Technically Speaking

Yes, unbelievable as it sounds, I lost my bank card (ATM) card today. Where else? But at the bank ATM machine! Even this Director of Social Media Content is not perfect. Ironic yes, fun - no. I may be able to juggle publishers, but I can’t remember to hit the “return card” prompt.

So much for my days failures. Now let’s move on to something more important, something that everyone needs to take interest in. While failing to retrieve my ATM card, yes, I at least took the time to take a stab at the vote over on TC.

Politics has always been an interest of mine, and I was actually glad to see Mike take the lead in getting out there and finding out more about these candidates from them directly. It’s just like the lottery, you can’t win if you don’t play. In this case, one of these players will win and be elected on that Tuesday in November 2008.

Which one is the question at hand. As we wind down the 2007 year, it would be a good time to study up the people running as well as how they are going to affect this old thing called the internet. Technology is the only thing going at this time, and we as citizens need to make an informed choice.

Technically Speaking, I hope Mike keeps doing the seesmic, love seeing talent evolve; it’s that musician in me. oxygen concentrators

Magnify.net is taking Video Blogging to the masses with its new, free video publishing and hosting service. The new platform is much more than just another Webcam service as Magnify.net lets people build a dedicated online video channel featuring not just their own videos, but also content-specific video - regardless of where it is hosted.

Unlike other social networks and warehouses that host random videos, they let its users create and tailor their own programming based on their interests and that of their target community. The site owner and their viewers record, discover, upload, and add new videos to feature on their channel based on the unique flavor of each channel.

Fresh out of private beta, the new video blogger-in-a-box kit features an intuitive, plug-and-play Webcam capture tool that allows creators to build a Vlog (video blog) page and decorate their channel with their own graphics and design elements. With just a webcam, their Vlog can go live within minutes. Magnify.net also offers stylish and slick templates to make the graphic design process drag-and-drop simple.

Podcamp co-founder and online media guru Chris Brogan is currently hosting a daily video blog called Attention Upgrade, where he shares the most interesting things in tech and news media marketing that have his attention for the day. Jeff Hibbard has launched a new mobile weblog that follows him on his daily adventures around town.

Technically Speaking, if you do a search on this blog, you can find all my past coverage of Magnify.net. colon cleanse

I never posted this in the first run, and when I thought about using it, it had been taken down. Well the video is now back, and we can all enjoy it one more time.

Technically Speaking, I think Mike likes being in the video.

FreshBooks today announced that it has been selected by Authorize.Net (NASDAQ: ANET), a leading provider of Internet Protocol (IP) based payment gateway services, for inclusion in its Merchant Toolbox.

Over 185,000 merchants use the Authorize.Net Payment Gateway to accept credit card and electronic check payments via Web sites, retail stores, mail order/telephone order (MOTO) call centers and on wireless devices. Authorize.Net launched its Merchant Toolbox in February 2007 with a goal of providing merchants with tools to help them run every facet of their business more effectively.

FreshBooks offers a painless online invoicing and time-tracking service designed to make Authorize.Net merchants look as professional as Fortune 500 companies. It changes the way businesses manage their books, saving them time, improving their cash flow, enhancing client communications, and streamlining their business processes. As part of the toolbox, Authorize.Net merchants save up to $12 on any monthly package.

Before FreshBooks, merchants would have to wait until the end of the month to do their billing, using a combination of complicated spreadsheets or software-based accounting software. Using FreshBooks, the same businesses bill their clients as they complete projects – allowing them to get paid faster, and ultimately save time and money.

Merchants can send invoices by email or the U.S. Postal Service, and automatically debit their clients’ credit cards using recurring billing with Authorize.Net. Merchants are eligible for a discount on Authorize.Net when they sign up through FreshBooks and FreshBooks offers a 25% revenue sharing program for resellers.

FreshBooks is an online billing service, best known for its online invoicing, online payments, and time-tracking services. Based in Toronto and serving over 235,000 users in more than 100 countries. Authorize.Net provides secure, reliable, Internet Protocol (IP) based payment gateway solutions that enable merchants to authorize, settle and manage electronic transactions anytime, anywhere, via Web sites, retail stores, mail order/telephone order (MOTO) call centers and on wireless devices. home gym equipment

Magnify.net Partners with ClipSyndicate to Allow 22,000 Sites to Search and Embed Content from ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates, Bloomberg, AP and Fox News. One of the first examples Barak Obama for President 2008” is among the first new channels to feature content from ClipSyndicate. The site is one of the 48 political sites created and managed by Policks.

Unlike typical social networks that host video and connect people, Magnify.net provides the tools and resources to discover, review, organize and broadcast themed video — regardless of where it’s hosted. Videos can be easily collected from other networks including Revver, Blip.tv, MetaCafe, and YouTube, and now news affiliates and networks, or uploaded directly. Users can fully customize their channels to reflect their personal or corporate brand as well as share ad pages through the Magnify Ad Network to also monetize traffic.

Clip Syndicate, a service of Critical Media’s Media and Publishing Services Group, will soon release its search API to other social network, news and video syndication application programmers under its standard revenue-share terms for web publishers. Magnify.net was the first company to test and deploy an application built using the new API.

With the upcoming API release, ClipSyndicate, a rapidly growing, ad-supported viral broadcast video syndication platform, will provide participating developers with a deep level of access and integration options beginning with an archive of over 200,000 broadcast video clips delivered immediately as embedded flash assets.

In partnership with more broadcast affiliate partners than any other online syndication platform, applications and widgets developed under the program will have access to feeds of over 1,000 new video news clips per day. “With the addition of video news content from ClipSyndicate to the Magnify.net Platform, our more than 21,000 channels and channel creators will have access to video licensed from major news producers internationally including Clear Channel Television, and the FOX Television Station Group, Fisher Communications, Bloomberg Television, Meredith Corporation and Agence France-Press among others.

Critical Media Inc. is a company at the forefront of real-time broadcast media capture, search, syndication and information services. This is the company that is the parent company of ClipSyndicate which is an ad-supported platform for aggregating, distributing and monetizing licensed video and audio assets in near real-time on the Web. Magnify.net has been financed by its founders, Venture Capital firm Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, and Active Angels Investors, and a group of private individuals.

Technically Speaking, Magnify.net continues to be a company that more people will be taking a look at.