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We saw a lot of media players. But one of the more impressive ones was Nuu Media’s Nuu Player.  A full content system companion for your TV. And the best thing is it does more than the average set top box.

Online media – Web Application – Video Call

We will start with Online media. A 160 GB internal hard drive, and it can stream the same media as the others (Pandora, YouTube, CNN, Blip, MLB.tv, Flickr, Comedy Central, etc). With a USB port on the side, SD card ready and multiple audio and video jacks, Nuu Media player can accept what you throw at it. But there was one item that really sets itself apart from Boxee, Roku, Apple TV, Vudu and others.

Built in Bluetooth.

This player showed it’s difference with the attached WebKit based browser. You can use Facebook, Twitter and others with the special interface. Connect a USB webcam and USB microphone, you might be able to create content and even Skype out – Making this the perfect conference phone for any boardroom.

Todd Cochrane talks to Danny of Nuu for this most innovative TV appliance. The Nuu player will be available by Q2 for around $300. It definitely is the closest to a PC without it being a PC.

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I have not concealed my skepticism about “cloud computing.” I see only two reason for sticking my data out there somewhere in the care of who knows who, except for off-site backups and collaborative projects. (For anyone who has invested deeply in time or money or both, in websites, software, and data, offsite backups are a good thing.)

“Because it’s there” is an insufficient reason for using any technology.

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• Skype Sold
  • Sold to ebay in 2005 for 2.6 billion – Meg Whitman – sore issue
  • 1.9 Billion was sold – 2.75 Billion overall – eBay keeps 35%
  • Silver Lake Partners with venture-capital firms Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
  • Joltid Ltd.  Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, retained the rights to the peer to peer software when they sold the company.
• Snow Leopard Freezes
  • Spinning circle
  • Press the C key

• iPhone to get MMS
  • September 25^th.
  • Software update
• G-Screen
  • Dual screen laptop
  • Windows 7 – Intel Core 2 Duo – 4 GB of RAM – Nvidia GF900M GT discrete graphics – SATA, DVD, 6 or 9 cell batteries -weigh 8.7 pounds
  • Could change the Netbook?
• Twitter 101?
  • Depaul University
  • Digital Editing: From Breaking News to Tweets
  • Utilizing Twitter

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According to Bloomberg, EBay’s has found a buyer for Skype–an investment outfit that includes Marc Andreessen, father of Netscape.

It was a marriage that never worked out. Skype has continued to grow, but Ebay was never able to do what they wanted with it. I think that it is probably a good move for both companies:

Skype’s revenue grew 25 percent to $170 million in the second quarter, EBay reported in July. The service added 37.3 million users in the three-month period, for a total of 480.5 million.

Even as the business grew, EBay never made good on its original promise for Skype: integrating the service into its e- commerce site, so buyers and sellers could use it to discuss large purchases. EBay wrote down Skype’s value to $1.2 billion in 2006.

(I know at least one person who is resisting requests from family members, who live on another continent and are on very good terms, to get Skype because of a fear of having no time left to be alone.)

Me, I use free and open source Ekiga when I need internet telephony.

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.

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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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According to Bloomberg and several other sources, EBay is planning to spin off Skype with an IPO. Read the story here.

Apparently, Skype has never quite fit in with EBay. Here’s an excerpt:

“The only problem with Skype is it’s part of EBay,” said Jeff Lindsay, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York. “It’s a marriage made in hell. They will make more money from spinning it out than they ever could by keeping it.”

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USB Video is not a new technology. But it has gotten better than what it used to be. Companies like DisplayLink have really started to change my mind on how. Then again, when you start talking about DVI – or Digital Visual Interface technology. You can even use your Netbook to connect to the bigger screens.

Andy McCaskey of the Tech Podcast Network Team talks with DisplayLink about the new products including Mimo – a small display you can use for smaller windows like Skype. They have some great insight on this. In fact, you may already have some of their technologies.

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