DivX Pro Free for One Day Only
Be quick on this one. The crew round at DivX are giving away free copies of DivX, but there is a catch. This is for one day only. I have no idea what so ever how long this offer has been going but it is sure not to last too much longer.
This application is the Pro version of the software that normally sells for $19.99 US (15 day free trial). This however is no trial! Once you have downloaded it you will have all the tools that will enable you to play, create and encode DivX video and applications. Including:
- DivX converter
- DivX Converter MPEG-2/DVD Plug-in
- DivX Pro Codec
- DivX Player
- DivX Web Player
Great deal, doesn’t get much better!
Get the free DivX Pro version from the free download page. Full instructions there!
UPDATE: This promotional offer is now finished, I hope you got it while you could.
Dave
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Source: Jeffro via twitter
June 9th, 2007 at 3:16 am
Saw this on TUAW. Now my macbook is encoding Globe Trekker episodes for my N80.
June 9th, 2007 at 6:52 am
I don’t encode videos so I don’t know how much this piece of software would benefit me but I will say, that it is interesting to come across a piece of news before many other websites come across it and within a few hours, you see it spread across the web.
So there is your new Web 2.0 service idea. Create a service that somehow tracks a piece of content whether it be an article or a video or whatever else, and create a visual representation of that content traveling across the web.
June 9th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
@Jeff well the way that I see it is that that is what things like trackbacks are for. In addition to that you see meme trackers pick up stories, Digg, Reddit, Bloggers then the search engines index it etc and so it goes. As far as tracking it - that IS how these things are tracked. The bloggers are tracking these things as well - and that’s why I have as many feeds as I do
June 9th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
By the way, DivX has taken the page down, so good job to those of you who took advantage of the surprise offer.
@Dave - Yeah, after I made my post, I thought about trackbacks and how they work and realized that those trackbacks/pingbacks generally allow you to track content as it spreads across the web, granted the content that is spreading has to have originated from your own site and or blog correct? Also, the author sharing the piece of content would have to do so in a certain way as to allow the pingback/trackback to be accurate?
June 9th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Question 1: yes and no. I would argue that it would be very very hard for one site to “claim” that they had a story before anyone else. Sure they do it all the time. But you only really see this on really big blogs. Like Mashable - companies send him exclusives and he gets “leaked” info… stuff outside the blogosphere essentially. Us small time bloggers don’t get this info. But as I have said before always try to go back to the original source of a story, that way you can at least be the second
Question 2: Not quite true. A blog author receives a trackback and it is a way of them knowing where something they have blogged about has “gone”. It is a way of communicating between bloggers. A third party has no way of knowing, other than a reference to a trackback on a blog post. You see them here on this blog in the comments of a story. But I can delete that trackback in the comments, so I guess I can allow them or not. Trackbacks are a great way to get exposure on A list blogs - if they display them. Certain A list blogs not don’t. Beats me why.
Another way to acknowledge a source is to point to it in the blog post - this will also theoretically creat a trackback, it depends how the blog is set up. You can see this in this post at the bottom of it.
Then you get the situation where you don’t acknowledge a source at all. I don’t source stuff that comes from “everywhere”. That is stuff you could find on about 50,000 blogs with a simple Google search. Basically - it is common knowledge and I could not be bothered going through blog posts looking for dates! I sourced you because you are a listener and you were the first person that I heard it from. I later read my feeds and there were a few blogs talking about it but not that many
Hope that answers your question(s)
June 10th, 2007 at 7:06 am
Yep, those are good answers. Thanks Dave.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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