Are You Ready to Vlog?
Posted on Oct 19, 2005 | Categories: Metablogging | Leave a comment
(Migrated weblog post from LSR)
Ok, folks, are you ready to vlog? Apparently, this is one of the latest trends out there in the Internet that is grabbing more and more momentum by the day. It is called vlog or vlogging and it is the short name for video blogs. There seems to be a huge hype going around vlogging more than anything because of its cool factor of allowing folks to create, edit and publish their own videos on the Internet where people could subscribe to.
Katie Dean, from Wired, recently wrote an interesting and intriguing article describing the phenomenon itself: Blogging + Video = Vlogging and while reading through it I just couldn’t help thinking if eventually vlogging would become as popular as weblogging is at the moment. I know that there are not as many vloggers out there as webloggers but with options like the Yahoo videoblogging group, Vlogdir or del.icio.us tags you could expect that things will continue to grow and that we will get to see more and more vloggers as time goes along.
I am not sure if elsua would be a good candidate for such new trend. I would need to think about it, but something tells me that I am not sure I would be jumping into that wagon, at least, for the time being. Maybe at a later time when it has settled down a bit and it has consolidated itself some more I may think about it. But how about you? Are you ready to vlog ? Are you vlogging already?. If you would want to share your vlogging experience with us just contact me offline or drop a comment here. I am sure we would be more than delighted to hear some more about how different the experience is from regular weblogging.
Just When You Thought Competition Might Have Won the Battle
Posted on Oct 19, 2005 | Categories: Productivity Tools | Leave a comment
(Migrated weblog post from LSR)
You actually find out that the competitors might not have beaten it any time soon. Over the last few days I have been creating a number of different weblog entries on a number of different competitors that are starting to come up to continue taking some market share from Skype, one of the most powerful VoIP / IM clients out there. And it all looked like it was going to be a tough time recovering from some major losses, but, wouldn’t you know it, Skype has just come back with a new plugin that will take online real-time collaboration into new heights: Jyve.
As Robin Good has commented already today on Co-Browsing With Skype: New Jyve Plugin Adds Call-Forwarding, Web Presence And Auto-Responders, Jyve is supposed to be the next big thing in the Skype VoIP environment putting together a superb list of new features that will only allow you but to increase your efficiency and effectiveness of using this VoIP client to collaborate with your colleagues at work, or just to get in touch with family and friends. There is a whole bunch of features that Robin describes at his weblog so you may as well want to go there and check them out. Some of them are quite extensive. But just in case you may want to know what they are before you read his weblog post here you have got a brief excerpt:
So as you can see Skype‘s functionality will be boosted a great deal with the Jyve plugin. So if you haven’t had a chance to give it a try yet, you could go and download it from here. I am sure you will be as impressed as I am at the moment, and, as I have already mentioned, there are some goodies that folks could actually use for their own web sites so over the next couple of days I will be playing around with the options and update them into elsua‘s template. I will keep you all posted when I am done with them.
After writing about all this, one thing that comes out very clear is that whoever thought that Skype was not going to put up a fight against the recent competition that has come about would probably need to think about it twice, because Jyve just managed to shake things up a bit as far as real-time online collaboration is concerned. I am sure we will see further improvements from the different competitors but right now, and for the time being, Jyve’s Plugin seems to be the winner and what has made Skype, once more, the killer app. for remote collaboration with work colleagues, friends, family, etc. you name it.
A Safe Browser? No Longer in the Lexicon
Posted on Oct 19, 2005 | Categories: Productivity Tools | 2 Comments
(Migrated weblog post from LSR)
I have been wanting to weblog about a particularly interesting news article that a while ago appeared in CNET: A safe browser? No longer in the lexicon where it puts together an interesting overview of why most web browsers out there are all vulnerable more or less to idle hands getting busy with them attacking their vulnerabilities.
Funny part of that interesting reading, to say the least, is that throughout the whole article browsers like IE, Safari and FireFox get commented on their potential security risks. However, Opera was not mentioned at all. Strange, right ? I guess I wasn’t the only one surprised to read about that because if you take a good look into the different comments quite a few folks have also indicated why was Opera left behind when all of us know that it is one of the most secure web browsers around.
I am not going to comment on the fact if this has been done on purpose or not, or if the author of the article didn’t think that Opera had enough user audience to be able to make it, I am just going to mentioned that, like one of the comments states, Secunia has got the perfect statement to bring into the table that will show end-users which browser is just state of the art as far as security is concerned:
“The Secunia database currently contains 0 Secunia advisories marked as “Unpatched”, which affects Opera 8.x.“
People can go now and say that idle hands do not focus on a browser whose market share is not good enough and to that I would say, that is fine, no problem. Opera users do not really care too much about statistics. What we do care for, though, is that we have a secure and reliable web browser we can use all the time in order to continue enjoying our own web experience. And people like the folks at Secunia do realise how important this is and despite those market share figures they still include reports on Opera on a regular basis indicating any security flaws it may have. And so far, like in previous occasions, they prove over and over again which one is the safest browser so far, and therefore still part of our lexicon.
