Flickr Video Launches

I finally have my photo and video site. This should have happened a long time ago and now it is finally there. With family and friends already on Flickr for Photo sharing it was the perfect space for me to allow Video Sharing too and this is now a reality for pro users. There is a 90 second and 150 MB length limit for videos but the implementation itself is stunningly beautiful. Pro Accounts do not have an upload (in total) or bandwidth limit though. Kick ass! Read a launch report on Techcrunch.

Sadly the atom interface that allows me to post photos from my mobile phone, does not seem to be there yet for videos, but it will surely be coming.

Update: You seem to be able to upload via m.flickr.com

Aggregating the Aggregators

I am wondering if I am not slowly but surely getting into problems. I like trying out things and there is a lot of great stuff out there. Aggregators of your personal life are starting to come up but this actually poses a problem.

I recently made a change in how I blog, twitter, tumble, the like. Real thoughts go in here, little notes go into twitter, which is more of a conversation. All the stuff in between now actually ends up on my Tumblr Blog. But the Tumblr Blog actually aggregates del.icio.us tags tagged linkblog, as well as flickr posts with tag moblog and my kyte.tv posts as well as qik live streams. It kind of aggregates my short thoughts.

Above that I also installed Noserub on my own server, for a large part because Dirk works at Ormigo and because I think it is one of the most interesting implementations in the open social graph movement. It aggregates all my accounts into one view. I can’t really have it aggregate my Tumblr blog because that would double aggregate a lot of stuff. It is actually more likely that I will remove some stuff and only have it take the Tumblr blog. That is actually more what goes on in my life that might interest other people than all the other stuff.

This is also one of the reasons I kept twitter out of the aggregation via Tumblr, because it’s kind of a different level that people have to be able to choose distinctly to follow.

What we really need is something that will aggregate all my feeds, and somehow allows my friends to selectively subscribe to that stream of my ideas, somehow only giving them what might interest them, maybe based on what they read. This would actually be a very fun project. There you go, another start-up idea for somebody out there. Even better would be if somebody would write something that extends Noserub to that extend. I am sure Dirk would not mind.

With that off my chest, on to some more work :)

Mobile Internet Arrives in Germany

When I first heard about the 25 EUR Base UMTS Internet Flatrate I was thrilled. Then I really complained because you needed a second SIM card to use it. Ever heard of Bluetooth and UMTS phones? I went as far as complaining to both the support line as well as their press people. In the end, one of their press representatives called, I threatened with the blog of course ;), and explained their view to me, which revolved around the fact that billing it on one card would be harder and that they really saw it as a replacement for internet at the home.

I was however reassured that they would be looking into it and only 3 months later I see a change. If you look at this page on base.de, you will see that the footnote changed, if you speak german. There is now the option to either have this on your normal SIM card or on a second one. Rock on! This is affordable always online! This is where the mobile internet has to move. Add stuff like Mabber, Moblogging via Flickr, SyncML, Bluetooth and lots of train travel and you are having something that the mobile internet can really be used to. Yeah, I am a big supporter of FON, but that is not, and will not be, available everywhere. This will. My second phone from T-Mobile still has two months to go on its included bandwidth plan but I am pretty sure to enable this base thing pretty soon. Thanks Base!

P.S.: VoIP is excluded, but you have to give them something ;)

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The Paris Riots

Found it via Loic. Really check out Check out this set on Flickr by Gonzale. Amazing.

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Following Les Blogs

Sadly I can’t be in Paris on monday for Les blogs but I managed to get several friends to go so I will hopefully get the inside story ;) If you, like me, want to but can’t go, here are two locations to get the latest info on all the fun.

-> An RSS feed from Flickr is here from the lesblogs tag.
-> Technorati has the tagged posts but sadly not RSS feed that I know of.

There is also an extensive list right here.

Update: Images are filling up on Flickr and it seems like doing this at the french senate hasn’t been the best idea ever … well I still think it is but I do not suffer from coffee withdrawl… only because I am not there … which is at least as sad as coffee withdrawl. :)