Author Archives: Michael Koby

links for 2008-03-09

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Michael Koby

Download MIX 08 Sessions and Watch Offline collected list of available sessions from MIX 08 (tags: microsoftmix2008)

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links for 2008-03-07

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Michael Koby

HTML URL-encoding Reference (tags: htmlreference html url-encoding) Live from Apple’s iPhone SDK press conference (tags: apple development sdk iphone programming)

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links for 2008-03-06

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Michael Koby

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control Lifehacker tips for organizing cables (tags: cableorganization cablemanagement cables)

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Nine Inch Nails Gets it Right

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Michael Koby

There are many arguments on how to release an album on the internet. Radiohead’s In Rainbows album was a success if you ask them but they have not come forward with the numbers yet. Trent Reznor’s NiggyTardust experiment was a moderate success. The album wasn’t flying off the digital shelves but it did sell an impressive number even when a free download was available. You will find debates everywhere from Digg to Slashdot to NIN.com on the proper way to release an album digitally, over the internet, and directly from the artist. Continue reading →

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How Much? 140 Characters Worth

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Michael Koby

Yesterday, I listened to the latest episode of TWiT (This Week in Tech), episode 134 to be exact. In this episode, the question was asked, is there value in these 140 character message conversations being had on the likes of Twitter, Jaiku, & Pownce? One would think that 140 characters is not a lot of space to say anything in but if you really sit and think about it, you do it everytime you send a text message. Can you same something worth while in a text message? Most of you will answer “Yes” to that question. So it stands to reason that valuable conversations can be had in short, 140 character messages. Continue reading →

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links for 2008-03-02

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Michael Koby

The Matrix Resurrection: Should there ever be a 4th Matrix movie? – The-TrukstoP.com – Greg Davies aka cGt2099 (tags: analysis movies) Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft Communication from the Open Source Community at Microsoft (tags: opensource microsoft)

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