Jim Muttram

Fire Eagle is a new location service from Yahoo! which has just entered private beta, according to Techcrunch. The service has been build with powerful APIs which allow data to get in and out very easily. It could, for instance, geo-code Flickr photos by figuring…

Xinu Returns is a new website just discovered by Communication Overtones which syndicates queries to all sorts of APIs to give an excellent snapshot of a site/page's performance. It includes a thumbnail, syndication, ranking, indexed pages and more - on many, many services. It was…

AdSense for video is now out in beta. I had a chance to see the way Google was implementing this a few months ago and I must say it looked very elegant. Some criteria apply. Technorati Tags: advertising, video

Robert Scoble, ex-Microsoft blogger, ex-Podtech vlogger and now heading off to Fast Company, tells of a new API from BlogTalkRadio which allows you to create a podcast directly from your phone and publish it in an RSS feed. Technorati Tags: mobile, podcasting

Interesting video about face recognition software which is now able to run on a standard laptop. The video talks about some potential uses for the technology, which would eventually be able to run on a mobile phone. Technorati Tags: research, video