Choose your favorites for the 2007 Crunchies. The Crunchies is a collaboration project between GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat and TechCrunch.
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Why won’t people pay $5?
Trent Reznor: Why won’t people pay $5? Answer: They had an option to have it free. Lots of people took you up on that. I know I did, and I liked the album enough to go back and buy a higher-quality version. Don’t beat yourself up, Trent. This is the beginning of something big and you know it. Speaking of which, you really should check out Niggy Tardust if you haven’t already.
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NewsGator Frees RSS Readers
For a couple of years, I’ve happily used NewsGator FeedDemon as my RSS reader. I use it to read through a hundred or so feeds that I am subscribed to. (The integration of NewsGator Online with the desktop application is one of my favorite features.) I’ve used Bloglines, Google Reader, and several other web-based RSS readers, and none worked as well as FeedDemon.
Anyways, onto the good news: FeedDemon is now free. As are a few of NewsGator’s other products: NewsGator Inbox for Microsoft Outlook, NewsGator Go! for mobile, NetNewsWire for Mac.
View the press release here.
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Autocomplete FTL
Sometimes auto-complete is completely wrong. I started typing Wyatt’s email address and auto-complete suggested "homo" instead of "gomi"…
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Matchbox Twenty Tickets Available
I listed two fourth row tickets to the Matchbox Twenty concert in Norfolk, Virginia scheduled for 10 Feb 08 up on eBay, if anyone might be interested. My wife and I already had tickets for the 28 Jan show in Atlanta, GA at the Philips Arena, and thought we might go to this second show as well, but it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to swing it.
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WordPress 2.3.2
WordPress 2.3.2 is now available. It “is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts.” I just upgraded without any problems. More info on what’s new in 2.3.2 can be found here.
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End of support for Netscape browsers.
End of support for Netscape browsers. Thus ends an era that lasted far longer than most might have imagine. Netscape, I salute you and your contributions to the web over the years.