There are still some critical issues to overcome – for example parsing images to tell what people are talking about is a major challenge.  Services like TinEye may be able to help with that but the core concept is still valid.  People talk about products, influence their friends, and create value.

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(For reference, here is a demo video we made for Rovrr.  More can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Rovrr/videos)

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• iPhone App store – done
• Android App store – done
• Google Wave App store – not yet!

From Google:

A wavelet is a threaded conversation that is spawned from a wave (including the initial conversation). Wavelets serve as the container for one or more documents (of which the basic conversational document is known as a blip). The wavelet is the basic unit of access control for data in the wave. All participants on a wavelet have full read/write access to all of the content within the wavelet. As well, all events that occur within the Google Wave APIs operate on wavelet level or lower. When you spawn a wavelet from within a wave, you do not inherit any access permissions from the parent wavelet. During the lifetime of a wave, you may spawn private conversations, which become separate wavelets, but are bundled together within the same “wave.”

Source: http://code.google.com/apis/wave/guide.html

My domain names for sale:

• MONETIZATIONWAVELET.COM
• SOCIALWAVELET.COM
• SOCIALWAVELETS.COM
• WAVELET.US
• WAVELET.WS
• WAVELETA.COM
• WAVELETADS.COM
• WAVELETADVERTISING.COM
• WAVELETAPP.COM
• WAVELETAPP.INFO
• WAVELETAPP.NET
• WAVELETAPPLICATION.COM
• WAVELETAPPLICATION.INFO
• WAVELETAPPLICATION.NET
• WAVELETAPPLICATIONS.COM
• WAVELETAPPLICATIONS.INFO
• WAVELETAPPLICATIONS.NET
• WAVELETAPPS.INFO
• WAVELETAPPS.NET
• WAVELETAPPS.US
• WAVELETB.COM
• WAVELETBUILDER.COM
• WAVELETBUILDER.INFO
• WAVELETBUILDER.NET
• WAVELETCENTRAL.COM
• WAVELETCENTRAL.INFO
• WAVELETCENTRAL.NET
• WAVELETDIRECTORY.COM
• WAVELETDIRECTORY.INFO
• WAVELETDIRECTORY.NET
• WAVELETHELPER.COM
• WAVELETMARKETING.COM
• WAVELETMONETIZATION.COM
• WAVELETPRO.COM
• WAVELETSEARCH.COM
• WAVELETSEARCH.INFO
• WAVELETSEARCH.NET
• WAVELETTRACKER.COM
• WAVELETTRACKER.INFO
• WAVELETTRACKER.NET
• WAVEWAVELETS.COM
• WAVEWAVELETS.INFO
• WAVEWAVELETS.NET

Other notes: Yes, these domain names are set to renew.  Yes, I have rejected offers for being too low.  If you are going to bid $10/name, don’t even bother wasting my time.  I will sell them individual but strongly prefer to sell them as a group.  To purchase, please leave a comment below with your real email address so I can reach you.

The application itself is intuitive.  Simply open the application and wait for a GPS signal.  Once it is established, hit the record button and then put the phone to sleep.  It will keep recording data as a background process while you take your walk, run, flight, etc.  When you’re done, simply re-enter the application and hit stop.  You should probably give the track file a useful name.  After a few uses, it will be hard to tell “track23.gpx” from “track17.gpx.”  From there, you can export the data using the methods described above.  We want to save the track as a GPX file an import it to Google Earth.

In Finder (or Explore for you Windows folks…) open your Android device and grab the GPX file.  Drag it to the 3d view of Google Earth and voila – your track is open.  Use the following tools below to control the animation:

This control offers basic Play functionality.  It is visible above the Layers panel when you have a PATH selected in the Places panel.  Long story short – just click play.

The control below is visible in the top left portion of the 3D view.  You can use it to select a given point in time as well as to crop the start/stop points of a path.

The control below is visible at the bottom left portion of the 3D view.  It is used to start/stop/loop/save animations.  (This does NOT save video clips.  More on that later)

Lastly, the settings used in the animation are as follows (click to enlarge)

RESULTS:

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Other Notes:

• The animation was captured with iShowU HD.  I love this program and think it is one of the best OS X screen capture programs on the market.  The video was captured as an intermediate file format and re compressed using Quick Time Pro.  From there, it was uploaded to Vimeo as a 720P HD video file.
• Turning off 3d Buildings seems to speed things up…but it looks boring
• Turn off other interesting layers that Google Earth has on by default.  They just become a distraction in the final video
• When importing the data, have it stick the data points to the ground for best results
• The data points are jagged.  I haven’t found a good way to smooth them out but decreasing the sample frequency or increasing your speed should help.
• Downtown areas do not work well for GPS accuracy

Get My Tracks:

I purchased the unlocked Nexus One this past week and signed up for the Simply Everything Plus plan which includes VVM as a standard feature.  Everything on the phone works except for the visual voicemail.  I downloaded the application, tried several times and had no luck.  I gave up and went to the nearest T Mobile store for help.  The employee who was helping me was very kind and we tried calling the T Mobiles customer support and technical support several times and no one had a resolution.  It was only after about 45 minutes that she was transferred to Google support that we had an answer.  According to the rep, Google is blocking VVM on the Nexus one and suggests that I switch to Google Voice.  No F#$%king Way.

I am inclined to believe the employee helping me.  When the Google support person told her that, she turned white and verified that she heard him correctly.  Not only was this news to me, this was apparently news to everyone at T Mobile as well.  It is possible that she was mistaken and if I find out more information, I will gladly correct this post.  As it stands right now, I am still w/o VVM and it doesn’t appear that I will ever have it.

I don’t like Google having all of my personal information.  They have my contacts and calendar, a different company handles my email and T Mobile now handles my voice (after another bad Sprint experience.)  No one company should handle all of my information and that is why I am not using Google Voice.  I have an account and it seems like a great service, I just don’t like that Google is handling it.

If you find a workaround, please post it below so I can update this post!

Text from error messages:

Not Activated: You do not have access to Visual Voicemail. Please upgrade your account.

Visual Voicemail: Visual Voicemail is available with this phone as part of your data plan for no additional charge.  Click below to enable Visual Voicemail on your account.

Change Service Result: Your purchase cannot be completed at this time. Please visit My t-mobile.com or call 611 to purchase this value bundle.

I Googled it

And I found something much more interesting than zero results.  So, I wanted to perform an experiment.  I took the code and pasted it on one of my sister sites, TubeClockDB.com and used Ping-O-Matic to notify blogs of the update.  WITHIN 10 MINUTES of the ping, I started getting hundreds of hits per hour searching for “8MLDQ6″  This was interesting.  Google had crawled my site and started sending search results within just a few minutes.

Astounding Finding #1

They crawled my site, updated their indexes, distributed their updates to all of their machines and started returning my site as a result within 10 minutes.

That is amazing.  Simply the quantity of work involved with something like an update is impressive.  To do that in a few minutes is astounding.  Of course, Ping-O-Matic played a big role in that so hats off to them too.

Astounding Finding #2

Ping-O-Matic does a great job notifying Google and other blog services.  If you’re not using them, you’re missing out.

Astounding Finding #3

Almost all of the search results were coming from corporate networks.  Huh.  Adobe*, I’m looking at you.  You take the dubious honor of having the most employees searching for a job at Google from your network.  The US Military had the number two position.

*this could change.  It was the number one position when I was looking earlier.

Astounding Finding #4

People are lazy.  They want to find the answer on Google and give it back to them.  I have a feeling that Google is looking for a different kind of person, but I could be wrong.  (I’m not, however.)

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