This is another thing I had to do since a long time of which I underestimated the importance at least from a marketing point of view: I mean adding subtitles to my Netc@fé TV interview.
Technically they’re actually captions, since I added them using Windows Media Encoder 9 tools. For the occasion I even re-encoded the videos at a higher quality.
I impressed a lot of friends when I showed them my Netc@fé interview, especially on the Pocket PC, but the occasional visitor easily misses it because he has to browse the site a bit to find it and once he finds it he can’t understand the words if it doesn’t know Italian. So that explains the work on the English subtitles and that hint to the visitor in a hurry at the top of the page.
By transcribing the interview I liked in particular the questions at the end of the last part of the interview, when Gabriele asks me about the prices and the spreading of PDAs with a bit of skepticism. Well, we are the country of mobile phones after all, as he often says, and we still have much difficulty to understand the true potential of PDAs not only as personal organizers but also as mini computers, at least compared to other countries. That may change quickly as PDAs with phone capabilities and new Smartphones will start to spread out.
I think my last resolute statements will hold some true even for the next Christmases, who knows?
You may also notice on the left column of this page I just adopted the Creative Commons license model for the contents of the website and the link to Firefox, the only browser I’m now using on my workstation.
I even ordered a custom CC shirt from Ken Mickles at GiantRobotPrinting.com. I’ll take a picture of it once it’ll be here.
Enjoy the videos and stay tuned for more hot news about Ecpc.

Update: we’re almost there, Ecpc 1.4 will be released in a few days. In the meantime you can read my latest articles about the Loox 720 and the Microsoft Genuine Advantage anti-piracy program published here on the local daily newspaper.