Pearl Jam Life Wasted

Pearl Jam is handing out their last music video "Life Wasted" for free, the single to their new album. Nice little freebie that you can take and post anywhere, without the worry of a spanking for the RIAA

Windows Media Player 11

If you want to update your Windows Media Player early (before Vista is released in January next year),  you can grab the beta download.  Expect a cleaner interface, better search, quick views of albums and artists, and more.  It's also integrated with their new URGE music service, an a-la-carte and subscription music service co-sponsored by MTV.

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Free photo management software, free computer software pack, free...

I now have referral buttons on the left bar, a little below the fold (see the section Google Referrals).  A few words on these, and a recomendation to download one or two of them if you don't have them yet:

Google Photo Software - Also known as Picasa, its a great Windows based photo management program, with easy viewing tools, sorts, editing, and more.  Widely considered the best free, and one of the best anywhere, photo management tools.

Google Pack - if you have a new computer, or simply want to get up to speed on the free software out there to make your computer complete (a safer browser (firefox), a video player (google video player), desk bars, tool bars, and more), download this and manage it all via Google.

Firefox - the safe, quick, clean, extensible browser you should be using instead of microsoft internet explorer, no questions asked.

Google AdSense - if you want to advertise on your blog/website, costs you nothing and easy to implement in seconds, with full customization.

Technorati Tags: Google Adsense, Google Pack, Google Photo Manager, Picasa, Firefox, free, free utilities

Now free calls anywhere in the US with Skype

If you're familiar with Skype, you probably already knew that pc-to-pc calls were free.  Today they announced, though, that you can call from a PC to a landline or mobile phone, anywhere in the US and Canada, for free.  Pretty good deal if you're worried about cell phone minutes and have a headset for your computer.

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NBA jumps on iTunes (and 24 is there too)

I wonder what this says about their experience with Google Video?  Or maybe it just means that to be a serious player in mobile video / downloadable video, you have to partner with iTunes. 
The idea is cool though; you can subscribe to a team, and received shortened versions of the games (20 min. or so) to catch up the next day on only the action you missed.
Oh and 24, in time for the season finale, is Fox's venture into iTunes downloads as well.  This is the kind of show that downloadable episodes were made for, since anyone who misses an episode will do just about anything to see it.
Love both of these things, love on demand media consumption becoming more and more prevelant.
[picture from MicroPersuasion]

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What about Google vs. God?

And where does Google fall vs. God on the Trend Search?



google   


god  

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Which sport is the most popular?

Playing around with the new Google Trends and there are some really interesting things you can learn about people/the world/pop culture/habbits/the list goes on.  See here the graph of searching for the five main sports

baseball   


football   


basketball   


golf   


hockey  
If you look at the results via the website, you learn that St. Louis likes baseball more than any other town, but its still only the third most popular sport at this point (according to Google searches, an admittedly narrow reflection).  Austin has the most searches for any one sport all together, and it was Football. Also interesting is that there are more searches in English for Golf than any other sport but Football, and the margin its behind on that is minimal.

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Mark Cuban Fined Big $$ Again

Mark Cuban, media entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was fined $200K for stepping onto the basketball court a few nights ago against the Spurs and writing about the refs on his personal blog.  To date, he's been fined at least $1.2 million dollars by the NBA since taking over ownership, and for every dollar he's been fined he's matched it to a charity (this last fine pending).  Given David Stern's dictatorship attitude, it was forseeable that both of these things would result in a fine, but Mark Cuban usually doesn't care as long as he sticks gets his message out.  It is fairly amazing though that he got fined $100,000 for his blog posting, which has yet to be taken down, just one more expample of the reprecussions of crossing blogging with work.  Would any other owner have been fined this kind of cash for either of these infractions?

Technorati Tags: Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks, NBA, Blogging, Reprecussions, fines, playoffs, basketball