TiVo, Amazon, and the library

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" TiVo Series2 140-Hour Digital Video
Recorder Buy at Amazon"

" TiVo Series2 140-Hour Digital Video
Recorder Buy at Amazon" 04/14/2004 10:32 PM

Use Amazon to reserve a book at your
local library

Use Amazon to reserve a book at your
local library 09/16/2004 03:32 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: 43 Folders writes about a great little bookmarklet maker that lets you request the book you're looking at on Amazon.com from your local library.

I’ve combed through my Amazon wishlist over the past month and have been able to find almost 20 books I was going to buy—all of which have since been shuttled from SF’s many branch libraries to the cozy little outpost just beyond my front yard.

Link

43 Folders: Request a library book...via
Amazon

43 Folders: Request a library book...via
Amazon 09/17/2004 11:58 AM
Use Amazon to reserve a book at your local library .. 43 folders .. 43folders

merlin.blogs.com/43folders/2004/09/request_a_libra.html
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Use Amazon to reserve the book you're
viewing at your local library

Use Amazon to reserve the book you're
viewing at your local library 09/17/2004 12:57 AM
Jon Udell's library lookup bookmarklet .. LibraryLookup bookmarklet generator .. Build Your Own Bookmarklet

weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/libraryloo kupGenerator.html
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British Library sells Amazon access to
bibliographic trove

British Library sells Amazon access to
bibliographic trove 12/02/2003 12:16 AM

The British Library agreed to sell access to its back catalog of books to Amazon.com . The move should expand users' access to the world of out of print books, by providing a wealth of information. The catalog:

contains 2.55 million books. Crucially it includes 1.7 million produced before the introduction in 1970 of the International Standard Book Number ( ISBN ), a 10-character code that uniquely identifies any modern book.

The British Library has embarked on a series of digital projects, recently, including a large digital archive of its historical materials, Collect Britain , a revamped website , and a national archive of digital materials .

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun 06/10/2004 10:28 PM
AVN Online Jun 11 2004 2:45AM GMT

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back 05/07/2004 10:49 AM
Following up on yesterday's post about NBC's apparent attempts to b0rk potential TiVoers of the Friends finale, BoingBoing reader Douglas Clark says,

I am a loyal Tivo user and Tivo did send out a message alert to users about the Friends episode. It was more along the lines of "if you manually extend the time of a recording, you may miss the beginning of the friends final episode." I find that Tivo is pretty good about catching unusual start times and other wonky tricks the networks play. The previous comment about HUT and ratings was right on the money...

Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Tech maven Meg Hourihan adds, "Even weirder is that I got a message on my Tivo warning me that the finale of Friends would have abnormal times. The message warned that if I wasn't just using the automatic "start on time" and "end on time" settings (i.e. I manually set the start time as 8 PM) that I might miss some. What makes things weirder and worse is that Tivo still didn't record the whole show! I made sure my settings were what the message instructed, and happened to watch the show live. Tivo kicked in to record at 8:59 PM (which is what it listed the start time as) but stopped at 9:59! According to the time on my digital cable box, the program didn't end until 10:03 PM. So if I hadn't watched it live, I would have missed the last four minutes. Seems like a major screw-up on Tivo's part, especially after sending out that message!"

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners?

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners? 07/26/2004 05:24 PM

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Well TiVo's boosting that it Janet Jacksons Garment malfunction was the single highest re-watched event has many TiVo users asking...

Amazon accidentally revealed the real
names of many anonymous reviewers this
week, through a bug in the amazon.ca
back-end

Amazon accidentally revealed the real
names of many anonymous reviewers this
week, through a bug in the amazon.ca
back-end 02/14/2004 03:55 PM
unmasked .. glitch

nytimes.com/2004/02/14/technology/14AMAZ.html
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Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?)

Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?) 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

Reuters is running a story about Intel that is chocked full of goo info, including information that their 'Manitoba' mobile chipset has finally found a customer in mmO2 Pic (the Manitoba came out two years ago, to little fanfare, let alone actual adoption by phone manufacturers). But the big news is that Intel will be working with Tivo to provide Tivo-to-Go functionality in future laptop chipsets, like their popular Centrino.

What that is, though, is unclear. Is it just a branding initiative? Tivo-to-Go already works on laptops (that's half the point), so will it be some sort of native support that makes it easier to move the Tivo content around? We don't know—the article is very vague—but at least Tivo is getting some name dropping love from a mega-vendor (considering it was unlikely they were going to get much help from Microsoft, considering they sell a competing product to Windows XP Media Center). (Thanks, Pat!)

UPDATE 1-Intel's cell communications chip finds a customer [Reuters]

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
bang for the buck .. extension .. TivoToGo

tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article=196
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"RipDigital is a bulk CD-ripping
operation: send them your CD library and
they'll ship your library back in MP3
format"

"RipDigital is a bulk CD-ripping
operation: send them your CD library and
they'll ship your library back in MP3
format" 01/12/2004 02:57 AM

Delicious Library 1.0: Easy, Fun Library
Software Catalogs Your Media

Delicious Library 1.0: Easy, Fun Library
Software Catalogs Your Media 03/17/2005 03:10 AM

In addition to being useful and easy to use, it's just plain fun. By Mathew Honan, Macworld

Denver Public Library Launches New
Digital Library

Denver Public Library Launches New
Digital Library 05/06/2004 05:47 AM
Denver Public Library Launches New Digital Library
http://snipurl.com/65h2

Denver Public Library?s new online service is giving city residents access to popular eBooks directly from their homes and offices. The Library serves over a half-million residents and 80% of the city?s population has a library card and access to the new service. ?This is an exciting opportunity to provide eBooks to the city,? said Michelle Jeske, Manager of Web Information Services. ?This year, we saw a 24% increase in the number of online library transactions. eBooks that can be downloaded from our website fit very well with this kind of public demand,? she added.

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo"

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo" 06/08/2004 09:07 AM

Does anyone have an MP3 of the song "Tivo, My Tivo" from the off-Broadway [hit | miss] The Gayest Straight Man Alive? Because I'd really like to hear it. Also, could someone explain what "surprisingly straight" means? Is that, like, no dicks at all? Not even your own? (Thanks, Peter, for the "tip.")
Read [NYTheatre]

Update: While I'm exploiting the good humor of our readers, do any of you 1) live in Canberra, Australia, and 2) take PayPal? I need to get a few cases of VB delivered to some game developers and am having a surprisingly hard time of it.

State Library of Tasmania: Image Library

State Library of Tasmania: Image Library 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
State Library of Tasmania, Heritage Collection Image Library.

Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside
The Library

Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside
The Library 09/01/2004 06:32 AM

World's Largest Online Library Joins
ISTE in Promoting Technology in
Education - Questia Online Library and
Research Service Joins ISTE 100

World's Largest Online Library Joins
ISTE in Promoting Technology in
Education - Questia Online Library and
Research Service Joins ISTE 100 06/14/2004 02:07 AM
Questia, world's largest online library and research service joins ISTE 100 to promote effective use of technology in the classroom. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

British Library Launches British Library
Direct

British Library Launches British Library
Direct 06/05/2005 11:20 PM
The British Library has announced British Library Direct, which is a pay-as-you-go service that offers nine million articles from 20,000 international research journals. These articles go back five years, and...

TiVo Here, There - TiVo Everywhere

TiVo Here, There - TiVo Everywhere 01/27/2004 08:39 PM
Los Angeles Times Jan 28 2004 1:03AM GMT

Pop-up TiVo

Pop-up TiVo 03/29/2005 03:08 PM
One of the joys of TiVo ownership is skipping commercials. Will the DVR company's new attempt to cater to advertisers fly with its fans?

RSS and TiVo

RSS and TiVo 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
Yesterday's item provoked a flurry of responses. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, who wrote the Washington Post story I dissected, points out that the nature of his assignment precluded broader coverage, and that he'd otherwise gladly have included bloglines. There's been lots of chatter about bloglines lately -- Chad Dickerson mentions it today -- so I was interested to hear from Martin Thornell about another web-based product, Rocket RSS reader. Doubtless there are others too. An implementation of one of these licensed for behind-the-firewall use, as Chad suggests, would be handy. As a matter of fact, that's how I use Radio UserLand's reader. It's nominally a desktop product, but I run it as a server and authenticate to it over SSL. ...

TiVo And The Mac

TiVo And The Mac 08/30/2004 11:58 AM
For some things, the Mac doesn't "just work". Windows might be buggy malware-infested crapware that is impossible for me to depend on for a living, but when it comes to things that make the RIAA and MPAA twitch reflexively, buggy and filled with an infinite number of teenage monkey hackers beats stale and used by crusty old farts like myself. By Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

The Little TiVo That Could

The Little TiVo That Could 06/10/2004 09:27 AM
Despite the unpleasant questions, TiVo keeps chugging along.

Who doesn't like TiVo?

Who doesn't like TiVo? 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
The NY Times ran another of those fawning TiVo articles yesterday about how everyone who has one loves it like a member of the family. An excerpt: Mr. Smith has since replaced his older TiVo model with three ReplayTV units. The new units allow him to stream programs from one to the other. After recording a program in his darkened home theater room, he transfers it to his brighter living... (with comments)

Men Want TiVo™ More

Men Want TiVo™ More 08/09/2004 02:38 AM
Male heads-of-household are more likely than their female counterparts to buy a personal video recorder (PVR) over the next year, according to the upcoming report Video-on-Demand and PVR: Analysis and Forecast from Parks Associates. In a recent survey, 21% of male heads-of household said they are likely to purchase a PVR in the next 12 months, compared with just 16% of female heads-of-household. [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004]

How TiVo May Help The Web

How TiVo May Help The Web 04/26/2004 04:07 PM
Web advertising is making a big comeback just as TV advertising may be losing steam. These two things may not be a coincidence, as a new study suggests that advertisers are looking to move their advertising dollars to the web, as they fear the impact of TiVo-like devices on their television commercial spots. Of course, if advertisers (as they're likely to do) insist on creating more annoying and intrusive ads online this plan will backfire. However, they should look on this as an opportunity. Smart advertising (not intrusive, not annoying) that actually gives people something they want will be a lot more cost effective than blind TV advertising where you hope people are paying attention.

TiVo Is On the Go

TiVo Is On the Go 01/03/2005 02:06 PM
Can TiVo stomp the competition?

Tivo News

Tivo News 06/09/2004 03:45 PM
Tivo has transitioned the former Home Media Option features to the standard service bundle and added a Multi-Service Discount for...

JavaHMO for TiVo

JavaHMO for TiVo 12/07/2003 03:00 PM
Java HMO 1.1 released

The Tivo Effect

The Tivo Effect 03/22/2005 04:32 PM

How big is something when it gets an "effect"? And what about when no one can decide what that "effect" is?

I'd been hearing about "The Tivo Effect" for a while, and I figured it'd make a good post, so I went looking for a definition. I found this article, this one, this one, this one, and dozens of others, all claiming something different about "The Tivo Effect."

As near as I can tell, it could mean:

• the tendency for advertisers to increase product placement within TV shows (since actual ads can now be skipped)
• the echo created by two TVs in the house watching the same show while one of them is "time-shifted" because of Tivo's ability to pause live TV.
• the inability to go back to life before Tivo
• the increased spare time you have now that you can reduce your TV watching into concentrated blocks of time
• the decreased spare time you have now that you record and watch shows you might never have recorded before

So I still have no idea what The Tivo Effect is, but what's important is that Tivo has affected television viewing to the point where it has a "named effect." And evidently so many of these effects that no one can agree what the most important one is. Do you have a definition for "The Tivo Effect?"

Someday there will be a "Gadgetopia Effect." When that day comes, someone please tell me what it is.

Saving TiVo

Saving TiVo 08/30/2004 12:15 PM

I'm quoted in this Kin Girard article in this mnth's issue of Business 2.0. Only problem is - you can't see the entire article unless your subscribe.

Oh well.

Anyway - here's the opener to the article.

It's been written off by the experts. But thanks to a Silicon Valley software legend, the company that invented digital video recording says it's about to change the way we watch TV -- again.

By Kim Girard, September 01, 2004

Obituaries for the nearly departed TiVo Inc. (TIVO) have been written up for months now, all ready to go when the sad day comes.

They're poignant, these eulogies. There's the part about how feisty little TiVo created a beloved and revolutionary product -- the digital video recorder -- on a shoestring. The word TiVo, like Google and Xerox (XRX) and only a handful of other product names, went on to be used to describe what the gadget does -- in this case, learning what you like to watch, recording similar stuff for later viewing, and allowing you to pause or otherwise time-shift live action. TiVo promised to transform television, advertising -- hell, the culture itself, not least by sparing humanity from having to sit through commercials. Alas, it burned through $567 million between 1999 and mid-2004, and was run down by huge and ruthless competitors that mimicked its technology. But take heart, the eulogists conclude: TiVo will always be with us -- as a verb, if not a company.

There's at least one problem with that scenario, however. His name is Arthur van Hoff. He's an obscure but revered high priest of software coding. And he thinks he's devised a way to pull TiVo back from death's door.

[Business 2.0]

Here's my quote:

" 'Strangeberry works and it's totally cool', says Marc Canter, co- founder of Web media tool maker Macromedia, who was given an early view of the technology."

It does. I am. Here comes TiVO - again.

The only question remains - is it pronounced TeeeeeeVOH or TehVoh. Inquiring minds wanna know.

TiVo++ from India

TiVo++ from India 03/21/2003 04:53 AM
charmer writes "According to a story in rediff, a company in India, Divinet Technologies, have developed a set top box that plays video cds, offers sms, email, ...

TiVO alternatives

TiVO alternatives 06/09/2004 12:34 PM
Step aside TiVo, here comes Freevo.

Reuters catches up with the homebrew PVR revolution with today's article "Step aside TiVo, here comes Freevo." It's a new overview of the home PC-based options, including Freevo, MythTV, Snapstream's BeyondTV, and Microsoft's Media Center. It also mentions the the Build Your Own PVR website.

Personally, although I've heard good things about MythTV and Freevo, unless you're fairly familiar with building your own PCs from scratch and running command-line tools, Snapstream's BeyondTV is the easiest way to dip your toe into the homebrew PVR pool. Microsoft's version is a non-option, as it can only be legally obtained when buying a new home theater PC, which typically runs $1200-1600. [PVRblog]

PVRBlog is quickly becomning one of my favorite sources.  Keep up the great work dudes!

Tivo as digital hub?

Tivo as digital hub? 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
Om Malik thinks Tivo's purchase of a startup called Strangeberry signals its intention to become a hub for digital home entertainment.  Makes sense.  Strangeberry is apparently made up of ex-Sun people, and the idea of universal zero-configuration networking was a big element of Sun co-founder Bill Joy's Jini vision. 

Of course, all the major consumer PC vendors, most notably Gateway, Sony, and HP, have similar dreams, as do Apple, Microsoft, and your cable company.  This probably makes Tivo interesting acquisiton bait.  But for whom?  Tivo is built on Linux, so it probably isn't a fit for any of the Windows-centric companies.  Or for Apple, which has its own Rendezvous networking technology.

TiVO and Strangeberry

TiVO and Strangeberry 08/13/2004 07:24 AM

Matt Haughey discovers the kick-ass potential of TiVO and Strangeberry.

This new Business 2.0 article (unfortunately, the full text is only available to subscribers or AOL users) describes that while much talk about TiVo has been grim this year, they may be on an upswing, thanks in part to new features developed from their acquisition of the startup Strangeberry.

So far, not much has been said about the Strangeberry-TiVo connection, but this article goes into some of the features the combo will bring to our favorite PVR:

The Wonderful World of Strangeberry

1 Strangeberry software does all the work. It recognizes the format of the content flowing in via TV cable or broadband Internet connection. Designed for easy tweaking, the software will be able to deal with formats that haven't yet been created.

2 The system is TV-centric, rather than PC-centric. A simple graphical interface is displayed on the TV, allowing the user to find what he wants and play it. The huge volume of content can be navigated with a single remote control device.

3 Strangeberry also recognizes where the user wants the content played. It routes the MP3 files to the stereo, but could simultaneously display album covers and music notes on the TV or a laptop.

It sounds great, having a system that builds upon the Home Media Option greatly to turn TiVo into a central entertainment hub that can send stuff from any of your computers to any of your stereo and TVs and vice versa (including sending video to and from your TiVo and PCs!). They also touch on a possible API that will let content companies build apps that can be accessed through TiVo, like voting for American Idol with your remote. If the entertainment companies can put their copyright sledgehammer aside and let TiVo do even half of what they describe, Strangeberry + TiVo could be a whole new revolution in home entertainment. I for one, can't wait to see what they do with it.

The article also paints a pretty rosy financial picture for TiVo, as they near profitability for the first time, which is also good news.

[PVRBlog ]

BoingBoing has an excerpt....

Damon Darlin of Business 2.0 sez: "Silicon Valley programming legend Arthur Van Hoff was a prolific coder at Sun (with almost as many patents as Bill Joy). His "Strangeberry" software will give the TiVo new powers, and it will be given away to anyone who wants to develop content on the Web. Residing on the next generation of TiVo machines, it will recognize incoming programming (JPEG images, video, MP3s, or whatever) and route it to the appropriate device in your living room." Link

TiVo Hacks Put to Bed

TiVo Hacks Put to Bed 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
My month of a thousand hacks ended this morning as I put TiVo Hacks to bed (read: sent it to production).

Raffi, my young TiVo Jedi friend, good on you, mate! I've learned more about my TiVo over the past month than I'd ever wanted to. Now where'd I put that screwdriver...

The book will be in brick-and-mortar bookstore shelves sometime in August, but you can of course pre-order it from Amazon.

The Downsides To TiVo?

The Downsides To TiVo? 11/11/2003 06:47 PM
Almost everyone you talk to who owns a TiVo (or similar device) talks about how it revolutionized how they watch TV. They talk about how they watch what they want, when they want - and say it makes television watchable again. However, some are also realizing there's a downside to such things. Being able to store stuff up, means that you can create a backlog. Some, who haven't figured out how to manage their TiVo experience find themselves feeling chained to their TV to "catch up" on all the shows they missed. In the past, if you missed a TV show, you asked friends for a summary of what happened, or you just get on with your life and figure you'll catch up the following week. Now, though, as people realize the power of TiVo, they never miss a show. On top of that, because of the simplicity of the whole thing, they end up regularly watching a lot more TV shows than they watched in the past, so the inevitable backlog appears. Some even report feeling stressed out in having to keep up with their TiVo. It's not at all surprising that some folks feel this way. It's the sort of adjustment period that happens with plenty of new technologies. Over time, though, people learn to manage such things - though, I'm sure we'll hear about psychologists who specialize in treating "TiVo addicts" before too long.
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