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Chatroulette introduced a number of new features this week, including local channels dubbed Localroulette that allow users to connect to other participants in the same country or region. Another feature dubbed Channelroulette essentially allows users to start their own themed channels to meet up with friends and strangers alike.
Visitors of Localroulette are automatically routed to local editions of Chatroulette based on their IP address. In our tests conducted in San Francisco, we were sent to a chat channel called us-ca.chatroulette.com, but similar channels also exist for users from Germany, the UK, Russia, Brazil, Denmark and other countries. Earlier this week, users could freely chose between any of these localized channels, but users attempting to enter a channel from a different locale are now automatically rerouted to their local channel.
Another interesting, and perhaps even more important, update allows users to instantly start their own channels by simply adding a subdomain to the Chatroulette Url, e.g. Newteevee.chatroulette.com. (Please note: This link is for demonstration purposes only. We don’t control the content of this channel, which may or may not be safe for work.)
Chatroulette lists the most popular of these custom channels on its website, and the list is currently dominated by sexual-themed channels, which might not be much of a surprise for a site that once was described as “71% Boys, 15% Girls, 14% Perverts.”
In fact, the number of people exposing themselves on Chatroulette has led to a backlash against the site in recent months. Slate writer Mary-Elizabeth Williams even went so far as to declare Chatroulette dead, adding: “Cause of death: penises.”
However, the introduction of local and themed channels could represent an important turning point for Chatroulette. Not only does it allow users interested in sexual experiences to gather amongst themselves, minimizing their, well, let’s just call it “exposure” to other users.
It’s also an intriguing way for users to connect to each other on the site. Anyone can make up a link to a new room and exchange it via IM or online forums, and users meeting on Chatroulette proper can make dates to reconnect to each other in a certain channel.
Chatroulette has seen its traffic dip in recent months, but it’s still attracting a notable audience, with 1.1 million unique users frequenting the site in May, according to Compete.com.
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Keep your eyes on the www.xda-downloads.com as it looks like something interesting may be brewing. While XDA developers is home to some of the questionably legal software for our devices (and outright thefts of OEM’s proprietary software), it is also the home to many nifty little utilities that you may want for your phone. So an app store of hacks might prove valuable.
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If there was ever a serial entrepreneur, it’s Mika Salmi. He’s best known for founding AtomFilms.com and selling it, along with Shockwave.com, to Viacom, where he served as the media giant’s President of Global Digital Media. But Salmi actually started his first business — giving windsurfing lessons — at the tender age of 15. In true entrepreneurial fashion, Salmi is far from finished, spending his time actively serving on boards, investing in startups and concocting his next business idea.
I had the pleasure of working for Salmi at AtomFilms and knew he’d have great advice for aspiring entrepreneurs out there, so I sat down with him earlier this year to find out what makes him tick. Learn about Salmi’s own habits when creating a business idea, the lessons he learned and the common mistakes he sees other entrepreneurs make. We got into a comprehensive and lengthy discussion, so we’ve broken down the interview into snackable chunks (perfect for the busy business builder who is short on time).
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mSpot, a new music streaming service for your own audio collection, launched for devices running Android 2.0 and better, earlier this week. As a self-proclaimed “music in the cloud guy,” I took mSpot for a spin on my Google Nexus One using a free 2 GB account that’s available to anyone in the U.S. mSpot says that’s enough room for users to store approximately 1,500 tunes in the cloud — additional storage is offered for a fee ranging from $2.99/month for 10 GB to $13.99/month for a 100 GB music collection.
So how does mSpot compare to the three options I highlighted in May, namely mp3Tunes, ZumoDrive and SugarSync? Overall, mSpot is potentially a better solution to stream your own music to an Android handset, but the low quality bit rate for streaming is sure to sure to disappoint audiophiles – more on that later.
Installing mSpot on my Mac and Nexus One was simple, as was registering for a new account. Like other similar services, the mSpot desktop client can be configured to copy your entire iTunes library (DRM-free only) to the mSpot servers, or the software can monitor music folders of your choosing. As you purchase new tunes for your personal collection or add/modify playlists, mSpot can automatically find the changes and sync them up to the cloud, provided you have enough free space on the mSpot servers. You can also play your tunes from a desktop browser, but I focused on the mobile software.
The Android client is clean and intuitive with four main tabs: Playlist, Album, Artists, Songs. From a player standpoint, the mSpot software is comparable to any third-party media player, and better than the native Android player. Simply tap a song or playlist to get the music started, use the scrubber bar to move through a song or press the buttons to rewind or skip to the next track. I like how you can swipe the album art to navigate through tracks, and there’s an mSpot widget you can add to your Android home screen.
mSpot’s greatest strength is the ability to play tunes from the cloud even when you have no data connection, a shortcoming of nearly all other similar services. Users can configure how much of their cloud music they’d like to store locally — based on 10 percent increments of total available memory — and mSpot can top off your handset with music for offline playback. Indeed, when viewing your phone’s mSpot music library, local tunes appear in white, while cloud titles show in a gray color. A dynamic playlist called “On My Phone” quickly shows which music is available without a web connection. Any tune can be added to a “Quick Playlist” with a button tap, as well.
Even though the offline playback is a desirable feature, I can’t give a Grammy to this software for one key reason — the sound quality is sub-par. Whether streaming or listening to locally stored tunes, the audio range is lacking. A little digging exposed the culprit: the files appear to use a low-quality 48 kbps bit rate, which makes music sound like it’s on an 8-track player. My source music uses a much higher, albeit variable bit rate, so mSpot is clearly compressing the audio data.
On one hand, that makes sense for a mobile streaming application, in order to keep users from going over their monthly data limits, but even the locally stored tunes use the low bit rate. I hope that in the future, mSpot improves the sound quality through a better compression algorithm, or provides a way to stream higher quality versions of source music from the cloud.
My overall verdict? mSpot is worth watching, but not quite ready for prime-time due to the low-quality music playback. For now, I’m sticking with prior solutions such as mp3Tunes. If mSpot address the quality issue, the software will find a permanent home on my Google Nexus One. And if you don’t need to listen to your own music collection, I’d recommend a Slacker subscription, since it too offers cached playback.
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Amazon.com, or rather its Internet Movie Database (IMDb) subsidiary, is launching an Android app, enabling users to get movies information, trailers and showtimes from their Android devices and shop for DVDs and Blu-ray discs.
Functionality includes voice search, sharing, option menus and more. Here’s the listing on AndroLib (the app was named IMDb Movies & TV).
IMDb’s new “Like” and “Share” buttons make it easier for users to indicate their favorite movies, TV shows and celebrities and then publish their preferences on Facebook and Twitter – the company refers to this as its ‘IMDb Everywhere’ initiative. IMDb promises deeper integrations in the near future.
IMDb already has boasts apps for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
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In this iPhone 4 teardown video, DirectFix.com explains how to repair a broken screen—very handy if you didn’t spring for the insurance, and like our very own Ryan, have suffered breakage already. More »
IPhone – Smartphones – Handhelds – iPhone 4 – Apple
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The Social Developer Summit, produced by mediabistro.com and Nick O’Neill, founder of All Facebook and Social Times, will be a series of technical conversations about programming the social layer of applications.
On June 29 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, leading developers, engineers, and programmers will unite to discuss solutions and best practices for building applications in the rapidly expanding social web economy.
Sessions cover scaling social analytics, optimizing the monetization funnel, the future of relational databases, continuous deployment, engagement and more.
Speakers include:
For the most up-to-date list, see the Social Developer Summit website.
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