Archive for April 3rd, 2006

SDR Podcast 2006-04-03

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SDR 125x50 Today’s Headlines Include…
  • America’s War on the Web
  • Sun’s Open Source DRM from SUN
  • SplunkBase: IT Troubleshooting Wiki

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Track: I Can Pretend[3:38]
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Techpodcast Network / U3.com Developer Contest – How to Enter
–by Andrew McCaskey

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Gotta love it : Hello to John Trainer who put his mark on the Frappr Page

“I’m not affiliated with slashdotreview other than as a regular listener.”

That is the sort of comment that helps to brighten things up considerably. Thanks John and hello also to John from Toronto for the photo as well. I certainly appreciate those efforts as well as those who send notes about the Bittorrent feed and make the effort to fill out the Podtrac listener survey, send along FeedBlitz emails to others and generally help out.


Thanks also to the folks at Libsyn
who were able to help today with a run away subscriber client that went a little beserk and kept downloading again and again. This was not good – but was caught in time.

On more pleasant topics..

Here’s a bit more info on how you can win $500, $250 or $100 in the TechPodcast/U3 Developer’s Contest. U3,as you know, enables USB drives like the GeekSquad Series from Best Buy to contain applications, data, configurations and passwords. These prizes will be awarded to TPN listeners who download the U3 SDK and port their application to the U3 environment and are selected by a panel of judges.

Go to U3.com, register, and download the U3 Deployment Kit, which includes the SDK and other Developer information. You will receive a confirmation email from U3 with a Username and Developer Company ID number. Cut and paste that into an email along with your contact information and email it to contest@techpodcasts.com .

That’s it – you are officially entered in the contest, and officially equiped with the tools you need to port your application to the U3 environment. You can submit up to three entries, one per category by email at any time prior to May 15, 2006.


The complete rules and entry details

It’s going to be fun !

Don’t forget that you can get Slashdotreview by email, with a built in flash player, arriving in your email inbox each day. Just sign up for the free FeedBlitz service in the box at the bottom of each day’s posting. Plus you can then forward that email, and introduce someone new to podcasting to SDR – without having to explain a thing.

Recent Links and Announcements

You can download the Iotum.com Voice 2.0 whitepaper that was summarized the week of March 27 linked on SDR.

A Monthly Newsletter called ‘The Filter” : The public-interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Here is the newsletter signup link for the Filter

The Go-Daddy Catalog Page is here.

The audio and recorded versions of the TechPodcast Roundtable from March 11. The video of the event contains both the U3 and Podtrac presentations.

CES CD Now Available

The official package of the entire SDR coverage for the CES Convention available in data CD form at the SDR CD Store page.

The book that I spoke about on 3/2 is called “Amusing Ourselves to Death” .

The preface to the book gives a good idea of the basic premise, and specific comments on television. (Remember, this was in the early 1980′s .. the hundred channel universe was not yet revealed )

A more lengthy summary is found at WikiPedia.
Interactive Touchscreen Demo: a video of a really cool touchscreen interface – about ten times better than the Bill Gates demo at CES. Hard to describe, about three minutes long.

Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com!


Now a really useful guide to Fixing Windows with Knoppix has appeared online,
a reprint of a chapter in the book Hacking Knoppix from Scott Granneman . You might want to plan ahead, print out the chapter and put it alongside a fresh burn of Knoppix STD when you get the call.

I came across Google SMS again today- a way to pull all sorts of useful stuff from Google with the fast SMS from your cellphone.

Be sure to sign up for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting. Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable.

If you happen to own a Motorola ROKR or RAZR, Nokia 6620, 6630, 6683, or the Sony Ericsson k700, s710 or k750i, check out the Melodeo Mobilcast cell phone podcast player. .

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