SplashData (maker of SplashPhoto, SplashID, etc.) recently released SplashBlog – a “Mobile photo sharing solution for wireless handhelds”: SplashBlog lets you instantly publish photos from your smartphone to an online photo album (photo blog) to share with others. SplashBlog includes everything you need to share your photos, including software for your smartphone and a free online photoblog account at splashblog.com. A gave this application a quick test (30-day trial is available) and it looks like a great solution for mobile picture blogging. In fact, this could be a great moblogging application in general if they allowed posting without images. SplashBlog…
After thoroughly enjoying last weekend’s season-opening Daytona 500 (go Jeff!), I poked around Yahoo Sports to see what’s new this year. It looks like the Sports team has been busy with several site improvements, including live leaderboard coverage and a new features page. The leaderboard shows up to three drivers’ progress throughout the race. I’m glad to see this data being presented graphically — it makes it much more compelling that another table full of numbers. The driver stats page also has some improvements, including this interesting “Nextel Key Stats” diagram (note the extra credit Jeff Gordon gets for running…
Like a lot of other sites, I started receiving a ton of trackback and comment spam a couple weeks ago. I was set up for all new comments to be moderated, but even that step became a burden. Plus, the trackbacks are not moderated which the spammers have just realized I suppose. After reading up on the various solutions people have created for MovableType, I installed MT-Blacklist. I was at first reluctant to rely on a blacklist approach, but this plugin is quite powerful, automatically updating its blacklist from the master at Jay’s site. You can also add your own…
Treonauts has a nice comparison of the web browsing experience with Blazer (the built-in Treo web browser from palmOne) and Xiino (from Mobirus). Their overall conclusion showed Xiino being significantly faster than Blazer. I’ve heard good things about Blazer 4.0, but for now it’s only available on the Treo 650, not as a separate software package. Checking back on my analysis of mobile user agents, I do show a very small number of Xiino hits (only 0.22% of the total).
As they’ve done for the past few years, iFilm.com has collected all of the 2005 SuperBowl Commercials online. Most websites are posting their own commercials as well, if you want to watch or download them directly. Even though I watched the entire game, I think I missed a few ads. I liked the Tabasco and Ameriquest ads the best. Overall the ads didn’t seem as ground-breaking or innovative as they have in the past.