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The Daily Post: IntoNow

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Okay, okay, I may be a dork but with the breadth of technology that is literally in the palm of our hands how could we not all dream of being the next George Jetson?

I have also been drunk on the Apple juice for far too long. My iPhone is going 18-20 hours a day–texting, Twit-facing, You-tubing, surfing and occasionally even ringing.

While I love to find new apps, I have hardly even scratched the surface as to what is available.

But I found one about a month ago and I need to rant and rave about it for a bit

It is called IntoNow

IntoNow has got to be the coolest app on the app store. It is a couch potatoe’s dream. The technology is nothing short of amazing.

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According to their website: “IntoNow makes engaging with your friends around your favorite television shows easy and fun. Just tap the green button when you’re watching and IntoNow will identify the show, right down to the episode. Once identified it’s easy to share with friends on Twitter or Facebook.”

How do they do this you may ask:

Its called the sound print platform. For those of you that have tried Shazam for music, you know exactly what I am talking about.

SoundPrint is what is known as a fingerprinting technology. Some how they have developed a way to quickly identify a show based on the audio on your It is magic!

I have used this app at least 200 times in the last few weeks and it only got one show wrong and that was because the guy narrating the show does other shows as well!

[Download the app here]

Check this out–SoundPrint by the numbers:

4-12 seconds of audio to make a match

130 channels of live television

266 years of video in the index

2,610,000+ individual airings

You have got to check this out. It is ultra-cool!

What is your favorite app?

 

Robert Forto | Team Ineka | Alaska Dog Works | Mushing Radio | Dog Works Radio | Denver Dog Works | Daily Post

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Robert Forto is a musher training for his first Iditarod under the Team Ineka banner and the host of the popular radio shows, Mush! You Huskies and Dog Works Radio Shows

 

 

Mr. Neilsen, Big Brother and Al Gore

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Well, that’s it. Either Big Brother is watching me, or I am updating my viewing habits on iPhone apps like Into_Now too much, or I can finally quote my favorite movie scene of all time:

The other day I got a large packet in the mail from none other than Mr. Nielsen himself. Yep, that guy! The guy that wants to know what you are watching on T.V. and report back to him.

Why do they want this you ask?

So they can keep shows like Murder She Wrote and American Idol on FOREVER even though no SANE person in the world would ever get passed one episode.

By dancing with the devil (otherwise known as Mr. Neilsen) we are forced to acknowledge that C.B.S. really is the “nations #1 network.”

How can it be when most of the nation is watching repeats of Family Guy on Cartoon Network and shows that get paid by the all important baby-boomer generation.

That’s right. It all comes down to money and what they call DEMOGRAPHICS. No, that is not a high school class that is taught by Bill Clinton. It is a way to measure people by an age group by what they spend (at least in the case of Mr. Nielsen) at Super Walmart.

How do they know what we spend?

It works this way:

  1. A viewer is picked by Mr. Neilsen, just liked me.
  2. These viewers then record our T.V. watching habits in what they call “viewer diaries”.
  3. In some cases they send out cool set top boxes that record and send over Al Gore’s Internet to his Big Brother. I guess they do this so we, that are the chosen one’s, don’t cheat. I mean would we really write down in our little diaries that we are watching “Girls Gone Wild” or secretly addicted to a certain morning news program featuring an anchor on a national news network, named Robin?

But wait there is more! Mr. Neilsen sent me something else in that packet. CASH. yep, that’s right. Cold-Hard-Cash.

Two good ole’ American George Washington Dollar Bills so crisp they are sure to glide easily into one of those vending machines at the laundry mat.

I am not going to spend them however. I am going to scribble some signature on them and hang them up in my dog training school like a lot of folks do for the first dollar they earn. Sorry to say my first dollar was in the form of a check!

So, at least I know now that all the rumors are true; Al Gore and his Big Brother DO watch our every move and also know that I must change my viewing habits on T.V. especially if they send me one of those set top boxes.