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The Death of the Extender for Windows Media Center As you may have seen on Gizmodo this week, both Linksys and HP have confirmed that they’ve dropped their Extender for Windows Media Center products, and other than a prototype device from Toshiba announced at CES this year, it looks like the category is pretty much dead in the water at this point. Regular readers may remember that my crystal ball pretty much predicted this when I wandered around the show floors at Las Vegas this year. Networked TVs and DLNA support from the CE guys as well as Microsoft in Windows 7 ultimately will provide most of the functionality you need to enjoy music, videos and photos on your TV from your PC or home server without the need for an additional (and historically underpowered) extender device. For the likes of Linksys and especially HP, Extenders were a niche product within a niche category and I guess the volume just wasn’t there (or likely to develop) to make money. For more perspectives, check out GeekTonic and Ian Dixon.
100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1) - You’re the Boss Blog Herewith is a modest list of dos and don’ts for servers at the seafood restaurant I am building. Veteran waiters, moonlighting actresses, libertarians and baristas will no doubt protest some or most of what follows. They will claim it homogenizes them or stifles their true nature. And yet, if 100 different actors play Hamlet, hitting all the same marks, reciting all the same lines, cannot each one bring something unique to that role?
Resources Broadcast TV is dead. Long live TV! Despite declining numbers in broadcast TV viewership, consumption of TV Shows and online video is growing faster than ever before. With every Network and their dog madly rushing to provide a second screen experience via native applications, few compelling cross-platform TV experiences exist on the web. Beyond technical considerations, supporting continuous experiences across channels and devices is a complex and fascinating (mobile) user experience problem. [iframe width="500" height="281" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/inrIvwGys7g? VB versus Java John asks a question that gets me thinking about it. John Pusatera wrote to me with this question, "I am not a professional programmer, but I always wondered how the professional community viewed Visual Basic compared to Java." A “professional developer” has one rule that overrides all the others: “Do what the boss wants done.”
Supports Web Open Font Format Today, Mozilla is excited to join the organizations listed below to endorse the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) specification. We are also implementing this specification in Firefox 3.6 and beyond. The official endoresement and supporting organizations can be found below. Hacks.mozilla.org also has a full post about WOFF implementation for Firefox 3.6 and beyond. We endorse the WOFF specification, with default same-origin loading restrictions, as a Web font format, and expect to license fonts for Web use in this format.
Why Facebook’s Community Pages Could Give Brands a Headache A couple of weeks ago I received a worried call from a friend working in PR for a large company. Her opening question went something like: “What the heck are Community Pages on Facebook, and why is there one for my company?” Community Pages 101 Facebook's Community Pages are an initiative from Facebook to create “the best collection of shared knowledge” on a wide variety topics. Linux in Hollywood The First Linux Movies Conference SidebarsA Sampler of Linux MoviesSome Motion Picture Studios Using PrimarilyLinux A Brief History of Open Source and the Movies For Star Wars: Episode II, Linux made Yoda a lightsaber-wielding action figure. In Lord of the Rings 2, waves ofOrcs attacking the colossal fortress at Helm's Deep are not thousandsof human extras, but digital actors created using Linux. To consumers,Linux may rank third after Windows and Macintosh, but Linux dominatesmotion pictures more than anyone but studio insiders may realize.
San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News » New Voice For The City Welcome to Beyond Chron, the Voice of the Rest. We provide coverage of political and cultural issues often distorted or ignored by the Bay Area's largest newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. Beyond Chron presents a critical look at the cutting edge issues of the day. Presentation on Tweeting the Bible « OpenBible.info Blog Here’s a presentation I just gave at the BibleTech 2010 conference about how people tweet the Bible: Also: PowerPoint, PDF. I distributed the following handout at the presentation, showing the popularity of Bible chapters and verses cited on Twitter.
Documents - Office Live Workspace ProductsTemplatesSupport My accountSign in Collaborate with Office Online Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive. Share them with others and work together at the same time. Get started now, it's free! Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth - Rick Strahl's Web Log The #1 request I got on the CodePaste.net site - which provides a quick and easy way to publish and share code snippets publicly - has been to implement OpenId for authentication rather than the custom username/password login that’s been in use up until now. OpenId is a centralized login/authentication mechanism which handles authentication through one or more centralized OpenId providers. These providers live on the Web and are accessed through a forwarding and callback mechanism – you log in at the provider’s site and are then returned to the original starting Url with an authorized user token that uniquely identifies that user to the original site.
Elected Officials An effort to repeal a tax on insurance companies in the new healthcare reform law is gaining momentum in Congress, fueled by concerns that the fee would hit small businesses particularly hard. The legislation would eliminate a fee on health insurance companies scheduled to take effect when the law goes into full effect next year. The fee, commonly referred to as the health insurance tax (HIT tax), will be calculated based on the plans insurers sell directly to individuals and companies, known as the fully insured market, and excludes plans set up and managed by firms themselves, called the self-insured market. Most large companies self-insure their employees; consequently, experts warn that insurance firms will pass the added costs of collecting the fee to small businesses, which tend to purchase coverage in the fully insured market.
Point: Accelerate innovation by finding an analogous solution from a different industry. Story: Henry Ford’s assembly line is often touted as a breakthrough innovation. What’s less known is that Ford got the idea by seeing the “disassembly line” process of butchering hogs at the Philip Armour meatpacking company in Chicago. Similar techniques were also already being used by Campbell’s to automate canned food production. Adopting ideas from other industries and applying them to your own industry is a powerful and proven source of innovation. Searching for Jesus in the Gospels When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. He comes down from Galilee, meets John, an ascetic desert hermit who lives on locusts and wild honey, and is baptized by him in the River Jordan. If one thing seems nearly certain to the people who read and study the Gospels for a living, it’s that this really happened: John the Baptizer—as some like to call him, to give a better sense of the original Greek’s flat-footed active form—baptized Jesus. They believe it because it seems so unlikely, so at odds with the idea that Jesus always played the star in his own show: why would anyone have said it if it weren’t true? So then, the scholars argue, the author of Mark, whoever he was—the familiar names conventionally attached to each Gospel come later*—added the famous statement of divine favor, descending directly from the heavens as they opened.