November 2009
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Augmented... →
happy to see the conversation about social media and security evolving.
once you geotag and upload, say, a photo to the Net you can lose ownership over the data and especially its metadata. Second, data on the Net is long-lived and might be put together in ways you wouldn’t like, long after it was created.
Large Hadron Collider Sets World Record | Wired... →
watch out.
Next, the intensity of the beams will be increased for about a week, and then collisions to calibrate the machine will be carried out through December.
The Billion-Year Technology Gap: Could One Exist?... →
Since at this point, there is no direct and/or widely apparent evidence that extraterrestrial life exists, it likely means one of the following:
We are (A) the first intelligent beings ever to become capable of making our presence known, and leaving our planet. At this point, there are no other life forms out there as advanced as us. Or perhaps extraterrestrial life does exists, but for some...
Apple Opens iTunes LP And Extras To Developers -... →
iTunes has opened its iTunes LP and Extras platforms to indie artists, labels and developers with a new set of instructions posted on their web site.
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Police Arrest... →
“Police arrested a senior vice president from Island Def Jam Records, saying he hindered their crowd-control efforts by not cooperating. The crowd at a mall where Justin Bieber was appearing got out of control, and police wanted the man to send a tweet asking for calm; he refused and they arrested him on a felony assault charge ‘for putting people in danger.’”
EETimes.com - Ten emerging technologies to watch... →
LONDON — EE Times has compiled a list of emerging technologies that we think will be worth watching out for in 2010.
Playdar →
Well RJ is back to building interesting new web music stuff and his new thing is called Playdar. And like audioscrobbler, I think this could be a powerful foundational platform technology for the music web.
Son Objects to Moving Camus’s Remains -... →
Camus was totally libertarian. Never did the rejection of totalitarianism lead him to join either the center or the right.”
Book Revew | Googled By Ken Auletta | Google The... →
Is Google, the owner of the world’s favourite search engine, a force for good — or for ill? Is it a friend to the fourth estate, on which democracy depends, or an enemy?
Will EMI end up in the arms of Warner Music?... →
we believe an EMI/Warner merger over the next 12-18 months could position the combined company for steady growth within the next couple of years
Done Deal: MySpace Buys Imeem for Up to $10... →
For the record, the deal theoretically values Imeem at something like $8 million, but most of that comes in the form of accounts receivable and debt obligations, and that isn’t relevant to MySpace, who won’t be dealing with that stuff. And it’s not relevant to investors like Sequoia and Warner Music Group (WMG), who pumped in at least $25 million to venture.
Hulu Steps Into Music With EMI and Norah Jones -... →
All of Ms. Jones’s videos will be posted to the site, as well as footage of four concerts and several interviews. Ms. Jones has a new album, “The Fall,” coming out this week. The plan is to add other EMI artists over time, as well as new Norah Jones material.
The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming... →
There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.
Top 10 Twitter Lists for Tech - Feature -... →
I find this irritating.
Here are 10 of our favorite lists, essential for every techie, covering everything from mobile mavens to social media to top tech bloggers.
Faceboook Restricts iLike App - hypebot →
Now that iLike owned by rival MySpace, Facebook is restricting some features of the iLike app on it pages. The move is bound to be unpopular with the 12 million users that have made iLike the #1 music app on Facebook. Over the last few days Facebook users who had installed the iLike app received this message:
MySpace About To Pick Up iMeem?
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MySpace may follow its acquisition of iLike with streaming music service iMeem to its music roster. TechCrunch, citing multiple unidentified sources, reports that the companies are in late-stage negotiations, price unknown.
Why You Can't Use Personal Technology at the... →
Some forward-thinking companies are already giving employees more freedom to pick mobile phones, computers and applications for work—in some cases, they’re even giving workers allowances to spend on outfitting themselves. The result, they’ve found, is more-productive employees. There’s a reason professional chefs bring their own knives to work, rather than using a dull set of...
testing out iTunes Preview w/ the Monsters of Folk... →
i’d be way happier w/ iTunes Preview if it let me embed the preview stream - come on apple!
Hacker News | Ask HN: how do you avoid burnout and... →
If some one pays you $50k to work for them, give them $50k worth of work. The rest of the time is your time. You can donate it to your employer if you’d like because the work interests you (I’m sure they won’t object), but it probably would be better to use that time to find balance in your personal life.