Just like he says here, January 2006 has been a great month for fellow GTD’er, TabletPC’er, Weblogs Inc colleague, and pal Marc Orchant. The most recent buzz that Marc has generated is around an article that was published in American Airlines’ in-flight magazine American Way. Time Bandits does an excellent job of describing the power, …
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This has to be one of the coolest startups out there today
Riya, a very interesting startup company that is building a picture tagging technology, just closed a huge $15MM round of funding. Riya’s face recognition technology auto tags your photos with the names of those people that you’ve trained it to know based on facial characteristics. Like something out of the FBI, or hollywood, this would …
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Apple’s marketcap surpasses Dell
Apple’s strong run with the iPod has lifted the company’s market capitalization to $72bn, or just slightly higher than Dell. Engadget has a snippet from an internal email that Steve Jobs sent out marking the moment: “Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close, …
Sweet! Flickr enabled WiFi photo frame at ThinkGeek
ThinkGeek is taking orders for a WiFi and Flickr enabled photo frame. Definitely worth a look.
Student Tablet PC shows how to scan an entire book into your Tablet
The Student Tablet PC weblog is one of the best Tablet focused sites out there. While my college days are a distant memory, the site’s productive approach to using a Tablet enabled PC makes it a must read. For example, their latest post details a great method of scanning textbooks onto your Tablet. Beside for reducing …
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Om points us to another tech executive jumping back onto the startup bandwagon
Toni Schneider, who was the executive in charge of Yahoo’s developer network is leaving to join Automattic, the company that Matt Mullenweg started to build WordPress, WordPress.com, and other cool software. Link to Om Malik’s scoop: Yahoo Exec Exits For Automattic CEO Gig.
Tablet PC capabiliites for Firefox updated
Several people have noted that the Geckotip extension for Firefox has been updated. If you use a tablet enabled PC like me this is great news. Firefox is my browser of choice and an enhanced tablet experience only solidifies that choice. Get the new tip here.
Seth Godin points out the flaws of Marketers today
A short, but interesting post by Seth Godin that is worth reading: Farming and hunting.
Getting Things Done for free offer
Marc Orchant points us to the InBubbleWrap website, which is running an offer to get a pass to attend David Allen’s GTD seminar. Check it out here: Win a free GTD seminar and book
Stumbled onto a great post about writing
I just stumbled onto a great post about writing. Worth a look here: Top Ten Writing Tips To Help You To Write More