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Today many thoughts wandered my mind about what I use everyday. My job (I have many but to keep this kinda short…) is basically internet production. I don’t know if that’s a real position, but I design, manage, test, websites all day. I also realized today how much I use the internet everyday. If the internet went down, I figure I would have significantly less to do. Sure I could still work on stuff locally, yet email, blogging, photo sharing, news reading… so on and so forth would not be possible.

Then onto more thoughts, after thinking all this I hit up one of my usual reads Zach Klein, specifically todays post on video. Video on the internet wasn’t anywhere near as popular as it was sayyyy a year ago?! Sure there was video like quicktime/windows files that are damn near impossible to watch on every computer. In this day and age the smart way to go is Flash. Vimeo one of Zach’s projects uses flash since their redesign, but I remember the days of the Windows Media/Quicktime files. Then every other online video site uses flash because it works in every browser that has flash player installed.

Towards the end he mentions this:

Aside, if I were a recent college grad without a job — I would startup a venture that produces 5/15/30 second ad spots for small to medium-sized companies. If popular video-sharing sites begin including pre-roll advertising before clips, there is going to be lots of new ad inventory, and lots of new advertisers who don’t have video creatives.

That is an amazing idea that many have shared. How would you get started in that kind of thing? I feel I could start something like that, especially by the time I graduate with a degree in Computer Information Systems with a minor in Digital Media. Anybody want to do a startup?

I suppose the whole purpose of this post was my short thoughts on how internet is attached to everyday life, with a little side on video.

P.S. Most of the time I forget to mention my various projects that I work on that make this blog dormant. Check out the Film or Video categories. Then head over to my daily music blog, MUSICGLOB.COM. Sooner or later I’ll update this site to showcases a few things.

Randomly I decided to open up a spam email because I do that every so often just for kicks. In this one there was the sales pitch for a bigger penis, then the last paragraph was all this:

Where there’s a will, there’s a relative. No news is good news A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. A creaking door hangs longest. When Mumma dead family done. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

WHATTTTT???? All of that doesn’t even make sense at all. Those silly spammers.

It turns out that all the hacking to get windows to work on an intel mac was a little pointless as Apple has now released their own way of running Windows on the new Intel Macs.

It’s called Apple Bootcamp.

Pretty amazing, time for me to save up some money and think about ditching a pc all together… yet I don’t think I ever would.

This is just crazy looking. Takes maps and crap to a whole new level, and it’s by Microsoft!

Windows Live Local - Virtual Earth Technology Preview

p.s. I made this post with Flock, and it didn’t really work all that well with Wordpress 1.5

Just recently I found out about Blingo and how rad it really is. It’s just a google powered search engine, so it’s all the power of Google, yet they give away prizes randomly throughout the day.

Seriously, just use Blingo as your search engine now (it’s still the power of Google), and you could win prizes at anytime. Prizes like iTunes gift cards, an iPod Shuffle, a PSP, and many other things. I couldn’t think of an easier way to win something.

BUT WAIT THERES MORE
(Sorry, I watched part of the Ronco knifes infomercial yesterday)

It’s all about Blingo Friends. I’m inviting you to sign up, it’s only an email address and password. Then if I search and win something, or if you search and win something, we BOTH get the prize! Hows that for rad?!

CLICK HERE to sign up then start searching and maybe you’ll win!

It seems as today (or I noticed today) Google Reader has launched. It your web based feed reader powered by google, ajax, and awesomeness. All you need is a Google Account. So if you already have a gmail account you are all set.

I setup a couple feeds and it’s really quite a nice web application to use. The only problem I see with Reader is Google is so huge, what about other companies that are trying to put out a good feed reader? [ex: feedlounge.com] This reminds me of ODEO creating a really great podcast service… but then iTunes releases a new version supporting podcasting right around the same time ODEO launches. I’m sure feedlounge and ODEO will do just fine because they are run by great people and are great services, yet I think it kinda sucks when a large company comes in like that.

Either way, go checkout Google Reader beta

**UPDATE**
ALSO, read the comments, cause this reader isn’t all that rad to me now. I thought it was… but it’s not. For a couple reasons, mainly because it works weird.

Google Talk is here… the much rumored IM client has now been released. Head over to google.com/talk and download the client. Right now it is only available for windows xp users, yet you can connect to the server through other clients. I have download and am testing it out as I can.

You can also check out a post over at ForeverGeek for a longer write up.
Heres a post over at TUAW
Why Google’s Instant Message Service is Not about Jabber but about Skype
Google Talk Review at DownloadSquad

Just something fun for today.

If Only There Were A Pun To Be Made Involving The Name Of The Band on Defamer.

Go through the links on the page… alot of the commentary is funny.

Why do things like this happen?

Weird.

AHHH! More! This one found by Jessica. I bet there is alot more… [view here]

They are actually all over the place when I zoomed out over New York and moved around a bit. Kiinda strange.

Vimeo is a new awesome service made by the guys over at Connected Ventures. They have made things like Collegehumor.com, Busted Tees, Defunker, and a myriad of other things. I really like Vimeo because it is basically Flickr for video.

I had been waiting for months to see when it was open for sign up, and I found out when I checked today that it was open. I don’t know how long it has been open, but I am happy to have my account.

Head on over to my profile page to see my clips and stuff.