Technically Speaking

Or something like that. I found this today while reading my feeds, and updating my Link Blog.

The below video shows an interesting way to self-electri’fy your life. Or as I just said “something like that“! I don’t condone putting your pet in there, or any human, but it would be an interesting way to secure your home at night. Talk about shock of their life if someone tries to break and enter.

Monitor Hack – Security System! – video powered by Metacafe

Technically Speaking, I would be very careful if you tried this for your own amusement or security upgrades to your home!

Jaiku, is announcing that it is adding Jabber-based instant messaging capabilities to interact with the service and provide a new way for people to communicate as well as share content in addition to the existing Web, iPhone, and Nokia Series 60 smart phone clients.

By adding jaiku@jaiku.com to their Jabber-based IM client (including Google Talk), the new IM bot introduces the ability to instantly add and read new posts, comments, channel messages, and also receive notifications of inbound responses directly.

Choose and receive pre-determined Web feeds from their friends online activities via IM, for example, flickr photos from some contacts, updates from specific blogs, Last.fm recently played tracks from others, etc.

Anyone can easily post and discover new content in Jaiku’s online community. It goes several steps further than other presence applications by allowing readers to add comments to individual posts and also allowing anyone to create, join and participate in topic related channels.

It creates a personal lifestream by fetching the RSS feeds from other personal sources and broadcast it to friends and contacts as it happens, such as when new videos are uploaded on YouTube, business or personal blog posts are published, new social bookmarks are saved, or even collect the status updates from other microblogs and presence apps. Jaiku also recently introduced a Facebook widget for people to send updates directly from their Facebook profile.

Mobile users can access Jaiku via http://m.jaiku.com. The Nokia WidSets mobile widget also powers over 300 phones including Blackberry.

Jaiku is the leading conversational microblogging platform that enables users to post thoughts and ideas from web and mobile applications, and comment on posts of business associates, friends, and family. The free service offers the use of personality icons, the ability to share your lifestream (webfeeds from Flickr, Del.icio.us, Google, Last FM and blogs), and connectivity 24/7 from mobile and handheld devices.

Also covered on CenterNetworks

Also covered on TechCrunchswing sets

*Update - to be live and world wide in about 1 hour. Sorry, with news like this, sometimes you are changing it on the fly – that is why it’s called a blog!

SplashCast couldn’t wait, and they were going to wait, but they didn’t. The new improved SplashCast player has launched.

Many needed enhancements were added. I checked it out today, and what I really liked about it was the ability to leave comments right there. I also like the new “Mac” roll look on the different clips or rather preview that you can still choose in normal SplashCast style.

So where is this new player? It will be rolling out across the internet, and on a blog or two hundred thousand in the near future. If you haven’t used SplashCast yet, you really need to check it out now.

Here are some details:

In addition to the existing support for multiple files, multiple file types, inbound and outbound RSS feeds and much more – the new player includes:

* Item level navigation, with preview thumbnails and captions.
* Inline, multi-media commening – text, video and audio – with easy publisher moderation.
* “Follow me” email subscription to future shows by any publisher.
* A whole bunch of other changes, see the screencast below for details.

New, improved with some sex appeal – and without further ado – now the man of the blogging world – Marshall Kirkpatrick can tell you more via a screencast he did with Jing Project:

More details for you:

*Item level navigation with thumbnails and captions. Like YouTube’s related videos feature but controlled by the publisher for collections of media. Like Blip’s new player but browsable right from the front page and excluding content not chosen by publisher. Inline captioning adds a whole new level of richness for publishers and viewers can chose to turn off captions at any time while browsing through media items.

*Video, audio and text commenting inline. Webcam or upload, super slick playback – the new SplashCast commenting is more flexible and more pleasing to the eye than any other media service’s commenting online. YouTube video responses require between one and many new pageloads. Sony’s Grouper, one of the early innovators in inline video commenting, doesn’t allow audio commenting. Kyte allows inline commenting in chat format but not video or audio. We think that our new multimedia inline commenting features will substantially increase user satisfaction and time on site. Boo yah!

*”Follow me” email subscription. Not everyone uses RSS or wants to put a SplashCast player on their own website – now friends, fans and family can receive a link by email anytime a SplashCast publisher of interest puts out new content.

*Other improvements include: a full screen view button in every player, a global pause button for everything including background audio and the ability to email links to whole shows or particular items in those shows from inside the player. We’ve also been working
hard at optimizing our player speeds and uploading capacity.

Technically Speaking, if you haven’t tried SplashCast yet – you really need to give it a try now!

Also covered on CenterNetworks

*Update - Do you know what Hulu actually means? Interesting post here.

Hulu, talk about stupid names! I like Clown Co. much better, but oh well – I have always said that a “name is a name” – until you market that name.

As it was just BROKE on CenterNetworks, it appears that Hulu is the new name of the News Corp and NBC universal venture.

Technically Speaking, Clown Co. was a much better name, and it already had blogosphere traction! I guess since it’s a big name venture, Hulu won’t have that much trouble catching on. I mean “Do you Hulu?” – you can send the royalty checks this way for that suggestion, and that is with one armed tied behind my back.

Om also covers it.

btw – Yes Allen - 16x world champion, Hulkamania running wild again and again.. ha!

Also covered on Mashable

Also covered on Reuters - what I don’t understand is they say:

“We just wanted a name that is short and easy to spell,” Hulu spokeswoman Christina Lee said. “We like the idea that it rhymes with itself. We wanted a fun name.”

What could be more fun than - Clown Co.????

Lastly covered on TechCrunch

Any Penn State football fans?

* Updated, see bottom of the post.
Magnify.net, peer-driven online video discovery and broadcast channel for people, groups and businesses, is inviting its site owners to participate in the community-driven beta test of its breakthrough program — the AdShare Network.

Rooted in the company’s core vision of empowering its community members, the new AdShare Network gives site owners complete control over their advertising strategy, including singing up and deploying their own ad inventory. This program lets owners monetize their pages — while balancing the unique needs of their visitors and advertisers.

As television continues to lose mindshare to the Internet, web-based advertising is gaining well-deserved focus. According to research firm eMarketer, online ad spending in the U.S. will rise from $16.4 billion, or 5.8% of total U.S. ad spending, in 2006 to $36.5 billion, or 11.3% of total spending by 2011. With its highly curated and content-specific video, Magnify sites offer online advertisers the perfect vehicle for reaching their target audience.

I had an earlier interview with their founder, Steve Rosenbaum, and also talked about them here.

Magnify.net is founded by a team of experienced media, technology and Web development entrepreneurs with a strong track record of best-of-breed innovations. The Magnify.net team is led by Steve Rosenbaum — one of the early innovators in the use of small format video, and user-created video. Rosenbaum created MTV Unfiltered — the first series produced entirely by viewers, and directed the multi-perspective feature Documentary “7 Days in September”. Magnify has been financed by its founders and a group of private individuals.

Also covered in these higly regarded blogs – yes, I still keep a Link Blog!

Covered on CenterNetworks – more with the CEO Steve Rosenbaum!

Covered on VentureBeat – the usual in depth and highly accurate VB coverage!

Covered on NewTeeVee - In depth Liz look at this video company, only the way NewTeeVee can.

Covered on TechCrunch – Kind of sort of like the coverage above, basics from the press release, a point to the blog previously ran on the company, and a press release fact and out – quick hitting, just like TC is expected to deliver.

With this much coverage, I hope Magnify.net beefed up their bandwidth and server capabilities today!

And you can always go here to learn more about groceries: garden of life.

AdaptiveBlue, the Smart Browsing Company, today announced that SmartLinks Feeds for books, music, movies, and stocks are now viral.

SmartLinks, created in BlueOrganizer, look like ordinary links, but when visitors click the SmartLink icon, they’re given intelligent, contextual shortcuts to related sites and services. The new SmartLink Feeds now feature a “Grab Me” button that allows anyone to copy a list of favorites and place it on their blog, Web site, and social network profiles. SmartLink Feeds can also be customized in appearance, content and can also plug in their personal affiliate ID to monetize traffic to participating sites.

AdaptiveBlue will also publish and update popular SmartLink Feeds for anyone to paste into their own sites including, New York Times Bestsellers, Netflix Top Rentals, Amazon Hot Gadgets, iTunes Top Albums and Wine.com Top Wines.

AdaptiveBlue, is the smart browsing company founded by Alex Iskold in early 2006. The vision of AdaptiveBlue is to invent new browser technologies that leverage semantics and attention to power better online experience. Their keystone product, BlueOrganizer, has over 800,000 downloads and is a recommended Firefox add-on. AdaptiveBlue has recently raised series A from Union Square Ventures.