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36 Hours in South Beach, Florida

frank — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:20:14 +0000

The Gansevoort South Hotel fashionable rooftop pool and bar

MIAMI SOUTH BEACH has too much cologne, critics say; too expensive, too crowded. But like other American meccas of decadence, SoBe still has an irresistible, democratic pull.

For everyone from the pale Iowa retiree to the Bentley-driving rapper, it remains the place to strut shamelessly. And even jaded locals still indulge.

For the timeless South Beach experience, amble along to the wooden boardwalk that extends from 21st to 47th Street before city planners replace the raised platform with a ground-level path.

Take in the views: on one side is the ocean; the other, the crumbling, yet-to-be-renovated Art Deco hotels that offer a Pompeii-like look back at Miami Beach when diving boards and peach walls still dominated.

Play the 36 Hours in South Beach video!

Several hotels have recently opened in Miami Beach. Among the swankiest is the W South Beach (2201 Collins Avenue; 305-938-3000; www.wsouthbeach.com), where every room offers ocean views, a Bose sound system and enough gray marble in the bathrooms to make you feel like you’re in a hamam. Rooms start at $384.

The Gansevoort South (2377 Collins Avenue; 305-604-1000;www.gansevoortsouth.com) has 334 rooms with slightly higher prices, from $395, in a building it renovated but still shares with longtime residents (who use a separate entrance). The enormous pools are a highlight.

South Pointe Park, at the tip of South Beach, has been treated to a $22 million facelift and looks fantastic.

Midbeach — which means more cab rides — sits the Fontainebleau and its $1 billion renovation (4441 Collins Avenue; 305-538-2000; www.fontainebleau.com). Rooms start at $429 plus a $12.95 resort fee.

WordPress 3.0 Intro by Damian Montero

frank — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:42:32 +0000

Future release of WordPress version 3.0 from Damian Montero.

WordPress 3.0 will be released in May 2010 and will support running multiple blogs/sites from one installation.

New WordPress 3.0 Features:

Easier blog menu management, dynamic image resize/crop, media upload UI redesign (begun in 2.9 but postponed for implementation due to technical issues), photo albums, custom content type UI and API, supercharging queries (cross-taxonomies), categories/tags for pages, auto-taxonomy UI, custom fields UI (possibly to be registered by themes or plugins for something to be displayed), settings UI redesign, improve the upgrade process (inc. distros for specific use types), SVN awareness, canonical plugins and a UI for displaying them, plugin page redesign, themes UI redesign, comments UI touchup, decouple language updates and files, new default theme, choose your own start page, caps lock detection, accessibility admin theme, mobile admin theme, synching custom fields > taxonomies, exif refresh, role management simplification, credits page in app, default custom types (microblog, galleries, asides), admin bar, front end comment moderation, front end posting (a la P2), better importers, widget installer, importer installer, more inline documentation, built-in “Welcome to WordPress” guide for 1st time admin use/checklist (set settings, add profiles, set up comment options, dashboard modules, add widgets, pick a theme, etc) with ability to dismiss as you move through, better help tab, more template tags, better zone selector, new code editor, XSL for RSS feeds (pretty feeds), bulk user creation (lazy load importer?), below post widgets, image importing, HTML validation, customizable comment form, Twitter and Flickr importers, WordPress capitalization catcher, configurable QuickPress configurable (add categories), more dashboard modules, easy linking to internal content when writing new content in editor, audit of error messages and updating them to be clearer revisions for custom fields and taxonomies… the list is endless, really, because there are so many cool things to do.

Flash Streaming Video Production

frank — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:58:30 +0000

With the spread of broadband Internet access, online video clips are having a profound effect on how Internet users view information online.

Flash Encoded Videos (FLV format) is the Internet standard of videos, used by thousands of websites, news networks, YouTube, AtomFilms, Daily Motion, eBaum’s World, among many others. Scroll down for a list of streaming video websites.

We use Flash Video Encoder to ensure that optimized Flash video is the smallest size possible (for ease and speed of download), without compromising the original quality of the clip.

Flash Video Player is found in more browsers than any other player. Flash works on Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Flash works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.

We can convert any DVD, AVI, or MOV file into FLV and publish as streaming video clip on your website.

See sample websites that we have embedded high quality Flash Videos:

www.randyrrross.com | www.miamiattys.com | www.avner.com

Contact us to add Streaming Flash Videos to your website!

Listing of streaming video websites:

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AOL Video – Watch music videos, news, movie trailers, and TV shows
All Player Stats – watch sports videos
All Things Science – Release your inner Einstein

AajKaTV – South Asian Video -
AtomFilms – Web Comedy Galore

B-

Blinkx – Over 7 million hours of video. Search it all
Brightcove – Find and watch the online video

Babelgum – TV Expierence, Internet substance
Blog tv – Broadcast your own TV Show
Break – Free videos
BooksVideos.tv – Watch the story behind the story

Bubble Comments – Share video comments with others
Bofunk – dishin the funk, without the junk
Bragster – Dare your friends and brag about it
Boatson.tv – Boat videos on Online.

Bing Video – Watch and search for videos

C-
Clevver – Action & comedy movie trailers and music videos

CNN Video - Watch news and breaking news videos at CNN.com
Crackle- Watch, create, and share video (formerly Grouper)
Channel 101 – Video entertainment
Current – Your World. View

Constant Comedy – The next stage for entertainment
Coffee Shorts – Independent short films
Cast TV – One Stop Watching
Clipta – video search

Chew.tv – A communication channel for a connected generation New

E-
Earth Cam - Where the world watches the world
eBaum’s World – Funny videos

Flixwagon – Life is a Journey.
Broadcast it Live
Fancast – What you can watch today
Feedky - Video videos through RSS
Funtouristattractions.com – Fun tourist attractions videos

FunnyFilth – More funny videos, less bs

Gawker.tv – Unhealthily Obsessed with Video

Hulu – Watch your favorite videos
History.com – The day history video & speeches

Ivnet.tv – Global broadband TV
Inewsit – Community powered news
Intoxicated Videos – Best drunk videos on the web

Indy Mogul – Fun cheap filmmaking

Jeezem – Laugh hard live well - NEW

Kalam.TV -
the largest video portal in the Middle East

Live Leak – Refefining the media
Le Gourmet TV – Dedicated to Gourmet Food and the like

Mega Video – I’m watchin’ it
Motorsportmad.com – Every category of morotsport

My Yoga Online – Video Yoga Classes

Mefeedia.com – Video search and discover
Muzu TV – Bands and fans Broadcast Music TV on the web
Molv – Live video from mobile phones to the web

N-
Nasa TV – Watch live from NASA
NY Times Video - Video on demand from the New York Times
New Baby – Where moms learn, share, and create video

P-
Pure Video - Watch and search for videos
Pixsy.com – Search for photos and videos
Peekvid - Watch videos
Public.tv – Watch public sector, professional training, and business videos

Poker Listing TV – Educational & fun poker videos

Recession TV – A site for the times
RipitTube – Rip it – share it – check it

Searchforvideo.com - Video search
Spike TV – Premier online destination for men
South Park Studios – All episodes from television series
Snotr – The ultimate place for great videos

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Trooker – Find it, watch it, trook it
TV Land – Video clips of classic television and original series
TV Life – Watch Shows online free

Twango – Video sharing
TurnHereTravel.tv – A video for every destination
TuCristo.com – Dando Testimonio Vivo
Totlol – Video for kids

Truevo – Video Search
The Doctors Channel – Internet TV for Doctors
Trip Films – Travel inspired Videos

U-
Ustream.tv – Live, interactive broadcasting

Video Jug – Life explained. On Film. Upload/share your videos
Viral Videos - Watch the web’s most shared viral videos
Video.ca – Canadian video sharing community
Vimeo – Watch, upload, and search for videos

Video Bomb – Social bookmarking for video
Vsocial.com – Online video and social media tools
Video Clips Dump – Your daily entertainment
Video Surf – Video search engine

Video Bloom – Online video advertising and distribution solutions

X-

Youku.com – #1 video sharing site for China

WordPress for Blackberry

frank — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:29:09 +0000

Introducing WordPress for BlackBerry

WordPress has officially released their public beta of WordPress for BlackBerry.

We weren’t expecting it to come so soon! Official word has just come from Matt at Wordpress that their new BlackBerry App is now in public beta. This is great news for all Wordpress users, who want to be able to post on the go. Download the Wordpress for BlackBerry App Beta here.

WordPress for iPhone

frank — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:59:39 +0000

WordPress for iPhone 2.1 was released. The new iPhone app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod touch. Download the latest WordPress for iPhone version from Apple’s App Store.

A Vision for Open-Source e-commerce

frank — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:48:50 +0000

Roy Rubin CEO of Varien

Varien CEO Roy Rubin’s passion for customer service and open-source e-commerce shines in this video, in which he discusses open-source e-commerce and the motivations behind building Magento.

“We’ve been very frustrated with the state of open-source e-commerce -- we knew it could be done better.”

Q: Tell us about Magento. Where do you make your money and who is your typical customer? Can you give any data or statistics on how the company is doing?

Rubin: Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform that provides merchants with a sophisticated software platform to manage their online sales. Magento enables online businesses to develop and rapidly deploy multiple types of e-commerce sites from a single instance of the platform -- globally.

Magento is currently used by tens of thousands of merchants conducting billions of dollars in online transactions. We have reached over 1 million downloads in 2009. In the first eight weeks since launching the Enterprise Edition Subscription, we’ve had over 7,000 merchants get in touch to learn more about our new product. We have closed a double-digit number of deals and now have a strong pipeline of merchants and solution providers that we are talking to.

A typical customer for us is an organization that recognizes the mission-critical nature of an e-commerce platform and expects a strong support/warranty/SLA as well as access to advanced enterprise features. Our customers today include Fortune 500s, midmarket brick and mortar retailers, pure-play Internet focused merchants, and smaller organizations.

Matt Mullenweg reveals future of Wordpress – Part 2

frank — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:30:28 +0000

A former CNET employee, Matt Mullenweg is the co-founding developer behind the open source WordPress blogging platform and its founding company Automattic, the company behind the open-source blogging tool WordPress and a handful of other software projects. WordPress.com powers 12 million blogs, including those of The New York Times, which invested in Mullenweg’s company last year.

Matt Mullenweg Reveals Future of Wordpress – Part 1

frank — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:26:47 +0000