05.23.06
Posted in General at 3:40 pm by Administrator
From Online Media Daily, YouTube, the popular user-generataed video content site has finally enabled a feature that should have been part of their feature set for ages; the ability to upload videos directly from your phone or handheld device.
Service which is currently available only on Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon requires that users have mobile phones that are capable of taking video and sending multimedia messaging service, or MMS, messages.
Personally, I’m curious to see how the nature of the content changes with the adoption of thie feature. I expect we’ll see more spontaneous content as well (unfortunately) as more bathroom humor type stuff.
Read the whole story with links and comments at MobileCrunch, click here.
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05.19.06
Posted in General at 6:56 am by Administrator
I stumbled across a very interesting story written by a game maker about cheatingin online games.. definitely worth a read if you are into programming, or online gaming.
How to Hurt the Hackers: The Scoop on Internet Cheating and How You Can Combat It
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Posted in Software and Web Apps at 6:52 am by Administrator
It’s not entirely accurate, obviously, but it is a fun way to get an idea of some of the factors that make your domain valuable, or not so valuable.. check out the info at Leapfish for more info!
from Leapfish:
How do you determine a value?
“We have gathered data on thousands of domain names that have sold recently and how much they sold for in order to create what we like to call the Value Multiplier. This is a magic number you multiply by your CVS by to achieve an estimated value based on historical sales and current domain value. This estimated base value is generally used as a guideline in selecting a minimum sale value. The estimated actual value is directly derived from the base value and attempts to reflect actual potential. Some domain names do not have a high enough demand unable to meet this number, so please do not assume this value is absolute.”
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05.06.06
Posted in Software and Web Apps at 9:00 pm by Administrator
A very cool looking new product for web developers, the demo creations look great, and I’d love to work with this product to create some more interactive portals, but the current price will keep this out of our product development toolbox for a while… The site says prices subject to change -perhaos one day it will be in the hundreds instead of thousands…
From http://www.backbase.com/start/
With Backbase AJAX software, developers can create more user-friendly web applications in record-time. The Backbase framework has many user interface controls and code samples, and advanced development tools. It is optimized for .NET, Java, PHP and other languages. Backbase supports all main web browsers, without the need for a plug-in. Please take a look at our demos and whitepapers, or download the Community Edition.
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Posted in Software and Web Apps at 4:18 pm by Administrator
A very cool looking new product for web developers, the demo creations look great, and I’d love to work with this product to create some more interactive portals, but the current price will keep this out of our product development toolbox for a while… The site says prices subject to change -perhaos one day it will be in the hundreds instead of thousands…
From http://www.backbase.com/start/
With Backbase AJAX software, developers can create more user-friendly web applications in record-time. The Backbase framework has many user interface controls and code samples, and advanced development tools. It is optimized for .NET, Java, PHP and other languages. Backbase supports all main web browsers, without the need for a plug-in. Please take a look at our demos and whitepapers, or download the Community Edition.
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Posted in Podcasting / Podcasts at 3:56 pm by Administrator
Well, we have been working to create a similar project, and I am glad to see that other people have had and are wokring on the same idea, usually that means it is a good one. I think that there is room in this space for several call in podcast channels, just as there is room for several talk shows in each radio market. TechCrunch / Michael Arrington likes the idea, so we will continue development and will keep tabs on the new podcast at waxxi as well…
From TechCrunch:
I think Tracy Sheridan’s Waxxi is a great idea: a scheduled podcast where people can call in and participate (Frank Gruber has more). The kickoff podcast is with Naked Converstions authors Shel Israel and Robert Scoble, on May 20, 2006 at 10:30 AM PST. If you would like to participate, register on the Waxxi homepage and you will receive a toll free number to call and a participation code. I do not know if there is a limit on the number of participants.
I have some unanswered questions about how the podcast will be handled. With a large number of participants anyone’s chance to actually talk much will be extremely limited. And I hope they will have some form of moderation to allow the host to keep control of the conversation (this is how public company earnings calls are handled - you press a button if you would like to ask a question and the host chooses you at the right time). A party line with dozens or hundreds of people would just be a mess. Also, Waxxi will have a simultaneous chat/im session running with the podcast. This is a great idea - and I hope that the transcript will be available along with the podcast (what we really need is a way to listen to the podcast with the IM archive rolling along at real time as well, but that would require the buidling of specific client software, something I don’t see suggested from the Waxxi site.
There are other experiments in this area as well. Skype just released a new product called Skypecasts, which allows moderated Skype calls with up to 100 participants. Although Skype does not have a record call feature, there are third party services that allow this (minus the simultaneous chat IM, though).
And Podserve has taken a different approach - allowing people to create feeds that a group of people, or anyone, can contribute to. They call it social podcasting.
Read the whole article and comments at TechCrunch - click here.
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05.02.06
Posted in Internet Users at 3:09 am by Administrator
An excellent article and bookmarklet to allow google video files files to be saved as AVIs; very cool, big thanks to google system at blogspot for sharing
Download Google Videos As AVI Files
If you want to save videos from Google Video and you use Windows, you have the option to download them as GVI files and play with Google Video Player.
If you want to save the videos as AVI and view with any video player on any platform, use this bookmarklet: Google Videos As AVI. You can save it as a bookmark in your browser or drag and drop it to the link toolbar. Next time when you see a video you like on Google Video, click on the bookmarklet and you can save the video.
Explanation: The location for the AVI file can be found in the source of Google Video pages, but it’s hidden for Windows users.
If you can’t see the videos or you player gives errors, try Media Player Classic.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc2kxp6490.zip?download (for 2000/XP)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc98me6490.zip?download (for 98)
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