Everyone’s been talking about Splashtop on the new Asus Eee Box but we’re not allowed to say anything until it’s all “official-like.” It drives me crazy - I always have the scoop on this stuff and I’m not allowed to say anything!

I have to say that I’ve been playing with the Eee Box in the office and it’s a sweet machine. I’m really excited that we’re on it because we’re a perfect match for it. The Eee Box is really focused on getting you on the web. Splashtop is, as you know, the fastest and most efficient way to go from a cold boot to a fully functional web browser. What a great match for the new Atom Processor that Intel is releasing on this device.

When CNET reviewed the Eee Box, they said:

We also like the Eee Box’s start-up software layer, called ExpressGate. Approximately 7 seconds after you power the system, ExpressGate presents you with a pre-Windows operating system with applications for browsing the Web, instant messaging, looking at photos, and making VoIP calls with Skype. The ExpressGate screen gives you a button to load Windows XP if you need to go into the more robust operating system, and if you do nothing once ExpressGate loads, it will move on directly to XP as well. This software is so handy we’d like to see it on every PC.

That’s high praise from CNET. It seems like Asus has again defined a new category with this nettop box. They’re so handy, inexpensive and useful I can see these flying off the shelves. They even include a mounting bracket so that you can mount it to the back of your monitor. How smart is that! Cheers to our friends at Asus and congratulations everyone on another incredible integration of Splashtop.

If you’d like to see the actual press release (you never know), you can find it here.

Everyone’s been looking tired this week. It seems like all my friends at DeviceVM have been staying up late to watch the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Whilst watching last night, I got somewhat tired of the same advertisements over and over again. I got out my laptop, powered on Splashtop and (instantly) began searching for online Olympic options. I found some great resources that pointed me in the right direction so I thought I’d forward them to you…

Note: thanks to SmartMobs for most of this info…

1. Qik - Qik is a live-streaming platform for your phone. It basically allows you to take out your phone and start streaming live to the web. Pretty cool, eh? Apparently they have about 18 people roaming around Beijing doing live Qik streams. Hope they charged their batteries.

Check out the Qik Olympic Channel here.

2. Daily Motion - Daily Motion is like YouTube in Europe. There’s a lots of good content including politics, creative content and then official coverage. Daily Motion is pretty unrestrained so expect to see some risque user generated content.

Check out Daily Motion here.

3. YouTube - If you’re in a country without official Olympic Coverage check out the YouTube China/Taiwan official Olympic Channel. If you are in a country with Olympic Coverage - check out this guy who is there and submitting material to YouTube regularly.

4. Kyte is another great resource that, similarly to Qik, allows people to stream live video from their phone (and other devices) to the web. They have 9 channels with a ton of first person content.

Check it out Kyte coverage here.

5. Flickr - Nothing beats the stunning photos of events and relevant places associated with this 2008 Summer Olympics. I highly suggest you take a sneak peak at these photos - it’s almost as good as being there.

Check out Flickr photos from the 2008 Olympics here.

Enjoy your weekend!

I’ve been waiting a while to write a post on one of the hotter web 2.0 startups, friendfeed. When friendfeed first launched several months ago it was definitely an early adopter product. And, perhaps, I didn’t understand it well enough. We all know I love Twitter which let’s you stream short thoughts, events or links. So, I assumed that friendfeed would be an extension of the lifestreaming concept - the never-ending newsfeed which was first made popular by Facebook. And it is. But, it has become so much more.

Check out this image:

You can see that several posts by different people. Some I “follow” and others are suggested to me by friendfeed. I can subscribe to more people, block people I don’t care for and easily configure it to automatically share anything I want from 40+ services including RSS feeds, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Digg. It’ll even let people know what you’re listening to on Pandora.

But, the thing I like best is the conversations on friendfeed that ensue when someone posts something interesting. Lately, it seems that I’ve found a ton of really interesting articles just by watching friendfeed. Once something is posted people can “like” the article or even “comment” on it. From there you get awesome debates and further information. Take for instance, this post about cases for the iPhone 3G (something I’m definitely interested in).

So, give friendfeed a try. There’s much more to it than I’ve even described here. Photographer and Blogger, Justin Korn, talks about how to get started on friendfeed and pick your friends. I think friendfeed is an endless source of great web content and conversation around web content. Let me know what you think.