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Here is the playlist:
Extreme - Cupid's Dead

Warrant - Cherry Pie

Foo Fighters - My Hero

Killswitch Engage - A bid Farewell

Faith no more - Epic

Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench

Extreme - Warheads

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Apple iPhone will be a killer: but I think it could take more of the market with a blast

Pardon the martial language, but I am  trying to top my all-time best-visited post "How Apple can take the cell phone market with one feature".

You see, the iPhone looks great, has a great UI and Doug says, the visual voicemail is the best invention since mankind. Granted. All fine. But as far as I can see it still lacks the syncronization between Apple Addressbook and profiles.

It would enable users to customize not only their phone with ringtones but also their life.

Read that again, I am not kidding. Let me spell it out again:
Imagine to leave work, click a button and all of a sudden all contacts
in group "work" are automatically sent to your voice mail. Calls from
the group "VIP" get announced with vibration. And your wife's calls ring with "Love me tender".

All Apple has to do is connect the dots between the groups in Addressbook and profiles with various ringtones. Everything handled with
easy pull-down menues or check-boxes in Addressbook.


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//Update// Bum Rush the Charts: Join the Conversation

Message from Joseph:

It's 2h30 into bumrush and we're making great inroads and progress! Current ranking is #334. JTC is now #54 in ALL business books; #3 in marketing; #2 in advertising.

Make it happen, jump over to amazon.com and get Joseph's new book "Join the Conversation". Let's help Joseph with what will end up as yet another case study, no doubt.


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Bum Rush the Charts: Join the Conversation

No plans for Sunday yet? At least jump over to amazon.com and get Joseph "Chief Interuptor" Jaffe's new book "Join the Conversation". If you plan to get more than one copy, please buy the separately. Why? The idea is to get a high position in the charts by having as many single book purchases as possible. He even created a Join the Conversation Facebook group to orchestrate the joint effort on Sunday. Let's help Joseph with what will end up as yet another case study, no doubt.


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A young hockey season...

So, the first handful of games has been played, no need to hand out the cup just yet, but gee, Shanahan with 1 assist in 5 games, that does bum me a little bit. However, there is no way that the Rangers are going to combust this season. Drury is too good and with Jagr, Straka, Gomez and Shanahan (in that order) they will make the play-offs. And take it from there. My prediction, conference finals out.

Btw, one more thing on the NHL video on the web idea: Yahoo does indeed block European IPs for live broadcasts, and Tor doesn't seem to work for me. At all. (I still can't comprehend why one would want to exclude millions of fans outside the US, but that is just me!)


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Google and Jaiku. Big Deal?

So, today, Google acquired Jaiku. I agree with Scoble that this won't impact twitter in the way everybody thinks today. Rather, it points to the mega-stream Google needs to compete with Facebook. Robert said earlier, "keep your eyes open November 5th". I will, but am curious to see if Google and Jaiku can make it happen this quick. Done right there might not be much to do, just import the Jaiku stream into a iGoogle status/action feed.


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Password-protected feeds in Google Reader

Well, maybe I was living under a rock, but it took Steve Rubel's recent post on turning Gmail into a social network hub to find out how to work password-protected feeds in Google Reader. I tried to put my Twitter/replies feed into Feedburner and voila, the system told me how to work a protected feed.

http://username:password@www.domain.com

Perfect. I had a couple of feeds that I wasn't able to import. Now, the only question is this: Do I want to give Feedburner/Google access to my passwords...


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A new season begins: 3 ways to watch the NHL online

The first couple of games are played, time to find out where I (living in Europe) have access to (live) footage.

1. The Web 2.0 way is Joost. Available there are Classic Games, quite a number of games from the 2007 playoffs, and a channel called Versus. Versus is a channel that supposedly will cover the NHL in the US. The Joost-channel however so far only shows gems like Duck Hunting History, Montana Whitetail and California Upland Birds, and Fly Fish Striped Bass. Sounds like outdoor channel all over again. We'll see if that changes during the season.

2. For highlight watching, Yahoo Sports, ESPN and NHL.com are good sites. I choose Yahoo because it is just one click away from my Fantasy Hockey team. CBCsports and the NHL-channel on Google Video seem to be blocked for European IP-addresses.

3. For live footage it seems I still have to go to the secret sauce, Mac users may need to install Parallels for this one. Quality varies immensely, sometimes it is hardly bearable and you really have to know a bit how the game is played, otherwise it is very hard to follow the puck. Alas, better than nothing.





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Life with a child

So, where is my sponsor you wonder? Well, it turns out that life isn't all that plannable with a toddler or, more to the point, the kid is way more important to me than finding a sponsor (you may have noticed also, that post-ratio has gone down in the last 8 weeks). Ergo, I have pretty much wasted Week 1. Let's see if I can make up for that in Week 2. (in addition, Gillmor-San chose to publish a long post with video that needed time to be decoded, and the NHL-season started and I needed to get my fantasy teams in line;-) )


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Free Burma

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