Time to clean up my inbox and post the things I thought were worth reading about. Don’t you just love those sunny autumn saturdays? Let’s see what was interesting or funny this week that I didn’t blog due to a great lack of time. Some entries are fresh, others aren’t.
“From word-of-mouth, to papyrus scrawl, to Gutenberg press… we now bring you da Bible, in SMS 4m. [...] A member of the Bible Society in Australia has translated all 32,173 verses in just ‘four weeks’ (!) into SMS-style text. They even provide a free download from their site so you can send God nuggets like “In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth” to those in need of a little churchin’ up. [Warning: link may invoke choir singing and potential wrath of The Maker]” – [Engadget]
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. [iBLOGthere4iM]
Analog TV broadcasts to stop by 2009? – [Engadget]Formula for Coca Cola Leaked -[iBLOGthere4iM]
ROKR Not Selling Well (the i-tunes Motorola phone) [...] the point is simple: you make a crappy phone, nobody’s going to want to buy it. – [TechDirt]
SearchForVideo.com is a new video search engine. [GoogleBlogoscoped]
AOL buys Weblogs.inc and that causes some fuzz about how this impacts all of Weblogs Inc. authors who are paid relatively little without any equity participation. [TechDirt]
VeriSign has bought weblogs.com from Dave Winer. [Podcasting.be]
BBC accidentally reveals video iPod? [Engadget]
Scoble switches over to WordPress this weekend. New URL? http://www.scobleizer.com — that redirects to http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/. — TODO : Change your RSS feed…
NewsGator is acquiring Ranchero Software, makers of NetNewsWire. [Scoble]
Export or Backup Your Gmail Contacts List with Just a Few Clicks – [SearchEngineWatch]
“The first all-inclusive wireless television content development and production studio opened for business recently in New York City. According to the management of Wireless TV & Studios, the wireless video live and pre-recorded content is created specifically to stream to all available wireless devices and networks. ” – [TheWirelessWeblog]
Plugged In, but Tuned Out: Getting Kids to Connect To the Non-Virtual World – [Textually]
Okay. Inbox and TOBLOG list cleared. I’m ready for another week. /links.