Weber Responds To Digital Shift
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Larry Weber thinks people may be surprised how quickly interactive and digital marketing is cutting into broadcast.
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Once you ship a product you immediately start getting feedback, and if you're paying attention you can easily find the trends.  One of the big pieces of feedback about FlickrFan relates to branding. When you download the app and mount the disk image, where's FlickrFan? It isn't until after you figure out that you need to open the folder and click on the OPML app that you see FlickrFan. (I need to add a Readme file that makes this much more obvious.) I knew this would be confusing. I could have renamed everything FlickrFan, it wouldn't have taken much work, or testing, and the chance for breakage was nil, since it was a new product. I didn't do it for a simple reason, the engine that runs FlickrFan will run other apps, and I knew I would be shipping one such app within a matter of weeks. Once there's a second app running in the same engine, it may still be confusing. But there will be more after that.  Maybe there won't be millions of users, but my goal is to bootstrap a community of networked living rooms. For that I don't need more than a couple hundred households who want to play and I already have that.  I will soon tell you more about the new app, and if you're paying attention on my Twitter feed, you'll get a pretty clear idea of where this is going. It's all about communities, social features and big media. FlickrFan is about beautiful pictures on high def TV. The next one is about... Stay tuned!
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Plus, more changes at McDonald's, and tough times for TiVo?
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The company's latest digital camera includes advanced video features.
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More people are online and more people are using cutting-edge technologies but the talk around the devices
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50424)  has announced the addition of Digital Home: Asia/Pacific Consumer  Adoption and Perception to their offering.
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By Anonymous  Editorial Perhaps it's churlish to preach prudence in an issue dedicated to a celebration of the growth of digital, but for those people around in the last internet boom, the sense of deja vu in current times is unsettling.
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Coghead took a giant step toward taking Web 2.0 application development mainstream with the announcement today of Coghead version 2.0 which will use Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Computer Cloud) hosting service and incorporate the Adobe Flex development environment into its infrastructure.The target market for Coghead's 100 percent Web-based development environment are knowledge workers, rather than programmers, and the 50 million businesses that don't have a server, said Paul McNamara, Coghead CEO.Using Flex will give those knowledge workers a bigger library of widgets to use in order to create forms and at the same time enlarge the community of developers who can write applications using Coghead."We are trying to expand the range of people who can create business applications from simple applications created by moderately technical people all the way up to professional programmers," said McNamara.Version 2.0 is three times faster than the original version released in April 2007, according to McNamara, thanks mainly to performance enhancements using Adobe Flex."The Flex packet size is compact and efficient between server and desktop," said McNamara.The other major highlight of version 2.0 is the deal with Amazon to use its EC2 hosting environment, which will give users assurance that their data and application definitions are safely stored in the Amazon cloud.In addition, McNamara said that creating Web services on Amazon's platform has always be a daunting task, and by putting Coghead on top of EC2, Amazon will also extend its market to less technical developers.In coming news, Coghead is also working to adopt Adobe AIR, formerly code named Apollo, onto its platform. AIR gives users the ability to work with Web 2.0 applications offline and will cut down on the initial load of an application.Coghead Version 2.0 is available now.
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I've not made much of a secret of the fact that I've been working on a new product, and am getting close to offering it as a public pre-alpha thing for Mac users only.  It's fairly Flickr-centric, sucking photos down from Flickr in a variety of ways and pushing up photos in others. Like Radio 8 and Google Reader, it has the ability to maintain an output feed of stuff you want to pass on to friends and associates. As I was developing this I wished that Flickr had the ability to store simple text files, because I needed a place to put an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures on behalf of each user. Of course I used Amazon S3, but I had to implement my own lightweight identity system so that Juan couldn't accidentally or intentionally replace Alice's feed. If only every user had a place where they could store stuff that's net accessible so that once and for all we could stop inventing new places. I was inspired to write about this when I read an Uncov review of Pownce where they reminded me that they were reselling S3 storage at a big markup. What if the users had their own S3 storage that they paid for themselves?  Then it occurred to me to ask if people thought S3 could be an end-user thing. I'd like to find out, so if some non-technical users who have Amazon accounts would like to try setting up an S3 account, I'd be interested in hearing how it goes. Here's an idea of how you get started. 1. You must already have an Amazon account. Nothing special about it, if you buy shirts or books or stereo equipment from Amazon, you use the same account for S3 storage. Already that's pretty easy, millions of people have Amazon accounts, right? 2. Visit this page on Amazon, ignore all the stuff about objects and buckets. In the right margin is a big button that says "Sign up for this web service." Click the button. A very familiar page appears, asking you to sign into your Amazon account as if you were going to buy something (you are!). 3. From there, I'm not sure what you see, because I have already enabled my account. But the end result of signing up is that you get two strings with weird names: Your Access Key ID and Your Secret Access Key. Any software that would save a document in S3-space on your behalf would need these two strange strings. In return each document would have a URL just like any other document on the web. Nothing strange about that.  4. You could also use the space to store stuff using an FTP-like app that runs in Firefox called S3 Organizer. It's about as hard to use as the Mac Finder or the Windows Explorer, i.e. it's no challenge for a moderately geeky user. The cool thing about it is that you're able to share anything you upload into S3 space with anyone else. You can even use BitTorrent to access any file to save you bandwidth bills and distribute the load round the net. It's all very easy to do, imho. As a developer who has to pay for his users' storage needs I would very much like to see users learn how to use S3 to store their stuff, so I can focus on writing software and fixing bugs instead of paying to store your stuff.
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Times are a-changing in TV Land, and this company is on the cutting edge.
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The online application vendor has ported its productivity tools to the social networking site.
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By Paul Gromosiak  I must admit that I am a bit of a Luddite, but I have accepted my fair share of technology in my daily life. What concerns me is how rapidly technology seems to be taking complete control of our lives. Once our servant, I think it is now our master.
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With technology booming, consumers are starting to stray away  from traditional movie and TV watching. Their personal viewing  experience now includes their computer, portable video devices,  and even cell phones.
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Itâs a different atmosphere but itâs also a continuation of some strategy that was announced at that earlier event: the three-screenâPC, mobile, TVâapproach.
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Digital photo frames expand beyond standalone frames into home appliances.
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By The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 10--Apolitician couldn't get far today promising a chicken in every pot or even a car in every back yard, but with the revolution in computer technology, there could be a contemporary equivalent: a computer and Internet access in every household.
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Join the crowd: Step up from a digital point-and-shoot to a more powerful, more affordable digital SLR.