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Today had some fantastic presentations…

I’ll drop some more info in here later, and I’ve got a little video montage to upload in a bit, but here’s some quick photos from day one!

NetFlix: More On The Netflix/360 Deal

Thought this was pretty cool out of the set of things coming out of this year’s E3… I don’t have Netflix or an XBOX 360 (yet), but I think the stuff Microsoft is doing to mak the 360 more accessible to the casual gamer as well as the hardcore people is pretty smart…

With the Netflix thing, they’ll suddenly be able to compete with something like an AppleTV, Cable and Satellite On Demand services, and continue to lead in the Online gaming area… Pretty cool…

On a side note, this post is my first through Wordpress 2.6 upgrade and the “Press This” feature, which appears to be the easiest way so far to post from a web page without downloading pics and referencing a bunch of open pages and doing all sorts of copy/paste manuevers…

Finally! One of the sticking points for people NOT wanting to use Flash has been searchability (SEO ya know…). Now Adobe is working with Google and Yahoo to get this all rectified and this is a very good thing!! Read more…

Here is a pic result when I searched “soup” on flickr, and then just simply drug the pic into this handy little editor window…

So far “Flock” is pretty awesome!!!
See??

I just drug that here as well!!… So check out FLOCK!!!

Well, here’s to testing a new blogging tool. It’s called Zemanta, and through Wordpress plug-in integration and a firefox extension, it appears to be an item that will help grab related imagery, articles, etc from the web in real time for me as I post. This could helps save time when the task of finding and downloading related info gets too exhausting…

Even as I type, Zemanta is currently spinning away in the posting sidebar area, apparently searching for related suggestions for my post..

Still waiting…….

Still waiting……

Well, I dunno if it’s being blocked in some way from me (I’m currently at work), or if there’s just nothing interesting it can find about my words… Or it’s just plain broken… Anyway, the idea is very cool and I will continue to check into this one… For now it does appear I can insert an interesting photo from Flickr, so let’s try that…

Image by confusedvision via Flickr

Nice! Well, we shall see how this Zemanta does in the future….

Wow. Another cool flash site, this time using the “galaxy” as a browsing mechanism. Type a keyword and you’re suddenly flying through “tagged” planets full of pictures. Swoop around with your mouse and click an image to see it bigger. Very slick! Check it HERE…

The new version of Flash Player has been released and it looks like lots of cool stuff is on the horizon. Instead of rehashing things, just check out this great post in Wired Blog to learn all the great tidbits!

Cool. Need to figure out how to add a photo.

Here’s a 30 second impression of Netvibes so far… Really Freakin cool!!
I’ve been looking for some type of “in-browser’ solution to managing rss feeds, widgets, social sites, etc… The customizable options on here seem endless and I haven’t even begun to explore the widgets and social connectivity aspect of the site… Check it out…