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This is what I had to say about Orb on Jan 10th: Ok, I must not be getting something here. Why in my life time would I ever pay a monthly service fee to access my own video, photos etc from my own computer??? Just maybe I'd pay for software to do this which is […]

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This Ineen thing looks pretty interesting. Unlike the hyped up Skype these guys actually use SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and other open standards rather than the being proprietary like Shype (I think I'll start calling Skype Shype from now on). Should integrate well with current VoIP providers etc.

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Seems to me Mark Cuban is clued in most of the time. The latest being, he has joined the fight to help Grokster defend their legal battle against MGM's peer-to-peer lawsuit. If anyone can take on MGM it would be the Maverick Mark. This is just the tail end of what he has to say […]

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Interesting use of a computer game in the classroom: Rylands incorporates Myst by projecting the games onto an interactive whiteboard and then sitting amongst his pupils to watch and discuss the content in a shared context. He focuses on developing their creative writing skills using the games to enhance their descriptive language, and to improve […]

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Wow, it wasn't long ago (Feb 1st and 8th, 2005) I wrote about Remote Scripting, Javascript and DHTML with reference to Gmail and Google Maps. In no time this Ajax hype has taken the web by storm. The hype was started by this article posted by Jesse James Garret.  I was just going to point […]

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Not that I'm saying one should follow Mark Cuban's stock picks but I thought it was interesting that he has Tucows as one of his stock picks (Ticker: TCOW.OB). Like Mark says, do your own research. Update: There is a discussion on Joey's blog post about this.

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I'm not entirely sold on VoIP just yet, especially with stuff like this in the news: VoIP's got a problem… though, it might not be the problem you thought it had. It's not the fact that three of the biggest VoIP providers all had massive outages in the past four days. [via TechDirt]

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From TechDirt: This is scary if true, but Slashdot reports that an online marketing firm has paid $164 million for a typo squatting company that owns 100,000 domains chock full of advertising. Not only that, but the vast majority of the deal was in cash. The company in question registers tons of typo domains, generic […]

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From Tyler Hamilton: Rogers Wireless's announcement today that it would roll out Wi-Fi hotspots in Second Cup coffee shops across the country could have been a TSN turning point for the market. Instead, it was a boring replay of past — and unsuccessful — announcements by other companies as far as two years back. This […]

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I've been messing around (and doing a bit of consulting) with the open source PBX Asterisk for a number of months now. Just found a great telemarketer torture script that whirls the telemarketer through a million menu options and sub menu options etc. Just classic stuff. The author doesn't seem to have a link to […]

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