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Thursday was the launch party for Cominded’s latest social application yabb. It’s currently still in private beta, although everyone who attended the event had the opportunity to register on the night and should have received an invitation the following day.

Paul Walsh was first off the mark to blog about yabb and followed up with an interview with Paul Birch. On Friday, Techcrunch UK (followed by US) wrote about the launch of yabb and there were further blog reactions. Oli Barrett at the Daily Networker wrote a great article about yabb titled ‘A Little More Conversation’.

yabb lets you talk more and type less by connecting you with people and topics you’re interested in

For those who haven’t yet joined yabb (with a lowercase y), it’s a social network that facilitate one-to-one conversations between like-minded people using Skype. With yabb we’re promoting the art of conversation; you find a topic you’re interested in, choose who you want to talk to and invite them to contact you using a call request.

Why not head along to register and keep up to date via the blog. If you’re already signed-up and using yabb then we’re very interested in getting your feedback and any ideas for new features.

This Thursday, 24th Jan, is the latest Pizza on Rails event where you can enjoy free pizza & beer, meet-up with fellow Rails developers and find out what Cominded has been working on when we announce our exciting new Rails site.

Join the Pizza On Rails mailing list for further details and to RSVP to indicate your attendance. It looks like it’ll be another great night with almost 100 people already signed up.

Want to watch a movie on your iPhone (or iPod)? The simplest method of converting to the correct format and size is to use iSquint an “iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X”.

• Install, then fire up the iSquint application.
• Drag & drop your .avi file onto the window.
• Select Optimize for iPod, Add to iTunes and H.264 Encoding.
• Set the Quality slider (I’d recommend High) and click Start.

Leave iSquint to do its stuff and you’ll have the converted film available in iTunes. For a single CD avi file, expect a final file size of around 300-350MB for High Quality or 150-200MB for Standard Quality settings (at 127kbps bit rate).

Note: You’ll need to manually select the movie for synching when your iPhone or iPod is connected to iTunes.

Got a copy of Agile Web Development With Rails

Wed 9th Nov, 2005
Order #: 202-0160452-2867026 (amazon)
Items: 1 x Agile Web Development with Rails

Purchased TextMate (and a Mac to run it on)!

Announced first Rails site

Sat, 29th Apr 2006
trawlr.com online rss agregator

Started working professionally with Rails

Mon, 5th November 2007
Cominded