"When the product does come out later this year, bear in mind that it's a 1.0, there are other new features on the way, and it's built for the AOL user in mind. That said, I'm not one who shies away from speaking my mind. There are some really cool features in the product at launch. RSS support will be in 1.0, along with a bunch of other stuff that I'm not going to tell you about. Ok, I'll tell you one - you can send an IM to a bot and have it post to your blog with rich text support and other cool stuff (like add titles, etc). "

We knew they were coming. I seems that this will be called journaling rather than blogging.

I think that there still lots of room to play in this area. JRobb thinks they spent $20m on this! And that's so far!

1098 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 11:17:30 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: AOL coming to blogs

"They found that men with a good mix of genes were most likely to have been ranked as attractive."

Do you have a good mix of genes? How the hell could you find that out?

1097 Also posted to: personal . At: 10:58:27 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Cheeky clue to male sex appeal

There was a log in the word doc version of the WMD dossier, apparently 4 people edited it. Now the UK Government have wised up...

"Perhaps coincidentally, he said, many of the older Word format documents on the 10 Downing Street site have now been removed and replaced with PDF versions."

The BBC are really having-a-go at Tony's crack-pots. Deservedly.

1096 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 10:50:10 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Tools reveal secret life of documents

"Earlier in in the year, JVC announced the GR-HD1, the first camcorder to capture video in high definition TV standard."

I use my little 1.3 megapix digital dream to shoot little snips of video. I've a 64 meg card (I could go up to 560MB or so) and I can shoot maybe 15 minutes, I've never yet filled this new card!

Sure the quality's not so good at around 350 x 285 pix, but for handiness, and that I've always got it in my pocket, I cannot fault it. I've VHS-C camera too, but that's only for special occasions, not the little snippets of life that I like to shot.

One day soon, stills, video, video conferencing, phone, email, web, mp3, probably even editing will all be in one tiny device. We all know this. In the meantime the makes are trying to guess what's important to a demographic and squeezing two or three functions into a small enough device.

Now, why video cameras haven't a sim card hole for a phone, I don't know. And I don't see much in the way of Bluetooth in this article or in many others I've read so far. Why-oh-why can't we yet Bluetooth these devices together?

1095 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 10:39:03 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Uncertain future for the camcorder?

"It is almost certain that Saddam ordered the weapons dismantled or destroyed some time in the 1990s. Sanctions had seriously impeded the Iraqi efforts to obtain materials and equipment for their WMD programmes."

More background sniping: American intelligence has shown itself once again to be woefully inadequate.

Has he, did he? I really think Bush does know by now. Sure he has enough people working on this, or rather he had enough, now he's probably nobody working on it, just some media people working on the smoke screens.

1094 Also posted to: warBlog . At: 10:17:53 PM  . .
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"The US government "remains concerned" that Microsoft is making it difficult for rivals to access Windows despite being ordered to open up its software." It's the rates, and royality structure, that's under question, plus the fact that they're dragging their feet. And some people are saying Microsoft has changed. Bollocks.

1093 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 9:58:56 PM  . .
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