Entries Tagged as 'Just Thoughts'

Thought out in 2008...9:45 am

Justin.tv

Justin.tv should be in your media planning. As should some of the other start-ups.

clipped from www.techcrunch.com

We’ve been following the evolving live streaming space for some time now. The success of recorded social video on the net (read YouTube acquisition) spurred on many more video startups, including a host of video sites hoping [...]

Thought out in 2008...4:32 pm

Audio Loopback

How to create a audio loopback using software - for Mac OS X.

clipped from myfla.ws

Have you ever been in a Skype call and wanted to share your current music with your friend on the other line? Or do you want to add some more interactivity to ustream.tv by letting viewers Skype in questions? [...]

Thought out in 2008...4:29 pm

Broadcast TV on Justin.tv - tutorial

Ever wondered how to broadcast a TV feed through justin.tv? Well this guide tells yu how to stream games - but the principles are the same.

clipped from notjoe.com

As the broadcaster for GameON , I frequently get questions on how I get console games broadcasted live on sites like http://justin.tv. This tutorial will lay [...]

Thought out in 2008...8:54 am

Medical Tourism and Travel

I wonder if - given the low dollar - there is a net inflow of patients into the US from overseas rich countries? Not mentioned in this article.

clipped from www.economist.com

The coming boom in medical travel could help both rich and poor

clipped from www.economist.com

Why put up with expensive, run-of-the-mill health care at home [...]

Thought out in 2008...8:56 am

Groundswell Technographics Profile Tool

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Thought out in 2008...2:50 pm

Voip on Ipod touch

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This is how often I use my Sip Voip on my ipod touch. I prefer siphon v.1.1 for calling out, and sip voip v.1.2 for receiving calls (cause of the ringtone). They are both signed up to the same SIP account. I use my speaker attachment with the headphone splitter as my “phone [...]

Thought out in 2008...10:35 pm

Fliping Domain Names

A summary…

clipped from bestbraindrain.com

To start flipping domain names, there are three steps you should take. First set up an account at Godaddy to start registering your domain names. I recommend Godaddy because they are very affordable, offer good customer support, and you can transfer a domain name to a buyer just as soon [...]

Thought out in 2008...8:47 pm

Keyword Insertion can improve CTR

If used judiciously it can improve CTR. However beware of some serious pitfalls.

clipped from adwords.google.com

Brand New {KeyWord:Phones}
Huge selection of phones. Great prices.
{Keyword:phones} in stock. Free shipping!
www.BestDealer.com
http://www.bestdealer.com/?kw={keyword:nil}

 

Thought out in 2008...8:31 am

Fixing Sirius Internet Radio Problems

Suddenly your Sirius Internet Radio stops working? Of course the problem is found and solved in Microsoft Media Player. Here are some quick fixes that worked for me.

clipped from www.digitalhome.ca

Here’s the fix that will allow you to rename a folder so that WMP can rebuild some of those necessary components:

To rename the Player [...]

Thought out in 2008...11:48 am

Google Retires Pay Per Action

clipped from adwords.google.com

As part of Google’s recent acquisition of DoubleClick, the Performics affiliate network is now a part of Google. To consolidate our offerings, we will be phasing out the AdWords pay-per-action beta, and the product will be retired on during the last week of August. Pay-per-action campaigns and all related data will [...]

Thought out in 2008...3:42 pm

CamStudio Open source alternative to Camtasia

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Thought out in 2008...11:23 am

Portable Digital Audio Recorder Comparison Chart

clipped from digitalmedia.oreilly.com

Guitarist and recording engineer Mark Nelson has tested more handheld digital audio recorders than just about anyone. By overwhelming reader request, here’s an overview of his conclusions so far; we’ll update this page as more recorders come in.

Portable Digital Audio Recorder Comparison Chart

 

Thought out in 2008...11:06 am

Jommla druapl - continued

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Joomla and Drupal - Which One is Right for You?

 

Thought out in 2008...11:04 am

Joomla Drupal Comparison

Applies to CMS’s in general.

clipped from cmsreport.com

There is something interesting about the table posted at Burge’s site. Specifically, take a look at which elements according to Burge each CMS excels in and which elements each CMS fails. Did you notice a particular pattern in where each CMS is considered to have failed? If [...]

Thought out in 2008...10:55 am

Drupal ec2 AMI - Some Options

clipped from groups.drupal.org

Using the Gutsy image Victor’s guide mentioned above, I created a basic Drupal ec2 AMI. I’ll probably write up the details later, but the ID is ami-5e2bce37 (and it should be publicly available) and it consists Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy with Apache2, MySQL 5.0, PHP 5.2.3 (with common, GD, mcrypt, mysql, and [...]

Thought out in 2008...10:47 am

Amazon EC2 and Wordpress - How To Build

clipped from mu.wordpress.org

With ec2 you can basically get a 1.7Ghz x86 processor, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s for $72 per month plus $0.18 per GB bandwidth. (Data transfer backup to S3 or within ec2 is free)

 

Thought out in 2008...9:10 am

How Fast is Google Indexing?

My previous post titled “Setanta On Mac Full Screen Windows Media Player” - was posted at 8.40am this morning. I then used the long tail keyword “Setanta On Mac Full Screen Windows Media Player” to search Google. At about 9am (20 minutes later), it appeared in the top first position of Google.

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Thought out in 2008...8:40 am

Setanta On Mac Full Screen Windows Media Player

How To Display Setanta on Mac Full Screen Windows Media Player
If you subscribe to Setanta sports broadband and use a Mac then you will no doubt be frustrated by the display in windows Media Player. The problem is that Windows Media Player on the Mac has no right click - zoom capabilities.
According to Microsoft - [...]

Thought out in 2008...10:44 am

Current Project: Ticket Support System

I am in the process of installing an open source ticket support system called osTicket, and then comparing it with the leading commercial application from Kayoka called eSupport. eSupport is monthly leased or hosted for $29.95 per month. osTicket is free (as in beer). Stay tuned for results.

clipped from www.osticket.com

 

Thought out in 2008...10:41 am

Shoeggle the biggest shoe place on earth

For those of you who know, I was in the shoe industry (in an ecommerce capacity) some years back. Well as a kind of intellectual challenge I am going to build out an affiliate conglomerate focusing on the shoe industry and doing some fairly innovative internet marketing. With the idea of blogging about some of [...]

Thought out in 2008...9:42 am

Hi Tech Chocolate

The point of this article shows how innovation and technology ideas - which began with the IBM PC - seep into mundane things like chocolate. Apparently coco is seldom graded as in coffee beans. But within 5 years it will be…

clipped from www.economist.com

San Francisco, a capital of food culture as well as technology, [...]

Thought out in 2008...6:06 pm

Outsourcing is Expensive Now

What with the dollar weakening outsourcing is changing to near sourcing…

clipped from www.businessweek.com

As outsourcing to India becomes more expensive, North American companies are more inclined to “nearsource,” keeping work in the Western Hemisphere, where they can operate in a closer time zone. In years past a company could save 40% to 50% by [...]

Thought out in 2008...9:21 am

Keeping Up

People often ask, how do you keep up with whats new - one of my main sources is Engadget - I will list others as they come to mind this week.
This week Engadget features the HP mini-note - clearly this is a segment which is resurrecting itself, with much better technologies. Lightweight, with no storage, [...]

Thought out in 2008...12:35 pm

Camtasia for Software Development Projects

This article examines some techniques for reducing the costs of software defects and thereby improving overall ROI. The view is from within corporate software projects and looks for some ideas from the world of open source software development and just in time inventory strategies.
The premise of these ideas is based on a theory that [...]

Thought out in 2008...9:17 am

Next Project : PBX in a Flash

A few years back I built out an Asterisk PBX system with my friend Allan Regenbaum. It was a fascinating experience, and I believe Allan still uses the box for hosting various voice mail solutions. For example, he later built a retail application where you could dial in at a store isle location (eg. home [...]

Thought out in 2008...8:44 am

The Year My Parents Went On Vacation

Possibly my movie of the year. A foreign movie with English subtitles. Brilliantly done. However I think it will only appeal to a certain profile.

have you lived in a country with political upheaval
have you been brought up where soccer is a passion
have you lived in a melting pot of cultures and religions

Its not only Brazil [...]

Thought out in 2008...8:40 am

Linux on Vista

I recently replaced all my computers with Microsoft Vista (don’t ask why). Now my Linux boxes are really all remote and are all servers. From time to time I need to compile stuff and test some Linux software, so I installed Cygwin. Cygwin is a Linux environment which includes a shell environment and a full [...]

Thought out in 2008...12:32 pm

SMS Ads

I am working on a new article which examines displaying a phone number in a Google ad for purposes of text messaging (Google Adwords policy does not forbid this). For example;
Lung Cancer Symptoms
What are the symptoms?
Text 1-866-CareQuestions
aicr.org.uk
To complete this idea you would need an SMS gateway for operators to engage in the interaction. Ultimately this [...]

Thought out in 2008...12:37 pm

Nomads

Early this morning I cracked open this weeks economist - ok in truth I opened my iPod download from this weeks Economist (available at about midnight EST every Thursday on http://talkingissues.economist.com/ a brilliant 5 star service). Anyway, the obvious article and series of special reports where titled - A Wireless World - Our Nomadic Future. [...]

Thought out in 2008...1:14 pm

Enterprise email service providers

JupiterResearch recently announced the leaders in ESP (listed below). More on this story shorty.
Market leaders in the large enterprise segment:

Responsys;
Silverpop;
ExactTarget;
Yesmail;
Datran Media;
Alterian;

Thought out in 2008...8:42 am

Wireless Beacons

Recently I traded my old clunky ipod for the new ipod shuffle. Whats unique about this device is its built in wireless features (since I am not in the AT&T network, I could not utilize an iphone, my first choice). I now tend to walk around looking for hot spots. Most are locked down, [...]

Thought out in 2008...1:34 pm

Review: Emory Healthcare

Recently I have had opportunity to review the Emory Health care website found at http://www.emoryhealthcare.org - rather then this being a complete review, it is my initial impressions of the site. Note that I have obtained very little feedback from Emory, so this is a perspective from a interested observer browsing the site.
The site is [...]

Thought out in 2008...5:22 pm

Content Management, Content Distribution

Content management systems became all the rage almost 10 years back. The focus of these systems was how to deliver very deep sites, giving organizations that ability to decentralize content generation yet still maintain a semblance of control.
Some excellent products have evolved over this period. Some focus on specific industries others provide integration mechanisms. The [...]

Thought out in 2008...4:08 am

Lifetime

It fascinates me how we build websites, spend a lot of money on marketing - including TV, Adwords and the like - to obtain visitors.  Visitors are our golden yardstick.  However, Internet marketers seldom think in terms of a visitor and a lifetime of interactions. This is all a symptom of the ‘hurry up economy’ [...]

Thought out in 2008...4:06 am

Email is dead, email is dead, e-mail is dead, not…

Take a look at your inbox. Scan through your emails and review the ones you always constantly open. Then think about how often you read emails, and further how many different email accounts you have. I dont’ think my email boxes are going away anytime soon.
Clearly there are a number of emails I always read. [...]

Thought out in 2008...5:17 pm

Information overload, you need to toggle me please

Make no mistake I love the web. Whatever my interests or ideas, you can find detailed and stimulating information. For example recently I explored the idea of wireless marketing beacons. I found half a dozen sites that provided good insight. Sadly as the next day arrived my attention was diverted to the next interesting challenge.
Then [...]

Thought out in 2008...5:13 pm

How the web could work, and sometimes tries…

What is the Internet? When you think about the web do you think about a web site, or online chat, or email, or forums or any of the above? I think a lot of people believe the Internet is a web site presence. They miss the point.
The Internet is a means of communicating, its a [...]

Thought out in 2008...4:41 pm

This has nothing to do with tomato sauce marketing, or does it…

Why tomato sauce marketing? I get asked this question all the time. Here is a list of reasons nd justifications - enjoy…

tomato sauce is the ‘English’ use for ketchup - something I enjoy with most meals
this blog is about marketing, and about marketing sauce, formula, and ideas
I am also very interested in the concept [...]

Thought out in 2008...6:23 pm

Sharing Marketing

I was recently involved in a project for a loan organization. What was fascinating about this project was the way customer data is moved through various organizations. All using secure xml transactions, various third parties would add value to the customer data. At the point we received the data it was ready for underwriters to [...]