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Google Video Search
Have you seen Google's new Video Search? I heard about it the other day, so having just finished this week's episode of 24, I decided to try it out. Pretty cool, but I want video playback, not transcripts. I can see how this would be helpful though. It could be huge for students and research if it could index local newscasts as well. I wonder how they index the video, anyways... voice recognition? Hmm...
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VS2005 Beta 2 Due Late March, RC1 in September
eWeek reports that Beta 2 will NOT be done by VSLive in 2 weeks, and will be delivered with a "Go Live" license in late March/early April. RC1 will more than likely be ready by PDC2005 in Los Angeles this September. More at source.
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'rel="nofollow"' WILL NOT Stop Comment Spam
I've seen a lot of posts in the last 24 hours about Google's new rel="nofollow" attribute on hyperlinks. Both Neowin and Google claim that this method will stop comment spam. I cannot stress enough that this viewpoint is absolutely incorrect. An attribute will not stop comment spammers at all. The only thing that the attribute does is stop the Google indexer from adding google-juice to the link. That's it. The link is still there for the users on the site itself, and if you run a .Text blog, you'll still get bombarded with e-mails every time a new comment is posted.
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MSN Launches New RSS Aggregation Service
Looks to me like MSN is really starting to get the whole RSS thing. They just launched new syndication options for MyMSN. I like how it integrates with my.msn.com, so I can get to my sites without a bulky aggregator. Go check it out.. I'm gonna spend some more time playing with it.
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Click, Whirr... Poof!
My laptop is dead. Long live my laptop. Good thing a brand new Dell Inspiron 8600 is on it's way tomorrow... Now hopefully it's the IDE controller that died on my laptop... and not the hard drive. Otherwise I just lost a week's worth of work.
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Double Standards: Open Source Hits An All Time Low
As I mentioned over on my Open Letter To Microsoft the other day, it seems that many of the "Open Source" people are just "anti-Microsoft" people. If there was any doubt before, just take a look at the Open Source community's reaction to news that Firefox has security flaws. This particular quote was my favorite:
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CES 2005: Gates Keynote Observation
I was watching clips from Bill's keynote... did anyone else notice that hed made a really poor choice in chairs? Compared to the behemoth that is Conan the advent... uh, I mean O'Brien, and the fact that it was so freakin wide... it just made him look really puny. What, does Bill have a big ass? Why did he need such a wide chair? He should have picked a skinnier chair with a shorter back... would have made him look more prominent.