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Tonight while getting ready for my Podcast I removed a RSS feed from my regular reading list because of excessive advertising in the feed. I'm serious -- the stupid ad TechCrunch has after every article in the feed measures 612 pixels in height.
Last week I was able to play with one of the new Zune players, What surprised me was how awesome the 8gig model was, in addition to the new menu system. The screen although tiny was a much better experience than the small iPod’s
I have been experimenting with a new service called DailyMe. It is a web/email news service that operates very similar to a current newspaper. It has syndication arrangements with news sources that supply this type of news, like Associated Press and the International Herald Tribune. They categorise the news and supply you feeds of top news that meets your categories. They (eventually) pay for the syndicated feeds and the cost of distribution by the ads they place on the pages.
It appears there was some serious mis-communications in regards to Michael Arrington’s appearance at Blogworld. One of the reasons I attend some of these events is that I come to hear specific people speak. The mix up in Michael and several others that did not show did not concern me but I was somewhat surprised and others were disappointed.
I have been searching for a media extender box to stream some of my content on my PC to the TV in my lounge-room. This has been more difficult that I thought it would. This does not seem to be a big enough market yet that all the available systems are being imported into Australia yet, which limits my selection. The ones that are available here all seem to be limited in some way, generally either they are not wireless (a definite preference) or they only work with certain media types, Apple TV being the biggest example.
Ok folks here we go for day two of the Blog World Expo. Thus far my impressions is that even though the organizers had tracks for podcasting the folks exhibiting and in the sessions appear to be bloggers looking at podcasting. The number of podcasters here are hard to say but with Libsyn, Podango having booths and of course me
Live Blogging Blog World Expo 08:44 -First thing huge number of Bloggers and No Power Strips -Keynote area is going to be standing room only 08:54 -Matt from Wordpress is is rehashing how Wordpress got started I am not sure why a bunch of bloggers need to be told about the wordpress history are we not all bloggers and supposed
Major League Baseball has decided to change their DRM provider. This has been a big job for them, having to build a completely new system and transfer all their content across. There is also the problem that any company in this situation faces, how to maintain the downloads of their existing customers. The realistic options are to issue customers with new digital certificates that support the new system, or to keep the old system running for authentication of old content. These solutions both have their own costs and difficulties, particularly when there is no prospective end date for supporting these videos.
I have had a few of you reach out to me on meeting up in Vegas during Blog World Expo. I will be in Vegas from Wednesday morning till very late on Friday.
Last week I installed the Blogrush applet here on the website, and for the past week I have been monitoring how much traffic the applet is bringing to the website.
MySpace has been planning to replicate Facebook’s ad strategy, allowing advertisers to specify some of the facets of their intended market. MySpace then uses the demographic, location and interests information it has on its users to target which users would benefit from the ads
One thing for sure based on your email your all a bunch of geeks. I guess thats why you listen to the show. I talk a little about Ohana tonight you will not want to miss. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 Sponsor: Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes
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