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Paulo Really Likes Bloglines

October 25th, 2004 · No Comments

Wow, for someone who's business is largely based on Radio and Manila (as far as I know) this is saying a lot of Bloglines: Even now that I'm back I keep going to Bloglines, it's a quite cool service. I made the switch to Bloglines from the Radio aggregator about a year ago.

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Yahoo News Alerts – Useless

October 5th, 2004 · No Comments

I'm not sure when it was but sometime within the last month or so Yahoo changed the format of their news alerts. I have been using them amoung a number of other methods for watching for various keywords in the news and around the web. Unfortunately Yahoo seemed to not only change the format but […]

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Announcing KosmoBlog Version 1.2

September 26th, 2004 · No Comments

Announcing Version 1.2 of the still unofficial KosmoBlog. Here are the key new features in this release: Added “Post Web Page” function. Allows custom static HTML web pages to be inserted in the standard templates and managed within KosmoBlog. Added function to automatically rename photographs when duplicate name is used. This is to facilitate the […]

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Robosapien

September 15th, 2004 · No Comments

I'm curious as to why but not surprised to find out that Mark Tilden is behind this: Mark, the designer of Robosapien, is a robotics physicist who has worked for NASA, DARPA and JPL through Los Alamos National Laboratory. He developed the basics for biomorphic robotics in 1988; Robosapien is the first commercially available robot […]

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Rate My …

September 15th, 2004 · No Comments

Ever since the HotOrNot phenomenon there have been just about every conceivable Rate My this or that site but this one left me speechless this morning. Note: Definitely G-rated (geek) so no worries opening up at the office.

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Clippy Hoax To The Rescue

September 10th, 2004 · No Comments

I like this one: Source: http://wizbangblog.com/archives/003622.php

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Chatango

August 20th, 2004 · No Comments

From Roland Tanglao comes Chatango: Inspired by Joi Ito, I added Chatango. So far so good. Looks to be BlogChat on steroids. Chat with me (if you dare)! If I recall correctly Roland was one of our first 10 BlogChat users. We initially thought of doing BlogChat in Flash but decided to keep it even […]

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Rainbow Six

July 27th, 2004 · No Comments

This post from John Robb reminds me of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. I wonder when life will stop imitating Clancy's fiction?? Brits to form new deep black counter-terrorism unit (The Times).  A dedicated special forces unit is being assembled alongside the SAS and SBS to infiltrate and destroy Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.  The unit, nicknamed the […]

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Non-lethal Weapons

July 22nd, 2004 · No Comments

John Robb follows up on this with this: Nice overview of non-lethal weapons (and terms) by Robert Bunker (PDF).  An amazing variety of equipment and concepts.

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Mediathink White Paper – RSS: The Web's Next Big Thing?

July 20th, 2004 · No Comments

Mediathink has a White Paper on RSS. Everyday RSS is becoming more and more mainstream. Good reason to get yourself a KosmoBlog. RSS is in its infancy–the earliest stage of its adoption–but the velocity and mass of its adoption confirms it to be one of the most important developments in the distribution of media content […]

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