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Multimedia Streaming and Wireless 
GraceLine.com style
IP / Contact Center / Internet    Genesys Labs style
IPCC Internet based Contact Center     Cisco style
Internet  / Intranet Systems  development
Speech Recognition           Text To Speech  conversion
ICM (Cisco Call Manager)    IPCC (Cisco) Call Center  IP
Asterisk, The Open Source PBX™
Interactive Voice Response  
Legacy Voice Communications.
Telephone PABX / IVR Systems

Network,  LANs, WANs and IP hosting

Streaming Video,  Web Site Management,  Video Production



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Therefore take it a step at a time and remember that unless you get really thinking, start questioning the status quo, and then generate the 'Ah Ha!' insights, you have still a way to go to get the KM mantra. Skip what seems difficult to follow, find what is interesting and relevant to solving your problems, and then apply it! Improvise and adapt what you read as needed until it works for solving your problems. Revisit and review the contents as you advance your learning and its application to generate new insights. Many others have done it around the world, so can you! What matters most is your own contextual understanding of your problems, your passionate pursuit to resolve them.
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The World Is Flat  by
Thomas L. Friedman
Must read to understand the
 direction of the connected world.


The English Language. Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language?. Let's face it. English is a crazy language. There is no egg in the eggplant No ham in the hamburger. And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England. French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted But if we examine its paradoxes we find that Quicksand takes you down slowly, Boxing rings are square. And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing. If the plural of tooth is teeth. Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth, If the teacher taught, Why didn't the preacher praught. If a vegetarian eats vegetables. What the does a humanitarian eat? Why do people recite at a play, Yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and Drive on parkways. You have to marvel at the unique lunacy. Of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down. And in which you fill in a form by filling it out. And a bell is only heard once it goes! English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (Which of course isn't a race at all) That is why when the stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible, and why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts, but when I wind up this observation, it ends.

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1.  ScreenWeaver

2.  Learn Flash (graceline2002)

3.  FlashcomGuRu

Compression software

Which brings us to the point of compression software. There are a couple of interesting packages:

  1. The Flash VideoEncoder, which comes with Flash 8 ($699,-).
  2. Sorenson Squeeze for Flash MX ($119)
  3. The ON2 Flix Encoders (from $69 - free demos)
  4. The RivaVX FLV Encoder (Free, not available for MAC, no ON2 VP6 codec yet)
Note that many sites (eg. YouTube) offer server-side encoding of video. You can upload whatever format you want, and they encode it automatically to FLV.

 There are two good software packages for this. The first is ON2's Flix Engine, which supports Flash8 FLV but costs $3500/year. The second is a combination of open-source tools, based around FFMPEG. It's free, but currently only supports the inferior Flash7 FLV (plus you have to take care of installing and updating all codecs.)

Source material

Bad source (camera shake, noise) gives bad compression. Try to compress from good source. With DV, i always rescale the source (720x540) to 320x240 to an uncompressed intermediate file. Due to the scaling, the dv noise has become sub-pixel noise and is way less visible.

Lots of cuts and motion also give bad compession. Remember that the compressor works roughly like this: it saves one frame (the keyframe) entirely. and then saves only the changes that occur in the following frames. This starts again at the next keyframe. So if you have a cut, every pixel of the next frame has to be saved. If you only have a talking head, few pixels will change and the file will compress very well.


Compression settings

I don't like big screen sizes. There's nothing i can see at 640x480 that i cannot see at 320x240. Remember that the screen area of the first one is 4 times the area of the second one, and that the file will also become about 4 times as large. You will rule out a lot of people with you big-screen fetish. Use resolutions of around 200 px wide for home video till 400 px wide for demoreels ..

I always use the 2-pass VBR converter (except for rough tests). It takes the most time, but gives the best performance. I use a keyframe for every 2 seconds (50 frames) for video with little motion up to a keyframe every half second (10 frames) for video with a lot of motion. Bitrate for the video: 200 - 1000 kbps, again depending on the amount of motion in the source material. Just try it and if it looks good, try a lower bitrate until the quality starts to decline. My audio is set to 32, 64 or 96 kbps mp3. 32 for just speech, 96 for cool music. Again, listen if the sound starts to loose crispness. Remember that a byte is not a bit ! A byte is 8 bits ..

Delivering FLV files

Ok, so now you have a couple of good-looking FLV files. What to do with them? Windows Media Player, Winamp and Quicktime will refuse to play them. For desktop viewing, Martijn de Visser has built a cool standalone FLV Player (Windows only). Just drop a FLV file on top of it and you're good to go.

For web publishing you can use my Flash FLV Player. You don't need the original Flash Software, just a text editor to type in the correct path to your FLV file in the HTML file. More information and options can be found in the description of the Flash FLV Player. If you don't like my Flash FLV Player, just check out some other players. Note that some of them are not free and for some others you need the Flash authoring software.

Progressive download vs. streaming

The codecs and formats I discussed here are all based upon progressive downloading; a file is downloaded and played when enough data has been delivered. For enterprise video users (100's of video's, or videos from over 10 minutes) this is not efficient. They are better off checking out the various streaming platforms. A streaming platform detects your connection speed and delivers video exactly at the bandwidth you can handle (plus you can scrub the video without downloading it completely). For Flash, the streaming platform is called Flash Media Server, more info can be found at Adobe.com or at the FlashComGuru website.

All per Flash Com GuRu http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=FLV+Video+Compression
article | 13.11.2005 | print



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3) If you are completely resistant to communicating with people, then you don't have what it takes to get what you want. Communication is everything.  To make money in this world, you have to help people while giving them what they want. We are willing to train you how to communicate and spend time with you, but you have to be ready for our help. If you aren't, please leave .

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First OpenMoKo phone taps dual-licensed SyncML stack

Nov. 07, 2006
Funambol's dual-licensed SyncML implementation will provide the "synchronization engine" in FIC's Neo1973, the first phone based on the open source OpenMoko platform. The phone will use the stack for OTA (over-the-air) delivery of Blackberry-like "push email," among a variety of other content types.

Funambol's dual-licensed synchronization stack implements the Open Mobile Alliance's SyncML specification. In addition to "push" email services similar to those provided by the RIM Blackberry, the stack can be used to set up OTA (over-the-air) updates of address books, calendars, photo collections, videos, ringtones, and music files, Funambol says.

Details are sketchy, but it appears that the Funambol synchronization engine will also be used to deliver user-installed applications to the Neo1973 and other OpenMoko phones. The OpenMoko project was launched with the specific goal of letting users add, remove, and update software on the Linux-based phones.

Sean Moss-Pultz, instigator of the OpenMoko project, stated, "Ringtones are already a multi-billion dollar market. We think downloading mobile applications on an open platform will be even bigger."

FIC COO David Huang stated, "With any mobile phone, the application platform is critical because it directly impacts its quality, cost and ease-of-use. We chose Funambol because it is the most widely used mobile open source project in the world. By partnering with Funambol to provide the synchronization engine for OpenMoko, developers will flock to the project and ultimately, users will receive what they have been demanding from their mobile phones."

Lots more details about OpenMoko and FIC's open Neo1973 phone can be found in our previous coverage, here.

Availability

Funambol's SyncML software is available as a "preview" release, on its website, here. The company says the software has been downloaded 700,000 times.

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Near Field Communications -- A New Era in Seamless, Secure and Personalized Services
The integration of an RFID unique identifier into a mobile handset unleashes a new era in advanced consumer applications for mobile carriers, merchants, advertisers and suppliers. No more long menus; no more endless keying of various user names and passwords. Servers and applications should know who, what, where, when and how a user accesses a service. This session provides an overview of the to the business opportunity of near field communications.



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On the Internet, people use browsers to visit Web sites, access documents from networks, and fill out forms. With this growing capability to retrieve information, communications between users and their devices is receiving more attention. As devices become smaller, other means of input -- in addition to keyboard or tap screen -- are becoming necessary...

Creating Interactive Video With MPEG4
After a long build-up, MPEG4 is finally roaring out of the gates. Read on for a look at the frontier of MPEG4 video - interactive video capabilities that will leave you oohing and ahhing. We'll look at the basics, then walk through a complete XMT/SMIL code example that shows how it's done.

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We support the NoSoftwarePatents.com Movement.  Copyrights are enough to do the job!  Patents kill the entrapreneur / inventor!


Dans Story
 
Here is the latest home movie...
of Uncle John Ivy's May 30th,2005 birthday party in Eldorado, KS
 
Certainly isnt Hollywood quality BUT you might like to see how
with a $100 PC camera and $120 worth of Pinnacle editing software... 
you too can record your family events..
 
By the way.. On my GraceTime Web site..
(if you have a log in and are registered...  you can get logged in by registering online)...
You too can now start your own...  on line family or project album of pictures..
 
YOU can upload them (the pictures or movies) from your own computer where ever you are in the connected world
No.. it REALLY isnt that hard..
 
Actually it is so good.. that if you had one of the inexpensive pc movie cameras.. or any digital camera
you could empty your camera (movie or pictures) into your PC.. then connect to GraceTime.com
and upload them to your own family "GraceTime on line album.".
 
YOU and only you create and have the password for YOUR Album.. 
The pictures and movies are for public viewing.. but no one has the password but you.
Of course you could share that password with your kids in California, Arizona
or where ever they are AND they to could share with YOU in YOUR album.
 
Of course we keep the right to delete any unacceptable pics or movies or sound tracks..
 
This allows you or your loved ones to share with anyone in the connected WORLD!
 
No cost or obligation..  http://www.gracetime.com
 
I am having great fun developing this project.. and your participation will only advance the experiment...
 Enjoy,

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We produce and distribute family / business oriented video for the web that plays in full screen, just like watching a television commercial. The GraceTimesm Video Advantage is:

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"Desiderata"
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and
lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

"Desiderata" - Max Ehrmann

Our Planet Earth is Dying??

By Ben Blanchard Tue Oct 24, 2006  6:29 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday.
Populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report.

"For more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," WWF Director-General James Leape said, launching the WWF's 2006 Living Planet Report.

"If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need five planets to support us," Leape, an American, said in Beijing.

People in the United Arab Emirates were placing most stress per capita on the planet ahead of those in the United States, Finland and Canada, the report said.

Australia was also living well beyond its means.

The average Australian used 6.6 "global" hectares to support their developed lifestyle, ranking behind the United States and Canada, but ahead of the United Kingdom, Russia, China and Japan.

"If the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in Australia, we would require three-and-a-half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste," said Greg Bourne, WWF-Australia chief executive officer.

Everyone would have to change lifestyles -- cutting use of fossil fuels and improving management of everything from farming to fisheries.

"As countries work to improve the well-being of their people, they risk bypassing the goal of sustainability," said Leape, speaking in an energy-efficient building at Beijing's prestigous Tsinghua University.

"It is inevitable that this disconnect will eventually limit the abilities of poor countries to develop and rich countries to maintain their prosperity," he added.

The report said humans' "ecological footprint" -- the demand people place on the natural world -- was 25 percent greater than the planet's annual ability to provide everything from food to energy and recycle all human waste in 2003.

In the previous report, the 2001 overshoot was 21 percent.

"On current projections humanity, will be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050 -- if those resources have not run out by then," the latest report said.

"People are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources."

RISING POPULATION

"Humanity's footprint has more than tripled between 1961 and 2003," it said. Consumption has outpaced a surge in the world's population, to 6.5 billion from 3 billion in 1960. U.N. projections show a surge to 9 billion people around 2050.

It said that the footprint from use of fossil fuels, whose heat-trapping emissions are widely blamed for pushing up world temperatures, was the fastest-growing cause of strain.

Leape said China, home to a fifth of the world's population and whose economy is booming, was making the right move in pledging to reduce its energy consumption by 20 percent over the next five years.

"Much will depend on the decisions made by China, India and other rapidly developing countries," he added.

The WWF report also said that an index tracking 1,300 vetebrate species -- birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals -- showed that populations had fallen for most by about 30 percent because of factors including a loss of habitats to farms.

Among species most under pressure included the swordfish and the South African Cape vulture. Those bucking the trend included rising populations of the Javan rhinoceros and the northern hairy-nosed wombat in Australia.



The Power of Your Voice Persona

In the speech applications world, “persona” means the tone, words and personality associated with an application’s recorded voice. The equivalent of “look and feel” in visual design, a voice persona is central to how customers perceive your brand when they interact with your call center’s speech-enabled self-service solution.
Create the right persona and you can dramatically increase customer acceptance and the effectiveness of your speech IVR solution. Expect gains in key customer satisfaction, cost reduction and sales metrics.

So how do you make a voice persona that works?
Not everyone does this well, so you have a chance to gain a powerful advantage with customers. To give your speech IVR a distinctive and attractive persona, keep these steps in mind:

  • Know what your brand stands for. Are you all about leading-edge technology? Are you the friendly brand? Home of discounts? Remember: be true, unique and excellent.
  •  Identify your audience. There is no “one size fits all” persona. Support personas should be different from sales personas, for example. You want to understand your customers and segments.
  • Test your personas. The design of a “voice user interface,” including a persona, benefits greatly from fine-tuning. You can quickly learn what customers like and what works best.
Finally, there is a huge different between mediocre and great speech IVR solutions. Be sure to talk with a speech applications specialist to learn how the right voice persona can empower your busines
Press Release Source: Funambol

Funambol and OpenMoko Partner to Make World's
First Integrated Open Source Mobile Communications Platform a Reality

Tuesday November 7, 2006   1:44 pm ET

Funambol to Deliver Push Email and Mobile Applications on
OpenMoko's Open Source Mobile Communications Platform

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ --
Funambol, the mobile open source software company,
today announced it has been chosen to power mobile applications
 for OpenMoko, the world's first integrated open mobile
communications platform. Funambol is the recognized
leading open source mobile software for delivering
mobile applications and services such as mobile email.
The announcement of the OpenMoko mobile communications
platform coincides with the unveiling of FIC's Neo1973 smartphone, which utilizes the full OpenMoko platform. OpenMoko aims to deliver a completely open, mobile communications platform by working with a community of open source developers. The project will give mobile developers a fully open source software stack from the operating system to middleware, applications and protocols. Users will get a high quality smartphone that they can easily customize by installing only the applications they desire, eliminating the need to upgrade their device every 12-18 months.

"The largest mobile open source project in the world has just joined with the largest open design manufacturer in the world to deliver on the promise of a fully open mobile phone for the mass market. We're looking forward to working with OpenMoko and the folks from FIC on this trailblazing project," said Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol. "The time for high quality open smartphones to deliver user-demanded applications is upon us. FIC's Neo1973 will accelerate opportunities for carriers to increase profits by effectively delivering on consumer demand for mobile applications and services on mobile handsets."

The Funambol software will allow OpenMoko-based phones to wirelessly synchronize mobile applications and content, starting with PIM (contacts, calendars, etc.) and push email delivery, to synchronization of photos, video, ringtones, music and more. Funambol is based on the open standard SyncML and provides a platform that delivers mobile applications and data regardless of operating system or development environment.

"For the first time, the mobile ecosystem will be as open as the PC, and mobile applications equally as diverse and more easily accessible," said Sean Moss-Pultz, initiator of OpenMoko and Product Manager of FIC's Mobile Communication Business Unit. "Ringtones are already a multi-billion dollar market. We think downloading mobile applications on an open platform will be even bigger."

"With any mobile phone, the application platform is critical because it directly impacts its quality, cost and ease-of-use. We chose Funambol because it is the most widely used mobile open source project in the world," said David Huang, COO of FIC. "By partnering with Funambol to provide the synchronization engine for OpenMoko, developers will flock to the project and ultimately, users will receive what they have been demanding from their mobile phones."

Since Funambol's preview release earlier this year, the number of Funambol software downloads has more than doubled to 700,000, reflecting pent-up demand for mass market mobile applications. The open source software is being downloaded by a burgeoning community of developers who are testing it on a wide range of mobile devices all over the world. Mobile operators around the world are deploying the Funambol Carrier Edition in their networks. It is the natural application platform for OpenMoko since it helps carriers reach the largely untapped market for consumer push email.

About Funambol

Funambol is the mobile open source company. Funambol's Mobile Application Server offers "push" email, multimaster PIM synchronization, and management facilities for mobile devices. Funambol (formerly known as Sync4j) is an open source development platform for mobile applications that has been downloaded more than any other wireless middleware product -- more than 700,000 times. The commercial version has been deployed at wireless carriers, Fortune 100 enterprises, hardware OEMs/ODMs and ISVs including customers such as Computer Associates. Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, California with a development center in Italy. See www.funambol.com.

    Editorial Contacts
Jennifer Cloer Mike Maney
Page One PR for Funambol Page One PR for Funambol
503-547-9451 215-345-7096
jennifer@pageonepr.com mike@pageonepr.com.

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mSpot Movies is available on the following Sprint PCS handsets:

Samsung: MM-A800, MM-A880 and IP-A790

Sanyo: MM-5600, MM-7400 and MM-8300

LG: MM-535

To get mSpot Movies directly from your phone:

  1. Select MEDIA PLAYER from the main menu on your Sprint PCS phone.
  2. Select the "Movies & Shorts" category.
  3. Select the "mSpot Movies" from the “Available Channels” menu.
  4. Using the keys on your phone, follow the prompts to preview and purchase access to the mSpot Movies.

mSpot Movies will now appear in the MY CHANNELS section of your Media Player menu.

 

Sprint Movies is available on the following Sprint PCS handsets:

Samsung: A790, A800, A880, A940, A920, A900, A960, A980

Sanyo: 7400, 5600, 8300, 9000, 7500

LG: 535, 550

From your non-multimedia phone, here's how you can get sprint Movies:

  1. Select APPLICATIONS from the main menu on your Sprint PCS phone.
  2. Select the "Music, Entertainment, Astrology, Comics" category.
  3. Select the "Entertainment" category.
  4. Select "Movies, TV, Celebs" and follow the easy prompts to preview and purchase SPrint Movies.
Sprint Movies will now appear in MY CHANNELS or APPLICATIONS section in your Sprint PCS main menu.

"Sprint Movies allows our customers to be entertained on the one device that they always carry with them and during times when watching a movie at a theater or on a home entertainment system isn't possible," said Alana Muller, director, entertainment product marketing, Sprint



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 According to http://www.accustreamresearch.com
Report:
Music Videos Most-Viewed Streaming Media in 2004

 Music videos accounted for the largest share of the
overall streaming video market in the first half of this year, representing 33.6% of the 5.6 billion streams served through June, according to a  report from Monterey-based AccuStream iMedia Research. The next most popular content category was news and information, with sites like  CNN.com, CBSNews.com and Weather.com drawing 18.2% of the market, followed by sports with 15.6% share. Categories drawing smaller audiences included movies, general entertainment and Internet TV


MOBILETRAX  EXPO
Want to learn about  mobile computing and communications devices?
Learn from
J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D.
Principal, MobileTrax
He says..PAN to LAN to MAN to WAN

"The acronyms here are defined as follows:PAN = Persona Area Networking – covers short ranges of a few feet with different PAN technologies providing little to tremendous amounts of throughput. 

  • LAN = Local Area Networking – covers from a few feet up to around 300 feet or 100 meters with throughput starting at a few megabits per second up to hundreds of megabits per second.
  • MAN = Metropolitan Area Networking – covers from a half a mile up to 5 miles, typically meshed together to form larger areas with significant throughput. 
  • WAN = Wide Area Networking – covers a few thousand feet up to 10-15 miles with less throughput than a MAN but still adequate for most data communications.
Generally speaking, the different area networking standards can be utilized over different but overlapping distances.  And, different wireless technologies have a range of throughput capabilities from a low rate of few bits a second to others that go all the way up to many megabits a second.  Of course, higher throughput technologies generally take more bandwidth, much like a highway that has more lanes to provide more throughput of vehicles traveling on the road. 

I put together the following diagram to help show where all the technologies fit when plotted on the two most important variables: range vs. throughput.


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NewsForge
OSDN
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PHP and MySQL tips and tutorials:
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A great place to learn about blogging is

The Microcontent News Blogging Software Roundup

Upon reflection, there are actually two distinct types of software that have a claim to the word "weblog": Weblog Publishing: This software lets users generate and publish static webpages that aren't personalized for each user, a cheap way to serve a lot of pages.  Blogger and Movable Type both fall in this category. Weblog Community: This software automatically generates personalized dynamic webpages on the fly, which works better for community features like comments and moderation.  Slash, pMachine, and LiveJournal fall into this category.

Audio + Picture + Text Blog
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Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world. This complaint follows a common pattern we've seen with MUDs, BBSes, and online communities like Echo and the WELL. A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone gets to be heard. Some core group seems more connected than the rest of us, and so on.  More on topic


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http://www.uspto.gov/

PATENTS DECLARED INVALID BY THE PTO OR THE COURTS
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Video Lab 3.0 DVD Rom

I Tunes Free Play

Final Cut Pro

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The steel-hulled sailing ship Odyssey has been dredging up some dark secrets about mankind's damaging impact on the oceans.
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Over The Rainbow

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?


How to Make Really 'Big Money'


So take a moment: review Shilling's 11 "time-tested" ways to make "big money." Look closely and you may see evidence of a bubble growing in these 11 quite diverse strategies for making really big money off the backs of many naïve Americans:

  • 1. Government subsidies. Uncle Sam often guarantees big bucks while Main Street taxpayers pick up the tab; for example, drugs, energy and agriculture sectors.


  • 2. Big fat inheritances. The super rich are the ones fighting to eliminate the so-called death tax, so they can hoard more money, pass along a bigger share, keep it in the family.


  • 3. Little equity, lots of debt. Leverage works magic. It worked for condo-flippers. Now the little guys are having problems. But with $640 billion in subprime deals last year, insiders made lots of money in executive salaries, bonuses, commissions.


  • 4. Nonfinancial leverage. Think of all that talent in television, movies, music and athletics. Oprah leverages Dr. Phil. Gore leverages Oscar worldwide. "American Idol" leverages millions of wannabes. Even billable time with lawyers, says Shilling, where name partners pay associates $75 an hour and charge clients $350 an hour.


  • 5. 'Next big thing.' Invent something, but best not to be the first one in. My first computer was a Kaypro 25 years ago. I remember when Prodigy was bigger than AOL. Shilling says: "Who ever heard of Seattle Computer Works, Chux or Carterphone?"


  • 6. Small slices of very big pies. Watch the deal-makers in investment banks, private-equity managers, mortgage lenders, CEOs, commercial banks and fast-food franchises. Imagine getting a mere 0.1% finder's fee (or better yet, a 0.1% annual "management" fee) in the $45 billion Texas Power Company deal! Or maybe the average $2.4 million salary paid today's CEOs, plus options and bonuses. And you can even do a crappy job and get fired, like the Home Depot boss, and still get severance of $240 million.


  • 7. Cartels and monopolies. Easy money when they have control over price and supply. Get in cahoots with politicians and secure government protections through patents and regulation. Crude oil is the classic, also steel, utilities and cable TV.


  • 8. Sell the sizzle, not the steak. P.T. Barnum was right, there is an endless supply of suckers looking for the "big money," and ripe for the pickings. We'll buy anything: Quick-buck deals from Nigerian con men, financial newsletters promising hot tips, vitamins that prevent aging, secret cancer cures and, oh yes, how-to-get-rich-quick books.


  • 9. Feed the addict's habit. We're a nation of addicts, "sex, nicotine, caffeine, booze, drugs, cosmetics and lavish clothes," says Shilling, "as well as small luxuries like greeting cards and fancy coffee." Play on weaknesses. Tobacco agreed to a $206 billion settlement then jacked up the prices. Notice all the new high-caffeine drinks. Or sell $3.60 lattes that cost 60 cents to make. Addicts are easy pickings in America.


  • 10. Supply picks and shovels. Who made money in the California Gold Rush? Not the prospectors. Today's new prospectors include millions of naïve investors. Today's suppliers are "stock brokers, asset managers, stock market-oriented TV and radio, real estate brokers, mortgage lenders and corn-farming equipment makers."


  • 11. Get paid with "other people's money." Example: That desperate CEO who needs legitimacy hires consultants to justify the sale of his company, so he can get a huge severance package. "Winners include business consultants, corporate defense lawyers and soft commission dollar recipients." Shilling discusses one of his assignments; I saw this happen when I was at Morgan Stanley, lots of money for little risk.


  • Two kinds of risk folks: Rich guys take very little risk in a $45 billion private equity buy-out. Nothing to lose. But the overextended little guy with an ARM on his $450,000 home took a huge risk and may lose everything. This gap is not just an income gap as Shilling points out, it's a risk gap. The rich get the equities, the rest get the liabilities.

    Warning: It's blowing a new kind of bubble, and it's getting bigger.


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