A new website aptly named Videoonwikipedia.org aims to get more users to contribute video clips to Wikipedia by demystifying some of the issues related to the site’s video format. Videoonwikipedia.org was launched today by the Participatory Culture Foundation, which is also known for its Miro video player, in cooperation with the Open Video Alliance, the Mozilla Drumbeat Project and open source video platform provider Kaltura.

The main idea behind the site is obviously to enrich Wikipedia, which currently doesn’t feature many articles with videos, but the Participatory Culture Foundation also sees this as a chance to showcase HTML5 video and the open video codec Ogg Theora. “Wikipedia is the most popular site in the world that posts video exclusively in open formats,” the organization’s co-founder Nicholas Reville wrote in a blog post, adding: “By encouraging more people to post videos in Wikipedia articles, we can bring theora video played in html5 to a very large audience.”

The new site offers its users a quick and very basic step-by-step guide for posting videos on Wikipedia, which includes converting them to Ogg Theora, signing up for a Wikipedia account and enabling video upload capabilities on the site.

The Participatory Culture Foundation aims to simplify the encoding and converting issues with a new and as of yet unannounced tool dubbed the Miro Video Converter. Users of the converter can simply select Theora as the output format of choice, drop a video file onto the application and wait for the file in question to be converted.

Video on Wikipedia has been a long time coming, with the Wikimedia Foundation announcing plans to embrace video in early 2008. However, the site’s strong commitment to open formats has somewhat slowed down the adoption process, as it took a while until browsers capable of playing Flash-free video via HTML5 became available.

However, part of the delay apparently has also to do with internal issues, as representatives from Wikimedia and its technology partner Kaltura told me earlier this year. Kaltura’s VP of Business and Community Development Shay David said back then that Wikipedia editors took a while to get comfortable with video. “People needed to understand that video is an important aspect of Wikipedia,” he told me, adding: “That needed some time.”

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Contrary to popular belief, web developers do sometimes leave their desks, and when they do, that’s always when clients seem to call or disaster seems to strike.

We’ve highlighted some iPhone apps here that will help you out in those situations, and a few others that will stash several neat tricks up your proverbial sleeve for when you’re away from the office.

Have a look, and if you’re an iPhone-owning web dev, let us know which apps you find useful for your work in the comments below.

Concentric Sky offers a range of code “cheat sheets” ideal for when your mind just goes blank and you’re away from your usual reference material. Priced at $0.99 each, there are apps available for CSS, mySQL, JavaScript, php, RegEx, jQuery and HTML — the last three of which let you write and test code inside the app. Searchable, and clearly laid out, the info in the apps is available offline, unlike other options that link out to external references. Whether you want to brush up on the bus, or need to code on-the-go, these will be a useful weapon in your web design arsenal. Another great alternative is jQuery 1.4.

Cost: $0.99 each

A little bit like Adobe’s Kuler on your handset, Color Stream is an app that will help you narrow down the correct color, or palette of colors, for a project. The Lite version of the app is available for free, and lets you create a palette of five colors side-by-side using a slider bar in either RGB or CMYK modes. You can then identify your chosen shades by their hexadecimal values for use on the web. This is handy enough, but the paid-for option (priced at $2.99) offers even more functionality, such as the ability to save palettes, use the built-in color schemes, or even match colors perfectly by creating a palette based on elements from an image or photo.

Cost: Lite version is free, full version is $2.99

If you need to be able to securely log-in to a server away from your desk, then this app — which emulates desktop FTP clients on your mobile — might well be the answer. As well as offering the ability to edit text on the fly and make those changes live quickly, there’s the option to view common file types, download them to your iPhone, e-mail them, and upload videos and correctly-sized pics from your mobile device too. Meanwhile, cleverly getting around the iPhone’s multi-tasking issues, there’s a built-in web browser so you can see changes without leaving the app, allowing for speedy work — which as far as we know, no client has ever complained about.

If you don’t need access to your FTP server, don’t forget about Dropbox for the iPhone, which will let you view your Dropbox folder while on the go.

Cost: $6.99

For an on-the-go, at-a-glance look at you site’s stats, either for your own consumption, or to keep a customer satisfied, Ego is a one-stop-shop for such data. This app does not go into extreme detail, but it will summarize data from Ember, Feedburner, Google Analytics, Mint (with an additional download), Squarespace, Twitter and Vimeo. Data such as how many Twitter followers an account has racked up, feed subscription totals, and visitor numbers are all at your fingertips in an easy-to-use app that saves you logging into to a plethora of individual services. The developer, Garrett Murray, says Ego offers a flexible framework for adding support for other services, and welcomes suggestions on adding other stat-tracking options.

Cost: $1.99

In addition to offering a full-screen browser (as opposed to the iPhone’s Safari window), this app allows you to make notes on, or copy and paste text from, web pages. Whether you’re browsing around for inspiration or assessing a site for changes/improvements, being able to easily annotate the web with a mobile app is simply brilliant. Other functionality includes the ability to upload .txt .doc .pdf .ppt .xls .rtf .jpg files, bookmark sites, and share uploaded documents over Wi-Fi to any web-enabled computer.

Cost: $1.99

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YouTube’s users are uploading 24 hours of video every minute, the site’s director of product management Hunter Walk just announced. From Walks’s blog post:

YouTube’s users were uploading 20 hours of video per minute about ten months ago, the site announced last May, after reaching 15 hours of video in January 2009. In early 2007, YouTube was clocking six hours of footage every minute.

YouTube has been stepping up its efforts to monetize its vast amount of content; the site announced yesterday that it was opening up display ad overlays to everyone, which should lead to many more advertisers embracing the format.

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Google Apps is offering migration for Microsoft Exchange. The service is free with Google Apps Premiere or Google Apps Education.

Last July, Google Apps began offering migration from IBM's Lotus Notes. Most enterprises are standardized on either Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes, which means that Google now pretty much can migrate any organization to the cloud. Google also offers connection to Blackberry Enterprise Server.Google Apps is providing migration for Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007.

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Microsoft has very limited capability to offer a cloud-based email environment. Most of the offerings it provides are locally installed, single-hosting services. Concerns will wane about cloud security. The ability to offer a cloud-based email environment for easy access will be the norm, not the exception. But even though Google has a jump, Microsoft will have its own offering. In the meantime, Google has an opportunity to make another leap into the enterprise.

This does represent a tipping point for many companies shedding IT assets. The question about email often comes up when companies consider moving to the cloud. It's an important part of the migration. In recent weeks, we have seen how email is becoming a foundation for the evolution of a web oriented, social enterprise. Google Apps Marketplace offers the capability to offer third party applications that integrate with Google Apps. Email is a critical part of the equation in this Google ecosystem. It provides a backbone for companies to connect its employees with Google Apps and the associated third-parties.

The process to migrate looks relatively simple. Through Google Apps, a customer enters their Microsoft Exchange user name and what it calls "two-legged OAuth," consisting of a consumer user key and a consumer "secret". They then upload a .CSV file consisting of the email adresses, calendar and contact information. It is optional what to migrate. For example, an IT administrator may upload email addresses and contact data but not the calendar. Email service does not get interrupted during the migration.

This is a compelling offering for companies moving to the cloud. But it's only part of the equation. Google still needs to prove it is robust enough for the enterprise to migrate to Google Apps. In the meantime, Microsoft needs to act fast and provide a cloud offering that at least gives its own community the option to move Microsoft Exchange to the cloud.

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Apple’s iPhone wasn’t originally conceived as a business-focused device; however, the advent of the App Store and the rapid rise in usage and adoption has really given the platform — and the phone — some pretty great use cases for business users. The iPhone App Store has more than 150,000 applications and separating the wheat from the chaff, especially when you have a specific goal or task in mind can be difficult. That’s why I’ve compiled this list of some of the best applications for the iPhone for the small business user.

Something that really sets this generation of smartphone devices apart from devices of even five years ago is the rise in cloud computing and ubiquitous connectivity. While accessing e-mail from multiple devices with full message history intact is old-hat, that capability has now extended to many other types of files.

Using programs like FileMagnet ($4.99) and Air Sharing ($3.99 for the regular version, $9.99 for Pro) you can easily transfer PDF, Microsoft Office and iWork files to your iPhone from your Mac or PC over WiFi.

As I’ve pointed out in the past, services like Box.net and Dropbox can be really great tools for small business owners. Both Box.net and Dropbox have free iPhone applications that let you access your files on those clouds directly from your phone.

If you’re a user of Apple’s MobileMe service, there is also a free MobileMe iDisk app that lets you access those files, folders and images directly from your iPhone.

Accessing files and folders is great, but what about when you want to get some serious work done? There are a number of full-fledged productivity applications that make it possible to not only view, but also edit documents, even on cloud-based services.

QuickOffice Connect Suite for the iPhone ($9.99) is a great app because it not only lets you view your Microsoft Office documents, but also edit and create those documents — both stored locally on your phone, and on cloud services like Google Docs, MobileMe, Box.net and Dropbox.

This means you can view a file shared with you on Box.net or in your Dropbox folder, make some changes and save it back. Likewise, you can create a new document or spreadsheet and save it to a cloud service of your choice.

Documents To Go Premium ($14.99) also lets you view and edit Microsoft Office docs on your iPhone, but it only supports Google Docs right now.

If you really need to view documents more than edit, GoodReader ($0.99) is not only the best PDF viewer on the iPhone (you can view files up to 1GB in size without having issues), you can access files from WebDAV servers (including MobileMe), Box.net, Dropbox and for a $0.99 in-app purchase, you can also access GoogleDocs.

File editing is limited to text files for right now, but the viewing capabilities, the ability to transfer files over WiFi, download PDF files from a URL directly to the iPhone and support for stuff like zipping and unzipping of files make this app really fantastic. If you ever find yourself needing to deal with exceptionally large PDF files, GET THIS APP.

That camera on your iPhone is for more than just quick snapshots and Facebook uploads. Believe it or not, it’s also a really good document scanner. This goes double for iPhone 3GS owners, as the improved lens and built-in auto-focus and stabilization features make it a real asset for document capture.

While the iPhone camera might not displace a high-quality document or business-card scanner, you might be surprised at how well it can work, especially when paired with the right software.

JotNot Scanner ($4.99) is a solid document scanner that lets you scan multiple page PDF files and then save them to MobileMe, Evernote, Dropbox. Box.net or Google Docs. If you upload to Google Docs you can even take advantage of Google’s OCR engine for better document processing. The app is really optimized for the iPhone 3GS but older iPhones can still utilize its featureset.

Scanner Pro ($6.99) is another solid scanning option. It also can upload to Box.net, Dropbox, Mobile Me (or any WebDAV service). It also lets you do custom-page sizes, send scans by e-mail and if you also have the Print n Share ($6.99), seamlessly send a document to your printer.

For users who need to send faxes from the iPhone, there are a number of faxing-specific apps but most of them charge a high per-fax (and sometimes per-document) fee in addition to the price of the app itself. That’s why, if you plan on doing any serious faxing, I recommend spending the $24.99 and getting the ScanR Business Center app because not only does it let you capture files as PDF and do OCR processing (with desktop web access too), you can send unlimited faxes from the app itself.

If you already have an e-mail to fax solution like eFax or Maxemail, check out Mobile Phax ($4.99) which will do document capture to PDF and easily integrate with lots of e-mail to fax programs. Of course, you can conceivably use any image to PDF app to send faxes as an attachment with your existing e-mail to fax subscription plans, Mobile Phax just makes the process a bit more seamless.

If business card scanning is what you are after, check out ScanBizCards ($5.99 or try the free Lite version).

Which iPhone apps do you find most useful for your small business? Tell us about your favorites in the comments, and look out for my next post, where I’ll discuss the best productivity apps for the iPhone for your small business.

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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: DooID

Quick Pitch: DooID combines the basic ideas of business card websites and e-mail signatures to create a useful service for everyone.

Genius Idea: DooID is a free business card website tool that lets you put an attractive, accessible page together with all of your social networks, contact information and work info in one place. You can also choose to make some information available only to users who have access to a special “guest password.”

Inspired by Tim Van Damme’s beautiful business card website, DooID is a nice option for users that want a way to showcase all of their information, but either lack the time to handcode the JavaScript or CSS or don’t know where to start.

When you sign up for the service, you choose a username that will become the basis for your DooID URL. From that point, you fill in information you want to share. You can add in user profiles from social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and more. Plus, you can add links to other websites.

You can also choose to add your personal and business contact information. This information can be publicly available, or you can choose to make things the details viewable only to users who are given your guest password.

We really like that you can customize the look of your DooID. Here’s what mine looks like, using one of the pre-built color templates and font options:

DooID has pro features that you can purchase for either $35.88 per year (or $2.99 per month) if you pay at once or $3.99 per month. This lets you add an e-mail contact form, upload your CV as PDF, have more control over your RSS feed, have access to more themes and also have access to an iPhone version of the site for an enhanced mobile look.

DooID lets all users — pro or free — embed an easy link to their DooID onto their website or on other social networks.

We really liked how easy it was to create a DooID, and think that this is a great idea, especially for users that don’t have time to build something themselves. If we had any requests, it would be that a) The Twitter icon get reversed (the “t” is currently backwards) and b) That the pro option also include the ability to map to an external domain. Even if domain mapping was a feature that cost more money, I think it would make DooID a really good option for users looking for a good landing page.

Do you have a digital business card website? If so, how did you build it? Let us know!

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The MidiVox shield turns a basic Arduino board into a standalone MIDI synthesizer with parameters tweakable via MIDI CC messages. Hook up a MIDI keyboard controller via the onboard 5-pin DIN (aka MIDI) jack, upload a sketch and play. You may be surprised what sweet sounds can be generated by a single channel of 12-bit digital-to-analog conversion (I definitely was).

A test drive of the kit's example sketch can be seen synthing just below this sentence ...

MidiVox shield for Arduino

Less than 0.2 percent of people who use Twitter wind up going to news and media sites from the social-networking site, according to a recent analysis by traffic-measurement firm Hitwise (although Hitwise just looked at traffic coming from the web site, not any third-party apps or services). So what are the top places that users go from Twitter? About 60 percent go to other social networks and entertainment sites, says Hitwise, primarily photo and video-sharing sites — in other words, places like Twitpic, Tweetphoto, YouTube, Vimeo, CollegeHumor and so on. This isn’t all that surprising, since many of the most popular links that get passed around are photos and videos that have “gone viral,” as marketing people love to say.

So why don’t more Twitter users go to news and media web sites? Maybe Twitter users just aren’t interested in the news — or at least not as interested as Facebook users, who accounted for 3.64 percent of the visits to news and media sites, or roughly 15 times the amount of traffic that Twitter accounted for. But I think it’s more likely that the reason Twitter doesn’t push more traffic to news and media sites is that not very many of them make good use of the social network to promote their content. Sure, plenty of them have RSS feeds that they push onto Twitter, and some even have millions of followers. But how much engagement comes from those links? In most cases, very little.

Most blogs and web-native media outlets, however, make it easier to share their content and are more active on Twitter in general, and they see a resulting benefit: at GigaOm, for example, the social networking site is regularly one of our top sources of traffic. Twitter says one of the main purposes of its new @anywhere platform, which was announced at SXSW, is to enable web sites to integrate Twitter and make it easier for users to follow them and share their content (some web sites are making better use of Facebook fan pages as a place to share their news, which could explain why those referral numbers are higher).

And why do people share content from Twitpic and Tweetphoto and YouTube and Vimeo? Partly because it’s easy to upload and easy to share, something that can’t be said of the content at most media sites. Lots of mainstream media outlets offer readers or users the ability to upload photos and video, but then they make it so cumbersome and layered in legal verbiage about copyright and liability that very few people do it. And virtually none make good use of Twitpic or YouTube or any other media-sharing site, because they are afraid (or their legal departments are afraid) of releasing their content into the wild where people might do unsavory things with it, like posting it to Twitter.

It’s hard to draw too many concrete conclusions from the Hitwise data, in part because it only tracked referrals from Twitter.com rather than any third-party apps and services. According to Twitter spokesman Sean Garrett, more than half of the traffic Twitter sees comes from outside the Twitter.com web site, which is roughly equivalent to what data-mining service Sysomos found when it looked at more than 500 million tweets over a six-month period last year. Regardless of the numbers, however, I would argue that the low numbers of Twitter referrals has a lot more to do with the media’s failure to make efficient use of the social network to promote their content than it does any inherent lack of interest in the news on the part of Twitter users. Am I wrong? Let me know in the comments.

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I have been a MOTU for 181 days (a half year). Today I became Ubuntu Core Developer. Now I can upload and sponsor packages in the main archive.

Most journalists I know can barely type, they certainly can't spell but they can tell a great story.

Most professions have to continually upgrade their skills yet I know lots of journalists that are very reticent about adding new skills. They hate to shoot photos, or video, or edit the video. I know a journalist that does not know how to upload a photo!

Carrying a pencil and a notepad is not enough, journalists need to know how to produce media content in a variety of ways.

Here are ten basic skills journalists, heck, anyone should know:

1 - How to shoot a photo with a digital camera and transfer it to a computer for a quick edit.

2 - How to upload an image to a web site in the right format and size.

3 - How to add a hyperlink to a word or part of a sentence by hand. (i.e. hyperlink)

4 - How to quickly shoot digital video and do a quick edit and upload it to a hosting service such as YouTube, in the right format.

5 - How to embed the code for a video in a web page and resize it to fit the page width.

6 - How to capture audio for a video, or just an audio-only podcast, so that the audio is clear and background noise is minimal.

7 - Know some basic HTML and what it does so that common problems with a web page can be quickly fixed.

8 - Know some basic CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and what it does, and be able to quickly fix any problems with a web page.

9 - Know how to promote your content on the Internet without alienating contacts and family.

10 - Know how to get used to an always-on work day that often extends beyond 9-to-5, and produce three times as much digital media content as you think you can, while maintaining high standards of quality and accuracy.

Microblogging site Tumblr has announced plans to make video sharing “crazy simple”.

According to Tumblr:

We’ll be rolling out crazy simple native video uploading to all accounts.

This is designed to be an easy alternative to full-blown video sites when all you want to do is post a quick video to your blog.

Tumblr notes these features & limitations:

• You can upload up to 5 minutes of video every day. You can break this up across many videos.
• Tumblr will immediately post most H.264-MP4-AAC videos without transcoding, including Photo Booth videos and iMovie’s “Export to iPod/iPhone”.

If you’re looking to post longer videos, customize your player, or host HD videos, Tumblr recommends using Vimeo or other full-featured video sharing site.

A new torrent has been uploaded to U2Torrents.com.

Torrent: 5755
Title: 1989-12-14 Dortmund , Westfalenhalle, Love Town tour - by Request
Size: 524.52 MB
Category: Lovetown
Uploaded by: bonozitoun

Description
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1989-12-14 Dortmund ,Westafalenhalle request by Ralf

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General Informations :
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Name : Rasensteine - Master Sony Wmd6c + Mic Sony Ecm 155 Double
Tour : Lovetown Tour
Leg : Leg 2 - Europe
Date : 12.14.1989
Country : Germany
Town : Dortmund
Place : Westfalenhalle
Type : Audio
Support : CD-R
Taper : Rasensteine
Material : Sony WMD6C + Microphone Sony ECM 155 double > Maxell MX master > CD-R
Performance : Live
Source : Audience
Integral : Selected Songs
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linegae: Sony WMD6C + Microphone Sony ECM 155 double > Maxell MX master > CD-R

included on torrent fa , artwork
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Setlist :
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Disc 1 (1:14:32)
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Will Follow (fades In)
3. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
4. M L K
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. God Part I I
7. Desire
8. All Along The Watchtower
9. All I Want Is You
10. Van Diemen's Land
11. Bullet The Blue Sky
12. Running To Stand Still
13. New Year's Day
14. Pride ( In The Name Of Love )
15. Angel Of Harlem
16. When Love Comes To Town
17. Love Rescue Me

Disc 2 (51:13)
1. With Or Without You
2. 40
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if you want interest , i can upload on MEGAUPLOAD

I can't place B.B.'s track 6 instrumental but here is the tracklist for the rest of his set:
01.) When It All Comes Down (I'll Still Be Around)
02.) Caledonia > Band Introductions
03.) Go On
04.) Ain't Nobody Home
05.) Why I Sing The Blues
06.) Instrumental
07.) Into The Night
08.) The Thrill Is Gone > Outro
09.) Guess Who?


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Discs Contents
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CD 1 & 2 : Dortmund - December 14th, 1989

CD 2 tracks 3-11 are the BB King opening Act of the same U2 show !


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Last week we held a bugzapping session about Samba (see previous post), with interesting results. Samba has a lot of bugs opened for a server package, but that rarely translates into real bugs that you can fix. That’s why the triaging effort on the first day, combined with the Bug Day, was essential.

We went from 170 open bugs to less than 100 ! We fixed 3 bugs in the upload the next day. Most of the remaining bugs are thought to be already fixed in Lucid and need some confirmation from the reporter.

All in all I think Samba is in good shape for Lucid and would like to thank everyone that participated to the effort, in particular Philip Muškovac, Pedro Villavicencio and Chuck Short, you all rock !

Expect those yellow teeth ads to pop up on top of your YouTube videos any day now, as Google has added an option to build display ad overlays for YouTube within its Display Ad Builder, making it possible for Adwords customers to easily generate and run overlays that make use of their own imagery.

YouTube has been running ad overlays for close to three years now, and the site has called the format “one of the most effective ad formats.” However, generating those ads was previously fairly complex, and even many large advertisers have so far opted for text overlays instead of display ads. The new self-serve ad generator could lead to a huge number of display ads finding their way to YouTube, but also significantly increase monetization for the site, which could make as much as $1 billion in 2011, according to a recent Citigroup estimate.

Adwords customers can use Google’s Display Ad Builder to upload graphics sized 480*70 and then book these banners for regions, categories, or even a specific video. Display overlays can be booked either on a cost per click or CPM basis.

The move towards self-serve advertising on YouTube doesn’t come entirely as a surprise: GoRumors uncovered a patent application for such a feature in January. In that application, Google wrote:

The new ad generator on the other hand is squarely targeted at small advertisers. YouTube’s blog post announcing the new self-serve option specifically mentions small businesses as its target audience, musing that this would be a great way for a small beauty products outlet to “create an overlay ad and then run it on popular fashion and beauty videos.”

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�Torrent (or uTorrent) is a small BitTorrent client that uses very little system resources. It supports multiple simultaneous downloads, smart bandwidth usage, file level priorities, configurable bandwidth scheduling, global/per-torrent upload/download rate limiting etc.