Skype Tripe

I decided to go online tonight to check out what's been happening in the SkypeCast arena.

I went onto this last year a couple of time and really enjoyed the experience talking to lots of different people from near and far.

The SkypeCast I went into tonight was full on out of control. There needs to be a way to control this and make SkypeCasting a real service for real people, not the millions of idiots out there that think it's a kids playground.

Facebok Feeding

I've added the blog's feed to Facebook so now you can read whats happening on the site from my profile as well.

MyThings Tracks Your Things

 

 

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MyThings Tracks Your Things

via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on Jul 01, 2007

MyThings is a service that allows users to create an online portfolio of valued belongings.

We reviewed iTaggit earlier this week; MyThings operates in the same space. Both provide personal asset management although MyThings is the more extensive offering of the two; MyThings took $8million from Carmel Ventures and Accel Partners in May 2006 and the funding shows.

MyThings offers a integrated one stop shop for collectibles. Items can be included in the database, with tags and pictures. Once listed users are able to obtain a valuation for the item, buy (or extend) the items warranty, purchase insurance, sell the item on eBay and even donate am item to a worthy cause. MyThings also includes an extensive database of items reported lost and stolen from the world of art, antiques and collectibles; MyThings users are able to add stolen items to the database at any time and likewise the service is able to screen new submissions for items that may have been stolen.

The company has offices in Menlo Park, London and Tel Aviv, delivering a global product with a lot of appeal. Perhaps my earlier assessment of the space (in the iTaggit review) as being niche was unwarranted; the extensive user collections listed on MyThings would indicate that listing collections online may actually be a hot vertical.

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Google Maps + Digg = DiggMap

+ = DiggMap

The Digg Map:

I'm a big fan of real-time Google Maps mashups. A few of my favorites are Dave Troy's FlickrVision and TwitterVision. Each of these maps show you fresh new photos and Twitters being added in real-time and displayed for you by their location on a Google Map. Another Google Maps mashup has emerged courtesy of Alan Spark in this same category, displaying diggs from Digg.com to a live map! It combines the recently released Digg API, the Google Maps API and Google AJAX Search API to make this one mapping app called: The Digg Map. The map will center itself on the geo-location of a Digg user who is currently digging a particular story. It's a fun way to find new Digg stories and also to see what geographies "digg" what..

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Eric Schmidt speaks to the European Media

Eric Schmidt CEO of Google speaks about the company's plans, the future and the core values of the Google business. The classic understatement in this video was, when speaking about the eBay and Google stoush over Paypal vs Checkout, Schmidt said, "Checkout and Paypal are somewhat competitive". I laughed hard at that one.

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The YouTube Effect

Many people have been talking about the Digg effect and how digg.com has brought "attention span" to the web.

Today I want to talk abut YouTube. I was watching a video from Google about YouTube and the effect it's having on the internet, and a particular frame of this video caught my attention.

It said, "33 Tarzan movies have been made since 1933. 8950 Tarzan YouTube videos have been made since 2005."

Now not all those 8950 are full length feature productions, (in fact probably none of them), but it does raise one point. The effect of YouTube, despite all it's bad press is generally good. It inspires creativity.

And thats certainly not a bad thing.

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