Todd Sampson

Comcast is giving the option to switch from the standard HD DVR to Tivo. Nice!
The roll-out is starting in the New England market first. (Bijan already got his — lucky bastard.) If you live in New England or want to be notified by email when Tivo gets to your area, visit http://www.comcast.com/gettivo/ [...]

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Congratulations to Allen Tom and the rest of the Yahoo! crew that worked so hard to make OpenID happen. Well done guys! This is the right thing to do and a huge win for the company going forward.
Learn more about Yahoo’s OpenID plans.

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Great turn out at the OpenSocial hack event at Six Apart. Over 130 people.
Looks like things are moving along with the OpenSocial platform, but they still have a ways to go. Hi5, Ning, Orkut and Plaxo all have sandbox or production implementations up and running. MySpace showed off how their apps will [...]

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Sun Microsystems buys MySQL AB — the developer of the database behind most websites and startups. What a great move for Sun. (Who still has tech’s greatest logo.) Wow, “Sun” and “great move” in the same sentence. I haven’t said that, even with their other open-source announcements, in quite a [...]

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So, I already pissed away 90 minutes watching Steve Job’s full 2008 Apple Keynote. But if you haven’t, save yourself some time and check this out.

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I just listened to BBC World Service’s Digital Planet broadcast from January 8th. The show has an interesting piece on how Silicon Valley is not feeling feeling the credit crunch that is impacting the rest of the U.S. It goes over a number of factors that set The Valley’s tech industry, [...]

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