api | Kris Smith has read these articles about "api" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "api" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpOutsource Your Manual Stuff- December 31, 2007 I didn&39;t listen to any voicemail in 2007. I got plenty of them - but I didn&39;t listen to any of them. Yet I got 100% of the information that people left to me. I discovered a magical system that transcribes voicemails to emails. And it doesn&39;t involve anyone that works for me. I&39;ve been searching for a speech-to-text voicemail conversion system for a while. I approached the problem incorrectly - I assumed that it was a technology issue. I&39;d periodically come across...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeldThoughts/~3/209032749/outsource_your.html Comment on - Quickcam10.exe will break your Thunderbird 2 install or upgrade by Chris- December 31, 2007 Worked straight away after a lot of previous frustration.Thanks. I have had more than a few problems since installing Logitech's Quickcam. Looks like a wrong choice (it also crashes Skype which was the reason for getting it in the first place!) VENTURER 8" DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME 8 INCH NEWCurrent bid: $70.00 on eBay KODAK EASY SHARE S510 DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME - BRAND NEWCurrent bid: $75.00 on eBay See all 339 Digital Picture Frame items on eBay. Tags: frame ebay picture digital bidhttp://www.croncast.com/rssc/698/Comment-on---Quickcam10exe-will-break-your-Thunderbird-2-... Best of ReadWriteWeb 2007, Editor's Picks- December 30, 2007 2007 has been a very busy year for ReadWriteWeb. We started the year with just one daily writer (yours truly!), a couple of regular feature writers (Alex Iskold and Emre Sokullu) and the occasional guest writer. We ended the year with 2 new lead writers and 3 more blogs (more on that below). Of course we have more plans for expansion in 2008. But as we're nearing the end of 2007, I thought I'd pick out 12 of my favorite posts over the past year - one for each month. These weren't necessarily...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/208416651/best_of_readwriteweb_2007_editor_... Meet the guys hiring fake Indian users Famesource.com- December 30, 2007 Famesource founders Allen Vartazarian and Anthony Zanontian are the wantrepreneurs behind the Craigslist ad offering to pay Indian workers 10 cents per signup to their site, a tipster tells us. Sure, it's pretty scammy, but if Vartazarian and Zanontian are really buying users, we can hardly blame them. Investors today overvalue eyeballs, and tend not to question where they come from. And Famesource needs users for another reason: It promises to connect wannabe celebrities with an audience of..http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/valleywag/full/~3/208331577/meet-the-guys-hiring-fake-indian-us... Is photography dead- December 30, 2007 Interesting piece in Newsweek from earlier this month: Is photography dead Excerpt: Photography is finally escaping any dependence on what is in front of a lens, but it comes at the price of its special claim on a viewer's attention as "evidence" rooted in reality. As gallery material, photographs are...Tags: photography dead attention viewer evidencehttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/social_media/~3/208252600/is-photography.html Fuck The Packaging- December 30, 2007 I spent 45 minutes this morning desmegmafying three new Xbox 360 controllers, three new Wii controllers, a Wii charger, and a bunch of videogames. Thanks to everyone that suggested Wii and Xbox 360 games to me - BioShock ate my morning (after I got the controllers out of their packages.) My experience reminded me of Mark Cuban's brilliant post from 2006 titled Seagate Leaves me bloody... My right index finger is now sliced, my left palm has a cut on it, and my left index finger is still...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeldThoughts/~3/208189615/fuck_the_packag.html Guru: Veoh and Internet Television- December 29, 2007 Learn more about the vision for Veoh Networks from its founder, Dmitry Shapiro. Also, his opinion on what the future holds for internet television.Tags: internet television veoh shapiro opinionhttp://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=v1739721fMrFjqjD Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them Bad Ideas- December 29, 2007 Jason Calacanis's Mahalo has a problem: its business model is a Catch-22. Mahalo differentiates itself from Web search engines by using the paid services of humans, which Calacanis argues is a cheaper strategy than buying servers. And yet Mahalo seems to have trouble paying the rates it set for its human laborers. A blogger who works for Mahalo as a "mentor" -- a fancy title for someone who basically works as a QA tester, reviewing pages of search results created by others, is complaining that.http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/valleywag/full/~3/207782536/is-calacanis-underpaying-mahalo-wor... Journalist Still Thinks Newspapers Should Collude To Stop Giving Away Free Content- December 28, 2007 Earlier this year, we wrote about how San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Lazarus had a ridiculous set of proposals for "saving" the newspaper industry. He wanted all newspapers to collude together and agree to stop putting content online for free and, in addition, to sue anyone who linked to the newspaper sites without paying a licensing fee. To appease him, we refused to even link to his column. Since then, the Chronicle has parted ways with Lazarus, who has made his way south to the...http://techdirt.com/articles/20071227/015035.shtml More Pain Seen for Wall Street- December 27, 2007 The carnage from the collapse in subprime may be mounting more quickly than previously thought. An analyst with Goldman Sachs has sharply raised his forecasts for write-downs at Citigroup, J.P. Mogan Chase, and Merrill Lynch. Most of these write-downs are on the banks' holdings of collateralized debt obligations, arcane investments derived from securities tied to subprime mortgages. The analyst, William Tanona, now expects a write-down of $18.7 billion in the fourth quarter at Citigroup, up...http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/news/~3/207046420/More-Pain-Seen-for-Wall-Street |