Tivo is adding some features. So far its nothing I’m willing ot switch back for.

As previously reported, TiVo is beefing up their HME offerings by centrally hosting applications and partnering with Yahoo! Yahoo! weather, traffic, and photos are available by entering your account info on the TiVo box. Also being previewed are Internet radio (Live365), the podcaster application I saw at Digital Life, Fandango movie tickets, and some various games. Beta testing is scheduled to continue into early 2006.

http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2005-11/exclusive-tivo

Yes its another media player, but it could be interesting. My first thought on looking at the screenshots was “That looks like iTunes”, which they have a post on.

Songbird is a complete desktop media player or "jukebox" with a uniquely open approach to Internet digital media network services.

Songbird is developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable, a small, chirpy team of digital media innovators whose previous incubations include the Winamp 5 and Y! Music Engine media players and Muse.Net, a location-independent digital media network service acquired by Yahoo!.

http://www.songbirdnest.com/roblord/story/what_is_

OPML sampling is a cool idea, though I wish there was a better criteria for ranking.

We’ll take an OPML file, load a snapshot of each feed’s current contents. Then, we’ll loop through each feed item and ask Yahoo how many pages link to it. For each feed, we’ll extract the one item that is most linked to (aka the equiv of Google’s pagerank for choosing the top page for a search). That “top” post will be put on our sampler page as the example of of the feed’s content.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=67&part=rss

Taurus from Interstate 76.

She’s my girl
Pearl white, slick and sexy
Never complains, always faithful
She cuts the air like a charging buffalo
In her arms, it’s quiet
Her engine whispers to me:
"It’s gonna be just fine"

http://www.jeffwofford.com/i76_poems.html

A blog meant to collect all the cool Google maps based projects together in one place. My favorite is the Hot Or Not map.

http://coolgooglemaps.blogspot.com/

Turn all the text from a book (or whatever you like) into a readable piece of wall art. Add in Rasterbator for those without a plotter, and you’re set.

http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/99A324285EFE1028

Slashdot has a Q&A with the author of the study that sparked the last big Windows vs. Linux fight on the site.

Last week you submitted questions for Dr. Herb Thompson, author of the latest Microsoft-sponsored Windows vs. Linux study. Here are his answers.

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/1

Slashdot has a Q&A with the author of the study that sparked the last big Windows vs. Linux fight on the site.

Last week you submitted questions for Dr. Herb Thompson, author of the latest Microsoft-sponsored Windows vs. Linux study. Here are his answers.

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/1

I really don’t see the point, but who knows. Maybe I’m just not hip enough anymore. Do we really need a browser(browserlet?) running in our regular browser window just to browse Wikipedia? Yes, I know its all Ajax’ed up, so its trendy, but still.

Gollum is the name of my newest crime of invention. By reducing the complexity of information, I have created a fast and eyefriendly browser through the free encyclopedia “Wikipedia”.

http://gollum.easycp.de/en/

Ten fairly good rules for starting up your own web company.

#2: Be Different
Ideas are
in the air. There are lots of people thinking about—and probably
working on—the same thing you are. And one of them is Google. Deal with
it. How? First of all, realize that no sufficiently interesting space
will be limited to one player. In a sense, competition actually is
good—especially to legitimize new markets.

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startu