In case you didn’t hear the collective explosions powercharging out of heads around the country, Republican Presidential nominee John McCain picked Alaska governor Sarah Palin for his vice presidential running mate. Since the news broke a little while ago, Wikipedia might as well be on fire, but despite a rapid community editing free for all, her page was prepared fairly far in advance.
(Yawn) Blogger’s Choice Awards Announced
The results of the inaugural Blogger’s Choice Awards are in, and they’re kind of stupid, if I may say so from my high horse, as though the same people picked them that are dumbing down our news, entertainment programming, and well, everything else.
Trillian Astra – Geek’s Choice for IM
Trillian is the geeks choice for IM. It allows you to use a single IM client across various platforms (AIM, Hotmail MSN, Yahoo!, and GTalk – the latter if you have the Pro edition) and have multiple identities for each.
Is IP Your Most Cost Effective Choice?
Too often a business assumes that IP based solutions are the best choice to satisfy their communication requirements.
Logitech Is A Good Choice
I bought a new microphone/headset combo at the weekend – a Logitech USB Headset 250. A good price at PC World with added bonuses: it’s Skype certified, and comes with 60 free SkypeOut minutes plus a month’s free voicemail. Nice additions to my existing Skype account.
Red Hat Choice Academic To Colleges
The company announced a trio of universities would adopt Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network solutions for some of their computing needs.
Rich Conversation May Be Poor Choice
The encouragement to engage visitors in conversations with one’s blog or website could deliver an embarrassment of riches to the publisher – or a rich embarrassment. Few publishers will shun feedback from their site visitors.
Ingres Reborn For Another DB Choice
We touched on several database choices for developers in a recent article, and another one that has been less publicized than most also deserves a look.
Why SimplyHired Was A Good Choice For Fox
The decision by Fox Interactive Media and Foundation Capital to drop $13.5 million into SimplyHired is an interesting one in light of the website’s competition, who boasts more traffic. According to Hitwise, SimplyHired.com brings in only a third of traffic rival job site Indeed.com.
More choice with WordPress widgets
Some interesting moves going on with the free WordPress.com hosted blog service in the area of ease of use in design and layout that adds to its attraction as an alternative to TypePad, the hosted service you pay for.