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Post 1214

imported

Posted Sunday, 11 July 2004

Tech: Famous Fonts font had free versions of typestyles used by copmanies, TV shows and others, especially in their logos.

Tags: free, mac

Hidden songs on audio CDs

imported

Posted Sunday, 11 July 2004

The Hidden Song Archive lists about 300 songs on various CDs.

Tags: audio, music, storage

Post 1212

imported

Posted Sunday, 11 July 2004

Tech: The Branding of Polaroid, 1957 - 1977: Paul Giambarba describes how he designed Polaroid’s branding in the late 1950s.

Tags: MBA, ROI

Post 1211

imported

Posted Sunday, 11 July 2004

Tech: Print Article: 58% SKorean internet users illegally download films: “The Motion Picture Association of America said its survey released this week found an average of 24 percent of Web users in the eight countries have downloaded at least one movie. But the percentage in South Korea was 58 percent. South Korea is believed to have the highest percentage of Internet users on high-speed connections - between 60 and 70 percent as of late last year, according to the International Telecommunications Union.”

Tags: Internet, Korea, legal, movie, telecom

Post 1210

imported

Posted Sunday, 11 July 2004

Tech: Data Mining Goes 3D: Sounds like a stakeholder identification system to me. “In ‘Sandia’s intelligence lab converts business data into 3-D images,’ the New Mexico Business Weekly reports that Sandia’s Information Visualization Lab is able to search structured documents, such as scientific journals, or unstructured ones, such as the Web or an intranet. Since the lab has been established five months ago, this software has already been used to determine the potential of several partnerships with SNL. Other firms, such as Lockheed Martin, also are starting to use the lab.”

Tags: blog, business, data, Intel, intranet, Mexico, radio, search, software, system