http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com Everything tech, from Web2.0 blogging, the internet to product reviews and software. Sat, 17 May 2008 11:23:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am going to take a guess and say that Loic has had an great idea to demonstrate the effectiveness of new media and video for conversation and buzz generation using seesmic. Great idea, wait till you see it in action. Case 1: The up and coming new Indiana Jones Movie ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/17/harrison-ford-on-seesmic/ As everyone would know we are fans of FeedDemon, an excellent feedreader. If you did not know, now you do. FeedDemon also supports podcasts and inline video and many, many more features. Plus best of all it is free! Got a surprise when I saw in my feeds that FeedDemon just ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/16/feeddemon-update-to-27-and-tweaking-the-demon/ First thing I thought was "about bloody time!". Yahoo! and McAfee have partnered up to provide integrated search security on the results pages, they call it "Search Scan". The result is prominent warnings at the top of the page and next to the offending link with a "hover" for details. ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/07/yahoo-and-mcafee-team-up-for-safer-search/ Yes we are still here, and here is the latest on the server situation. Basically the blogs have been migrated to the new servers and they are sort of working. There is still work to do and things to tweak however. The blog is working as you can see, we were ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/05/testing-testing-123-blog-check-rss-fail/ Short and sweet this week. Awesome show don't miss it! Cait and I had a real blast recording the show and it was great to get back to the regular format. We have all the usual segments for you and a special surprise from the Lab Rat. The show is not hosted ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/15/the-global-geek-podcast-83-be-verwi-verwi-quiet/ Looks like the US military is on a different type of recruitment drive, their biggest problem is attracting the recruits they want: hackers. Obviously the Internet is a minefield and the governments of this world are interested in what goes on in it, additionally computer and network security is a concern ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/12/uncle-sam-wants-hackers/ Hope that our listeners' week went well, our is getting better. Just wanted to let you know that Cam, CEO of TPN has made a post on The Podcast Network Blog about the latest woes and trouble that we have been experiencing with the servers and pretty much where we ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/11/tpn-update-from-cam/ We spoke about the eminent release of the XP version of the Eee PC in episode 80 of the GGP. A few of you had a bit to say about it in addition to Doug sending us an audio comment. Doug thought that the inclusion of XP would make the ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/07/eee-pc-xp-version-hits-the-shelves/ Thanks for the patience over the last week. Many apologies for the extent of the server instability that you may have been affected by. In essence I have no idea what the cause was, however it is looking like the tech guys got to the cause of things and have ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/06/server-fixed-fingers-crossed-and-lucky-rabbits-foot-in-hand/ Welcome to the GGP for another week. I have had a busy week and thrown myself into this weeks show. That was a lame excuse for the lack of blogging. In this episode I interview Loic Le Meur, the founder and CEO of seesmic. It was a fantastic interview about seesmic, ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/29/the-global-geek-podcast-82-special-edition-interview-with-loic-le-meur/ Something a bit different this week and hopefully some answers to our listeners many questions. This week we attempt to answer the question: Why do I need twitter? To do that we have invited onto the show JJProjects. JJ is known for his twitter obsession and knows the community very well. We ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/24/the-global-geek-podcast-81-special-edition-interview-with-jjprojects/ I have been watching this application for a while and I have recently got beta access to the new version. With that I have a number of invites to share. For those that don't know what EverNote is, it is a 3 part application - you can choose which parts you ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/20/invites-for-evernote-beta/ As people would know we have been talking a lot about video lately. You will have also noticed that I have been posting some video content here on the blog. The stuff that you see from me is powered by seesmic. Seesmic is an awesome service and it has me very ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/20/get-a-seesmic-invite-via-twitter/ Today Mashable announced that they have introduced video commenting. It is a great feature and as Pete points out "the way of the future". I am not aware of other blogs that allow their readers to do this, so this is a first. At least in a high traffic site ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/19/video-commenting-is-here/ You know the story: you go to a website and you get 404'ed. Now you know your connection is fine. You make sure and fire up your mail, download the RSS and send an email while your waiting for your RSS that you know is working. You try the obvious ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/19/is-it-just-me/ http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/19/arthur-c-clarke-1917-2008-death-of-an-odyssey/ Last week I was interviewed as part of The Productivity Show here on TPN. Something a little bit different for me, being the other person! But I had a blast on the show. It is all geek, Tony Goodson and I talk about the trappings of technology for geeks and what ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/17/geek-productivity-it-can-happen/ I don't suppose that there are any limits to a URL, well as far as length of it and the characters used. The website I tracked down today proves that to some degree. These sites with wacky URL's are mainly collectors items, just to say that you have it. I would ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/17/shhhhhhh/ I really like this series of videos. The one that I have used the most is RSS in Plain English, but now there is one for twitter! So for those of you having trouble explaining what twitter is. Or maybe your a listener of the show (Herne) and are still asking ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/15/twitter-in-plain-english/ We all take the fact that we can communicate with our voice for granted. That is if you have not lost the ability. New Scientist is reporting this week that there may be hope for those that that have. The system is called "Audeo" and uses nerve signals sent to the ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/14/the-voiceless-voice-call/ It seems the poking and prodding finally got a response. But a response like no other. It seems that through funding from the Japanese Knightwise and Dr Evil have managed to upgrade their technology. They now have video... yes I was scared as well. But don't worry he has his disguise ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/13/knightwise-responds/ Great show this week, Keith joins us and is sounding great! We also make a startling discovery about the Lab Rat this week, so keep your ears out for that one. In tech news Asus is offering something new, the military get tough with Google and Nine Inch Nails; nails the ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/11/the-global-geek-podcast-80-encryption-like-a-house/ On the show a few weeks back I had a rant about the Japanese whaling that was about to happen to the south of Australia. We are fond of our whales and they are a treasure that we have a particular bond with as they travel up our coast to ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/09/the-truth-about-dr-evil/ After I lost a completed post on the blog I gave up trying. Then I thought I might utilize a new'ish service called seesmic to "post". The reason is 2 fold. 1. To get the post on the blog and 2. To try and stimulate some tech discussions on seesmic. Seesmic in ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/07/which-company-to-acquire-digg/ Welcome to the GGP for this week. Pressing on with one short - hope that Cait is getting better! In Tech this week; JotSpot returns (just don't call it a wiki), Buzz that has none, laying cable, AIR launch and another use for the PS3 and it is very cool. Applications are ... http://globalgeek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/03/the-global-geek-podcast-79-invaded-by-the-uk/