Why Can't I be Normal?
Last year, Justin Zaza shook the literary landscape with his controversial bestselling novel Men are all Murderers and Women are all Whores. This year, he promises to shake it again with "Why Can't I be Normal?" (PRWeb Apr 28, 2007)
What Do You Think: The Interactive Novel
I'm hijacking the blog for my literary endeavors. Without permission. Sunday's New York Times had an article on the unpredictability of the publishing industry: The Greatest Mystery: Making A Bestseller . The jist of the article is that publishers aren't good at guessing in advance what will sell, and the industry has surprisingly little ... (Read on Source)
Hamilton's changing world
So screamed the back-page headlines 12 days ago, after Britain's new Formula One sensation Lewis Hamilton won his second straight Grand Prix on the same day David Beckham finally won some silverware before leaving Real Madrid. (Read on Source)
ERF Wireless Gets New $6 Million WiNet Contract with Iberville Bank
... storage and backup, network access to video cams in their local communities, spam-free email, web hosting, and WiNet hotspots on network located throughout the state for use during emergencies." Burns ...
How to increase your blog readership: participate in carnivals
One very effective technique I’ve used to increase the readership on my blogs is to participate in various carnivals relevant to the topic of each blog. Carnivals are an excellent way of getting exposure in your particular niche. (Read on Source)
Within Discredited Stem Cell Research, a True Scientific First
A Korean scientist who was found to have fabricated much of his work did achieve a scientific first, though not the one he claimed. (Read on Source)
How to Give Your Low-End Canon Digital Camera RAW Support
Linux.com: "If you have a point-and-click digital camera made by Canon, you may be able to turn on all sorts of features usually reserved for more expensive SLRs..."
Pacquiao gets the best of Barrera - Los Angeles Times
 Turkish Press | Pacquiao gets the best of Barrera Los Angeles Times - Jae C. Hong / AP Manny Pacquiao, right, of the Philippines and Marco Antonio Barrera of Mexico trade punches during the second round of their fight Saturday night at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Pacquiao wins rematch with Barrera Pacquiao tops Barrera in rematch |
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Photo Gallery: 25 Most Endangered Primates (Part 2)
 | Sumatran orangutans, Miss Waldron's red colobuses, and Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkeys are among the world's most endangered primates, according to a new report. |
Working with XML using ASP
The need for manipulating XML on the server increases as the need for XML increases.XML and ASP are a very efficient and a powerful combination
Drobo gets networking add-on
Data Robotics today announced the launch of DroboShare, a companion product for its Drobo storage robot that enables users to share files over a Local Area Network. DroboShare allows clients to access...
Highlights from the SEW Blog: March 24-28, 2008
Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week.
Semiautonomous orbs rock Yuri's Night
Project originally designed for Burning Man delights crowd at Bay Area's version of the worldwide celebration of man's first trip into space.
Cybercrooks plant phishing scam on crime reduction website
Home Office pwned Phishing fraudsters hacked a Home Office crime reduction website to host an Italian phishing website on Monday.?
An Alternative Way of Doing Social Networking: Volatile Local Networks
Fact: many small businesses have a website whose return on investment is zero.
I have worked for years developing small web applications for small businesses. Every single one of t...
Is knowing HTML important for Web designers?
I was reading a blog post on Disassociated.com and they said that they've worked with art directors on a design team who don't even know what HTML stands for -...
Mimos, German institute to jointly tackle cybercrime
SHAH ALAM: Mimos has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Ruhr-University Bochum of Germany to conduct joint research into ways to reduce...
Wiggins in top form as GB shine
Defending champion Bradley Wiggins was in brilliant form as all four Great Britain riders qualified for the next round of the individual pursuit. In the men's event, Wiggins set an Olympic record and personal best time of four minutes 15.031 seconds. (Read on Source)
iPhone 3G Launch Dismal Failure in India (a small nation with 1.2 billion people)
Apple launched iPhone in India, a country with only 1.2 billion people and overall not considered rich like their counterparts in USA. In USA Apple launched iPhone for $199 only. Steve Jobbs also promised that it will be similalry priced across all markets. So how did they target a market of 1.2 B with a [...]
Feed Footer WordPress Plugin
BlogClout has released a must-use essential WordPress plugin once again. Feed Footer is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add footers under all your blog posts in your RSS feed. With this nifty plugin, you can: (Read on Source)
Microsoft to Improve Vista's Problematic UAC in Windows 7
In Windows 7 Microsoft plans to improve the user account control (UAC) feature, a new feature it put in Vista that caused...
AMD: DOJ Won't File Charges Over ATI's Strategies
The DOJ has ended an investigation into the pricing and marketing strategies of AMD-owned graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies.
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Can You Really Own The Idea Of Making Your iPhone Look Like Beer?
It's time to raise your glasses in a toast to ridiculous intellectual property lawsuits. Or, if you don't have a tasty beverage on hand, perhaps a virtual one, say, on your iPhone? Well, unfortunately for you, that may be a problem -- as the latest ridiculous lawsuit concerns two competing virtual beer applications, both of which make your iPhone look like the side of a full beer glass, that will "drain" the beer, as you tilt the iPhone. Cute, gimmicky app, right? Except if you're a pissed off developer who seems to think that only one person should be allowed to make such an app. A company called Hottrix that made such an app is suing the beer company Coors for an astounding $12.5 million for offering up a similar app of its own.
Hottrix's app, iPint, cost money, whereas Coors (perhaps implicitly recognizing how infinite goods -- the silly app -- can help sell more scarce goods -- beer) gave its app, iBeer, away for free. The Coors version was more involved, as it also included a "game" where you needed to guide a sliding pint across a bar into some waiting hands. Hottrix's lawyers claim that the idea of such a virtual beer glass is copyrightable -- which seems fairly questionable. Concepts can't be covered by copyright. It needs to be the exact implementation, and as long as the Coors version was different, then it's difficult to see the copyright claim. Hottrix also pulls out the bogus argument that iPint hurt iBeer's sales. That's simply incorrect. It wasn't Coors that hurt Hottrix's sales, it was Hottrix, for having a bad business model. Competition isn't illegal.
But, of course, Apple in its infinite (loop) wisdom, removed the Coors app after Hottrix complained, thus protecting Hottrix from its own business model mistake. And yet, Hottrix still wants $12.5 million from Coors for daring to come up with a similar idea. You have to hope this gets thrown out of court quickly.
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The New Frontier of Marketing - Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
By B.L. Ochman Brilliantly, Seth Godin sent everyone who pre-ordered his new book, Tribes , an advance copy a week ago. He asked us to read it, and then, if we liked it, to give the copy we paid for to someone else to spread the ideas. (I?m going to give my copy away some time in the next couple of days to one of my followers on Twitter , so ... (Read on Source)
Undecided Voters May Already Have Decided, Study Suggests
Do "undecided" voters actually make their choices before they realize? That is a question one psychology professor is trying to answer. "Many people, especially early in the political process, declare themselves as undecided," he said. "But while they have consciously said that they are undecided, they unconsciously may have already made a choice."
Mozilla Cautions Against Experimental Firefox Plug-Ins
Mozilla has advised Firefox customers not to try add-ons classed as "experimental," such as the recently released China Channel, because they could cause computer problems. Firefox add-ons allow users to personalize their browsing and add additional features, and because Firefox is open source, many of these add-ons are thought up by third-party developers.
Memo to Microsoft: Enough With The Bribery (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft is trying to sweeten the deal in its bribery -- er, sorry, promotion -- to get you to use its Live.com search engine. The company has just announced plans to make its Cashback program even more instant. Am I the only one getting tired of this?
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