Life Unplugged…

Bei mashable.com konnte man bis letzten Samstag für seine Top Site in verschiedenen Kategorien voten. Abgedeckt wurde fast alles, besonders interessant für mich waren die Kategorien “Social News and Social Bookmarking” und natürlich “Photo Sharing”.
In jeder Kategorie gabs einen Editor’s Choice, einen People’s Choice (durch das voting) und noch einen “Hot for 2007″ Award. Der Editor’s Choice war bei beiden Kategorien ziemlich klar: Digg und Flickr.

Beim People’s Choice allerdings: trailfire und twango. Sollte man sich vielleicht mal anschaun um am aktuellen Stand zu bleiben was Social Networking betrifft.

Ich selbst hab mir inzwischen nur kurz twango - die Photosharing Seite - angesehen.

Was auf jeden Fall cool ist: twango supported 100 verschiedene Filetypes, von Bildern über Videos bis zu Flash, Microsoft Office Files und pdfs. Ansonsten gibts die üblichen sharing und posting Features inklusive upload per mail und geotagging (mit Google Maps, sehr brav).

Ausserdem: Unlimited storage, aber ein upload limit von 250MB/Monat und ein File Limit von 100MB/File. “Pro”-Account zum bezahlen - der die Einschränkungen aufheben würde - gibt es momentan noch keinen.

Organisiert wird alles in Channels - man kann sichs vorstellen wie ein Album bei Flickr, nur das da halt auch Videos, Flash Files und pdfs drin sein können in einem Album.

Was auch kewl ist: Man kann einen public channel erstellen in den jeder was reinstellen kann. Praktisch zB für das Konzert von letztem Samstag, wo jeder (auch ohne einen twango Account) seine Media-Files raufstellen kann.

Insgesamt ziemlich kamotes Service anscheinend, sollte man sich vielleicht mal näher ansehen.

Ahja, eine Übersicht über alle mashable Kategorien und Sieger gibts hier.

I’d like to be such a good writer… Liking planes would be helpful too, if so, I guarantee you’ll love Dave’s Flightlevel 390 Blog.

Take this post for example….

[…] I watch the EGTs (pilot talk for exhaust gas temperatures) rise as the engines approach the take-off thrust setting, which the co-pilot has calculated and programmed into the engine’s fuel control computers. Unlike summer time EGT temperatures, they are far below the red line. As the engines pass 70%, the roar can be heard in the flight deck; that awesome feeling of thrust follows, mashing us into our seats. The airliner passes 92 m.p.h. in two heart beats, a mandatory how’s it going check point. Everything looks good as we pass into the high speed regime of our take-off. The wings load up at 120 m.p.h.; you can actually feel it in the seat of your pants. Engine vibration is well within limits; fuel flows are huge, a never ending source of amazement. At 150 m.p.h. the beast wants to fly, but the co-pilot is keeping neutral stick. At 175 m.p.h., I call “V1″(pilot talk for we are committed to this take-off, no turning back), at 180 m.p.h., I call out “Rotate” (pilot talk for it’s time to fly). The co-pilot pulls his stick back a bit, then stops as the nose lifts off the runway, leaving the main gear tires on the cold runway. Before the nose stops it’s rotation toward the sky, he pulls the stick back more until the main gear tires leave the runway. The vertical speed indicator increases rapidly until in excess of 3,000 feet per minute. I call out “Positive rate”, indicating a climb; the co-pilot replies with “Landing gear up.”

The ship’s hydraulic system goes to work as the gear handle is moved to the up position. Gear doors open into the slip-stream, latches unlatch, brakes slow the spinning wheels as large hydraulic rams push the gear into their respective wells with a thump, then a clack as the doors close. My eyes are looking at the engine instruments like a dog looking at a bone. At 1,000 feet above the ground, the co-pilot pulls the thrust levers back to the climb setting. The fuel flows spin down as the engines relax for the long climb to cruise altitude. We have lifted 124 passengers, two deadheading pilots, three flight attendants, several thousand pounds of bags, freight, mail, and Christmas presents into the Alaskan sky. […]

Anyone who writes like that is my hero… :)

First live performance of TurboBoost at Michael’s birthday party at the MozartClub. Sorry for the dark video, it was… well, dark.
A few pics can be found here too.

Performance was great, a few more songs would be great but I’m sure they’ll have that covered by their next gig.

Almost Snow Hosted on Zooomr

Does this count as snow?

Please click and view large :)

Jana Hosted on Zooomr

This is the very first pic on my new and shiny Zoomr account. With Thomas Hawk always promoting it I thought I’d give it a try. Plus they are now giving away 1 year pro accounts for Bloggers for free. Check out Thomas Zooomr profile too.

The pic is from last Fridays company Christmas party, it’s Jana from our office in Salzburg.
We all had a great night in Villach and finally went home at half past 4 (thanks to Silja for providing a couch to sleep on).

Long time no see :)

Yahoo finally updated it’s mapping service with better detailed european street maps.

This means that I don’t have to guess where streets are in Klagenfurt to geotag photos correctly anymore.

This is what you get if you search for Klagenfurt right now (click to go to flickr):

So go and geo-tag away….

I wonder why I haven’t read elsewhere about that, discovered the updated maps accidentally today…