back from holidays…
Thursday, December 28th, 2006after a short but very much-required hiatus for myself, it’s time to pick up this blog with various bits of news I stumbled upon during the last days…kind-of emulating Marc Canter’s primary posting-style…
while most users are still waiting for their Gmail-accounts to fetch external POP-mail, Google Operating System has got some screenshots & descriptions. Gmail supports up to 5 POP-accounts (only for retrieval, outgoing-mail is still processed by Gmail and therefor includes Gmail-headers). all mail is syndicated into one inbox.
Multiverse is an upcoming (2007) 3D-framework & client/server-infrastructure, allowing 3rd-party content-publishers to create & host their very own virtual worlds at minimal cost. think of Multiverse as various branded, independent Second Life-grids (according to rumours, a scenario Linden Labs itself is actually thinking of in the near future). while the idea seems to advance on Second Life’s concept, it’s still not “open” in the way of fully exposing protocols/interfaces - which would bascially allow anyone to build their own (opensource-)clients & servers.
according to TechCrunch, Hey!Watch is the next big thing in online-video conversion (compare ZamZar or Media Convert). Hey!Watch removes much friction by offering various ways of importing video-data: besides the usual upload-form, Hey!Watch provides a bookmarklet to import any (f.e. YouTube-)video, a Firefox-plugin and even automatic import of RSS-enclosures. video-files are processed to fit on your iPod, PSP or mobile phones, users may subscribe to their converted files via RSS. sounds very good, indeed.
ok, that wasn’t as telegraphic as I supposed it would be, anyway 
