Satellite Now Serving Starbucks

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Starbucks Delocator URL now points to
anti-Starbucks site

Starbucks Delocator URL now points to
anti-Starbucks site 04/06/2005 02:05 AM
Cory Doctorow: Regarding yesterday's post on Starbucks Delocator, a site that shows alternatives to Starbucks, which has been scared off of using "Starbucks" in its name, Donna sez, "Blogger Scott Trudeau has registered StarbucksDelocator.com and StarbucksLocator.com and pointed them to the Starbucks Delocator site. Seems a noncommerical, noninfringing use of a trademark-referencing domain name to me -- and I'll wager the Ninth Circuit would agree." (Thanks, Donna!)

Anti-Starbucks site doesn't use
"Starbucks" in name

Anti-Starbucks site doesn't use
"Starbucks" in name 04/05/2005 02:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: NPR sez, "'The Delocator' is a site that helps you find independent alternatives to Starbucks in your neighborhood. So why isn't it called the 'Starbucks Delocator'? Because the San Francisco Art Institute was too scared that Starbucks would come through with the corporate smack-down. Of course this renaming means the site won't show up in google when people search for 'Starbucks', and what's the point if people can't discover it? Carrie McLaren is out to change that: she's launched a google campaign to get people to link to it by its real name, the Starbucks Delocator. Take that chilling effects. Now, get your link on!" Starbucks Delocator Link (Thanks, NPR and Stay Free Daily!)

Did Starbucks Tell An Art Project About
Starbucks Not To Use Its Name?

Did Starbucks Tell An Art Project About
Starbucks Not To Use Its Name? 04/04/2005 11:34 PM
This one seems odd, and there's not enough evidence here to know how true the story is (or what the details behind it are). However, Copyfight has noticed a b log post about an online "art project" to show a comparison of the locations of local coffee shops with local Starbucks. The idea, of course, is to encourage people to go to the non-Starbuckian shops (though, in its current format, with very few independent coffee shops included, it seems to serve the opposite purpose, by just showing you where the Starbucks are, and leaving you thinking there's no competition). However, what caught the attention of the Copyfighter in question was the comments to that blog post, where someone asks why the offering, called Delocator.net doesn't appear to actually mention Starbucks anywhere. Someone apparently involved with the project responds that they were not allowed to use the name Starbucks anywhere, as Starbucks' lawyers would not allow it. This brings up the obvious question: why should Starbucks' lawyers have a say in such things? The only claim they could make is a violation of trademark, and if the site is clearly not associated with Starbucks (and the fact that they're pushing people to go elsewhere might give you a hint that they're not associated with Starbucks), then it's not a violation of trademark. Instead, it looks like Starbucks is yet another company trying to use trademark law outside of its intended purpose of avoiding confusion over brands, but more towards anti-competitive practices. Will they go after another coffee shop that compares their coffee to Starbucks' next? Of course, thanks to this policy, hopefully the Delocator site will get additional publicity -- proving, once again, that the Streisand effect works. The more you try to shut something down, the more likely it will spread via the internet.

Boing Boing: Anti-Starbucks site doesn't
use "Starbucks" in name

Boing Boing: Anti-Starbucks site doesn't
use "Starbucks" in name 04/06/2005 05:02 AM
Anti-Starbucks site doesn't use "Starbucks" in name

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Search Engine Optimization, Inc. Opens
New Los Angeles Office to Focus on
Serving the Entertainment Industry and
Other Local Companies. Search Engine
Optimization, Inc. (SEO, Inc.) today
announced the opening of a satellite
office in Los Angeles to serve the
entertainment industry and other local
companies, large or small, seeking
heightened visibility and a high ROI on
the Internet.

Search Engine Optimization, Inc. Opens
New Los Angeles Office to Focus on
Serving the Entertainment Industry and
Other Local Companies. Search Engine
Optimization, Inc. (SEO, Inc.) today
announced the opening of a satellite
office in Los Angeles to serve the
entertainment industry and other local
companies, large or small, seeking
heightened visibility and a high ROI on
the Internet. 08/04/2004 02:36 AM
Search Engine Optimization, Inc. (SEO, Inc.) today announced the opening of a satellite office in Los Angeles to serve the entertainment industry and other local companies, large or small, seeking heightened visibility and a high ROI on the Internet. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]

Garage Storage Cabinets by SLIDE-LOK
Opens its Washington State Dealer
Network Welcoming Garage Solutions,
Serving the City of Seattle, Washington
and Storage Organizing Solutions Serving
Bellevue, Shoreline, Washington and the
Surrounding Area – Become a Professional
Garage Storage Dealer as SLIDE-LOK
Continues Seeking Applications from the
United States and Canada

Garage Storage Cabinets by SLIDE-LOK
Opens its Washington State Dealer
Network Welcoming Garage Solutions,
Serving the City of Seattle, Washington
and Storage Organizing Solutions Serving
Bellevue, Shoreline, Washington and the
Surrounding Area – Become a Professional
Garage Storage Dealer as SLIDE-LOK
Continues Seeking Applications from the
United States and Canada 06/22/2004 02:47 AM
SLIDE-LOK Garage Storage Cabinets Opens its Washington State Dealer Network Welcoming Garage Solutions serving Seattle, and Storage Organizing Solutions serving Bellevue, Shoreline, Washington, and the surrounding area – Become a Professional Garage Storage Dealer as SLIDE-LOK Continues Seeking Applications from the United States and Canada. SLIDE-LOK Dealers include Storage, and Organizing Solution Providers that Focus on Cabinetry, Carpentry, Closets, Flooring, Furniture, Home Security as well as the Home, the Office, and the Garage. Garage and Storage Professionals in these fields are encouraged to apply to join the fastest growing dealer network in the US - SLIDE-LOK – The Original Name In Garage Storage Cabinets. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]

Serving XML 0.1.0

Serving XML 0.1.0 09/21/2004 04:36 AM
A conversion tool for adapting content to XML.

Serving XML

Serving XML 12/16/2003 11:07 PM
Serving XML 0.0.2 Released

Serving Our Kind

Serving Our Kind 08/11/2004 05:32 PM
Get thee now to K-Mart! Stumbled upon a shelf full the exclusive Cantina Scenes (set 1) this morning at my local L.A. area K-Mart. There appears to be four per case, as that's how many were on the shelf, and some slight color differences compared to the cancelled Wal-Mart sets. All in all a cool looking set that I'm sure many fans will appreciate finally being made available at retail. Happy hunting!

Serving up the world on the Web

Serving up the world on the Web 01/27/2003 04:33 AM
Erik Benson has created a site that features the most popular books mentioned on Internet Weblogs along with news items about each book derived from the Google ...

Serving Up Applebee's

Serving Up Applebee's 04/29/2004 09:14 AM
Applebee's is still growing but don't get stung.

"Starbucks Everywhere"

"Starbucks Everywhere" 07/10/2004 03:20 AM

Starbucks on the Fly

Starbucks on the Fly 05/14/2004 12:26 AM
Starbucks' chairman lets loose with The Motley Fool's "Buy, Sell, or Hold" game.

I'm at Starbucks, because

I'm at Starbucks, because 03/20/2003 07:46 PM
I'm at Starbucks, because it's the only wireless network I could find nearby. They're playing obnoxious 50's pop music. I used to like 50's pop music, but now I find it obnoxious. At least at the moment. Perhaps it's just not conducive to working.

Web Serving -- P2P Style -- With BadBlue

Web Serving -- P2P Style -- With BadBlue 12/30/2003 07:45 PM
Internet.com Dec 30 2003 7:18PM ET

Web Serving Made Easy

Web Serving Made Easy 01/27/2004 01:17 AM
In the last two weeks, Brian has brought us two Friday Freeloaders, Server Style and Server Encore. In order to keep with this theme, we're bringing back the largest Power User Monday article ever. That's right, we're going back in time to "Web Serving Made Easy". Go forth and learn:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

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Now Serving Number One Billion, Please!

Now Serving Number One Billion, Please! 07/13/2004 11:48 PM
Much like the wielder of the golden arches, Microsoft will be reaching their one-billionth Windows PC by 2010. If that doesn’t blow your mind, just try to guess which country is the biggest contributor to that number? ;o)

Serving up the smaller business

Serving up the smaller business 02/17/2004 11:43 AM
Internet Works Feb 17 2004 3:39PM GMT

FC Now: Serve, Server, Serving

FC Now: Serve, Server, Serving 09/11/2004 05:11 AM
Beneath Arthur Ashe Stadium, sealed under soaring concrete stands and guarded by a small army of US Open personnel, Kathleen McGraw is guiding me through...

Start Serving Google Ads

Start Serving Google Ads 09/10/2004 11:27 AM

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Serving Bagle with spam

Serving Bagle with spam 07/16/2004 08:15 AM
ZDNet Jul 16 2004 12:07PM GMT

Serving Large PDF Files

Serving Large PDF Files 04/06/2005 03:22 PM

If you have large PDF files at your site, you might want to read this Microsoft technote explaining how IE handles content types associated with [Netscape] plug-ins (i.e. Acrobat) and programmer-level workaround Mat t Raible.  I suspect IE's weird triple request was to support some misbehaving yet popular plugins.

I am not sure if popular web servers like Apache and IIS comes with built-in filters to address this problem.  If not, then this opens up another golden shareware moment.

Serving XML 0.2.0 (Default branch)

Serving XML 0.2.0 (Default branch) 04/11/2005 03:52 AM
Serving XML provides a pipeline language for declaratively adapting content to XML, transforming it through a chain of XSLT stylesheets and SAX filters, and producing a stream of output to a local or remote destination. The accompanying console app supports reading content as XML files, flat files, SQL queries, or SAX events, and writing it as XML, HTML, PDF, or mail attachments. This software is especially suitable for converting flat files to XML, with its support for variant record types, multi-valued fields, namespaces, hierarchical grouping of records, row-by-row validation with XML Schema, and much more. There is also an API for embedding the software in a Java application.

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Changes:
This release added features for date conversion, regular expression search and replace, and more general record-to-XML mappings.

Serving Up on Windows: PHP and Web
Services

Serving Up on Windows: PHP and Web
Services 09/03/2002 11:37 AM

Serving Your Users in their Offices

Serving Your Users in their Offices 06/22/2005 02:19 AM

There’s a lot of “places” where your library could shift to meet your users in their space. Here’s another one from the brilliant mind of John Wohlers, he of the library FireFox search extension.

Microsoft® Office 2003 Research Pane

“The Todd library now offers the ability to search our library catalog directly from within most Microsoft Office 2003 applications. To activate this new feature you will need to install our Research Service….

To use the service you will need to access the research pane in a Microsoft Office 2003 application. First select the ‘Task Pane’ option from the ‘View’ menu. Once the task pane is displayed you will need to switch to the Research pane by selecting the drop-down at the top of the task pane. After you have switched to the Research pane you will need to select ‘Todd Library: Online Catalog’ from the drop-down box located below the search box. You may now perform keyword searches of the Todd Library Online catalog any time from your Office 2003 Application.”

Emphasis above is mine because that’s what I’m talking about! I even mentioned this exact type of product at last year’s Illinois Library Association conference as the type of web service libraries need to be moving towards. And maybe we can all move there a little faster, because John noted the following in an email to me:

“This service will ONLY work on windows computers with Microsoft Office 2003 installed.  There does not seem to be a comparable feature in the Macintosh office suite.
 
Once I do more a little more clean up (yes I'm a messy coder...) I will most likely make the source code available to the world via a project on source forge.  It is my hope that in doing so others will be able to contribute to this project and make it something the library world as a whole can be proud of.”

Suh-weet! Now if I just had a copy of Office 2003 so I could see this in action for myself….  ;-)

"Starbucks Delocator"

"Starbucks Delocator" 04/06/2005 08:58 PM

Zombies at Starbucks

Zombies at Starbucks 04/28/2004 12:14 AM

This particularly ghoulish scene from the movie Security Scenarios from Hell has three actors: WiFi, Zombies, and Spyware.

Perils of WiFi are well known and well publicized (i.e. Wireles s Networks are in Big Trouble, a classic Wired from 2001).  If you are a geek, here is a more technical version of the same from Secur ity-Forums.com.  While the perils were preached before their subjects have, WiFi is now commonly available which means those perils are now common as well.

Zombies are also well publicized.  Typically, they are poorly protected servers or home PCs with broadbands which are hijacked by hackers, supposedly even traded like Yu-Ki-Oh cards in the hacker community, and used to increase scalability to their attacks and to reduce likelyness of capture.

Spyware is software running on desktops that monitors user activities and report back to it's master.  Most of them are just privacy violators, some are used for more sinister purpose and are called trojans.  Earthlink recently claimed that PCs had, on the average, 28 spyware installed.  While I think the claim is over-hype d to fit their agenda, spyware is nonetheless common place and it's not difficult to place one on anyone's compure.  If your PC is more than six months old, chances are that there were plenty of opportunities for hackers to seed it with spyware.

So here is the scene: imagine a new class of spyware that monitors wireless network packets using code from these open source wiretapping tools.  AirSnort and one of the ARP poisoning packages should be enough.  Now imagine this spyware being delivered to laptops with WiFi cards that supports features AirSnort needs.  The laptop just became a new kind of zombie, which I call wireless zombie, that only wakes up when the WiFi card is used.

All that is missing from the scene is the stage: a WiFi hotspot like Starbucks.  The laptop owner sits in a corner and access the Net through the WiFi, it could even be someone like me writing this very blog post.  The spyware wakes up and starts monitoring the wireless traffic looking for passwords and credit card numbers.  If very strong encryption is used, wireless zombies can form a global grid and split up the work of cracking encryption keys.  Once a month, the zombies reports back to their master via USENET posts.

This Zombies at Starbucks scenario is particularly nasty because the potential number of compromises is just staggering.  Maybe the FCC will have to dictate higher level of standards and send out a warning that helps WiFi users detect wireless zombies by the unusual fan activities triggered by the zombie grid working overtime.

No "Mayday" at Starbucks

No "Mayday" at Starbucks 05/27/2004 12:23 PM
If you are waiting for signs of distress at the coffee purveyor, don't hold your breath.

Programming in Starbucks

Programming in Starbucks 06/17/2005 04:55 PM

We got over the hump, it was a bit of a panic at first, but I had made a change on the server at 5AM yesterday and didn't test it properly, and when the 25 new users showed up early on the evening of the 16th, well, that's the condition that failed. And my Internet access at home has been really flaky during the day, so it was down when we hit the problem, so I had to quickly drive to Starbucks to get online.

The good news is that I am actually able to get work done this way, so when I it the road again on July 1, I will be able to continue to move forward on this software, by programming in hotel rooms, Starbucks, public libraries, etc. Internet access is really starting to get ubiquitous.

Starbucks Gossip

Starbucks Gossip 08/18/2004 10:40 AM
Jim Romenesko is running a Starbucks gossip weblog .. gossip site dedicated to my coffee place

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"Starbucks Gossip"

"Starbucks Gossip" 08/19/2004 02:32 AM

FC Now: Turkish Starbucks

FC Now: Turkish Starbucks 08/23/2004 02:18 PM
Starbucks is thinking outside the cup -- and on other continents. Starbucks Coffee has opened two shops in Ankara, Turkey, making the total number of...

Falling Starbucks?

Falling Starbucks? 09/02/2004 12:06 PM
Will Starbucks junkies sweat a price hike?

Starbucks: Still Shakin'

Starbucks: Still Shakin' 01/22/2004 11:34 AM
Are coffee breaks at Starbucks the new national pastime?

Starbucks Logos 1.0

Starbucks Logos 1.0 08/05/2004 07:32 PM
A set of 20 icons of the Starbucks logos.

Slimming Down at Starbucks

Slimming Down at Starbucks 06/29/2004 03:33 PM
The coffee purveyor is the latest to play into the fitness trend.

Bananas: The Next Starbucks

Bananas: The Next Starbucks 07/12/2004 10:57 AM
Chiquita is trying to innovate and drive profits higher.

No Stopping Starbucks

No Stopping Starbucks 07/22/2004 11:10 AM
The appetite for Starbucks shows no sign of abating.

Starbucks, Watered Down

Starbucks, Watered Down 04/12/2005 01:24 PM
There's nothing surprising about Starbucks' watery acquisition.
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