John Battelle’s Searchblog: Tableau: Google for Structured Data? Tableau: Google for Structured Data? Gary points me to this Stanford-originated startup, I’m ashamed to say this is the first I’ve heard of it: Tableau. The company was slashdotted about four hours ago and the site appears to be down. Ah, fame. From the Seattle PI: bq.. Started as a government research…
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Interactive cameras at the RNC
Looks like an interesting experiment: We’re at NYU assembling our interactive cameras and wearable computers for tonights Konscious Convention broadcast. We’ll have four crews in the field, one in Madison Square Garden. Also, three of us from Unmediated will be at Manhattan Neighborhood Networks monitoring the four cameras in the field, and chatting with participants that want to ask convention…
iPodder for Windows!
Gotta love weblogs. I left a sticky note for myself last night to try and figure out how to modify some of the iPodders scripts I’ve seen to grab enclosures from my feeds and dump them into my iTunes library. I don’t have an iPod, but listen to interviews etc with my laptop while on the train. Pieter Overbeeke has…
Jeremy Zawodny: Feed Search vs. Web Search
The current state of “feed search” is messy at best. Joseph Scott does a good job of presenting his impressions on the major feed search engines (where “feed” means RSS/Atom): Say I wanted to track what people are saying about PostgreSQL. This can’t really be done with the traditional search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc) because they base their results on…
Joi the edge case: Conference call surfing
I have my PowerBook on my insTand next to my bed with a clock screen saver alarm clock. Usually, I wake up before my alarm goes off and wake up the computer instead. As soon as my status on my IM clients goes from idle to available, I get a little flurry of requests for contact. “Did you see my…
Guide for deploying XPSP2’s firewall
Saving this for later reference: Microsoft has released a guide for deploying Windows firewall settings for XP with Service Pack 2.
Interview by Halley on ITConversations and thoughts on online stored audio
Dan Bricklin comments on his interview with Halley Suitt and the confluence of several technologies that are giving this form of communication traction: “All this has been possible for a long time, but the confluence of widespread high speed Internet connections, large-capacity portable music players, good search, blogs, and RSS is making this more mainstream. It is also part of…
reBlog issue resolved
I have resolved the issue I had with extra characters appearing in my reBlog posts. The culprit was “magic quotes” and php. I was able to disable magic quotes by adding the following line to my .htaccess file: php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 The folks that produce reBlog sent me the tip. A complete description of the havoc magic quotes causes is…
Investing in RSS: Technorati Gets VC Dollars
Technorati, the blog/news/RSS tracking service, has received it first round of venture funding…about $6.5 million at a valuation of around $12 million for the company. Maybe now the site will start working, for a change… Related: — RSS Analytics Firm FeedBurner Receives 7-Figure Venture Investment — RSS Ad network Receives Seed Funding — NewsGator Receives First Round of Funding —…
Sling Media SlingBox: Television Place Shifting
Forbes has a short write-up about an interesting upcoming product from startup Sling Media, called the “SlingBox Personal Broadcaster.” If it works as advertised, we’ll probably be hearing a lot about it. The idea is simple: hook up the little $200 box to your TiVo or your cable box and connect it to your home internet. Then, when you’re out…