Saturday, February 14, 2004

eTech: Scoble asks 'Will Technorati be the next Google?' From [Susan Mernit's Blog: Navigating the Info Jungle] Awesome praise forTechnorati and Dave Sifry's presoat eTech . As dozensof folks point out, Technorati has just launched a keywordsearch capability, published a cool Flash chart (kudos to Kevin Marks) mapping the distributed blogosphere, and added a helpful key to explain results.--in addition, they've redone their infrastructure, adding much-needed --and impressive--speed. 7:46:17 PM    comment []

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Pen And Ink, Microsoft Style "Microsoft, in fact, will send out to beta testers Release Candidate 1 of a new version of Windows for its Tablet PC by the end of March, with an eye toward delivering the finished product by late May or Early June. The new version, tentatively called the Tablet PC Edition 2004, will feature much improved integration between pen and ink capabilities. Company officials said they are working to make the pen a more "natural" experience for users." (Source: Ed Scannell, Infoworld) [Tablet PC Talk News] 7:20:32 PM    comment []

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Blogging On Storage From Deni Conner - Blogging is infectious. Here are a couple of links to storage blogs I've found while trolling the Internet that give you some interesting perspective on the latest issues.[Storage Notes] 6:25:59 PM    comment []

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Using OneNote with the Tablet PC "The Tablet PC was made for OneNote. Well, not really, but if you have a Tablet PC and OneNote, you'll enjoy the best of OneNote and your Tablet PC as you quietly and discretely take handwritten notes at meetings, where a laptop and keyboard can be distracting or difficult to use.When the meeting has ended, OneNote can translate your handwriting into text or search your notes as if they were typed text. [Tablet PC Talk News] 10:18:27 AM    comment []

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Soople Offers Several Different Google Interfaces One cool thing about Google is that they have a very simple interface, which keeps three billion pages from being too intimidating. For quick access to these cool tools - try Soople.  [ResearchBuzz] 10:05:03 AM    comment []

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Microsoft Research Ready with Aura SAN DIEGO—Microsoft Corp.'s Research organization is preparing to publicly release in a few weeks the client application for its Aura research project, a researcher told attendees of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference here. (eWeek) 9:31:42 AM    comment []

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Motorola SPS Renamed "Freescale" Motorola Inc. named its Semiconductor Products Sector "Freescale", in preparation for the unit's spinoff later this year. [eWEEK Technology News] 9:17:05 AM    comment []

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Quantum Consolidates Channel Organizations Quantum this week took the next step in its on-going restructuring by combining its two channel organizations into one.[CRN.com : Breaking News] 9:11:22 AM    comment []

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