No need to remember that song on Radio?

NABB IT.

Do you listen to the Radio? Ever wish you could remember the name and perform of that song. There is a new application that will answer your questions about the songs playing on the radio, in real time. That is cool. Grab Nabbit, Nabbit is a application for your phone. You can add your favorite Radio stations via Nabbit, you are all set.

The next time an artist or song comes on the radio check Nabbit and get title and lyrics. With your phone you will able to check a song by sending a text message “nabb” along with the call letters of the radio staion. The Nabb software will get you the info on the song. That is cool I would definitly use this service. Rock On.

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WordCamp in Birmingham Alabama

When: September 27 & 28, 2008

There is going to be the first WordCamp in Birmingham on Sepember 27 and 28, they are having at Samford University.  This would be a good time to catch up with what is going on with WordPress 2.7 and meet local and Southeastern bloggers during the weekend. The site also says it is having barbecue.

You will be with WordPress users from all over
including bloggers, developers, enthusiasts,  podcasters and designers. Hopefully I could learn more about WordPress and pick up some new WordPress SEO Tips.

The quest for free audio books

Children have one of the best enviroment for learn in the history of the world.  You can read a book, listen to a book or even watch the book in a form of a movie. This is pretty cool when you think of it with those options. Libraries provide a great many books in hardback and audio. The movie part is if the book is made into a movie. I know do not have time to read books but I can listen. If your library does not carry the audio books you want, which make them free audio books to you, audio books can get expensive to purchase. The minimum price would be starting at $30 dollars. The question I have is why are audio books more expensive that movies, the only expense you have is paying the reader and recording studio.  But you can buy a copy of a movie that cost $200 million dollars to make for less that $20 dollars. Go figure. I am more along lines of offering audio books for free with paid commercials, just like TV.  What do you think? If not then is is the library for me.

Yahoo and iPhone. What?

Yahoo has announced that is will have its own online iPhone search, that will let you search the Internet with the functionality of Search Assist and SearchMonkey as extras. This is Yahoo’s latests adventure to enable search for the iPhone that will reduce the amount of time it takes to search for things on the Internet. Cool, I always like fast. This Yahoo/iPhone app allows to enjoy using the Yahoo applications you currently use on your computer desktop.

Yahoo iPhone app offers support for Search Assist. Search Assist completes your queries before you have finished typing them. You can even port you Yahoo modules to iPhone from the Yahoo site. It keeps getting better. As part of the new Yahoo iPhone application usage will be movie showtimes, weather and Flickr. This will get fun as Yahoo and Google compete for iPhone dominence.

Learning about quality digital cameras like the hp digital camera or the kodak digital camera in a short time is next to impossible especially with a new digital camera coming up every minute and invention like pocket and mini digital camera too.

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Hulu breaks the 100+ million vids

Hulu, the joint video website venture from NBC Universal and News Corp has their Hulu.com video website flying high with over 105 million streamed videos last month. That is alot of watching. How many hours is that, talk about tv overload.  The one thing I like about Hulu is it hosts high-quality free streaming movies, TV shows and clips, available to watch when you are. I am glad they are keeping it free.

Now Hulu has signed a deal to run $50 million dollars of advertising revenue on their site. The ads will be from other NBC and News Corp properties, also advertising was purchased from other outside media outlets.  Maybe I need to ad videos to get on the traffic gravy train.

Sometimes Non-Digital Marketing makes Sense

One of my on-going projects is a screen room kit do-it-yourself business.  It’s website generates leads that inturn generates sales.  I have been marketing HomeLivingSpaces.com on the internet for several years now, getting about 500 screen room kit leads a year. That is pretty good.  This type of business makes sense to  marketing in the non-digital marketing world.  Regular marketing works well when screen room kits are advertised in newsprint, magazines, billboards, signs and magnet signs on side of trucks or cars.  Also flyers can generate leads of this type of business.  To get the most leads we have started using alot of the non-digital marketing.  In business it not how you drive it is how you arrive. If the lead if from a digital source or a non-digital source does not matter, what matter is getting the sale.

Non-Digital Marketing still works, but do all to get the maximum amount of leads

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on YouTube

Well All most. A new channel at YouTube will be dedicated just for Olympic events.

Next week is the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Olympic games will start on August 8 and run though the 24. Guess What? The Beijing Olympic Games, will be on YouTube, but only for 77 territories where digital rights have not been sold. Does that mean Montevallo?. Or digital rights that have acquired on a non-exclusive basis. Sounds like the Olympic Games Committee are pretty good business folks.

The YouTube coverage will mostly be only available in the Africa, Asia and the Middle East Areas. All YouTube Olympic coverage will include daily clips, highlights with hour Olympic news on competitions. If you are outside the 77 chosen territories you will be blocked from seeing the clips through a technology called “geo-blocking.”

I have tested it in Montevallo you are blocked.

NPR releases 13 years of its history

Something real cool is that NPR is giving out access to 13 years of its radio and broadcasting history for developers to use news, talk and entertainment program to cronicle the widely popular radio station. Now pretty soon I might be able to do a radio search from a database like search and find information that I want from the the National Public Radio outfit. Two of my biggest hobbies is history and radio. We might even see and hear some of it on YouTube.  Playing video of radio. hmmmmmm. Anyway I can see more and more of broadcast media doing the same with its old broad casts, might make a few extra dollars of advertising along the way.

Some of you my know is that National Public Radio-NPR is a distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. NPR is a privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization. They will take your donations, please. I sill listen as much as I can they do come up with some interesting info.