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Tech Wired Australia - Episode 67 - Ben has wubble with his turds

Ben, Chris & Adam — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:45:56 -0400

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GNC-2008-07-25 #394 Bags are Packed Road Trip

Todd Cochrane — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:27:33 -0400

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Mark Cuban FCC Comments
Jailbreak and Unlock
DRM and Yahoo Music
Odds on Destruction of Earth
Telco Fights Fiber Install
Would Pretty Linux make a difference?
XM and Sirius?
ISP in UK Sell Out!
Study of Big Blogs
Twitter Clowns
Sprint Sells Towers
Refrigeration of Computers
Windows Mojave :)
Solar Sailing in Space
Hang on Outlet
Coward
IE8 to Ship this Year
13 Apps for Blogging on iPhone
STM Journey Bag
Comcast Shuts Winer Down
iPhone 2.1 Firmware
Google Knol
Ballmer raises the Veil
12 Seconds
DNS Attack Code
MPAA Unbelievable

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SDRNews SDR2008-07-25 Packing Out

Andy McCaskey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:49:29 -0400

Malware Begins to Target Macs
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Heading Back

by Andrew McCaskey
We are packing out for the trip back to the Midwest after six weeks more or less camped out at relatives in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

Even this rural area has some surprises. Most notable of which was the growth in wideband availabilty over the past six months. While there were generally all sorts of adventures required to find wifi connections - particularly late at night after the coffee shops had shut down and businesses were closed, this trip things have changed.

First of all, the local cable company (was Adelphia, now Comcast) finally put in real two way broadband, replacing the overpriced RF down, telco line up that had been offered for years. New hardware and few subscribers mean’t lightning speeds for most of the time here.

The most amazing part was Sprint EVDO - which just arrived. Still limited to areas in the proximity of the interstate, it’s still killer when it works.

Good family times and good connectivity so that work can continue has been a good combination. Not much of a vacation, but a good change of pace. Plus, two great podcamps (even though expensive trips to Ohio and Boston) to keep in the swing of things, plus the New Media Expo coming up in just a few weeks.

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SDRNews SDR2008-07-24 DNS Exploit - Test and Patch

Andy McCaskey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:01:21 -0400

DNS Exploits in the Wild
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Quick Change on DNS and WPA

by Andrew McCaskey
Some quick work to check your DNS will pay big rewards. If you are not a OpenDNS user, this is the perfect opportunity to make the move, before this exploit currently making the rounds ends up causing trouble for you.

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CaffiNation 253: Stormy

Paul Rj Muller — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:55:36 -0400

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DigGoogle - What Google Can Gain if They Buy Digg

Jeffrey Powers — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:10:21 -0400

Digg grew to a powerhouse site in a very short time. The Popular News Aggregator service continues to be a great place for people to not only read news, but also contribute to what they think is news. Alexa reports that Digg has been fluctuating around the top 100 to 150 sites being viewed. 52.5% of those viewers are in the US.

The rumor mill is stirring up again that Google has put interest in buying Digg. TechCrunch reports that the “Rumor” is Digg will be selling for $200 million although CEO Jay Adelson denies it. Will this be a good deal for Digg, or can they grow and survive on their own?

Digg started in 2004 by Kevin Rose, Own Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky and Jay Adelson. The idea was to aggregate news items and put popularity to it. People would place a “Digg it” icon on their site in which you could easily send the article to Diggs news feed. If another person liked the site, they would Digg it. Others could just as easily Bury it. Some sites get Dugg so much so quickly, the flooding of viewers takes down the web page. It’s a very powerful medium, and definitely something that Google could use.

There are other sites like this. Fark is one of the oldest in which we talked about in a previous article on Geekazine. Yahoo has their “Buzz”, which is awfully similar to Digg. Reddit, Technorati, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon all have similar popularity systems. However, Digg seems to be more popular in the US. According to Alexa Del.icio.us, for example, actually has a decent popularity in Germany.

Why would Google want Digg?

Two things here. First is the voting system. It’s not only very sound but also comes with a ton of analytical widgets that can spot trends and keywords. Even more, a large number of people actually have the “Digg” widget located on their sites, some of them have multiple widgets just on one page.

Second, it’s the community. Digg has a lot of members that contribute countless numbers of articles. When a new article is submitted, it must first be verified so it’s not a duplicate. After agreeing it’s not and a quick CAPTCHA verification, it gets put into the Queue. Of course that is where the members really shine. They can rise that article up to the top, or drop it like a mobster in Cement shoes off the East River.

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What does Google gain in this?

Like I said, Digg has some cool systems in place to view trends and keywords. Their “Digg Labs” shows statistics as they happen in cool little flash pages. Trends and Keywords are big for marketing. Specializing ads, pitching companies with almost picture perfect statistics - All can give Google a better advantage in the market today.

It also can be great to see in search results. Maybe an “Article Trends” chart could be called up to find out when that information was most popular. It could definitely be put to use in their Webmaster Tools, Adsense and DoubleClick ventures.

What would that mean to Digg?

One of two things. The Digg Staff would either be incorporated into operations at Google - basically be called Google Digg or DigGoogle: or Google would let Digg look like a separate being and cross platform with them. I would guess the latter is going to happen. Sometime full incorporation means job exodus and loss of creativity. Not to mention members jumping ship to other competitors.

On another front of this, Microsoft put in 11.3 Million in a 3 year advertising deal to Digg. If this acquisition happens, this contract could be axed overnight. If that happens, hey Microsoft - we at Geekazine have some ad spots you can purchase for considerably less. Give me a call.

Of course it won’t be the end of the world for Microsoft. Like I said before, there are other sites that are very similar. Digg will always have competition via Yahoo, Reddit, Technorati, Del.icio.us or on any of the other sites.

Bottom line, this merge would be great for both. Kevin Rose and the gang would get a boost for all the work put into Digg and maybe a shiny new title. Google would get a ranking system and analytical tools which in turn would also be bestowed upon the community of webmasters for their sites. It looks like a good Win Win situation for everyone.

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SDRNews SDR2008-07-23 Asus Makes A Linux Move

Andy McCaskey — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:42:37 -0400

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Linux Unanticipated

by Andrew McCaskey
The John Dvorak column in PC magazine might just hold out one of the most significant stories of the decade.

Recently a family dinner brought up the subject of one of the recent XP overnight reboot upgrades that effectively broke every machine in the house. My brother - who’s business depends on the computer for much of the day was once again the unwilling IT technician.

The problem turned out to be that the XP upgrade broke something in Zone Alarm, and there was no clear path other than to continually roll back the system to before the Windows Update.

The vision that an instant on system into Linux, with Firefox available immediately, wifi and apps such as Google and Zoho will insure that he would seldom if ever boot into WIndows would sell him on a system upgrade in a hot second.

As a matter of fact, it would sell me as well, given our direct family experience with Vista and Windows machines in general.

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Episode 43 - 7-23-08

Jeffrey Powers — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:30:00 -0400

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BDOR 126 - Identica go BOOM

Bwana McCall — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:34:42 -0400

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Technology Gazette Episode 48- Kevin Sigliano of Admira.com joins us

Josh Chandler — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:22:34 -0400

Direct Download Link: http://www.technologygazette.com/audio/technologygazette/admirndcominterview.mp3 Digital Signage, not something I was fully aware of really making the impact that is, and when I contacted the guys over at Admirind.com I got very excited about the possibilites this technology has, so powerful especially with how the company is moving the web aspect into the city of Barcelona. Find out more about the company at: http://www.admiran.com