Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One
If you are on a broadband pipe and like to store videos from Youtube or Google on your harddrive, then KeepVid might be the right tool for you.
KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion. Read More »
First official post in 2006. I just added a new poll questions: Are you using Skype?
I wanted to know a little bit more about you Skype-behaviour. What features of Skype are you using on a daily basis. Is Skype your favorit Instant Messaging application (chatting) or is it more. Are you making voice phone calls with Skype, and are these calls all on-net calls (pc2pc) or also skype-in & skype-out? I would be happy if you answer the question. Hint: The poll is integrated in the sidebar, directly under my flickr photos.
New poll: Are you using Skype? Read More »
Techchrunch has an small article about a online storage file service called Omnidrive. The service is scheduled for launch in January 2006.
Planned features of Omnidrive are:
According to Techchrunch the “they will give a gig or two of storage for free, and sell 10 gb bundles above that for “not more thanâ€? $70 per year. That’s pricy, but way below the industry standard right now.”
I mean it’s usefull and i’d like to have the option to access my own files (music, pictures, videos, etc.) from every Inet connected device in the world. But how large is my willingness to pay for such a service? 1-2 Gigabyte isn’t much space. I only need around 20 Gigabytes for my music collection.
From my point of view Google or Microsoft (service bundling with the OS) will provide such a service in the future. Google has the infrastructure, their business is indexing, crawling and selling advertisement space. For example, based on my personal music files/tastes Google will automatically advertise some new CD’s or Artist.
Omnidrive – Online Storage File Service Read More »
Take the chance and watch some of the lectures and sessions from the 22C3 in Berlin as a Inet Video Stream. I’m just watching the keynote speech from Joi Ito. He is talking about the information society and the development of the internet from a closed network, controlled by telco monopolist and IT-companies, to an open network controlled by the community. If you want to get a hint where the web is, where it is going, its current limitations and more, then watch the keynote speech.
Heise.de already covered the keynote speech on their newsticker.
22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) – Video Stream Read More »
It’s always very interesting to find some new pieces of software on the world wide web. This time i found a link to a site called hamachi. It seems to be something like a P2P VPN Client software for windows Linux & Windows. Quote:
With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication.
Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. It is also free. Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking application with an open security architecture and NAT-to-NAT traversal capabilities.
Sounds nice? Perhaps i should give it a try and write a review latter of it.
Software: Stay connected with ‘Hamachi’ (P2P VPN) Read More »
Yes, they’ve done it. The Skype Crew released their first beta with video chat enabled. Looks promising but unfortunately none of my friends who own a webcam are online right now.
Here is the link
Skype Beta Version – Video Chat *AVAILABLE* Read More »
Some kind of Flockr for multimedia content? Watch out for some announcements soon.
Songbird is a complete desktop media player or “jukebox” with a uniquely open approach to Internet digital media network services.
Songbird is developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable, a small, chirpy team of digital media innovators whose previous incubations include the Winamp 5 and Y! Music Engine media players and Muse.Net, a location-independent digital media network service acquired by Yahoo!.
Watchlist: Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player Read More »
Google ist eine dieser Erfolgsstories eines Startup Unternehmens das die Internet Welt im Sturm erobert. Mit einem Börsenwert von über 110 Mrd. US-Dollar ist Google mittlerweile mehr Wert als Coca-Cola, Time Warner oder gar Cisco. Und es sieht auch nicht danach aus, als würde sich das Wachstum in nächste Zeit dramatisch abschwächen. Die Frage die sich stellt: Welche Strategie verfolgt Google? Was sind Google’s Ziele? Wie positioniert sich Google für neue Dienste wie Video on Demand? etc.
Eine mögliche Antwort wo die Reise hingehen kann, gibt der folgende Artikel: PBS | I, Cringely . November 17, 2005 – Google-Mart
So why buy-up all that fiber, then?
The probable answer lies in one of Google’s underground parking garages in Mountain View. There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn’t just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We’re talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid.
While Google could put these containers anywhere, it makes the most sense to place them at Internet peering points, of which there are about 300 worldwide.
Google-Mart – What’s Google’s Strategy? Read More »
Bei der Suche nach alternativen RSS Reader, bin ich auf BlogBridge gestossen. Blogbridge ist in Java programmiert und läuft daher problems auf allen gängigen Betriebssysteme. Der zweite Vorteil ist der Blogbridge Service. Auf dem Server wird das eigene Profil hinterlegt und man kann dann bequem Blogbridge auf einem anderen Rechner installieren und dieses Profil nutzen. Sehr praktisch! Auch das Layout gefällt mir gut und die vorhandene Feed Bookmarks sind auch super. Alles in allem macht die Anwendung auf den ersten Blick einen sehr guten Eindruck.
Empfehlung RSS Reader: BlogBridge Read More »