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I saw this few days ago

Peer-to-peer content distribution companies like Vuze, BitTorrent, and Pando raised millions of dollars over the last several years under the assumption that big media companies would shift some of their distribution to P2P to cut their bandwidth costs. But that hasn't happened, and now many P2P companies are looking for new business models.

For Vuze, which has raised $32 million in financing, that now includes distributing hi-def porn via BitTorrent. For $25 a month, you can download "unlimited" adult video in HD from Vuze's "StudioHD" lineup, NewTeeVee reports. The company is also trying to launch "sports, music and other premium channels."

from http://www.businessinsider.com/p2p-startup-looks-to-porn-for-profits-2009-5

And browsing the web I discovered this p2p flash player: http://www.play2p.com/
It looks very promising, it promise HD videos with very little bandwidth usage (it says “will not eat up any additional bandwidth” :))
Apparently the domain share the name server with
porncake.com
pornkolt.com
pornocake.com
pornstarsmachine.com

from http://www.robtex.com/dns/play2p.com.html

I don’t know if this has something to do with some new adobe functionality introduced with flash player 10

RTMFP:

• Changing NetStream.BufferTime on the subscriber side of P2P connection, causes video to stop and possible crash
• No NetStream onStatus messages received when using NetStream.pause(), NetStream.resume() or NetStream.togglePause() for P2P connection
• Intermittent crashes/hangs when subscribing/unsubscribing multiple times to P2P NetStream.
• peerStreams array includes null streams in some cases.

but it looks like the Porn industry is making the web a better place once again :)

Gladinet Mounts Web Storage Apps as Virtual Drives

http://lifehacker.com/5100226/gladinet-mounts-web-storage-apps-as-virtual-drives

Geek to Live: Control your workday

http://lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to-live--control-your-workday-187074.php

Windows 7 upgrade advisor

http://bink.nu/news/windows-7-upgrade-advisor.aspx

Shorten share and track your link

http://bit.ly/info/ziesM
this is the first shorten service I see allows you to track click through on short urls
may be other services does that too

Open Avatar
globally recognized avatar

http://en.gravatar.com/
http://www.freshclickmedia.com/blog/2008/02/gravatar-aspnet-control/

Enalbe Windows 7 XP Mode

http://lifehacker.com/5245396/set-up-and-use-xp-mode-in-windows-7
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=65e1c5eb-df9b-415f-b2d6-27f6ef5dceb9#filelist
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0e8fa9b3-c236-4b77-be26-173f032f5159#filelist

New IT website from stackoverflow guys

http://serverfault.com/
password: alt.sysadmin.recovery

Asian Babe, Fight of the Week...

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_details.php?id=18068

Add a Recommendation Engine to your Blog

http://www.labnol.org/internet/add-recommendation-system-to-your-site/8600/

Scalability

http://www.pythian.com/news/851/howto-build-scalable-database-architectures

Bookarmy Competitors and Ideas

http://www.filmstew.com/showBlog.aspx?blog_id=1397

On Kindle

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&x=0&ref_=nb_ss_kinc&y=0&field-keywords=common%20craft%20plain%20english&url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text
http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/publish-blog-on-amazon-kindle/8544/

Kindle Competitors

http://mybebook.com/
http://www.coolerbooks.com/

ASUS' Eee Keyboard revealed

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/asus-eee-keyboard-revealed/

Twitter Clients

http://twittx.salonxsoftware.com/

You can now click Like or unlike on a friend status update and everyone else will see feedbacks from friends of friends.
The network is becoming bigger and bigger :)

I have bought a new XPS M1330 few days ago and finally I've got it in my hands.

Still not so confident using the keyboard due to the fact that it's a bit smaller than my old Inspiron 6400 and the keys layout is a bit different, I'm very exited about the SSD performances.

I did a benchmark using ATTO Disk Benchmark and this is the result

My new XPS	My old Inspiron	My work Machine
XPS M1330 SSD 128GB

Almost 4 times faster in reads and 3.5 faster in writes.
I'm super happy, now I can finally have a decent WOW experience :D

P.S: this laptop fly!!!!!

I was reading about improving DB performances and saw this interesting post

http://www.milkcarton.com/blog/2009/01/29/Have+You+Reindexed+Your+Database+Lately.aspx

unfortunately the script for SQL 2005 on that post does not work so here it is a working version

USE DatabaseName --Enter the name of the database you want to reindex
DECLARE @TableName varchar(255)
DECLARE TableCursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_type = 'base table'
OPEN TableCursor
    FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableName
    WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
        BEGIN
        declare @com varchar(200)
        SET @com = 'ALTER INDEX ALL ON ' + @TableName + ' REORGANIZE'
        exec (@com)
        print @com
        FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableName
    END
CLOSE TableCursor
DEALLOCATE TableCursor

Finally after ages google updated his translation service
They changed the interface adding dictionary and some other smart tools.

But why they do not have a search provider to translate words like wordreference does?

Now days people are using many different communication platforms.

Messenger, twitter, facebook are all communication platforms we all use, all with APIs to talk to them.
Why not make WLM pluggable so that I can build my plugin to retrieve my twitter updates, my facebook updates my windows live updates (those in home.live.com in Windows Live wave 3) and at the same way I'm able to update my facebook and flickr status while I update my WLM Personal Message...
Come 'on guys we need more flexibility to write plugins for Messenger. We've seen quite good stuff for Live Writer, but please, open up messenger!!!
There are many "social clients" out there why not allow developer to make Messenger "THE social client"?

there's something out there to try to merge all those platforms

http://blogs.msdn.com/giorgio/archive/2008/05/11/windows-live-messenger-twitter-addin-with-setup-and-source-code.aspx
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1204

but we need more flexibility
pleaaaaasssseeeee

from
http://www.casalena.org/journal/2008/9/12/the-catch-22-of-entrepreneurship.html

1. You can't attract incredible people to your team unless you have something incredible.

2. You can't make something incredible unless you have amazing people to build it.

This is a major dilemma that most small companies never end up solving.  I think the best way around it is to actually do transcendent things, or begin to externally validate your ideas.  That can happen in a number of ways.

Money. This is the most obvious.  If you have money received through investment, you've likely obtained it because someone thought you were doing something incredible.  This money, and especially that validation, goes to paying great people to work with you.  It points to an opportunity.  If you inherently had money, that works too -- because it can speak to previous success -- but it doesn't work quite as well as direct validation.   

Be completely incredible. Just go out and make the thing that nobody told you was possible.  Design the billion dollar router by yourself. Write every part of the software yourself, then get fifty thousand people to pay for it.  Compose the symphony alone.  If you're really good -- you'll take off a little bit (or a lot) by yourself.  The validation from that success is attractive and indisputable.

Steal the team.  Think of the groups at the original PayPal or people in Stanford's grad programs.  Both require an immense amount of vetting to be a part of, and the resulting groups are often incredible.  The validation form getting into a prestigious college or onto an elite team can speak volumes for your credibility.  

The interesting thing is that all 3 of these items require external validation -- something that can't easily be faked.  Notice the almost equivalent statements like "raising money" and "having a bunch of free signups" don't require any external validation -- anyone can say or obtain that sort of thing, and they're pretty weak things to say.  

Doing, rather than saying, goes a long way.