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Hauppauge has been working in the computer video arena for some time, with good hardware for getting video onto your computer, now they have a new software suite that will convert video on your PC into the ipod video format for your portable video player… This may be a decent alternative to using Quicktime Pro for videocast creation…
Looks like someone has beaten us to the punch.. this new site claims to take any video file on the internet (or you own computer), and convert it into a file that will play on the video ipod, or stream to your computer via RSS.. Very close to a program we are working on behind the scenes.. Glad to see we are not the only ones thinking in this area…
Podcasting News: Blinkz Streamlines Searching and Syncing Video to iPods
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Protecting your kids from online predators - MSNBC TV Live - MSNBC.com
On the heels of a ‘Dateline NBC’ investigative report exposing sexual predators who attempted to lure young teenagers into sexual encounters, MSNBC’s Alison Stewart welcomed John Shehan from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children to Tuesday’s MSNBC Live to discuss how parents can keep their kids safe online.
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“It’s dangerous in the fact that while that child is online for hours and hours at a time, they’re seeking something, whether it’s assurance, whether it’s a friend, that child predator is going to be online, they’re going to read those online blogs, they’re going to be in chatrooms, and they’re going to be looking for children,” he said.
Shehan noted that there are several things that can be done by parents to keep their kids safe.
“First and foremost, parents need to educate themselves before they can even talk to their children about the issue,” Shehan said, noting that most parents know far less about the internet than their children.
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Read the whole article; Protecting your kids from online predators - MSNBC TV Live - MSNBC.com
There is even an interective learning center that will help parents learn more about online safety for children..
A new ad medium we stumbled across at Adrants.. looks like a medium for reaches the under 25 market which loves thier camer phones.. We could see this popping up on web sites, in magazines and more..
Adrants » Technology Enables Billboards to Direct Camera Phone Users to Website
In Japan, Northewest Airlines is running a billboard campaign which contains QR codes, small image tags on the billboards which contain an embedded URL. When a camera phone user takes a picture of the board, they are directed to a website that features a game where airline coupons can be won. A company called Semacode makes the technology behind the QR codes. Many phone manufacturers are adopting the technology which may make billboards finally serve a purpose other that simple brand awareness or physical directionals.
Google Search blog: Google Newspaper Ads Go Into Beta
Google is moving into placing ads in newspapers, starting with one Chicago newspaper. The Google Publication Ads login page is live. This isn’t just a repurposing of AdSense/AdWords for print publications, it’s a whole new service that allows advertisers to use Google to buy print ad space.
If you are one of the lucky ones who a got an X box 360 before they sold out, and you have HDTV, and a windows media center pc, here is the info you need:
Our phone number, contact info, and schedule of availability; to come by and test out the xbox on your HDTV set up. Appointments made after 5pm will not incur our normal after hours fee for this service 
Or, if you want to did it you self…From Weblogs inc…
So you’ve got an HDTV-compatible Windows Media Center and an Xbox 360 living in distant corners of the house, sad as lonely singles in adjacent boarding house rooms. But lo, the twain shall meet,……
An article in newsweek, that should at least get more people in the bigger companies to realise the need for, and some of the differences in search engine optimization. We believe that more detail into the short term versus long term search engine strategy. I found it interesting that they mentioned some large companies hire SEO as inhouse full time employees, and many do this as a way to keep negative press, blog comments, etc, from showing up in search results common to the company in question.
Hotwiring Your Search Engine - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com
reports that the links on the very top of a search-results page—what users see without scrolling down—capture 70 percent of all users’ mouseclicks. That’s why the SEO profession has taken off, from a few hundred practitioners in the mid-’90s to thousands today, with many of them working inside big firms like Intel and IBM. “Having an SEO either in-house or as a consult-ant is now considered a necessity,”
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Search engines like google, Yahoo and MSN have a conflicted relationship with SEOs. They deplore the so-called black-hat SEOs who use unsavory techniques, like spamming the Web with dummy pages full of links, in an effort to make their sites appear popular. But they are increasingly tolerant of ethical or “white hat” SEOs
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There has been much talk lately about the search engines changing the method they use to rank pages for various searches, and with this, it will be much for difficult to know how, or who can place good results in the engnines next month, next quarter, or next year.
