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Windy City Rails 2008 - Montage

Matt Polito — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:22:31 +0000

I just threw this together with some footage I had from the WindyCityRails conference. There is no sound because I couldn’t decide what to lay over the video… but it’s better than nothing.

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Too Many Choices

Matt Polito — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:50:14 +0000

Recently my wife and I were given the opportunity to go out and get a new TV. This has proved to be a more daunting task than I first thought. We however have narrowed our selection down. This is what we’re looking at… please chime in with your thoughts to help us out!

Sony KDL-52XBR6

Samsung 52A650

I personaly love the Samsung, but it has a high glare and I know it will drive my wife nuts! There is one more option as well. The LG 52inch Scarlet. I was not able to find any videos with it so that’s why it is not featured here.

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ChicagoRuby.org - Mobtropolis Presentation

Matt Polito — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:11:35 +0000

UPDATE: New version of Mobtropolis video now available!

Alrighty, I recently finished the video presentation from last months Ruby Meetup. After playing around with many different video services, I have decided to upload to Viddler.

Also, as you can see the video quality is not the best. Do any of you have some words of wisdom on compression settings or anything like that to make my life a bit easier? O yeah, and if anyone knows how to do that split screen action like Rails Envy has recently done… I’d like to know about that too.

And now… here is Wil Chung speaking about his social experiment, Mobtropolis.

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Does crowd sourcing help the average guy solve problems?

Matt Polito — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:48:21 +0000

So this is my experiment. I will add this post to Digg to see if it will have any effect on users to get not only ‘dugg’ but to see if someone actually will go and find a better video than what I have already seen.

I just watched this video of Merlin Mann, which I assume is from SXSW 2008. It would be fantastic to get a better copy with maybe less of the audience noise that’s keeping you from actually hearing the presentation. So lemmings… go forth and find me a better video! Um.. I mean please. Help me :-)

UPDATE: Apparently not! :-( At least for this article. It gained absolutely no diggs or any sort of traffic. O, well. So much for that experiment.Similar Posts:

In Real Life… Solid Snake

Matt Polito — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:27:52 +0000

Hmm… guess I can’t post the video here! You’ll have check it out at their site.

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Bill Gates last day at Microsoft - CES 2008

Matt Polito — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:51:53 +0000

This is an update to yesterday’s post. Seems that Microsoft took their own video down. This one is not as high of a quality but hey, at least it works.

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Bill Gates retirement video from CES

Matt Polito — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:06:22 +0000

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gPhone? or something better?

Matt Polito — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:11:57 +0000

Today comes the long awaited announcement of the now infamous gPho….wha?… there was no gPhone announced today! Turns out it wasn’t a phone at all, well I guess it depends on how you look at it.

This morning Google along with many other partners announced the Open Handset Alliance. What is this you say? Basically it’s a bunch of companies banding together to stop the insanity that is today’s mobile phone. The goal so far is to make your mobile handset work the way you think it should. The alliance consists of partners such Google (of course), Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC, T-Mobile and many others apparently totalling 30 at this point.

Android is the real key here as it’s basically an open framework consisting of an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. This is a really exciting time for mobile phones. Essentially what I’ve always dreamed would happen. The only part I’m afraid of is that industry leaders have gotten behind large initiatives before and have still failed. Plus there is a ‘promotional’ video available that has got me a little confused. Are they using these little kids to explain the concept because it’s a no-brainer and should have been done already, or that it should all these companies are playing ‘nice’ together, or how about these are the kids that are actually going to be able to use this stuff by the time it comes out. Hopefully not the last option… plus they’ve said there will be an SDK sometime next week and handsets based on Android by second quarter 2008.

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