Carl Conrad http://www.carlconrad.net/en My views and thoughts on today's digital world Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:12:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Where the hell is Matt http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/carlconrad-en/~3/334139076/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/07/where-the-hell-is-matt/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:55:19 +0000 Carl http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=35 Lucky Matt who met a sponsor to shoot this second movie. The starting idea is pretty simple, Matt travels and gets shooted while dancing somewhere around the world. Some edits and the video is posted on the web. The result, probably a nice and efficient viral marketing campaign for his sponsor. Sceptical? Check out the viewing [...] Lucky Matt who met a sponsor to shoot this second movie. The starting idea is pretty simple, Matt travels and gets shooted while dancing somewhere around the world. Some edits and the video is posted on the web.

The result, probably a nice and efficient viral marketing campaign for his sponsor. Sceptical? Check out the viewing statistics on YouTube (6,176,614 views and 24,057 comments as of now) and other video sharing platforms.

14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands.

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]]> http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/07/where-the-hell-is-matt/feed/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/07/where-the-hell-is-matt/ Facebook in real life http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/carlconrad-en/~3/333408482/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/07/facebook-in-real-life/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:20:23 +0000 Carl http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=34 Would we accept in the real life what we accept on Facebook? Probably not... Poke, Write on your wall, Show picture to everybody, etc.. Would we accept in the real life what we accept on Facebook? Probably not, have a look at this brilliant video from the BBC Three show ‘The Wall’…

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Google Media Server helps you watching Youtube videos and other digital media files on your TV. All you need is a UPnP enabled device and installing Google Media Server (Google desktop is required to index your local files). Windows Media Center does the same when dealing with local files but Google Media Server adds the web streaming.

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]]> http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/06/youtube-on-your-t/feed/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/06/youtube-on-your-t/ Results of the Firefox 3 Download Day 2008 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/carlconrad-en/~3/315274956/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/06/firefox-3-downloaded-83-million-times-in-first-24-hours/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:51:28 +0000 Carl http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=31 The buzz seems to have proven its efficiency, Firefox 3 has been downloaded 8.3 million times in first 24 hours. For its first day, Firefox 3 has reach a four percent marketshare of browsers worldwide. Some other figures: 83 terabytes of data was sent out during that time, an average of 4,000 downloads per second [...] The buzz seems to have proven its efficiency, Firefox 3 has been downloaded 8.3 million times in first 24 hours. For its first day, Firefox 3 has reach a four percent marketshare of browsers worldwide. Some other figures: 83 terabytes of data was sent out during that time, an average of 4,000 downloads per second with a peak of 17,000 downloads per second, 200 different countries…

Quite a good way to start a new category of records…

July 2nd update: From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!

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See how BMW views the future of customized cars.

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They feature a transparent organic glass tube which vibrates and expands sound to 360 degrees. A short glance at the specs:

  • Frequency response of 50Hz – 20,000Hz
  • Input line, coaxial, and optical connectivity (means active speakers)
  • Subwoofer (13cm)
  • Medium speaker (7cm)
  • Tweeter made of organic glass

Last but not the least, the price hurts (6,500 €)…

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http://www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord

Addition of June 15th: The official launch date is set to Tuesday June 17th.

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The card uses built-in wireless technology to locate nearby Wi-Fi access points when pictures are captured within the Skyhook coverage area. The Eye-Fi service uses this information to encode each photo with geographic locations, and the images arrive on the user’s computer and online sharing account automatically tagged.

In North America, Skyhook currently provides coverage of more than 70 percent of the population. In Europe, the top 50 metropolitan areas are covered, along with 70 percent of the population in Germany, France and the UK. The rest of Western Europe is announced to be covered in mid-summer 2008. Coverage expansion in key Asian markets, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan and other countries is currently underway.

Scheduled to be available to consumers beginning June 6, 2008, the Eye-Fi Explore wireless memory card will also give users the freedom to upload photos while away from home at one of Wayport’s 10,000+ hotspot locations. By simply turning on the camera in a Wayport location, the card will automatically connect to the Wi-Fi network and begin uploading photos to the Web and the user’s PC or Mac.

The photographer does not need to have a Wayport account or a laptop with them to upload pictures for free from their digital camera. Eye-Fi will notify users via SMS or e-mail messages regarding the progress of the upload session.

Wayport enables public and private applications across the U.S. in major hotels, McDonald’s restaurants, Hertz airport locations, and other top retail brands.

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]]> http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/05/eye-fi-adds-geotagging-of-photos/feed/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/05/eye-fi-adds-geotagging-of-photos/ Radio Automation by Google http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/carlconrad-en/~3/287800364/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/05/radio-automation-by-google/#comments Sun, 11 May 2008 01:46:13 +0000 Carl http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=25 In the world of radio automation, here is a product that will probably announce some changes to come. Google Radio Automation is an all-in-one radio automation system that seems to include everything needed for modern broadcasting including podcasting. The Google Radio Automation user interface is widget based for easy customization of the workspace. Google Radio Automation comes [...] In the world of radio automation, here is a product that will probably announce some changes to come. Google Radio Automation is an all-in-one radio automation system that seems to include everything needed for modern broadcasting including podcasting.

The Google Radio Automation user interface is widget based for easy customization of the workspace.

Google Radio Automation comes packed in a 19″ rack enclosure featuring ability to cope with up to 3 removable drives but can also handle Google’s RED external RAID to support up to 12 drives for a max of 7.5Tbytes storage. Considering that one minute of CD-quality audio roughly represents 10 Mbytes, that’s quite some room to store audio files.

Last but not the least, Google Radio Automation natively supports Google AdSense for Audio.

If interested, just have a look at the show roadmap planned for the coming year.

What about the relevance to the radio uses, the performance of the product, its business model and finally its adoption by the radio broadcast industry? The future of Google Radio Automation will be interesting to follow.

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]]> http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/05/radio-automation-by-google/feed/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/05/radio-automation-by-google/ Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/carlconrad-en/~3/287762353/ http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2008/04/can-you-survive-for-24-hours-without-your-computer/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:03:24 +0000 Carl http://carlconrad.wordpress.com/?p=26 If you don’t think you can, you should definitely try. The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate. Links: http://www.shutdownday.org/ If you don’t think you can, you should definitely try.

The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate.

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