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As slashdot reports, AOL just released new terms of service: Now they are allowed to use all of the content anyone is posting or generating with one of their products (e.g. AIM) and reproduce them for their own purposes. Mh, I can´t really understand that a company does this, I mean, what for? Internet users…
I´ve been to a very cool event yesterday evening: tonecentrale in cologne. Only a small v-card under the ringingbell at a small house in the middle of „Ehrenfeld“ hints to this music-evnt. You go through the first house into the cellar, and you find a small room, packed with people and cool djs. The whole…
Buffet´s letters to shareholders from 1977 – 2003.good work 😉
This is really awesome: Take Flickrs tags and tag them, and tag them and tag them…you´l´l get a kind of „neuronal-connection-web“ – which you can describe through a mathematic model. Imagine this for searches, for Amazon,…
Worth to read!
Found an interesting article on PSFK.com around the British BBC, and their problem with free internet TV. Public TV is, as in germany, financed through a fee every TV watcher has to pay (per month/year). The question is if people are willing in the future to pay for a program they could get for free…
We are just having an interesting discussion over at Om Maliks. It all began with his post about Jeremy Allaire, who has just launched a multimedia start-up. (Yes, he was the guy behind Coldfusion, Homesite, etc.). This is getting a little scary, ´cause we´ve done such things about a year ago – sadly we had…
Well, this is one of the finest virals at the moment.
I don´t think this is the final solution to bring broadband internet access to everybody, but it´s an interesting beginning: The CUCWN is an open source wifi network which you can participate in for free – with own internet access either as a node, or with no as an edge. You just net your old…
One of my favourite things I like to do in my sparetime is: cooking. Trying a lot of different receips, mostly crumbling out of my mind after looking into the fridge and finding some things, I like the receips of jamie Oliver very much. Jamie is a quite young english cook, and he is doing…