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iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies

iTunes Top 20 smart playlist strategies 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
iTunes has one play-tracking limitation that, if fixed, would yield some very cool playlists: the ability to see how many times a song has been played recently. But there's no timestamp saved for each play; it just incremen...

The Third APEC SME Technology Conference
and Fair Selects IT E-Strategies
President, David Scott Lewis, as the
Featured Speaker on Global IT Sourcing:
IT E-Strategies Recognized for IT
(Information Technology) Sourcing
Leadership

The Third APEC SME Technology Conference
and Fair Selects IT E-Strategies
President, David Scott Lewis, as the
Featured Speaker on Global IT Sourcing:
IT E-Strategies Recognized for IT
(Information Technology) Sourcing
Leadership 06/01/2004 02:19 AM
David Scott Lewis, President and Principal Analyst of IT E-Strategies, has been selected as the speaker on global IT sourcing at next week's Third APEC SME Technology Conference, alongside three other speakers, including the heads of IBM and EDS/UGS PLM in China. [PRWEB Jun 1, 2004]

Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents

Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents 09/13/2004 12:34 PM
Smart Box Design announces the release of Farkle, a Palm OS version of the classic dice rolling game. Farkle offers players an opportunity to challenge friends or compete against a variety of “intelligent” computer opponents with a wide range of personalities—from cautious to daring—that will determine the level of risk each opponent is willing to take when deciding just how far to push their luck. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console

Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Once a week, createdigitalmusic's Peter Kirn highlights drool-worthy music and audio creation equipment, from essential to oddball. This week's computer audio control surface, invented by a former magician and priced like a yacht, hits the oddball end.

How smart is Microsoft's smart phone?

How smart is Microsoft's smart phone? 04/13/2004 08:56 PM
ZDNet Apr 14 2004 0:41AM GMT

RSS Strategies

RSS Strategies 04/13/2004 03:35 PM

There are two news stories in today’s MarketingVOX|Pu blishing Digest about the business of RSS syndication. Gawker’s Nick Denton recently released Kinja, a Web-based tool that is being billed as a news reader for every day people. Yahoo recently added an RSS reader and search to their My Yahoo portal. At least two companies are working on ways to turn RSS feeds into revenue-generating content.

Is XML syndication part of your publishing strategy? Or do you consider it a tool for blogs and geeks? While it seems that RSS is gaining some corporate traction, it isn’t yet widely used by everyday Internet users. My mom doesn’t even know what RSS is, never mind why or how you’d use it.

Google has email alerts that let you save Web and news searches and have new matching items emailed to you. I mentioned recently that they don’t have RSS feeds for it, and someone commented that RSS as a delivery mechanism isn’t yet mature enough. The commenter speculated that Google probably doesn’t want millions of people requesting an RSS feed at the default update interval of their news reader.

I know from looking at my own server logs that my syndication feeds are by far the most requested resource on my site. They consume considerable bandwidth and I have gone to great lengths to optimize my feeds to reduce their bandwidth needs.

While it could be argued that these problems exist with any content format you publish, they are aggravated by the nature of RSS. When someone visits my home page, they don’t refresh the browser every 15 minutes to see if it has changed. And if they did, browsers are designed to check with the server and to not download it again if there’s no change. Most news readers don’t do this. They grab the entire feed with each update regardless of whether there has been any change. There have been many efforts to design a way that allows feed publishers to tell a news reader how often to request updates, but those features are not widely implemented by readers.

So my question to you is are you using RSS, are you using it for non-blog content, and are you getting anything out of your investment in the extra bandwidth?

This is a cross post of something I posted to MarketingVOX|Publishing. I thought that my readers here might have some things to say about the subject. Comment on this at MV|Publishing.

Exit Strategies

Exit Strategies 12/19/2004 03:31 PM
I would begin letting the Iraqis know now that we are planning on turning most of their country back over to them as soon as they have elected a "legitimate" government and that we arbitrarily accept the unlikelihood that the January elections will yield such a thing.... Of course the Iraqis, or more precisely, the Iraqi Arabs would be none too keen on it, but there is a good chance they will already be too involved in civil war by then to have much energy for re-taking a well-defended Kurdistan.

Severance Strategies

Severance Strategies 06/14/2004 02:49 PM
How to protect yourself when the boss tells you goodbye.

Screencasting strategies

Screencasting strategies 06/17/2005 07:20 PM

Composing the audio narration and synchronizing it with the video is, for me, the hardest part of the job. If you have prior experience with voice recording--I didn't--that should help. But even so you're likely to find that syncing your voice with the action onscreen is a real challenge.

For short unedited scenes, you can do multiple takes until you get it right, or as close to right as is possible. For longer productions, though, I've adopted a very different work style. Initially I don't even try to narrate the scenes, I just capture them as video from which I trim all the fat. Then I dictate the audio for each scene in short segments. I save these sound clips in files, load them into the video editor, and arrange them to coincide with the onscreen action.

What happens next is a kind of two-way negotiation between the video and audio tracks. In some cases I'll extend a frame of video to cover a crucial bit of narration. In other cases I'll rerecord a snippet of audio so that it covers some crucial action onscreen. It's tedious to trade files between Audacity and a video editor, and that's one reason I'm investigating more robust video editors with fully-integrated audio editing. But the shoestring approach is the only one I've used so far, and clearly it's viable. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]

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IT job strategies for the near future

IT job strategies for the near future 11/11/2003 08:09 AM
A Federal Reserve report released this week compares the tech crash to the aerospace jobs disaster in the late '80s and early '90s, citing the loss of 1 in 3 technology jobs in regions such as Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

Try these ASP.NET caching strategies

Try these ASP.NET caching strategies 02/25/2003 02:47 AM
CNET Feb 25 2003 1:24AM ET

Strategies For SMS Client Deployment

Strategies For SMS Client Deployment 06/01/2004 01:08 AM

3G Launch Strategies Risk

3G Launch Strategies Risk 07/22/2004 06:15 AM
3G Jul 22 2004 8:51AM GMT

Shrinking Battlefield Changes Strategies
(AP)

Shrinking Battlefield Changes Strategies
(AP) 09/15/2004 02:11 AM
AP - An electoral battlefield map half its original size is prompting President Bush and challenger John Kerry to alter their campaign strategies and reallocate resources in the home stretch to the Nov. 2 election.

iTunes Encoding Strategies

iTunes Encoding Strategies 09/17/2004 01:48 PM

Strategies for Troubled Times

Strategies for Troubled Times 08/10/2004 09:03 AM
Down market got you down? Consider these options.

New Ad Strategies Target Web Users

New Ad Strategies Target Web Users 06/15/2004 02:57 PM
CBS News Jun 15 2004 6:22PM GMT

Two Software Strategies: Fat and Thin

Two Software Strategies: Fat and Thin 05/11/2004 09:16 AM
It was tough to make heads or tails out of IBM's big software strategy announcement on Monday. But here's our best attempt.

Viral Marketing Strategies

Viral Marketing Strategies 06/23/2004 10:24 PM
WebDevInfo Jun 24 2004 2:03AM GMT

B2E Portal Integration Strategies

B2E Portal Integration Strategies 11/19/2003 01:03 PM
marcus evans Nov 19 2003 12:15PM ET

Strategies for categorizing content

Strategies for categorizing content 12/02/2003 12:26 AM
Picked this up on the Openguides-Dev mailing list. It’s an article about organizing content for E-Commerce sites. Interesting read for...

2 Assessments of Iraq, 2 Election
Strategies

2 Assessments of Iraq, 2 Election
Strategies 09/21/2004 09:02 PM
The presidential candidates' opposed images of the war reflect opposed strategies for the final weeks of the campaign.

TIME.com: Inside The Debate Strategies

TIME.com: Inside The Debate Strategies 09/27/2004 05:17 AM
MAG: BUSH TEAM WANTS TO SEE KERRY SWEAT AT DEBATES

time.com/time/election2004/article/0,18471,702075,00.html
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PPC Search Copywriting Strategies, Part
2

PPC Search Copywriting Strategies, Part
2 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

Hackers changing their strategies:
report

Hackers changing their strategies:
report 04/04/2005 07:04 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 4 2005 10:44PM GMT

Recent Book on Internet Strategies

Recent Book on Internet Strategies 12/28/2003 05:29 PM
BeSpacific Dec 28 2003 4:09PM ET

China urged to roll out 3G strategies
soon

China urged to roll out 3G strategies
soon 03/27/2005 09:13 PM
CHINAdaily Mar 28 2005 1:29AM GMT

Exit Strategies for Corporate Dropouts

Exit Strategies for Corporate Dropouts 04/12/2005 05:45 AM
Ready to leave the company fold but don't want the door to hit you on the way out? Here's a guide to making a graceful exit.

Govt urged to roll out 3G strategies

Govt urged to roll out 3G strategies 03/27/2005 09:13 PM
Peoples Daily Online Mar 28 2005 1:30AM GMT

CRM Strategies: Loyalty Programs That
Are Working

CRM Strategies: Loyalty Programs That
Are Working 01/07/2004 01:53 PM
Nearly 75 percent of shoppers in the U.S. now belong to at least one loyalty program—but how well do they work? The short answer: not as well as they might. We look at why, and analyze how advances in customer data collection are helping three companies—Dorothy Lane Market Inc., Harrah's Entertainment Inc. and eBay Inc.—to revise their business strategies in different ways.

IBM, HP and Microsoft talk autonomic
strategies

IBM, HP and Microsoft talk autonomic
strategies 05/20/2004 08:45 AM
Computer Weekly May 20 2004 1:24PM GMT

European Pharma Distribution Strategies

European Pharma Distribution Strategies 11/17/2003 03:11 PM
marcus evans Nov 17 2003 1:14PM ET

Strategies to beat the virus writers

Strategies to beat the virus writers 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

IBM, HP, MS discuss autonomic computing
strategies

IBM, HP, MS discuss autonomic computing
strategies 05/19/2004 07:17 PM
IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. set aside their rivalry Tuesday to share the stage at the first International Conference on Autonomic Computing in New York, at which representatives from the three companies mapped out fairly similar and harmonious strategies for working toward self-managing IT systems.

Superbug strategies 'under fire'

Superbug strategies 'under fire' 09/02/2004 09:34 PM
Proof that policies to control the spread of the superbug MRSA actually work is weak, according to researchers.

Qualcomm serves up BREW strategies

Qualcomm serves up BREW strategies 06/04/2004 08:15 PM

Strategies for handling nulls in SQL
Server

Strategies for handling nulls in SQL
Server 01/25/2003 02:50 AM
CNET Jan 25 2003 1:29AM ET

Search giants detail strategies

Search giants detail strategies 05/28/2004 09:24 AM
ZDNet UK May 28 2004 1:55PM GMT

Changing strategies to make TV
accountable

Changing strategies to make TV
accountable 09/02/2004 03:45 PM
newmediazero Sep 2 2004 7:56PM GMT
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