Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’

Happy Presidents Day!

2005 – YouTube, the popular video sharing website, is established by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Google bought out YouTube on October 9, 2006 for $1.65 Billion. The official launch didn’t happen until November of 2005. With an upload every 20 minutes and over 1 Billion views a day, YouTube has definitely grown to a video powerhouse.

Sponsor:  14 Day Gold Membership & 1 FREE audio book at Audible – audiblepodcast.com/geekazine

Please add to your favorite aggregator. RSS Feed – iTunes – Stitcher – TechPodcasts

Other Historical Events in Technology

• Intel demonstrates the Willamette processor
• Kevin Mitnik is arrested by the FBI
• The Pirate Bay trial begins in Sweeden

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:00 — 3.2MB)

This week, the 5 Tech Things you should know looks at:

• Google Buzz
• CEO of MySpace resigns
• YouTube’s new Censorship
• Kindle vs. iPad
• The Muppets Take the Internet

Sponsor: Mozy Unlimited Backup – $4.95/Month! Use code “Geek” for 10% off!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (129.8MB)

Part II of this video Andy McCaskey catches up with George at CES. They reminisce on how Pure Energy has went from a small table in the Sands to Where they are now. George shows off a possible new office product solution. Pads are incorporated into the desktop so you can drop and go. Even a Coffee Mug heater can be added so you can keep the coffee warm.

Pure Energy has a number of partners. Look for the Wild Charge mark. Base prices start at $99, with adapters starting at $19.99. You can also get special cases that charge the device simply by setting them down. The technology is a patented one called Rechargeable Alkaline Manganese (RAM), or more to the point “RAM cells”.

Sponsor:  You need this in your IT Toolbox – GotoAssist Express free for 30 days – GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts.

Get this content on TiVo, Roku and Boxee – Subscribe to the YouTube Channel

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (68.7MB)

What has amazed me in the last year is the return of the turntable. Not for some ambitious DJ to turn your old Dark Side of the Moon album into a scratching post worse than your cat could actually do, but for audiophiles old and new to listen to music the way it used to be heard. Scratches and pops abound.

Todd Cochrane found that Audio-Technica was showing off the USB LP-120 turntable. Of course, this style was the professional back in the day (minus the USB of course). Convert your albums or just spin some discs the old fashioned way. All starting at $429.

Sponsor:  You need this in your IT Toolbox – GotoAssist Express free for 30 days – GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts.

Get this content on TiVo, Roku and Boxee – Subscribe to the YouTube Channel

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (37.1MB)

What is funny about having 2 teams on the floor is that content could be duplicated. While we kept a good lid on that happening, we still got a few duplicate interviews. But the best part about that is we also got two perspectives on the same products.

Take this case - PureEnergy is a company that produces solutions for quick charging. While at Digital Experience, I talked to George about their mat charging systems. Andy McCaskey then talked to George at CES. So what do you do?

I say – run them both. Therefore, in Part I, Jeffrey Powers talks to Pure Energy about their line of power chargers for all types of devices. Whether it be your iPhone, iPod, MP3 player, Kindle, netbook, notebook or even a few rechargable batteries – You have a one – stop shop to connect and charge.

Sponsor:  You need this in your IT Toolbox – GotoAssist Express free for 30 days – GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts.

Get this content on TiVo, Roku and Boxee – Subscribe to the YouTube Channel

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (45.2MB)

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.

Sponsor:  Your IT Toolbox needs GotoAssist Express – free 30 day Demo – GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts.

Get this content on TiVo, Roku and Boxee

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (31.2MB)

While 3-D and Tablets were the primary discussion for CES, the underlying discussion was IPTV. There were a lot of boxes that showed up during the week. One of the more noticeable boxes was the Popbox - and not because they had popcorn at the booth.

This device is what’s called a “Big Screen Everything”. Not only will you get all the shows from the Internet – Revision 3, Netflix, YouTube and even Blip tv (where Techpodcasts Channel is located), but it can also pull from your computer and display pictures, video, audio and a lot more.

Jeffrey Powers is talking to John from Popbox about this system. The new appliance will be out in March and will cost $129 for wired, then $149 for wireless. They also have an open API for those content providers that want to develop on Popbox

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (50.8MB)

I started my career answering hate mail from customers in customer service. Statistics at that time, back when persons communicated by telephone, letter, or even occasionally face-to-face, showed that someone who got bad service would tell, on the average, 10 persons; someone who got good service–that is, someone who got what he or she paid for–might tell one person.

Social media may be increasing the reach of negative comments, as Bloomberg reports.

A negative review or comment on the Twitter, Facebook or Youtube Web sites can lose companies as many as 30 customers, according to a survey by Convergys Corp.

A customer review on one of the sites reaches an average audience of 45 people, two-thirds of whom would avoid or completely stop doing business with a company they heard bad things about, Convergys said, citing its own survey.

Read the rest of this entry »

We celebrate Eyebrow day as today Marx (pun intended) Groucho’s birthday. He was born in 1890 and died 3 days after Elvis.

Brought to you by Eastbay -  Save 15% on all orders with code AFZINE15
20% on orders $75 or more at Eastbay with code AFZINE20

Here are your 5 tech things you should know for this week:

• Rocky Mountain Bank Gmail snafu
• Michael Tchao and the Apple Tablet rumor
• Warner Music and YouTube
• Security Essentials
• LightPeak

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB)

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?

Read the rest of this entry »

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (4.1MB)

The Guardian reports that some scientists are concerned that the internet is consuming too much electricity. Read the story here; I’m not even going to try to excerpt it.

I guess it’s time for all of us to go back to chipping out our bitstrips on the walls of the cave.