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April 30, 2007
On the drive from Minneapolis to Fort Wayne, IN today, I had a short discussion with Jeremy where we discussed the declining circulation numbers of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the largest daily newspaper in Minnesota. When I look at large...
New products and services for bringing television to the Internet are appearing every day. This week's new entries include two with very similar sounding names -- Vudu and Zattoo. The former is a Silicon Valley startup building a box...
Technology Evangelist is covering the 2007 Killer App Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We are not only bringing our standard 1080p high-definition gear but we're also streaming the event LIVE! On Monday, April 30th we'll be driving from Minneapolis, MN...
The Technology Evangelist team will be driving to Fort Wayne, Indiana for the Killer App Expo on Monday and streaming the car ride via UStream.tv. This will be an interesting experiment to see how well EVDO and Ustream.tv can deal...
April 28, 2007
Facebook recently announced a few changes to their status update system that closely replicate Twitter's offering: Your friends' three most recent updates on the home page A brand new page to see all your friends' updates at once An RSS...
April 27, 2007
Whenever I'm at a real estate conference, I suggest to agents that they should consider starting a blog as a marketing tool. And there are usually a handful of businesses on hand who specialize in managing blogs for real estate...
Fashion may not be a topic you would think goes with Technology, but that is exactly why we feel we need to bring it up. Our new feature, Fashion Friday, addresses fashion for the tech set....
Continue reading "Fashion Friday - Episode 1" »
April 26, 2007
With the release of the Apple TV, we have seen a lot of confusion over High Definition standards. Benjamin takes the time to break down what all of those numbers, letters, and more numbers mean....
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On todays live Podcast: How are Google blog search results ranked? Is Google reading your e-mail? The head of Live.com leaves. Do fancier search interfaces make search easier? Who uses a blog search engine? Make sure to join us tomorrow...
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April 25, 2007
Roald Marth gave a technology presentation at the Toronto Real Estate Board's annual meeting, REALTOR QUEST, on Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Here are a few links to topics discussed. Buy your domain name. Register it at GoDaddy.com or other domain...
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We're BACK! It's Web 2.0 Wednesday and today we're talking about using the Web as a platform. As usual we have live audience participation from Ustream.tv and TalkShoe.com. Make sure to join us tomorrow live at 12:00pm EDT, 11:00am CDT,...
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Did Steve Rubel increase his Geek, Dork, or Nerd credibility when he Twittered the following tweet: Fashion question: untucked men's dress shirts at work - in or out? I am experimenting wearing shirts this way....
CommonCraft has created an interesting video explaining what RSS is all about in less than 4 minutes. If you're an RSS user who tries explaining the benefits of RSS to others, or someone who hasn't used an RSS reader yet,...
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April 24, 2007
In an effort to give you even more video content we are premiering another new feature this week on TechnologyEvangelist. Website of the Week will be a video look at some new and interesting websites out there that you...
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Recently Apple sent out a newsletter to videocasters explaining how to optimize their videos for the Apple TV. A lot of it was pretty basic stuff but one section in particular caught my eye. Apple suggests only encoding for the...
April 23, 2007
Today we start a new feature on Technology Evangelist, Ed Learns Video 101. In the course of our everyday lives we have seen a lot of video on the Internet, and unfortunately a lot of it is not done...
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Ben and I were grabbing some tea at a Minneapolis coffee shop last week when Ben spotted this guy working on a ladder leaning on . . . the wire. Aaron Landry's comment on my Flickr account summed up the...
April 22, 2007
One nice thing about blogging platforms is that they're generally very search engine friendly. This is especially true when it comes to indexing: search engines have few problems finding every page in a blog's archive. However, there are a few...
April 20, 2007
We love chatting with everyone in Ustream.tv and TalkShoe live every weekday at 12:00 EDT, but alas we will need to skip this coming Monday and Tuesday. Ed will be out of the country and I'm having my jaw looked...
Freestyle Friday! Any topic is open for discussion and this show takes full advantage of that. We amplify the conversation with TalkShoe and Ustream.tv to bring in other ideas an opinions all throughout the show. This show was so good...
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I've been turning into a bit of a hypermiler, which, for those of you not familiar with the term, is driving using strategies that maximize fuel efficiency. For example, when I'm heading West on Hwy 5 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota...
April 19, 2007
On this action packed Search Thursday Episode: How does search affect your online reputation? Stephen Colbert #1 greatest living American? Ask.com Commercial. Does advertising affect how people search? Is it ethical to link to Digg for your own stories? Are...
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April 18, 2007
QuickTime is an amazing architecture. Mac OS X bases its media foundation on QuickTime and QuickTime is used in many digital cameras, portable devices and web sites. So why then doesn't Apple TV support some of the most basic functions...
Does giving away conference and expo presentations hurt the conference/expo attendance? What are some good Web 2.0 Business Models? How could businesses better use mashups and the MixTape show on Feedburner. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/62690/Web_2.0_Wednesday_Podcast_-_04_18_2007.mp3&song_title=Web 2.0 Wednesday 04-18-2007"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/62690/Web_2.0_Wednesday_Podcast_-_04_18_2007.mp3&song_title=Web 2.0 Wednesday 04-18-2007" />...
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Among the applications Google has integrated into their web based Office suite, a presentation application may be the most valuable: Google buys PowerPoint editor Tonic's TonicPoint tools allow you to open a PowerPoint presentation with your web browser, edit it,...
April 17, 2007
A few weeks back, I contributed to a story on my local FOX TV affiliate about coffee shop squatters. We discussed how coffee shop's policies vary, but really it comes down to etiquette on the part of the customer. If...
20GB PS3 is dead, larger drives soon? UK is getting even more Eco Friendly as is the Asus EcoBook. Sony DRM, broken again. Is Vonage dead yet? Vinyl sales on the increase? data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/62460/New_Technology_Tuesday_-_04_17_2007.mp3&song_title=New Technology Tuesday 04-17-2007"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/62460/New_Technology_Tuesday_-_04_17_2007.mp3&song_title=New Technology Tuesday 04-17-2007"...
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April 16, 2007
Jon Gordon found last week's story and resulting controversy about Don Imus' supposed replacement interesting from an Internet journalism standpoint and ran a story about it today. If you're a National Public Radio listener, you may have heard it earlier...
There are only so many tricks that consumer electronics companies can play to get us to buy their stuff, but one of the most common techniques these days is to integrate several functions into one mobile device. That's because we...
Apple yesterday showed its willing to lose money to capture the pro-video market. Anyone paying attention to what Apple purchased in the past couple of years, to get the technology in Final Cut Server and the new “Color” software...
It was a busy weekend! Final Cut Server, Final Cut Studio 2, the Red Camera, Movie downloads from iTunes in the UK and the Dodgeball founders leave Google. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/62269/New_Media_Podcast_-_04_16_2007.mp3&song_title=New Media Monday 04-16-2007"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/62269/New_Media_Podcast_-_04_16_2007.mp3&song_title=New Media Monday 04-16-2007" /> Total Run Time...
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April 15, 2007
Thanks to Julio Ojeda-Zapata for pointing out the ridiculousness that is Symantec's packaging for their Norton 360 software: Did they really have to destroy the ecosystems of three spotted owls, two penguins, and a polar bear to package a CD?...
April 14, 2007
This just in from Australia, where a teenager posed as ABC (an Australian TV network) and caused YouTube to withdraw hundreds of videos: "A 15-year-old boy from Perth has apologised for pretending to be from ABC Television and having...
While SD Cards are cool, SD cards with built in USB adapters are even cooler. I'm a big SD card user, with SD memory in my Palm Treo 700p, my Canon SD800 point and shoot camera, and my Panasonic camcorder...
April 13, 2007
The TE crew talks about Ed's April Fools joke, Apple delaying Mac OS X 10.5, Apple and MGM deal, Online Media, TiVo and other random topics. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/61479/Freestyle_Friday_Podcast_-_04_13_2007.mp3&song_title=Freestyle Friday 04-13-2007"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/61479/Freestyle_Friday_Podcast_-_04_13_2007.mp3&song_title=Freestyle Friday 04-13-2007" /> Total Run Time 34:48 | Direct Download...
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So, I made up the Technology Evangelist temporarily replacing Imus thing. This was a subtle, but key line to the story: Wow, it feels like we're running 11 days behind. As in, 11 days behind on April Fool's jokes. Can...
Point2Agent agent's listings getting bumped from Craigslist, according to St. Paul / Minneapolis REALTOR, Bonnie Erickson, who wrote about here recent experiences on her Real Estate Snippers blog: Real Estate Snippets: Real Estate Advertising Craig's List and I duked it...
April 12, 2007
UPDATE: the official press release is now available. This is supposed to be under embargo until Midnight EST, but heck, it involves us, so you're hearing it here first. Things are moving very fast at Technology Evangelist, and an amazing...
Different SEO services, optimizing search for Apple TV content, Sitemaps auto-discovery change, Google changes their ad format as well as tests Picon support on the organic results and the Digg effect: are users smarter than the ads? Get ready, this...
Continue reading "Search Thursday Podcast - 04/12/2007" »
Yesterday's post on the AdSense click through rates of Digg users drew some interesting comments, including this one from Haf, where he points out that Digg's founder, Kevin Rose, is the second largest AdSense money maker: Hang on a sec:...
You can now use your robots.txt file to point search engines to your site's sitemap file. This saves time because you'll no longer have to register with each search engine and submit your sitemap's URL. Just update your robots.txt file...
April 11, 2007
Justin.tv gets it on, The Great Twitter Wars of '07, Space Invaders on your network, GMail rant and Google 411 all that and more on todays Web 2.0 Wednesday Podcast. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/61085/Web_2.0_Podcast_-_04_11_2007.mp3&song_title=Web 2.0 Wednesday 04-11-2007"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/61085/Web_2.0_Podcast_-_04_11_2007.mp3&song_title=Web 2.0 Wednesday 04-11-2007" /> Total...
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If I was Google, this is something that would scare the crap out of me: Digg users don't click ads. The first graph below shows the page views by day of a site I track which received two trips to...
April 10, 2007
Benjamin Higginbotham, Ed Kohler and Jeremy Elfering talk about new technology. Vizio 60" Plasmas, 1080p LCDs under $1,500, Sony Vaio Type L, Nokia N95 and N93i and the Microsoft Zune. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/60783/New_Technology_Tuesday_-_04_10_2007.mp3&song_title=New Technology Tuesday 04-10-2007"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/60783/New_Technology_Tuesday_-_04_10_2007.mp3&song_title=New Technology Tuesday 04-10-2007" /> Total...
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Seth Godin explains on his new book blog, The Dip, that the web has changed the face of purchasing by providing more choices and competition than we've had in the past: The Dip by Seth Godin: The Best in the...
April 9, 2007
Benjamin Higginbotham and Ed Kohler interview Ben Deneen from the Minnesota School of Business about Google Radio. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/60361/New_Media_Podcast_-_04_09_2007.mp3&song_title=New Media Monday 04-09-2007"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/60361/New_Media_Podcast_-_04_09_2007.mp3&song_title=new Media Monday 04-09-2007" /> Total Run Time 16:28 | Direct Download | Non-Explicit We will be Podcasting at...
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I've been a huge fan of Gmail for quite some time now, and often find myself telling friends they should use Gmail as well. Yet many choose to stick with what they're currently using for a variety of reasons. Here...
April 8, 2007
Does blogging and teaching mix? In my opinion, it should, but first, let's look at a few issues that may arise when teachers blog: EdTech Avenue is a new Minneapolis based blog looking at the technology issues facing schools. One...
April 7, 2007
Late last night Leo Laporte shut down his Twitter account and moved to Jaiku. His reasoning was that there was confusion between TWiT and Twitter. Lame reason aside, what does this do to Twitter? Twitter has a handful of heavy...
The video below made me wonder why Blackberry has been the subject of such ridicule compared to the Treo while both lead to the same always checking emails, responding to text message, head down mentality. Did the "crackberry" term just...
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April 6, 2007
Apple TV is out and it is set up for native HD, but what about those who only have a standard definition monitor? All hope is not lost. There is a way to hook up an Apple TV to...
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It's Friday and that means our Podcast goes freestylin'. Topics today include setting up TalkShoe with a SIP client rather than using your SkypeOut minutes, Refurb Radio, Vonage, GrandCentral, Google Desktop for the Mac, Apple's quad core Mac Pros, Adobe...
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Add this number to your phone with the contact name Google 411: 800-466-4411 (aka 800-GOOG-411) Now, give it a call. Find out more about it here. via Steve Rubel on Twitter....
Microsoft has disabled some of the functionality of their search engine due to excessive resource demands caused by automated queries. Live Search's WebLog : We are flattered, but... "For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax...
April 5, 2007
SEO, SEM and other search related acronyms are the highlight of our search Podcast today. Ed Kohler the resident search guru walks us though the importance of SEO, blogging and what to do with single page AJAX applications. If you're...
Continue reading "Search Thursday Podcast" »
Do you remember Season 3 of The Apprentice? I was a HUGE fan of Season 1, a moderate fan of Season 2, and by Season 3, I was just barely hanging on. However, there was one character on Season 3...
Continue reading "Video on the Net - Danny Kastner, FanRocket" »
The BBC reported last week that ad spending online has finally overtaken newspaper advertising in the UK: Web ad spend overtakes newspapers Online advertising expenditure jumped 41.2% to £2.01bn during the year, the report by the Internet Advertising Bureau and...
April 4, 2007
Benjamin Higginbotham and Ed Kohler talk Web 2.0, specifically what's the point of community driven web sites? Why do we keep contributing to these sites and what does the future of community driven sites look like? data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/59350/Web_2.0_Podcast_-_04_04_2007.mp3&song_title=Web 2.0 Wednesday 04-04-2007">...
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The FeedRoom is a white label video management service that powers the video sections of some of the largest sites on the web, including the New York Times, Intel, HP, and BusinessWeek. Encoding, hosting, and syndication services are provided...
Continue reading "Video on the Net - Robb Miller, The FeedRoom" »
It's hard to illustrate the significance of data by presenting it in table form. This is why we have graphs. However, graphs have their limitations too, since even accurately plotted data can fall short of the message a presenter is...
April 3, 2007
Ed talked to Scott Jamar at Video on the Net about ComVu. ComVu allows you to take video with your camera phone and broadcast it live to the web. Click To Play...
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Jeremy Elfering joins Benjamin Higginbotham on this Gadgets based Podcast for Tuesday. Jeremy and Benjamin cover the Apple TV as well as the Sony reader. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/59031/Gadgets_Podcast_-_04_03_2007.mp3&song_title=Gadgets Tuesday 04-03-2007"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/59031/Gadgets_Podcast_-_04_03_2007.mp3&song_title=Gadgets Tuesday 04-03-2007" /> Total Run Time 10:35 | Direct Download |...
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When the Apple TV came out I rushed to buy one. Technology Evangelist shoots all our videos in 1080p and distributes 480p, 720p and 1080p versions of our material. On paper it looked like our stuff would work, but you...
Netflix clearly understands the power of relevancy. If people are able to consistently find movies that interest them using Netflix's recommendation engine, they'll be satisfied with the service and continue to fork over their monthly fees. Everybody's happy in this...
April 2, 2007
The all new Technology Evangelist Podcasts are here! Each day we'll have a themed discussion and when the Podcast archive becomes large enough we'll break out each day into its own RSS file. We're still trying to find that perfect...
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Qoof is a new social video site based around product testimonials. Ed had a chance to talk to Qoof's Chief Operating Officer, Hillel Scheinfeld, at the Video on the Net conference about the service, who it's for, and how it...
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