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According to Wired writer Chris Anderson, "Silicon Valley is roaring back to life, as startups mint millionaires and Web dreams take flight. But, no, this is not another bubble. Here’s why. First, technology adoption has continued at a torrid pace (and even accelerated at times) despite the bust. The second reason that this boom is so different from the last ...

I’ve just been in Second Life with ACS colleagues. We were at a Future Salon meeting and then got together at the Relay For Life site. I understand we’ll have another Relay event there this summer. The last Relay there netted $6,000. Hey, that’s pretty good for a start. Hopefully we’ll have a permanent presence there, a "virtual" unit. I’ve ...

Wired posts an interesting story today about an innovative move reported at the Shmoo Con hacker conference in Washington D.C. The story says, "Websites get looked at by two different kinds of visitors: the human ones who peer around, look at the graphics, think about the links and click slowly; and the spiders, those automated scanners that come in from ...

I have been exploring Pandora.com, an on-line, real-time music service that specializes in finding new artists for the listener based on the characteristics of their self-chosen music. Pandora has meta tagged the songs on over 30,000 cds with the categories of tone, vocal, electronic or acoustic, beat, melody, etc. Pandora employs music theorists to properly identify the characteristics of songs ...