Archive for June, 2007

I trek over to Slate.com most evenings, where usually there is published a headline or two I find interesting enough to click through to. Scarce, however, are there pieces to do with the goings on in the technology world. Stuff about various Washingtonians and watchers of those Washingtonians crops up on the site with great [...]

Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel announced he is stepping down and that Co-founder Jerry Yang will be assuming the every day duties of chief executive. Yahoo! has faced some tough times over the last couple of years and the company's investors have become increasingly restless as Yahoo!'s growth has continued to slow. Shares of Yahoo! have [...]

Tired of having to manually enter and fix all of your song tracks’ information so that your playlist doesn’t have three different versions of the spelling of one artist’s name in your library? FixTunes will fix all of your mp3 information for you. It’ll automatically fix tracks so that they have the correct artist, album, [...]

Our friends at Me.dium and 99 other companies have won awards in Webware's Top 100. Me.dium and a prestigious list of finalists were chosen by the editors of Webware/CNET. The final winners have now been chosen by the site's users and visitors and Me.dium was one of 10 winners in the “Community” category chosen by [...]

What was originally generally known as Microsoft IPTV has had its label altered. It is now to be referred to as Mediaroom. Yep. Big news, huh? In all seriousness, the announcement of Mediaroom is quite weighty, if only because Microsoft’s ties to content providers and distributors in the realm of IPTV are relationships with considerable [...]

Are you ready for another video site? I am not sure how ready I was, but I ran across a fairly new site called Videojug that I thought you might be interested in. The premise behind this site is explained in their slogan "Life explained on film" as the site has a great selection of instructional [...]

We all knew it would happen. It was only a matter of time. Over the weekend, YouTube, following closely behind Photobucket (now a MySpace entity), told the world it too had fallen for Adobe’s Web-based video editing software solution, Premiere Express. Photobucket began offering its own Premiere Express-powered editor back in late February of this [...]

iPhone is big even though it has not been released yet. But it will be released soon (June, 29 in case you have not heard this date yet) and I guess it will be even bigger when it is actually available. Besides, iPhone is the most Web 2.0-ish gadget we have heard of recently. Profy [...]

Back on the testing trail I ran across Web-Chops, a cool capture tool that lets users “chop” any element from individual pages and perform mashups on their Web-Chop pages. This service is in public alpha right now and I must say that it is not only fun but has some interesting potential. I chopped out [...]