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  • it’s a whole new internet

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    There’s been a lot of excitement brewing these days, it seems… I’ve noticed, and can’t help but feel a little (a lot) excited myself. Janice Fraser of Adaptive Path takes a shot at describing what’s been going on. If you’re not yet amazed, inspired, and a little anxious, you might want to consider it. Then…

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  • Local Number Portability

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    Cellphone providers in Canada have agreed to let consumers keep their numbers. The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association has come to an agreement on number portability that will allow consumers to take their phone numbers with them if they choose to switch providers. They’ll also be able to carry numbers between celular and traditional phone services.…

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  • State of the Mac

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    David Heinemeier Hansson of 37Signals and Ruby on Rails has something to say about your choice of development environment: “I have run all but dry of understanding for programmers that willfully pick Windows as their platform of choice.” Which of course sparked much discussion, anger, shouting, squabbling… Personally, I’m still stuck on Windows for development.…

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  • Edit in place

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    Edit-in-place with CSS and Javascript and some other cool proof-of-concept javascript bits. I like the Edit-in-place stuff that Flickr has implemented and have been thinking this is something I want to explore in my applications, where appropriate.

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  • First Day…

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    So it’s my first day without a job. Well, actually, it’s my second. But Friday was spent running around buying stuff and cleaning for the party in celebration of my freedom from the chains of gainful employment. This is the first day I’ve had to really let it sink in. It feels great so far.…

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  • Gmail storage going up, up, up

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    Since Google launched Gmail last year with it’s 1Gig of storage space, competing services from Yahoo and Microsoft have been scrambling to ramp up storage capacity – in Yahoo’s case from 2Mb to 1 Gig. Now, apparently in an attempt to take the wind out of their competitior’s marketing sails, Gmail is one-upping them again…

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  • Mark Cuban vs. Big Media

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    Wow… Mark Cuban is funding Grokster’s legal battle against MGM: “It wont be a good day when high school entrepreneurs have to get a fairness opinion from a technology oriented law firm to confirm that big music or movie studios wont sue you because they can come up with an angle that makes a judge…

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