Newsvine November 10, 2005
Mike Davidson: Unstealth! Get Ready For Newsvine…
News, with commentary. And, it sounds like, presence information for others reading the same news as you, with interaction options. Sign-up for an account (”a column”), publish your own “stuff”.
Great URL process:
Simply save our “Seed Newsvine” button (a bookmarklet) to your browser and click it whenever you read a great story anywhere on the web. Tag it with words to describe it (e.g. “alex-rodriguez, baseball, world-series”) and a link to the original story, along with your comment, will automatically appear at the following pages:
newsvine.com/alex-rodriguez
newsvine.com/baseball
newsvine.com/world-series
… which brings me to one of my favorite features of Newsvine: our URL structure. Anytime you want news on any subject, say “supreme-court”, simply go to newsvine.com/supreme-court and every story we have that is tagged as such will be there.
Oh and we also have local news available at urls like “seattle.newsvine.com” and “newyork.newsvine.com”.
I’m looking forward to playing with this when it comes out. Be interesting to see how the “anyone can comment” model works out - it won’t, hopefully, get flooded with garbage.
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Media Streaming
My favorite techie toy at home - a D-Link DSM-320RD. Plays DVD’s (pretty much any format, pre-recorded, recordable or re-recordable), has inputs for the compact flash cards I use in my camera, but most importantly of all plays, without skipping or any other issues, any music or video that I have stored on my computer, streaming it on demand over my wireless network.
Posting this here for convenience, and the folks that were at a recent party asking me about it 
Details at D-Link’s site here, or for the UK, here.
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Lunch
I’m a happy man
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New Torrent Search Site
As with any of these sites, who knows how long it’ll be around, but in the meantime - not the worst interface I’ve ever seen, fast, and actually found my test material, which was pretty obscure.
We’ll save the debate on “should torrents be legal?” for another day 
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World66 Maps - Where I’ve been
All the States I’ve been to - so far. Not bad for a Brit, eh?
World66 - Visited States - United States
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