Today I met up with Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, and he gave me a desk, and I am allowed to stay at Twitter HQ for the rest of the day!
Biz is really an amazing guy, and so are all the employees at Twitter! Did I mention that everyone has an iPhone and a Mac at Twitter! I am really jealous!
Well, as the day goes by, more blog posts go, and my stay at Twitter shortens……..
The Apple Universe podcast has been honored by being allowed to join the Tech Podcast Network! Only the best podcasts are allowed and I am so pleased that Apple Universe has been elected!
Tech Podcast Network is a community supported web site dedicated to the promotion of technology by using the Internet.
These initiatives include audio streaming, podcasting, and new technology delivery mechanisms. The content producers actively support the broader technology community with a wide variety of content related to technology subjects.
Goals:
1) To provide a community for Podcasters who produce rich media content related to technology.
2) To embrace and create affiliations with a wide variety of content providers that are involved with technological issues and topics.
3) To pursue opportunities, both commercial and cooperative, that will benefit the content producers at large and users of technology in general.
4) Create community activities that increase site traffic, listenership, distribution, and knowledge of TechPodcasts.com and the individual sites of its members.
5) To provide TechPodcasts.com content producers the opportunity to have a second point of presence and the opportunity to host their podcast on the Tech Podcast Network.
Values:
1) TechPodcasts.com and its content producers will advocate on behalf of fair and full content use, free speech rights, and technological innovation.
2) Each member of TechPodcasts.com will remain responsible for its own creative content and retains full rights to his or her show.
3) Content creators will communicate openly and fairly with community members. Activities like flaming or disparaging comments are in direct conflict with these values.
4) Members are not required to link to any other member within the group. While we value each others opinions we can agree to disagree privately on individual agendas, political ideas and technical views.
5) No requirement will ever be made to force members to promote another members show.
6) As a community endeavor, members are encouraged to assist fellow content producers, listeners as well as potential members, with the technical details associated with producing or consuming content. Suggestions and assistance should be tactful, but truthful, and, should be received in the spirit of producing a quality podcast.
I would like to say thank you to the Tech Podcast Network for allowing Apple Universe to join!
My new friend Biz Stone invited me to the Twitter HQ! I will be going on Monday and I will be interviewing Biz!
Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter, Inc and also helped make Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Biz sometimes writes books about what people are doing on the Internet.
I will be recording Apple Universe #32 on Sunday, and #33 on Monday with Biz and any other team members that want to join! Keep refreshing your browsers for this amazing episode! BTW, Biz Stone and his team have been on the Scoble Show! the video is on my blog.
Have a great weekend,
Daniel
Over the past few weeks, I have started using Mozilla Thunderbird. The 2 main features that I use are, the email client of course, and a RSS Feed client. The reason I use the RSS Feed client is because when I use my email, I like to stay updated in the tech and in Apple news. Every minute, Mozilla Thunderbird updates the RSS Feed and retrieves data from that site! This makes my day a lot quicker and faster!
Along with the RSS Feed, it has a gmail client pre-configured so ll you have to do is type in the email address, and it does the rest! Especially if you have more than one gmail email account. I have my personal, and than I have my Apple Universe account come to one mail client along with all my RSS Feeds!
My Overall rating is: 4 out of 5
The San Francisco Giants dealt pinch hitter deluxe Mark Sweeney to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, the first trade between the rivals in more than 20 years.Sweeney had a pinch-hit single in the sixth inning of San Francisco’s 3-1 loss to Washington on Thursday, his major league-leading 16th of the season and 155th of his career. Sweeney trails only Lenny Harris with 212 on the career list.
“To be frank, we’re not a good enough team to have somebody like Mark on it as a premium pinch-hitter,” Giants general manager Brian Sabean said. “He was playing sparingly and we do need to look at some of these other guys.”
The last time the Giants and Dodgers made a trade, San Francisco sent catcher Alex Trevino to Los Angeles in December 1985 for outfielder Candy Maldonado.
The Dodgers, who trail Arizona by 4 1/2 games in the NL West heading into the Diamondbacks’ night game against Pittsburgh on Thursday, sent the last-place Giants a player to be named.
“Baseball wise it’s a better opportunity for me,” Sweeney said. “Being with a contender and doing the utility job, it’s a lot more important and has more relevance with what you do when the team is winning, rather than building.”
Sweeney said he would miss his teammates and the staff in San Francisco. He also told Barry Bonds that he was happy the deal came after the slugger broke Hank Aaron’s career home run record with No. 756 on Tuesday night.
Sweeney is 16-for-49 (.327) as a pinch-hitter this season and has 11 hits in his last 23 times up in the pinch. The Dodgers have struggled in that situation this season with their pinch-hitters batting just .235 (36-for-153).
“He’s been around this game for a long time,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “You’ve got a club that is contending that wants one of the best pinch-hitters in the game. He should be flattered.”
Sweeney can also play first base and outfield for the Dodgers, who have struggled offensively. Los Angeles snapped a 28-inning scoreless streak earlier Thursday in a 5-4, 11-inning win over Cincinnati.
“Mark provides us with another experienced bat off the bench and from time to time he may be called on in a starting role,” Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said. “He has tremendous makeup and will bring a lot to this club.”
Sweeney’s tenure in San Francisco will be remembered most for a link to a reported failed amphetamines test by Barry Bonds. The New York Daily News reported in January that Bonds failed an amphetamines test last season and initially attributed it to a substance he took from Sweeney’s locker. Bonds later said he never got amphetamines from Sweeney.
Sweeney is in the final year of a $1.8 million, two-year contract. He is the second veteran player the Giants have traded in the past two weeks, following the deal of starter Matt Morris to Pittsburgh. With the Giants in last place in the NL West, more deals could be coming before the Aug. 31 trade deadline.
“You kind of had a feeling that when they traded Matt Morris that that was the first sign this might start happening,” outfielder Randy Winn said.
The Giants will call up outfielder Dan Ortmeier from Triple-A Fresno to take Sweeney’s spot on the roster.
The team will need to make at least one additional roster move Friday when Russ Ortiz is activated from the disabled list to start against Pittsburgh.
Also, outfielder Dave Roberts underwent an MRI exam after bruising his right knee in Thursday’s game. Sabean did not have results of the test yet and did not know whether Roberts would need to be disabled.
From Yahoo! Sports.
Hello everybody,
Today I made a promo for my podcast, Apple Universe. If you would like to listen to it, or possible play it, please email me, and we can discuss the conditions.
~Daniel
This is a video from The Scoble Show. I am meeting with the CEO & Founder of Kyte.tv, Daniel Graf on Sunday!
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In the next few hours, 2 brand new Apple Universe episodes will be released! Keep Apple Universe’s page updated! If you have any questions or comments, please email Apple Universe!
~Daniel
I am back from Hawaii! Although I am a little burnt……ok, a lot! I am going to be recording Apple Universe today with Douglas Bell! If you don’t know what we will be talking about, you might want to go to Apple’s website! Have a great day!
CUPERTINO, California—August 7, 2007—Apple® today announced significant enhancements to its .Mac online service, highlighted by the debut of .Mac Web Gallery, a new feature for sharing photos and movies on the Internet. .Mac Web Gallery lets members easily share photos and movies directly from iLife® ’08 with anyone on a Mac®, PC or iPhone™ in stunning quality. In addition, .Mac Web Gallery visitors can download high quality images for printing and even contribute photos using a standard web browser or email. Other new .Mac features include a tenfold increase in .Mac storage to 10GB, support for personal domains for iWeb™ websites and enhancements to .Mac Mail.
“.Mac Web Gallery is an awesome way to share photos and movies on the Internet with friends and family,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “You can share your favorite photos and movies with anyone on a Mac, PC or iPhone, and they can turn them into high-quality prints as well as contribute photos to your site using a web browser or email.”
With iPhoto® ’08, .Mac members can easily create a .Mac Web Gallery with just a few clicks and choose whether they want to make their albums available to everyone or limit access to specific people, allow visitors to download high-quality images suitable for making up to 16×20-inch prints, and even allow friends and family to contribute photos. .Mac Web Gallery offers an amazing online photo experience that feels more like a desktop application than a web page. Visitors will have the same rich viewing experience whether they are using a Mac or PC and can experience .Mac Web Gallery photo albums in their choice of views, including mosaic, grid, slideshow or carousel. Users can skim through albums just like they do in iPhoto by simply moving their mouse over an album on the web page to see the photos inside. Friends and family can easily contribute to a .Mac Web Gallery by clicking the upload button from their browser or sending an email. iPhoto ’08 automatically stays in sync and downloads contributed photos directly to the .Mac member’s iPhoto library. .Mac Web Gallery is also designed to work great with iPhone, enabling users to view albums or simply snap a picture, choose an album and post it to their .Mac Web Gallery.
With iMovie® ’08, .Mac members can easily encode and upload their movies to their .Mac Web Gallery for viewing in several sizes, with the largest size offering higher-than-DVD resolution. Visitors can view .Mac Web Gallery movies on a Mac, PC or iPhone. .Mac members can also choose to make their movies available for download, so that friends and family can play them back on their computer, iPod®, iPhone or Apple TV™.
.Mac members now have 10 times more online storage space for photo and movie sharing, email, website hosting, exchanging files and backing up important documents, increasing from 1GB to 10GB for individual members and from 2GB to 20GB for Family Pack customers. If you need help converting your paper documents to digital files, you should get help from Dallas Document Scanning and Document Storage.
Members can choose to purchase an additional 10GB of storage. .Mac members can send and receive larger email attachments up to a maximum size of 20MB and manage unwanted mail better with improved webmail spam filtering. Using iWeb ’08, .Mac members can embed dynamic web widgets like Google Maps, Google AdSense, .Mac Web Gallery albums or HTML snippets in their .Mac website and host their websites at their own personal domain.
Pricing & Availability
.Mac is available as a subscription-based service for $99.95 (US) per year for individuals and $179.95 (US) for a Family Pack which includes one master account and four sub accounts. Customers save $30 (US) on either the individual subscription or the Family Pack when purchased with a new Macintosh® and anyone can sign up for a free, 60-day .Mac trial at www.mac.com.* Individuals can optionally purchase an additional 10GB of storage for $49.95 (US) annually.
.Mac requires a Macintosh computer with Mac OS® X v10.3.9 or v10.4.3 or later and 256MB of RAM. Internet access requires a compatible ISP; fees may apply. Broadband Internet connection recommended. Some features require Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger and iLife ’08, available separately.
*The .Mac service is available to persons aged 13 and older. Annual membership fee and Internet access required. Terms and conditions apply.
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