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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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The Final Nail in DRM's Coffin
Today via a Business Week article, Sony announced plans to drop DRM and begin selling DRM-Free, Mp3 tracks in Amazon.com’s Mp3 Download store. This is the signal in the true death of DRM (Digital Rights Management). Sony/BMG records was the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Technology
Tagged consumer rights, Digital Rights (DRM), digital rights management, drm, fair use, Music, sony, warner
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The Final Nail in DRM’s Coffin
Today via a Business Week article, Sony announced plans to drop DRM and begin selling DRM-Free, Mp3 tracks in Amazon.com’s Mp3 Download store. This is the signal in the true death of DRM (Digital Rights Management). Sony/BMG records was the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Technology
Tagged consumer rights, Digital Rights (DRM), digital rights management, drm, fair use, Music, sony, warner
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Spread OpenID Site Launced (Do These Really Help?)
My question is, do the sites really work? I mean Firefox is doing fine true, but that was more due to the full page New York Times ad that SpreadFirefox helped raise money for. So while the website itself brought the community together for the purpose of marketing, is it the website or rather the efforts of those behind the website that are helping the products? I guess one could argue that they are one and the same. However, why create a second website? OpenID already has a pretty nice looking website (OpenID.net). Does it really need a second one to explain the benefits and such of OpenID? Continue reading
Posted in Security, Technology
Tagged firefox, mozilla, OpenID, single login, spread firefox, Web
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Who Owns Your Data? (Scoble/Facebook)
So it calls into question, who exactly owns the data on the social network sites? We all automatically assume that because we put the data there, add the friends, make the connections, install the applications (linking them to their respective site where applicable) that we own that data. After all the data is about us. We input it, why should we not own it? That is where the privacy issues come from. If you don’t own the data on a social networking site, then who does own the data, and what can they legally do with that data? These are some serious issues to concern yourself with. If you do not own that data and the site can do with it whatever it pleases, then you basically have zero privacy when it comes to your data on that particular site. Continue reading
links for 2008-01-03
Devotions at Gospelcom.net (tags: devotions christianity religion resources)
Posted in General
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Online Commitments & Burn Out
The end result was I ended up stopping the regular updates on my blog, cut MySpace mainly out of my life, and even stopped Twittering (even though at the time I wasn’t doing it that much). Derek (the host of the radio show) and I even started making changes to the format of our radio show and even added a new co-host. Things have been looking up recently in the way of my online world. Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Websites
Tagged 43 folders, facebook, getting things done, Google, google reader, GTD, jaiku, lifehacker, myspace, Twitter
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