Month: April 2008
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Seesmic video comments now available here
Reading Time: < 1 minute For anyone that’s using seesmic it’s now possible for you to leave video comments on this blog. It should be an interesting way for people to participate.
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I am 25,000 tweets old
Reading Time: < 1 minute Half the amount of tweets from a few months ago and far less than was my habit until now. This should be the normal twitter amount from now on. Don’t have as much free time for the social media anymore.
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Interbine – Free your Mobile video – delivery via Wifi…
Reading Time: 3 minutes is an automated service that grabs videos from RSS feeds and converts them to 3gpp for easy download to the N95 and other mobile phones running the s60 OS. There are a number of default shows including MobuzzTV, Zefrank, National Geographic, DiggNation, Rocketboom and a number of other well known shows.…
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A Vertovian Reality
Reading Time: < 1 minute Look up Dziga Vertov and his ideas, then look at this video. Thinking of the documentary makers and their discussion about catching life unawares, getting real life to happen without the person knowing. It’s the creative treatment of actuality. That’s more Griersonian (if I remember right). Everyone has a camera…
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Playing with overlay tv
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m just playing with overlays to see how they work. Move the mouse over the video and see three products appear.
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940 Kilobytes per second
Reading Time: < 1 minute That’s always pleasant to see, nice download speed via wifi on an adsl connection in the swiss countryside. Meanwhile in a “Virgin media” part of the world someone mentioned a 2KB a second connection. Such is the online lifestyle.
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Mobile web apps and data transfer; Jaiku and twitter
Reading Time: < 1 minute So I disagree that The Mobile Web is dead. For many of us it is just coming alive. Given the speed at which these devices are evolving and price dropping, I don’t think it’s worth people’s time to build sofware that optimizes the experience. Rather, they should use their expertise…
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Twitter down, massive surge in users recently
Reading Time: < 1 minute For all those that thought twitter was finally a reliable service with a crappy api there is some sad news. Due to a massive increase in the number of users (according to a number of sources) twitter is once again providing a truly rubbish service. We’ll see how long they’re…