Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
Larry D Larsen writes:
Google unleashed a beta version of its video-hosting service yesterday. Users can upload videos of any size and Google will host it for free. Amazing as that is, it isn’t the most interesting feature. It also will allow you to charge whatever you want for users to download [...]
Google Sightseeing
The Google Sightseeing site has a growing collection of famous (and some strange) satellite images found on Google Maps. Of course everyone wants to see their own house, too. Unfortunately, the snapshot of my area is about 3 years old. I’m in the middle of nowhere.
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Scoble interviews the Avalon team at Microsoft. They show off a lot of demos (skip ahead to 33:30 if you want to skip the boring stuff).
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Review: The Estone Car MP3 Player Ripper-510 rips MP3s as you play them, or transfers MP3s and playlists from your PC via removable USB 2.0 hard drive. This should be standard equipment!
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Report: Sharper Image purifiers actually make air worse - Engadget - www.engadget.com.
I’m glad I didn’t spend money on one of these things…
The magazine’s latest study charges that the units actually make air quality worse, by releasing excess ozone into the air…
InfoWorld: Microsoft discloses 5 critical security holes: April 12, 2005: By : SECURITY
Make sure to run Windows Update today.
Microsoft on Tuesday released eight security bulletins on its products, including five concerning vulnerabilities rated “critical.”
Jaffe Juice: Tiger did it a.k.a. the next Nike Commercial
A lot of people wrote off Tiger Woods simply because he wasn’t winning non-stop. Take a look at this shot! “This guy is good”, the announcer says.
I just setup a website for my local neighborhood, Auburn Park. So far it’s just a forum. Hopefully it’ll catch on and become a web portal for our small community.
Tanya and I fired up the grill for the first time! The menu? Hotdogs. Mmmmmm hotdogs.
In true AOL fashion, Nate Kettlewell, AOL product manager for voice services, calls the company’s VoIP offering easy to set up and use. At $40/month for non-subscribers (after promotion period ends), I’m not sure why anyone would choose this service.
I currently use Vonage and couldn’t be happier. At $15/month, the price is right!
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