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Time magazine’s person of the year is you! The online communities that make a change in the world, are truly giving results. YouTube and mySpace are maybe the most known examples. Excerpt from Time.com: “The new Web is a very … Continue reading
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I will be migrating my RSS feeds to FeedBurner during the next few days. Considering the fact that stepheno.net is almost two weeks old, I thought it would be wiser to make the switch before too many more people subscribe. … Continue reading
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And JamGlue actually works surprisingly well. I briefly tried it out, after they publicly launched yesterday (Dec. 15th). This past year I have actually learned some of ProTools. In that sense I’m kind of spoiled, with my first introduction to … Continue reading
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Bruce Schneier at Wired analyzed 34,000 user names and passwords “spoils from a MySpace phishing attack” (This attack?). Schneier concludes that MySpace passwords aren’t so dumb. Less than four percent of the passwords were dictionary words, and the majority were … Continue reading
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Thinking of inventing a hoverboard, like the ones in Back to the Future? Well you might just want to find what technology is out there, and who has patented what. Google now lets you search patents. The United States Patent … Continue reading
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The Netherlands has made the switch from analogue signals to digital signals. According to The Houston Chronicle not many Dutch consumers noticed, due to the fact that the majority of the population have cable. However, now that the signals are … Continue reading
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Do you remember the days, making a column of hundreds of values in your spreadsheet app, that could emulate an x-value. Maybe I just was cheap or didn’t have internet access. Of course it was all right if you had … Continue reading
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An interesting networking shift in professional media-house The New York Times‘ new decision. They are including links, allowing you to post directly to Newsvine, Facebook and Digg. This approach has previously been popular on various blog sites. But that The … Continue reading
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The catch… register and vote for me. After barely playing around with Cheetah3d before, I never really made any progress. So I decided to enter this contest and learn while creating. The deadline was the 8th of December, and the … Continue reading
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At 1207hrs (GMT+1hr) there were 211,011 VLC 0.8.6 downloads, and an average of 3.3 downloads per second. (I had to try three different mirrors, before I got through to one accepting more traffic.) Becoming more and more popular, VideoLan just … Continue reading
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According to one study, the typical person who participates in online communities, i.e. Nancy19, is your future leader. Characterisitics of people who participate in online communities are: *Fast followers *More flexible *Open communicators *Aspire to greatness *Looking for new, innovative … Continue reading
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Semester exams are in progress, and you might be studying, retreating to place of peace and calmness. Noise in general is disturbing and for optimal studying you might even put ear muffles on, to block out disturbing noises. In a … Continue reading