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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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If you would like to be on the Quickcast interviews, simply contact at 608-205-4378 or geekazine@gmail.com
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1 Comment »It’s been a while since the Geekazine Quickcast has been a part of the site. However, it is not gone.
In this episode I talk about the week at CES, what is happening over at Geekazine and a little about what is happening with the Quickcast.
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This is the newest segment in the Geekazine Quickcast called “App Wild”. It’s name says it all – We talk about applications that you can get for your iPhone, Andoid, Palm Pre, Blackberry or whatever device you use.
This weeks applications reviewed:
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No Comments »This is the NEW podcast called “DITH” – or Day in Tech History. This is the spinoff of the Week in Tech History that was on the Geekazine Quickcast. In the next couple weeks, it will be taking it’s new home over at Geekazine with the other great shows.
WITH will still be produced – the show will go through a revamp in the coming weeks. For now, we will have simultaneous content on both shows until the switchover.
Items in Todays’ show:
- Borland releases Quattro
- World Population at 6 Billion
- iTunes hits 1 million
- Craigslist Outtage
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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 month we are giving away an Epson Artisan 700 printer. This is a wireless printer /scanner with CD/DVD printing capability. Here are all the options:
- 4 in 1 Print / Copy / Scan / Ultra Hi-Def Photo
- Up to 38 ppm, photos in as fast as 10 sec1
- Auto Photo Correction; preview on LCD
- Professional quality CD/DVD printing
- Wi-Fi and Ethernet networking
- Scan and restore faded photos
- Ultra Hi-Definition photos last 4x longer than photo lab prints
- Print personal note paper & greeting cards
There are three parts to this contest.
- Follow on Twitter – @geekazine
- Comment below with your twitter name
- In the next few weeks, during the Quickcast – Week in Tech History podcast (published on Mondays), I will announce the third requirement.
- Check out the latest quickcast on this – we give you the 3rd step – a codeword to enter in twitter. #geekazine rocks.
On June 30th, we will draw a winner from all the names recieved (randomizer on the comment list). We will have other prizes as well, to be announced later.
Good Luck!
Video explaination:
Press release here: http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200905/1243448369.html
6 Comments »YouTube has established it’s name for the last 4 years as the place to post your videos. It didn’t matter what they were – as long as they were not of adult or copyrighted material. They’ve also seen some growing pains attached to pushing out home made content. The Baby dancing to a Prince song is a good example.
With Hulu coming on to the scene and the ever rising cost of bandwidth use, YouTube has realized they have to change their business plan to survive. However, it seems that their new business model might just create an adverse effect because it makes more work for the people pushing the content. So where is YouTubes’ Happy Medium?
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No Comments »This week I was the Guest Host on TPN Weekly, a new weekly podcast for the Techpodcast Network. I gave a small sampler of the Quickcast and Podcast and a little more.
To check it all out, just go to the link:
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The Post Office is a dying beast. Once the beacon for our communications system, it fights tooth and nail to keep going. Proposed cutbacks and possible less days of delivery are haunting this Public Service. So maybe the Post Office should start doing the one thing that is making them obsolete. Electronic Mail.
The idea of delivering messages and items from one person to another has been around since the ancient Pharaohs. From messengers that travel by horse, on foot or via ship – the transferring of written information became a vital part to being informed and ultimately, powerful. If you were a King, you had messengers ride to give news of battles, events or just personal notes.
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1 Comment »On Apr. 14th 2008, Psystar came onto the scene with a machine that let you have Windows or Mac OSX installed. It got a lot of publicity and also lawsuits from Apple. A year later, Psystar is not only still going, but is the pioneer to those that want to put OSX on their PC. So why should Apple fight it?
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I can see it now – Grampa sits jr on his knee and tells a story of how he was the third partner in the Apple franchise. He then proceeds to tell his sons’ son that he decided it was too risky and pulls out of the company 11 days after it was founded. At the time he was concerned over Jobs and Wozniaks’ work ethic and felt the company would not last – let alone make any money. Guess he should’ve listened to Forrest Gump.
By the way, that person’s name is Ronald Wayne.
In other Tech History, we see the Microsoft – Yahoo bid war heat up as not only Yahoo works deals with Google, but also tries to merge the internet operations with AOL. In the meantime, Microsoft talks with NewsCorp to do a “Joint acquisition”. That, the first SPAM, the DNA database and a whole lot more on todays Quickcast
*This podcast was recorded off the Blue Snowball Mic
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