Tim Bray has posted a letter that Scott McNeally wrote to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts regarding their ruling on the use of open document formats.
Author Archives: Ron Bieber
Killer Innovations Podcast
Looking around on iTunes this morning for some business podcasts to listen to I came across the Killer Innovations podcast put on by Phil McKinney.
I’ve only listened to a couple of episodes today during the commute, but overall I’m really liking it a lot. The episodes I’ve heard have given some pretty good information on how to build an innovation culture, coming up with financial metrics for innovations, and things like that. I still have quite a ways to go to get through all the episodes, but if your looking for a good business podcast and are being asked to provide new ‘innovation’ by your boss and don’t know where to start, this is it.
Bieber Labs on iTunes
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Look Ma, I’m on iTunes!
My brother commented on the last post congratulating me for being on iTunes. I gotta admit, that’s kind of cool.
Wow, first the PSP, now iTunes. Whats next???
For the record, checking the server logs today I’ve received a whopping four downloads of the first episode that can be attributed to iTunes.
I think that makes an overall total of four. 😉
MacWorld First Look at the iPod Nano
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iTunes 5.0 released.
Apple released iTunes 5.0 on Wednesday. MacWorld has an announcement here.
One thing noticeable right off the bat is the new parental controls tab in the Preferences. You can now disable podcasts, explicit material, the music store, and shared content. 5.0 also offers calendar and contact synchronization if you are using Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.
Unfortunately, I don’t use either, so these last two things don’t help me a bit. As far as the music store goes, it still feels dog slow to me.
Podshow Aquires Podcast Alley
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Adam Curry’s new company Podshow has acquired Podcast Alley, according to this article in Podcasting News. This move comes after the new company raised over 8M in funding.
Is eBay going to buy Skype?
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Average Technology Salaries
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ADTmag.com posts their 2005 Salary Survey for IT workers. Definitely an interesting and enlightening read.
Being Poor Is …
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Being Poor Is … – found this one through kottke.org and really liked it.
You Can Now Change Your From Address in Google Mail
Reading the Google Blog today I found that you can change the from address that gmail uses in your email addresses. This finalizes my complete conversion to Google Mail for all email.
This is a nice feature. All you have to do is verify that you own the email address by entering a verification code sent to you in an email to your specified address. In total, it took less than five minutes. You can find this feature in the Settings -> Accounts screen.
This isn’t new, new. Its about a week old, announced on August 25th. I just got to it.
Bieber Labs 