Sol Young

I’ve been reminded today about how easy life is when we use the right tools. My wife and I were out skiing and watching Spring Mountain’s Big Air Jam. I took pics with an iPhone and Canon SD-1000 and was blasting them straight to Flickr/Twitter. I was also taking video…
At lunch I pulled out the [...]

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Yesterday I asked the question, “Random House DRM-free a hoax?“ The question was based on Cory Doctorow’s post announcing a big move by Random House towards DRM-free MP3 audiobooks. The PDF on his site links to a letter by Madeline McIntosh detailing the move to Random House’s partners.
Since my post both Cory and Madeline have confirmed the validity of the [...]

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Dave Winer has been asking in Twitter for a way to incorporate specific twitters/tweets in to his blog over at scripting.com. My suggestion is to use the starred items feature (Favorites) on Twitter.
I too would like to integrate Twitter more selectively in to my blog. Twitter’s API, under “Favorite Methods” allows you to set specific [...]

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While it seems many are rejoicing over the supposed announcement of Random House going DRM-free, it also seems this could be hoax. BoingBoing, care of Cory Doctorow, brought the story to light. But something doesn’t smell right…
Don’t get me wrong - this would be groundbreaking and very fast for an industry that doesn’t usually take [...]

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Philip Greenspun, a CompSci professor at MIT, wrote a nice post. Something most twenty and thirty somethings don’t want to hear, but should anyway…
http://philip.greenspun.com/business/internet-software-patents
Actually, I feel challenged to prove him wrong.

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I’ve finally made the leap away from being a directory-o-holic and landed in iPhoto from iLife 08. It does the organization automatically (”Browse Package Contents” in Finder.)
is working well as a good photo stream and album holder (using the Sets feature.) It works as a free backup service too ($25 per year for photo [...]

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My favorite mobile blogging device is now listed on eBay. The HTC Universal has a usable keyboard, beautiful touch screen, plenty of horsepower, 3G, Wi-Fi, BlueTooth, dual-cameras etc.
It met its demise in the outer pocket of a WWDC07 laptop bag (yes, my bag, d’oh!)… Cracking the screen and becoming unusable. I don’t feel like doing a screen replacement. It’s now [...]

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