Author: Ian Kennedy
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Rocketboom now available on Tivo
Rocketboom, the daily video newscast is now available for download to your broadband connected Tivo. We differ from a regular TV program in many important ways. Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is created with a consumer-level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a map with no additional overhead or costs.…
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rsstroom reader – toilet paper printer
wireless connectivity rss 2.0 & atom compatible random mode bio-metric user identification commercial model allows advertisers to place customized messages targeted to a specific audience through Yi Tien Electronics’ online subscription service. Spyhunter
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Vertigo on the flatscreen
We all got a kick out of Google’s satellite view and enjoyed zooming around with Google Earth. This week Microsoft launches their local.live.com service with it’s cool Bird’s Eye views of landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge. But if you really want to knock your socks off, you have got to try Big Eye in…
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Origins of the “TiVo” moniker
The winning answer was we were naming the next TV. I thought it should be as close as possible to what people would find familiar so it must contain T and V. I started looking at letter combinations and pretty quickly settled on TiVo. I also liked that “i” and “o” were a part of…
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Innovation Creators & Enterprise Digging
Rod Boothby has been hard at work beating the corporate blogging drum where he works and part of his process has been to externalize his thinking on a blog set up specifically to generate awareness and test his ideas. He’s thought long and hard about not only the benefits of creating a blogging culture at…
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Stowe ain’t no pigeon
Anyone who follows more than a couple of feeds in their reader has had this problem. Bolded numbers in brackets blinking back at you you, telling you how many articles you need to scan to stay current – do you click “read all” and be done with it? What if you miss something? How do…
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Our Italian Daughter
I think she’s been watching that character Kramer on Seinfeld too much.
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Yahoo Services on Tivo
USA Today’s got the story, and Zatz Not Funny has screenshots. I’ll have to try this when I get home. People who create free accounts with Yahoo will be able to use its Yahoo Photos service. They can use their TVs to view photos that friends or family have put online. Also, Yahoo will provide…