Download Hmmcast #20 (mp3)

Most Hmm-worthy posts from August 19 - August 25, 2006
- Skype click to call from web pages in real world use (0) [aug 19]
- RocketDock Mac dock clone for Windows (**1) [aug 20]

“…Rocketdock looks tasty!”
– Comment by Matt — August 21, 2006 @ 12:52 pm

- A list of 92 Google trademarks (2) [aug 21]
- Wonder if Scoble Spaces out on beach blogging? (**4) [aug 21]

“We won’t be switching URLs again. We had to do it for a number of reasons involving scale (multiple data center support via custom DNS, etc.) as well as brand (can’t have Live Spaces under msn.com!) but we’re now done. We’re exploring custom domains, of course. I want it just like the next guy. Torrestalking.com is registered”
– Comment by Mike Torres — August 21, 2006 @ 9:04 pm

- Midnight Maddeniacs (1) [aug 22]
- … agony of defeat (**5) [aug 22]

“Looks like you have your tennis shoes on. Climbing with tennis shoes is hard. You might try barefoot next time, if they let you.”
– Comment by Andrew Ferguson — August 22, 2006 @ 12:33 pm

- 10 mistakes made by a non-friend blogger (**6) [aug 23]

“I have terrible grammar. I think so anyways and my English teachers have all told me so throughout my education. But I do have a pet peeve with spelling. Yet, if I make a mistake, I correct it and call myself an idiot because that was my own fat-fingering. I think that whether or not people do so is their own perogative. If you want to type with bad spelling, who the heck cares. It’s a blog for crying out loud, not a dissertation.”
– Comment by darkmoon — August 23, 2006 @ 3:47 pm

“Yeah, having terrible grammar has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the success of a blog. Look at me, I’m french, and I can barely type 10 words without doing a mistake.. (Maybe I’m exagerating a bit).. but I still generate more then 100k page views per month and get some link love from all around the place.. People don’t care about the way you write. If you give them something interesting to look at, they’ll come back over and over again.”
– Comment by Kiltak — August 23, 2006 @ 9:45 pm

- The bill for my wife’s surgery arrived with errors (3) [aug 23]
- A Chip in Jeopardy (6) [aug 24]
- After death MySpacees don’t part with MyDeathSpace (0) [aug 25]

This week historical news events and releases
- Google Base API
- Windows Live Contacts Beta
- Internet Explorer 7 RC 1
- AOL terminations and resignations, including one from the CTO
- and AOL makes deal with Hollywood for online movie distribution
- RIAA putting screws to guitar tab sites
- YouTube getting into video ads
- Microsoft invites Firefox team to headquarters
- Sony to buy P2P video sharing site Guba for $65 million
- Apple recalls 1.8 million batteries made by Sony

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Duration: 13:28

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• Hmmcast #25: Better late than severed
• Hmmcast #17: She’s only 17 edition
• Hmmcast #19: Catching up
• Hmmcast #4: Xbox 360, newspapers and more
• Hmmcast #24: DRM, conversational blogging and time not on vloggling side