Why Are The Democrats Waffling On Net Neutrality? (4)
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Does the Democratic Party support net neutrality -- the idea that Internet service providers must treat each packet of Internet traffic equally -- or not? The Dems just hammered out the final draft of the official party platform they're sending to Denver for ratification, and it seems they're trying to say: We support net neutrality, but don't quote us on that. The actual text (see below, under "A Connected America") of the proposed Democrats' technology ...
Watching The Beijing Olympics On The Web: How To Use A Proxy Server To See The Sports You Want, When You Want (4)
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If you live in the USA (like us) and love the Olympics (also like us), by now you've probably heard -- NBC (GE), which has exclusive broadcasting rights to the Olympics within the US, is keeping its best coverage off the Internet. The company is doing so in the misguided belief that an embargo on the best online video will send people to their TVs, where NBC can command higher ad rates. The easiest way ...
How Does Someone With Psychic Powers Silence YouTube (GOOG) Critics? With The DMCA. (1)
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Television "psychic" Uri Geller claims to be able to bend spoons with the power of his mind. So we'd have guessed the paranormalist would silence critic Brian Sapient, who uploaded a 13-minute debunking video to YouTube in March of last year, by frying his brain with a telekinetic bolt. Instead, Geller filed a takedown notice under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Geller's complaint? That the video, originally part of a skeptical NOVA program ...
How To Watch The Beijing Olympics LIVE On The Web -- Even If NBC Doesn't Want You To (12)
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NBC will bring 2200 hours of Beijing Olympics streaming video to the web, starting today. But Americans will miss some of the best parts. Why? Because NBC, which has exclusive rights to the games in the United States, still makes a whole lot more serving up TV ads than Web ads. So for many of the most-anticipated events (volleyball, gymnastics, swimming, boxing) US-based viewers have to either watch on TV (often on tape-delay) ... or ...
YouTube Expands Video Editing Toolset With Omnisio Pickup (2)
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It turns out you can do more with online video than simple playback. YouTube (GOOG) has seen a rise in popularity in serials and "choose your own adventure" clips, and added its own video annotation service to encourage more interactivity last month. Today YouTube announced its acquisition of Omnisio, adding even more tools for video editing and linking. Omnisio allows users to piece together pre-existing video from online sites into new combinations, and prepare slideshows ...
Firefly's Chat-On-A-Webpage Goes Live (16)
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Have something brilliant to say about a blog post or news story, but find leaving a comment and waiting for replies too slow? Then you'll want to check out Firefly, which formally launches today. The service, which we wrote about earlier this spring, lets you embed real-time messaging on Web pages. It's a little dizzying - especially if you're the kind of person who gets overwhelmed by the crawl across the bottom of CNN or ...
Google-Wannabe Cuil: Worst. Launch. Ever. (8)
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Hand it to Cuil's PR machine: The company did a great job getting the word out about the Internet's latest would-be "Google Killer." As the Huffington Post notes, Cuil dominated Google Trends' listings of today's searches. And we wanted to like Cuil's story: In recent weeks Google (GOOG) has been gunning for everyone from Wikipedia to Second Life. We liked the idea of a newer, hungrier search engine founded by ex-Google employees that would bring ...
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google killer? funny, i forgot it was still 2003.
Free Pass To Web 2.0 Expo, Get It Here (1)
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The Web 2.0 Conference is coming to New York from Sept 16 - 19. Henry Blodget will be moderating a panel called "Cashing Out: When, How, and How Much." We know: your company is a labor of love. But let's be serious. It's also a labor of capitalism. And at some point you're going to want to turn that labor into wealth. Dividends? Sale? IPO? Henry Blodget and our expert panel will reveal the secrets ...
Google Launches Wikipedia Killer "Knol": Everything You Wanted To Know About Toilet Clogs, Tooth Pain, More (GOOG) (5)
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Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia is the seventh most visited site on the Net (says Alexa), and Google (GOOG) isn't going to let all those pageviews escape its grasp. Today the company opened its "Knol" user-generated guide-to-everything to the public, encouraging Web surfers to create content on topics ranging from backpacking to lung cancer. But a few key differences between Knol and Wikipedia stand out. First, articles on Knol are bylined, which should encourage a greater pool ...
Vaguely Dirty Video: OK On YouTube, Blip; Banned On Vimeo (2)
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Nearly all online video sites (except those purpose-built for porn) have policies in place against uploading "adult" content. So what exactly qualifies as "adult"? Based on Rachel Kramer Bussel's experiences, that depends on what site you're visiting. Last week, the Penthouse Variations editor uploaded a promotional video for "Spanked", an upcoming book of erotica she's edited, to four different sites: Flickr (YHOO), Vimeo, Blip.TV, and YouTube (GOOG). The video is mildly racy, but there's little ...
Uber-Hacker Kevin Mitnick Signs Tell-All Book Deal (21)
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Kevin Mitnick is going to tell his side of the story. And he's going to get paid for it. Speaking to an adoring crowd of 800 at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference, Mitnick, once described as the "most wanted computer hacker in the world," announced that he had signed a deal with Little, Brown and Company to tell his life story. "Finally I get to tell my side," he said, saying the conditions of ...
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I will get this book...fascinating!
Google's Lively Is Just Like Second Life -- No One's There But Perverts And Griefers (GOOG) (2)
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We've all heard the knock on marketing in Second Life -- brands that do it get a splash of PR, but little else. Most brands end up with abandoned virtual storefronts and negative ROI. So last week, when Google (GOOG) introduced "Lively," its own virtual worlds product we had hopes that it might suceeed where Linden Lab (SAI 25: #11) failed. Not so much. We checked in on the National Geographic Channel's virtual worlds space ...
Week In Review: iPhonemania Turns Ugly, Jerry Yang Gets Feisty (1)
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All eyes were on Apple (AAPL) this week, which released the cheaper-with-a-more-expensive-contract iPhone 3G on Friday. Apple may be shipping up to one million phones to 22 countries, but all of the AT&T (T) stores around Silicon Alley are sold out. But even many people who got their precious handsets weren't happy: Activation snafus plagued many buyers. The upside: At least New Yorkers are among the privileged few who can take advantage of the new ...
Google: No Sex in Second Life-Killer Lively (GOOG) (1)
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What's the difference between Linden Lab's (SAI 25 #11) Second Life and Lively, the new virtual world announced by Google? How much time do you have? Second Life requires its own software and needs a PC equipped with a high-end graphics card; Lively runs in a Web browser. In Second Life, anyone with a little programming know-how can create anything, which makes the experience "fun"; in Lively, avatars decorate their virtual hangouts with objects from ...
Google: Louisville, KY Is The Most Obscene City In The U.S. (1)
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Ambitious prosecutors are now trying to shut down Internet pornographers by trying them in towns where conservative "community standards" make an obscenity conviction more likely. A novel defense now being tried in a Pensacola, Fla. obscenity case: Using Google Trends to prove that the town's "community standards" are more prurient than prosecutors are willing to admit. The idea: If Google proves that local residents search for "sex" more than they do for, well, anything else, ...
