I discovered a whuffie service through Dave Winer’s blog.
Not sure what whuffie is? Read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (available for free under Creative Commons).
Essentially whuffie is reputation, used almost like a currancy. Wikipedia has a definition.
Opinity is an online service that enables measuring reputuation. It looks interesting, and might […]

Cameron, co-founder of The Podcast Network, invited me on G’Day World yesterday. We had a great chat about my Wired Magazine Technology Barometer, Wiki-Gate, Australian ISPs limiting bandwidth for things like Skype, and Open Spectrums.

I had a brief chat with Esther Dyson on the weekend. Tomorrow she’s at the When 2.0 conference.
Current rumor has it that Google Calendar will be launched at the event. Makes sense given the content, but I don’t see Google on the speakers list. That throws in a bit of doubt.
Not one to dampen the […]

VOIP Watch has an interesting article on Skype and its integration into eBay. Interesting scuttlebutt on who made money from the deal, the misaligned culture, bolting developers, and video’s rush to market. Digest with a pinch of salt.
It makes me think I should start using the Gizmo Project client in parallel, but the damn thing […]

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Cars.

I received this months Wired yesterday. I sat down for a few moments to have a flick through, and noticed two things. Firstly, it has a nice swish glossy cover, and secondly, it’s fat–just like the dot.com days.
That got me thinking. I wondered how Wired’s page count might reflect the technology industry. So I plotted […]

The Gadget Show #032 (MP3 – 13.6MB – 39min 30sec)
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I bring back Sean Berner from ZooVision to talk about the new iPod Video and television shows in iTunes. We talk about streaming video, the new market, and where things are headed.
I also mentioned Dean Gray Tuesday. Check out the site, and thanks […]

Makezine has an awesome list of gifts for sub-one-hundred-bucks.
My favorites include the disposable video camera, one year membership to a virtual world, PVC marshmallow shooter, and the MAKE Limited Edition 4-Volume Set. Hint hint :).
Mind you, would you trust someone who looked like this.

EyeTV from Elgato Systems just became more compelling.

With EyeTV 1.8.4, EyeTV users can now export their EyeTV recordings to a video-capable iPod using two new preset formats. One preset uses QuickTime H.264 compression, Apple’s preferred format. The second preset uses MPEG-4 compression, which encodes up to five times faster than H.264 and has higher resolution […]

.. but only for Windows so far. So I can’t provide a report.
Maybe you guys can tell me what it’s like :)
In the mean time, check Flickr for the skypevideo tag for screen shots. Looks like nice quality. Especially if it could make Cameron look like this.