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"My general advice: 1. Do slightly less than you think you're capable of 2. Increase your capacity while staying under that bar (#1) 3. You're not going to run the attention fitness equivalent of a marathon today. Start slow." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Filed under: Audio, Web services, Apple Apple has reportedly just purchased Lala, a music service probably best known as a partner in Google's new music search results. Lala offers streaming access to its music library at a rate of 10 cents a track for unlimited replays. Does this mean a cheap streaming option will eventually come to iTunes? Lala doesn't have a huge user base, so perhaps Apple is planning its own streaming music service to compete with the promising new generation of streaming services like Mog All Access and Spotify (which is anticipated to land in the US in 2010). Some sources are saying that Apple is very interested in Lala's payment system, which sells bulk song credits and thus requires fewer credit card transactions than Apple's current system. Lala stores users' music in the cloud, so it wouldn't be a stretch for Apple to use this technology to provide users with streaming access to the songs in their iTunes libraries. Rebuying your library at 10 cents a song... - Jay Niemann

Filed under: Internet, Video It's one of those things that you'd expect all large sites to have, but for some reason or another, Hulu has always had a bit of a gimpy search engine. You kind of typed stuff in... and prayed the site knew what you were looking for. But that's just changed! Just in time too, with the deluge of festive programming that's about to hit their website. Yes, Hulu now has an Advanced Search: rejoice and be merry! I guess an advanced search was never really on the priority list, back when their archive of shows was pretty small. But now with their digital rights expanding every day and the list of available shows becoming impressively large, and streaming media fast becoming the Internet's primary purpose, Hulu's new search tool couldn't come at a better time. Apparently they also have some other neat features lined up for the festive season; we'll be sure to report on anything else that looks interesting! They've dubbed their festival of features 'Hulu for the... - Jay Niemann

OpenShot makes me excited to bail on my crashy Mac PowerBook and pick up an Ubuntu laptop. Now if only I could settle on a decent notebook for video editing... - Joel Zehring

Joel: that is possible, there are so many different cpu chipsets, they can be difficult to keep track of. integrated graphics are getting better, however it seems nvidia and ati still have better support in linux - Mike Chelen

wasnt google chrome the brower that hackers avoided at the last convention because it was the hardest to hack? - Jason Carroll

Most insightful comment on Slashdot pointed out that by having Chrome in a frame you're exposing yourself to IE *and* Chrome exploits simultaneously. Better to run Chrome standalone, then. - Rob Fisher

hahahhahahahhhahahah... hahahahaahaha... haha... ha... ha.... nice one Microsoft - Phil Whelan

This article describes how you can force your Internet Explorer browser to always render all web pages in Google Chrome even if the site doesn't carry any Chrome specific meta tags. How to Force Internet Explorer to Always Use Google Chrome Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal. - Jay Niemann

This article describes how you can force your Internet Explorer browser to always render all web pages in Google Chrome even if the site doesn't carry any Chrome specific meta tags. How to Force Internet Explorer to Always Use Google Chrome Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal. - Jay Niemann

"At the same time there is a small contingent of users who are very active. Specifically, the top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets. On a typical online social network, the top 10% of users account for 30% of all production. To put Twitter in perspective, consider an unlikely analogue - Wikipedia. There, the top 15% of the most prolific editors account for 90% of Wikipedia's edits ii. In other words, the pattern of contributions on Twitter is more concentrated among the few top users than is the case on Wikipedia, even though Wikipedia is clearly not a communications tool. This implies that Twitter's resembles more of a one-way, one-to-many publishing service more than a two-way, peer-to-peer communication network." - Kasper Sorensen from Bookmarklet

Sorry man. Been busy. It's just that your followers shouldn't have to deal with that. It just adds to the noise in their streams. It's just too messy. At least for me. For conversations, you're better off in Friendfeed or Plurk. - RK

Jesse is at http://www.friendfeed.com/jessest... and http://jessestay.socialtoo.com/ - Louis Gray

Don't jump. LOL - Keith - @tsudo

what do you like better about feedly then friendfeed or others? just curious. I'm trying to cut back, not add more tools, great s they might be. i'm exploding! - washwords

Hi Chris: feedly tries to provide a magazine like summary of your google reader. Some users only care about productivity and find the magazine like interface a step backward. Some users like it and use it in concert with their google reader. Some people prefer using the magazine like interface only. - Edwin Khodabakchian

"S3fm is the first 100% Ajax file manager application for Amazon S3. It runs directly in your browser as a standalone Javascript application and loads from and communicates directly with Amazon S3 without having to share your access credentials with a 3rd party Web site." - arnaldostream from Bookmarklet

You know what, it's pretty nice - I just tried it tonight. In the early days I fiddled a bit with a Java app (the name....cockpit something I think - there wasn't much else a few years ago. More recently, Cyberduck (OS X app) did the bare bones OK. I know there's an array of Windows apps, a Firefox plugin and such, but this javascript app is, again, pretty decent. - Micah

1. It's substanceless. It's impossible to say anything of real value within 140 characters. Why do you think so many people are using it to share links instead of their own personal insight? Because no one can make a substantial point using three word sentences! - Brad Williamson

Brad, point #10 is the most relevant in my opinion. Despite illusions to the contrary, our culture has been barreling down the "dumbed down" path for quite some time. I hate to think what the future will hold if we continue this pattern. - John

"YouTube XL, in a nutshell, is YouTube (YouTube reviews) optimized for the TV. It is made to be simple to use and interact with on big screens." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet