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You might be a Transumer. You might have Netflix or Blockbuster for your online movie rental. You might even have Gamefly for your Game rental. But how about your online Book rental? Well that is the business model of BookSwim – an online Book rental system.

Simply choose your plan, choose from the large library they have and get the books in the mail. No late fees – return at any time through the pre-pay envelopes. The next book will arrive shortly.

Eric Ginsberg - Bookswim.com

In this Quickcast interview, we talk with Eric Ginsberg – a teacher, musician and librarian that brought over some great ideas of online book rental to life months after BookSwim was created by George Burke and Shamoon Siddiqui. We talk with Eric and discuss the reasons why someone would use BookSwim as opposed to an e-reader, buying or just going to the Library to get books for Transummers.

Plans start at $3.95. Gift cards are available for those you love, too.  If you are a Transumer – person who rents, consumes, then gives back – Bookswim will definitely fulfill the transummation of books.

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• We talk extensively about the iPad. Not as much the features, but more about the downfalls of this device.
• AT&T gives us money back. Even if you left back in 1998
• FourSquare takes the newspaper market and turns it upside – down
• USA Today shows us which states you can legally text while driving
• Netflix Q4 is growing. Where did Blockbuster go?

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Netflix and PS3
Non-Latin Character Domains
Buh-Bye Geocities
Infographic: Connectedness
Carol Bartz at CES
Google Wave App Store
Google Voice Light
Microsoft says no to Family Guy
Blackberry Storm 2
Future iPods

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Icahn Leaving
Update to Windows 7?
New Google Search

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Bring out Your Dead on Facebook
Mom! Get off Facebook

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55 Netflix distribution centers go offline due to an “undisclosed error”. While they didn’t let us know what happened, they did say that it only affected the core of mail-based delivery operations. The problem took 3 days to fully resolve, although they were slowly shipping movies by that Wednesday.

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For the last year and a half, the Quickcast has been running a podcast every Monday reviewing the past history of Technology. The show has been a fun one, but for the last couple months I felt it needs it’s own space. Therefore, WITH will be spinning off into the Day in Tech History – a Daily look at the Historical events in Technology.

WITH will continue on. For the first couple weeks, we will continue with the same format. Afterwards, WITH will take a new shape, highlighting one historical event and how it plays on events today. It should be a new, powerfully informative look in the IT industry.

Information for this weeks’ WITH:

• Smithsonian is established
• Netscape Lawyers send a letter about Microsoft anticompetitive nature
• Twitter’s “2000″ ceiling
• Apple Fire at Building #6
• Atari Files Lawsuit against Amiga
• Netflix 3 day outtage

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This weeks episode:

• No to iTunes for Palm Pre Users.
  • Apple Blocks Palm Users – Why?
  • If you want to use, don’t Update
• Twitter Hacked
  • Employees account contained the ability to access
  • Sophos, a security firm, 40% Internet users use the same password for every Web site they access.
• Google Voice
  • Android, Blackberry – no iPhone
  • Transcription feature – Watch your SMS
  • Listen in feature.
• Microsoft Azure
  • IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service – PaaS (Platform) – PITA
  • $0.15/100K message operations – Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB
  • Office2010
• Amazon – Netflix and Blockbuster Samsung
  • Netflix Streams older, Amazon Pushes newer. Is a merger a Good Idea?
  • Discs going bye bye?
  • Blockbuster on Samsung
  • HDTVs, Blu-ray players and home-theater systems

You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself – “Hey, whatever happened to…”

Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn’t made right, or design errors brought it down. Maybe it was just a bad product. Well, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and see if we cannot repeat these errors again.

Oh yeah, why 16? Well because we could.

The Computer Watch: Whether it was the Ruputer, the MSN Direct ‘Smart’ Watches, the Timex Data Link Watch or another gadget watch – BTW – I remember having a “Transformers watch”. It was awesome!

Still, the Dick Tracey style communication watches, the “Computer on a wrist”, never really hit it off. I even remember a watch that gave you directions. You would put in the paper tape and turn a little dial to indicate where you are and where you are going.

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Another company has joined the Facebook world, Reuters reports. Read the full story here.

Here’s an excerpt:

Starting on Tuesday, Netflix users can use Facebook Connect — software that links individual Facebook pages to third-party Web sites — to share their ratings of Netflix rentals with their Facebook friends, the companies said in a statement.

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