Skype Group IM's

Well thats just plain dumb, the founder of a skype group IM should be able to delete people from a group im they started.

Can I remove members from a Shared Group?

No you cannot delete other members from a shared group. You can only remove yourself from the group

Fail=Skype
 
 
Cheers,
Dean

Hey Nascar Fans, need your help.

Hey Nascar fans we need your advice about our new website http://www.livenascarchat.com/


As you may or may not know already, our company http://www.livechatconcepts.com/ run a series of websites that provide “Live Chat” venues centered round “Live Events”. Sites we’ve run in the past include http://www.livebaseballchat.com/ and http://www.livefootballchat.com/

This site http://www.livenascarchat.com/ wont be a forum, it wont be a news site – it doesn’t replace any of the current Nascar sites you go to.

We just provide a central place for people to chat live “in the race”, basically a live chat room starts 30 minutes before the race and finished 30 minutes after the race.

Basically you will still need to use your current sites to connect with each other outside of these times but live during the race this is a central destination website to talk about what you are watching live.

We also have some neat functions where you can tweet twitter messages to your personal twitter account & post messages to your personal facebook wall from directly within the application itself.

However this year is our first time setting up a Nascar live chat session and we need some advice.


Do you think we should run live chat sessions for;
1/ Just the Sprint Cup races
2/ Sprint Cup + Nationwide races
3/ Sprint Cup + Nationwide + Truck races
4/ All of the above + the practise sessions as well?

We’re trying to find out how many of you watch all of them, and how many of you want us to provide these free chat rooms for all or would you prefer just some of the events.

Post your messages below to let us know.

Thanks in advance – btw you can register now for a beta invite which will automatically send you an email as soon as we turn the site on for the first race.

Feel free to tweet out the url http://www.livenascarchat.com/ and get your friends to join up so you can all be registered before the first race.


Cheers,
Dean Collins
http://www.livechatconcepts.com/

Dumbo is hip

http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/news/dear_advertising_were_moving_this_btch_to_brooklyn_love_digital_150378.asp?

It's a bit of a task to find food down there but with the new park going in around the promenade brooklyn heights rocks and is undervalued. 

http://blog.collins.net.pr/2009/10/brooklyn-promenade-park.html 


Cheers,
Dean

Bowery Ballroom sucks

I was online at 12pm exactly to buy tickets for "She & Him" for their March concert.

At 12.00.01 I hit enter and basically came back saying no tickets available. So i thought hmm maybe a problem with the browser so refresh did a new search and again no tickets available.

Kind of weird but ok i'll try for the second night (tuesday), also sold out.

I thought there was something broken with ticketmaster until i read on twitter all tickets sold out already (eg my 3 attempts were in in less than 60 seconds.

Now for the really shitty part -


http://www.stubhub.com/she-and-him-tickets/she-and-him-new-york-bowery-ballroom---ny-3-30-2010-931707/?isGen2Event=1

basically there are over 100 tickets already for resale on Stubhub at 4 times the entry price within 3 minutes of the tickets going on sale.

This is fraud.

Basically Bowery Ballroom are selling tickets to all their scalper friends and buddies in advance so that they can then go and sell them making $100 a ticket scalping them.

This is crap.

Basically the scalper is making more from the gig than the performer - how sucky is that? I wonder if Zooey knows that she is helping Bowery Ballroom friends to make more money than she is that night, so much for the fans :(


Cheers,
Dean

My.Live.com shutting down - i need a new RSS reader

logged on this morning to find that http://my.live.com/ is being shut down

As such i need to find a neww RSS reader. Do you have any advice or suggestions you'd liek to make?

- Needs to be online - not an app as i access from multiple locations (or needs to sync read files from multiple locations).
- Needs to be graphicaly grouped, not just a stream of rss lines
- Would be nice if also had a mobile component so i can access from my Droid as well.


Cheers,
Dean

IPL signs major deal with YouTube

Breaking News: IPL signs a major deal with YouTube

YouTube is to show this year’s Indian Premier League live, according to a report in today’s Guardian.

The deal will involve every country except the US.
The two-year deal gives the Google-owned YouTube the exclusive rights to stream IPL matches online, with the two companies splitting revenue from sponsorship and advertising.
These matches will be streamed live for free with Indian cricket fans globally now being able to access every match online.



My official response is;

This is fantastic news not only for IPL and it's worldwide fan base but also for YouTube as a proof of concept for wider coverage of live events.


I've fired up the beta invite registration for http://www.livecricketchat.com/ this morning and we'll be running live chat sessions along side all of the IPL games.

If you aren't already familiar with http://www.livechatconcepts.com/ we run highly scalable live chat sessions in conjunction with live events and are deeply integrated into Twitter and Facebook social networks (check out http://www.livefootballchat.com/ as an example).

This will be a fantastic venue for Indians globally to unite under the banner of sport.

Look forward to seeing all the IPL fans on http://www.livecricketchat.com/  with the first match.


Cheers,
Dean Collins
http://www.livechatconcepts.com/

Mobile music sync for Android

I've blogged before about MediaMonkey and it's a great windows mp3 desktop player appliccation; however i've only really recently gotten the full benefit out of how good it was for syncing music to your mobile with my purchase of the Motorola Droid.

My old htc didn't have the ability to allow direct storage access to the memory card so i had to pull out the sd card and insert into a reader, with the motorola droid all i need to do is connect the usb then on the device itself mount the memory card (it's a one touch process).

After that all i need to do on Media Monkey is click "tools" then click "sync device" and thats it, takes about 30 seconds per gb of music.

As you can see from the screenshot you have a ton of functionality for syncing both mobile specific and non mobile specific playlists.

My personal playlists that i choose to sync to my handset are:
- "1 hour of my 5 star favorites" that were played last (eg i have about 100 cd's that are rated as 5 star favorites and it tracks when i last listened to them, it then selects the oldest listened to cd and syncs it automatically, if i listen to it on my mobile before i sync next it then swaps it out, if i haven't listened to it then it stays.
-"Last 50 played" this one is basically it tracks the last 50 songs i listened to on my pc and syncs these across, eg. Lets say i was in a White Stripes mood today then it will sync this across as i might want to listen to it again when i walk the dog tonight.
-"Mobile Sync" lastly this is the MobileSync playlist, basically any song or cd or artist i right click my mouse on and click add to mobile sync it then syncs these across.

Pretty simple and works great.

At the moment i use Meridian to play the tracks on my Droid, it's ok but could be better. Though software development on Android is such a moving target by the time you read this I'll probably be using something else.


Cheers,
Dean

So are you going to be watching the superbowl?

Giddyup - see you online at http://www.livefootballchat.com/ on Sunday the 7th of Feb.

The Third and The Seventh

I am mute, i am speechless - there are no words to describe this masterpiece of work.

"The Third and The Seventh" is a piece of work that has the ability to restore your faith in humanity and that there is deeper meaning to the soul.

I cant do it justice, please read the article below AFTER you watch it but understand in advance that every pixel and every image (even the audio soundtrack) that you are going to see over the next 12 minutes is entirely computer generated, and was created by one single person who took a year off work to create this masterpiece.

Please watch this entire video in fullscreen (the little white arrows button in the bottom right) but apart from that set your imagination free and just experience.


The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

More details on the how and why in this article http://www.the-area.com/inhouse/bts/publications_by_alex_roman though feel free to skip it and just go and watch the video again.

I have no idea what else Alex/Jorge or whatever he wants to call himself is working on but this is a true piece of art worthy of display alongside da vinci, van gough or salvador dali.

Have a great weekend everyone.


Cheers,
Dean
P.S. I came across this at http://www.epicfu.com/ so massive hat tip to them for this.

Hillary Clinton demands a free internet

So Hillary Clinton spent an hour demanding a free and open internet for all citizens of the world, obviously aimed at the Chinese/Google debacle. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1705667530?bctid=62730021001

But i wonder if this is going to change how the USA enforces its own policies on not only its citizens but also other countries who do not follow the laws 'as the USA see it'.

Does Hillary Clinton also propose that the USA should stop blocking Antigua online gambling and accept the WTO ruling of 2007.
http://blog.collins.net.pr/2007/04/wto-rules-usa-gambling-ban-illegal.html
http://blog.collins.net.pr/2008/02/online-gambling-deals-between-us-and.html

Will the USA finally accept other countries can make their own sovereign laws and the USA doesnt "own the internet".

I doubt it - i guess it's only another example of the usa telling those third world asians to follow the usa "way of white life" or else.


Cheers,
Dean