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Groups for Your Own Social Network
Today we released an update to the social network on Ning and rolled out the first new feature since we launched the social network: Groups.
Kyle whipped up a screencast showing off the new features:
Ning Screencast #2
Gina’s got some more detail on the Ning Blog, and I wrote up a small set [...]
B Movie Gems on Internet Archive
After I had been living in North Fitzroy for a couple of years, the local video rental place created a ‘cult’ section; I’m convinced that they just created a list based on my rental habits and used that to populate the new section.
Internet Archive has a feed of the latest public domain additions to the [...]
77 Ways
A nice list of 77 techniques for improving your ability to learn. Although the idea that we only use 10% of the capacity of our brains has been fully debunked, there are some great finds here, like spreeder, which I used to zoom through the instructions for walking mediation, and a few others that [...]
The Zune Tax
Om Malik has a nice writeup on the news that Microsoft is going to pay Universal Music $1 for each Zune that’s sold, and they’ve extended the offer to the other members of the ‘big music’ cartel. I’m torn between thinking that Microsoft simply caved-in to Universal’s threat to withhold it’s library from the [...]
eMusic cuts monthly downloads by 25%
I’ve been a big fan of eMusic since I signed up with them early this year. They offer indie label music in mp3 format, totally unencumbered by DRM, on a monthly subscription basis; at their current base prices, you get 40 downloads per month for US$10. I’ve recommended them often as alternatives [...]
Television in the age of bittorrent
Television faces a distribution dilemma. After having had technologies like Tivo chip away at the notion that tv programs should be watched on the network’s schedule, the networks are now facing a major disruption to their business model because of sharing technologies like bittorrent. Using a bittorrent client, internet users from around [...]
Flickrfox 1.2
This release features an updated user interface, with icons from Joseph North’s sweetie icon set and other visual improvements. It also adds next/previous paging of search results, group photo pools, and most photo streams. You can grab it from the project page.
Flickrfox 1.1
This release of Flickrfox adds support for Firefox 2.0 and The Firefox 3.0 alpha (minefield). It also fixes a bug relating to api call signing, so all users are encouraged to upgrade. You can grab it from the project page or from the Mozilla Add-ons site.