August 6, 2008
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I continue to be amazed that consumers are being held hostage to failed business practices regarding digital products sold on the internet and requiring a connection to “use” your product. If you buy a book, read it and then move … Continue reading
May 15, 2008
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As WiscNet‘s Future Technologies Conference wrapped up late yesterday followed by a staff outing in Madison. Will be posting a lot of content regarding our keynote speakers and Internet2 over the next couple of days and grabbing my flickr feed … Continue reading
May 9, 2008
by donkasprzak
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The huge success of web apps have made me think about the continued use for Microsoft’s Office suite. Back-in-the-day Office was really the only game in town. Today Google’s Apps service had taken the lead in the Web2.0 surge. Apps … Continue reading
April 21, 2008
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I have been beta testing SlideRocket, a new online presentation tool. It has a very Keynote like approach to creating presentations, or should I say is also at the exact opposite end of the PowerPoint scale of slideware. Thanks be … Continue reading
February 15, 2008
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Milwaukee has just been added by Google to their cool interactive Street View component of Google Maps? What a cool technology for the city and organizations to exploit in Google’s popular mapping service. So feel free to email anyone and … Continue reading
January 20, 2008
by donkasprzak
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David Weinberger’s book Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is really amazing. It follows on the footsteps of Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat and Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail. This book presents an interesting look at the … Continue reading
December 12, 2007
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So NBC has been forced to refund advertisers an average of $500,000 each due to low ratings. One hopes they will workout an agreement with iTunes to again sell their TV shows. NPR news article here. At some point someone … Continue reading
December 3, 2007
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Digital Rights Management or DRM, has been a controversial snippet of software embedded into music files for a long time. Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft’s PlaysForSure DRM wrapper or Apple’s FairPlay for iTunes it appears the coming death … Continue reading
September 20, 2007
by donkasprzak
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Well after three weeks of questions regarding where NBC would move its digital television programs after breaking ties with Apple’s iTunes. I blogged about their greed. Well NBC Universal “announced” many popular shows would be available for free download. But … Continue reading
September 19, 2007
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Google has now added to their on-line tools solution to include presentation software very similar to PowerPoint. This compliments their word processing and spreadsheet tools, virtually serving online version of Microsoft Office. And all you need is a Google account. … Continue reading