Month: November 2005

Windows Live: Although not “officially” announced per se. It would appear that Microsoft’s live.com now supports Firefox. When I originally tried the service after it’s launch last week I received a message that it was not compatible with Firefox.

Earlier today I left a comment on Sean Alexander’s blog with regards to a post Sean had written on the 47 new live web gadgets available for live.com. One of the gadgets is a GetFireFox Counter and I asked Sean why they had a Firefox gadget when Live.com didn’t support Firefox. According to a comment back from Sean, he responded, “have you tried Firefox on Live.com since friday? It works for me (but they’re being cautious and saying it doesn’t)”

Earlier this week Robert Scoble had told us that we’d have Firefox support for Live.com “very, very soon.” Looks like it’s here.

I’ve just tested it out a little today in Firefox and so far it seems to be working well. Fun. Time to try out some gadgets.

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Boing Boing: Tell Congress: MPAA isn’t in charge of your living-room tech! Boing Boing is out with a post linking to the EFF regarding House subcommittee hearings going on at present on technology mandates being pushed by the MPAA/RIAA.

“For high-definition television (HDTV), the MPAA demands every receiver must have, and obey, the broadcast flag. For new radio technologies, you’ll be restricted to recording radio shows for a minimum of 30 minutes, for a maximum of 50 hours. And all analog-to-digital video conversions will be forced to watch for, and obey, a concealed copy restriction mark.”

“Let Congress know how preposterous the MPAA and RIAA’s proposals are, and warn them that your technological future depends on their willingness to stand up for your rights by clicking here.”

Major Nelson.com ? Blog Archive ? Popular Science awards Xbox 360 ‘Best of 2005? prize The extender technology represented in the new XBox 360 is one of it’s most compelling features. Hidden inside this supposed game box is a powerful tool to allow you to centralize your television and other media remotely and have these smart units serve it up to you in the room of choice in your home. This is huge. Thanks, Chris!

Tech-Recipes.com – Digg Effect: The Top 10 Things Webmasters Should Know: An analysis of the Digg experience.

Wired News: Grokster Goes Down Snuff one out and two more will pop up in it’s place.

Globetechnology: AJAX helps developers add sparkle to Web pages “Flickr and Google, as well as Amazon.com Inc., are among the first and most prominent website operators using these techniques, but more are joining them, making AJAX one of the hottest acronyms in Web technology right now. This week, for example, Microsoft announced that it will design a whole range of new Web-based products and services around AJAX.

But AJAX didn’t spring up overnight. “You’ve got the basic technological groundwork happening as far back as 1998,” Mr. Garrett says. But early work relied on capabilities unique to Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer Web browser that didn’t work with other browsers. In the past 18 months, support has become more widespread, fuelling the adoption of AJAX.”

Not Your Father’s America: SuprGlu, gather all your content SuprGlu appreas to gather your content from popular webservices and publish them in one place with customizable templates.

Del*teme Uncensored Podcast Deleteme Uncensored is a subculture all it’s own of Flickr. Listen here to their first podcast from Elinesca. Gotta love the long tail. Music courtesy of brendadada. Watch the creation of a podcast happen before your very eyes.

The Long Tail: Mainstream Media Meltdown II More statistics on the way our media consumption is changing. Suffice it to say that attention is moving from books, radio, newspaper, etc. to the internet.