BrandBrains

• eMusic and AT&T to partner for mobile music downloads
  “…eMusic’s rates will jump from $9.99 for 30 songs using their traditional service, to $7.49 for just five songs with the new mobile service.”
  (tags: at&t emusic downloads music ota wireless cellular digitalmedia)
• Shoe Pouch Makes the Nike+iPod Sports Kit Compatible with Any Sportswear Brand
  “A $7.99 gizmo that lets you use the Nike+iPod Sports Kit without having to buy swooshed trainers has gone on sale.”
  (tags: nike apple ipod running sneakers shoepouch)

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• Slidecasting
  “…you link the slides and audio by using an online synchronization tool. When you play the slidecast, the audio is streamed from its location and plays with the slides. The service is completely free.”
  (tags: slidecasting slideshare digitalmedia presentations slides powerpoint)
• The Metal Pen
  “A stainless steel pen, 8cm long. However when you unscrew the top, the ‘nib’ is a solid piece of metal. There is no ink, yet this pen will write on virtually any type of paper.”
  (tags: art cool design gadget gadgets gifts writing pen)
• Pediatric Advisor 2006.2: Fever
  (tags: kids children illness fever)
• MedlinePlus Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
  (tags: wellness health illness medical reference medicine drugs encyclopedia search family education data advice)
• xtimeline - Explore and Create Free Timelines
  (tags: timelines history apps applications)
• OS X Tip: Speed up Sheet animation
  (tags: osx mac macintosh apple productivity hack)
• Media Budgets To Shift To Internet Video
  “According to a new report from the Yankee Group, a media research firm, online video will soon be a dominant component of brand advertising.”
  (tags: video advertising onlinevideo branding yankeegroup digitalmedia streamingvideo streamingmedia)

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• 9 Tips to Help Optimize Your Landing Pages
  (tags: yahoo landingpages tips howto sem searchmarketing seo searchengineoptimization onlinemarketing digitalmedia)
• Safety In A Stick: Secure IronKey Flash Drive Will Self-Destruct in 3…2…1…
  “…after ten consecutive failed password attempts, the IronKey self-destructs (internally) and erases everything on the drive using “flash-trash” technology that physically overwrites every byte, making the data completely unrecoverable.”
  (tags: security cryptography hardware usb memorystick storage ironkey gadgets encryption firefox)

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• Walk Score - How walkable is your house?
  “Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc.”
  (tags: analysis applications calculator cool maps walking google googlemaps mashup tools web2.0 environment)

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streamscraping | strēm skrāp i ng |
verb

1. The act of aggregating and presenting streaming video or audio content in environments which that producer or distributor hadn’t intended.

PHRASES

“They’re just streamscraping that video from CNN.com.”

ORIGIN

Steve Hatch, episode #42 of On Digital Media used this to describe the VEOHTV interface and business model.

Technorati Tags: streamscraping, Steve Hatch, On Digital Media, VEOH, Jargon, Podcast, Podcasting

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• Nielsen Tracker May Benefit Videogames as Ad Medium
  “Nielsen is unveiling the first results from a new service that can track what videogames users are playing, on which devices and when. It could provide data to help game publishers sell ads within the action of their games.”
  (tags: videogames gaming audiencemeasurement nielsen metrics advertising ingameadvertising)
• Digg Fires Google, Hires Microsoft As Online Advertising Partner
  “We at Digg couldn’t think of a better partner to get to where we need to go,” said Jay Adelson, the company’s chief executive officer. “They’re a young ad service, they’re innovative, they’re willing to work with us on the cutting edge.”

  (tags: google microsoft adsense advertising digg digg.com jayadelson contextualadvertising)
• Time Warner Has ‘Resuscitated AOL from the Dead’
  “The media giant’s stock has outperformed the market since AOL’s strategy was revised last year to make it mostly free and supported by advertising. An AOL sale or spinoff is seen as unlikely anytime soon.”
  (tags: aol timewarner earnings investing stocks digitalmedia advertising internetaccess)
• Mark Cuban: The Internet Is Dead
  “Mark Cuban now says: “The Internet’s dead. It’s over.” Cuban asserts that cable and satellite have become superior to the Internet as platforms for interactive services. In effect, he says, cable networks are “intranets.”
  (tags: markcuban cable interactive digitalmedia)
• Sprint, Google in pact for WiMax mobile Web
  Sprint Nextel said on Thursday it would develop with Google a new mobile Internet portal using WiMax wireless technology to offer Web search and social networking.
  (tags: sprint google wimax socialnetworking digitalmedia broadband wireless)

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• MusicNet and EMI to offer 1 million DRM-free tunes
  (tags: musicnet emi drm itunes music downloads news riaa)
• Ocean gets Exchange ActiveSync — for a price
  (tags: helio helioocean microsoft exchange wireless cellular)
• Pac-Man Plush-Head: Pac-Man Balaclava Should Be Mandatory Streetwear for Everyone
  “It comes in two sizes, (Pac)Man and (Pac)Boy and does nothing but keep your ears warm. Nope, no MP3 player, no vibrating head massager, no USB, no Bluetooth—just squashy yellowness. What else do you need?”
  (tags: gadgets clothing pacmna)
• HDHomeRun for Mac
  “The HDHomeRun for Mac is an unique centralized digital TV tuner that connects to your Ethernet network, and can be shared by any Mac using the included EyeTV software.”
  (tags: elgato hardware hdtv mac osx tv video)

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• AOL to acquire Tacoda
  “Sources said AOL is paying between $200 million and $300 million…”
  (tags: tacoda aol acquisitions advertising behavioraltargeting digitalmedia)

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What do you do when your company doesn’t (and probably won’t) have a BlackBerry Enterprise Server and you want to keep your email and meeting requests sync’d in real-time?

During my vacation between gigs, I bought a BlackBerry 8830. I made the (poor) assumption that my new employer would have a BES as many of the people with whom I’d met had BlackBerries.

Additionally, I (mistakenly) thought that BlackBerry Internet Server would recognize the changes made to my inbox on both my desktop mail client and my BlackBerry and keep them in sync. Nope. Verizon instructed me that BIS only delivers a COPY of the mail message. (That paradigm still doesn’t really make sense to me. But anyway…)

I guess I could use the BlackBerry Desktop Redirector, but that would require me to run a Windoze machine at the office or at home. However, that won’t sync my tasks nor my address book over-the-air, either.

Any ideas, oh great and knowing blogosphere? My Treo 700P is starting look attractive lately…

Technorati Tags: BlackBerry, BES, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Interet Server, BlackBerry 8830, Verizon, BIS, Microsoft Exchange, Palm Treo 700p, Treo, Wireless, Email, PIM

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