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Adobe and Friends – Microsoft in the Crosshairs

If there is any indicator that MSFT may not be a long term hold, the introduction of the Adobe Office suite of Web Applications is a good start.

The combination of WebOS and various Web Apps will have to nibble away at the edges of MSFT profitability – and when you add in all the troubles with Vista in recent days, it looks like the weather is definately cloudy in Redmond.

Want to know the bright spot ?

MS Zune and Podcasting.

Don’t count them out of the race by any stretch of the imagination. One of our Tech Podcast Founders started at MS today, Oct 1.

Please congratulate Rob Greenlee.

He’s got a big job, but he’s the man for the job, and we look forward to hearing more.

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First Steps MotionBox

by Andrew McCaskey
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Still getting used to the new Castblaster program that I started using today – and my audio is still recorded in a separate channel.
Thanks for your patience.

We will be talking about this tomorrow as well. MotionBox is much like YouTube 2.0

SDR Listener Leila Pflager at Motionbox.com emailed the link before the Podcast Expo – but just got to contact her today.

IE Used To Launch Yahoo IM Clickfraud
Simply visiting a certain site in Internet Explorer will cause the files to download and start sending infection messages
No drones or bots, just people not smartest required
their homepage is changed to a site using Mesothelioma (a rare form of cancer) to ring up high-paying results on the perpetrators’ Google ads.
smaller Botnet guys ditch their technical woes and jump on the much-easier-to-maintain IM bandwagon
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Worried about Draft-N ?
ASUS, which uses the Broadcom chipset, said that they will swap out hardware if necessary for any draft-n gateways and adapters they ship until the end of 2006.
no guarantees from any chipmaker or manufacturer that today’s devices — loosely based on the IEEE 802.11n Draft 1.0 — will be upgradeable through firmware to the final standard. March 2007
RS232 kinda.
you won’t be left with equipment that only works well with itself.”
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The First Robotic Musician
Hai-Lee
‘listens’ to what musicians are playing and play along with them, has been developed at the University of Georgia.
The basic level is to teach it to learn to identify music, to imitate,”The higher level is stability of rhythm, to be able to distinguish between similar rhythms.

D-Link announced plans an unlocked Linux cellphone
in early 2007. $600
Dual-mode WiFi and GSM/GPRS.
Opera browser. Email client.
Tri-band (900/1800/1900) GSM radio
should work with any GSM-GPRS SIM card, including pre-paid SIM cards as well as those from traditional GSM service providers.

HOWTO Commit Corporate Espionage
Business Week
The article looks at devices designed for counter-espionage, which range from mundane confidential email services to sophisticated camera and listening-device detectors. ‘
Spy vs Spy countermeasures
To secure a room in an office building, devices are placed on ceiling plenums, floors, HVAC ducts, doors, walls or windows — basically anywhere voices can travel.’”

GMail and Sourceforge
E-mail Bouncing
many Open Source projects with helpless mailing lists.
it has been going on for a week already with no end in sight.”

Tech Podcasts Roundtable
Audio Recordings Podcast Media Expo not up yet.
But
Saturday Oct 7th – 1:30PM Pacific
TPN Roundtable – Discussion of
Conference

Podango Unconference
Keynote: Robert Scoble
John Federico- Audible: Measurement
Elizabeth Lewin- Podcasting News
Geeks and Gadgets to Grannies and Groceries

Highlight of the floor

NYTimes Claim: Press Analysis with AI
AI effort- Homeland Security
Foreign Press – for threats
Restrictions on monitoring within the US, there are no restrictions on media outside the US.
Why vaguely uneasy about this?

Wafer Thin Disk from Hitachi
less than 1/10 of a mm Goal: Data cartridges multiple TB
Optical disc systems require a rigid disc so that the laser remains in focus on the disc’s surface. 0.6 millimeter-thick piece of glass through which there are holes. Air is drawn through the holes
wafer drawn against the rigid piece of glass to make it flat.
4.7TB in about size of tower PC.

1,220 “Google Gadgets”
— small bits of code that function as dynamic applications when installed on a Web page.
miniature look-up for Google Maps or Google Calendar
Contrast Yahoo, through its acquisition of Konfabulator last year, boasts more than 3,244 Widgets

Motionbox
Listener Leila (Layla Flayger) Pflager at Motionbox.com
Imagine YouTube 2.0
Set clips/ bookmarks
Select mail/embed segments
Video in from cam phone
2 Deep Links in Motionbox
BBC Feature on site today

Dial In and Record, or Click the Voicemail Added
New Dial in number is 732-357-3682
Or, while at the site, leave me an audio message
Thanks and shout out to David Wilson in Wellington, NZ – got to be the first to leave a message on the system.

On October 12, Slashdot Review will complete 2 years of the podcast service – with a format that is virtually unchanged since day signed on.

It’s time to shift gears in several areas..

First – Music track gone

Lots of great indy music, break for artists – lots of other podcasts, but surveys, emails and conversations indicate that if it’s a choice, most listeners want news and editiorial opinion. By design, the musics was placed at end so could skip – kept it because survey data about 2/3 either liked or were OK.
Plus, reduced bit-rate of encode – smaller files, less space, faster upload and downloads.

Second : 5 days per week. Drive time or during work week at desk – so will produce five shows per week not six.for consumption during the work week. Gotta be honest – I understand podfade – don’t want to do that but got to

Third – 10 mins or less .tried to be consistant, to provide highlights in ten mins or less and will continue.

Fourth – More concise - awareness not in depth understanding. Pointers, references – better show notes Outline, speak informally bullet points.

Fifth – More informal content - Less editing means more commentary and link to expanded resources , better notes, etc.

All of this change is going to take basically the month of October – to build out SDR News to include other primary sources, make some major web site changes and put in place

We were both comfortable with the original format.

I’ve got to learn this new way of presentation

I think it will be more fun, and that in the long run we will be able to offer a better podcast service.

Thanks for listening to Slashdot Review.

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Change of Season – and Format

by Andrew McCaskey
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Been at Podcast/ Portable Media Expo in Ontario, CA – one of the most exciting and thought provoking 72 hours I’ve every experienced. In the past 24 hours I have integrated some of those ideas with the listener survey data over the past year

Tonights show is going to cover some of those thoughts – intermixed with news.

The I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard

On October 12, Slashdot Review will complete 2 years of the podcast service – with a format that is virtually unchanged since day signed on.

It’s time to shift gears in several areas..

First – Music track gone

Lots of great indy music, break for artists – lots of other podcasts, but surveys, emails and conversations indicate that if it’s a choice, most listeners want news and editiorial opinion. By design, the musics was placed at end so could skip – kept it because survey data about 2/3 either liked or were OK.
Plus, reduced bit-rate of encode – smaller files, less space, faster upload and downloads.

Second : 5 days per week. Drive time or during work week at desk – so will produce five shows per week not six.for consumption during the work week. Gotta be honest – I understand podfade – don’t want to do that but got to

Third – 10 mins or less .tried to be consistant, to provide highlights in ten mins or less and will continue.

Fourth – More concise - awareness not in depth understanding. Pointers, references – better show notes Outline, speak informally bullet points.

Fifth – More informal content - Less editing means more commentary and link to expanded resources , better notes, etc.

All of this change is going to take basically the month of October – to build out SDR News to include other primary sources, make some major web site changes and put in place

We were both comfortable with the original format.

I’ve got to learn this new way of presentation

I think it will be more fun, and that in the long run we will be able to offer a better podcast service.

Thanks for listening to Slashdot Review.

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Conferenced Day 1 — and Glogging

by Andrew McCaskey
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Sponsored in part by : WickedLasers.com the
world’s most powerful consumer laser.

Some quick intro notes on the Podcast Portable Media Expo. Today’s keynote will be delivered by Leo Laporte, of TWIT – and will set the stage for some thoughts on how the world of podcasting will evolve. The organizers have done a really good balancing act between business, citizen media technical and just plain interesting stuff that captures some of the excitement.

Leo had a great speech citing some of the discussion on the use of the term Podcast, and celebrates the freedom and creativity of Podcasting.

The day moved quickly into a literal three ring circus – make that four rings – the official conference, the Podango “Unconference” on the show floor, the trade show floor, and the hallway conversations. No make that five, as there was a separate demo area set up as well, just off the show floor.

The marked difference between this conference and scores of other tradeshows ? They committed to having the entire series of Conference lectures posted for download within the week. The “unconference ” will have most of today’s lectures posted tonight, and promise close to realtime posting of the Unconference Sessions.

I hope that you will be able to listen in, and gain a sense of the excitement in the Podcast and Portable Media world. There are about 4300 people here, and the impact of this conference will be multiplied many times over.

You know that I have an almost fatal attraction to new and novel – and I am directing some attention to something that might be a little bit of fun for the next few days – quasi realtime photos from the Portable Media Show. I had never heard of the term “Glogging”

A few test images from the show seemed to work ok right from the hotel -from the Motorola Razr phone – then I got ambitious with a seven second video and something broke. I abandoned that account, and started over again – and some of the results will appear in tonights show notes.

Glogging is A CyborgLog (often abbreviated to ‘glog) is a first-person recording of an activity, in which the person doing the recording is a participant in the activity. It an be fed with cameraphones – you just take the photo, send it as an email attachment, and then Glogger assembles them into a storyboard and provides a realtime feed to the web site or blog posting.

Thus, the way this is supposed to work – as I take photos at the show, they will be posted in more or less realtime – ie. the photo should change as they are added throughout the day – do you might want to check back and see what’s new.
Glogger.eyetap.org has the details.

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Griddlecakes Podcast and Flight to Ontario, CA

by Andrew McCaskey
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Today’s video is a close up look at the Microsoft Zune player. I had not paid much attention to some of the press releases from a week or two ago, but this video lets you see the Zune go through its paces. I have not yet made the leap to the Video iPod – but there are several in the extended family and come Christmastime that might change.

It looks like there is no limit to the number of screens that we are willing to put in place in our lives – but the limiting aggravation for the business traveler seems to be finding primary power during a layover to get things recharged. At least at O’Hare, it seems like almost every easily accessible outlet on the Terminal B and C concourse has been used so many times that the two blade plugs just fall out – and the three blade are not much better. Terminal 2 seems to be a bit better – I think they must have turned on the hot spots a few months later on that concourse. Once again, the PublicVPN service provided the $6 per month peace of mind securing the WiFi link once I was able to find some power.

Arrived here at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo after a pleasant day of connecting flights.

Griddlecakes Radio host and creative talent Ron Ploof was one of the first smiling faces that I got to see at the hotel – and a chance to catch up on the . He’s restoring the lost art of radio storytelling – and made it as high as #13 on the iTunes Music store for Children and Family programming.

We both agree that the next few days are going to be an interesting reflection on the changes in the podcasting world in just a year. I’ll have more of a report tomorrow.

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