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RipeTV coming fourth quarter 2004 to broadband and VOD for 18-34 year old men….
Ripe Entertainment is introducing a free “on-demand” cable network, called RipeTV, which will have advertising embedded into its shows. It has seven different types of advertising that will not be able to be fast-forwarded through when recorded on a PVR. RipeTV’s CEO, [...]

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Similar to Communicator but enhanced…
The product, called “Fanfare,” is essentially an updated version of Communicator with new features such as media playback, a calendar and spyware protection. Fanfare is similar to Communicator but with more options on the navigation screen. For instance, a user can pull down a panel with Radio@AOL and its video player [...]

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Emergic has launched a business focused Spam Solution…
We have launched Emergic CleanMail, an Internet-based spam filtering and virus scanning service for enterprises. Some key features:
# Triple-level Virus Scanning
# Multi-layered Anti-Spam capabilities stops 90-95% of Spam
# Spam Analysis Engine with auto-updates and auto-learning
# Personal Whitelists and Blacklists allow/block emails from specific IDs/domains
# Real-time Blackhole Lists capture [...]

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Penn and Teller ran an episode of Bullshit dedicated to Baby’s and the products marketed to take advantage of new parents… looks like this certainly fits the bill.
‘Why Cry Analyzer’, which Gadget Madness very aptly describes as a ‘BowLingual for Babies.’ If it sounds like a scam product, don’t worry! According to their [...]

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PVRblog points to an article in the LA Times on how TiVO and DVRs are changing the way Networks have to think about programming. It seems a fair number of DVR users (among other watchers) are no longer interested in watching re-run after re-run and choosing other options like cable or even… no TV [...]

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Adriaan notes a hack for ecto that will paste a link in for the feeling lucky (aka first) hit on Google. nice!
I believe this is the first published hack for ecto. [chaotic intransient prose bursts]

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Maybe it’s just Friday, but I thought this joke was pretty funny. Thanks JD!

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You can now replace anything you have listed in your Update Services prefs in WordPress and just use this - http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ Thank you Ping-O-Matic!
This is killer! Simple and highly functional. Thank you Ping-O-Matic!

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Seven tricks that Web users don’t know is a good piece at IBM in which Carolyn Snyder points out details many developers take for granted based on their level of expertise compared to the average user.

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Scott Richter was profiled not too long ago on The Daily Show as a high volume sender… This should be a good battle.
SpamCop founder Julian Haight and Scott Richter, who reportedly is “one of the world’s most prolific spammers,” have agreed to meet for a public debate next month at the upcoming Email Technology Conference [...]

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Rather than even try to pull highlights from this talk, I’ll just point to it.
Amazing stuff… Be sure to keep the audience in mind — CEOs of major companies. They are not as focused on tech gadgetry and services as some of us, and Bill is able to distill things into [...]

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Comcast is testing it all out it seems…
First Moxi, and now Microsoft. Guess we’ll see what works better in the trials and what people seem to want.
Comcast, the largest U.S. cable TV operator, has agreed to use Microsoft’s set-top software for up to 5 million users, the companies said on Thursday. [...]

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Politics aside… who really cares?
There’s been much said from various mucky-muck tech studs (you can search it out for yourself if you care) talking about the benefits of atom vs rss and why the other sucks, or why one is just so superior.
From a user perspective, I want a feed format [...]

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This seems like a big deal and probably means many more iPod-esque products if not extensions into other areas. It coudl also be foreshadowing of a spun out group ala Filemaker.
Jon Rubinstein, who has led the Cupertino, California-based company’s hardware engineering efforts, will run the new division, an Apple spokesman said.
Timothy Cook, head of [...]

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Today’s BuzzWhack is great for anyone in business…

MEETINGS: Meetings have become so tainted they now go by a number of other names. These definitions from a recent Jared Sandberg column in the Wall Street Journal were so accurate BuzzWhack decided to share them with its readers:
BRIEFINGS — meetings that last longer than intended
SEMINARS — expensive [...]

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As mentioned earlier, I downloaded the demo of Office 2004
So I want to like Entourage…

I like the 3 pane effect, though wish there was a better way to move between things with the keyboard.
IMAP support is funky! I was hoping it would improve, but I am getting strange errors saying wacky stuff about [...]

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Some good reads on Buzz today…
Word-of-mouth marketing and “buzz” are all the rage these days, but how do you effectively foster idea viruses and viral marketing?
More importantly, how do you measure and track its impact? Boston-based BzzAgent has some solid ideas, and services such as the Viral Charts rank the top 10 viral advertising [...]

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It’s amazing to think I am actually excited to try out the new Office suite. Pulling the demo down now…
I am generally impressed with the power and performance of Mac Office 2004, which, like its predecessor, I would say offers many advantages over Office for Windows. [Microsoft Monitor]

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Rogue Amoeba expects to release Audio Hijack Pro 2 this July — it’s a major new version of their audio recording and enhancement utility for Mac OS X. The new version will add the ability to record audio using Dolby Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) and the new Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC)… [MacCentral]

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Activated!
This plugin strips URIs from your comments and uses the Google redirector to prevent comment spammers from taking advantage of your pagerank. Simply turn on or off [Weblog Tools Collection]

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