September 2009
prod4ever (prod4ever) on Twitter →
New Spooky Interactive piece for the band Phish. http://tinyurl.com/yeqwdcu
Thom Yorke has a new band →
In the past couple of weeks i’ve been getting a band together for fun to play the eraser stuff live and the new songs etc.. to see if it could work! here’s a photo.. its me, joey waronker, mauro refosco, flea and nigel godrich.
MySpace Update Syncs Floods Twitter - hypebot →
Since MySpace turned on a new function which automatically syncs updates to Twitter last week, the micro-blogging site has been flooded with additional traffic. MySpace syncs, which show up as a tiny url from lnk.ms, now account for almost 17% of Twitter’s substantial tiny url traffic. (via TechCrunch)
sounds great Chad. Check out State Radio’s...
A Music API That Pays You Money →
The company has agreements with ticket companies to share revenue. Then, whatever share BandsInTown gets, you get half of it. Not bad, compared to your cut of a single song (and better revenue opportunities than you get with most of the other 55 music APIs in our directory).
DARPA Wants Ideas for Cleaning Up Space: Discovery... →
The agency last week issued a request for ideas to clean up orbital debris, a problem that has skyrocketed since China intentionally blew up a defunct satellite as part of a weapons test in 2007 and the orbital collision of two communications spacecraft earlier this year.
Health care: It’s time for technology |... →
One particularly promising class of solutions revolves around personal empowerment — platforms, tools and services that enable individuals to become active participants in their own care. For example, both Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health provide free, secure accounts where patients can organize their health information and easily share it with their doctors and nurses.
TRIZ 40 Principles →
The 40 TRIZ principles are known solutions to solve contradictions (read more).
How would Einstein use e-mail? Letter writers of... →
They adhered to a circadian cycle; they tended to write a number of letters at one sitting, which is more efficient; and when they wrote had more to do with chance and circumstances than a rational approach of writing the most important letter first.
Music piracy costs money; does fighting it cost... →
The major music labels say that they stand to lose £200 million this year in the UK alone thanks to Internet file-sharing. But one of the country’s biggest ISPs is now slinging around some huge numbers of its own, saying it will actually cost ISPs £365 million a year to adopt “three strikes” rules meant to stem piracy.
Slashdot News Story | Google Project 10^100... →
Google has now announced sixteen finalists — each of which was inspired by many individual submissions — and issued a call for votes. The voting deadline is October 8 and the Project 10^100 advisory board will then select up to five ideas to be implemented.”
Garry Kasparov beats Anatoly Karpov in historic... →
The match rekindled memories of the pair’s marathon clash in 1984 which organisers stopped five months in, citing the players’ exhaustion. Mr Kasparov went on to beat Mr Karpov the following year, becoming the world’s youngest world champion at just 22.
Songkick integrates Twitter to go realtime and... →
When a user goes to a show, Songkick automatically pulls in tweets that they write during the concert as realtime, live reviews. The tweets are from actual gig-goers, making this way more valuable than just pulling in generic artist searches. This looks like the first time anyone has done this.
AT&T Activates MMS Functionality for U.S. iPhone... →
Apple has posted a support article outlining the process for activating MMS, which involves updating a carrier settings file on users’ iPhones via iTunes. Users are prompted to connect their iPhone to iTunes and click the “Check for Update” button. Users should update to iPhone OS 3.1 if they have not already done so, and then click the “Update Settings” button on the...
Barack Obama Loves Startups: New Federal Office... →
The U.S. Commerce Department is establishing a new Office for Entrepreneurship and Innovation specifically to help entrepreneurs develop great ideas into workable business plans by giving them training, funding, advisement, access to data, and a big pair of federal-sized scissors for cutting through the red tape of starting a new business.
Working Less Means Working Better, Says Study -... →
The experiment enforced predictable time off to help its subjects get rid of the feeling that they’ve got no truly free time from work—what they called “bad intensity”—taking steps as small as requiring that each consultant got at least one night a week when they wouldn’t be called or pinged on their BlackBerrys after 6pm
edwardboches (edwardboches) on Twitter →
check out the client list at http://prod4ever.com/ Austin may be famous for music, but Boston’s where all the websites get built
Thanks to Pixelpipe, Every Mobile Status Update... →
users can now attach geolocation information to status updates they send from Pixelpipe to over 30 services.
Top 7 Startups That Will Save The World (VIDEO,... →
Save your city in real-time: CitySourced’s mobile application helps people use their cell phones to be the eyes and ears of their local government and make their neighborhoods cleaner, safer, and better.
Most Common Passwords →
My opinion on an Ideal password - Mixed numbers and letters over 8 characters long. Memorize it once, use it forever.
Joe Wilson is Your Pre-Existing Condition →
well executed.
The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could... →
1. JOHN ARQUILLA
Go on the Cyberoffensive - Arquilla calls his plan “a nonlethal way to deter lethal conflict.”
Online Payments Need Shaking Up - Continuations →
If someone were to come along and offer a clean API, with reasonable fees that allowed people to pay via credit card and cell phone (and made it easy to keep a card on file for repeat customers) they could rapidly grab a large share of online payments.
Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this. -... →
This is the type of revolutionary advance that is required to lift productivity and open brand new possibilities to the extent necessary to revive the economy, which is pretty exciting.
Warren Buffet on scheduling meetings - (37signals) →
If someone wants to see him, they are told to call and set up the meeting when they can see him tomorrow. So if you want to meet with him next Friday, you call on Thursday and say “Can I see Mr. Buffet tomorrow?”
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Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won’t Win This... →
a screen shot of the actual rejection notice via the iPhone developers admin with the formal rejection. At that point, Apple will no longer be able to rely on nuances and misdirection. The FCC and everyone else will know that they lied in a government investigation.