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You may remember a pretty popular video from a few months ago called Twitter in Plain English. The creators of that video now set their sights on the topic of social media. The people over at Common Craft have made another gem. This time they look to explain social media and use the subject of ice cream flavors to do it.
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Microsoft in a surprise move released IE8 yesterday to the internet world. It is still in beta but the new version seems to have some great enhancements. The first thing I noticed is it loads up quicker than IE7. In IE8 there is something called webslices which lets you subscribe to individual portions of a page. Also in the new release you have live maps integration and better support for Ajax. So far I haven’t had any problems with the new version after a few hours of using it. But I just don’t see myself switching to Internet Explorer anytime soon. Firefox will still be my choice when it comes to my preferred browser.
If you would like to give IE8 beta a test drive of your own you can download it at the following url.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm
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My ooVoo Day is going to be a week-long event beginning February 10th. During this time you will be able to video chat with some high profile podcasters, bloggers and some girl with an i in front of her name. You will be able to do this using ooVoo.
ooVoo which officially launched back in June of 2007 gives you the ability to video chat with up to 6 people at a time. It has many more features though then just video. Personally I have been using it because you are able to make free phone calls which is saving me lots of money since all I have right now is a cell phone. Some other features of ooVoo are the ability to send video messages and files. Oh they also have text chatting as well for all of us who don’t want to be on camera at 10 in the morning. Feel free to add me on ooVoo my username is smojo12.
But lets get back to My ooVoo Day…Some of my favorite internet people are going to be participating in this. People like Chris Brogan, Irina Slutsky, iJustine and the list goes on and on. Being able to interact with some of these people is going to a fun time and I hope everyone joins in on the fun. Just the fact that you will have 6 video chatters at once will make it pretty interesting. Below is all linkage to join the fun.
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The AWS Startup Challenge is almost over and 7 startups are left. AWS is letting the people vote on which startup should win. The votes and results of this poll will be used by the judges when they decide who will be crowned the king of AWS startups. Justin.tv is currently in the lead of the poll which is no surprise. Even though I would love for JTV to win I personally think that having a poll influence the judges decision is a bad idea. Justin and crew have an unfair advantage because of the social aspects of the site. One of the startups that I’m interested in learning more about is Brainscape. It is just amazing what can be done with technology.
Brainscape, a product of the Neuroinformatics Research Group, is an engine for measuring the networks in the brain. Researchers are using Brainscape to discover new brain networks and measure the effects of new drugs in clinical trials. Soon, doctors will be using Brainscape to diagnose disease and aid in treatment. The team at the Neuroinformatics Research Group is building their tools entirely on Amazon Web Services to meet their computing and storage needs.
So what does the winner of this challenge get? Well the grand prize winner will receive $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, and an investment offer from Amazon. Looks like Justin will soon have more drinking money. I’m not sure on what the prizes are for 2nd and 3rd though but you can bet it will most likely be some AWS credits. The poll currently has Justin.tv in the lead with 39% of the vote and a tie for 2nd place with both Ooyala and Milemeter having 20% of the vote. Each company also has a little video showcasing what their startup is about and how they are using AWS. You still have time to vote. Voting ends on December 6th. So if you haven’t voted please do at
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/amazon_startupchallenge.jsp?
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