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Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube

Nov 19th, 2008 · Monty Python seems to have done the right thing. Instead of issuing take down notices of their videos on YouTube, they are doing it better themselves with their own YouTube channel. They are putting all their clips (including snips from their movies) …
see also: video · TV · resolution · movie · Monty · Python · Monty Python

Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube

Nov 19th, 2008 · Monty Python seems to have done the right thing. Instead of issuing take down notices of their videos on YouTube, they are doing it better themselves with their own YouTube channel. They are putting all their clips (including snips from their movies) …
see also: video · TV · resolution · movie · Monty · Python · Monty Python

How To Build a Web 2.0 Government?

Nov 16th, 2008 · With the announcement that President-Elect Obama will record his weekly address as a YouTube video to be posted at Change.gov, questions arise as to how an Internet-fueled candidacy based in part on a platform of government openness can begin to use technology …
see also: video · New York Times · Internet · technology · gadget · Public · United States

MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube

Nov 10th, 2008 · Lithal13 writes to tell us that MGM studios will soon be the first major movie studio to post a complete feature-length film on YouTube. Some credit commercial video site 'Hulu' for the mended relationship between YouTube parent Google and Hollywood. …
see also: video · Hollywood · Google · Commercial · player · ads · Studios

How To Supplement Election Coverage?

Nov 1st, 2008 · An anonymous reader asks "What information sources and social networking sites will you be using to supplement the election coverage on TV next Tuesday? I am ready with a big HDTV with Comcast, a Mac mini, and and an Xbox 360. I also have two laptops …
see also: video · TV · network · Mini · nation · subscribers · Blackberry

Examining the Role of Video Games In the US Election

Oct 31st, 2008 · Gamasutra is running an article discussing the influence of games and gamers on the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections. The connection, while minor, is continuing to strengthen, from allowing people to register to vote through their consoles, to in-game …
see also: video · network · Online · blog · advertising · 2004 · interview

MTV Launches Music Video Site

Oct 29th, 2008 · MTV Music has just launched a website where they offer over 16,000 music videos — like YouTube, but with fewer notices and DMCA takedowns. They've also set up development tools for third parties to incorporate the content into their own creations. …
see also: video · parties · Music · creation · Website · Firefox · privacy

Running Google Android On iPhone Clones

Oct 29th, 2008 · With the release of Android's source code, we may see iPhone and Nokia clone phones of Chinese origin capable of running Google Android. These phones, often available for less than $200 without a contract, are available on DealExtreme and elsewhere. But …
see also: software · Google · Chinese · contracts · originate · Nokia · YouTube

Running Google Android On IPhone Clones

Oct 29th, 2008 · With the release of Android's source code, we may see iPhone and Nokia clone phones of Chinese origin capable of running Google Android. These phones, often available for less than $200 without a contract, are available on DealExtreme and elsewhere. But …
see also: software · Google · Chinese · contracts · originate · Nokia · YouTube

MTV Launches Music Video Site

Oct 29th, 2008 · MTV Music has just launched a website where they offer over 16,000 music videos — like YouTube, but with fewer notices and DMCA takedowns. They've also set up development tools for third parties to incorporate the content into their own creations. …
see also: video · parties · Music · creation · Website · Firefox · privacy

Modern Methods For Sharing Innovation

Oct 26th, 2008 · The New York Times is running a story about Johnny Chung Lee, a hardware hacker made famous for his projects which modified the Nintendo Wiimote to do things like positional head tracking and multi-touch display control. The article focuses on the suggestion …
see also: Hardware · New York Times · Inventors · demonstrations · Hacker · traditional · modern

Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth?

Oct 25th, 2008 · At home, my internet connection is limited to 1GB / month before I have to pay extra. At my university, I'm charged around 2.5c per megabyte. I rarely download anything big, but I often go through a large amount of bandwidth by simply browsing around. …
see also: video · bandwidth · download · Internet · Website · Firefox · University

Internet Co-inventor, Vint Cerf Endorses Obama

Oct 15th, 2008 · Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist who also happens to be credited with co-founding the Internet, submitted a video to our AVoteforScience YouTube challenge. In it he discusses the importance of net neutrality and endorses Barack Obama specifically …
see also: video · Google · scientists · Internet · Inventors · winners · campaign

McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy

Oct 15th, 2008 · It appears that CBS and Fox have submitted DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for videos from the McCain campaign. The campaign is now complaining about YouTube's DMCA policy making it too easy for copyright holders to remove fair-use videos. I hope they …
see also: video · copyrighted · protesting · campaign · DMCA · Policy · CBS

YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine

Oct 14th, 2008 · According to the latest ComScore rankings, YouTube's search traffic for August surpassed Yahoo's. The latter dropped roughly 5% in traffic from July. Among other things, this means that Google now owns both of the top two search engines. AdAge further …
see also: video · Google · engineering · advertising · Yahoo · Traffic · YouTube

YouTube Adds Full-Length Television Shows

Oct 13th, 2008 · YouTube has moved to put full-length television shows on its site for the first time. Historically, YouTube has hosted a bewildering and attractive variety of video clips, the vast majority of which have been under ten minutes in length. YouTube has announced …
see also: video · ca · television · resting · Star Trek · CBS · YouTube

Canadian NDP Leader Praises P2P Communities

Oct 12th, 2008 · The New Democrats' Jack Layton has become the first leader of a major Canadian political party to acknowledge the importance of the Internet during a federal election. He's using YouTube to carry his message specifically to the online community, launching …
see also: P2P · service · Online · regulator · Internet · corporate · community

Lessig's "In Defense of Piracy"

Oct 12th, 2008 · The Wall Street Journal is running an essay from Lawrence Lessig about the fair use of copyrighted material on the Internet. He makes the case that companies who go to extreme lengths to squash minor videos, such as Universal, are stifling creativity …
see also: video · Internet · defense · piracy · copyrighted · Wall Street Journal · Companies

Lessig's "In Defense of Piracy"

Oct 11th, 2008 · The Wall Street Journal is running an essay from Lawrence Lessig about the fair use of copyrighted material on the Internet. He makes the case that companies who go to extreme lengths to squash minor videos, such as Universal, are stifling creativity …
see also: video · Internet · defense · piracy · copyrighted · Wall Street Journal · Companies

Sprint's Xohm WiMax Network Debuts In Baltimore, Works Well

Oct 11th, 2008 · Sprint's newly launched Xohm service is now offering America's first WiMax network. Computerworld's Brian Nadel went to Baltimore to try it out, and he reports that Xohm delivered data smoothly to a car moving at highway speeds, played YouTube videos …
see also: video · network · service · cities · Computerworld · ATT · America







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