atmaspheric | endeavors

My favorite way to blog into Radio gets better…

new beta: “[A new beta of Archipelago is out. Over 40 changes and fixes including posting without publishing for sites that support this, a rewritten http server, and renamed and organized menus (to hopefully ease the way), and Edit in Archipelago links for one click editing of [...]

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The Overachievers: Pixar’s Animated Growth

Steve Jobs is not a genius, but he has a virtually untarnished track record for seeing around corners, for conceptualizing and capitalizing on market opportunities that just aren’t apparent to others. This has been the case with Pixar Animation Studios.
Source: Forbes.com

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Major financial buyers were quick to spot an opportunity. In 1998, the average price of a screen stood at $700,000. By 2001, however, it had collapsed to $135,000, and several acquisitions were reportedly completed at well under $100,000 a screen. These acquisitions have concentrated assets in just a few hands (Exhibit 2). Anschutz, Apollo Advisors, [...]

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Such spectrum battles are chronic at the FCC. Each of them will give the government a choice: to promote Wi-Fi or to restrain it. Even if the FCC sided with Wi-Fi on all issues of competing use, consumers would still have to reckon with the possibility that the government might protect existing communications services by [...]

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Sendo was a very early supporter of MS SmartPhone, but I guess they found something better, even before their product hit the market.

Handset maker hangs up on Microsoft: “Sendo, one of the earliest hardware partners for Microsoft’s Smartphone software, will instead license the Symbian OS and a Nokia interface.” Source: CNET News.com

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This should be quite hilarious…

Penn and Teller’s debunker hour: “Penn and Teller will be doing a Showtime programme, where they go around and debunk con-men, fake-ass faith-healers, and so on.

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(via Fark)” Source: Boing Boing

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Email Marketing to AOL 8.0 Users: “” Source: Drunk Guerilla - Marketing Out of the Cage

Another looming issue for e-mail marketers is AOL 8.0’s new e-mail sorting feature, consisting of a drop-down menu that sorts mail into four categories:

People I know: Mail from addresses stored in the user’s address book or buddy list, and [...]

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I was pleased to read this morning that both Walt Mossberg in the WSJ and David Pogue in the NYT gave the Tablet PC a luke warm reception.

Seems they both agree that it is an expensive semi-effective novelty that will appeal to some vertical markets and gadget freaks, but comes with a host of [...]

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When Everything Was Spam to ISP: “Legitimate e-mail to EarthLink subscribers was inadvertently blocked by a filter in October, which some observers think could be an indicator of worse things to come. By Michelle Delio.” Source: Wired News

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Should Small Business Go Mac?: “Apple has made it a priority to lure small businesses to the Mac OS platform, reasoning that they will be willing to abandon Windows in favor of a network that is easier to maintain without tremendous IT resources.” Source: osOpinion

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The Onion just kicks ass

That was some cheap move, capturing me in some trap. You didn’t have the guts to come looking for me yourself, ’cause you know you wouldn’t last five minutes in the depths where I live. But you knew exactly what would make me come sniffing around, and you set me up [...]

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While the movie does not get released publically until tomorrow you can catch it right now by clicking here. It stars Don Cheadle, was written and directed by Joe Carnahan and of course features Clive Owen as the driver. The car of choice in this unadvertising featurette is the BMW Z4.

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I really miss AvantGo, but have a love hate relationship with them. For whatever reason they have decided not to support Palm Desktop 4.0 and Mac OS X. According to them, they just can’t figure it out and say they have spoken to both Palm and Apple. This seems like a standard [...]

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I guess techies like the Sopranos: “CyberAtlas: “Comparing profiles of 30 media devices and services … the report found that homes that typically watch HBO have the highest index of home technology. Other networks whose viewing homes have high technology levels are Showtime, MTV, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, VH-1, and TLC. The WB and [...]

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Official Argument Transcripts: “
Only a month after the Eldred argument, the Supreme Court has posted transcripts.

Google also has a list of copies of the HTML version.
” Source: Aaron Swartz

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BIll Gates will be here in NYC tomorrow to help spend some of the $71 Million dollars allocated to Tablet PC marketing…

Silicon Valley’s Dream Tablet, From Microsoft: “Microsoft hopes it has nailed down one of Silicon Valley’s most cherished, if elusive, ideas: a notepad-size computer controlled by a pen.” Source: New York Times: Technology

Studies: Few [...]

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Here in NYC pretty much every store and place to eat delivers. We get our groceries delivered as well, but only after first going to the store. That is starting to change now with the arrival of Fresh Direct from the creators of our terrific, yet uptown (we live downtown which might as well [...]

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Posting Blogs To iDisk: “” Source: MacSlash

I tried this quickly, but with no success… Two posts I quickly tested with have not shown up live though the app seems to state they are published. I guess the previously linked method is still the way to go directly from Radio.

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A switch in smartphone race

Palm and Microsoft have switched roles in their battle to control the handheld market. The former is pushing more expensive models while the latter is pushing less expensive ones. The battle is for control of the cellphone market too. “Both PalmSource and Microsoft believe that sometime in the next few years, [...]

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Qualcomm ships globetrotting phone chip: “The company ships a chip that lets a mobile phone use nearly all of the world’s wireless networks, regardless of the standard they’re based on. Verizon may be a customer.” Source: CNET News.com

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