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Google Acquires Aardvark – Will it Be Integrated into Buzz?
Aardvark is a free service I’ve been using for a while now that lets you ask questions and finds people who can answer them… I’ve used it to ask questions about food, cars, soldering, and baby issues. It’s integrated into Google Chat and Gmail, so I’m used to using it with Google products… and they’ve been in the spotlight at recent tech conferences, so it only make sense that Google has acquired them. I will update my prior post regarding Buzz predictions, as I believe Aardvark functionality will be merged with Buzz eventually. /////////////////// UPDATE: Aardvark is listed as an application in Google Labs but is currently only a static…
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Predictions about Google Buzz
(most of these have already been posted in my Buzz feed) Google Buzz will directly or indirectly help cause the downfall of Facebook and maybe Twitter as well Google Wave functionality will be integrated into Buzz; Wave may eventually cease to exist Those worried about the privacy issues regarding people being able to see who you communicate with the most will finally realize that e-mail and chat perhaps aren’t the best way to go about having an affair anyway – just ask any senator UPDATES: Aardvark functionality will be merged with Buzz eventually, even if only as a default category,filter in Gmail at first (with a cute little aardvark icon…
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the roots of rivalry
Actually, they love each other – they just can’t stand each other a lot of the time. These photos are nearly a month old, but I wanted some more photos of Mina in her cute pink onesies since she’s already grown out of most of them.
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Virtual Jam Session – Dumbfoundead
“8 people with 5 instruments originally from 4 Continents speaking 3 languages for 1 song.” ztrip sent me this vid and I was hooked from the first few bars of the Moloko sample. This Dumbfoundead guy has some pretty funny vids up on YouTube.
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Cool Last FM tools
If you use last.fm, you might want to try these: HacKey looks for patterns in the keys of your favourite songs. Apparently I like G major (18% overall). I linked to this site once already but it’s good enough to get another: Normalisr ranks your favorite artists and albums by an estimation of how long you have spent listening to them.
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Blogger FTP Deprecation
I only mention this because there are still a few people with blogs publishable to cosmicbuddha.com via Blogger (even though they are no longer really updated), including T, G-man, and my mom. Google is cutting you off because it costs them too much money. If you want a blog here, I’ll set something else up, so let me know.
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catfish
Really, that’s all I have today.
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On the Mic
I’m writing this while taking turns recording dialog for textbooks with Kylie, a recent graduate from Indiana State University currently teaching at our Language Center. I’m still pretty wasted from the past couple of days, helping with our faculty’s annual International Fair. I know I’m really behind posting new photos of the babies, but truth be told, I haven’t really been taking any, either… Sometimes raising babies feels like combat, with violent spurts of intense action and getting in small batches of sleep when you can in between. Like I said, I was pretty tired and went to sleep earlier than usual next to Max, but he woke up and…
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Pulling plugs again
The Kujira Crown has a mysterious problem with its plug contacts corroding at a high rate – enough to affect performance after just two or three weeks. I originally thought it could be fixed by using colder plugs, but that hasn’t helped at all. As it turns out it doesn’t seem to be caused by the engine running hot at all – the Crown’s been parked for a month since I haven’t renewed insurance on it yet. I pulled the plugs once and cleaned them a few weeks ago and only started the car to keep things running a couple times during that period. However, I took it for a…
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Dwarf Punk
Not nearly as good as the Daft Hands video of yesteryear, but any day is a good day for DP.
