For anyone interested in capturing the audio from a Youtube clip, I would highly recommend using Audi Hijack Pro from Rogue Amoeba (for Macs only, however. I have no idea what an equivalent PC application would be). It is an excellent program that allows you to capture the audio from any application or any web [...]
Almost taken straight from Minority Report, Piclens is the coolest web browser plug-in I’ve ever seen. Once installed (seamlessly on a Mac using Firefox 3.0.1), the feature allows you to browse photos and/or videos from a site and view them all in a huge panoramic view. Any site you visit that contains multiple images or [...]
For the 5th straight month, job openings posted online dropped in July according to the Conference Board. The number of online postings (3.86 million vacancies) was 5.4% below July of last year. I am not sure how the Conference Board generates and measures the data, but I have to imagine that it is imperfect at [...]
Thanks to Fred Wilson (A VC) for calling attention to a blog post written by Roger Ehrenberg detailing the reasons behind the failure of Monitor 110. I couldn’t agree more with Fred’s assessment that this is an absolute must read for every entrepeneur and start-up investor. There are tremendous lessons in the story about virtually [...]
Looking for Elliott Smith’s version of Trouble, I stumbled across this. Yet more confirmation that YouTube is, without question, the greatest site on the web today.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press announced today that they were scaling back their print edition and combining sections to save money. The paper will no longer print a local section of the paper but will, instead, cover international, national, and local news in the ‘A’ section of the paper each day. As well, the paper [...]
The studio version of this song is much, much better, but pretty cool to see it live too.
While the Minneapolis Star Tribune continues to negotiate with its debt holders about delaying its debt payments in an effort to remain solvent, the Journal Register reached agreement with its banks to delay debt payments until November. At the end of the first quarter, the Journal Register had $640 million in debt on its balance [...]