2007 May

May 18 2007
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T-Mobile Instant Message Scam

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T-Mobile charge 10c for every line of an IM conversation! Its worth checking the small print of your cell phone plan: Amazingly, T-Mobile are charging me 10c every single time I hit return, while using AIM on my Blackberry. They treat each individual line in an IM message as a separate text messag – which seems like a total scam. Can you imagine the outcry if using Instant messenger cost this on a computer? “Instant Messaging Use your existing username and Yahoo! Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger to see who’s available, then chat instantly–just like on your computer. Each instant message sent or received is charged or deducted as a text message. You may also be charged for all the administrative functions such as buddy list updates or signing on and off. ”

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May 16 2007
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In defense of Technorati

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After 911 AltaVista scored some rare Brownie Points against Google, in the press, because Google didn’t have news search, but AV did, via Moreover. Google News was built largely as a result of 911. It proved that Moreover was a news search engine, but it was too late. Our PR company had told us that ‘search is dead’ and without a revenue model for search engines, there was pressure from all sides to make Moreover something else – which resulted in all sorts of convoluted bullshit and meant that Moreover never had decent technology for full-text search. Eppur Si Muove. Technorati is in the same boat, there is probably a great deal of pressure not to call it a blog search engine, and perhaps for a different reason than Moreover – that Google is too difficult to take head on. I may sound arrogant, but I cant help feeling that…

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May 11 2007
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Blogfest Design Competition

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The Apartment has kindly offered Design Blogfest their Crosby Street window for the duration of New York Design Week. We thought it would be fun to show some indie design… are you a designer with a prototype that we could put in the window? If yes, please upload an image from your website or Flickr, a brief description and the keyword “designblogfest” here in Wists. All the entries will be available at wists.com/everyone/designblogfest. The Design Blogfest bloggers will create a shortlist on Monday afternoon after which we’ll ask you the readers to vote on the best design. Yeah, we know, it’s short notice, but then that’s what blogs are all about. 😉 Important dates: – Now, upload an image from your website or Flickr to Wists and tag “designblogfest” – Monday May 14, 12noon EST, deadline for entries via Wists – Tuesday May 15, shortlist of finalists, voting begins –…

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May 08 2007
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RIP Allan Woolley

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Dr. Allan Wooley was my school Chemistry teacher and ‘Form Master’ as they called the teacher that was responsible not just for your academic performance, but your general well being. And he really cared about people’s well being. Making it all the more tragic that he apparently took his own life last week. He was a great and memorable teacher. Nobody can have a more widespread, meaningful and lasting legacy than a great teacher.

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