http://www.returnpath.net A handy (not multimedia) tool where if you move from one email service to another email - this service grabs your incoming email (you provide passw0rd) and routes it to you and sends a note to those that contacted you about the change of your email address.
They display ads in some cases. They have a trust-e privacy statement which you might want to read, since you have to give them the password to your old email account for this system to work. There are advanced services are fee-based.
This may not be appropriate for business accounts depending on which service you pick, but may be helpful with free or personal accounts.
Not about fast media - but time to time I send notes about services that might help you do your job better.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
5 Year Old Podcaster, Video Search, Movie Video Blogs and do it yourself programs.
Here are few of the items I'm looking at today.
Research into: Podcasting, Video Blogging, Video Search
1. Corey Dietz from about.com reviewed a do it yourself podcast maker. "Podomatic is a portal which enables anyone to create, mix, host, search, share, and grab podcasts and mp3s." Corey says "No experience or particular skills required, either!"
2. Blinkx.tv announced they are allowing free video upload and storage like Google and other web sites.
3. Lycos Planet will support video for blogs. Lycos has had audio video search for quite some time. http://www.lycos.com
4. A new movie is advertising with a pop-up on the New York times site. On the graphical multimedia ad - you see a link to the movie's "video blog" embedded on small movie screen. Maybe you'll see it if you click this New York Times story in #5. I hope you can tell me the name of the movie and the URL. I wanted to capture the graphic to show others at presentations.
5. New Video Search Article in NYTimes
The story talks about the general search engines who are indexing video. Again, blinkx is in the news. They scan clips from Web sites, and use speech recognition software to index the words. The words aligned with the video are a key enable contextual video search. Numerous video blogs are on their search engine at http://www.blinkx.tv
Here's the New York Times story. Multiple hits require free registration.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/business/03ecom.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1128448347-LTpFapvNKsMuPS6yEEBpkg Have you tried their software?
7. PodSpider (RapidSolution) launches Search Engine says they are bigger than iTunes with more than 20,000 http://www.podspider/. (English Language)
I thought you'd like this story about the 5 year old podcaster and other Pinoy podcasters.
Here's an excerpt from a story by Alexander Villafania for www.inq7.net, a Philippine News Portal
http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=52301
Filipino life, according to Pinoy podcasters
"THEY are musicians sharing their music for free, a priest telling tales of life in Europe, a five-year old girl’s day-to-day activities at home and at school, a group of friends discussing food and politics, a geek’s perspective on the latest technologies. They are all Filipinos into podcasting.
While many are happy with blogging as their most common form of freedom of expression online, some of them have gone to making their voices heard through podcasting in the last several months.
There are currently 13 known Filipino-owned podcast sites with own blog sites, most of them delivering their podcast files in English. Some of these Filipino podcasters update their podcasts prolifically. Not surprisingly, the method is reminiscent of the days of the voice tapes that overseas Filipino workers sent to their families back home."
The story also reports on other podcasters, here are three examples.
- PinoyPodcast is supposedly "the first Filipino podcast, first posted on February 25, about four months earlier than the others.
- One Filipino podcast, "Mundo ni Sofia," is allegedly done by a five-year old Filipina girl living in California. She gives exceptional insights about her school activities, her friends, and how she discovered podcasting through her father.
- In "Topdogs in Manila," male Filipino radio jocks exhibit assertive male machismo, giving tips on how to get women and making fun at people. In all of their shows, they invite women to their "kennel" to spill their thoughts about men, Filipinos in particular."
Read More Here...
http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=52301
What have you found?
Cheers,
Peg
Research into: Podcasting, Video Blogging, Video Search
1. Corey Dietz from about.com reviewed a do it yourself podcast maker. "Podomatic is a portal which enables anyone to create, mix, host, search, share, and grab podcasts and mp3s." Corey says "No experience or particular skills required, either!"
2. Blinkx.tv announced they are allowing free video upload and storage like Google and other web sites.
3. Lycos Planet will support video for blogs. Lycos has had audio video search for quite some time. http://www.lycos.com
4. A new movie is advertising with a pop-up on the New York times site. On the graphical multimedia ad - you see a link to the movie's "video blog" embedded on small movie screen. Maybe you'll see it if you click this New York Times story in #5. I hope you can tell me the name of the movie and the URL. I wanted to capture the graphic to show others at presentations.
5. New Video Search Article in NYTimes
The story talks about the general search engines who are indexing video. Again, blinkx is in the news. They scan clips from Web sites, and use speech recognition software to index the words. The words aligned with the video are a key enable contextual video search. Numerous video blogs are on their search engine at http://www.blinkx.tv
Here's the New York Times story. Multiple hits require free registration.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/business/03ecom.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1128448347-LTpFapvNKsMuPS6yEEBpkg Have you tried their software?
7. PodSpider (RapidSolution) launches Search Engine says they are bigger than iTunes with more than 20,000 http://www.podspider/. (English Language)
I thought you'd like this story about the 5 year old podcaster and other Pinoy podcasters.
Here's an excerpt from a story by Alexander Villafania for www.inq7.net, a Philippine News Portal
http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=52301
Filipino life, according to Pinoy podcasters
"THEY are musicians sharing their music for free, a priest telling tales of life in Europe, a five-year old girl’s day-to-day activities at home and at school, a group of friends discussing food and politics, a geek’s perspective on the latest technologies. They are all Filipinos into podcasting.
While many are happy with blogging as their most common form of freedom of expression online, some of them have gone to making their voices heard through podcasting in the last several months.
There are currently 13 known Filipino-owned podcast sites with own blog sites, most of them delivering their podcast files in English. Some of these Filipino podcasters update their podcasts prolifically. Not surprisingly, the method is reminiscent of the days of the voice tapes that overseas Filipino workers sent to their families back home."
The story also reports on other podcasters, here are three examples.
- PinoyPodcast is supposedly "the first Filipino podcast, first posted on February 25, about four months earlier than the others.
- One Filipino podcast, "Mundo ni Sofia," is allegedly done by a five-year old Filipina girl living in California. She gives exceptional insights about her school activities, her friends, and how she discovered podcasting through her father.
- In "Topdogs in Manila," male Filipino radio jocks exhibit assertive male machismo, giving tips on how to get women and making fun at people. In all of their shows, they invite women to their "kennel" to spill their thoughts about men, Filipinos in particular."
Read More Here...
http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=52301
What have you found?
Cheers,
Peg
Monday, October 03, 2005
Free Spyware Programs Oxford University
If you work a lot from home and have to install programs, or you surf the Internet for research, it seems that there is always a spyware program or virus that leaks through to the computer. I found an adaware spy this morning. Every six months or so, I use the free online services from www.pandasoftware.com and Trend Micro Housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp to double-check my installed spyware and virus programs to see if they are missing anything.
This is off my usual topic - but I share helpful information when I find it. I use Spysweeper.com (webroot) for my spyware. It was recommended by the Toshiba Authorized Service Center in my area. I have also used Spybot mentioned below and it is a good program.
My Toshiba Computer Repair Center remarked to me that the Microsoft Spyware may conflict with other programs. Take that with a grain of salt, as I've received so many suggestions from technicians in the past who did not have the expertise to guide in a certain area, and were totally wrong. What may happen is that multiple versions of spyware programs can conflict on your system and can disable each other.
This is from the University of Oxford at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/viruses/adware/index.xml.ID=body.1_div.2
Adware and Spyware
2. Removing Adware/Spyware
A number of free software products check for and remove adware/spyware from your system. Some of the most well-known ones are:
Microsoft Windows Anti-Spyware (performs ongoing detection and removal.
Spywareblaster (performs detection, removal, and some ongoing protection against infection)
Spybot Search and Destroy (performs detection and removal)
Ad-Aware (performs detection and removal; free for individual private use only)
Spy Audit (performs detection only but is very small (500 kbytes) and fast (approx. 10 second scan time))
HijackThis (specifically aimed at home-page hijacking)
MacScan (for the Apple Macintosh)
A fuller list of products is available at https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/soft6.htm
As with anti-virus software, it is crucial to keep adware/spyware removal products up-to-date for them to be effective.
Unfortunately, some supposed adware-removal programs exist that are of doubtful quality, or that give inflated numbers of detection warnings to encourage sales, or that even install their own adware. The Spyware Warrior web site gives more information on such products.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/viruses/adware/index.xml.ID=body.1_div.2
This is off my usual topic - but I share helpful information when I find it. I use Spysweeper.com (webroot) for my spyware. It was recommended by the Toshiba Authorized Service Center in my area. I have also used Spybot mentioned below and it is a good program.
My Toshiba Computer Repair Center remarked to me that the Microsoft Spyware may conflict with other programs. Take that with a grain of salt, as I've received so many suggestions from technicians in the past who did not have the expertise to guide in a certain area, and were totally wrong. What may happen is that multiple versions of spyware programs can conflict on your system and can disable each other.
This is from the University of Oxford at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/viruses/adware/index.xml.ID=body.1_div.2
Adware and Spyware
2. Removing Adware/Spyware
A number of free software products check for and remove adware/spyware from your system. Some of the most well-known ones are:
Microsoft Windows Anti-Spyware (performs ongoing detection and removal.
Spywareblaster (performs detection, removal, and some ongoing protection against infection)
Spybot Search and Destroy (performs detection and removal)
Ad-Aware (performs detection and removal; free for individual private use only)
Spy Audit (performs detection only but is very small (500 kbytes) and fast (approx. 10 second scan time))
HijackThis (specifically aimed at home-page hijacking)
MacScan (for the Apple Macintosh)
A fuller list of products is available at https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/soft6.htm
As with anti-virus software, it is crucial to keep adware/spyware removal products up-to-date for them to be effective.
Unfortunately, some supposed adware-removal programs exist that are of doubtful quality, or that give inflated numbers of detection warnings to encourage sales, or that even install their own adware. The Spyware Warrior web site gives more information on such products.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/viruses/adware/index.xml.ID=body.1_div.2
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