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bookmarking deluxe with AddThis!

crux — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:13:35 +0000

What techcrunch is doing can’t be wrong, not totally wrong at least i hope. So lets see, AddThis! seems to finally solve the bookmarking issue once and for all by just taking it out of your hands completly and leaving the freedom of choice in the hand of the readers. It took me less than 2 minutes to click through their “Get your free widget” site and i had my personal bookmark button(test page).

And than, you get statistics pages for free, (techcrunchs, not mine though, sigh):
…and as you can see from the charts, AddThis does RSS Feeds too.

Is this all? Nope, there is more, of course a AddThis! WordPress Plugin is available as well. But you go figure that out for yourself, i guess.

have(a lot of) fun
cheers

ps.: and(thx to wp plugin) try the bookmark button under this article ;-)

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Update: Your Joost invites are about to expire

crux — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:49:28 +0000

Update: Do NOT trigger the password reset!

username: first-come-first-serve-to-sofasportlers@sebrink.de

password: super-secret

Update: someone reset the password(don’t do it!):

URL: https://www.joost.com/ username: first-come-first-serve-to-sofasportlers@sebrink.de password: supersecret

have fun

Joost update:

In response to your request we have reset your password.Click the link below to create a new password:

https://www.joost.com/forgot/PTYytfWTrzU8D6EwDU4iwGtPH73jmv0gYKlznc.Mh0smuFMQA0jcr0.html If link doesn't work, you can try copy-pasting it into your browser's address window, or retype it there. Best regards,The Joost team

Your Joost invites are about to expire, Huh?

crux — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:47:52 +0000

the joost folks start spamming to rush us its beta testers into sending invitations.

So hurry – time’s running out :)

To use your tokens, go to https://www.joost.com/betatest/invitations.html before March 22 and fill in the form. We’ll send out your invitation straight away.

ok, they asked for it and who am i to obey? To speed up and simplify things a bit i send an invitation to myself and give it to you. Here you get the beefy part of their invitation reply, go use it in what ever way you’re please to do:

To get started, please visit https://www.joost.com/betatest/ and login with your invitation beta access details:

Username: first-come-first-serve-to-sofasportlers@sebrink.de     (Case sensitive!)
Password: 96ffdayj     (Case sensitive!)

After you've logged in, visit https://www.joost.com/betatest/settings/ to choose your own password.

first come first serve, but i suggest the first one to choose a password just uses jyadff69 than all the followers can use the same account. you decide.

the mac client is actually quite nice and according to their own rumours a massive openening up and lots of invitation ar just around the corner.

have fun

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May the revolution begin: Joost Mac OSX beta released

crux — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:30:56 +0000

When i blogged last year about Joost the iptv project formerly know as “The Venice Project”, Falko rightfully commented the contradiction of a revolution not beeing started from a Mac.

So, here they are: Joost Mac OSX Beta released. After a 30MBytes download you drop it on your disk and start right away. It just plain f…ing works, “…behaving very much like a Mac application” like they promise with the release notes.

You get full screen video with ok quality, transparent control overlays and widgets. It is beta a and you can see. The font rendering is not perfect and the app crashed on exit, but that is not something holding you back from using it and is honestly mentioned in the release notes. The content seems to be limited though and the widgets just cover the bare basics: video rating, chat, IM(jabber/gmail) and a clock(sounds like hours of fun). They must open up on the widgets(are they already? Don’t know) and improve contentwise, but that seems feasible to me.

A cute little detail in the end. When switching off you got to see the video collapsing and see a dimishing white little spot like from the cathode ray tubes. Only a little gfx coder gimmick or might it be a little wink toward collapsing Tubes?

Before you ask, while Joost seems to be open now, the Mac OSX still needs your beta registration, and i don’t have invitation codes left.

have fun

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On top of (second) life

crux — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:36:10 +0000

In a kind of talking-to-myself action i dated my companies avatar in the romantic scenery setting of a sundown on Ideas Island(not yet open to the public). Its him(AyDee Kubrick) sitting on top me. My face is streamed live from my macbook, it is not a still image. It still surprises me actually when these things do work like advertised. This is all about testing the live streaming setup which we want to apply on the island. And i can tell you, there are lurking surprises all the way. With the real stream setup(streaming me is not the plan:-) i have a mysterious lag between voice and image for example. It is not about lip sync, it is something like 1-2 minutes! I have no idea yet where the image stream gets delayed for such long. A couple of seconds i could understand, but a whole minute? The other still unsolved mystery to me is how to setup the darwin streaming server for serving incoming RTSP request on port 80. The manuals say where and how to enable it, but the server fails to comply to my commands. A nice little catch22 you get: The server fails serving port 80 without root permissions but when you give it root permission it fails to run at all due to missing configurations. Googl’ing this you get tons of stupid forum post about rebooting your mac to make it work and similar smart proposals. We got it working now with IP tables.

Now that our island emerged from the deep waters of californian virtuallity we are just a couple of days away from opening our space there. I hope for a lekker housewarming party next week. creating tomorrow and stay tuned!

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update: iPhone look alikes

crux — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:13:37 +0000

I joked a little about the absurd prospect of expecting the asian companies to patiently wait for Apple to launch their iPhone. But in a kind of actio-reactio reversed surprising quantum world move the response was there before the action.

LG in conjunction with PRADA did launch a slick touchscreen device and PRADA might turn out out to be the perfect partner to get it right with successfully locking on to the luxury target group.

Don’t get me wrong, I still believe in the iPhone becoming a huge success. There is a reason why there is hardly any mention of the software. Software makes all the difference nowerdays. I personally definitly won’t fuddling around with yet another stupid gadget. And it doesn’t have multitouch either.

Widgets, widgets, widgets everywhere!

joe.sixpack — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:47:53 +0000

Widgets sind der Hit der Stunde. Das hat der ein oder andere ja sicher schon mitbekommen(wenn er die letzten monate nicht unter einem Stein verbracht hat). Nachdem die versprochene Wiederverwendbarkeit der Java Enterprise Architekturen ja nicht wirklich eingetreten ist und nun die Rebellen schon den Sieg über den zur Rettung gerufenen WS Todestern erklären, findet alldieweil die Vision der verteilten Systeme unterdessen ihre Erfüllung im unternehmerischen Pragmatismus der Web2.0 Mash-ups. Diese wiederum konstituieren sich zusehends über generische, hier-klicken-kein-coding Angeboten von immer mehr Widget Anbietern. Sogar eine eigene Konferenz zum Thema wurde schon abgehalten.

Obige Umfrage hab ich mir auf http://www.majikwidget.com in zwei minuten zusammengeklickt, inklusive Registrierung. Dort bekommt man eine handvoll Widgets, und pro Verwendung verlangen sie einen Credit, wobei die 25 Gratiscredits aus der Registrierung erstmal reichen werden. 24 Polls to go!

Blogpimping leichtgemacht! Die Web1.x Lieferanten und ihre Consultants werden nicht mehr gebraucht.

Und wer nun noch weiss von wem die Frage stammt bekommt einen extra-bonus.

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