ok, so I've been busy this week and haven't had much time to post to my blog.. but I've been saving stuff and am just going to dump it all in one big post. Here goes..

This post led me to look at edipix. W00t! I have a feeling we're just seeing the beginning of what the real "web 2.0" is about. Forget mamby-pamby little calendar apps and wussy e-mail apps. Let's see editing images and doing stuff with them without having to buy fancy photo editing software. Oops.. I shouldn't say that. Adobe is listening. Heheh.. actually, I think these kind of simplified tools serve a real purpose. Most people don't need PhotoShop, they just need to crop a photo and send it to somebody. jumpcut is another killer new site like this, but it let's you edit video and even gooify it. yeeow! I want to see AJAX that will edit and gooify a video. uh huh.

I can't remember how I got here.. wtf? Some of these people are asking for total ripoffs of Flash projects. Actually.. a LOT of them are asking people to do total rip offs of other peoples Flash work. And what really irked me is there's some decent looking gigs in there (remember.. I'm busy and have a killer job already.. I'm not looking..) and there's like 40 bids from folks who say theyll clone a whole site and customize it for $80. Granted there are some bids in the $3,000 - $6,000 range that look appropriate for the project, but I feel sorry for the folks who are trying to find Flash developers to do contract work through this type of site who have to figure out who is worth dealing with and who isn't.

Flash content on my Verizon phone soon? Oh yeah.. that'd be nice. What would be even nicer is if they didn't cripple my V710. I need to go whack that Verizon dude on the back of the head and tell him I don't want to hack my phone in order to copy MP3 files from my PC onto it. But.. this Adobe and Verizon deal is very cool news for Flash developers..

MLB.com dropped support for Real audio and video. Good! Real was/is the pits. But.. hmm.. they didn't opt for Flash video? hmmmmm.. and Speedtv has suddenly cleaned all the Flash video from their site.. read that MLB article and see if you think Microsoft just sat back and let this happen, or if they played a part in MLB.com switching.

Mitsubishi uses colored lasers for HDTV system. Yum. Bill Buxton.. .. I'm ready for my $10/sq ft. 100dpi monitor..

Speech accent archive.. omg.. why didn't somebody help them do this with the Flash Media Server? People could record their entries, etc..
oh.. there needs to be a professional there with a microphone to make sure it's all official and sounds good. But..... some of the recordings they have don't sound very good at all. ?