links for 2006-12-2928 Dec
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Well, that didn’t take long…
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links for 2006-12-2827 Dec
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Take (1) Diesel car, add (1) Greasecar kit, install it, and run the car using vegetable oil.
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App to adjust and normalize audio levels
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Alright, now this is getting crazy…Running Windows on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Welcome : GoodSearch : Search the Internet with GoodSearch and support your favorite charity or school.
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Google going for “offline” advertising, but: “Google may not have access to enough radio airtime for advertisers to test the product.”
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Great niche market, a problem that is being solved. I love it!
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“…we are still at the beginning of the transformation of how we interact and relate to video content online…”
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List of 2007 US vehicles, sortable Alphabetically or by Air Pollution Score; Prius is top.
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must be seen to be appreciated
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An RV that runs on vegetable oil
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Provide access to biodiesel for consumers in the Los Angeles area
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Flash Video (FLV) to MPEG4 Transcoder: open source
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Something I didn’t know, his Vice President was – Nelson Rockefeller
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links for 2006-12-2221 Dec
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90 second Flash presentation that visually shows the highlights and growth of the world’s major religions
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links for 2006-12-1817 Dec
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There has been speculation that Google is offering 100mm dollar or more licensing opportunities to TV Networks.
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Steve Rubel recently predicted an ad shakeout as Web properties move away from the page view metric.
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$3500 for a photo montage. I’m in the wrong business.
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High-Def, TiVo, and Hollywood17 Dec
Dear Idiots,
I have made my living helping to create audio-visiual content. I’ve produced shows for Prime-Time Network television, as well as cable, indy films, etc. I’ve even written software to help the production process.
I have now completely given up on the “Hollywood Establishment.” You don’t get it. Here’s why…
A couple of hours ago I went to my local electronics store, prepared to spend several thousand dollars to upgrade from SD to HD in my home. I had done research on tvs, and made my decision on a Sony 1080p set. I knew I would have to upgrade my DirecTV service to HD, too. Fine. It was another cost of the upgrade, and I was prepared for it. I also knew that I would have to upgrade my TiVo to record in HD. Again, another cost of the upgrade.
Everyone – Hollywood, politicians, and sales people – keeps pushing that video in the U.S. will be HD in 2009, and my old sets won’t work. It’s time to upgrade. I realize that…and I was prepared to do so, speaking with my wallet. I bought in.
But, when I went to make my final purchase, I was informed that DirecTV and TiVo wouldn’t work together. I would have to ditch TiVo and go with DirecTV’s DVR solution. That was the last straw. I left the store.
I came home, and called DirecTV to confirm what the salesperson had told me (because, well, sometimes they don’t know what they’re talking about.). Surprisingly, the DirecTV representative confirmed what I had been told. DirecTV HD will only work with a DirecTV DVR. In other words, “No TiVo for you!”
So to the HD pushers I say this: SCREW IT! You have proven to me why I don’t want to upgrade to HD…because you take control of my viewing experience. You want lock me out, expire my recorded videos, etc. Free markets be damned.
You’re forcing me to upgrade to what amounts to a gold-plated toilet. I don’t need a gold-plated toilet, nor do I want one. I’ve decided I’m not going to upgrade to HD. You’ve lost a customer, and you did it to yourself.
So, Mr. Mark Cuban,
I don’t care about high-definition video. Case in point, South Park will be just as funny on my computer, my cell phone, or wherever I choose to watch it. The resolution just doesn’t matter. It’s about the content.
Don’t get me wrong. I think HD is beautiful, escpecially when viewed side-by-side with SD. But, in the end it’s about the content.
And…if I lose my sports, then I lose my sports. I used to be a huge basketball fan. Then the strike hit, and I stopped watching. You know what? I never went back, and I don’t miss it a bit.
In 2009, when my TV goes kaput, I’ll simply login to iTunes, Amazon, FireAnt, or whoever “gets it” at the time, and download my video. I’ll then watch it on my 50″ monitor attached to my computer. If the content is HD, great. If not, fine. I don’t really care.
Utimately, here’s what I want: good content. Give me good content, and I’ll watch it. I don’t care if it’s SD, HD, Black and White, Animated, or otherwise. If it’s good content, I’ll even pay you for it. Or, I’ll watch commercials. Heck, I might even do both (I do now…kind of…if you consider that I pay a monthly bill for my tv service.)
So, um, yeah. I’m not buying into the HD hype. Keep it. I don’t want it.
Sincerely,
A loyal viewer, until 2009.
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links for 2006-12-1211 Dec
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Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. Looks like a very high performance server.
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links for 2006-12-0706 Dec
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It’s been talked about for a while, but it’s now official…Lloyd’s out (along with Dan Rosensweig)
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Yahoo has long led the social-media charge…tripling MySpace and quintupling YouTube in size
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“short-form entertainment” ; I like the way they present the people behind the project
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Teaching children to tell time would be far simpler if training clocks had only an hour hand. (and other good tidbits)
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Viacom projecting $500 in revenue from digital in 2007
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NBC Universal expects to realize $300 million-$400 million in digital revenue this year and $1 billion by 2009
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Written in Sept, but didn’t get used until Dec…but on MySpace? Why phish on MySpace?
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Not necessarily evil; I’m sure there can be some productive uses here, too.
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You can add a comments section to any page of your web site by adding the following single line of HTM
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I like the stuff on backtracking
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“more than half (54) percent of adult Internet users currently create their own video offline, but only 11 percent actually upload it to the Internet”
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links for 2006-12-0201 Dec
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Nick Denton’s comment: “In a chat with Gian and Magid at Comscore earlier this month, even they admitted that accurate measurement of small sites (or even large sites like Digg and Boing Boing, which skew towards tech savvy young men) is a code that hasn’