New Year, New Gadgets, New Sites to Check Out - Cory Treffiletti - MediaBizBlogger

Welcome to the first issue of the Digital Influential39s Round Up for the New Year 2009 promises to be an interesting year filled with change and also with challenges With challenges come opportunity and the chance to try something newSpeaking of something new this week saw MacWorld and CES two of the most buzzed about technology shows of the year and both at the same time nice planning guys MacWorld news was driven by what wasn39t there just as much as what was What wasn39t there was Steve Jobs as he tries some succession planning What was there was nothing really intriguing Some new software and some new pricing models for iTunes Not too excitingCES has so far seen a couple of cool new phones with the Palm Pre httpwwwpalmcomusproductsphonespreindexhtml leading the bunch We39re also seeing lots of convergence between the Television and the Web as well as the future of both with flexible OLED displays httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvNcAm3KihFho Just imagine when you can throw your laptop in your back pocket or fold it up for your carryon Of course you didn39t come to read the Round Up for technology gadgets You came to read about new websites and services that might be of interest so let39s get on with it shall weWith that buzz about TV and the Web we decided to start out with something more old fashioned books Check out BOOKSWIM httpwwwbookswimcom which is a NetFlix for books It39s an online book rental service Maybe your New Year39s resolution was to read some more Then this is the right place to get started No risk little cost easy delivery of all the best sellers to your door Sounds good to meMaybe your resolution was to try out Twitter not necessarily a good idea for those of you with an addictive personality Maybe you should start with TWITHORITY httptwithoritycom The only real problem with Twitter is that it takes some doing to find people to follow Scanning the general feed can be a bit monotonous and many of the other Twittercentric sites are poorly produced but this one is a searchable interface and very very simple I39m a fan and you should probably try to tweet Twithority too I love alliterationMaybe your New Year39s resolution is to watch less TV If so good thing the web isn39t TV With all that spare time you can watch FANCAST httpwwwfancastcom Hulu is getting all the juice these days but FanCast should be in that consideration I can39t completely figure it out but it seems to come from Comcast and lots of the content is actually from Hulu but why worry about the tangled web of video that it weaves and just watch some TV Errramp8230 I mean Internet Video I just watched The ATeam That can39t be a bad thingIf you don39t have time to watch The ATeam and if you can find it maybe you should watch 5MINCOM httpwww5mincom If you got that reference bravo If you already watch 5Min bravo as well It is what it says it is thank you Coach Dennis Green lots and lots of short form howto video content Its fun it39s easy and it can pass the time until Lost goes back on the airAs for the iPhone applications this week I still can39t stop playing SCRABBLE from EA and Hasbro I finally caved in and started to use SHAZAM to identify music that I39m hearing FLUTTER allows you to put MMS on the iPhone a silly oversight on their part FLIGHTTRACK is what it says it is tracking for flights on your fone erramp8230 phoneThat39s it for this week Until next timeamp8230 playoffs Are you talking about playoffs Sorry amp8211 I can39t stop laughing at all the Coors Light commercials during Sunday footballThanks everyone

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