Jake Ludington

Member since: Dec 15th, 2005

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Midnight Sausage: Launceston, Cornwall (Slashfood)

Jun 30th 2008 6:01PM It's not sausage but the Danshui morning market offers some great fresh meats:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludington/2559806336/in/set-72157605486184366/

AMD LIVE! Home Cinema platform debuts for a second time (Engadget)

Jun 5th 2008 9:13PM Actually this is not vaporware and is shipping this month:
http://www.jakeludington.com/media_center_pc/20080605_amd_live_home_cinema_changes_home_theather_pc_market.html

Trying to make the best travel search results... feedback? (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Nov 30th 2007 7:05AM I'm not sure if the trend data will prove out for all hotels, but what it looks like you proved in doing that chart is that it's consistently cheaper (with more availability) to book hotels direct through their own Website.

Oprah Launches Her Own YouTube Channel (Switched)

Nov 6th 2007 7:29PM Having Oprah contract with YouTube is a good thing for YouTube, because it legitimizes them as a place for original content creators to publish. At the moment, the most viewed stuff on YouTube isn't people doing their own thing, it's people violating copyrights. Licensing Oprah's name will make other content owners less afraid to put their stuff on YouTube.

BTW, that Flip Video camera she's using shoots awesome video for it's under $150 price tag. I've got some sample footage you can see here:

http://www.jakeludington.com/camcorder/20071023_flip_video_camera.html

Why does iTunes only download three podcasts at a time? Why isn't iTunes P2P? (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Jan 24th 2007 12:59PM The only way using something like RedSwoosh or BitTorrent is faster is if many people are all requesting the same podcast files. If there are only a handful of people actively downloading/sharing the files, it is almost always faster to have a direct download link. If you don't care how long it takes to get a file as long as you get it, this doesn't matter. But if you want some kind of quality of service, the p2p scenario is really only useful for high demand content. I still contend there's a market opportunity for someone to build a blended service that uses multiple servers to always have enough peers for low volume scenarios to get high QoS (which is sort of what RedSwoosh does) while making the option of having p2p pickup the bandwidth for high demand traffic always available.

Zune vs. iPod (Engadget)

Oct 1st 2006 11:43PM The plastic on the Zune feels similar to many of the iPod cases. Not rigid crappy plastic, but certainly not that sleek polished stuff we see on many of the devices either.

Zune vs. iPod (Engadget)

Oct 1st 2006 11:37PM Had I known I was going to have 5 minutes with the Zune, I'd have done a million things differently - like bring a real camera.

Smart site owners are getting huge traffic from Netscape--they are also becoming the top users (which means even more traffic!) (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Jul 24th 2006 1:20PM Regarding my points 8) and 9) about tagging vs. categories:

I get frustrated with the way people tag stuff. :) Tags tend to get spammed because they show up as "hot" in the tag cloud. Tags also get applied poorly because people aren't sure what tags to use (which might be partially solved with a suggestion engine). Running with my photography example, the current list of things tagged photography on Netscape contains many things that have nothing to do with photography. Some contain "photos" but photos aren't photography (at least in my twisted mind). I'm probably picking at nits here, but that's the kind of stuff that drives me nuts about trying to find anything in a tag-based system.

I'm still rooting for a digital photography category because I think that's a hot topic that deserves it's own top level. (so does Photos, since there seems to be a Popular Videos category ;)

Smart site owners are getting huge traffic from Netscape--they are also becoming the top users (which means even more traffic!) (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Jul 24th 2006 1:08PM To further clarify 5) Change Vote to something more meaningful, I did mean change the word. I don't think it's clear why you'd want to vote for something. I "Digg" something because I think it's cool. I "Reddit" because I read it, but why am I voting? I think that's why you see far fewer "votes" compared to "diggs" on a similar story. The traffic is obviously there, so it's not lack of attention reducing the vote count.

I don't have a good suggestion for a better word. I tend to bookmark stuff on del.icio.us or digg stuff because I want a place to easily find it later. My initial posting to Netscape was more self-serving, because I was curious, but ultimately I'll use Netscape in a similar fashion. So from my perspective, I'm not "voting" on anything, I'm "bookmarking" or "adding to favorites" which are both things non-geeks are very familar with.