Monthly Archives: April 2006

links for 2006-04-29

Thickbox – One box to rule them all. AJAX-based overlays. (tags: ajax design effects)

links for 2006-04-27

Martin Varsavsky | English Qute an interesting deal: Fon the largest WiFi community in the world teams up with Gigantic French ISP Neuf Cegetel (tags: fon wifi)

links for 2006-04-26

UC Berkeley on iTunes U (tags: audio podcasting education)

links for 2006-04-20

Topix.net forums on fire: the Ni-chan paradox What happened to topix.net forums when they removed the registration requrement? Very, very interesting… (tags: community social registration spam) Marketers jump on YouTube bandwagon who didn’t see that coming? (tags: marketing user_generated_content)

Consuming Video (update)

A couple of days ago I wrote my ideas on consuming video podcasts. I just read this article on Church of the Customer Blog, according to which Video viewing and sharing now routine.

links for 2006-04-19

The Rise of Media Independence Where have all those ears and eyes gone? “Cunsumer generated media” is the answer. (tags: media)

links for 2006-04-18

Photo Matt » The Feed Validator is Dead to Me This is more important than it may sound. Please guys make FeedValidator a solid reference point. (tags: feed validation rss atom) Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers Bloggers are … read more →

recode: the ultimate text conversion tool

I’ve been using iconv for years now, but I just found recode. This tool is amazing! In addition to converting between caharcter sets, it understands, “quoted-printable”, “base64″ and others. Worth checking out!

links for 2006-04-17

How I’m using Amazon S3 to serve media files | Holovaty.com A nice idea on how to use Amazon S3 as a web server and the necessary code in Python. (tags: amazon api web2.0 s3) MediaPost Publications – Houston, We … read more →

Consuming Video Podcasts

I have been following the podcasting phenomenon for more than a year now (actually my greek podcast has been “on-air” since Janyary 2005…) and I am quite facinated with it. Lately, I have been using applications like Democracy and FireAnt … read more →