Inconsistent numbers with Google's library scanning project
— at their best rate, it’ll take 43 years to scan all pages via Jeremy Zawodny #Blizzard trying to end Warcraft auctions on eBay
— they should be fostering economy, not trying to kill it via Nelson Minar #Headphone Headshots
— what New Yorkers are listening to on their headphones, and what they ate for breakfast #Eliot's First Christmas
I know this comes dangerously close to breaking my First Rule, but what’s the point of a personal website if you can’t post baby photos?
With that said, here’s Eliot’s First Christmas!
And for everyone who can’t stomach adorable baby photos, Jason Scott has the complete soundtrack to The Last Starfighter, The Musical.
Activision buys the cover of Electronic Gaming Monthly
— Variety does this too, but EGM’s case is more deceitful #Dylan Verdi, 11-year-old videoblogger
— kids like this will soon kick the asses of all the old-timers via Eyebeam #iTunes Producer Patent
Last week, Apple Computer filed a patent application covering the iTunes Producer application and backend architecture, used for managing and sending music to the iTunes Music Store. The patent includes screenshots of the application, which Apple only distributes to authorized musicians and record labels.
One screenshot includes some interesting fields, such as Parental Advisory warnings, BPM, and various sales and copyright information. There’s a button for adding Lyrics, which may indicate future support for lyric searching in iTunes Music Store.
Unfortunately, you need a special plugin to view the embedded images at the Patent Office website, so I’ve converted all the drawings to GIF and included them below.
The U.S. Patent Office Search is consistently interesting. If you search by “Assignee Name,” you can keep track of all the pending and approved patent activity by your favorite companies. For example, here are all approved patents and pending applications for Apple Computer. Some other interesting company searches: Google’s pending and approved, TiVo’s pending and approved, and Yahoo’s pending and approved.
Not surprisingly, there are a few good blogs that focus exclusively on new patents. Patently Obvious and Patent Pending. And I just found Fresh Patents, a fantastic daily index of new patents, with RSS feeds by industry.