Posts under ‘Tools’

Mary Hodder and her colleagues have launched the beta of Dabble, which they says is “about people describing, discovering and organizing video, wherever it’s found or hosted.”

I was overheard at the recent Fortune magazine Brainstorm conference making this observation, which I stand behind: The next conference I go to that has a consistent WiFi signal will be my first.

The Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others. Much […]

UPDATED No matter how many times I edit in WordPress, it runs paragraphs together in certain circumstances. How lame is that? Jeez… Update: if I edit the post in Ecto, all’s well. Even more weird…

Arrived for the second day, or part of it (I’m shuttling back to Supernova as well), of BloggerCon, and the session is all about tools. As promised, the audience is the expert panel, not a panel. Phil Torrone of Make magazine is a great MC. I’ve now learned about several podcasting tools I didn’t know […]

Nokia is working on WidSets, the ability to use web services on mobile phones. This is extremely impressive stuff.

Just installed Call Recorder, a new Skype add-on (Mac OS X only) that lets me record both sides of a voice call as a QuickTime file. The application comes with a utility that converts the file to an MP3. With QuickTime Pro, each side of the call can be separated into a channel, which is […]

Linux Devices: Nokia turns cellphones into webservers: “If every mobile phone or even every smartphone initially is equipped with a webserver, then very quickly most websites will reside on mobile phones.” Interesting possibilities for citizen media in this — talk about real-time updating, among other things.

Wall Street Journal: Yahoo Defends China Cooperation. Yahoo’s Terry Semel faced tough questions from Walt Mossberg — and the audience — over the search company’s decision to comply with requests for user data from the Chinese government, which has used the information to pursue dissidents. I’m one of the audience members who asked Semel a […]

I’m at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, where Bill Gates was talking last evening about the future of mobile phones that handle many other functions including video, writing, etc. He referred to these gadgets as — I’m not joking — “Reality Acquisition Devices” that will, if I understood him correctly, be […]