Thu, 31 May 2007
This is a video taken off the Zooomr TV Ustream feed. Zooomr Mark III is still not up but the Internet community is coming together to help. Thanks Zoho and Sun Microsystems. Check out Scoble’s blog for more information. Kris must be feeling better as you can tell in this short video clip.
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Category:Food
-- posted at: 2:59pm PDT
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Wed, 30 May 2007
Tonight (May 29) at 11:15 PM, Zooomr Mark III launched and everyone in the Zooomr Ustream.TV chat room rushed onto the site and started posting what they found. Twenty minutes late it went down as fast as it went up. Zooomr had lost a data base server and had to be taken off line. For those who don’t know Zooomr is a photo sharing site similar to Flickr and has been down for the past week being overhauled with over 250 new features. The lead (and only) programmer, Kristopher Tate, has been working night and day on this venture and tonight was a major defeat in Zooomr’s launch. While the site was up everyone was excited by what they saw. Reading the posts in the chat room reminded me of kids running to be the first on the rides at Disneyland after they opened the gates. For many of us it’s been a week’s wait watching Kristopher and Thomas Hawk broadcast the ups and downs of this launch live over Ustream.tv. Hanging out in the chat room and getting to know Kristopher and Thomas felt like family and everyone was enjoying being part of it all. Even before the launch actually happened, Robert Scoble wrote a post about Zooomr asking for others to help this startup survive. After the launch I was going to title this post “Did Ustream Save Zooomr,? but even though that may be true, I don’t think Ustream can fix this. What can you do to help?
Category:Technology
-- posted at: 1:28am PDT
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Sat, 26 May 2007
Welcome to the Fogview Podcast The title of this podcast comes from awaiting the launch of Zooomr Mark III, a photo sharing site. Listen to the podcast to get the details and check out Zooomr for the latest status. I also talk about recent news in the Podcasting world as well as some other technical news along with some great podsafe music. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/podcast to start your free trial today. On Today's Show (length: 56:27)
Additional Links for Today's Show GoDaddy promotion: You can save 10% on web hosting services by entering promo code pod24 and an additional 10% on other orders using promo code blu24. You can email me comments at MyFogView AT Gmail.com. Please let me know why you listen to my podcast and what you enjoy or don't enjoy about the show. Tags: hombrewcpu technorati zooomr podtech |
Tue, 22 May 2007
Today Zooom Mark III plans to launch. Zooomr is a photo sharing site similar to Flickr. Users can create an account and upload their photos for all the world to view and share. The site was created by one programmer, Kristopher Tate (CTO) and has been highly promoted by Thomas Hawk, who is also the CEO of Zoomr. For the past two days Kristopher and Thomas have been live on Ustream.tv talking about the launch and answering questions about Zooomr Mark III and photography via the UStream chat box. They plan to stay live until Zooomr launches (ETA is this afternoon). To my knowledge this is the first time a web site has launched (or relaunched in the case of Zooomr) live. The launch also was written up on TechCrunch. The “meta” picture was taken with my Nikon D40 after asking Thomas for a picture shot.
Category:Photography
-- posted at: 12:05pm PDT
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Sat, 12 May 2007
Welcome to the Fogview Podcast Check out the new Fogview theme song by Geoff Smith. I talk about news from around the internet and play some great podsafe music. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/podcast to start your free trial today. On Today's Show (length: 46:33)
Additional Links for Today's Show GoDaddy promotion: You can save 10% on web hosting services by entering promo code pod24 and an additional 10% on other orders using promo code blu24. You can email me comments at MyFogView AT Gmail.com. Please let me know why you listen to my podcast and what you enjoy or don't enjoy about the show. Thanks, Tom Tags: ipod zune geoff smith castblaster blogging |
Mon, 7 May 2007
Welcome to the Fogview Podcast In this show I talk about how Digg was Digg’d with the HD-DVD crack code. I also give you some great tech tips and introduce someone new to the Podsafe Music Network. Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/podcast to start your free trial today. On Today's Show (length: 43:18)
Additional Links for Today's Show GoDaddy promotion: You can save 10% on web hosting services by entering promo code pod24 and an additional 10% on other orders using promo code blu24. You can email me comments at MyFogView AT Gmail.com. Please let me know why you listen to my podcast and what you enjoy or don't enjoy about the show. Thanks, Tom Technorati Tags: mix07 silverlight rss hijacking digg zune igoogle |
Fri, 4 May 2007
Dave Winer mentioned on Scripting News that he was the Dave was having problems syncing the Zune to his Mac (running Windows using Parallels) and figuring out how to download podcasts to the Zune. I left a comment on his blog about how I download podcasts to my Zune and thought I would repeat the information here since others may have the same problem or curious about how its done. The Microsoft Zune desktop software doesn’t support podcasts directly (but it is listed as a genre), so you will need an external podcast reader (podcatcher) like Juice or iTunes to retrieve your favorite podcast shows. I use Juice as my podcatcher which downloads podcasts to separate folders for each podcast. After the podcasts are on my computer the Zune desktop will sync them up to the Zune device using “watch” folders. I don’t automatically have the Zune software watch all the podcast show folders because sometimes I listen to them on my desktop and don’t want them on the Zune. To sync the podcasts up with the Zune I’ve created a Zune folder under My Documents with three subfolders: Pictures, Videos, and Podcasts. I’ve set the Zune desktop software to watch those folders so anything that gets placed in the folders are automatically synced to the Zune. Some of the downloaded podcasts go directly to my Zune Podcast folder and other shows I manually move to the folders. The next time the Zune is connected to the desktop it will automatically download any new files it finds in the watched folders and remove any files from the Zune that have been removed from the watched folders. Other things you need to remember: 1) You can’t delete the podcasts on the Zune but must manually delete (or remove) them from the “watched” folders. It has no concept of what’s been played and what can be deleted. (I generally listen to all the podcasts on my Zune before resyncing to the PC so I can safely delete everything in the Zune Podcast directory.) 2) Use the genre: Podcast on the Zune to find the downloaded podcasts and select “play all.” This only works if the MP3 ID3 tags has the word “podcast” in the genre field. I find most podcasts do but some don’t and it may list those shows under Unknown genre. 3) When you first install the Zune software it automatically checks the My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos directories on your computer and transfers any existing media you may have. This may take a while if computer is loaded with lots of media files. (You can disable this — see below.) You can access the Zune desktop software “watched” folders list with: Options->Library-Monitor Folders A question that keeps coming up about the Zune is what happens if you can’t listen to a podcast completely? When you turn the Zune back on does it continue where you left off or does it start from the beginning? The answer is yes and no. Most of the time you can pause and turn off the player and continue later where you left off. There are two exceptions to this: 1) If the battery drains completely while it’s off (wi-fi and FM radio can cause a drain), and 2) After the Zune has been sitting idle for a few days the Zune seems to go through a reset and loses the knowledge of what it was previously doing (even with a fully charged battery). It doesn’t lose any of the media, only what was played. I hope this has been helpful. Email me if you have any questions at myfogview AT gmail.com Tags: zune zune podcasts podcasts scriptingnews.com dailygizwiz
Category:Technology
-- posted at: 4:15pm PDT
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Wed, 2 May 2007
A number of listeners to my podcast have been emailing me and asking about the freeway collapse we had in the San Francisco Bay Area last Sunday (April 29, 2007). I thought I would write about it here for those who are interested.
Around 3:30 AM Sunday a gasoline truck crashed into a guard rail and overturned on the 880 freeway near the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The truck burst into flames and the fire was so hot it melted the 580 freeway structure that crosses the 880 freeway, causing it to collapse. Luckily the truck driver was able to get out of his truck in time and hailed a taxi cab who took him to a local hospital. He survived with only 2nd degree burns. No one else was injured. (See video and pictures of the collapse here.)
The freeway collapse was a major news story (and still is). I'm amazed how hot the fire got to melt the structure. The section of freeway affected is near the entrance to the San Francisco Bay bridge from the Oakland/Berkeley side of the bay (called the East Bay). It mainly affects people who work in San Francisco. Commuters can cross the Bay Bridge going into San Francisco but coming home they will need to exit the bridge and take Oakland city surface streets to by-pass the collapsed section. It will be a major traffic issue for months to come. I live in the outskirts of the Bay Area and don’t travel to San Francisco very often so this collapse doesn’t directly affect me.
As you can imagine it really affects traffic in the Bay Area. It mainly affect people who live in the East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley, etc.) and work in San Francisco. With the section of the freeway gone commuters have other alternatives (other freeways and city streets) but in watching the news coverage over the past four days you would think the entire Bay Area freeway system had collapsed.
All the Bay Area radio and TV news stations have extended coverage of this event. Reporters are out in traffic; near the site of the collapsed freeway; and riding mass transit (BART). On Monday most commuters stayed home so I think the reporters were the only ones in the traffic. One TV station had an airplane; news vans; and reporters on the side of the freeway near the freeway collapse and showing how bad drivers were acting slowing down to view the collapse and causing a major traffic jam. Maybe the news crew was the REAL cause of slowdown.
I know this is major news story but when news stations only talk about this one story and run extended coverage (starting at 4 AM), something is wrong. I would love to have Dave Winer’s Checkbox News so I could opt out of this “news event” after four days. I’m tired of hearing extended coverage about commuters coping with the change and the lack of a major traffic backup.
A quick update: After four days the collapsed freeway has been removed and the inspection of remaining structure begins. Current cost: 9 Stay tuned … Technorati Tags: dave winer freeway collapse
Category:general
-- posted at: 10:35am PDT
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