nobody reads this …
Just got through the first 16 episodes of Heroes. Great stuff!! Love it! Go Hiro! (He has a blog! ha!)
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Monday night US TV is currently packed with fun, what with 24 and Prison Break too. And now I have no idea when Lost is on – and that show really has gone loopy – but we still watch it.
🙂
Roll on Tuesday!
Just about to kick off the PHP Conference UK 2007, here in Soulth London.
Should be an interesting day to find fellow PHP Ninja’s who might be able to help me out soon.
Rasmus Lerdorf, the father of PHP is here, as is Cal Evans, editor of Zend’s Devzone. So, hopefully we shold be able to pick up some great tips. Though, as I said. I am here to mainly make contact with potential cohorts in my quest for the perfect podcasting site 😉
O’Reilly are also here selling books for 35% off. Bargain!
I’m using my OPML Editor on my laptop to do a bit of live blogging over here
File under ‘WTF’ and ‘ill-informed’.
[update: March 14th 2007: Long Live the BBC! ]
Apparently, during a panel at yesterday’s Future Of WebApps Conference, TechCrunch‘s Mike Arrington said ‘The BBC should be dissolved’. (see video here from BBC backstage’s Ian Forrester)
Listen here (edited) “The BBC Should Be Dissolved” : Mike Arrington : FOWA Feb 2007
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And the longer version here 😉
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Judging by the things he said, he clearly has no idea about how the BBC works in the UK. It *is* different to BBC World and he also gets some facts wrong about a kids social network.
I will agree to a point that the TV License (that every UK household who owns a TV is forced to pay) is often abused and unwisely spent on some astronomical salaries for many people who I happen to know first hand don’t have the required knowledge to make certain decisions. 😉
Something that I think would be interesting to know is: What will be be the default ringtone on the Apple iPhone?
Sure, these days we can all change our ringtone to anything from a cartoon yelp to a hip-hop riff, but there has to be a default. And I want to hear it now.
Apple should see this opportunity to increase brand awareness by coming up with the perfect ‘earworm’ – a bit of music or riff that you hear and cannot get out of your head – even better if it’s ‘good’ and not something annoying. 😉
UPDATE: Thanks to Derrick here it is (apparently):
I would say that many of us know the default Nokia ringtone, for example – you can hear Leo Laporte etc singing (‘dee di dee di..’ etc.) it in the theme music for TWiT. It’s a ‘classic’.
Talking of ringtones and evolution – back in 1994, I was working for a B2B ad agency on the then recently launched mobile operator ‘Orange’. We went to the Telecom Managers Association conference in Brighton, where I met a guy who was responsible for sorting out the new handsets they would have on offer. He showed me the latest Nokia handset which they were about to launch. The classic 2nd gen black bricks they did back then. He was very excited by the fact that this model had 7 ringtones on it.
I suggested to him that it would be a great idea to have a ringtone that sounded like an old bell ringing telephone. It was a few years before this found its way into the default ringtone offering 😉 Heh.
I doubt that chat I had had anything to do with it – but it makes me smile inside everytime I hear it. 🙂
It looks like Apple and Cisco have decided to ‘share’ the iPhone brand. I think this is a bit odd and possibly silly.
Whether Cisco like it or not, Apple’s useage of the brandname will be always ‘mentally connected’ (that’s kind of what brand awareness is, right?) with their forthcoming Apple phone – not a cordless VOIP Skype handset (which I must say are very good – I have one)
There’s got to be some crazy deal going on under all this, or Cisco’s lawyers are in awe of Apple’s.
Is there such a thing as an ‘Apple Lawyer Fanboy’? 😉
Wow! There seems to be no stopping me now! I’m on a roll!
Another podcast for ye.
Today I talk about OPML PLUS RSS TO THE POWER OF USERS and what I am trying to do to make life easier. Also thoughts on the perfect podcast device and mobiles in podcasting.
OK. So I have recently been working to support the new Blogger / Google logins to post to Blogger blogs. I was easily able to register my app to remove the warning on the login page, but they offer no support of how to actually ‘sign’ the request to keep them secure.
I have posted to both the Blogger Data API Group and the Google Accounts API Group but it seems like I am dealing with some kind of ‘dark art’.
I think it’s a good idea to make connection for secure for people, but they are about to ‘force’ their bloggers to the new system, yet offer no support on how application developers like myself are to support this new ‘secureness’.
Even the Zend GData framework, which is available does not appear to handle the secure method required. I also cannot use this without upgrading my PHP and installing some more stuff. But there is no need, as PHP and Curl can do the job required just fine.
For those who may be able to help, here are the docs for the signing I am on about. But there’s just not enough info there on how to do it.
When I get this working, I’ll be happy to share how I did it.
Anyone got any ideas? I have the insecure method working fine.
Argh!
Check it out, Ev Williams has posted that Odeo, their podcasting system is up for sale/partnership.
I think this is great. I wonder how many users Odeo has?
Podcast.com is doing about a tenth of the traffic they state over there, [Uniques: 66,765 Page views: 294,867 over the last 30 days at podcast.com] which I think is not bad considering there are only 4 or five registered users of podcast.com so far, for testing – and three of them are me! 😉
This is encouraging for when we open the doors to sign up. Odeo has some great technology behind their system. In fact I am off out not to see a friend’s company who have just developed something similar – using Open Source 😉
It’s way past time that I met Ev and had a ‘createc’ chat 😉
I’m also interested on how that list of post below his was generated. At first I thought it was a blogger.com thing onlw. Now as I see techment and tailrack in there I know it’s now. But it is more then simple trackback, as far as I can see. I could be wrong – please correct me. ta.
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