Hmm quickies #33 |
- Couchsurfing.com thought to be lost forever after a database problem is back with v2.0 thanks to a community and web caches [via Wired]. Have you backed up your favorite database lately?
- Possible Presential candidate elect in 2008, John Edwards, is using Bittorrent.
- Zillow will share its zestimates with Yahoo Real Estate searches. Meanwhile, Yahoo stock is taking a serious pounding (down almost 20% as of this writing) today on the heels of admitting they wouldn’t be updating their ad platform until Q4 2006 [earnings recap transcript here]. Ouch, I lost some money with my YHOO stock today.
- This was destined to be: YouTube being sued over 1992 riots video being posted (copyright infringement)
- Is the Indian government blocking blogspot, Typepad and Geocities? Dina Mehta, an India local, is blogging the details. Reader perspective: this sucks, use a proxy. Webmaster perspective: yet another reason to stay away from third party hosted sites for any long term serious project.
- Morning Sidekick Radio parody of James Blunt “your beautiful” as “my cubicle” [mp3] via thatedeguy.
- a podcast [mp3] with host Xbox Larry Hryb AKA Major Nelson with an interesting interview on HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray. If you want to listen to the technical difference between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray as well as why the Xbox 360 is going to support HD-DVD instead of Blu-Ray. Also, more detailed information about Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday which will be the day that new Live Arcade titles will be released (08:00 GMT). The plan, though nothing official, is to try and make it a weekly gig and if they miss a week we might see a two games in a week release the following. This will be a huge success. It is already. Note, that Windows Media Player users can get an enhanced WMA version of the podcast with automatic URL flips [URL flips automatically change Internet Explorer when Hryb talks about a URL]
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The link on “Couchsurfing.com” above links back to this page.
Comment by Sterling Camden — July 19, 2006 @ 2:57 pm PST
Make that my third mistake of the day, man, today is not a good day at all for my accuracy. Debug day needed! Thanks Sterling, it’s fixed.
Comment by TDavid — July 19, 2006 @ 3:26 pm PST
You’re welcome — you’d do the same for me.
Comment by Sterling Camden — July 19, 2006 @ 3:56 pm PST