• Website Decoder Ring

    Folks have been asking us about all the weblogs we have running around. Here’s a decoder ring of all the geeks around here: “Geekfishing”:http://Geekfishing.net. Our blog for all the folks at “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com. Maintained by “Rich Tong”:https://richtong.org. The chief geek maintainer of sites. Here are the folks on our Telecom team:…

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  • Perfect Gadgets

    I never thought I’d say it, but perfection is getting pretty close. I got a whole slew of gadgets over the last week even as I suffered though a week in NYC. I’ve never had such a list of highly recommended products before. This is for “Jeff Merriman-Cohen”:http://www.merrimancapital.com/ and “Jon”:http://ignitionpartners.com/about/jon_a.asp…

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  • Connie’s group is finding that there is a vaccine that can help prevent Cervical Cancer. They found a protein that assembles itself into viral-like particles that targets the virus that causes the cancer. Technology News: Health : Good Results on Cervical Cancer Vaccine. A good technical explanation. “MSNBC has Connie…

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  • Learning Chinese

    A funny category, but it is incredibly hard to find PCsoftware to learn Chinese. Here are some links: * Speaking Chinese – Download Speaking Chinese from Education category. This is a $35 shareware package. * “Chinese Software Superstore”:http://chinesesoftware.com. Well it certainly has the right URL.

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  • Seattle Busview

    Busview Project Overview. An amazing application, it takes the real time location information from Seattle Buses, you can launch this Java application and actually see where the buses are and pick them up. Another example of how key technologies like location and then wireless are going to make everything easier.…

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  • Hearst Corporate Site. Had a great meeting with Scott English who I got ot meet at “Alan Patricof’s”:http://apax.com Digital Media conference. We talked quite a bit about the future of audio and video. Some interesting sites to look at are: * “Azureus”:http://azureus.com. An incredibly geeky but powerful client for Bit…

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  • Had a chance to meet with “Martin Puris”:http://ntmnet.com today. He’s a god amongst advertising gods having run Ammirati Puris before selling to Interpublic. You might know the Ultimate Driving Machine or the original Volkswagon ads. Anyway, it was terrific to meet him and have him ask questions about marketing particularly…

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  • Deep Green Crystals: MT 3.1 and IE comment work-around. There’s a pretty terrible bug with IE 6.0 and this blog running MT 3.1. Basically, it doesn’t like the way cookies are being used. In order to fix, either flip to “Firefox”:http://firefox.com or you need to change the IE 6.0 default…

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  • Handtops

    OQO, FlipStart, Sony U50, FlyBook, Tiqit, Antelope. Here’s a new class of device called a handtop. These are smaller than notebooks, but bigger than PDAs. Most run full Windows via a Transmeta chipset. Our buddies at “Azure”:http://azurecap.com have funded “OQO”:http://oqo.com and I’ve ordered one to try it. In looking at…

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  • Tom’s Hardware Guide Motherboards & RAM: NVIDIA Rushes Into PCI Express With nForce4 – SLI To Come!. A good early review of the new nForce4s. It is a tweak of the NForce3 that uses PCI Express for video cards. Actually, given that today’s graphics card don’t even push AGP at…

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