I got my Hulu invite a few weeks ago, and I heard people are getting invites within a day or two of requests nowadays. If you are still waiting for an invite you can check out openhulu.com
It looks like they have kept the same level of quality for all the video, but too bad the Writer's Strike is still on coz the content is a bit old. The quality of the video real kicks ass and gives you a glimpse of what H.264 has to offer. There is some HD content on hulu which is not available on openhulu which looks great even though it is 720i.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Nice Relevancy with Linked In News Feeds
It seems like everyone is making a platform on their social networks to attrack eye balls. LinkedIn made headlines a few weeks ago with their news feed. I went to LinkedIn to approve some connection requests and noticed the feed below. I recently joined Google, and I am sure I would love to read about other search engine companies but not really interested in movie reviews just because they are from movies.yahoo.com. The recommendation engine needs a bit of tweaking :)
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Interesting Tools from Mozilla
I don't think any of the Mozilla projects except Firefox get enough press. I was browsing through their Wiki and noticed a couple of interesting projects:
a) Prism: pretty much does what gOS does for the Walmart computers and is used as the foundation for Fluid that is used on Mac OS X. I think it is becoming more and more interesting on how people are trying to make web apps seem like desktop apps from just the perspective of launching them. I think that really proves the gap between desktop and web apps is narrowing, and we are nearing the final frontier of emulating the desktop user experience (i.e. offline apps)
b) Joey: is a cool project to save people from sending text messages to themselves. You can keep snippets of web pages on another site, and access them from your mobile fun. It is pretty useful for capturing information before you go on a trip and then downloading it on your iphone. It would be great if Joey converted youtube videos to H.264 format so you can watch any interesting youtube video on your iphone.
a) Prism: pretty much does what gOS does for the Walmart computers and is used as the foundation for Fluid that is used on Mac OS X. I think it is becoming more and more interesting on how people are trying to make web apps seem like desktop apps from just the perspective of launching them. I think that really proves the gap between desktop and web apps is narrowing, and we are nearing the final frontier of emulating the desktop user experience (i.e. offline apps)
b) Joey: is a cool project to save people from sending text messages to themselves. You can keep snippets of web pages on another site, and access them from your mobile fun. It is pretty useful for capturing information before you go on a trip and then downloading it on your iphone. It would be great if Joey converted youtube videos to H.264 format so you can watch any interesting youtube video on your iphone.
Blog: Bubble 2.0: The Video
Source: TechCrunch
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Social Networking Overload
Over the last six months, I made it a point to try out every social networking app to understand what is going on in the marketplace. I wanted to understand what makes this space so interesting for people, and if it really could make my life better.
I have to admit some of the apps are just fantastic, but after six months I am burnt out. I made it a point to add people I met to facebook to keep in touch with them, and if they were professional contacts add them on linked in. Then if I would look them on twitter or friendfeed. I could have gone even further by checking jaiku, orkut, bideo, etc. Man, that is way too many URLs and there is not much "ROI". I hope there is some simplification and consolidation in the social networking space to make my life easier (ah maybe the consumer world will copy the enterprise world for once).
I have discussed this issue with several other folks and they too are feeling socially burnt.
The comics are having fun with the myriad of choices as well. I think just like everything else in life you need to do everything in moderation. Check out the strip below:
I have to admit some of the apps are just fantastic, but after six months I am burnt out. I made it a point to add people I met to facebook to keep in touch with them, and if they were professional contacts add them on linked in. Then if I would look them on twitter or friendfeed. I could have gone even further by checking jaiku, orkut, bideo, etc. Man, that is way too many URLs and there is not much "ROI". I hope there is some simplification and consolidation in the social networking space to make my life easier (ah maybe the consumer world will copy the enterprise world for once).
I have discussed this issue with several other folks and they too are feeling socially burnt.
The comics are having fun with the myriad of choices as well. I think just like everything else in life you need to do everything in moderation. Check out the strip below:
Enterprise Software Does Not Need to be Cool
I was going through my standard blogroll today and I have to admit I was kinduva disappointed. I think the number of thought provoking tech announcements is going to be limited the next couple of weeks as we head into 2008.
However, I noticed this one post on zdnet from Krigsman saying Scoble does not understand enterprise software. It may well be the case Scoble does not understand enterprise software, but I think Krigsman is wrong. People do want their enterprise solutions to be sexy.
If you look at enterprise software solutions today the features and functions among the big vendors is nearly identical. Sure there may be some minor differences here and there, but the main differentiator in the past has been user interface. It is amazing how much excitement an interface that looks like Pageflakes, GMail, or Yahoo Mail generates in the enterprise space. Enterprise end users want their apps to look like the consumer apps they use everyday.
More importantly, if people did not want sexy/cool there would not be a relatively steady flow of new enterprise software vendors: a) salesforce, b) workday, c) netsuite, d) enkata, etc. New companies differentiate themselves from the old guard by build "cooler and better" product that solves traditional business problems.
So I definitely think enterprises want sexy and cool software. As long as software providers build high quality sexy software they will always have a leg up on vendors that ignore the "coolness" factor and focus on the status quo. It is a very slow revolution, but it is happening.
However, I noticed this one post on zdnet from Krigsman saying Scoble does not understand enterprise software. It may well be the case Scoble does not understand enterprise software, but I think Krigsman is wrong. People do want their enterprise solutions to be sexy.
If you look at enterprise software solutions today the features and functions among the big vendors is nearly identical. Sure there may be some minor differences here and there, but the main differentiator in the past has been user interface. It is amazing how much excitement an interface that looks like Pageflakes, GMail, or Yahoo Mail generates in the enterprise space. Enterprise end users want their apps to look like the consumer apps they use everyday.
More importantly, if people did not want sexy/cool there would not be a relatively steady flow of new enterprise software vendors: a) salesforce, b) workday, c) netsuite, d) enkata, etc. New companies differentiate themselves from the old guard by build "cooler and better" product that solves traditional business problems.
So I definitely think enterprises want sexy and cool software. As long as software providers build high quality sexy software they will always have a leg up on vendors that ignore the "coolness" factor and focus on the status quo. It is a very slow revolution, but it is happening.
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