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MacCentral: Myst IV Revelation hits stores Sept. 28. I've been slacking; I had no idea there's a demo out. [Hack the Planet]

GSM in Mexico / Skype rocks. I took my Treo out of the country for the first time (to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico — about 1500 miles south of SF) and I was really pleased with the performance. My phone immediately picked up the Telcel GSM network and my SnapperMail IMAP client seemed to be… Continue reading GSM in Mexico / Skype rocks

U.S. Open Puts Serve in Server. Sure, the players get all the attention at the U.S. Open championship. But hidden in the depths of the tournament stadium, a team of techies and their servers keep the whole event running. Michael Myser reports from New York. [Wired News]

Ghana Gets a Fab Lab. Fab Labs — facilities built by MIT researchers to provide technology to make just about anything — are springing up worldwide. At the newest one, in Ghana, newcomers were most enthused by the ability to make pink plastic key chains. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

CongratulationsNow to Ohio. Dang, those Ohio people are kicking butt again. Exhibit A: KnowItNow. “KnowItNow is a live online information service provided free of charge for the citizens of Ohio by the State Library of Ohio and your local public library. Professional librarians are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to answer… Continue reading CongratulationsNow to Ohio

Windows Forms team answers “where's the Windows API” question. Joe Stegman just answered Joel Spolsky's famous “How Microsoft Lost the API War” piece with a few neat demos of upcoming technology for building Windows apps — Joe's a lead program manager on the Windows Forms team. “Wait a second Scoble, I thought WinForms was dead,”… Continue reading Windows Forms team answers “where's the Windows API” question

Running on Blackstone. I mentioned this in Europe this week, and as others have blogged it I thought that I should mention it directly myself. My public facing sites (http://www.forta.com http://www.cffaq.com and others) are running on Blackstone, and have been since early alpha days. I did not mention this until now because I wanted to… Continue reading Running on Blackstone

Less. Here: No. 17 is the entire website for the hottest design firm in New York City. That's the whole site. And they're turning away business. Hmmmmm. What would happen if you did better work and less marketing?… [Seth's Blog]

To be influential you need to be authoritative, not religious. JR Conlin writes me a note: “Influencers use weird crap. They use Macs and Linux, Mozilla, and other eminently hackable systems. They don’t generally run Windows and IE.” Problem is, I'm in the business of working with influencers, and I don't find this to be… Continue reading To be influential you need to be authoritative, not religious

Search Engine Basics v.1.0. As a web developer, it's important to know how search engines work. While the details are complex, we'll look into the basics of crawler-based search engines (this involves a certain amount of speculation as the exact calculations are a closely guarded secret). By Lee Underwood. [WebReference News]