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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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People Down on Pownce
Yesterday, TechCrunch posted a note about micro-blogging website, Pownce releasing an updated API to programmers this coming Friday. The comments seem to be swayed towards most people disliking Pownce. People saying things like "Let it die" and "I can do … Continue reading
Why Adobe AIR is Important
On Monday, Adobe announced the official 1.0 release of their Adobe Integrated Runtime (also known as AIR) to the public. The runtime, which has been in beta for while now, has become a platform for some popular internet applications like … Continue reading
FOAF & Social Networking
This works great for connecting yourself to others you know and communicate with via the internet. If you have a lot of friends that you connect to via your web blog, there is almost no better way to connect everyone than by using FOAF. However, this only focuses on the who and how of your social network. What about the problem of where you are social? Continue reading
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Tagged foaf, opml, social networks
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Windows Live Blogger
I have tried a lot of blog editing software. There is a lot of great free software available for Windows bloggers out there. Some highlights include BlogDesk and w.Blogger. This weekend however, I installed Windows Live Writer on a whim. … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, free software, Software
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Digital Movie Downloads Will NOT Kill Blu-Ray
With last week’s death march for HD-DVD, many have been saying that Blu-Ray’s victory will be short lived. The reason for this is because several people seem to believe that digital movie downloads will kill physical media, including (but not limited to Blu-Ray). This clam, while extremely plausible in the next 5 years, is ludicrous from the “anytime soon” standpoint. Digital movie downloads are not endangering Blu-Ray for two simple reasons. Continue reading
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How Much? 140 Characters Worth
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 →