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November 30, 2006
Lumines for the LG CU-500
If you have an LG CU-500 on Cingular - I highly recommend Lumines, even if it's a game you've already conquered on the PSP or XBox 360 Arcade. The mobile version has a few new twists, and even some more tetris-like shapes to keep things interesting. By far the best time killer available. I will warn you, it's easy to get addicted!
You can download it right from the Cingular MediaNet deck, or have it pushed to your phone from the link below.
Link to | Lumines Block Challenge | Gameloft - Mobile Game
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November 28, 2006
Compete: FAQ
interesting company trying to take on Alexa with better data and more sources.
here's the yahoo vs google link:
http://snapshot.compete.com/yahoo.com/?domain2=goo...
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Adotas » FeedBurner Ad Inventory Grows 300%
I like this opening:
RSS feed management and advertising company FeedBurner has increased its customer base by 300% over the past six months, giving feed advertisers more than enough blog, news and website feeds to play with this holiday season.
ho ho ho.
Link to Adotas » FeedBurner Ad Inventory Grows 300%
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more BK Gamer
If you do make it to Burger King to pick up some of the promotional XBox 360 games, the one to get is defeinitely Pocketbike Racer. it's great family fun. definitely appropriate to play with kids, and generally just a great game.
photos from Major Nelson
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November 26, 2006
enviga, apparently, powered by FeedBurner
coke has a new green tea drink that has negative calories. that is, you burn more calories by drinking it than by digesting it. it's logo looks familiar.
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November 23, 2006
A Weekend Full of Quality Time With PlayStation 3 - New York Times
wow, that doesn't sound good for the ps3. hopefully a few firmware updates will solve some of these problems.
Link to A Weekend Full of Quality Time With PlayStation 3 - New York Times
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November 22, 2006
Great comments on Amazon
Some of the reviews on Amazon are priceless. Many of them are really well written, and entertaining to boot. It's a key asset that Amazon has, and they know it. I gotta say, after reading these, i'm very tempted to buy this book to see what it's all about!
The greatest book about a serial killing lesbian ever!, December 1, 2004
Reviewer:
Mr. Cretin "down with everything" (NYC) - See all my reviewsOK first off - you should buy this book. Its great. It's kinda like listening to The Who at full volume while destroying a yuppie bar with a baseball bat. On really great trucker speed. It's that good.
If you like your books quick, dirty and LOUD then get a copy of How To Smash Everyone To Pieces. I defy anyone who has ever laughed at a John Waters movie, gotten drunk and made a fool of themselves at a party, lost a tooth and cant remember how or recieved a death threat from an ex-girlfriend / boyfriend NOT to LOVE this book. OK thats it. As you can tell, I liked the book.
and then there's this one:
IF SHAFT & SUPERFLY HAD A BABY, IT WOULD BE THIS BOOK, January 9, 2005
Reviewer:
NATHAN PRINCE "FUNK FANATIC" (NEW YORK, NY) - See all my reviews
THIS BOOK RECIEVED 5 STARS FROM FROM ME FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: (A): THERE IS A LOT OF NON-STOP ACTION IN THIS BOOK. THE ACTION IS SOMETIMES IN THE FORM OF GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE; (B): THE ACTION IS ALSO IN THE FORM OF GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF SEX (MOSTLY LESBIAN IN NATURE); AND (C): THERE ARE ALSO STRIPPING AND JAILHOUSE SHOWER SCENES, WHICH WILL RAISE YOUR CURLY HAIRS STRAIGHT UP. BUT MAINLY, IT'S A BOOK ABOUT A WOMAN WHO JUST HAPPENS TO BE MADLY IN LOVE WITH HER VERY OWN FLESH AND BLOOD SISTER. SO, IF YOU CAN GET PAST THESE ISSUES, YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF THOROUGHLY ENJOYING THIS LITERARY ROLLERCOASTER OF "SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL". ENJOY THE RIDE, BUT PLEASE, DO ME A FAVOR...AND FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS...TIGHT!!!
check it out:
How to Smash Everyone to Pieces
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BurgerKing Gamer
You can now get 3 Xbox 360 games for $3.99 with the purchase of a value meal. They even have a whole online community around it at their website bkgamer.com
Interesting co-marketing. Whopper me!
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November 21, 2006
NeoCounter 2
NeoCounter 2 - now with skins and cities. More bling for your blog.
Link to NeoWORX - Quality tools for your web site and blog
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Cash My Phone
I haven't tried this yet, but this service acts as a middle-man for used cell phones. Prices seem better than ebay's. they send you a check in 30 days. 30 days seems like a long time.
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screamin' horse
Roepende in de mist
Originally uploaded by Hans-miwian.
something about this picture moved me to blog it.
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November 20, 2006
living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP
out of the box PHP dev on your mac. looks cool.
Link to living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP
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November 19, 2006
NexGen Wars - sales counters for nextgen game systems
a site that will give you a sig file for your favorite game system:
Link to NexGen Wars - who will win? you decide.
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November 13, 2006
NeoCounter
pretty cool javascript tool. i wouldn't pay for it with real dollars, but pretty cool.
Link to NeoWORX - Quality tools for world of blogs - NUXIT
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Heathrow Express offers net access on the move - Computing
Every mode of transport should have wi-fi. I pretty much always use the Heathrow Express for every trip to London, but I'm usually way to tired upon landing there to want to use wi-fi, but it's still cool:
The service will provide 8Mbps broadband connection for the length of the journey, including through tunnels, to enable passengers to send email or surf the internet.
Link to Heathrow Express offers net access on the move - Computing
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November 12, 2006
Bluetooth wireless location-based marketing technology
I've gotten these in London a few times. When you are walking by the movie theaters in London, you'll get a phone message, and when you look it came via Bluetooth. Inside the message is usually a coupon for discounted concessions. Some of the music stores do this as well to push new releases or videogames.
It relies on people like me who never turn off the Bluetooth on their phone.
It's another example of a specialty ad network that ProximityMedia has created.
Link to Bluetooth wireless location-based marketing technology: flawless proximity marketing.
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MyTimeForce : IQ600 TimeClock
PBTA that we don't use a timeclock at work...but if we did, this would be the one we'd use. Fingerprint your employees and collect their time in a browser!
Link to MyTimeForce : IQ600 TimeClock
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November 10, 2006
E61 mods
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Originally uploaded by stephans612.
Gotta love phone mods. Check out this Ferrari custom E61!
more here: http://www.e-series.org/archives/187
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November 09, 2006
United may go for Adu trial | the Daily Mail
Wow, looks like Freddy Adu might be playing in the FA Premier league soon. Bad for MLS, but certainly good for American Soccer.
Link to United may go for Adu trial | the Daily Mail
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United may go for Adu trial | the Daily Mail
Wow, looks like Freddy Adu might be playing in the FA Premier league soon. Bad for MLS, but certainly good for American Soccer.
Link to United may go for Adu trial | the Daily Mail
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XandMail markets a mobile Podcasting solution
RSS is slowly making it's way to mobile. You know it when then companies that sell to mobile operators all start creating a solution for it. Having working in that arena for a long time, I'm sure in 2007, a bunch of these companies will be slugging it out in the RFP process with MNOs.
Like everything RSS related, the demand has to come from the consumers; and mobile is no exception. Since podcasting isn't a pure mobile technology (like SMS or MMS was/is) it will be a bit of a challenge for vendors to push such solutions, but when the subscribers start asking for it is when it will happen.
Will someone create the demand, or will the demand come as a natural progression of feeds and podcasts on the desktop?
As many of the latest devices all have on-board RSS readers and podcasting clients, the solutions will be built around legacy phone support, rich media transcoding, and network bandwidth optimization - all built on top of a top notch directory.
What remains to be seen is whether or not the operators will see distribution of content as competitive to their evolving rich media business models, or complimentary. There's an opportunity for them to view it as a complement, but I'll put my money on short-sightedness.
Link to XandMail, way more than messaging
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Microsoft has yet *another* RSS reader
The new Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta is pretty cool if you happen to have a hotmail account and want to integrate the rest of your mail easily with hotmail on your desktop. But the first thing you notice is the RSS feed reading experience. In fact, you can't miss it. It shares the feed store with IE7 and Outlook 2007 (if you have things so configured) but adds a river of news view if you are so enclined.
They are even so kind as to put related search results and sponsored listings right there for you. They haven't seemed to have caught as much shit for this as Newsgator.
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November 08, 2006
» Gears of War Ad Spoofs » InsideMicrosoft
The new Gears of War trailer is pretty awesome. I saw it in the theater the other night as a trailer before "Borat" (btw, if you've seen the Borat spots on You Tube, you've seen all the funniest parts of Borat, save one scene that's way too scrotum filled for YouTube) and it's an amazing piece of CGI if not the best looking videogame ever created.
The trailer uses Gary Jules' cover of Tears for Fears "Mad World" - and it fits perfectly. But the spoofs are good too. check them all out here:
Link to » Gears of War Ad Spoofs » InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel
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Brazil: a campaign for full feeds
I spend a decent amount of time monitoring what is going on in the world of feeds and blogs outside of North America. Partially because it's an important part of running a global business, but I also find it interesting to get out of the protective plastic bubble of the U.S. blogosphere.
This week, there's a huge push among Brazilian bloggers to provide full feeds over partial feeds. They've even created a banner for this campaign that I think is great:
It says:
the "broken" feed icon with "Is this how you offer your feed? Help your reader. Offer your full feed."
At FeedBurner, we get asked about full versus partial feeds A LOT. Pretty much ALL the time. By both bloggers AND commerical publishers. All the commercial publishers want to do it, but no one wants to be the first. I think you will see commercial publishers start to do this in their "blogs" and eventually it WILL migrate to their news feeds.
So what's our line on this. Here's mine: Subscribers certainly prefer full feeds. For publishers, I've seen it time and time again - increasing your feed subscribers will increase your total traffic. Feed subscribers are a separate audience from people who visit the site. You need to grow both those audiences, and the total traffic back to your site will not decrease. Even if the percentage of people who click back to the site decreases, 10% of 1000 is greater than 50% of 100. get it?
http://www.brpoint.net/arquivo/2006/11/03/feeds-co...
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November 07, 2006
Jet Lag shortens life span of mice
They don't know if it affects humans. I am guessing it does.
I'm fairly certain a healthy lifestyle includes hunting and killing your food for lunch, followed by a siesta, and does not include the destruction of one's cicadian rhythms.
The onset of winter in Chicago is usually accompanied by the desire to sleep 16 hours per day. A vestige of some sort of hibernation I'm sure...
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jargon watch: flog
flog - n. a fake blog, usually penned by a PR agency on behalf of a client.
Link to MediaPost Publications - Pro-Wal-Mart Travel Blog Screeches To A Halt - 10/12/2006
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Yahoo! Graphical Advertising Goes Mobile | News on Mobile Phones | Tech2.com India
Watch the mobile ad pile-on. More green fields.
Link to Yahoo! Graphical Advertising Goes Mobile | News on Mobile Phones | Tech2.com India
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MediaPost Publications: FeedBurner growing faster than Digg, MySpace, and Facebook
A pretty cool report from MediaPost via AdTech that lists FeedBurner (our brand police have put out an APB for the "B" in the quote below) as the fastest growing social networking site. Interesting to see us considered as an SNS. Certainly we are the plumbing that is powering all such things.
Social networking sites with the highest traffic growth included Feedburner (385%), Digg.com (286%), MySpace (170%), Wikipedia (161%), and Facebook (134%).
I went to a dinner last night at AdTech where there were a ton of people representing ad networks fighting for inventory. RSS is so different than that right now. It's much more of a land grab situation, except the land keeps expanding. Our FAN for sites finds new places to build on the existing terrirory, but FAN for feeds is really so much different than that. It's neat to be on the inside and see something happening that most people don't realize is happening.
Link to MediaPost Publications - Web 2.0 Growing Faster Than Online Video, News - 11/07/2006
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November 06, 2006
fox + feedburner = widgets
Donaldo says it best, so follow through on the link, but this is the first step in making it really easy for FeedBurner publishers to distribute widgets wherever. Great job on this deal, Don!
Link to donloeb.com » Blog Archive » get your branded feed-based widget here - fox plus feedburner
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November 02, 2006
Tommy Lee is in Flickr a lot
check it out
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Dual core Intel versus AMD
I was looking at the new Dells for home and they give you the choice of a dual core AMD or Intel. This ZDNet report makes it seem like the AMD is the clear winner right now.
Link to Dual core shoot-out: Intel versus AMD Tech Guide in Components Reviews at ZDNet.co.uk
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Martín Varsavsky invests in Menéame
In a recent speaking gig in Spain, i had the pleasure to meet Ricardo Galli, an Argentinian, now living in Mallorca (Spain), who is the founder of Menéame, a website which is often described to me as "the Spanish Digg clone", but is also an open source platform where other communities can create their own little "Digg clones".
Menéame (which roughly translates to "shake me") has been a FeedBurner publisher for some time, and also a member of FeedBurner Ad Network in our Spanish language targeted ad channel. Early on they created a "send to Meneame" FeedFlare that can be found in such publications as Alt1040 and Xataka, and they publish that about 0.1% of their traffic comes from this FeedFlare. That may seem like a small number, but there are certainly secondary effects of this traffic that starts to snoball over time.
But there's a couple other things that interest me about Menéame - the first being the point above about it also being an open source platform.
There's as the time of this writing, 145 installations of this platform, in many different languages - most of which can be found here. There's all sorts of micro-communties forming here around this "Digg-like" software, which I think is pretty neat. At any rate, that type of takeup of a platform is pretty interesting.
The second thing is from their stats page, which shows traffic by country. That's a pretty large percentage of their traffic that is coming from the United States. This begins to show you how the Latin American population in the U.S. absolutely is involved in social media, and becomes a distinct segment in which to market.
At any rate, congrats Ricardo and Benjami on your financing - hopefully it helps you take this platform to the next level.
Link to Ricardo Galli, de software libre » La inversión de Martín Varsavsky en Menéame
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November 01, 2006
Chocolate's better than broccoli - Newsday.com
gotta like that news! i've had some chocolate and wine dinners. not so bad, i guess.
Link to Chocolate's better than broccoli - Newsday.com
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da wine - Ditka starts a line of wines
Here we go. The Bears have a 7-0 record, and Ditka partners with Binny's to launch a new line of wines. Awesome. I can hardly wait for the Super Bowl Shuffle, version 2.
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