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I’ve known about Synergy for awhle, but I haven’t had a real need to get it up and running, until recently.
A bit on what synergy is:

synergy: [noun] a mutually advantageous conjunction of distinct elements
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, […]

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It’s looking like Microsoft is shifting directions.
Gates:

We will build our strategies around Internet services and we will provide a broad set of service APIs and use them in all of our key applications.
This coming “services wave” will be very disruptive. We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us – still, the […]

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A lot of well-known applications are now, like BaseCamp, written by just one programmer. And one guy is more than 10x cheaper than ten, because (a) he won’t waste any time in meetings, and (b) since he’s probably a founder, he can pay himself nothing.
Because starting a startup is so cheap, venture capitalists now often […]

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Dave Winer says:

An open message to Microsoft and Yahoo, and major implementors of search engines: Please clone the Google API, without the limits.

www.clonethegoogleapi.com
Sounds like a great idea. Instead of waiting though, why not just make a common interface now? An API cloner that provides the net with a common way to access all […]

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Jeremy notes “One might conclude that the traffic equals money, which is generally true.”
I guess I’d have to agree with that myself given the places I have AdSense plastered about.
Podfeeder takes the lion’s share by far (which also has the most GB/mon bandwidth), followed pretty much in order by newsrecall, and shrinkr
I’d […]

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A San Franciscan talks about getting off the grid….

From January through November of 2004, my system has generated 4,400 kilowatt hours of electricity. During this period, my home has drawn 2,200 kilowatt hours from the public grid (for total consumption of 6,600 kilowatt hours). My system is currently generating roughly 65 to 70% of the […]

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I don’t think people consciously realize this, but one reason downwind jobs like churning out Java for a bank pay so well is precisely that they are downwind. The market price for that kind of work is higher because it gives you fewer options for the future. A job that lets you work on exciting […]

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When Mark crunched the data, a picture of 21st-century office work emerged that was, she says, “far worse than I could ever have imagined.” Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted and whisked off to do something else. What’s more, each 11-minute project was itself fragmented into even shorter […]

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I tend to all but skim /. these days, leaving it to bloglines and their RSS feed to keep me up to date.
Being a closet brain-teaser junkie, I’m always interested when such things pop up. So today /. posted a nice little gem titled ‘Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles?’. Have fun.

“Here’s a […]

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Step 1: Whet their whistles
Step 2: Don’t deliver a complete selection and don’t price it correctly.
Step 3: Help drive Torrent traffic.
Step 4: Wait for the studios to come to their senses and start offering better, more varied pricing schemes.

A fictional roadmap of where Apple could be taking the iPod.
Full story at engadget

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