It didn’t take long for Yahoo to get their branded version of Meedio out there. They’ve called it Yahoo Go TV which adds to their Go Mobile and Go PC. I downloaded and installed Go TV and everything seemed to work pretty well. Out of the box, it doesn’t really have the Meedio feel to it though. Meedio had a lot more customization options. I haven’t had a whole lot of time to really dig into it, but from what I can tell by looking through the program files someone might be able to customize it like Meedio. In fact, some of the icons in the application directory are still the old red and yellow Meedio icons. I quickly tried dropping in a new theme and couldn’t get it to pick it up. I’m sure someone with a little more knowledge of the inner workings of Meedio shouldn’t have any problems hacking that (or any other plugins for that matter) to work.

As it stands now, it looks like Yahoo is keeping a pretty closed system. The great thing about Meedio is its incredible customization options. I’m hoping (since this is still beta) that they’ll open it up a little more and you won’t need to hack your way around to get plugins and themes to work. If not, the value of this app drops significantly.

UPDATE: It looks like folks on the old Meedio forums already have.

Check out this live action assassin game in LA. At the beginning of this three-week game, people that have signed up to play get an envelope that includes:

• A picture of their intended target(s)
• The home address of their intended target(s)
• The work address of their intended target(s)
• The name of their intended target(s)
• Contact information of their intended target(s)

Then they have to go around and kill (with water guns) the targets provided. Once a target has been killed they hand their target info over to the killer. It lasts till someone is the only one left. How cool is that?

This past Tuesday, Yahoo! announced their purchase of technology from Meedio who make software for Entertainment Center PC’s. I’ve been eyeing Meedio for a while now and was planning on using their flagship “Meedio Essentials” application for an HTPC that I’m planning on building this summer. You may also remember some older posts about Jon’s HTPC. This is the software he uses to power his beast of a entertainment center pc (I’m hoping he’ll speak up in the comments).

This purchase could go a few different ways depending on what Yahoo! does with it. They didn’t flat out buy the company, they only bought the technology. Does this mean they’re going to integrate it into something they’re already working on? Yahoo Go has had a “Personalize Your TV” demo site up for a little while now. I can only assume that this is built with the technology they acquired from Meedio. There are still quite a few unanswered questions though. The great thing about Meedio is that is was very customizable. Hopefully Yahoo, trying to keep users inside the Yahoo network, doesn’t cripple that customization which has made Meedio a great piece of software. When Yahoo purchased Konfabulator several months ago they pretty much left it as it was and just made it available for free. With Konfabulator though, it’s more along the lines of Yahoo’s primary business - the web. Meedio doesn’t really fit into that category.

Yahoo has been moving more towards TV in the past year though. They announced a partnership with Tivo back in November allowing you to record shows on your Tivo from Yahoo TV. I wonder how this new Meedio relationship will fit into that. I think Yahoo definitely wants to get into the TV video market, I just wonder how they’re going to mesh all this stuff together, or if they’ve even thought that far ahead.

I think the best case scenario with this is Yahoo not changing much with Meedio as it stands now (maybe just throw the little “Y!” icon on there somewhere) and giving it away for free a la Konfabulator, or Google’s Picasa purchase. That way when I get to building an entertainment PC this summer there’s one piece that I won’t be paying for.

I’ve been playing around with a new design for a little while now, and am finally to the point where it’s ready to go live. I don’t think it’s quite done yet (probably won’t ever be satisfied). I’ll still be tweaking things for a while, but I thought I would at least get it out there. Let me know what you think, and if you run into any weirdness when trying to do anything.

It’s not like I need another reason to buy Mentos, but it looks like I just got one. Looks like Mentos has started offering free song downloads from Apple’s iTunes Music Store with codes located on boxes of Mentos Sours. I haven’t seen any of these free music Mentos Sours boxes in the wild yet, but you’d better believe when I do, I’ll be slapping down some cold hard cash to get me a few boxes. When Pepsi does their yearly iTunes promotion, I usually end up buying more 20 oz. bottles. It’s scary to think how many boxes this promotion will make me buy when it’s a food item I’m already obsessed with. Too bad they don’t sell Mentos Sours at the same number of places that Pepsi is sold… or maybe for the sake of my health, that’s a good thing. Naw! Anything that promotes the candy of the gods is definitely a good thing!

Well, the rumors came true. Apple announced a program called Boot Camp this morning that will let you boot windows (officially) on a new Intel Macintosh. It was Apple’s birthday last Saturday and they turned 30 years old. I’d be willing to bet that if they’d released this on their birthday (April 1st) nobody would have believed it.

I think this is a good move for Apple. They continue to claim they’re a hardware company. I think giving the customer more options (another OS) is definitely a good way to go. If you’re even the slightest bit interested in what Apple has to offer, you no longer have to worry if you’ll still be able to run your existing Windows apps. If Apple is looking for switchers this is a great way to get people to taste OS X when they normally wouldn’t have done so. It’ll be interesting to see how Apple furthers this feature in their upcoming OS 10.5.

Check out the first BSOD on a Mac

It is now a very special moment in time:

1:02:03 on 4/05/06!

Happy 1-2-3-4-5-6 day!