Archive for July, 2006

Help Bring Back TechTV

Chris Pirillo is asking for your help to make the TechTV reunion a reality.
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Microsoft Readies Its IPod Killer

Allard’s involvement is seen as significant because he is one of the few executives at Microsoft with experience in launching a consumer electronic device from scratch with the Xbox gaming system. His involvement suggests that gaming might be part of the media player.
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YouTube Is The Fastest Growing Website

The popularity of YouTube is growing at an astronomical rate, as web traffic to the video-sharing site grew 75% just in the week ending July 16.
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WordPress PayPal

This new WordPress PayPal looks like an interesting one to me. It’s one of the first plugins that I’ve seen that costs something - but allows you to make your blog a membership site using Paypal - found via BlogHelper

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The Basics of a Cigar Box Guitar

MAKE magazine presents, building a cigar box guitar. This video eschews a lot of the first steps, but does take you through the parts, and features a little playing example.
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New Yahoo Home Page Goes Live Today

Yahoo’s new home page, which is currently viewable at yahoo.com/preview, will go live at yahoo.com in the U.S. on Monday. The new home page has a significantly different layout than the current look, as well as some AJAX integration, DHTML and more personalization features. Millions of people may have their first interaction with AJAX today.
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World Firefox Day

Are you a fan of Firefox? Want to spread the word to a friend who hasn’t heard of it yet? If you can convince just one person to switch to Firefox before September 15th, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.0’s source code.
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Myspace.com hijack is currently spreading like wildfire

Somebody has managed to hack Myspace with a flash redirect that exploits what is apparently a gaping wide hole in their code. If you are signed into Myspace, and you go to a compromised page, you will be redirected to a blog post containing a diatribe about how the U.S. government is behind 9/11 & [...]