Archive for November, 2008

Paging Mr. Tweet

Mr. Tweet is a new web service that examines your Twitter followers and recommends:
- Which of your followers should you be following in return?
- What people out there should you be following that might not be?
Unlike that crazy Twitterscore thing a few weeks ago, you don’t have to give your login information to Mr. Tweet. [...]

Twitter

YouTube Goes Widescreen and HD(?)

If you’ve been on YouTube the last day or so, you may have noticed that the player box has been extended and most of the videos on the site now have black bars on either side, much like an HD tv set when it shows 4:3 programming. Here’s a screen shot:

So why would YouTube [...]

HD, Video, YouTube
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Handbrake Now Takes Formats That Aren't DVD

For the last few years, I was using VisualHub as my video transcoder of choice. It was great – it took anything you threw at it and could export in a myriad of formats – FLV, MP4, WMV, iPod friendly version, and so on.
Sadly, the developer of VisualHub recently quit and won’t be updating the [...]

Video