Day of Silence

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Walk along with Starling Fitness

Ever wish while you were exercising you could be somewhere other than your living room, bedroom or gym? Starling Fitness has the answer. Laura Moncur, the creative brains behind Starling Fitness, has come up with a great way for you to exercise in one place but feel like you're in another. Laura actually takes you on a walk with her digital video camera. Shows you all the great sites and locations in a city, like Moab, Utah, or The Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas.

There are only a few locations at the moment but I know she has many more planned. The price is right, and these videos will help you take your mind off the mundane or boring surroundings.

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Utah Geek Dinner for April

Hey everyone we are having the monthly Geek Dinner at Applebees in Draper this week, Thursday April 27th @ 6PM. All are welcome. Get the details here.

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Utah Tech Spotlight featuring MediaPort

Today's meet-up of the Utah Tech Spotlight featured local company MediaPort. Held on the upper floor of the Bohemian, drinks food and fun were had by all. The featured company MediaPort provides a kiosk based digital media delivery system. You can purchase and download your media to any mobile device or your purchase can be saved on a CD. According to the presenter, sorry I can't remember his name, MediaPorts digital media costs about 38% less than what you can buy at Wal-Mart. I assumed he meant less than physical disks. It's hard to get much less than $0.88 per track.

As with any digital media discussion DRM was a topic discussed. It seems the DRM is delayed; meaning you can download the media to your device and immediately start using it, but once you sync to a PC the DRM is written to the local disk. Unfortunately they don't support any Apple products. Not their fault of course, but does eliminate 100 million portable music devices. If they could work out a deal with Apple they would have an exploding business.

Some of the people I recall seeing at the meet-up were Jason Alba, Matthew Reinbold, Steve Spencer, a few more from Twelve Horses, several from Media Port, a guy from a company called BounceBase.com, sounded interesting. I also met another young guy whose company is BlastHosting.

Here is a link to a few pics (sorry the quality sucks, next time I'm using the digital cam not the phone).

Thanks again to Steve Spencer of Twelve Horses for putting this together and the other sponsors, UTC and EO.

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NASCAR to display Virginia Tech logo on cars

According to a post on Planet Blacksburg, NASCAR officials have been given permission to place a VT logo on its cars for the next three races at Phoenix, Talladega and Richmond. I think this is pretty cool.

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