JDJ / Sys-Con Media Forces Podcasts on Web Surfers

March 30th, 2009 Now this was the last thing to happen and it has now. Much to your joy, now date while you study and study while you make friends online.

March 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Despite some initial glowing reviews, Microsoft has been flooded with complaints about its new Internet Explorer 8 and has seen early users downgrade to the previous version, Information Week has reported.The software giant is hoping that its new browser will help stem a steady flight of surfers to rival products, most notably the open-source Firefox browser. According to the latest figures, Firefox now controls 22 percent of the browser market compared to 67 percent for Internet Explorer, which once enjoyed more than 90 percent of the market.

April 8th, 2006 While reading about ecosystems, I found an uncanny similarity with (and gained insight into) software industry ecosystems. Like any other ecosystem, the Software industry ecosystem is in constant flux, with inherent forces that push it toward a stable state that includes niches that are well-defined and sensible with respect to applications.

September 9th, 2005 Some college kid decides to sell each pixel on his home page for 1$ in minimum slots of 10X10 pixels or 100$. He is aiming for 1 million dollars.

May 29th, 2006 I used Mamma Media Solutions as alternative ad with Google AdSense. To summarize my experience: Not worth it.

November 30th, 2005 LifeHacker is a nifty blog in Nick Denton's blogomerate (blog + conglomerate) which provides interesting tips for computer users. So here is my tip for LifeHacker users (and other readers of Gawker Media), LifeHacker style.

August 21st, 2006 I was just visting PodTech.net, Robert Scoble's (ex-human face of Microsoft) new startup. It was founded in 2005 by John Furrier in 2005.

March 30th, 2008 Pete Cashmore of Mashable interviews Robert Scoble. I liked it. Blogging is continuing to gain more traction, despite the naysaying gurus, while traditional media is suffering a rapid decline, at least in USA.

August 13th, 2005 To my delight I realized WordPress 1.5 provides an extremely simple way for Podcasting (sample). Podcasting is seamlessly supported in Wordpress 1.5 and beyond.

June 5th, 2006 O' Reilly initially coined the term Web 2.0 which came to symbolize newer breed of rich web applications - tags, ajax enabled and the works. Now is the time to move even further beyond Web 2.0 as a serious flaw of Web 2.0 has emerged.

October 2nd, 2006 Microsoft Corp. has sued an anonymous computer hacker whose free program FairUse4WM allows users to copy digital movies and songs by bypassing a software protection (DRM) built into the company's Media player.

August 26th, 2006 Forbes editor Michael Noer has a very interesting article, based on scientific studies, why it is a very bad idea to marry career women. Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage.

August 1st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Internet surfers have downloaded the open source Firefox browser more than one billion times, the software's distributor, the Mozilla Foundation, said Friday. The browser is the strongest current rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which once controlled over 90 percent of the browser market but has seen its dominance steadily eroded by Firefox.

August 26th, 2006 FairUse4WM can be used to strip Windows Media DRM 10 and 11 (i.e. PlaysForSure, but not WM DRM 9).

February 13th, 2009 Social media and social networking have become an indispensable part of our lives. There is hardly any web-addict who is not crazy about at least one social media or social networking site.