I spent some time today on Nacion.com, the website for the biggest local newspaper, and found out none of the videos they have can actually be played. If you go to the site the videos are at the bottom, and when I open them I get this message in the flash player window where the video is supposed to play:

Player can not detect browser cookies. Please, enable them and reload the page in order to show the content.

Using Safari 3, with cookies obviously enabled. But the truth is they should have tested their video solution on all platforms and browsers, putting the functionality on the site only to have it fail on users simply pisses them off, like it did to me.

It blows my mind that the guys running this site couldn’t get video right. I mean, video online in 2008 is not a difficult thing to do. Not at all. By any means. We’ll see if they get it right.

Busy day today, lot’s of work. I’m struggling to implement a feature to book a house online with paypal and it’s been a bitch to get it to work. But, I’ve always loved when I can’t get stuff to work, it’s a nice challenge, everytime. Anyway, in between all the projects I’m trying to make room for redesigning this site, one of the main things I’m focusing on is on getting a good logo for the site, but I have never been good at that, so we’ll see what happens.

On the news today is the 3G iPhone (just announced), it’s even better now, but I wonder how it’s going to be sold, it’s only $199 now but I believe you have to get a contract when you buy it, with the old one you could just buy without a contract, and then you could get it to work simply by jailbreaking/unlocking it (which is what I did with Lisa’s and to my ipod, took me 5 minutes with ipwnage), but I’m hearing that this one can’t be bought without the contract.. I’m sure there will be a work around though. I mean, Sweet Jesus Phone loves you and wants to be with you. I just wish they’d addressed the software issues there are with it -Colin has a good post about that so check it out- because there was no sign they did on today’s keynote. Of course it could be that they just didn’t address them now. I want one, but I’m good with my iPod, 3G and EDGE are useless down here in Costa Rica anyway, we’re still using GPRS (sigh).

So I’ve been trying to “come back online”, trying to get comfortable in this little web, in this space we have to be us. Now that I’m back home, in Costa Rica, it’s a good time. This means getting back into the social.

Twitter of course, is one the first things I’ve started to use again, I love it, even though it’s been having some hard times recently (many reasons why, but i don’t really care) it’s not something I can let go so easily, it lets me connect, it’s a cool app.

Flickr, Facebook, and all the other stuff, I’m in again. Not really doing videos, but Viddler is doing some really cool things, which reminds me that I just got a shirt from them with an awesome letter, it had Colin and Rob with cute little text bubbles, you should see it (note to self: take pictures), these guys are awesome. Gary Vee from WineLibrary is the man now, shit, did you see the Conan videos? Awesome. I got a Vayniacs wristband from Gary too, which fucking rocked (unfortunately i lost it).

Anyhow, there’s a new web app called FriendFeed that I find extremely addictive, because it lets me do cool things and makes keeping up so easy. Basically it aggregates content from anything you want, from you, and puts it all together in one page, then there’s all these other users that you can “follow” ala twitter, so you go on the friends page and there’s all you want to see about the people you follow, twits, flickr photos, blog posts, etc.. So yeah, check it out. I mean, it’s not like you have to, but since you read so far, well what else are you going to do?

It feels good, being back, I’m enjoying it. And I’m loving how important the web is for so many people now, how incredible it is, it really is magic.