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October 31, 2006
Steve Rubel points out that Google has acquired JotSpot. Google continues to roll on with another acquisition. It just gobbled up JotSpot. And now the wiki service will be free and integrated with the rest of Google's suite of web-based...
CNET is reporting that Google has started cutting revenue sharing deals with video content creators: The search company has agreed to turn over most advertising revenue generated by the latest video from Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, creators of "The...
October 30, 2006
On October 23-25, 2006 Andrew and I attended The Ajax Experience 2006 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
Is HD Radio Worth It? (by Jeremy Zawodny) "The way I see it, most HD Radios seem to pretty expensive ($150+) and I'm not seeing much of a benefit. Therefore, I ask you (my technically minded often leading edge...
Jeremy Zawodny is sick of, "sharing." By "sharing," Zawodny is referring to the questionably helpful "Share This" type links sites provide in an effort to get you to email content to your friends: "Why is it that almost nobody can...
October 28, 2006
Back in February, Ben and I were whining about the poor job Amazon does differentiating between products available for free shipping through Amazon Prime and those that are not. As far as we can tell, it largely breaks down based...
iTunes 7 is causing a friend's PC to grind to a halt. As one song comes to an end and the next begins, iTunes is chewing up enough resources to cause songs to stutter. We tried disabling Crossfade Playback to...
October 27, 2006
Text-Link-Ads has created a new metric for blog geeks called Blog Juice that measures the popularity of blogs on a 1-10 scale based on a combination of Alexa, Bloglines, and Technorati stats. As of this writing Technology Evangelist scores a...
October 25, 2006
Treo Family Comparison Chart: Understanding The Differences: Treonauts "I have included all the specifications and highlighted the areas where there are clear differences between one or more Treo smartphones (most accessories will work across all Treo smartphones except the...
Why do some directories charge for submissions? Doesn't charging limit the number of submissions, thus making the directory itself a less valuable resource? This is something I've been trying to figure out while submitting a few sites I manage to...
The Technology Evangelist team recently had a chance to sit down with Nicholas Reville from the Participatory Culture Foundation, creators of Democracy Player. In the final video of this three part series we talk about the future of Internet Video.
Continue reading "The Innovators - Nicholas Reville of The Participatory Culture Foundation, Part III" »
October 24, 2006
Jon Johansen hacks FairPlay, the Apple iTunes closed system - October 30, 2006 "Johansen, now 22 and widely known as "DVD Jon" for his exploits, has also figured out how Apple's iPod-iTunes system works. And he's using that knowledge...
Email is not the most appropriate medium for newsletters. They clog up my inbox making it harder to find important messages, are too hard to scan, are impossible to link to, and should be set aside for an appropriate time...
October 23, 2006
Yahoo's syndication of local news to an national - actually international - market should help make the world smaller. While we've been able to track news of interest to us from local papers across the country and world for some...
O'Reilly Network -- Open Tools for MySQL Administrators "MySQL provides some tools to monitor and troubleshoot a MySQL server, but they don't always suit a MySQL developer or administrator's common needs, or may not work in some scenarios, such...
Have you ever had problems downloading songs on iTunes? Things were not working well for me on Saturday night while I scrambled to pick up some Bob Dylan for a party. The Essential Bob Dylan has 34 tracks. Only 3...
Steve Rubel notes that Google has added a blog search to their Google News tab. "Google has made a small, but important change to Google News. On the top right hand part of the page next to the Archive Search...
October 22, 2006
Chris Mesinna provides a rant about how Google is evil and their integration of Dodgeball with Google Accounts is the latest sign of their evilness. "Don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t say I didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t warn you, but now when you try to log into your...
What's the difference between Blu-ray and HD DVD? "Like the legendary (if lopsided) battle between VHS and Betamax, Blu-ray and HD DVD are each striving to win the next format war. It's too early to declare a winner, but...
Not all GPS units are the same. Personally, I have experience with the Garmin Nuvi, Magellan 760 and 800 models, the Lexus GPS system, and Ben's Tom Tom for the Treo (with John Cleese voice commands). Gizmodo had some fun...
I imagine just about everyone reading this has encountered some form of phishing emails. Common examples would be emails supposedly coming from sites like PayPal, Ebay, or large banks asking you to update your account information. Of course, the real...
October 21, 2006
Quantcast - Open Internet Ratings Service An alternative to Alexa. Not quite ready for prime time, but working on some interesting web metrics. (tags: statistics web analytics metrics) Video-hungry users could push Net to brink: Nortel - Yahoo! News...
Instan-t Express is a new IM aggregator much like Meebo.com where you can access your AOL, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo IM accounts - but not Google yet - from one browser window. However, Instant-t Express is upping the ante by...
October 20, 2006
And so it begins: YouTube nukes 30,000 videos "In the first major mass removal of content in its history, YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos after being contacted by a number of Japanese rights-holders, according to the Japan Society...
Seth Godin has posted a description of what he considers the target market for most products. Say, your average consumer: "Lazy, as in not willing to do the work to create long term benefits. Lazy as in not willing to...
Dodgeball.com made their first public changes in a long time yesterday when they - well, Google - integrated the service with Google accounts. They also changed the logged-in homepage from the quickly irrelevant introductory Flash animation to a status update...
Are you this bad of a speller? Do you type messages on blogs, click the ABC Check button on the Google Toolbar to turn the questionably spelled terms red, then click "Add to Dictionary" after Google's told you a term...
What's the deal with NBC Universal's new 2.0 strategy? First thing: nice job coming up with such positive spin on layoffs. $750,000,000 in cuts correlates with a lot of layoffs, but this isn't about that. It's about "reallocating resources." Apparently,...
October 19, 2006
We're a month out from our one-year anniversary. Is that something to celebrate? Well, probably not, but it's a good time to think about what we can achieve by the end of year one. Here is a quick look at...
Apple: iPods, Macs rock earnings - Oct. 18, 2006 "Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said Mac shipments surged, climbing 30 percent to 1.61 million during the quarter. Laptops led sales of Macs, accounting for $1.34 billion in revenue versus $869 million...
The Technology Evangelist team recently had a chance to sit down with Nicholas Reville from the Participatory Culture Foundation, creators of Democracy Player. In the second of this three part series we talk about where Democracy is going from here.
Continue reading "The Innovators - Nicholas Reville of The Participatory Culture Foundation, Part II" »
MotionApps has just release mVoice 5: a program for the Treo that allows you to record conversations to the smartphone's SD card. This application could be a mobile podcaster's dream come true by allowing you to record yourself or interviews...
Internet Explorer 7 has launched and the reviews are starting to come in. One big change in IE 7 is better integration of RSS feeds. I'm not entirely sold on the concept of being tied to a browser for RSS...
October 18, 2006
A friend asked me to check out a demo video on the DivX site showing off what can be done using DivX these days. Here's what I saw when I went to the link: My questions for you are: Does...
One in three workers jot down passwords: study - Yahoo! News "One in three people write down computer passwords, undermining their security, and companies should look to more advanced methods, including biometrics, to ensure their systems are safe, a...
I'll be heading to eComXpo (aff) next week to find out the latest and greatest information related to eCommerce marketing and social networking. And where will I be heading? To my computer. eComXpo is a virtual trade show where people...
"That's where they got that Picasso." -Jake Blues - The Blues Brothers Jake Blues' proved to be more than your average convict musician with his comment about the artwork in Richard J. Daley Plaza. He was referring to this:...
October 17, 2006
The Technology Evangelist team recently had a chance to sit down with Nicholas Reville from the Participatory Culture Foundation, creators of Democracy Player. In the first of this three part series we get the basics behin the Democracy Platform and how it got started.
Continue reading "The Innovators - Nicholas Reville of The Participatory Culture Foundation" »
Randall McCarley breaks down 13 reasons web sites fail on his 14th Colony blog. "I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t know how many times I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve heard people say that they used to have a web site that didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t do anything. Well, why not? Further...
Is the quality of search results on Google News dropping? A few recent comments from A-list political bloggers and certifiable news junkies seems to point in that direction. First, we have John Aravosis from AmericaBlog raising the subject: "Is it...
AdWeek is reporting on a Nielsen/NetRatings study showing a drop in traffic to social network sites this September.: "Visitors to social network heavyweight MySpace dropped to 47.2 million in September from 49.2 million in August, a 4 percent decline, per...
October 16, 2006
The Amazing YouTube Tools Collection "Here is a collection of several YouTube third party tools which enhance your YouTube experience." (tags: youtube tools) Apple Announces iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition "Apple?Ç¬Æ today announced the iPod?Ç¬Æ nano (PRODUCT) RED...
I had a chance to talk to Tom Freeman of Voicebox Technologies last Friday about the latest innovations in voice enabled devices, what it takes to be a speech engineer, and how speech enabled devices will make our life better...
October 15, 2006
Shel Holtz reports on the revelation that WalMart, through their PR team at Edelman, has been publishing a fake blog about a couple traveling the country in an RV using WalMart parking lots: "In case you missed the story, a...
Goodbye Eudora, Hello Thunderbird "Eudora, once one of the most popular e-mail clients, is finally being retired. Instead of simply abandoning Eudora's customers, however, Qualcomm is partnering with Mozilla Corp. to create "Penelope," a customized version of Mozilla's Thunderbird...
October 14, 2006
Here's a Bloglines RSS issue I haven't been able to figure out. Why can't Bloglines find the RSS feed for this site: http://www.free-seo-news.com/weekly-search-engine-facts.htm It's located at: http://www.free-seo-news.com/rss.xml Just like the source code says it is: FireFox can find it and...
October 13, 2006
top ten reasons why you didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t sell your web 2.0 company to google for $1.6 billion.: gapingvoid "1. You already sold your company. For a lot less, to somebody else. Ouch. Ouch. Pain." (tags: web2.0 gapingvoid) Miguel Carrasco: Blue...
Last night's Tech Cocktail 2 party in Chicago was worth the trip from Minneapolis. We had a chance to interview guests for a full three hours and learn about tons and tons of companies in the Chicago market. Some we...
October 12, 2006
Oliver over at MobileCrunch has posted a glowing review of a new custom voicemail service called YouMail that allows cell phone customers to create unique voicemail greetings based on caller ID, so a person could have a unique greeting for...
October 11, 2006
It looks like Google has finished rebranding Writely as Google Docs and integrating that with Google Spreadsheets. I say this as I write this using Google Docs after being redirected to it from my Writely bookmark. Here is a look...
A few friends of mine still don't understand the benefits of Firefox over IE 6, so this post is an attempt to showcase just one of the many features that make FireFox a powerful web browser for web surfing power...
October 10, 2006
Lightweight data exploration in Excel - Juice Analytics "What are some practical uses of in-cell bar graphs? For starters, they offer a good way to profile a dataset that has hundreds or thousands of rows." (tags: excel data analysis...
Frank Gruber and Eric Olson are hosting Tech Cocktail 2 at The Gramercy in Chicago this Thursday night. The first Tech Cocktail, held in July, drew over 200 guests, so expect a large crowd, free beer, and a lot of...
The Feedburner Ad Network supplies some of the advertisements you see on TechnologyEvangelist.com and in our site's RSS feed. We have been using this program for a little over a month, and have been very satisfied with the results to...
Google Reader has a pretty easy to follow explanation of what an RSS aggregator is in the intro video to their tool. Robert Scoble recently berated Google for not making better use of video to help promote and explain the...
October 9, 2006
Find All Domains on Same IP Tool - SEOLogs.com "This tool will find other domain names hosted on your IP address. Just enter a domain (www.example.com) or an IP address (127.0.0.1) to get a list of domain names that...
It's fascinating to watch how workers adopt to restrictions placed on communications in their workplace. In the example listed below, a couple employees from the St. Paul Pioneer Press have figured out how to achieve mobile access to their work...
Gina Trapani has posted a thorough breakdown of what makes Google Reader superior to Bloglines at LifeHacker. It's a must-read if you're a current Bloglines user and thinking of switching, or someone who hasn't used a web based RSS reader...
October 8, 2006
I have two MacBook Pro?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s that I use for video editing. One of these computers is also my primary workstation with e-mail, calendars, contacts, PIM sync, etc., This computer is now in the caring hands of an Apple Genius as they work to repair a bad fan and top case assembly. No major problems, but enough minor problems to warrant a fix. I had been meaning to switch computers anyhow since the other computer was faster. Time to migrate data.
October 7, 2006
Tim Converse thinks it's time we get serious about the Internet access claims made by hotels"Hotel wifi - there oughta be a law! "Case in point: hotel wifi. What kind of internet access do you have? we ask brightly. Wireless...
Imagine if I overheard Ben talking about needing a new iPod, then interrupted and asked him if he wanted to know more about iPods. When he said, "Yes," I would then throw ads from Best Buy, Microcenter, and Circuit City...
October 6, 2006
Technology Evangelist happened to get front-paged on both Fark and Digg in recent weeks. The graph below shows a comparison of the traffic spikes caused by each front-paging. Both sites caused a large spike in visitors when compared to an...
October 5, 2006
Why better DVD recommendations are worth a million bucks?: The Long Tail "Aside for the obvious points that better recommendations are, well, better and the best thing of all is to get volunteers to do the work, why is...
While biking home last night, I had a chance to catch up on podcasts from Michael Katz of Blue Penguin Development. Katz is an email newsletter consultant who works with business to help them make the most out of that...
Andrew Careaga points to Wired's Monkey Bites blog's calculation of time spent (wasted?) watching some of YouTube's most popular videos: Wired?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Monkey Bites blog calculates how many years have been wasted watching the following five YouTube posts: 14.26 years watching...
October 4, 2006
Dieter Bohn of TreoCentral has posted a brilliant comment on what's missing from today's bluetooth headset configurations: "a thought has occurred to me lately that I can't get out of my head. I've found myself scouring my apartment for my...
Remember when things hit the fan at Enron and story after story came out about the retirement losses of the 21,000 employees who's 401k's largely disappeared? Here is one example (emphasis mine): "As Skilling did his macho-boy routine on guys-only...
October 3, 2006
Google Earth Blog is reporting that Google Earth has made a large update to their imagery. The beauty of streaming imagery like that used by Google Earth is they can continuously update the underlying data without having to push any...
October 2, 2006
I'm looking for a little help with this annoyance. One of the trickiest forms of comment spam to deal with as of late is what I refer to as "Tramadol Spam." This generally consists of message from an author such...
October 1, 2006
FeedMailer is a new RSS to email service that will create email digests of blogs and other sites you subscribe to. As I understand it, FeedMailer will send you ONE email with all of your new feed content rather than...
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