DirecTV to boast 130 HD channels on August 14th, 1080p movies later this year (12)
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Filed under: Industry, SatelliteNow this is what we're talking about! On the very same morning that Verizon trumpets its achievement of hitting 100 high-def channels in New York, along comes DirecTV to make that figure look second-rate. The satcaster has just announced that it will be hosting upwards of 130 high-definition channels on August 14th, which means that 30 or so newcomers are just weeks away from going live. All of the channels will be ...
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Brandon said:
DirecTV is killing the competition right now with HD quality and quantity. If you haven't switched from cable yet, now is probably the time.
Slashdot | Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two (9)
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Klaus Schmidt writes "Virgin Galactic today unveiled their WhiteKnight Two mothership, called "EVE". It is designed to carry the smaller SpaceShip Two into space. The rollout represents another major milestone in Virgin Galactic's quest to launch the world's first private, environmentally benign, space access system for people, payload and science. Christened "EVE" in honor of Richard Branson's mother — Sir Richard performed the official naming ceremony — WK2 is both visually remarkable and represents ground-breaking ...
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Chip R said:
You've got to love Branson.
Microsoft Virtual Earth Team Takes Control of 3D Photosynth Engine (15)
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Amid the cash cows, Microsoft has been know venture into pretty intriguing areas and pursue ambitious technological scenarios. Some involve massive touchscreen walls and tables for easy, ultra-rich living. (See: Microsoft Surface) Something like Photosynth, meanwhile, which the company introduced many months ago to quite rapt attention from some observers in the media, is perhaps more attainable for the everyman. In short, Photosynth is a virtual environment that, through algorithmic processing, is able to establish ...
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JayCrossler said:
Excellent! About time. There is going to be a huge wave of interest in about two years in better geospatial/multimedia tools online. "Reality Online", here we come.
Verizon Fios TV is Good, But its Web Video Plan is Absurd (3)
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As lovely as Verizon’s Fios Internet and television services may be (speaking with extensive real-world experience with both options, the fiber connection straight to the home does well in helping those bits along), the company’s planned introduction of Web video playback through partnerships with YouTube, Veoh, Blip.TV, and Break is potentially DOA. Why? Because in order to have a go at that type of content from the comfort of your big(ger)-screen LCD or plasma, you’ll ...
Boom times ahead for mobile web >> BBC (1)
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And This Is Why China is Every Internet Company’s Wet Dream (40)
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According to the latest government data, China now has 253 million Internet users, due to recent sharp growth - 56 percent from last year. The inevitable has happened: China now has more Internet users than the USA, which is at 223.1 million with 71% online penetration. The fact that the Chinese government is exercising very strict control and censorship over internet use has immensely slowed down the growth of Internet use in this country, but ...
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srndpty said:
China now has more internet users than the US
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mernisse said:
And THIS is why Google is ok with playing nice with the government of China at the cost of some support in the US. There are almost as many Chinese online as there are CITIZENS of the UNITED STATES. Math bitches, do you do it?
Old Media Deathrace 5000 (23)
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I know there’s a good portion of you that are going to instantly groan at the headline, either because it’s a territory that’s been hashed out a number of times from a number of different angles or because you’re one of those folks who simply doesn’t believe there are such thing as “killer” technology (I’ve had that conversation with a few folks recently). But Duncan Riley put out an interesting, if not provocative, editorial this ...
Facebook Connect (1)
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"We are going to see the big social networks start to decentralize into a series of social applications across the Web," Mr. Zuckerberg said. "I think we are at the beginning of a movement and the beginning of an industry."
Aug 26, 2008: Open Coffee Bristol at Starbucks (2)
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The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow. This is the online complement to that offline network. Meet people, find out what's going on nearby you and then go and take part.
The UK government is considering taxing Internet users and distributing the money to the music industry (3)
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Japanese Teamwork Brings Web to TV (5)
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Here in the United States, we tend to navel gaze a bit when it comes to technology and new media, but other countries like Japan have been leading adoption of mobile content and advertising, gaming and new content models such as IPTV for some time. Sure, much of the push for new models of video consumption has been happening here in the States, with the likes of Google/YouTube, Apple/iTunes and Hulu. But while we’ve been ...
Why Facebook Connect Matters & Why it Will Win (47)
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Facebook kicked off their second annual developer conference in San Francisco this afternoon with a keynote by founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The overproduced keynote with too many words repeatedly incessantly, seemed like a lullaby sung by a nanny in language alien to yours. There were some who compared Mark with Steve Jobs after last year’s presentation. Now, having watched the two weave their spell, I would say the comparison would be as exaggerated as ...
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Nate said:
Where are they getting the "highly effective advertising platform" part?
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Daltonsbriefs said:
This definitely means it's time to clean up your facebook profile, or start using it if you've been postponing.
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Devlin D said:
Very insightful article about building up there database of targeted information. But I still question whether Facebook's relative lack of advertising success has more to do with the information that they target against or the fact that traditional advertising just doesn't work in a social network.
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iomegadrive said:
But again, I fail to see the great benefit for sites to implement this. The benefits skew heavily toward FB's favor on this one.
Seesmic launch partner of Facebook connect (3)
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Seesmic is already connected to Facebook connect and has been working with the Facebook team to allow Seesmic users to instantly and seamlessly publish your Seesmic videos to your Facebook friends. You will see a Facebook logo under each of your videos and if you click on it it will post the Seesmic videos directly in your Facebook feed. The Seesmic videos will show in your Facebook feed. We are posting a video that demoes ...
Saving TV advertising the TiVo way (4)
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You gotta hand it to those bods over at TiVo land. First of all they invent a brilliant dvr for recording TV programmes that lets you skip adverts and gives you ultimate viewing power. Well now, they have turned that on its head and have incorporated a feature that lets you buy products you either see on a show or on a commercial all from your couch. TiVo have partnered up with Amazon for this ...
Digital TV sales defy slowdown >> FT (1)
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Fred Wilson - A VC in Europe >> TechCrunch UK (2)
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Bill Shakes said:
good to know and the player embedded is from a German multi use social network site sevenload
Calgoo Upgrade Syncs Your Calendars For Free (2)
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Calgoo is solving you and your significant other’s scheduling problems by offering its calendar synchronization tools for free. Tuesday’s announcement coincides with the release of version 2.0 of its software. There are several software products vying to be your primary calendar. Depending on what you have at work or at home, most calendars offer the ability to import each other, but prohibit interactivity. In most cases, creating an event in one calendar means the event ...
Joost Expands Into China With Minority Investor Tom (3)
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Joost, the once-hyped-but-struggling-for-relevance online video firm started by Skype founders, has made an interesting move with one of its minority investors: it has launched a Chinese version with Tom Group, with local language content from the likes of CCTV, China Record Corp, BTV Media, CAV Warner Home Entertainment and Huayi Brothers Media Group. I briefly ran into Joost CEO Mike Volpi at the Fortune conference today, and he alluded to some of the plans. We ...
