Their slogan is “The only video player you need“. And after trying it out I completely agree!
The good thing is that is available for Linux, Mac and Windows so you can plug it in all your devices.
The url to try it out is: http://www.getmiro.com

Miro is a video player and video administrator that is integrated with  all the existing video sites as Youtube, Google video, dailymotion, blip.tv and more. The smart move they made, is that now they have a guide, where you can donwload tons of RSS’s channel feeds of your favourive vodcasts. I like for example the national geographic series of I didn’t know that:

Wacky industrial scientists Richard Ambrose and Jonny Philips’ insatiable quest for knowledge leads them to various hands-on tests like slicing open plasma TVs, making steel, and testing wallpaper paste by gluing themselves to a wall.

On the other side, about uploading your own videos, I wanted to comment also about the greatness of blip.tv’s FTP upload. Since at home I have a wireless connection that is intermitent and not stable, the normal HTTP upload within the site hangs and it’s almost imposible to upload a big video.
Using blip’s FTP feature, I left yesterday night 300 MB of video uploading, and when I woke up all the videos where already uploaded and converted to flash video in my blip.tv channel.

To convert your Youtube videos to mp4 format for your ipod I reccommend diwib . (Thx Ivan for pointing out Miro!)

CAUTION : Be aware that MIRO is highly addictive and is not recommended for work environments like offices and shared internet. Put the limit of video downloads to only ONE if you are in a place where you shouldn’t be downloading videos.

Lately I’ve been reading books online at safari. I’ve found that for about 10 dollars a month I can have 5 books and read only the parts that interest me. So it’s quite a good deal right ?
For about 8 euro a month I can read about the things I want to learn and print out the useful content. This month I selected 3 books:

• Ajax
• Mysql clustering (this one is scary)
• Web measurament hacks (the one I’ll be commenting out)

This is the pyramic model of web measurement:

One of the important things the book tells in the first pages is the terminology of web measurement. A crucial thing if you want to become a professional “web data analyst.” The terms I wanted to emphasize, because I’m going to talk about this later, are the following:

A hit
An action on a web site such as when a user views a page or downloads a file. (definition of webTrends)

A page view
A page view is counted with the successful loading of any document containing content that was requested by a web site visitor, regardless of the mechanism of delivery or the number and frequency with which said content is requested.

Visits
A visit is counted when a unique visitor creates activity on a web site, measured using sequential page views (clickstream), regardless of the duration of this activity as long as the period of inactivity between page views does not extend beyond 30 minutes.

Unique visitors
Unique visitors represent the number of actual individual people, within a designated reporting timeframe, with activity consisting of one or more visits to a site or the delivery of pushed content. Each individual is counted only once in the unique visitor measures for the reporting period.

(+) For the people working on online marketing we can add to the top of the pyramid:

Leads
Which are registration (marked as leads in most affiliate programs). A lead is a user that visited the site and registered. One lead can be a possible sale afterwards.

Sales
Finally at the very top of the pyramid the registered user makes a purchase and becomes a client that will probably return if he is satisfied with your service.

After learning all this terminology you can finally talk like an expert and say things like:

Hits? I’m sorry, we don’t use that term around here unless we’re talking about baseball.

Interesting links I’ve been recently

Leopard Mac OS: Video of a guided tour
Video: What’s Steve Jobs like in a meeting? « counternotions

It’s not only he got 200 K € for the small speech but he also did not let the journalist enter the room!
More info in the spanish newspaper diariodemallorca.

I was thinking that I will start writing some articles about my daily experience using Linux. People that gets bored with the subject may explore another categories of this blog.

Webkit is the engine of Apple’s navigator Safari and it’s well known to render the pages quite strictly. So I though that it’s going to be a good test for some of my pages. The problem is that I don’t have Mac, and I don’t use windows, so I Googled for a way to install it in Linux-
By the way, if you use KDE, you already have Konkeror that I think is built with the same engine Safari uses so don’t loose time compiling this!

The steps to build it (via kryogenix)

1. svn checkout http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk WebKit
   That will give you a folder called WebKit. You’ll now need a few requirements; the key one is Qt4. On Ubuntu get this like so:
   sudo aptitude install libqt4-dev
2. Now build your Qt-based WebKit browser:
   QTDIR=/usr/share/qt4/ WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit
When I tried to do this I got: ERROR: flex, bison, gperf missing but required to build WebKit.
   So I searched and installed the required libraries and then executed again the build line:
   sudo apt-get install flex gperf bison
3. Finally, run it:
   WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/WebKitQt/QtLauncher/QtLauncher about:blankPeople using another operative systems can get it here: http://nightly.webkit.org/

Other browser alternatives:

Opera

Lynx
Under debian/Ubuntu install it with their package manager: apt-get install lynx
Even that this text based browser may seem too geeky for standard navigation I use it for clients to know what text is going to grab Google for their SERP Snippets.