Flipshare TV: Flip Videos on Your TV I got an email last week announcing a new gadget/service from Flip called Flipshare TV . The new gadget, retailing for $149.99 , allows you to stream your videos from your computer to your TV, without the need for setting up a streaming media server or a wireless network. A move like this for Flip makes a lot of sense, particularly after being acquired by Cisco this year.
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Watch your Flip videos in your living room
Electronic Arts will be releasing Army of Two: The 40th Day in January. However, potential game customers can get in the game early…..not by playing, but by creating. The game has a custom uniform and armor creator , which allows players to create their own look, and then play with the custom duds on their own characters when the game is released in January. Gaming has evolved a great deal over the years, and it’s exciting to see developers embrace the idea that users would like to (and will) create their own content. My brother and I are still playing the original Army of Two, and we like it quite a bit. Army of Two: 40th Day will be a day one purchase for us. When I emailed him to tell him about the custom armor creation, he replied, “I put My Little Pony emblems on your shoulder pads
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Create your own game content, two months before the game is released
I got to work early yesterday, so I had a little fun with my camera on the way in.
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Going to Work
Last week we posted 3 new job openings and we may have another one being posted soon… the magic page to watch is: http://www.voxeo.com/about/jobs.jsp If you click on the “ Voxeo’s U.S. job listings at CareerBuilder.com ” link, you’ll see that we have newly posted: Network Operations Center (NOC) Engineer Customer Support Engineer I Senior Technical Account Manager The position for Network Security Manager we posted about earlier in November is still listed as well as we’re still interested in considering candidates. Voxeo’s an amazing place to work with some rather incredible benefits… particularly with regard to health care
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We’re hiring… NOC Engineer, Customer Support Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Network Security Manager…
Congrats to the team at Skype on the finalization of their sale from eBay last week and their new independence ! We’ve long been fans of Skype and have been a partner of theirs since back in 2005. As I’ve noted in previous blog posts, notably “ Skype-ifying your voice applications “, we automatically provide an inbound Skype number to call any XML application you create on our Evolution developer portal or any JavaScript, PHP, python, ruby or groovy app you create on our Tropo.com cloud telephony service . (And here are instructions about how to find that number for Evolution and for Tropo .) I wish the folks at Skype all the best as they transition back to being an independent company and look forward to continuing to work with them in the time ahead.
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Congrats to Skype on their new independence!
At VoiceCon SF 2009 last week in San Francisco , I (Dan York) spoke about “ Developing Voice Apps Using Mashups and SOA “. In the talk, I discussed what voice “mashups” are, gave a couple of examples, and then went on to show one of the Tropo.com examples found on the documentation page – the specific one I showed was the Yahoo!Weather example in python . I logged into my Tropo.com account , created a new application, indicated that I wanted to use a hosted file, copied/pasted text from the example, and then set up a phone number and IM address
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Voxeo’s Dan York’s slides from VoiceCon: Developing Voice Apps Using Mashups and SOA
I had a library school student who emailed me some questions about Web 2.0 and libraries.
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Web 2.0 and Libraries
Last week at eComm Europe, Voxeo Lab ’s Jay Phillips spoke on “ Entrepreneurial Advantages with New Open-Source Technologies ” and as usual providing an entertaining set of slides complete with LOLCats and other pictures that… well… make you think you kind of had to be there to understand! Along the way he outlined the state of a number of different open source telephony and communication tools… and made an announcement in the middle, too…. You can see Jay’s slides on SlideShare or here: Entrepreneurial Advantages with New Open-Source Technologies View more documents from Voxeo Corp
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As he did back at eComm in San Francisco in March, photographer James Duncan Davidson (”Duncan”) has been at it again this week in Amsterdam at eComm Europe with this outstanding set of photos from eComm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/sets/72157622680355908/show/ Here is the Flickr set as a slide show: Voxeo’s RJ Auburn and Jay Phillips can be seen here: RJ: #1 , #2 , #3 , #4 , #5 Jay: #1 , #2 , #3 , #4 , #5 Scattered throughout that photo set, of course, are so many other friends of Voxeo… it’s great to see! By the way, how does Duncan get such great shots? Obviously a lot of it has to do with his skills as a photographer, but it is also about quantity .
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The awesome photos of eComm Europe!
Next week is a bit of a marathon speaking schedule for me (Dan York) out in San Francisco. VoiceCon and Enterprise 2.0 are co-located at the Moscone Center in downtown SF and I’m actually speaking at both events. Full details of my talks can be found on our event pages at: http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/voicecon-san-francisco/ http://blogs.voxeo.com/events/enterprise-2-0/ The overall schedule looks like this: Monday, Nov 2 (VoiceCon) 3:15 – 4:15 pm – Presence – Current Progress and Future Trends Tuesday, Nov 3 (Enterprise 2.0) 11:15 am–12:00 pm – Case Studies In Enterprise Micro-Blogging 4:15 – 5:00 pm – The Future of Social Messaging in the Enterprise Wednesday, Nov 4 (VoiceCon) 3:15 – 4:15 pm – Developing Voice Apps Using Mashups and SOA Thursday, Nov 5 (VoiceCon) 8:00 – 9:45 am – Web 2.0 and Enterprise Communications – Fad or the Future?
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Click to Join the Group On last week’s Lib4Dead Game club post , several folks commented that it would be nice to have a Facebook group to meet other gaming librarians and coordinate times and games to play.
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Announcing the Librarian Gamers Facebook group
Many of Alden Library’s finest marched in the Ohio University Homecoming Parade on October 17, 2009. Here’s a few clips of video from our walk through Athens. We all had a great time.
You’ve got to know when to walk away, or know when to run…. I’ve worked with some interesting patrons lately. As a reference librarian, I love to help people find answers to their questions, and I really love helping them with business research. The thing I love most about business research is that there is no one place to look for business research questions. I tell my students there is no Walmart for business information; you have to go shopping all over town. Now this analogy can backfire, and I’ll tell you why. With the thousands of dollars that we spend for business databases, books, and journals, there comes the inherent expectation that every single piece of knowledge about a company, industry, or product ought to be available somewhere (and it ought to be available online). Most librarians will tell you that it’s impossible to have everything online, and most business folks should know that companies only disclose what they have to or what they want to. This makes the search for business information a little tricky. How long, deep, far do you look for information before you decide that the information you are looking for does not exist? When do you decide that the information is impossible to find when you’ve tried and tried and you still haven’t found what you’re looking for? (You can start humming U2 now if you wish ).
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You’ve got to know when to fold ‘em
Some students today were supposed to take a test, and Blackboard was not cooperating. The test timer was covering up the submit button, so they could not complete the test. It turns out that the test-taking feature of Blackboard 7.0 does not work well in Internet Explorer 8
While working the reference desk this afternoon, some journalism students came to the desk to interview a librarian about the library and technology. I obliged, but filmed them in the process for fun.
A while back I wrote about how Meebo and Pidgin are like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups . In that blog post I described how to use a plugin for Pidgin that would allow you to connect to your Meebo widgets through the Pidgin IM client. Well, for some reason, this stopped working for me quite some time ago
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The chocolate and peanut butter are mixed again: Using Trillian Astra with Meebo Widgets
I took a little time before work this morning to play with my cameras. I shot some video with my Canon SD780 IS and my Flip Mino to compare the two cameras. This video shows the differences.
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Playing with Cameras
With all the current explosion of news about the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook , I thought I’d just post a reminder that Voxeo is on FriendFeed at: http://friendfeed.com/voxeo We started using Friendfeed back in May 2008 and, as I wrote then , primarily use it for aggregation of all our online content. If you are a Friendfeed user – or are just checking it out now – please do feel free to subscribe to our feed and keep up with what we are posting online and join in the conversations there. Technorati Tags: voxeo , friendfeed ShareThis
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Reminder: Voxeo is on FriendFeed – join the conversation there
Voxeo again underscores its leadership in partner and customer focus and support: Voxeo University just started to offer free instructor-led training courses , taking place in both training centers in Orlando, Florida and Cologne, Germany, and for everybody! You just need to register and cover your travel expenses. Until the end of 2009, the following VoiceObjects training courses are available for free: Orlando: Aug 17 – Aug 18, 2009: VoiceObjects Phone Application Server Aug 19 – Aug 21, 2009: Development of Voice Applications for VoiceObjects Server Nov 02 – Nov 03, 2009: VoiceObjects Phone Application Server Nov 04 – Nov 06, 2009: Development of Voice Applications for VoiceObjects Server Cologne: Aug 31 – Sept 1, 2009: VoiceObjects Phone Application Server Sept 2 – Sept 4, 2009: Development of Voice Applications for VoiceObjects Server Oct 5 – Oct 6, 2009: VoiceObjects Phone Application Server Oct 7 – Oct 9, 2009: Development of Voice Applications for VoiceObjects Server Nov 31 – Dec 1, 2009: VoiceObjects Phone Application Server Dec 2 – Dec 4, 2009: Development of Voice Applications for VoiceObjects Server You can just choose “VoiceObjects Phone Application Server” for a two days overview about Voxeo VoiceObjects, without the need for any pre-knowledge or programming skills
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Unbelievable: Voxeo University offers training FREE OF CHARGE!
This is a information booth that is staffed by campus tour guides during the weeks of new-student orientation. What if libraries were this obvious? Formats available : Quicktime (.mov) , Flash Video (.flv)
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Information Booth