Gmail Launches Voice and Video Chat

Gmail adds video chat into its IM making it one step clear competitor to Yahoo Messenger. The great thing about this new feature is its web-enabled, that means every Gmail web users out there has access to this feature without need to install a separate application. To access this new feature, make sure to enable chat on Gmail and install the plug-in then click options on the chat window to reveal a menu to activate it.

 
Photo source from official press release email.

To learn more, you can visit the official Google KB site for voice and video chat.

This is clearly an awesome advantage to other IMs, but what makes me very excited about this feature is its inevitable API! Yes, imagine streaming videos not just for personal communication but for content broadcast itself and all powered freely by Google’s infrastructure!

Finally the only lame part to this new feature is the required installation of the plug-in; which is currently only supported in Windows and Mac; instead of using purely flash based video and voice technology like OpenFire’s Spark Web.

TV is Personal, TV is Mobile 2.0

As early as August 2006, Nokia has announced the availability of pilot services for Mobile TV. Recently the site Modeo.com has announced it will be providing commercial mobile TV broadcast to New York city. Mobile TV broadcast is the latest service addition to 3G enabled telcos but unlike downloaded contents like 3GP videos (pull on demand) or streamed videos. Mobile TV is broadcasted just like normal TV using the open DVB-H specification for broadcasting to battery-powered handheld devices, and a related set of specifications for IP datacast (DVB-IPDC), which are the key enabling technologies for mobile television. The Nokia N92 is the first mobile phone to support Mobile TV which was announced during Nokia's Mobility Conference 2005 at Barcelona Spain however Modeo has taken it further by releasing Modeo enabled Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 DVB-H Smartphone, manufactured by HTC.

Recently Inquirer (news paper publication) and GMA 7 (TV station) has unofficially announced a breakup and rumors has it that GMA 7 will built its own portal like YouTube. With Web 2.0 hammering TV stations market, Mobile TV and Mobile 2.0 is the future that local Philippine TV stations may not be ready to face yet.

YouTube Stream beta launch

YouTube has launched Streams. Its a mash-up between watch playlist and chat, a noticeable feature is the ability to queue videos so they load up in the background as the current video still plays. It also allows other users to add videos on the list and shows on the chat the current video they are watching. Im not sure when they had this feature activated since there's still a few streams on the list which includes the greatest videos, comedians, nude videos and more.



See also YouTube help on Streams

Mobile Video Of Saddam's Execution

Google Video has one of the execution videos takes using a mobile phone. It shows Saddam hanging with rope around his neck (creepy). I advise all viewers with faint heart and children not to view the video but for all you sick puppies out there, enjoy the show :P



For sickier puppies out there, you can download the the video into you phone in 3gp format (created using YouTube Mobile Downloader).

You may also watch the video at Liveleak.com or read the story about how the execution of Saddam video was smuggled (digg).

Txtdomain Mobile CMS

Txtdomain.com is the first true Mobile CMS in the Philippines utilizing Mobile 2.0 technology which offers instant creation and management of mobile services accessed using SMS keywords and short code combination. Check out the demo video that was recently released for non-registered users which shows how easy it is to create you own mobile service in under 30 minutes.

For inquiries please email or call 897-3377, Monday to Friday between 10 AM to 5PM



Watch on site demo of Txtdomain in wide screen format here.

Saddam is DEAD

Saddam is finally dead, the story has 7,945 diggs by the time im writing this post -- about 10 hours after the execution. IMHO its a good way to end the year by ending the burdens the world has carried this past year and not letting it pass on the new year.

See the video when Saddam has sentenced to death:



Full coverage of Saddam's execution via CNN.

Mobile Adsense ! Following-up: YouTube Mobile

Following my post about the developement of YouTube Mobile; we think it will definitely drive 3G traffic once its launched and what better way to monitize traffic? SEO will say it clear, Google Adsense. Yes, YouTube Mobile will come out with Google Adsense!

Step 1: Find your favorite YouTube Video and take note of its ID found in the URL.



Step 2: Type in the YouTube ID on YouTube Mobile via WAP

Step 3: Click Download, the demo site is not configured to handle multiple request so will take time to process your request depending on number of qued request. Don't complain, this is just a demo. Actual production servers can handle all the request simultaneously.



That's it then a link will be generated to download your YouTube Video for mobile. BUT WAIT... what's that peaking on the lower portion on the page? It reads.. Google Adsense for mobille? Let's scroll down the page and take a look... Yep for REAL!



Take a click on the link and it converts ordinary websites straight to mobile format too! All these thanks to Google :)

YouTube Mobile...Philippine Edition!

According to Techcrunch, YouTube Mobile will be rolling out after 14 months. I think i can beat them to that :D

YouTube Mobile Downloader comming out in the Philippines!

Well.. its another product of a boring day, the storm that hit last weekend didn't make much fuss so i had the whole office to myself. The Internet was so crappy for surfing YouTube so i decided to download them while I play Diablo II, I can always view them later after I beat Baal on nightmare level. A few minutes later i found a whopping 1Gig usage in my HD, since each 10-30 minute FLV file has an average size of 50MB. To save space I converted them to 3GPP format and later on, because i still couldn't beat Baal, I decided to make WAP enabled service out of the entire process.

Philippines and Terrorism According to Japanesse Anime.

I've been watching new anime about pirates via WinampTV titled "Black Lagoon" then episodes 11-12 struck me when the story ended up in Basilan Philippines. The story goes like this, a couple of terrorist related papers has fallen to the hands of a pirate group called "Lagoon Company" after a US embassy was bombed and its their job to deliver it to a CIA agent at Basilan, Philippines. WTF?! Anyway as the story goes on and they went rampaging around, blewing up things and killing all the terrorist. Wow, now i know why they bombed Basilan! Anyway it can't be helped that other countries look at Philippines that way due to the country's history of military and civil unrest.

PornoTube: Fuck Around

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Gospel of Judas

The most significant find of the century is about to be unveiled on TV, will the Gospel of Judas provides us the missing link about Jesus Christ and will this eventually change our views about the Church.

Nationalgeographic.com

Direct Link: Video of Israeli Made "Forcefield"

Developed by Israeli company Rafael, it creates a sort of protective bubble defending ground vehicles against RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) and tank rounds. Video in swf form.

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Google TV!

We’ll not quite there yet but if you want a preview how will Google TV looks like then check out http://www.current.tv/google/ where Google produces segments about top searches from Google Search.

Amazingly after watching the first two segments i was hooked, its more entertaining than your usual TV programs. Why? Because its current, its what people are all digging about in the web. This is the most effective use of media reconstruction phenomena that drives sites such as Digg and Slashdot.

Now if only Google has:

1. Froogle TV – TV shopping network featuring Froogle products. Then you can purchase via the web too. Fantastic, it will totally nuke E-bay.
2. Google News – 15 minute digest of all the top news, I bet this will kick CNN off its butt :)
3. GoogleSpace – more like Orkut + Google Video. A Segment about personals where they let users create their own videos about the things they like or do then. It should feature also the top preference for Celebrities, Favorite TV shows, Books.. and the list never ends.
4. GoogleLifeStyle – Segment based on Google Local where fine places in your locality is featured and it had to show it in Google Maps.
5. Google Earth TV – Segment about Travel Guides using Google Earth as the tour guide.
6. Google Tech – segement like MSDN TV, it would feature gadgets, scientists, great people of the opensource revolution and even the guys that work there at Google.

What would Google TV go afterwards? We’ll if Ipod can have WIFI, Google can broadcast these all to Ipod users with Google’s Free WIFI Project as a subscription.

You like that dont you? :)

Note: The host Conor Knighton is hillarious.

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Related contents: http://www.teleportingtattler.com/2006/03/google-tv-still-under-radar.html

The 2 Chinese Boys Video

It started as a hilarious spoof of the Backstreet Boys by two chinese boys, now its hotter than the short lived Crazy Frog and its starting to sweep the entire globe! God help us :))

Watch the original video that started it all.


They became instant celebrities, now watch them perform on their (own) show as they sing BSB's "As long as you love me" on stage!

Here they are again spoofing a chinese song "Fairy" and "bu de bu ai" while the madness continue to spread all over the globe with "two chinese boys: except only one is american".

Ofcourse we Filipinos are not going to be left behind with "Bebot".

I hope you can still breath? :))