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Skype Stats. An update on Skype's P2P voice over IP service, courtesy of Jeff Clavier: * 13M+ users registered * 1M+ simultaneous users reached for the first time a couple of weeks ago * 2,384,686,217 minutes served, as I type this – i.e almost 2.4 billion minutes. Just to put things in perspective: Vonage has… Continue reading Skype Stats

A-Z Indexes for Web Sites: Usage and Implementation. What’s the level of interest among information architects and web developers in implementing A-Z indexes on their sites? Why don’t we see more indexes? I attempted to answer this question in a posting an essay to IA-WIKI Web Site Indexes, although I have not yet received any… Continue reading A-Z Indexes for Web Sites: Usage and Implementation

Disruption Will Come from the Outside. Tonight Dave posted his thoughts on Microsoft's botched search engine rollout: Was there any reason at all for us to come to the briefing? There's no difference between what we said to you four weeks ago and what the public is saying about the product now. We didn't need… Continue reading Dave posted his thoughts

A Thousand Tornadoes Deep. My friends Marc Canter (independent) and Kim Cameron (Microsoft) are exchanging blogs about the benefits and dangers of doing business with Microsoft. Marc contends that people don't want to get locked into standards owned by Microsoft or Sun. Kim wants to look beyond the past and create a “big bang” of… Continue reading Marc Canter

Making movies of software. In the same way that blogging has radically democratized basic web publishing, I expect that Windows Media Encoder — along with counterparts that I hope become broadly accessible on other platforms — will democratize the use of screen videos. The medium needn't be available to professionals only. Lots of folks need… Continue reading Making movies of software

TowerStream Lights Up LA. TowerStream has completed its network launch in Los Angeles and is now looking toward its sixth market, San Francisco, reports Telephony. TowerStream has installed its first point-of-presence in LA on top of the Aon Building downtown, using Aperto and Alvarion gear to sell T-1 equivalents and data links as high as… Continue reading TowerStream Lights Up LA

WordPress Design Sandbox. WordPress Design Sandbox If you want to work on a design for your WordPress blog, here's a static version of the default layout so you can tweak the stylesheet locally. Great idea. [via WeblogToolsCollection] [scriptygoddess]

Tasteful, and effective, yellow page ads for lawyers. If you're a solo practitioner and want to develop an effective Yellow Page advertisement you should hire Ross Fishman.  But not directly.  Just hire his company Red Jackal Ads, which specializes in developing tasteful and effective YP ads that can be licensed for exclusive use in your… Continue reading Tasteful, and effective, yellow page ads for lawyers

Fedora Core 3: The upgrade from FC2. I love Fedora Core. I had some problems with Fedora Core 2, which I mostly documented here, but it's still the happy hacking distro for me. When Fedora Core 3 came out, I surprised myself with how little trepidation I had about upgrading. For the most part my… Continue reading Fedora Core 3: The upgrade from FC2

A 10×10 View of the News. David Krane from Google points to a killer new site called 10×10 that every hour scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. The result is a conclusion about… Continue reading A 10×10 View of the News