Friends, Friends With Benefits and the Benefits of the Local Mall

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Friends With Benefits

Friends With Benefits 08/12/2004 11:21 AM
In the current issue of Wired magazine, a piece I wrote on social swap nets:

Think of them as eBay crossed with Napster, then injected with Friendster DNA. The newest social networking services merge three powerful Web functions - auctioning, file-sharing, and friend-of-a-friend socializing - to build digital barter economies. Unlike first-gen social networks, these communities are about more than getting laid and getting paid. These "social swap nets" help like-minded members pool digital resources - music, movies, games, even hardcover books.

Mediachest and SongBuddy are two early examples. They're still small (and size matters when it comes to a well-stocked "sharing pool"), but their very existence points to a new era in networked transactions, one in which online exchanges become more useful.

Here's how they work: Members browse one another's collections online using filters such as friend groups, geographic location, or other affinities. This isn't file-swapping in the old outlaw Napster sense. They can access one another's stuff, but the original copy literally traded with others, rather than downloaded and duplicated via P2P. Getting hold of the goods is mostly a low tech affair. Members often mail or hand-deliver items.

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Unitime Systems' New Benefits Manager
Automatically Tracks Employee
Paid-Time-Off Benefits

Unitime Systems' New Benefits Manager
Automatically Tracks Employee
Paid-Time-Off Benefits 02/05/2005 10:00 PM
Benefits calculated as part of the company’s daily time and attendance tracking [PRWEB Feb 3, 2005]

"URGENT: WASH POST: Bush admin weighing
changes in Social Security benefits
formula... // 'cutting promised benefits
by nearly a third in the coming
decades'... Developing... "

"URGENT: WASH POST: Bush admin weighing
changes in Social Security benefits
formula... // 'cutting promised benefits
by nearly a third in the coming
decades'... Developing... " 01/04/2005 05:59 PM

URGENT: WASH POST: Bush admin weighing
changes in Social Security benefits
formula... // 'cutting promised benefits
by nearly a third in the coming
decades'... Developing

URGENT: WASH POST: Bush admin weighing
changes in Social Security benefits
formula... // 'cutting promised benefits
by nearly a third in the coming
decades'... Developing 01/04/2005 04:24 AM

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Benefits of Going .NET

Benefits of Going .NET 06/05/2005 11:28 PM
Nice discussion on the pro's of dot net.

More .Mac Benefits

More .Mac Benefits 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Apple has added two more great .Mac benefits for .Mac subscribers. Normally $30, Aladdin's DropStuff is now a free download for .Mac members. This easy to use utility compresses files with drag and drop simplicity. Stuffit Deluxe, Aladdin's full-featured compression utility, is being offered at a special price for .Mac members. Regularly $79.99, Stuffit Deluxe is available for $39.99. More information on both of these benefits can be found at the .Mac website.

Benefits of BCC

Benefits of BCC 05/07/2004 11:50 AM

The benefits of outsourcing

The benefits of outsourcing 06/08/2004 03:20 PM

Mutual benefits

Mutual benefits 04/19/2004 11:12 PM
Computer Weekly Apr 20 2004 3:38AM GMT

The Benefits Of Booze

The Benefits Of Booze 11/03/2003 09:29 PM
Poor, Much-Maligned Alcohol Gets A Good Word: It's quarter to three, there's no one in the place/Except you and me,/So set 'em' up Joe, I got a little story/ I think you should know... And the story is something, if you're a drinker, you probably already know. (I was so surprised by this article I wondered if it was sponsored by the booze industry. But then I mixed myself another drink; read the wonderfully-named, probably Guinness - and poteen-fuelled - Dublin Principles and drank its health anyway!)

confusion and the benefits of WS-I

confusion and the benefits of WS-I 06/22/2004 12:13 PM
the great thing about standards...

.Mac Benefits Confusion

.Mac Benefits Confusion 11/19/2003 08:06 AM
"I looked at that page also, but didn't feel deceived. I felt the page was saying, 'Look what you could have received if you had a .mac account' and [implying] that new subscribers would get equivalent offers in the future." (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

Calif. Law Gives Benefits to Gay Couples
(AP)

Calif. Law Gives Benefits to Gay Couples
(AP) 01/01/2005 04:54 AM
AP - Like many gay couples, Brian Cornell and Alberto Rulloda long ago established a legal framework for their relationship to match their commitment to each other.

Lasting Benefits of the Dot-Com Bubble

Lasting Benefits of the Dot-Com Bubble 03/13/2003 10:24 AM

UCL sees VoIP benefits

UCL sees VoIP benefits 04/07/2005 01:18 PM
Computer Weekly Apr 7 2005 4:21PM GMT

The golden benefits of C'ing your PHP

The golden benefits of C'ing your PHP 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
I've seen some posts in response to my experiments C'ing my PHP code. Some of them have questioned the benefits. Well my experiments are that of a beginner (hint: remember the kiddie emoticons), so you have to take what i say with a grain of salt.

My initial conversion was the most commonly called function in the ADOdb api, MoveNext(). This function is just a wrapper to a database call, so there's not much to tune and a small speedup is only to be expected.

Finding things to tune is like looking for gold. We need to understand a bit about the geology of our code before we can hit paydirt. We are looking for functions which are frequently called, contain a substantial amount of PHP code, but not too complicated that it becomes a pain to port to C, preferably involves a lot of looping, and is unlikely to ever change (it's much less fun to maintain this than maintaining a secret love affair).

Well i just hit a rich seam. There is a function called ADORecordset::GetArray(), which creates a 2D array from a recordset. Now it calls the C function adodb_getall(). I did some global optimizations that are impossible to do in a PHP script, and the speed improvement is about 75%. This function is used to emulate record counting, so it's used in every query against oracle, mssql or any other commercial database.

As i learn more, things could get even faster.

"zeldman.che"

Brits still blind to benefits of Wi-Fi

Brits still blind to benefits of Wi-Fi 08/06/2004 11:44 AM
So much for Intel's Centrino advertising

Offshoring benefits Canada

Offshoring benefits Canada 09/23/2004 01:08 PM
globetechnology.com Sep 23 2004 4:58PM GMT

Weighing the benefits of outsourcing

Weighing the benefits of outsourcing 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
IT leaders now think before rushing into deals with offshore developers

NI benefits fraud revealed

NI benefits fraud revealed 05/21/2004 02:13 AM
Fraud and official errors in pension and benefit payments totalled £53m in NI last year, a report says.

Chocolate May Contain Health Benefits
(AP)

Chocolate May Contain Health Benefits
(AP) 02/10/2004 04:06 PM
AP - Those chocolates that make your Valentine's heart go pitty-pat may also help keep that heart running longer and stronger.

Vendors see benefits from 3G sales

Vendors see benefits from 3G sales 07/22/2004 04:21 AM
Telecoms.com Jul 22 2004 7:30AM GMT

Demonstrating the benefits of broadband

Demonstrating the benefits of broadband 12/10/2003 01:55 PM
Personal Computer World Dec 10 2003 1:08PM ET

Phase III ERP Benefits: The Art of the
Formerly Impossible

Phase III ERP Benefits: The Art of the
Formerly Impossible 04/30/2004 08:35 PM
ZDNet May 1 2004 1:27AM GMT

The Benefits of the Yahoo SERP Changes

The Benefits of the Yahoo SERP Changes 10/22/2002 10:57 PM
On one hand, many who paid for BizEx are still miffed, but there is a growing realization that Yahoo may have ultimately done us a favor.

Benefits of 3G/UMTS for Brazil

Benefits of 3G/UMTS for Brazil 06/28/2004 05:01 AM
3G Jun 28 2004 8:52AM GMT

Net-Friends-1.03

Net-Friends-1.03 01/11/2004 11:40 PM

With Friends Like These...

With Friends Like These... 07/12/2004 05:44 PM
Okay, so maybe it wasn't the proper choice of words, but you would think that somewhere between this Australian man and woman meeting online and then meeting in person where she proceeded to tie him up, ransack his home with another man and steal his property, the two would cease being "pals" as described in the headline of the article. Not that writing headlines isn't a difficult enough job, but this is a pretty typical scam (unfortunately) and has little to do with (as the headline suggests) people robbing their friends.

"Friends"

"Friends" 05/09/2004 09:14 PM

Who Needs Many Friends?

Who Needs Many Friends? 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
I've recently hit a bug in the iChat AV: I've been trying to add a new buddy, and it replied...

I'll get by with a little less from my
friends

I'll get by with a little less from my
friends 11/19/2003 01:36 AM
How does the music industry believe they can improve customer's perception of value? Value added CDs? Na....how about shorter albums! That's the ticket!

Best Friends

Best Friends 05/08/2004 05:00 AM
Social software for the party animal.

Friends of T. Rex?

Friends of T. Rex? 06/14/2004 09:32 PM
Researchers have brought the evolution of the solenodon, a shrewlike insect-eating animal, into sharper focus.

Net::Friends 1.00

Net::Friends 1.00 01/11/2004 07:58 AM
A Perl extension for interacting with a GPSDrive friendsd server.

NBC.com > Friends

NBC.com > Friends 05/07/2004 04:54 AM
The new 'Friends' Theme Song: "...and if you should die, I might feel slightly sad, but I won't cry" - The Smiths .. the world is coming to an end tonight .. appear to be showing tonight .. Season Finale of Friends .. Friends .. Phoebe .. rachel .. Joey

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Net-Friends-1.02

Net-Friends-1.02 01/11/2004 11:41 PM

Fox & Friends

Fox & Friends 07/28/2004 06:40 PM

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Friends in the End

Friends in the End 04/28/2004 02:35 PM
According to this lawsuit, Friends writers frequently pantomime masturbation, express desire for anal sex with Jennifer Aniston, and speculate about Courtney Cox "having dried twigs in her uterus." Now are you sorry it's ending? (04-28)

Friends

Friends 06/11/2004 10:24 PM

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