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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Re: Bing Tries To Buy The News on TechCrunch

In order to actually make a dent in Google’s market share, Bing would have to pay such exorbitant sums to so many different news companies that it would be difficult to recoup its investment. Bing certainly get some marketing buzz out of any such move, but that’s about it.
Here’s a list of links about this:

Microsoft [...]

foursquare is finally available in Lisbon

That was about time! They added Lisbon and a bunch of other cities around the world. I’m finally using the Android application and, so far, I’m enjoying it.
Check out my foursquare profile and friend me!
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Re: More On Cross-Platform Tumbling: Following Is Mostly RSS on /Message

You say:
My sense is that cross-platform following can mostly be achieved by RSS subscription, although following does include a notification aspect. For example, in both Typepad and Tumblr I can expose the list of those that I am following, and those that are following me. Various platforms need only to notify each other of following [...]

Re: Where is RSS? on Scripting News

This is a post to test a communication flow using a feed reader and a blog post as a “distributed twitter”.
Read the original story: Where is RSS? on Scripting News.
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A possible future for Chrome OS

I’m writing this after building Chrome OS from scratch and running it from a USB drive. In fact, what I built and ran wasn’t Chrome OS but instead Chromium OS. There’s a big difference not just in the name. According to Google:
Today we are open-sourcing the [Chrome OS] project as Chromium OS. We are doing [...]