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is moving toward offering their for any custom domain. No apps yet.

extends 's comments on the embedded// idea.

says So what does this mean for -s and -s? I think it means that Google has selected its second area of and that is collaborative web-based productivity apps (the first being search of course). One path on the .

is also spinning this specifically for the educational-institution market (not really yet). - 

says Last month a court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days... British customs agents search laptops for pornography. () - 

is launching its [Google Doctype] developers' library. It's a - did they use code or something simpler?

Yikes those be(doctype)s(doctype)t(Welcome) some ugly -s. (as you can see, this old code doesn't play well with certain chars.) - 

says a creator/artist (writer, musician, etc.) needs 1000 [TrueFan]-s. A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce... To raise your sales out of the flatline of the you need to connect with your True Fans directly... But the point of this strategy is to say that you don't need a hit to survive... Not every artist is cut out, or willing, to be a nurturer of fans. Many musicians just want to play music, or photographers just want to shoot, or painters paint, and they temperamentally don't want to deal with fans, especially True Fans. For these creatives, they need a mediator, a manager, a handler, an agent, a galleryist - someone to manage their fans. Nonetheless, they can still aim for the same middle destination of 1,000 True Fans. They are just working in a duet. Lots of excellent links. (, )

[David Rothman] and [John Scalzi] are skeptical.

Apr21 update: reprints the detailed story from musician [Robert Rich].

Apr27 update: notes the similar thinking of [Brian Austin Whitney]. He also says that has been seriously looking for a musician who has built a career this way. See the comments for nominations.

Apr31: says Take it from me: If you want to build yourself a Web 2.0 "global ", you're better off having a product that costs a lot of money.

May05: relevant [Mark Kostabi] bits (from 2006): The best new customer is the repeat customer. If someone is a good customer (and in my case it's mostly dealers who buy paintings in quantities of 10 to 100 at a time), I do everything possible to keep that customer coming back... A dealer should not have a stable of artists; an artist should have a stable of dealers... I make genuinely desirable work. I know it's desirable because I constantly ask for , both casually (from my friends and studio visitors) and formally (by conducting official surveys, via e-mail) to find out which are the most successful paintings. And I use that feedback to inform my next brushstroke... Also, I make oil paintings on canvas. I don't mess around selling color photos guaranteed to soon fade, or black-and-white photos that can be instantaneously mass-produced and all have the same surface... I listen to my audience. I don't pander to them but I am in dialogue with them. I can sell a painting with an anti-gun theme to an [NRA] member, or an anti-smoking painting to a devout smoker, not because they agree with my message, but because they understand it. There's . Dialogue sells. - 

The project seems adrift.

I like this [FourP] for -targeted tech: Power (low-use), Performance, Portability (), and Price.

Apr24: interview with departing [Walter Bender].

  • I think it's pretty obvious and was obvious from the very beginning that it's a lot easier to cater to people's comfort than to be . Nicholas had that wonderful quote in [Business Week] about a month ago - that is going to stop acting like a terrorist and start emulating Microsoft. If you read between the lines, the idea is to stop trying to be disruptive and to start trying to make things comfortable for decision-makers. And that's a marketing strategy, and one that I think has been adopted by many laptop manufacturers. Personally, I think that the customer is not always right, and that a role that a non-profit can play is to try to demonstrate better ways of doing things and let the market follow them.

  • When we started to do this, I tried to build the solution based on three very simple principles about what makes us human. Because I knew this had to be something that worked everywhere, with every child. The first of the three things is that everyone is a teacher and a learner. Second, humans by their nature are social beings. Third, humans by their nature are expressive. I decided those would be the pillars of how we design the user experience for the laptop. The other thing is that I was very much influenced by and his constructionist theories, which can be summarized in my mind very efficiently by two aphorism. One is that you learn through doing, so if you want more learning you want more doing. The second is that love is a better master than duty. You want people to engage in things that are authentic to them, things that they love. The first is more addressed by the Sugar technology; the second is more addressed by the culture around freedom.

May15 update:

  • is now officially on board. The pact with Microsoft is not an exclusive agreement. The Linux version will still be available, and the group will encourage outside software developers to create a version of the project's educational software, called Sugar, that will run on Windows.

  • [Ryan Paul] summarizes an essay by [Ivan Krstic] about the project. Very skeptical of . The core mistake of the present Sugar approach is that it couples phenomenally powerful ideas about learning - that it should be shared, collaborative, peer to peer, and open - with the notion that these ideas must come presented in an entirely new graphical paradigm. We reject this coupling as untenable. - 

Some gurus did a panel at the [Churchill Club] to talk about tech trends. Huge amounts of talk, plus , , -s ( vs ), industry. - 

and are collaborating on building [Stack Overflow], a for developers.

Jeff intends to use rather than or a editor. (I think he's going to auto-insert paragraph tags from double-returns, but that's it.) Some commenters note that is supposed to let through. Also note his intended audience is programmers, so he feels comfortable putting a little more work on him. - 

is going after . Mr. Icahn, who recently amassed a stake in Yahoo, nominated 10 members for the Yahoo board, including himself, lieutenant [Keith Meister], Dallas Mavericks owner and former Inc. Chief Executive [Frank J Biondi] Jr. - 

is buying . Blech. - 

It's possible to run on a . Of course, you can't actually talk to anyone! - 

I hadn't heard that ' [NuMenta] group is working with . - 

A steep descent brings Clinton's plane to Charleston's hilltop airport. After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters; in fact, she is waving to 10 photographers underneath the airplane's wing. She pretends to spot an old friend in the crowd, points and gives another wave; in fact, she is waving at an aide she had been talking with on the plane minutes earlier. But the photographers will run their fake photos anyway, won't they? Awesome . - 

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