Top 100 Blogs - Special Feature from PC Magazine

Top 100 Blogs - Special Feature from PC Magazine:

what do you read, what do you watch, what do you listen to???? Here is a best-of list from PC Magazine.

have a great break!
james

"Sure, we chose a few blogs for our Top 100 Undiscovered and Classic Web Sites lists, but we couldn't shake the feeling that something was missing. There were plenty of Web apps and sites, but let's face it, in the past few years, weblogs have become one of (if not the) most dominant aspects in our daily Web-surfing routine. So we set forth on the task of rounding up thePC Magazine staff's favorite blogs. Perhaps surprisingly, the hardest part of the task wasn't finding 100 blogs that our staff members liked, but rather whittling our original choices down to a mere 100. Here are our choices."

Amazon 1, Apple 0

Amazon 1, Apple 0:

this is from the motley fool website...

(a site all about money, money, money)

enjoy james

It didn't take long for NBC Universal to get over its breakup with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL). Just days after Apple announced that it won't carry new NBC shows for the upcoming primetime season, NBC's programs are already springing up on Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN) fledgling Unbox service.

This is a great move from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. NBC accounts for 30% of the television shows sold through Apple's iTunes, including hits The Office, Heroes, and 30 Rock. Apple's loss will clearly be Amazon's gain.

Breaking up isn't so hard to do
This was a quick resolution to a nasty breakup on NBC's part. Things had gotten ugly in a hurry. It all started on Thursday, when NBC announced that it will pull out of Apple's digital video storefront once its contract expires in December.

Let's legalize your mp3s !

Deezer is a website on which you can listen to all the music you want for free, legally.

Deezer is french, it has been founded by the creators of blogmusik.net. Blogmusik.net was illegal, and has been forced to close by rights owners. Now, the conceivers of the extinct site are considered as respectable and responsible people by the musical industry. Their new baby, Deezer, has contracted partnerships with the SACEM, the SPPF (group of independant labels), Sony, and even Free which want to compete Neuf telecom.

The business model is founded on advertising : there are two advertisements on the page, and the profits are dispensed to the artists depending on their success on Deezer.

The player of Deezer is in flash, and it is embedded in the page. As music is diffused by streaming, if you leave the page, music stops. You cannot download anything. Actually, there has been a weakness that enabled people to download mp3s, but now the system is secured.

If you can listen to the music that already belongs to the catalog of Deezer, you can also upload your own music collection, that will be included to the catalog if it matches with the database.

Here is a paradox : you can legally share and listen to illegally acquired music.

Wait and see...

Educators Corner: Entrepreneurship Education Resources

Educators Corner: Entrepreneurship Education Resources:

Interesting tidbits of video that Stanford Technology Ventures Program make available on the web.

I'll enjoy looking at some of these on Thursday.

see you then
james

"Helping Teams Work Together" -- John Doerr KPCB"

"Creativity loves Constraint" -- Marissa Mayer

"The Difference Between Management and Leadership" -- Carly Fiorina Former CEO, HP

Quiz: What are these people talking about? - Overheard in the Blogosphere

Quiz: What are these people talking about? - Overheard in the Blogosphere:

You might enjoy this little quiz... what's the buzz? Can you guess the words that are missing??? We can talk about them Thursday! But many of the missing words are words you already know... Give it a try...

For example...
3. The __________ industry is like women’s clothing, except it’s more fashion-driven.

This is from the IT knowledge Exchange website...

"DIRECTIONS: These are real statements from real people discussing real technology in the blogosphere. I’ve removed one word from each quote. Can you still figure out what they’re talking about? Click on the link to see if you’re right! Then click your back button for another question."

Hatebook

Hi everyone !

Tired of Facebook and other social networks ? Try Hatebook !

Hatebook is anti-social network where you you can connect to the people you hate and insult them.

Enjoy !

Rémi

James' intro presentation

Hello....

several asked if I could post the little presentation I showed you today...
here it is...

have a good week!

james

Presentation Zen: PowerPoint: sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying

Presentation Zen: PowerPoint: sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying:

"PowerPoint: sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying

PowerPoint is a great tool for displaying visuals that enhance, illustrate, and generally magnify your narrative. It’s been used effectively for years by millions of professionals from such disciplines as academia, engineering, medicine, business, education, government (mostly ineffectively in this case), design, technology, and comedy. Comedy?"

Here is one of the examples:

How to Change the World: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

How to Change the World: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint:

Here's the text of the video!

"As a venture capitalist, I have to listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. Most of these pitches are crap: sixty slides about a “patent pending,” “first mover advantage,” “all we have to do is get 1% of the people in China to buy our product” startup. These pitches are so lousy that I’m losing my hearing, there’s a constant ringing in my ear, and every once in while the world starts spinning. Before there is an epidemic of M�ni�re’s in the venture capital community, I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points."

Welcome!

hello and welcome

to all the students who are joining our MMNT English class in the fall of 2007...

If you receive this message by email... you'll notice a link back to the blog at the bottom of the email... If it's a message about a great new site.... (for example Joost that has just gone into public beta!) then you'll get a link to the site mentioned as well as the link back to this blog.

this is a team blog... so it's your blog as soon as you accept your invitations I'll make all of you admins for the blog... (which gives you more control :-) and lets you invite others and also add things to the template of the blog... like really great links....

One of the links is the link to our class "writeboard" wiki... where we keep a running commentary of what's happening in our classes.


A last tip.... add the "BlogThis!" java-applet to your firefox (or IE) menubar... that makes it really simple to add an interesting site to our class blog... I'll show you in class how it works!

Have a great week.... looking forward to your contributions to our blog!

james

Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience - New York Times

Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience - New York Times:

"In November, you’ll be able to buy a new laptop that’s spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It’s fanless, it’s silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading. The laptop has a built-in video camera, microphone, memory-card slot, graphics tablet, game-pad controllers and a screen that rotates into a tablet configuration.

And this laptop will cost $200."



Just think! even cheaper than an iPod.... did you know that you can double-click on a word in the NY Times articles to get the pronunciation and definition... :-) see you soon!