October 2005

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Flock Developer Preview

I was in the list of people who wanted to try out Flock as soon as it was released as a limited beta. I recieved my invitation email two days ago and I was happy to have the opportunity to try…

Vanderbilt Adds FreshTracksMusic to VUMix

Vanderbilt is offering Napster as a legal download option to students (and faculty and staff) for a rate of $2/month during the academic year for at least a year.

Vanderbilt Register reports that the university is starting to offer FreshTracksMusic as a new legal…

Pulled Eminem iPod Commercial

Turns out there was an iPod commercial on Apple website featuring Eminem. However, it had a very short lifetime. You can view the commercial here. I don’t know why it is pulled. I am thinking some business issues since the ad…

Bill Gates Visits Turkey

Bill Gates and his wife were in Turkey for vacation early October. It is great that they chose Turkey for a vacation. Here are some pictures from his visit.

Via Digg

Bill Gates, Turkey

SimpleTags

I am usually tagging my posts using Technorati tags but it is not a process that requires some work when I have post quickly. I mean, I have to make a separate link for any tag I want to include.

I recently…

MySpace Popularity Hack!

A guy named Samy discovers a bug on MySpace and writes a worm that initiates 1 million friend requests. Samy must be someone with a lot of time in his hands but I have to admit this is one cool way…