Simplify Media - Connect Your Music

Simplify Media - Connect Your Music

I am sharing this because it works across platforms from pc, mac, linux and iphone, and because I am using it.

I have SM installed on a computer at my mother's house where I had some music and didn't want to bother moving it to computers at my house. Now, I can just open rhythmbox in my Ubuntu and play it right off that box in my mother's house miles away.

Eric Standlee

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No more worrying about your contacts' info. From now on, let them do it for you. By changing their information in UNYK.com, you address book will be automatically updated. By changing your information in UNYK.com, their address book will be automatically updated.

It's so simple and it's free… Already 10 million users.

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Hello, Finally, a smart and simple way to manage your contacts! With UNYK, I put all my contacts together in one address book that is automatically updated. One of my contacts changes his or her information at UNYK.com: My address book is updated. I change information at UNYK.com: My contacts' address books are updated. Simple, but life-changing! Can I add you as one of my contacts? To accept, click here! You too can create your own smart address book.

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Fwd: Obamanomics - Basic Concept: testing it in practical application

A good friend sent this to me.

Eric Standlee

Obamanomics in the real world

 

Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign the read "Vote Obama, I need the money." I laughed.

Once in the restaurant my server had on a "Obama 08" tie, again I laughed--just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need--the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

May have to try this next time I'm out on the town. (And be packing I might add.)

Packing for Austin Trip, ping me if you want to meet.

[FeedBurner] A Flurry of Featurettes

Gang, more features that you should know about at feedburner.com which  make our feeds work even harder for us.  If you aren't using them, you ought to be. 

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BurnThisRSS2/~3/36154730/a_flurry_of_featurettes.php

As though they were still on the road to Grandma Frances' house, stuck in the back bench seat between a bunch of bullying databases and a self-absorbed older web server, FeedBurner's feature set sometimes wants to cry out, "will you stop touching me!" Alas, we continue to fuss over our constantly evolving publisher-driven offering — it can always get better. We'll call this latest round of improvements "featurettes" since they are mostly enhancements to the existing services you know and seem to like. Here is the rundown:

PingShot, now even more Ping-tacular
Last Thursday, Google launched a ping server in support of their blog search, and our busy engineers wasted no time incorporating it into our PingShot notification service. For those of you who were napping during PingShot class, here's a quick refresher. If you want ensure that Google Blog Search is indexing your content in real-time, activate the free PingShot service with a few simple clicks.

A few more recently-added PingShot-able services include Blogblogs, a search engine and social media platform for Brazilian blogs which is getting a bit of buzz as well as FeedBlitz, the email service. To activate and customize PingShot to your liking, just log in, select your feed, go to the "Publicize" tab and click the "PingShot" link in the left column.

FeedBurner Email — attract more subscriptions (and look fabulous doing it)
Never again miss an opportunity to promote email subscription. If you're using FeedBurner Email + BrowserFriendly, you now have an additional option for subscription. Behold the shiny new link in our feed.

This new link-to-email functionality makes FeedBurner Email much more versatile. Add this link to your MySpace profile, your Wordpress.com blog or your email signature, etc. Promoting subscription to your feed is super simple with FeedBurner Email. Grab the code from the "Publicize" tab.

In other email-related news: formatting in Gmail involves some additional element-level style sheet poetry, so the design team held a CSS Slam and voila. Now, FeedBurner Email looks pretty when viewed in Gmail.

New and Improved FeedFlare
The catalog of developer-inspired FeedFlare from around the world continues to grow. There are static FeedFlares, dynamic FeedFlares and FeedFlares in foreign languages. Among the list of dynamic entrants (FeedFlares that reflect real-time information) are:

Scape This. Example: Vote at Netscape. 231 votes, 548 comments

Technorati Cosmos Links. Example: Technorati: 8 links to this item

Feed Circulation. Example: This feed has N subscribers.

Check out the full catalog (yes, this page is overdue for a touchup). If you don't see a FeedFlare that suits your fancy, build your own.

So the road trip continues, whether the feature set likes it or not.

Start Blogging with Blogger

So you have always wanted to know how to have your own blog, huh? Well, I am going to start by teaching you how to start a blogger.com blog just like this one.

Step 1:

• Go to www.blogger.com
• Click the orange arrow to create your blog.

Step 2:

• Follow the directions to create your account

Step 3:

• Name your blog
• Verify you are a human being

Step 4:

• Choose a template

Step 5:

• Your blog is created
• Click the orange button to create your first post

Step 6:

• Put anything for your first post since you can always edit it and delete it later.

Step 7:

• Go to the address you created in step 3
• View you blog

Folks there is much more to know about blogs than just creating one so stick around for more information as I help you understand:

• what to and what not to blog about
• how to generate traffic
• how to dominate your online presence with blogs
• and how to manage your subscribers and their subscription experience.

Keep a sharp lookout for my soon-to-be-published book!

Eric Standlee is a self titled "Recovering Geek" who is on-purpose when he is helping others. If he didn't have to pay bills, he'd rather help everyone for free. He believes in what he has called since 2003 or early the end of the shrink-wrapped era. That means that people will stop buying shrink-wrapped software and instead pay experts to get exactly what they want. He is also a self-titled Marketplace Minister who loves to share how others can take up that cross.

Welcome to our new blog

This blog will focus on:

• starting your first blog
• starting other blogs with other services
• good blogging practices
• other online pressence sites which will help you dominate your keywords in natural searches

Come back soon for more on these subjects or subscribe by email on the sidebar and you won't have to come back at all.

Look for podcasts and a book to come soon.