Reinke Faces Life

http://www.mediafire.com/

http://beta.localhostr.com

I needed a place to quickly stuffing a 2 meg mp3 file for a friend to listen too.

Normally I’d have emailed it, but yuck! It would have been left spinning several places for eons.

From his POV, both worked perfectly and flawlessly.

From my POV, mediafire was faster and worked on the first try; the other was slower and two two tries.

Isn’t the net amazing?

http://www.jibberjobber.com

ONE: Sitting looking at the network contact screen, it is not dead drop obvious who among my contacts are on JibberJobber and who are not. I know I have one because I signed up a Zombie and cross linked them. So that contact should be differentiated from the rest.

TWO: Looking at my contact list, I’d like to recommend this site to them, but it’s not apparent how to do that, and it is not brain dead easy to do. Like check contacts and hit a button somewhere.

THREE: After I do figure out how to recommend, those contacts should have a differentiator.

PS: Did I mention that the screen doesn’t fit. Too much info so one has to right an left screen.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

I’m Stumbler #1863639

http://tinyurl.com/ugqpf

http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2006/10/
cox_clobbers_co.html

October 31, 2006
Cox Clobbers Competitor’s Customers

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Any company that will only give customers 30-days notice that long-time e-mail addresses are being eliminated sure seems like one that thinks it can do whatever it wants. “From here it looks like a pure convenience and/or profit motive for Cox, and the customer can just live with it,” the reader concluded. “Where else do we have to go?”

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One doesn’t have to be held hostage to the whims of the ISP.

My current favorite WSP (Web Site Provider) “1and1” offers. A “beginner” package with a domain name; 5 GB web space; 500 e-mail accounts; and 250 GB traffic for 3$/month.

{{Use my referral code and they even give me a kickback! http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 out your 3 bucks. Wonder how much it is? Three cents?}}

That beginner package is better than what most ISPs give you for “free”. It’s certainly better than what I used when I first got started.

I tell jobseekers (aka baby turkeys) that they never want to have their “stuff” held hostage to:

• their current employer (an absolute no no!);
• any free service (like gmail);
• any site with a poor “image” (like AOL or @pinkpussycat.com);
• “their” Internet Service Provider that they are currently using; or
• any Web Service Provider (even 1and1).

If you “own” your domain name, like I do, “reinke.cc”, (who really cares what country it nominally belongs to), then you are ALWAYS in control.

SO, in the case of the poor fellow ranting to Ed Foster about “losing his email address”, it would have been trivial to say go into 1and1 and re-aim your email from, in his case, from CableAmerica to Cox.

AND, that assumes you’d want to use their lousy email anyway. Most WSPs offer better.

If he followed the advice and bought say “poorfellow.za”, then he could have used a personally branded email address like poor.fellow@poorfellow.za. All the people, who had his personally branded branded email address (i.e., poor.fellow@poorfellow.za) would still have it, And never had to know about the underlying change from poor.fellow@CABLEAMERICA.com to poor.fellow@COX.com! Nothing would be necessary.

I used to mess around with redirectors like bigfoot and others until I just but the bullet and went “bigtime”. I think I paid 25$ for a three year take on the reinke.cc domain and 10$ for 1and1 to aim it where I want it to go. Now, it’s even cheaper and I see a rush to the bottom of the price curve between GoDaddy, Yahoo, and other WSPs.

I feel comfortable with 1AND1 because they are deadly cheap, they advertise in Network World and industry trade rag, and they’ve done well for my consolidation project. (I moved seven websites with various WSPs, each placed with the “best” at the time, to them and saved some pocket change. And, my sanity. No more remembering which WSP had “creative driving techniques” web site. That was a joke!)

I have put commercial enterprises on their facilities back when I was consulting and have never heard a gripe.

In summary, I don’t have sympathy for this fellow, (well I do; maybe he did realize it.), but it COULD happen to you. Do something NOW to avoid it.

Besides having your own domain is snazzy kool!

JotSpot is now part of Google

We’re writing to let you know that Google has acquired JotSpot. We believe this is great news for our users. More importantly, we want to reassure you that you’ll continue to have uninterrupted access to your account. Both Google and JotSpot are committed to supporting our customers, and we understand that users have invested a lot in our products. In the near-term, we’re focused on migrating JotSpot to Google’s systems and datacenters. We’ll work hard to make that move as seamless as possible so that customers won’t be inconvenienced.

Why is Google acquiring JotSpot?
Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online. JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Google Groups.

What does this mean for JotSpot customers?
We believe that joining Google will accelerate our team’s vision of offering users the best collaboration platform on the web. Google shares that vision and presents us with the world’s best environment for delivering on it. We’ll be taking advantage of Google’s world-class systems infrastructure and operations expertise to ensure that access to your JotSpot is fast and reliable. We can’t share any of our plans publicly just yet, but we can tell you that we’re incredibly excited about the possibilities. We can’t think of a better company to have been acquired by.

Will paying customers still be charged?
We will no longer be billing customers for the use of the service. Although you will still have use of the product at your current pricing plan, we won’t charge you anymore when your current billing cycle expires.

What about security and privacy?
Your data is yours — that doesn’t change at Google. We will continue to work to ensure the privacy and security of your data. Furthermore, Google is as committed to privacy and security as we are. Since the user information you provided to JotSpot will soon be transferred to Google as part of their acquisition of JotSpot, we want to provide you with the opportunity to retrieve your user information and cease usage of the JotSpot service before the transition. If you do not wish to continue using JotSpot, send an email to privacy@jot.com in the next sixty days and we will reply with instructions for retrieving your user information.

Answers to more frequently asked questions are available at http://www.jot.com/. If you have any other questions, please email support@jot.com.

In closing, we wanted to offer our sincere gratitude to you — our customers — for believing in us and helping us achieve success. We look forward to continuing that relationship at Google.

Best wishes,
The JotSpot Team

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JotSpot
167 Hamilton Ave.
Floor 2
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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http://tinyurl.com/ykeh5n

http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/2006
/10/best_of_the_bes.html?

October 26, 2006
Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites

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Web 2.0 sites are cropping up all over the place! From Social Bookmarking Sites, to Real Estate sites, this list has only the best Web 2.0 Sites available today! What makes a site a Web 2.0 Site? Web 2.0 is the second coming of World Wide Web. New and improved sites that make the web their platform, provide users a way of interacting with each other, and organize and categorize their content are perfect examples of Web 2.0. Below is a list of web sites that are the best of the best!

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There’s an exhaustive list of “stuff” to be looked at. It’s too much. The whole application space is truly out of control.

http://www.weboffice.com/EN/Services/

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WebOffice brings together powerful, professional web-based business applications specifically designed to make collaboration easy and cost-effective. Everything you need to manage your business on the web is together in an integrated, centralized place.

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Sounds like about 80$/month for a fully integrated web offering.

… for pictures?

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PrinterAnywhere™ WebPrint

You can now print documents directly from the web without having to install the software on your machine. The number of supported formats is limited to the following:

* JPG
* GIF
* BMP
* PNG

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http://www.masternewmedia.org/new_media/new_media_tools/
best_new_media_tools_of_the_week_20061029.htm

http://tinyurl.com/y4c5qg

October 29, 2006
New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 76
Livia Iacolare and Robin Good

{Once again, they challenge us with new web services.}

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1. Immense http://www.immen.se/ is a network that provides online video publishers with the capability to use contextual ads in videos.

Nah, I don’t create video!

2. Toufee http://www.toufee.com/ is a web based editor that allows you to create and publish flash movies and presentations online.

Nah, I don’t that much.

3. Veeker http://veeker.com/veeker/ is a service that lets you and your friends communicate instantly using the video cameras in your mobile phones.

Nah, No friends!

4. mTextbox http://www.mtextbox.com/ is a service that enables you to upload text files that you can read on your mobile phone.

Nah, why would I want to do that?

5. Tabblo http://www.tabblo.com/ is a service that lets you upload your photos and create albums that you can share with other people.

Nah, Another one?

6. MediaFile http://www.mediafire.com/ is a service that lets you upload unlimited size files also simultaneously.

Nah, Another one?

7. Huddle http://www.gohuddle.com/ is a hosted service that offers virtual workspaces called ‘huddles’, which can be used to manage projects, share and review documents, monitor timelines and discuss work across the members of the group.

Maybe, if cheap enough, it might be good for any ad hoc group to exploit.

8. Freenigma http://www.freenigma.com/ is a service that adds privacy technology (with strong e-mail encryption) to your webmail service.

Winner, This can be used by everyone in today’s era of snoopy gubamint.

9. Wridea http://www.wridea.com/ is project management tool that allows you to create a page for each project and different categories for each work type.

Maybe, ditto above, it might be good for an ad hoc group to exploit.

10. LocalHostr http://beta.localhostr.com/ is a service that allows you to upload and store any type of file up to 20MB.

Maybe, duplicates other big file store and share site, need to know what the limits are. There have to be limits don’t there? Or, does it do something fancy?

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I sent an email message using gmail. GREAT!

Now I can’t figure out how to change to a different email account?