December 2007
25 posts
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Why Microsoft Will Not Be The Future of TV
DRM. Any questions? Nice try, Hugh.
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Think Secret R.I.P.
As a user and fan of Apple since 1984 it just doesn’t seem right to see them silence Think Secret. By all accounts the blogger in question did well and will use his experience, and presumably Apple’s settlement, to better himself in the future. I also know everyone has their price but it seems Apple legal just went after a blogger and silenced them because they could. I wonder what...
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Hulu and the Future of TV
Via TechCrunch I scored an invite to the closed beta of Hulu, NBC’s new online video service. I’d heard a lot about it over the past few weeks and even sampled a bit at OPENhulu but I wanted to check out the real thing. After spending a few minutes testing it, everything seems to work as advertised on both my flaky Windows Vista box and Macbook. I can sample clips from SNL and 30 Rock...
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Should Brands Join or Build Their Own Social...
One of the most recent bloggers to make it into my aggregator is Jeremiah Owyang’s Web Strategy blog. Yesterday he posted an interesting question in the Web Strategy Facebook group, “Should Brands Join or Build Their Own Social Network?” On the surface, it’s an easy answer for me as I’m a big believer that companies should engage with their customers where they are...
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Hybrid Imaging Lives On
Back when I worked at Kodak, I got involved with the ill-fated Photo CD project. If you don’t remember it, basically the idea was to digitize your photos from film to CD-ROM, all for a reasonable $20 per roll (I think processing was extra but not sure). The customer received their prints and negatives like before but also a shiny (real) gold CD with the same images on them in glorious...
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The Future of Social Media Will Be Streamed Live
I just looked at my Twitter feed and noticed Robert Scoble’s post about QIK and how excited he was about the potential of this technology. When I checked out the site I noticed he recorded a video podcast from his phone less than an hour ago (while driving, no less!) The quality is better than I expected but the immediacy of the communication is what I think is really interesting here. So if...
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Yahoo! Shortcuts for Wordpress
I’ve been using Wordpress as my blogging software for three years now. It started when I began podcasting and I just followed what others were doing. But I’m glad I went down this path as the platform has developed into a very powerful CMS for both blogging and maintaining simple websites. One of the great things about Wordpress is the extention of features using plug-ins. Most of...
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-14
Eating lunch at costco… $1.60 buys a lot here #
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-13
goiing to the bookstore to pickup a book Steve B recommended # Taking Clfton StrengthsFinder test… # Test results: Ideation/Strategic/Connectedness/Self-Assurance/Maximizer… not sure if I fully understand this yet; reading the guide, etc. # @domaine547: I use Macs most of the time and Leopard is a great upgrade… that’s next on my list once we get into the full holiday...
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How Amazon + TiVo Could Change TV
I’ve been a longtime TiVo subscriber and have two Series Two DVR’s networked in our house. I’ve upgraded each with a 250GB hard drive so we have more TV and movies to watch than we can keep up with most times. It’s great to be able to move content from one TiVo to the other over the home network so each DVR has it’s own unique collection of Season Passes. We also...
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-12
not sure if i’m making progress on my windows vista install or not… upgrade followed by a ton of updates; SP1 coming down now #
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-11
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery #
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-10
just setup my fax machine from the 1990’s again… seems like an antique but still used by lawyers and bankers… why? # just upgraded the ram on my mac mini… not as scary getting the case open as the pictures online suggest; just one putty knife used… # someone needs to do what plaxo has done for contacts and calendars for social networks… syncing facebook,...
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-09
2 flashes later I have a working WM5 A02 handheld… and it works great so far… #
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-08
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. — Seneca # seems plaxo sync for windows mobile only works on WM5 and above… flashing my Axim x50 now; hope I don’t have a brick this evening… #
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-06
finally got opera mini 4 working on my RAZR… awesome achievement in software but who said i want real webpages on my phone’s micro screen? # annual wrangling with Christmas tree and stand concluded; no major injuries… # @jojeda: have a thing about fake trees that the rest of the family shares; a tradition thing… to each his or her own; covering minnedemo? # @jojeda: well...
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Bob Dylan and The Future of Advertising
Traditional advertising is in it’s last days as more consumers become producers and share experiences online via social networks like Facebook. So I was not surprised to see a friend send me the Bob Dylan Facebook application this morning. What did surprise me was how compelling it was as a way to get your message embedded within a spot for Bob Dylan’s new release. Although the app is...
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-05
why does Akismet hold new comments in moderation and randomly hold comments from people I’ve approved in the past? # “If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?” — Harry Shearer # wondering why only 192 people are signed by for MinneDemo tomorrow; last time there were 400+… http://minnedemo.org # @jamuraa: see you next...
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Is Facebook The Future of Email?
I’ve been using Facebook more and more over these past few weeks and I really like the email functionality. Since the service is fully integrated with mobile devices, I can be notified when someone sends me a message on my mobile phone and read it on their mobile interface which works great on my 2 year old RAZR with the crappy embedded browser (Opera Mini doesn’t work reliably for...
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-04
“Don’t fight the problem, decide it.” — George C. Marshall # it’s snowing again here… super light this time… we’ll be lucky to have another inch on the ground at this rate… # couldn’t find a way to export contacts in the new plaxo w/o upgrading… twitched to classic view and the ol’ export link is right there… # when...
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-03
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. — Jane Wagner # Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. — James Thurber # for those considering upgrading their Wordpress blog to 2.3.x, check your plugins… just fixed my blog after deactivating Google ‘Sitemaps’ #
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Steve Gillmor is the Jean-Luc Godard of podcasting
I finished listening to the epic four volume version of a recent Gillmor podcast (a.k.a. The Gang) while going about some mind numbing chores this past weekend and it finally came to me what Steve is doing: he is reinventing podcasting. One of the problems with the current state of podcasting as a medium is defining exactly what it is. We’ve already had the debate about whether podcasting is...
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-02
time to read Jaffe’s “Join the Conversation”… hmm, 300 pages, about 5 hours, I’d estimate… # putting down “Join the Conversation” to teach my son to drive… about half done; good book, lots to blog about over the next week… #
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Why I'm Not Buying Diet Dr. Pepper
By way of Jason Calacanis I discovered the calculated “user-generated, viral” video linked below. As chance would have it, I’m also reading Joseph Jaffe’s “Join the Conversation” today and so perhaps I’m a bit more critical than I normally would be about Diet Dr. Pepper’s attempt at hijacking a user-generated viral video, “Chocolate...
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Tim's Tweets for 2007-12-01
it’s been snowing all morning, that fine mist of snow as it’s only about 18 F here… looks like I should bring some firewood inside # just back from clearing the first snow of the year… very satisfying; now some podcast post-production… #