Tim Malone.id.au

Seems like AOL recently released tons of data (657k users worth) from their search engine. I haven’t had a chance to read much about it yet, or read into the data, but it’s 1) bad for those users – privacy implications, however 2) it’s pretty valuable stuff for search engine marketing.
Here’s some links, and I’ll [...]

Making its way around the Internet recently – you may have seen it – is apparently the world’s first open source movie. It is available on DVD, but is of course free to download, and all the source files are also free to download:
www.elephantsdream.org
Now, it looks great. The designers/renderers/artists, whatever you call them, did a [...]

Microsoft’s shares fell by 11% on Friday, and according to Stan Beer from IT Wire, it indicates that Microsoft no longer has confidence in itself.
Every day we’re coming closer and closer to the reality of a big change at Microsoft. Soon enough, open source – cleverly backed by Google – will come through and trample [...]

Pretty funny thing happened this afternoon – Tom Vendetta, a 15 year old kid from New Jersey in the US, pretented that he got employed by Google. Easy to do, but it went a bit of a distance and fooled quite a few people, until he posted his apology on his blog.
Certainly a quick and [...]

Google is at it again, with a leaked document specifying some details of “GDrive” – an unlimited online storage facility.
Notes accidentally made public on Google’s website said “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, [...]

A new version of the Opera Web Browser has been released – check it out at the Opera download site. The new version’s main features are a new look, increased security and speed, a simpler tabbed-browsing interface, a voice commands feature, and more. Further information can be found in Opera’s press release.

Lycos in Europe have developed a screensaver that can help bring down spammers. When your computer is idle, it sends out requests to websites known to be promoted in spam messages, with the hopes of substantially increasing the spammer’s bandwidth bills.
Could it work? I guess it’s a clever idea. But I’d hate to see them [...]