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Josh and Adam interview Kevin Rose and Gary Vaynerchuk at the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) 2008 conference in Miami, FL. It's one of the most entertaining interviews in The Web 2.0 Show history...AND this is the FIRST episode in the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) podcast series.

When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Millbrook, Ala., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. For Penn, it’s been the experience of a lifetime, even getting to select and install a gateway security appliance largely by himself.

This watch has been dubbed the "Accurate" not so much for its abilities to keep accurate time, but for its reminder about our inevitable demise. Following in the tradition of memento mori, the Accurate watch continuously alerts us to the fact that life is short and that we should strive to seize the day.

Sure, you could squirrel that cash away, put it toward savings or retirement, or commit some other unnatural and responsible act. But why not treat yourself to something unnecessary and electronic?

Security professionals that take part in an annual hacking contest will have more reasons to part with their latest vulnerabilities: Up to 20,000 more reasons.On Monday, security firm Tipping Point agreed to offer up to $20,000 as a prize to the first person to compromise each of three laptops running popular operating systems...

If projects are running thin or you're seeking to expand your project search, check out these 5 places you might not have considered before.

Apple Inc. this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update, a third maintenance and security update to its relatively new Leopard operating system that already bundles over 75 bug fixes and code corrections.

A superb showcase of social network analysis maps from FAS.research.

There's a class action suit working its way through the courts to determine whether Microsoft changed the definition of "capable" to help Intel sell computers. But some of the documents released in the case are interesting in their own right. For example, Microsoft has a chart that lists identified causes of Windows Vista crashes

Microsoft's brand power has been in sharp decline over the past four years, an indication the company is losing credibility and mindshare with U.S. business users, according to a recent study by market research firm CoreBrand.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me....

Officials muddle over their options for fairness as records begin falling due to a single high-tech suit

Internal build now available for download. They have achieved 100/100 passes on the DOM test and the layout is pixel perfect, but there is still some work performance work to be done for the animation to be smooth, apparently. Congratulations, Opera!

A host of video and nonvideo electronic games, many using microprocessors, promises the public more stimulating fun for leisure time. [January 1978]

They are variants of Red Hat & Fedora. Virgin America's director of in-flight entertainment Charles Ogilvie explains in this CrunchGear interview.

Whilst one site may have closed its doors thanks to the MPAA, after continuous legal pressure, another has prevailed today in court. Torrent.is has won in court over the Association of film rights-holder in Iceland (SMÁÍS)

Potential iPhone developers should go and grab the latest release of the SDK, beta 2, and revel in the new Interface Builder. Make your own fancy UIs for your iPhone game, or maybe just make an improved iFartz. We're cool with either.

Ringside Networks came out of stealth mode to launch the first open source "social application server." And what is that exactly? It's the software guts of a social network that you can use behind your own firewall, old school style, to build social networking "stuff" into your own site.

Long range laser weapons that do more than make little red dots show up on distant objects have long been a dream of science fiction creators and the military alike. Now it looks like a true, long-range laser blasting weapon may be ready for action within the next five years.