According to Silicon Beat, BART is going to be running a WiMAX test from July until December.Why just a test!?… If BART gets WiMAX everyone and their mother is going to ditch their car!
Categories: wireless
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- April 20, 2006 – 12:47 am
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It looks like Google has hired an Engineer and purchased a technology (and patent) around a clustering technology named Orion.Google has bought software developed by a graduate student in Australia, Ori Allon, that displays information from Web sites directly without users having to click through to seperate pages. The idea is that it takes too much time to click on a result — because you can click on a page only to find it is not interesting, and then be forced to click back to the main results page, and so on….SiliconBeat thinks this is thumbnailing technology but I disagree:”The results to the query are displayed immediately in the form of expanded text extracts, giving you the relevant information without having to go the website–although you still have that option if you wish,” said Israeli-born Allon, who completed a Bachelor and Masters degree at Monash University in Melbourne before moving to UNSW for his PhD.”By displaying results to other associated key words directly related to your search topic, you gain additional pertinent information that you might not have originally conceived, thus offering an expert search without having an expert’s knowledge.”Take a search such as the American Revolution as an example of how the system works.
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- April 20, 2006 – 12:43 am
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This is hot and might actually make me abandon Google (at least for a little while). I’ll probably report back when I decide if I like it.I should also note that I’m considering licensing Tailrank’s thumbnailing technology to other non-competitive companies that might be interested.
Categories: ask,google
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- April 19, 2006 – 1:04 am
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Check out this cool site which claims to point out the damage that venture capital can do to startups (when they don’t need to raise a round):We are Venture Capital Free…. Our direction is driven by our imagination, our sacrifice, and our passion to achieve.There are a lot of smart VCs out there but generally I see way to many companies taking way too much funding for very weak ideas.
Categories: startups,venture capital
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- April 18, 2006 – 7:28 pm
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I’ve blogged in the past about alternative funding models for startups including my Angel funding via Adsense idea.A few friends have continued to push the idea further (and as an Entrepreneur I love seeing this stuff).Josh Owens contacted me last week noting that Steel Pixel was going to start selling lifetime hosting to raise early funds.
Categories: startups,web2.0
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- April 17, 2006 – 5:00 pm
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If I were an AT&T customer I’d cancel my service right off the bat and probably sell any stock of theirs that I own.The shocking thing is that this happened in San Francisco. Seems time for a protest.AT&T built a secret room in its San Francisco switching station that funnels internet traffic data from AT&T Worldnet dialup customers and traffic from AT&T’s massive internet backbone to the NSA, according to a statement from Klein.
Categories: privacy
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- April 12, 2006 – 7:24 pm
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This is Scobleizer bait if I ever saw it…Niall just announced he’s going to work for Microsoft:Starting next week I will join Microsoft’s Windows Live division to create a new product team around syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom…. I am excited to construct a team and product from scratch focused on scalability and connecting syndication clients and their users wherever they may exist: desktop, mobile, media center, gaming console, widget, gadget, and more.Hopefully this will mean that IE 7.0 will come out of the box with Tailrank as a default feed 
Seriously though.
Categories: microsoft
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- April 11, 2006 – 12:15 am
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Looks like we have a proposed date of June 20 for Barcamp San Francisco…. I feel bad for not jumping on this sooner as I promised Messina that I would try to get something together for April 20 but just became way to busy.
Categories: barcamp,san francisco
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- April 10, 2006 – 8:49 pm
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When I was a boy I spent a lot of time in the water. I grew up near the Chesapeake bay in Maryland and spent a lot of time fishing, crabbing, and swimming.When I was about 10 years old I learned that Hyperventilation could allow me to swim underwater for prolonged periods of time.
Categories: wikipedia
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- April 7, 2006 – 4:37 pm
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I’ll be in the middle of hacking on some deep problem when I’ll notice Emacs starting to slow down. A quick glance at my task bar shows that my CPU is at 100%.Tracking this down shows that Firefox is using all of my processor.
Categories: firefox
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- April 5, 2006 – 2:50 am
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