performing the service's primary use. Right now the app is ad-free but how long until it becomes infested like KaZaa?…
Robert Frost : "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence."…
Next week I will be attending an event with Michael Lewis and Billy Beane as part of the Moneyball book tour. The moderator is Roy Eisenhardt, the ex-VP of the A's back in 1985 who almost sold the team to Tampa for $37 million. What would you like me to ask on your behalf?…
I received an e-mail from Evan Williams tonight. "We're no longer offering Blogger Pro as a separate product and we're folding most of the features into regular (free) Blogger." "You will continue to have access to features like RSS and post-via-email that are still not in the free version. You'll also have priority support from our expanded team and new support system" For supporting Pyra I am presented with a Blogger hoodie. Where will new users get their RSS from? You may want to take a look at TypePad….
According to We Want Your Soul, I am worth £14678 and 50% of people have a purer soul than I do….
Chief Scientist Bill Joy is leaving Sun. Bill has been working mainly from Aspen for the past few years, but I have not seen any reporters pick up on his already shifted work schedule….
Open Office 1.1 RC4 is now available….
Today Apple released two new iPods. Press release here. I want one. I keep thinking that I should wait until a Windows version of iTunes ships, or until after the next MacWorld until I place my cash on the table. Last week I attended an event sponsored by Mercedes USA. At the event I got to experience Sirius satellite radio for the first time. I am not inspired to buy a satellite radio unit or a subscription because I feel my money and playlist would be better served by an iPod. I can grab NPR radio shows online and sync…