2004 Engadget Awards

December 27, 2004

The wonderfully odd Engadget has announced its 2004 Engadget Awards.  Nominations open until 11:59 pm EST on Tuesday, December 27th.

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Determining Proximity for DRM

December 27, 2004

Via Boing Boing: A fascinating post about the difficulty of determining proximity for DRM – an issue relevant to their licensing models.  A new twist on an old question.

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Skype, an IM Killer?

December 27, 2004

Via OM Malik on Broadband: will Skype kill IM?  I’ve been wondering this myself lately, and wondering whether the Trillians of the world can extend their clients to build Skype in …

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Feed Me a Meal(ey)

December 27, 2004

Via Inter Alia: an RSS feed is now available from LexisNexis Mealey’s Publications and Conferences group.

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Dennis Kennedy’s 2004 Legal Blogging Awards

December 27, 2004

Dennis has posted his "highly-opinionated choices" for the 2004 Blawggies. The US legal blogging community is a content-rich environment – diverse, opinionated, smart and funny.  Discovering it has been a great pleasure.  If you’re just dipping your toes in you can do no better to get yourself started than surf Dennis’ awards.

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Brilliant. Generous. Cool.

December 26, 2004

Lessig is posting Code, v1, to a wiki to be updated collaboratively.  The wiki will be licensed perpetually under a CC license and he’s donating advance and royalties on v2 to CC.  Volunteers needed.

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The Best Windows Utilities

December 26, 2004

Via jkOnTheRun, Tech Support Alert’s list of the 46 best ever free Windows utilities.

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Facial Recognition Technology for Handhelds

December 26, 2004

Via Wired, a story about a handheld implementation of facial recognition technology being used by LAPD to profile suspects quickly, eg on the street.  See suspect, point camera at suspect, software recognizes face and indicates probability of match, result=probable cause or not. Predictably, the city attorney quoted sees no privacy issues.  QOD: "If you are […]

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Reaction to Anonymous Lawyer’s Outing

December 26, 2004

Law Dork has a summary of reactions to the unmasking.

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Netflix has a New Releases Feed

December 26, 2004

No competitive advantage here, as it is easily duplicated, but Netflix has an RSS feed of new releases (via Winer).  An interesting implementation of RSS to serve a specific customer information need.

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Anonymous Lawyer is No Longer Anonymous

December 25, 2004

Unmasked at last.  But interesting that the posts, even though fictional, have resonated with so many lawyers at big firms.  Interesting, and more than a little bent.

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What Happens to your Data When You Die?

December 25, 2004

This is not an easy question, at least as far as the ethics are concerned.  I’ve acted as executor of an estate on two occasions now and had there been any of importance I certainly would have wanted to ensure that data was protected and dealt with according to a will or family wishes.

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