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Two articles I’ve been poking through today:
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Economic Analysis of SPAM
Slashdot mentions a paper about applying information theory analysis and economics to the Spam issue. I think the paper raises some pretty good points. I’m most interested in seeing a system like this applied to SMS however. For a long time I’ve been bitching about how the lack of peer... [Read More] -
Venture Capital Term Sheets
A post at Emergic pointed me to an explanation of terms used by venture capitalists when funding a company. I’ve been at lots of startup companies in the past, and been through the funding process, but I’ve never been in on the terms negotiation. From the little bit I do... [Read More] -
Lindows Uses Peer2Peer Distribution
Dan Gillmor has a post about Lindows using P2P distribution networks to get the Lindows Live CDs out to users. As he states in his article, this is a great example of the positive use of these networks. With music and movie companies spreading fear and doubt far and wide,... [Read More] -
Technology Opportunities for Humanity
I’m walking home from a presentation about Technology Opportunities for Humanity, and it was really very good. I was afraid that it would be a whole bunch of talk about charity work and how we as Big Powerful Silicon Valley Residents can help out the poor slobs everywhere else. It... [Read More] -
Bandwidth Reduction
Jon Udell has a post about the two techniques used to reduce bandwidth when downloading feeds. Those examples were pretty cool. I knew there was a header that could be used to check if a site had changed, but I never looked it up before. This is something I should... [Read More] -
Free Software Based PDAs
An article from O’Reilly talks about some open source PDA projects. It does bring up some pretty cool points which I hadn’t previously given all that much thought to, such as being able to move binaries around to different systems. That is a pretty kick ass point if you’re trying... [Read More] -
Open Source Economics
There’s an article at the BBC with some interesting comments in general about open source. There is one section in particular that I think helps to summarize the case for open source in developing countries quite well: [Read More] -
Gordon Bell Speaking in Palo Alto
Gordon Bell is going to be speaking in Palo Alto on Feb 19th at 7PM. The topic seems to be a wonderfully geeky melange of old ideas with new implications and forward looking applications. I’m gonna have to watch Lain a few more times before I go to this one.... [Read More] -
Prepping Vagablog 1.8 for Release
I spent a good part of the day today making some changes to Vagablog in an attempt to make it more usable. The primary change is the addition of the markup menu to allow for easily inserting markup into the document. There are menu items that allow for inserting the... [Read More]