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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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Tag It! What’s Up With All the Tagging?
So if you are any kind of a web efficinaficionadoado than you probably have some of the following accounts: Myspace, Digg, Del.icio.us, Last.FM, maybe even Bloglines, or Rojo, and don’t forget about iTunes. You probably also have a decent mp3 … Continue reading
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Tag It! What's Up With All the Tagging?
So if you are any kind of a web efficinaficionadoado than you probably have some of the following accounts: Myspace, Digg, Del.icio.us, Last.FM, maybe even Bloglines, or Rojo, and don’t forget about iTunes. You probably also have a decent mp3 … Continue reading
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Is Digg the New Slashdot (or Even Fark)?
It seems as we drive furiously closer to web 2.0 being the new black, there are going to be some casualties in it’s wake. And as social news sites rise in popularity, news websites today as we know them could … Continue reading
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Getting Hung Up on the Apple-Microsoft War
I just read this post by David Pogue. It’s about the Apple-Microsoft war for market share of their respective operating systems. The thing I liked about this article was that it wasn’t about why one was better than the other, … Continue reading
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Linux Taking Over Mac OSX as the “It Just Works” OS
There have been several reports recently in the blog community about long time Mac users switching to PCs running Ubuntu Linux Desktop. Most notably here and here. What does this say to the Mac community that’s usually so “ours is … Continue reading
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Podcasts Versus Netcasts
To start things off, I need to point you (the reader) to this article so that you have some understanding (assuming of course you don’t already) of what I’m talking about today. Leo Laporte, also known as the leader of … Continue reading →