dcinput daily for Tue 5th Dec, 2006
The 1K project II is a short generated entirely from digitally combining over 1000 car races in the driving simulator Trackmania. Sounds majorly geeky but it’s actually pretty cool.
Techcrunch reports that Amazon may have inadvertantly let slip that they are releasing a new web service called SDS - Simple Data Service…or maybe not.
One of the most frustrating things for that I find with itunes and the ipod is the whole way the syncing process works. The whole idea of syncing is appealing to me since like most people on the planet I’m a pretty busy person. The ability to be able to wake up in the morning plug the ipod into the laptop for a minute while your latest podcasts load up and then skip off to work listening to your favorite mind snack is a killer feature.
Unfortunately the apple implementation of this feature is pretty lousy. Out of all the settings, what I want is to only have on my ipod at any one time all the podcasts that I haven’t listened to yet. Now iTunes does have such a feature but according to iTunes listening to 1 second of a podcast equates to listening to the whole thing. Setting out on a journey expecting to continue listening to a podcast that you have partially listened to, only to find that it has been marked incorrectly as played and therefor has been removed from the player can do only one thing: it makes me mad.
Anyone thinking of making a podcast device needs to fix this. Please.
Something I realised today about the disintermediation caused by the web: if your profession has the word intermediate in it, start getting worried. For some reason this wasn’t obvious to me yesterday.