http://www.bendramoksliai.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:53:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Incidentally, the bill uses the term "phonorecord" to describe an audio recording. I just heard a presentation on IP law from one of my colleagues who's studying the topic right now, and he noted that "phonorecord" is standard language in the U.S. Code, and doesn't necessarily mean LP records. It's ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/09/04/ip-protection-law-would-let-feds-sieze-your-pc/ This type of recommendation engine, which taps into the social graph, is like a Las Vegas slot machine that keeps on giving. Every time you pull the lever you get a bunch of new friend connections, which makes you want to keep pulling the lever until it runs out of ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/08/29/facebook-goes-hyper-viral-with-people-you-may-kno/ Still, I really want to know what "strange activity" caused the service to take down the account. I'll update this article if I find out. But as of Friday morning, his Twitter account (@theatavist) had been suspended for "strange activity." The challenge is an interesting way to draw attention to a recent ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/08/24/twitter-account-suspension-throws-wrench-in-wired/ (Credit: Microsoft) As far as technical requirements, XP Mode needs a beefier system than that required to just run Windows 7 or XP alone, including at least 2GB of memory and a system that has chip-level virtualization from either Intel or AMD. One of the challenges is that today it is ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/08/23/more-on-windows-7s-xp-mode/ As I said, I'm in favor of giving my readers a good way to reach me live, but this tool doesn't cut it, which is why I, too, am showing only a graphic of it and not the thing itself. Google yesterday announced in its Talkabout product blog ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/08/23/google-talk-chatback-so-bad-even-google-doesnt-u/ I like this new Google. It's a company that has the potential to win in a very different way from how Microsoft won the desktop wars: Through open, rather than through closed. Yes, proprietary software will play an active role, but not the only role, as in Microsoft's empire. The ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/08/23/googles-new-open-warfare/ See CNET's iPhone page. Apple's Scott Forstall talks about the iPhone's core operating system. The iPhone SDK will allow developers to have access to the same cool hardware features built into the iPhone that Apple's own developers have, such as the multitouch interface and the iPhone's accelerometer. Apps can ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/08/23/dear-iphone-we-still-love-you-signed-webware/ Adobe has a massive, multi-billion dollar software business, roughly $0.00 of which has traditionally depended on open source. The company is on a tear, blowing out its last few quarters. It makes no sense to develop software in an isolated bubble anymore. Adobe gets this. Other companies are still dragging their ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/08/23/adobe-working-to-increase-its-usage-of-open-sou/ commentary Why is this such cool news? Because OpenAds rocks the online advertising world, shaking up Google's cozy dominance of the industry: Openads lets publishers take control of their advertising, providing simple, powerful and independent tools to schedule, manage and track online campaigns. The software also supports a broad range of ad formats ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/08/23/openads-snags-another-155-million-in-series-b-fu/ Content-delivery network Proximic, which has a unique contextual matching system, now has ads to sell that can help bloggers and others monetize their sites. Proximic, which launched in October, differs from Google AdSense and other keyword-based systems in that it automatically reads and matches relevant content according to "interconnected ... http://www.bendramoksliai.com/2010/08/23/proximic-signs-ad-deals-with-yahoo-shopping-shopp/