New Fridge in the house!

This is the fridge i wound up gettin on 051707 for $600 (scratch n dent). GE Profile - 22.0 Cu. Ft. - GSH22JSTSS. I got it off http://atlanta.craigslist.org. 9am-9pm, 495 buford dr 30045 (lawrenceville), 678-409-6618 Affordable appliance - they sell scratch and dents and have a big warehouse. Never knew how much I loved crushed ice! Shopping online is really in the power of the consumer who spends time researching options on the internet! I cant remember the last time that I bought something brand new (besides food)! FYIThis is the space we have for a fridge - 30depth/35w/68h

Soon - FREE Google 411 for cellphones

Hot Google info from my buddy Michael. “Google Voice Local Search” is essentially a completely free 411 service - although the program is still in an experimental stage. This is gonna help those peeps without GPS NAVs in their cars. All you need is a cellphone to help you find the location of the business you are trying to find. Tellme Launches Free 411 Business Search Service too.

IPTV... on the up and up

General questions:
-Is anyone pushing HD content via internet (at an acceptable quality/cost)?
-What are the costs and limitation of the various providers (equipment costs/service cost)?
-How portable and/or shareable is the product?
-Tivo, bookmarking capability? Searchable content?
-What are the Media/Channel packages?

Why Is Most Broadband Content Still Encoded At 300Kbps or below? -032707
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2007/03/why_is_most_bro.html
http://www.iptvevangelist.com/
http://www.mediageek.net/
End to End Encoding, Delivery and Set Top Box - no PC required IPTV - 700Kbps NTSC(640x480) - http://www.neulion.com
http://www.iptvevangelist.com/2006/11/streaming_media_west_interview.html
http://www.orb.com
http://swarmcast.com
http://www.multicastmedia.com
The $7 TV Network: Neokast brings multicasting to the masses. -031507
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070315_001831.html
And dont forget the guys that did SKYPE, are now doing this:
http://www.joost.com
torrent site tv aggregator
http://www.myseasonpass.com
Microsoft IPTV
http://www.microsoft.com/tv/IPTVEdition.mspx

Funny - http://acceptable.tv/

Dunno if you have seen this, but its pretty funny for actual TV. http://acceptable.tv/

YouTube & VIDEOS on a Cell Phone soon?

So I was talkin to my buddy Billy during my drive home today - and he was talking about releasing his latest version of a web-based video viewing app. I saw the previous version - and thought it was well on its way. What we came up with during the conversation was that with WiMax coming to many cities by 2008, this could enable wifi enabled devices to view more and more videos - on smaller devices. Is there a website that is easily viewable and easy to navigate - to watch videos? With personalized channels like technology, sports, funny clips, etc?

E85 - not much of a change

This chart shows an estimate. A possible 9 stations in the state of Georgia?!? I dont think thats a real solution. Biodiesel is a much better solution than E85. Rob, can you speed it up!?! But I think moving towards electricity is an even better idea. DAVID FREEDMAN: If at the end of the day all we do is switch from guzzling gasoline to guzzling ethanol we certainly aren't going to make the progress that we need.

My movie ratings...

Shooter	3.5/5
300	3/5
Unkown	2/5
Casino Royal	4/5
music&lyrics	3/5
the oh in ohio	2/5
the illusionist	3.5/5
the prestige	3/5
the guardian	3/5
pans labyrinth	3/5
kiss kiss bang bang	3.5/5
Rocky Balboa	4.5/5

IE7 - ads run rampant - until now

Yep, the first thing I noticed about IE7, besides the new interface, was all the ads that we just free flowing on all the websites. I had forgotten about ads since I use Firefox 90% of the time (along with a couple of adblock addons). Well after doing a little research, sure enuff, there is help for IE7.

iPhone - who cares...

Back in January of 2007 - my buddy Kris Sheets of itaki.net helped me out with this idea, found some interesting hardware thats out there, but now we just gotta get all the parts to test it, and see if it works. If so, it would be a fantastic $60mo unlimited Voip phone/internet access. Geographic restrictions apply - just not clear on that yet. We are working with Sprint (the best card) to make this happen.

Alcohol more harmful than pot, LSD, Ecstasy - UK Study

Maybe it's time we reconsider drug policy and $20 billion spent on incarcerating pot smokers. And why is alcohol and tobacco so legal? Regulated money for the government? http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=65988

Enjoy it while it lasts...

NASA Confirms Solar Storm Near 2012 - 032107
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/21/1229247&from=rss
Mayan’s Predict World’s End
http://www.aventurasclub.com/mayandoomsday.en.html
http://www.crawford2000.co.uk/nibiru2012.htm

Nice news service

Really interesting how it flows, and the options it has. http://labs.digg.com/bigspy/

New favorite addons

turns your account into flexible and feature-loaded ToDo-management service (GTD = Getting Things Done) - http://gtdgmail.com/

DragDropUpload - this handy extension lets you quickly attach one or more files to your emails by dragging them over the “Attach a file” link - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2190/

Superhero ModRen - Making fine art SUPER!

Superhero ModRen - Making fine art SUPER!

JungleCrazy Shopping

My homey -Alex Jartos of CircleAtSeven studios sent me this link - sayin that we shoulda thought of it first. Sign up for an affiliate account and it proly searches for products that are a certain percentage off and lists em... http://www.junglecrazy.com - this is also a cool shopping site: http://www.mpire.com

Bellsouth DSL Xtreme 3.0 - UPGRADE

The rumor around the ATL right now is... If any of you are running the Bellsouth DSL Xtreme 3.0 service. You can upgrade that to 6.0Mb for 2 dollars less a month if you give them a call. Thx to JG for that. Im using Comcast Broadband, so I know nuthin about it.
http://www.connecttobellsouth.com/index.html?mrc=Gbellsouth+dsl+xtreme
http://www.connectutilities.com/directory/services/Bellsouth/BellSouthFastAccessDSLXtreme3.0Internetservice-5938.html

Humor for the week...

This is for Allen & Christine Heaton, Steve "Bish" Halm, and Matt AKA"the Nipple". It was great seein you guys! - Humor: Web 2.0: Web 2.0 Facts about Chuck Norris - http://www.thechucknorrisfacts.com - Rotar the cat

Adobe Apollo Launched, So Go Build Something

Adobe Apollo Launched, So Go Build Something - 031807 - Best Apollo Demos - 022807 - Apollo demo at DEMO 07 conference - My coworker Ben pointed out - its kinda like how they over-hyped applets when they first came out, not to mention -lets see how well they do cross-platform. - http://effectiveui.com - http://www.effectiveui.com/blogs/

Specific media tracking app?

Say I was looking for 3 Flaming Lips tickets, on the floor, for April 11. I would like to configure Craigslist Athens, Atlanta, ebay to notify me of any updated info on this. Or what if I wanted to compare prices and also see when prices change on a specific media player ? Or follow news on a specific story? Is there such a way to do this - or is there such an app?
A great function for websites, webapp, rss add-on, (news/products/pricing/real estate)- to be able to commonly link to a topic/story/website(s) - and you get automatically notified for any updates on specific details. It would be something similar to an RSS - but it would be more detailed/specific, and only react when new content is available. what would make it even more powerful - if it could track/compile data from other websites. I wanna say that i have heard of various sites that kinda use this functionality - but in a limited way. Just one idea on my quest of ideas.

Open source media distribution server software?

Do you know of any good open source media distribution server software? (Now that it looks like we can broadcast anything on the cheap Neokast (see below)). Maybe we should think about hosting/posting video content? My friend Kris Sheets of Itaki.net asked me this - and also sent me links. Open-source developers to extend the Helix DNA™, the first open multi-format digital media platform. https://helixcommunity.org/ - http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2003/helixdna.html