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July 31, 2006
TheirSpace: Willamette Week Online "But the telcos want to create a tiered system that would leave them free to price the market well out of reach for your favorite website, be it porn or politics, forcing that site off...
Feedburner's BuzzBoost feature allows you to syndicate blog headlines onto web sites using a simple JavaScript code snippet. Pasting the BuzzBoost code into your site's template will create a new Headlines section with the latest posts from the blog of your choice.
July 30, 2006
BusinessWeek is reporting that YouTube is facing its first copyright lawsuit. Surprisingly, it comes from a person who covered the Los Angeles riots fourteen years ago rather than the MPAA or RIAA:Whose Video Is It, Anyway? NO CLEAR BOUNDARIES. Tur's...
July 29, 2006
Senator open to TV chat about Internet "tubes" - Yahoo! News "Mocked by comedian Jon Stewart for calling the Internet a bunch of tubes, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Thursday he is open to going...
July 27, 2006
Amazon's associates program offers web site publishers a fairly quick and easy way to generate some extra income from product recommendations. Currently, the program pays commissions starting at 4% (or as Amazon says, "up to 8.5%") on sales generated from traffic you refer through an affiliate link. The cool thing is you get commissions on the entire sale, so even if you refer someone to a $2.99 box of cereal (good stuff) you'll earn commissions on the entire order.
Add a "Gmail This" Bookmarklet to Your Browser - About Email Nice tip that makes it easier to gmail something you find interesting. (tags: gmail howto tips) Top 126 Ajax Tutorials : Ultimate Web Developer Lists : eConsultant Helpful...
It was just a matter of time. My Treo 600 finally died after a long life of good work. Um, long may not be the best description since a previous Treo 600 became dead to me when it stopped syncing...
July 26, 2006
Yesterday, Skype released version 1.5beta for the Macintosh bringing Mac users long-awaited video support. Today, SightSpeed is scheduled to release version 5.0 which should bring us inbound and outbound PSTN calls as well as TV tuner support. While both of these offerings are great, they are both still missing some key features that would help bring them into mass adoption.
July 25, 2006
A reporter interviewing me for an upcoming story on YouTube mentioned that I should check out the Titanic 2 video on YouTube. Hilarious.
July 24, 2006
How to use Google to get a girl and get laid: Damien Mulley Johnny is a 22 year old Internet nerd. He works as a programmer with some megacorp, went straight from the computer labs in college to the...
John Battelle picked up on some of the recent banter regarding YouTube's value, mentioning a NY Post report that YouTube could be worth $1 Billion. Battelle expresses similar concerns over the copyright issue (discussed previously on Technology Evangelist here) staring...
July 23, 2006
If YouTube truly scrubbed all copyrighted material from their site tomorrow, what would be left? Would there be ANYTHING left interesting enough to draw an audience? I believe the answer is yes, in the form of video blogs.
July 22, 2006
Huge news - Judge refuses to dismiss NSA lawsuit: Glenn Greenwald The Bush adminstration suffered an enormous defeat [Thursday], as a federal district court denied its motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T,...
I spent some time today helping friends set up a new Dell laptop after reading
about the recent complaints online about Dell's overly ambitious bundling of
3rd party software. My experience? It wasn't that bad, other than dealing with
the Microsoft licensing setup, which is likely outside of Dell's control.
July 21, 2006
E-mail is an interesting creature. Originally designed for text only this beast has grown out of control with users spoofing names, attachments in excess of 10MB and just plain abuse of the system. I have long believed that there are two areas where e-mail needs the greatest improvement: file attachments and user authentication. I can?｢どｨび｢t fix user authentication today, but a product called Pando can fix the problems with attachments.
The Daily Show: Net Neutrality once more: Crooks and Liars Network Neutrality, PC vs Apple, AND Chuck Norris Jokes all in one segment. (tags: dailyshow networkneutrality apple pc chucknorris) Inside Apple's latest iPod touch-screen patent filing: AppleInsider "It describes...
Jason Calacanis has written an interesting post on his reasoning behind offering to pay top bookmarkers from Digg and Reddit to bookmark at Netscape's new news site:Why the Web 2.0 and media elite are so upset about paying amateurs (or...
Yahoo has rolled out a new Yahoo Finance badge creator that allows website owners to easily syndicate stock quotes with charts and headline onto your website or blog.
July 20, 2006
Yahoo and Motorola to feature Web phone services - Yahoo! News "Yahoo Inc., the world's largest Internet media company, and Motorola Inc., the second-biggest maker of mobile phones, said late on Wednesday that Motorola will embed Yahoo services on...
An article from The Guardian Unlimited regarding content creation vs. commenting on the web has drawn some traction on Digg:
July 19, 2006
When Google first launched Gmail there was a small outcry from privacy advocates about Google's plan to serve advertising based on the content of user's emails.
Bush blocked probe into phone taps: Gonzales - Yahoo! News "Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales confirmed that Bush put a halt to an enquiry by department lawyers into the National Security Agency (NSA) program, which involved wiretaps...
This is interesting: CinemaNow unveils download-to-burn DVD service - Yahoo! News Online movie seller CinemaNow late on Tuesday unveiled a new service that allows customers to download a movie from the Internet and copy it onto a DVD that can...
July 18, 2006
Will Comedians find new fans through MySpace?MySpace to court comedy crowd - Yahoo! News MySpace's comedy community will feature areas to post tour dates, video and audio clips and provide a way for comedians to speak directly with fans."It's our...
Vehicles with the Highest Fuel Efficiency The Honda Insight leads the list today in off-the-lot fuel efficiency. (tags: cars business fuel environment ratings) Curbed LA: Broker Boys & Babes: WINNERS Who are the hottest real estate agents in Los...
YouTube is probably best known for (and popular today because of) the wide array of copyrighted material users have posted to the site. Here are a few examples that work today but may not in the future if YouTube removes them:
July 17, 2006
YouTube serves up 100 million videos a day | CNET News.com "YouTube, the leader in Internet video search, said Sunday viewers are now watching more than 100 million videos per day on its site, marking the surge in demand...
The popular RSS tracking company, Feedburner, has opened the checkbook and expanded their analytics reach to blogs with the purchase of Blogbeat.net: FeedBurner buys BlogBeat, expanding blog analysis - Yahoo! News FeedBurner.com, which syndicates Web postings for 200,000 publishers, said...
The popular blog search engine, Technorati, offers a Favorites feature that allows you to collect blogs you find interesting.
July 13, 2006
I had a chance to catch up on some podcast listening with Ro and Ben while out of digital phone and Internet access crossing Nebraska on I-80 yesterday. Airplanes and the boondocks are two places where there are few enough distractions in my life to sit through podcasts. We had some great discussions archived, and had a great time listening to them. Here are a few reviews:
July 12, 2006
One thing that really annoys me about the sophomore albums put out by bands is their move from singing about what's inspired them in their life, to singing about their experiences on the road. I don't care what life is like on tour for Bon Jovi. However, this isn't going to stop me from falling into the same trap while traveling this week.
July 11, 2006
Have you every shopped for a new home online? If so, did pictures of homes influence your home shopping? If you're like everyone I've ever met, you probably poured over photos of homes you were interested in buying. Photos help tell the story of a property, so the more photos you can see, the better, right?
July 10, 2006
Dane Carlson from The Business Opportunities Weblog created a widget that uses the Technorati API to estimate a blog's value based on link popularity. We first discussed this in March when this site crossed the $100,000 mark, and now we're close to double that:
July 9, 2006
My brother-in-law, Luke Watson, is a professional runner. Not a bad gig, but the considerable amount of international travel involved can lead to costly communications. However, he's managed to bring the international calling costs down to only pennies a minute from anywhere in the world by picking up a cell phone in Belguim with a free incoming call plan paired with a request to friends and family to call him using Skype.
July 8, 2006
Flickr is an online photo site where users can upload, store, and categorize their photos using tags and groups. Photos can be shared within the Flickr community based on tags allowing users to find similar photos with just a click.
July 7, 2006
This is the first in a 435-part series (give or take) on sources of syndicatable content for websites. Sites covered in this series offer tools to publish content from their site onto your own site.
July 5, 2006
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment and gave an amazing primer on how the internet works.
July 4, 2006
Happy forth of July everyone! In honor of the USA?｢どｨび｢s independence I thought it would be interesting to make a post on fireworks and the technology behind them. While at their core fireworks don?｢どｨび｢t seem to have a lot of tech (light fire make boom), there?｢どｨび｢s actually a lot of interesting stuff that goes into the grand displays that we all watch on the 4th.
July 3, 2006
Talkr offers a service that
allows bloggers to create audio versions of their posts on the fly. While not actual
podcasts with the inflection of your own voice, they do offer an
alternative for people who'd rather listen to rather than read
what you write. Before implementing this service, test the quality of
the Talkr service to make sure suitable for your needs. Be prepared for a
somewhat robotic delivery.
July 2, 2006
There is no more powerful form of marketing than an endorsement from one of your current customers to their friends and colleagues. When people share their thoughts about your product or service with people in their network, they're creating impressions many times more powerful than any ad you could run. Given that, anything that enables such endorsements will likely pay dividends for your company.
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