October 28, 2004
Google acquires Keyhole
Keyhole is a great service/software. Read my previous post.
The Google acquisition annoucement.
October 25, 2004
October 20, 2004
More proof that John Kerry needs U.N. approval
From the Washington Post
"Kerry's belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of a mission with international support. In 1994, discussing the possibility of U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, 'If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no.'"
See the video
October 19, 2004
Adam Curry and Mark Cuban overlap
In a grand gesture of generosity :-) Mark Cuban writes about "patentable" business ideas. One of those ideas is very similar to Adam Curry's iPodder.
2. When I had broadcast.com we were testing software that let the user program their own TV stations. Just take any of our programs that were available on demand from our site, and plug it into a schedule that you create for your station. You can even insert a live program as part of the schedule and the software just changes the channel to the one you want.Today, with PVRs and Media Center PCs, this doesn’t have to be about the net. With very simple software, you could pull content from the net, or more importantly Video on Demand sources and program your own personal TV schedule.
Search through your comcast or charter VOD programming guides, and schedule the shows you want, when you want.
Of course, this is not different than an MP3 playlist from any music player, so it would just be days till Personal TV station playlists would be shared. Want to watch Mark Cuban TV (don’t know why, but if you did), just subscribe to my TV Sched PlayList RSS output from my blog, and you can watch what I watch, when I watch it.
October 12, 2004
October 11, 2004
Picketing in San Francisco
I am fortunate to be staying at a Hilton with striking workers. Who needs clean sheets.
October 10, 2004
Flickr
This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
Photo blogging with flickr and Moveable Type!
October 07, 2004
Perspective
Take the time to watch this Sarah McLachlan video. You'll need iTunes to view it.
I thank God for providing for me, my family, my church, and my country.
The new Lotus notes...Jotspot
When you have time take a look at this Jotspot demo. If you listen all the way to the end, then you'll hear the comparison between Lotus Notes DB and Jotspot.
A press release is here.
Thanks to Jon Udell for the demo.
October 06, 2004
iPodder feature
Does anyone see the benefit in adding a feature of iPodder* that
allows one to preview or browse MP3s before you add them to your
playlist? I would find this especially useful in the Feedster TV
channels (i.e. the Audio, TalkRadio, and BitTorrent feeds)
If so, Jon Udell has a cool Python script for clipping MP3s. The code
is here and the explanation is here
So the preview feature could allow you to listen to the first X minutes
of an audio broadcast before deciding to add it to your "permanent"
list of feeds.
(btw, Feedster TV is very cool....)
October 01, 2004
Gnomedex 4 Live
Can't be there?...at least I can't. Listen live to Gnomedex 4 via IT Conversations. IT Conversations will also provide recorded audio as well. So be sure you have iPodder tuned to the IT Conversations RSS 2.0 feed.