Leaving comments across the blogosphere…
Which HD video Web service is the best?
Still shots seem kind of irrelevant when talking video. But another good measure might be to test different source HD formats and see how these sites do reencoding them. Upload limits are also an important consideration. But possibly most important, to me anyway, when choosing a video site is trying to figure out who’s still going to be around in a year or 5 years. Cloud storage and sharing is great, as long as the company doesn’t shut their doors and take our content with them. Or pull some silly crap like Yahoo killing their original photo sharing site. Lastly, YouTube has become a pawn – takedown notices come in, your video is removed (or the audio track, or ads are embedded), and copyright@youtube.com won’t provide contact details of the claimant so you can determine what exactly infringes.
Build Your Own Amazon Kindle 2
Given the amount of books (or newspapers) I read, $350 or $400 is a bit much. However, including a better web browser or RSS reader would definitely get my attention. But I’m not sure they’d want to without also implementing a monthly data fee. I’d rather see an iPhone Kindle app, despite the small and bright screen, because it’s a device I already own and Amazon is offering great rates on digital editions of their books.
AT&T’s CV Leaves Me Feeling Lost
Is this AT&T licensing MobiTV or is this a separate initiative? The best mobile video is still serving yourself via a Slingbox or Hava placeshifter. Requires more tech skills to set up and may or may not be cheaper in the long run (if you already have a data plan, it probably is), but you get everything you already pay for (and hopefully record) at home. Regarding your quality concerns, MediaFLO service is probably the best subscription service. But it’s limited live channels and limited regions are a drawback.
Yahoo Mail Chases Gmail with IM and SMS Features
Another user of Yahoo Plus for $20 or $25/yr. NO ads in the interface or signature and BETTER spam filtering than the free account. Well worth it in my opinion, been paying for years. The only thing I really envy Gmail users for is IMAP. I dislike Gmail’s organization paradigm and prefer good, ole fashioned folders. And the UI doesn’t appeal to me. Although their new themes open possibilities. I’ve been using Yahoo Mail since like 1999, and that’s the biggest reason I probably wouldn’t change. But man do I need IMAP, Yahoo!
Opera Mini 4.2 for Android goes gold
The video thing is significant… since I thought the Android G1 shipped without a player! Wonder what files/codecs/enclosures it’s capable of handling. Hm.
4,000 Plugins
All the more reason for a tighter framework that somehow limits rogue or poorly coded plugins from impacting WordPress, the db, or the server. An early build of Disqus 2.0 duplicated 10,000+ comments in my database, for example. And that was unintentional. I’ve had other scripts that churn and churn, spawning processes that aren’t cleaned up, etc. Wonder what someone with an agenda could accomplish. Which is why I want things like Super Cache in the code, so I know it’s been tested and retested by lots of folks. Oh yeah, I love and depend on WordPress. So don’t take this the wrong way. Shoot, I’d happily pay for it if you charged.
ditto of sorts on the Yahoo Mail Plus.
Yahoo needs to get that IMAP working properly. I have it working for non-Plus Y!Mail account on my WinMobile phone, but it breaks constantly (if functions at all) for my paid account.
I’ve actually considered switching my primary email to Gmail for that very reason (IMAP).
With Google’s open APIs, I’d no longer be tied to the Yahoo Sync programs and exporting my folders in .EML format ZIP files.
Another longtime Yahoo mail user, and paying for the Plus service. Not too impressed with the spam filtering myself, but its tolerable.
There are a few bugs I wish they’d fix, like the issue with not displaying images in an email until you press the “Show Images” button. No problem, good idea, except the button doesn’t show up when you open the message. You have to close it and reopen it for it to appear. Not sure why…
Mark, Yeah, I have IMAP working on Windows Mobile and the iPhone. No idea why we can’t use desktop software. And Zimbra sucks (on OS X anyway). Was thinking of reverse engineering how the mobile clients do it.
Glenn, wonder if that’s a setting you can adjust. My images come in. Unless you’re solely talking about the spam folder?
Easy fix for kindle — make it a platform, have stuff for all different kinds of hardware. Totally eliminate mobipocket from the running, then jack up the prices for digital books.