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+They say the future of the web is in web services and if [Amazon][1] is any indicator they're right. Amazon has been working overtime to position itself as the leading provider of web services for a new generation of companies looking to ex

You probably think of Amazon as a store, but Amazon would like to change that impression. Today's Business Week has a long article entitled *[Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet][2]* that focuses on Amazon's attempt to transform from an e-commerce giant to a software company. 

One of the big problems with e-commerce packages is that they're either too customized or not customizable enough. Amazon's strength lies in the fact that Amazon, as an article on [Web Services Journal][3] puts it, "eats it's own dog food." 

To solve this problem of the gap between what a programmer thinks is necessary in a web service and what a business actually wants, Amazon effectively forked itself into components. As it set about developing web services for internal use, Amazon became a consumer of its own services. The feedback that happened internally at Amazon has led to a package of web services that take some remarkably complex engineering problems and wrap them up in easy to use APIs. That Amazon has turned around and started offering various web service APIs to the world at large, is indicative of it's transformation from online store to online service provider.

And the services that Amazon is now slowly releasing are in fact the same tools it uses to power it's own e-commerce offerings.

From an engineer point of view what makes Amazon's offerings, for instance the S3 storage service, compelling is that the services are completely decoupled from each other. If a small business wants to use S3 to store data but doesn't want any other service from Amazon and in fact wants to use a competing service for the other areas of their business, that's fine. The S3 service has no lock-in with anything else. Amazon has essentially just taken the core principles of Object Oriented Programming and scaled them to encompass whole web services.

While this is a somewhat technical point that may be lost on many observers, for savvy web 2.0 startups this means they aren't entangled in a spider web of interconnected components. It also means Amazon's services scale well. Because of the loose coupling between them, Amazon makes it easy to add new services as a company grows or to discard services that are no longer needed.

It might sound too simple to be remarkable, but Amazon's greatest strength in the web services game may be that it has taken to heart an old engineering quip, do one thing and do it well. In Amazon's case this means have each individual part do one thing and do it well. Doing one thing well is far often more valuable to businesses than a huge unwieldy service that attempts to do everything and ends up doing nothing very well.

But as the Business Week article points out, Wall Street is still scratching it's head trying to figure out where the money is. Analysts seem so far skeptical of a model that takes e-commerce necessities like search, storage, lookup and management of data and turns them into pay-per-use services.

And In some respects Wall Street is right, the target market here is small and medium size businesses, larger companies may well stay with in-house solutions. Is Amazon betting on the long tail effect for revenue? That remains to be seen, but it is worth noting that some big players have already taken advantage of Amazon's services, most notably Microsoft which uses the Elastic Compute Cloud service to help speed software downloads.

Amazon will very likely be rolling out some more services and an overview of it's strategy at next week's Web 2.0 Conference. 

Monkey Bites coverage of the Web 2.0 Conference begins on Wednesday, be sure to check here for all the latest news.

[1]: http://Amazon.com/ "Amazon.com"
[2]: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_46/b4009001.htm "Business Week"
[3]: http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/262024.htm "Web Services Journal"
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+Hot on the heels of its [YouTube waffling][1], Comedy Central has announced it will be revamping its online video distribution.

According to [The Hollywood Reporter][2], the new site plans on "offering a syndication capability allowing users to grab and embed their favorite clips for posting on their own Web pages."

Hmm. That sounds like another site I've heard of.

The new site will also feature clips in Flash for better cross-platform capability (the current site shows .wmv movies).

The good news is that the Comedy Central website has no where to go but up. The current site is a disaster, the kind of site the haunts Jakob Nielsen's darkest nightmares

In researching this post, the current site managed to crash Safari three times and in Firefox produced a bizarre flickering effect and overlaid content on top of the menus. Hopefully these and myriad of other issues will be addressed in the revamping. 

It's nice to see Comedy Central trying to improve their site and reaching out to viewers wanting online content, but I can't help thinking that a partnership with YouTube might make more sense. I manage to watch The Daily Show almost every day and until today I'd never actually been to the Comedy Central site. I suspect that I am not alone in this. 

YouTube already offers a distribution network exactly like what Comedy Central claims they are building, why not use it? Comedy Central may be a destination channel on the dial, but that doesn't translate to a destination website, which is something corporate media companies fail to understand. The audience doesn't want all their Comedy Central video content in one place, they want *all* their video content in one place.

[Update: It would seem that the flickering effect I witnessed was actually due to an adblocking plugin. But hey, if you can't block the ads, what's the point in browsing the internet?]

[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/comedy_central_.html "Monkey Bites on CC and YouTube"
[2]: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3iBJfr5p%2BGfIe4f6SRiNPJ7w%3D%3D
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+[Evoca][1], a web service that allows you to share voice recordings, is now offering widgets for MySpace and blogs that allow you to receive audio comments on your pages.

With the "Evoca Browser Mic", you can let visitors post audio comments. The comments are private and accessible only by the site owner. To get your comments you need to login to your Evoca account. 

I suspect that the default private comments setting will change fairly soon as I think most people would be more interested in public audio comments.

There are currently plugins for TypePad, Wordpress and Blogger.

There are other services that have previously offered similar features, but none that I'm aware of offer the plugin support that Evoca gives.

Can't wait to hear the first audio spam comments 

[found via [Mashable][2]]

[1]: http://www.evoca.com/ "Evoca.com"
[2]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/03/evoca-launches-voice-comments-for-myspace-blogs/ "Mashable.com"
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+The Free Software Foundation announced today an new distribution of Linux that is made entirely of free software. Named [gNewSense][1], the new package was created by two Irish free software advocates, Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley.

The developers' goal was to create a GNU/Linux distribution where all sources, from the kernal itself to the applications in the system, were free and available to user.

Ted Teah, the FSF's software directory maintainer says, "with all the kernel firmware and restricted repositories removed, and the reliance on Ubuntu's proprietary distribution management tool gone, this distribution is the most advanced GNU/Linux distribution that has a commitment to be 100% free." 

The developers added that their aim is "to produce a fully free distribution, not to have as many features as possible."

I want to get behind this because I'm a big supporter of free software, but there seems to be something perverse about ditching features and therefore usefulness just to gain total freedom. What good is freedom if I can't use it? And I get the pun in the name, but I also can't help wondering if perhaps the FSF isn't becoming more of fringe "nuisance" than a viable "new sense." 


[1]: http://www.gnewsense.org "gNewSense"
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The morning reboot, brought to you by the miracle of coffee:

*	Apple is offering a [free 30-day trial][1] of their post-production photo tool, Aperture. The trial gives you an uncrippled version of Aperture, but it doesn't come with samples or tutorials and it expires 30 days after the first launch.

*	One of the first things I noticed about Firefox 2.0 was that it ditched the option to block 3rd part cookies. [Here's a thread in the MozillaZine Forums][2] that tells how to restore that setting.

*	CNet reports that Microsoft's failed MSN music site will soon be [redirecting to the Zune Marketplace Web][3].

*	Did you know the NSA uses Linux? Did you know you can [download their "security enhanced"][4] version?

*	And finally, there's an interesting (and long) [story on IEEE Spectrum][5] about a new project named Parakey, from Blake Ross the creator of Firefox.

[1]: http://www.apple.com/aperture/trial/
[2]: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=478545&sid=dc67fdf31128b1926968063cd7f6247f
[3]: http://news.com.com/MSN+Music+presses+mute+on+downloads/2100-1027_3-6132201.html
[4]: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/code/download0.cfm
[5]: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696
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+There's a whole host of travel related sites out there, I've looked at a few in past, but I found one today with an interesting twist. [Travelhiker][1] has all the usual trappings of travel networks, blogs, reviews, photos and more, but Travelhiker allows you to integrate your reviews with an AdSense account so you can earn money. 

Travelhiker is looking for people to write detailed city guides. Travelhiker calls this "[The Travelhiker Project][2]." Once you've signed up for an account you enter your Google Adsense ID and you'll get half the revenue generated by your page. It's a nice incentive to get people contributing and its always nice to get a little something for your writing. I don't think anyone is going to get rich, but in many places a little bit of money can go a long way.

The interesting thing about Travelhiker's program is there's really no need to be a traveller to take advantage of it. In fact hometown knowledge is usually better since you can offer inside information and cool hidden treasures for out-or-towners looking for things the guidebooks will miss.

Travelhiker has another cool feature that isn't new. There's a whole section of site devoted to helping you plan a trip and find people who might be interested in going with you. Some places can be overwhelming on your own (India comes to mind), and this way you can kind find other people interested in going to the same places you're headed.

Travelhiker is relatively new and doesn't have a huge user base yet, but I expect the site to grow. I should note that the site didn't work very well in Safari, but it was fine in Firefox.



[1]: http://travelhiker.com/index.php "Travelhiker.com"
[2]: http://travelhiker.com/about_travelguides.php

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+Microsoft has announced the availability of [Office Accounting Express 2007][1] -- for free. Office Accounting Express 2007 has been a publicly available beta for some time and garnered some good reviews for its integration with eBay and PayPal.

Microsoft claims it's aiming Office Accounting Express at eBay sellers and other home and small businesses, which probably accounts for the give away. Such users are unlikely to be willing to spend money on new software when they already have Excel and other programs.

While the basic software is free certain online premium services are also available for additional fees.

Office Accounting Express 2007 requires Windows XP, 2003 Server or Vista.

[1]: http://www.ideawins.com/ "Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007"
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+I first discovered [ma.gnolia][1] when I was trying to figure out the del.icio.us API. Since I wasn't terribly committed to del.icio.us at that point, I decided to investigate ma.gnolia and ended up liking it better that del.icio.us. Of course that's based on some purely subjective criteria and is in no way meant to slag del.icio.us.


Ma.gnolia works very similar to del.icio.us and offers almost all the same basic features but it adds a few more. Ma.gnolia allows you to rate your bookmarks using a 5 star rating system (very similar to NetFlix), and ma.gnolia allows you to cross post with del.icio.us so you can in effect use both at the same time.

Ma.gnolia also recently added a feature they call "roots." Roots is a javascript bookmarklet that you can save in your browser and when you're on a page, just click the bookmarklet and a javascript window will overlay the page and display how many ma.gnolia users have linked to that site and give their ratings and descriptions of the site.

I switched to ma.gnolia because of their backend API. I love online storage of bookmarks and I like the sharing aspect of all these services, but I also like to share bookmarks through my own site. Both del.icio.us and ma.gnolia offer programming APIs which allow you to connect and pull out bookmarks, but del.icio.us truncates the description field and ma.gnolia doesn't. 

This was the main reason I switched (though in fairness this was some time ago and it's possible that del.icio.us no longer does that). The ma.gnolia API is both deep and rich in methods allowing you to do just about anything you want with the data retreived.
Ma.gnolia also has an [API that mirrors the del.icio.us API][2] so that tools built for del.icio.us can also work with ma.gnolia.

Ma.gnolia has a very well designed user interface and makes nice use of AJAX without being bogged down in useless tricks. 




####The Low Down

**Pros**

*	Feature rich and actively developed
*	Screen captures and page cache
*	Excellent backend API


**Cons**

*	No folders for organization
*	The interface design is nice, but some may find it slower than del.icio.us



Previously reviewed:

[del.icio.us][3]

[1]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "Ma.gnolia.com"
[2]: http://ma.gnolia.com/blog/2006/08/23/the-mirrord-api "Ma.gnolia's del.icio.us API mirror"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html "Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us"
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+<img border="0" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/firefoxlogo_1.png" title="Firefoxlogo_1" alt="Firefoxlogo_1" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right; width: 133px; height: 133px;" />Every time there's a new build of Firefox, Neil Lee over at Beatnikpad compiles a bunch of [Mac optimized builds][2] for various different Mac processors (G4, G5 &amp; Intel). I picked up a copy of the MacTel version this weekend and I'm happy to report that it is indeed noticeably faster than the standard Firefox build.

Some people claim they can't tell the difference so don't expect miracles, but i've noticed that javascript seems to execute faster (making GMail much quicker) and the overall memory footprint seems smaller.

All of my Firefox plugins and add-ons work perfectly and updating them in one build also updates the other builds. I haven't tried running both versions at the same time since that seems like asking for trouble.

Swiftfox offers a similar set of [optimized builds for linux users][1], and further digging revealed that Mozilla has a [whole forum full of different optimized builds][3]

[1]: http://getswiftfox.com/ "Swiftfox optimized Firefox builds"
[2]: http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2006/10/26/firefox-20 "Beatnikpad Mac-optimized Firefox Builds"
[3]: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=42 "Third Party/Unofficial Firefox builds"
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+*	[YouTube removed all Comedy Central materials][5] from the site over the weekend. All Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips are gone, instead you'll now see a message stating "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation." All good things end when the suits arrive.

*	On a similar note, [MySpace is expected to announce a partnership with Gracenote][6] today. Gracenote will help MySpace "detect and block copyrighted music from being posted on MySpace member pages." [via [TechCrunch][7]]

*	The very first global [Internet Governance Forum][1] gets together starting today to discuss the future of the internet [via [LifeHacker][2]]

*	[Minglenow][8] is a new social networking site based around the club and bar scene, providing yet another excellent resource for stalkers. [via [Mashable][9]]

* The NBA kicks off its season this week and with that in mind here's a link to a set of [RSS feeds from the official NBA website][3]. [via [MicroPersuasion][4]]


[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6087174.stm "The BBC of the Internet Governance Forum"
[2]: http://www.lifehacker.com/ "LifeHacker"
[3]: http://www.nba.com/rss/index.html "NBA RSS feeds"
[4]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/10/sports_finds.html "MicroPersuatsion.com"
[5]: http://www.newscloud.com/read/75528 "YouTube Removes Comedy Central materials"
[6]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/29/myspace-moves-to-protect-copyright-holders/ "TechCrunch: MySpace Moves to Protect Copyright Holders"
[7]: http://www.techcrunch.com/ "TechCrunch"
[8]: http://minglenow.com/ "Minglenow.com"
[9]: http://mashable.com/2006/10/30/minglenow-launches-myspace-for-events-and-nightlife/
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+All the sites I've looked at for this review feature some sort of search capabilities, but none of them has extended their search abilities as far as [Wink][1]. In many ways Wink is much better at searching bookmarks than it is at storing them.

On the storage side, Wink offers many of the same features as del.icio.us and ma.gnolia, but focuses more on the search and discover aspects of social bookmarking. Wink offers a feature that allows you sync your del.icio.us bookmarks with your Wink account, making it easy to migrate from del.icio.us to Wink, or simply use both sites. That said, I couldn't get it to work for me. Clicking the "sync with del.icio.us" link opened an AJAXy window on top of the page, but never displayed anything else.

For adding bookmarks Wink provides the same sort of bookmarklet setup that other sites offer, just drag it to your toolbar and click it whenever you're on a page you want to save. Beware that Wink's bookmarklet opens in a popup window which some browsers may block. Of course if you know Javascript, you could change this behavior.

Wink links can be shared among fellow users by creating what Wink calls "collections." Collections are roughly analogous to what over sites call groups or subscriptions. Collections are tag-based and you can make new collections or join and contribute to existing ones.

In addition to the bookmarks users submit and store, Wink also scrapes tags from del.icio.us, Yahoo MyWeb, Flickr and other sites to provide search results based on those tags. What you end up with is a Google Search with a Wink tags search on top.

Wink's genius lies in a search results feature that it calls "PeopleRank." PeopleRank allows anyone to rate the quality of the results which Wink then stores and uses next time it serves up results for that search. In theory it could add a nice human element to all the search algorithms out there. Of course it could also lead to results slanted toward the preference of the heaviest Wink users, only time will tell.

Wink is interesting and I'll be keeping a closer eye on it since I think the "PeopleRank" concept has some merit, but on the whole there are better places to go for social bookmarking.


####The Low Down

**Pros**

*	Search Engine crawls other sites offering better listings
*	Can sync with del.icio.us
*	Search results rating system


**Cons**

*	Poor Documentation
*	JavaScript errors abound
*	No page cache


Previously reviewed:

[del.icio.us][3]
[ma.gnolia][4]

[1]: http://Wink.com/
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html "Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html "Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia"
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+<img alt="Wmv" title="Wmv" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/wmv.gif" border="0" style="float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;" />Here's a quick update on last week's post concerning [WMV support for Mac users][4]. I contacted Flip4Mac regarding the new WMV player and codecs and the answer is yes, they will support them when they are released. It also appears that the new WMPlayer will arrive sometime before the new codecs. From Flip4Mac:

>Yes, we work with Microsoft and do plan support for upcoming codecs as needed.  One common misperception is the new Windows Media Players.  The introduction of the player doesn't necessarily mean the introduction of new codecs (as in recent player introductions).  We currently support [the codecs listed on our website][1].

As for MPlayer, yes, it does support most WMV codecs. You can check [the complete list on the official website][2]. It also turns out you *can* use MPlayer to view movies in [Mozilla browsers][3]. I haven't tested mplayerplug-in on a Mac, but it claims to work on any *nix platform so it should be possible to use it on a Mac. Your mileage may vary.

As for DRM, Microsoft has thus far limited its DRM technology to the Windows platform so there is no way for Mac (or Linux) users to view Windows DRM protected movies, nor, based on reader comments, does there seem to be much demand for the ability to do so.

[1]: http://www.flip4mac.com/images_06/wmv_supported_codecs.jpg "Flip4Mac Codecs"
[2]: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html#vc "MPlayer official list of supported codecs"
[3]: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ "MPlayer Plugin"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/wmv_on_a_mac.html "The original MonkeyBites post"
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+In yesterday's coverage of iTune 7.0.2 I somehow overlooked the fact that Apple also added a Latino section to the iTunes Music store. In addition to a greatly improved catalog of Latino music, the new section features Spanish language movies and television shows from the popular Telemundo network.

Like most of the iTunes Music Store, the focus is on mainstream artists and at the moment the selection is a bit wanting (particularly in Brazilan Jazz) but hopefully that will improve in the future.

There is also a whole section of Spanish language podcasts, audio books and music videos. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any Spanish language movies at the moment.

Many of the artists now in the iTunes Latino Store were formerly listed under the "world" genre, but there are also new artists as well. It's nice to see Apple at least partially abandon what I've always considered the most meaningless of genres, "world," in favor of something that makes sense.
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Here's your morning reboot:

*	[Gmail for mobile devices][1] launched this morning. Prior to today, you could only access Gmail via a mobile browser. Requires a java-enabled phone and data plan.

*	[CNet reports that a denial-of-service bug has been found in Firefox 2.0][2]. According to the CNet report, "The vulnerability lies in the way the open-source browser handles JavaScript code."

*	Microsoft's [Zune.net][3] is now up and running. 

*	Utube, an American piping and tubes manufacturer, is [suing YouTube][4] seeking damages for bandwidth usage by millions of users seeking the video sharing network. See, the internet really is a bunch of tubes. [via [TechMeme][5]]



[1]: http://www.google.com/mobile/ "Gmail for mobile"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6131624.html?part=rss&tag=6131624&subj=news "CNet on a Firefox 2 bug"
[3]: http://www.zune.net "Zune.net"
[4]: http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6131594.html "UTube sue YouTube"
[5]: http://www.techmeme.com/ "Techmeme"
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+A Microsoft spokesperson says the planned release date for Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 is November 30.

Of course that announcement only applies to business customers, consumers will have to wait until January 30 2007 for the consumer versions. November 30th will also see the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 which works with the upgraded Outlook 2007.

Vista is the first major new release of the Windows operating system in over five years.

Vista has previously been announced and then pushed back a number of times, but with the beta release now in "release candidate" stage it seem likely that Microsoft will in fact deliver on their promise to ship Vista in 2006.
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+Yahoo launched new "lifestyle" site today called [Yahoo Food][1]. The new service offers recipes, videos, and how to lessons for what Yahoo refers to as "the everyday cook."

In a former life I ran a restaurant kitchen for five years and I have something of a fetish for online recipe collections. [Epicurious][2] has always been my favorite food destination on the web, but Yahoo's new offering looks nice and in fact includes recipes from the the Epicurious database. 

Yahoo Food has a sleek user interface with good search features to help you sift through thousands of recipes. You can search by ingredient, course, cuisine, dish, "taste," and more. I was intrigued by the taste search filter, I'm not aware any other recipe sites that let you search for recipes that "taste" "creamy" or "cheesy."

Like many other sites, all of Yahoo's recipes are user rated and you can leave comments, tips and suggestions for other cooks. Recipes can be shared via email and IM. If you sign in to your Yahoo account, Yahoo Food will show a list of your recently viewed articles, recipes and searches.

Yahoo Food is also integrated with Yahoo Answers, which will now highlight relevant questions about food, and Yahoo Local, which has dining guides, restaurant ratings and reviews from around the U.S.

As with so many food websites Yahoo Food focuses heavily on celebrity chefs and their branded recipes and product plugs. While it may be my own snobbishness nothing turns me off to a food site quicker than seeing a recipe from Rachel Ray on the front page (today we'll be making learning how to make *toast* in 23 seconds). 

But in spite of the inevitable celebrity chef emphasis, Yahoo Food is a very well done and comprehensive food site.

That said, I'd really like to see a true "social" site for food that doesn't rely on over-hyped celebrity chefs, but instead allows users to post their own recipes, videos and advice. I want a site that doesn't just pay lip service to the concept of the "everyday cook," but actually draws it's content from everyday cooks.

[1]: http://food.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Food"
[2]: http://www.epicurious.com/ "Epicurious"
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+[Yourminis][1], a new site from the folks that brought us [goowy.com][2], looks and behaves a whole lot like Apple's dashboard app. The chief difference being that yourminis is housed in your browser window.

Yourminis is a Flash-based web app that creates a homepage with a number of little widgets that pull in whatever web services you'd like to track. The default set includes a Google search widget, quote of the day, RSS feed reader, weather, YouTube videos, Flickr images and more.

I was always impressed with the UI of Goowy, which has to be one of the more impressive attempts to duplicate your desktop within a browser window, but the appeal of yourminis is kind of lost on me.

Is it just me or does it seem like lately we're living in some revenge of the portal movie? I've been playing with yourminis off and on for most of the day and the more I look at it the more I have flashbacks to Lyco's "homepage portals" of yesteryear. Of course yourminis is better looking, infinitely more functional and easier to use, but the concept is essentially the same.

Then again, I've never used Apple Dashboard app either. Maybe I'm just not a widget guy, if widgets and homepages are your thing, yourminis is certainly a very impressive rendering of the concept.

[1]: http://www.yourminis.com/ "yourminis.com"
[2]: http://www.goowy.com/ "goowy.com"
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+[Zamzar][1] is a new free online document converter service. Zamzar will convert your documents from one format to another through it's simple web-based interface. Currently Zamzar supports various formats in four categories, documents, images, video and audio. For complete details on what formats are supported [see Zamzar website][2].

A quick glance at my applications folder revealed five small, one-off programs on my whose sole purpose is to convert various document formats. It makes so much more sense to have a web service to take care of this process. 

Zamzar allows for multiple file conversions (provided all files are to and from the same formats) and will send and email with a link to your converted file(s).

I frequently have to send .doc files to clients and since I don't have an office program, this has always been quite a pain for me. Zamzar easily converted my plain text file into .doc format, eliminating the one headache of not having an office program.

Video and audio conversion will of course have some loss of quality when moving between compressed formats. I didn't tested those features, but Zamzar did successfully convert a cvs file to a MS Excel spreadsheet. 

Currently Zamzar has a size limit of 100mb, but frankly even uploading that over http is masochistic, I don't imagine there's too great of demand for bigger files. 

Thanks to [LifeHacker][3].

[1]: http://www.zamzar.com/ "Zamzar.com"
[2]: http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php "Zamzar conversion types"
[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/conversions/online-file-conversion-with-zamzar-211968.php "LifeHacker on Zamzar"
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+[Amarok][1], the linux music player is shipping a new version that integrates with an online store to sell DRM-free music. The store integration is through [Magnatune][3], an online record company whose motto is "we're not evil." At the moment Magnatune has a relatively small roster of artists compared to iTunes, but as more artists and consumers alike become fed up with draconian DRM restrictions, Magnatune's possiblities look good.

For those that aren't familiar with Amarok, it's somewhat like iTunes, but has additional features like integrated Wikipedia entries for bands, auto-discovery of newly added songs, lyrics download, and more. And yes it does sync with your iPod.

Amarok version 1.4.4 is a free download and requires the KDElibs.

OS X users interested in Amarok can install the package via Fink, though it's good to have some experience with the command line before attempting an install. There are [instructions on the Amarok Wiki][2].

[1]: http://amarok.kde.org/content/view/84/66/ "Amarok 1.4.4"
[2]: http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/On_OS_X "Install Amarok on OS X"
[3]: http://www.magnatune.com/ "Magnatune.com"
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+<img alt="Furllogo" title="Furllogo" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/furllogo.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />LookSmart's [Furl][1] is an old standby in the social bookmarking scene with a rich feature set, excellent export formats and a plethora of metadata options. To be honest, I had forgotten about Furl. Luckily for me, the savvy readers of this blog corrected my oversight.

Furl works according to the same principles that should be familiar by now if you're following this series. To aid in the collecting of bookmarks, Furl offers bookmarklets for your browser or, if you use IE or Firefox, you can download and install a toolbar which will give you access to your bookmarks without having to go to the site.

Sharing and searching features are on par with the field and, Furl caches bookmarked pages for you. Furl also allows you to export your archives, cached pages and all to a zip file for easy backup. All your bookmarks are available via RSS as well.

Furl offers tagging, though it refers to tags as "topics," and also adds the ability to save keywords. I'm not really clear on what the difference between "topics" and "keywords" is other than what the FAQ says: "the keywords you assign are search hints." But aren't tags search hints as well since I can search my bookmarks by tags?<img alt="Furladdnew" title="Furladdnew" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/furladdnew.jpg" border="0" style="float: left; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;"  />

Furl also allows you to save considerably more metadata than competing services. In fact the edit form is almost overwhelming, but thankfully you needn't provide any more than a url and title. For those that like to store more information about their bookmarks, this is the site for you.

Furl offers one thing I haven't found on other sites, the ability to leave comments on other people's bookmarks. Naturally Furl has privacy controls so if you don't want comments on your bookmarks, you can make the bookmark private, but comments allows people to stop by and say "hey, if you liked this you might like..." all without you having to lift a finger.

Furl also offers a number of export options above an beyond the ordinary HTML/XML formats that most of these sites use. With Furl you can export your bookmarks to some obscure formats like MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE, BibTeX, RIS/EndNote citations. Just to test this out I exported my del.icio.us bookmarks to HTML, imported those into Furl and then exported them again as BibTex and I am happy to report that it worked. This could be very handy for academics and other authors who frequently collect and quote online sources.

####The Low Down

**Pros**

*	Excellent wide range of export options
*	Browser toolbars available (IE and Firefox only)
*	Caches page and allows export of cached pages


**Cons**

*	Organizational options are limited
*	No thumbnails


<p>Previously Reviewed: <br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html" title="Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html" title="Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia">ma.gnolia</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html" title="Monkeybite's review of wink">Wink</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_3.html" title="Monkeybite's review of StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a></p>

[1]: http://www.furl.net/ "Furl.net"
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+*	[Google has acquired JotSpot][1] the online wiki service. JotSpot will be integrated into Google's existing suite of web-based applications. [via [Micro Persuasion][2]]
*	According to CNN, Yahoo may be trying to [acquire AOL][7]
*	[FairGame][3] will strip Apple-DRM protected iTunes Store purchases leaving you with an unprotected .mp3 file that can be used as you see fit. [via [BoingBoing][4]]
*	[FindMeOn][5] attempts to keep track of all the social networks you have joined. According to the site, "FindMeOn is a new way to assert and verify ownership over online elements , identities and personalities. We empower you to verifiably extend your true identity across social networks and blogs, essentially creating an ad-hoc social network out of everything you join." [via [LifeHacker][6]]


[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/spot-on.html "Google acquires JotSpot"
[2]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/10/google_buys_jot.html "Micro Persuasion"
[3]: http://seidai.50webs.com/Seidai%20Software.html "FairGame"
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/31/fairgame_cracks_itun.html "BoingBoing"
[5]: http://findmeon.com/ "FindMeOn.com"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/social-networking/findmeoncom-identity-aggregator-211211.php "LifeHacker"
[7]: http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/28/magazines/fortune/yahoo.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2006102810 "Yahoo acquiring AOL?"
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+*This is another installment in the Social Bookmarking Showdown*

As its name implies, StumbleUpon takes social bookmarking into the realm of randomness -- instead of searching, you stumble. Of course you can search too, and technically you could achieve the randomness of StumbleUpon with any of these sites, but StumbleUpon makes it easy and fun. The biggest downside to StumbleUpon is that it requires the installation of a toolbar which is only available for IE and Mozilla browsers.

Once you have the toolbar installed and your account set up, just click "Stumble!" and you'll be transported to a random page that fits your preferences. Your preferences are based in part on what categories you specify an interest in, and also what tags you use. You can change these settings at any time by visiting your profile page. You can also import tags from your del.icio.us account.

Of course you don't have to use the stumble button, you could just use StumbleUpon like any of the other sites we've looked at -- find a page you like, click the "I Like It" button in the toolbar and it's saved -- but after a few clicks of the Stumble button you'll probably find yourself hooked. You might even find that you start getting emails from your editor that read, "uh are you gonna post anything today...?" or maybe that's just me.

When you're using the stumble feature you can filter results by a number of categories like, video, photos, news, Wikipedia and more. Of course what sites fall in which categories is determined entirely by other users, but you always have the option to correct their mistakes.

StumbleUpon keeps track of the pages you view so if you decide later that you'd like to see a random site again, you can browse back through your history. 

Your saved bookmarks are sorted a number of ways, for instance you can view sites you found, sties you stumbled upon and liked, sites you didn't like and more. It's not exactly folders, but it is the best organizational tool out of the sites I've reviewed.

Like Wink, StumbleUpon puts additional emphasis on *using* bookmarks rather than simply storing and sharing them. Thanks to the simple and yet feature rich toolbar, StumbleUpon makes browsing fun again. Beware productivity drops.

####The Low Down

**Pros**

*	Fun, random way to browse
*	Can import del.icio.us tags
*	Good bookmark organization options


**Cons**

*	Requires toolbar (Mozilla and IE only)
*	No thumbnail or page cache
*	Highly addictive
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+[BlinkList][1] is another popular player in the social bookmarking scene. Started in June of last year, BlinkList has already gained quite a following. Indeed, if imitation is any indicator of popularity than BlinkList must be doing well since they had their entire [design ripped off][2] by a site calling itself wirefan. For shame wirefan, for shame.

Never mind the imitators, let's have a look at BlinkList.

Signup is painless and once you verify your account via a link BlinkList will send to your email address, you're ready to go. During the signup process BlinkList served up the usual bookmarklet for my browser toolbar, but unfortunately it didn't work in Safari. Switching to Firefox solved the problem. Your mileage may vary.

BlinkList allows you to import links from a browser, del.icio.us or Furl. Once you've got things set up and all your bookmarks imported, you can share them with other users via RSS, friendslists or email.

BlinkList has some nice options for those that want to display link or tags on their blog. BlinkList will give you Javascript widgets to show both links and tags, just cut-and-paste the provided code into your site, MySpace page or where ever you like.

BlinkList has a star ratings system like ma.gnolia, and BlinkList also allows you to mark links or tags as favorites. Favorites then show up at the top of your profile page so you can get to them quickly.

The standout feature for me though was BlinkList's ability to take any highlighted text on the screen and auto fill a bookmark's description field with the text. This is really nice for quickly getting snippets of descriptive text into your bookmarks.

BlinkList has a very intuitive interface and a nice clean design that makes it simple and pleasant to use. And as a sidenote I always like to see a company with a sense of humor, the folks behind BlinkList have a Ozzy the Labradoodle as their offical PR rep. 

####The Low Down

**Pros**

*	Can import a number of formats
*	Has bookmark thumbnails
*	autofill a description field


**Cons**

*	No backend API



<p>Previously Reviewed: <br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html" title="Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html" title="Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia">ma.gnolia</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html" title="Monkeybite's review of wink">Wink</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_3.html" title="Monkeybite's review of StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a></p>
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_4.html" title="Monkeybite's review of furl">Furl</a><br />


[1]: http://www.blinklist.com "BlinkList.com"
[2]: http://blog.mindvalley.com/2006/10/20/copyright-in-web20-blatant-code-theft-of-a-web-20-site/ "Wirefan steals BlinkList Design"
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+About six months ago a [couple of prominent][1] [mac users announced][2] they were leaving the platform and switching to [Ubuntu Linux][3]. Ever since then I've been curious about this Ubuntu Linux. I'm okay with OS X, but I do love a new toy and Ubuntu looks like a great new toy.

With a new version of Ubuntu announced recently I thought it was high time I installed Ubuntu and gave it a hands on trial.

My options are as follows, I could install Ubuntu under Parallels on a new MacBook or I could install the PPC version of Ubuntu natively on an old G3 iBook.

I would prefer to run Ubuntu without the virtualization of Parallels just so I know that any problems I might have are not connected to the virtual environment. But at the same time, a PPC G3 processor is pretty outdated and I don't know how Ubuntu performs on PPC chips, let alone ancient ones like my iBook.

If you have experience with either set up and can offer any tips or recommendations let me know in the comments section below. And *please* let's not let this degrade into an OS superiority contest. I like OS X, I like Windows and I want to like Ubuntu. Every operating system has its merits and weaknesses and none is better than the other, they're just different mmmkay?

[1]: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks "Mark Pilgrim switches to Ubuntu"
[2]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/29/mark_pilgrims_list_o.html "Corey Doctorow switching to Ubuntu"
[3]: http://www.ubuntu.com/ "Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings" 
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+After mentioning it in the morning reboot, I [downloaded and installed iTunes 7.0.2][1]. The update promises "stability and performance improvements" as well as support for the new 2nd generation iPod Shuffle, due to be release tomorrow.

I've never actually had any stability issues with iTunes, but I can say that the update does indeed address the performance issues that appeared with iTunes 7.0. Since upgrading to 7.0, iTunes had been almost unusable for me on a MacBook Core Duo. But the new update returns iTunes to its former snappy self. 

Before upgrading importing new music was one of those tasks that I would start and then head off for a cup of coffee while iTunes effectively locked up my computer until it was complete. The 7.0.2 update vastly improves importing times. Just to test it out I threw a large import of five new albums at once (I've been avoiding iTunes) and it handled it quite nicely. The gapless playback processing that used to hold things up, slipped by without me noticing its existence. I was able to create new playlists and interact with the UI while the songs imported, something that was largely impossible with earlier 7.0.x releases.

I highly recommend the upgrade for all iTunes 7.0 users based on the speed improvement alone. That said, I have no way to test the Windows version and I believe that the Windows version was even worse than what we Mac users have been putting up with. If you install the new version on windows, let us know how your experience goes.

I'm happy with the new update, but having reviewed the Linux jukebox software, Amarok yesterday, I suddenly find iTunes somewhat lacking. Where is my integration with Wikipedia? Where is my nice tabbed interface? Are there any kindly Cocoa programmers out there trying to port Amarok to OS X (yes I know I can install Amarok via Fink, but a native port, would be so much nicer)? Apple needs a competitor in the software jukebox world, if for no other reason than to drive them to improve iTunes. 

As for the shuffle, it looks nice, but personally I think I'd loose it by the end of the day. It reminds me a bit of the scene in Zoolander when Ben Stiller answers an impossibly, ridiculously small cellphone.

[1]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ "Download iTunes"
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+[We've looked at Last.fm before][1] back when it launched three years ago, but with today's release of new features I'd thought I'd check in a see what's changed.

Last.fm's bread and butter feature is it's collaborative filtering which is analogous to Amazon's recommendations and that remains unchanged. Instead today's update focuses on auxiliary features, an improved Flash music player, concert listings, free downloads, a "Taste-o-meter" and slightly redesigned music pages.

The most immediately noticeable change is the new Flash music player embedded in nearly music every page. The new music player means you can listen to Last.fm either through the browser or through the Last.fm client. To set your preference head to your user profile and adjust the setting to the playback method of your choice.

The ability to listen through the browser is nice, but the biggest feature in today's announcement is undoubtedly the addition of concert and event listings. The breadth of listings is subpar at the moment (apparently no one is playing in Los Angeles this week), but Last.fm has promised to add more listings and of course you can always add your own events. In addition to your own listings, you can view what events your friends are attending and Last.fm will recommend events based on your profile. 

Last.fm offers free downloads for bands/labels that will allow it. Unfortunately finding tracks you want requires quite a bit of digging at the moment. Last.fm claims they're trying to come up with a better system, but until they do, the downloads feature is almost more work than it's worth.

The new "Taste-o-meter" is an extension of the collaborative filtering mechanism Last.fm employs. The taste-o-meter tells you at a glance whether you have any common musical ground with other listeners. Whenever you visit another listeners profile page, the taste-o-meter appears in the top left corner so you can see at a glance what music you have in common.

Judging by user comments on the site, the new artist pages aren't very popular. A number of people dismiss them as simply "ugly." As with the rest of the site, how you feel about the redesigned artist pages may be somewhat determined by how you feel about gradients.

Regardless of how the interface design strikes you, Last.fm's changes bring some welcome new features and should make users happy.

[*This post was written by Scott Gilbertson of [Monkey Bites][2] the Wired News blog covering daily developments in software and web services.*]


[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59522,00.html "Wired News: Last.fm: Music to Listeners' Ears"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/ "Monkey Bites"
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+There are, in the immortal words of either Bill or Ted, I don't recall which, a *plethora* of social bookmarking websites out there. I thought I'd end my review with a site that doesn't actually store your bookmarks at all. [OnlyWire][1] is a refreshing change in the realm of bookmarking, it offers almost no features, no sharing to speak of and very limited searching.

And it might be the most useful site of the bunch. OnlyWire is really just a bookmarklet. Drag it to your toolbar like any other and when you're on a site you want to save, hit the bookmark. 

But if OnlyWire doesn't save my page why would i want to to do that you ask? Because this is the one ring to, well, nevermind. When you click OnlyWire's bookmarklet your page and whatever descriptive info you fill in will be submitted to up to seventeen bookmarking sites.

Yes, this is for those that want it all. Just provide your sign in name and password for all your social bookmark sites and OnlyWire will submit the info to all of them. You can simultaneously maintain bookmarks on seventeen sites. And if that's not enough you can send OnlyWire a note asking them to add your favorite site.



Note that if I were to review two social bookmarking sites a day, I might be done by the holidays, but I'm cutting it off here. If your favorite site was omitted from out reviews, don't feel slighted, just plug it in the comments section.

And we'll have a complete wrap up for you in the very near future.

<p>Previously Reviewed: <br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html" title="Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html" title="Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia">ma.gnolia</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html" title="Monkeybite's review of wink">Wink</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_3.html" title="Monkeybite's review of StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_4.html" title="Monkeybite's review of furl">Furl</a><br /><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_5.html" title="Monkeybite's review of BlinkList">BlinkList</a><br /></p>

[1]: http://onlywire.com/ "OnlyWire.com"
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+No. More. Candy. Here's your morning reboot:

*	[Apple has updated iTunes][1]. According to Apple, "iTunes 7.0.2 adds support for the [Second Generation iPod shuffle][2] and addresses a variety of stability and performance issues found in iTunes 7 and 7.0.1." The update is 25.7 MB and can be [downloaded from the Apple website][3].

*	Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday that [Microsoft Office Live will be coming out of beta][4] on Nov. 15. Office Live is a set of Internet-based services for small business owners. [via [ZDNet][5]]

*	[Last.fm][6], the popular music-centric social network, will apparently be [upgrading its services tomorrow][8]. New features include a new flash player, an events system, free MP3 downloads and revamped profile pages. [via [Mashable][7]]

*	Scrybe, an online organizer and calendar application, launched its beta release last night. [via [TechCrunch][10]]

*	Photo sharing site [Zooomr has increased user's monthly photo upload limits][11]. Free accounts now get 100 MB per month and pro accounts 4 GB per month, which is nearly double the offerings of rival Flickr. [also via [TechCrunch][12]]


[1]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/ "Apple iTunes"
[2]: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ "iPod Shuffle"
[3]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ "Download iTunes"
[4]: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/oct06/10-312007OfficeLivePR.mspx "Microsoft Announces Office Live"
[5]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=72 "ZDNet"
[6]: http://www.last.fm/ "Last.fm"
[7]: http://mashable.com/2006/10/31/lastfm-to-announce-free-mp3s-events-and-more/ "Mashable on Last.fm"
[8]: http://www.last.fm/updates/ "Last.fm upgrade"
[9]: http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php "Scrybe.com"
[10]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/scrybe-syncing-calendar-has-launched-in-beta/ "TechCrunch on Scrybe"
[11]: http://blog.zooomr.com/2006/11/01/trickr-or-treatr-pro-accounts-upgraded-to-4gbmo-free-accounts-to-100mmo/ "Zooomr upgrades bandwidth limits"
[12]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/01/zooomr-doubles-flickrs-monthly-photo-upload/ "TechCrunch on Zooomr"
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+As I mentioned in this morning's reboot, the web service [Scrybe announced its public beta][1] release today. Scrybe joins a host of other online organizational tools from major players like Google, Yahoo and others, but Scrybe has some significantly different features that merit a closer look.

In fact Scrybe offers so much that it would take some time to run through everything, so instead of that I'll offer this official video that the creators of Scrybe released earlier today.

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I should note that the entire interface is done in Flash which may put some people off, but the ability to work offline and sync your changes the next time you're online probably necessitates Flash. And for the old-fashioned folks like me, the ability to print out foldable copies of calendars and lists is fantastic, but for me the real drool-worthy feature is the Thought pages which allow you to browse the internet a create a clipbook of images, text and sites.

I will confess to being somewhat ignorant of alternative offerings and should probably say that I'm not a heavy user of calendar apps and organizational tools (I still favor the offerings of Monte Blanc and Moleskine when it comes to this stuff). But, that said, if Scrybe is really capable of everything shown in the above video, it will likely prove a very popular offering.

[1]: http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php "Scrybe.com"
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