In: General
28 Feb 2009Anybody can setup a blog and be publisher; anybody can upload videos to Youtube and have a TV channel; any body can create music and distribute it to the whole world, but being “that easy” is what makes it hard. Easy to do, equals low barriers of entry, with that comes low barriers of exit. [...]
The question I have been asking myself is “where are the software companies, whose cracked software can be found on the p2p networks?”. Software companies figure out long ago, that they can fight these phenomenon. Slowly, they had changed, now big companies offer basic free versions of their products, understanding that $$$ is “Business to [...]
Yes, the title may sound sensationalist however that is the strategy of the defense. The strategy apparently named as the “King Kong defense” consists on arguing that The Pirate Bay doesn’t initiate the transfer, the users do. The sites [TPB] administrators are unable to identify the users because they can register with any name i.e. [...]
Day two of the TBP is on the books and the big news of the day: 50% of the charges where dropped. Although that may a headline, there is more substance on the sidelines. For example, the comments on twitter are hilarious, smart and interesting. Unfortunately I didn’t flag them or save them, however if [...]
Some will call it “the political trial of the decade” or a “show… or an spectacle”, however at the end of the day (and many to come) is a battle of interests. In one corner the plaintiffs: 20th Century Fox, EMI, MGM, Colombia Pictures, Warner Bros, Sony BMG and Universal. On the other The Pirate [...]
In: Life Hacks| Web
12 Feb 2009Once you have made your video in Animoto, you might want to post it in your blog. If you have Wordpress and already wrote the post, and want to include it, the process is not that smooth as it should. Generally I write and then look for the media to include, or included until the [...]
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The image above shows how most software projects are executed or done. The swing is something we can related to and is simple to understand, however it is easy to get wrong, if we don’t communicate well.
Doesn’t matter if a portal, software for a customer or in house solution, most [...]
Userfly is a service that permits site owners, record the sessions of their visitors. All you need to put a script in your website and viola. Its a pretty cool and useful tool, because you see how your visitors “behave” in the website, as well what works and what doesn’t.
When you sign up they give [...]
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