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Month: August 2008

  • Tweetsms is the first to offer the world twitter sms to the phone

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf everything goes according to plan tweetsms will be the first to offer the world the opportunity to receive sms from twitter to their phones. They released the prices today and by Friday we should be able to use the service once the bugs are worked out. Looking forward to that…

  • Excitement for live streaming from mobile phones

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLive video streaming from the mobile phone is normal for me. Yesterday for example I was streaming from the boat as the Croisière de l’espoir came back into port. Jose Castillo and Tim Siglin talk about highlights from Streaming Media East in New York, including AT&T’s re-emergence as a CDN, a…

  • Les Reactions à chaud pour la Lipdub

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAvec Vivi ce weekend on a fais un petit montage qui montre les reactions des francofous a la lipdub Reactions post tournage du lipdub Par la même occasion passer vers le blog D’orchi. Elle tweet presque autant que moi

  • Blueapple.Mobi – Video to mobile devices

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs Yael Naim’s live performance of Toxic plays from my phone so I’m playing with Blueapple.mobi which “brings internet video and pictures directly to mobile users”. It’s an interesting service that allows you to view videos from a number of sources. You can see some of the recommended videos which are…

  • Zyb – quick contact syncing for mobile phones

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the years I’ve jumped from one phone to another and each time I’ve had a backup of all my contacts on at least three other devices at all time. The latest service I’ve played with is Zyb. Whilst still in Beta it’s a simple to use interface for s60 phones…

  • Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis morning, August 15 2008, Blog Action Day has launched. In the next two months we hope to encourage thousands of bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to learn about poverty, and on October 15, take action. Anohther blog action day is coming up. How will you be active this time around?

  • Where you should be seesmicing from

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA place to seesmic from

  • Two days later and the eee pc

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s two days later and I’m close to touch typing on the asus eee and I’m enjoying the machine just as much. I did try to upgrade to openoffice 2.3.1 from 2.0 and no luck so far. As a result I’m stuck with relying on the cloud instead. One friend found…

  • I now have a eeepc

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday i went to buy myself a eee pc during my lunch break and by the time I was heading for home  the machine was recharged and ready to be played with. So far my biggest challenge is the tiny keyboard. Hard to touch type on it. Keep having to be…

  • Twitter are stopping SMS

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitter are stopping all SMS for many territories due to cost. They don’t need to send sms. If they had an s60 application similar to that by Jaiku they would incur no extra costs. We would simply take advantage of our dataplans to download the messages at any time that the…