February 2008
61 posts
Chatty Zuckerberg Tells All About Facebook... →
Chatty Zuckerberg Tells All About Facebook Finances — Want to know about how privately held Facebook is doing from a financial point of view? — Well, just ask Mark Zuckerberg! — This afternoon, at an all-hands meeting held in a Palo Alto, Ca. theater near the social networking site’s headquarters …
Source: BoomTown
Author: Kara Swisher
Link: ...
More on Cellphone Books →
You saw the NYT story last weekend about the success of cellphone novels in Japan, but The Millions revisits it with a translation and some context that illustrates how the format is uniquely Japanese.
YouTube Update: Majority of Traffic is... →
Silicon Alley Insider has notes from a speech by David Eun, Google VP of content partnerships, at the SIIA Information Industry Summit in New York. My comments in parentheses.
Most traffic to YouTube comes from outside the U.S.; there are now 19 localized versions of the site.
60 percent of Google’s videos are watched every day
There are ten hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute...
YouTube Update: Majority of Traffic is... →
Silicon Alley Insider has notes from a speech by David Eun, Google VP of content partnerships, at the SIIA Information Industry Summit in New York. My comments in parentheses.
Most traffic to YouTube comes from outside the U.S.; there are now 19 localized versions of the site.
60 percent of Google’s videos are watched every day
There are ten hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute...
January 2008
75 posts
@ SIIA: Online Video CPMs Remain Stable, As Brands... →
A modest proposal for future conference panels covering online video: there ought to be a moratorium on sampling Gil Scott Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.” Heron’s introduction, which was excerpted earlier this week at the AlwaysOn Media NYC conference, was also employed to open a visual survey of last year’s most watched online videos for a panel on...
Pared-Down, iPhone-Friendly Bookmarking with... →
If you like the idea of online bookmarking but don’t necessarily care about the “social” or tagging aspects of sites like del.icio.us or Digg, Instapaper is the site for you. Rather than adding browser buttons or relying on specialized icons to add web pages to your story queue, you simply click a bookmarklet to add pages, and hit “Skip” if you want to delegate a...
Fresh from New York: Trends in online advertising... →
Fresh from New York: Trends in online advertising — Silicon Alley technologists and Madison Avenue advertising executives have been meeting yesterday and today at the AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC conference. Here are some of the trends people were talking about:
Source: VentureBeat
Author: Julie Ruvolo
Link: http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/30/state-of-the-ad…
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The PicLens browser extension, which creates ...... →
The PicLens browser extension, which creates fullscreen photo slideshows from Flickr pages, Google, or Yahoo image searches and many more locations, has made itself available for Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Nifty. [via]
Edward Tufte on the iPhone →
By Jimmy Guterman I’ve been an enormous fan of the work of Edward Tufte for decades. His notions about density of content are extremely relevant in this age of information overload, and he has just released a video in which he evaluates what works and what doesn’t on the device of the moment, the Apple iPhone. Before I give you the link, I should emphasize that the QuickTime file is...
Complete guide to iPhone car integration now... →
Filed under: Accessories, iPhone
Jeremy Horwitz at iLounge has written a comprehensive guide for integrating the iPhone with you car, from a budget-friendly rig to the ultimate set-up. The problem, of course, is that there’s no single device, cable or solution that will manage calls, music, and charge your iPhone’s battery simultaneously. I’m using a set-up similar to...
Edward Tufte on the iPhone →
By Jimmy Guterman I’ve been an enormous fan of the work of Edward Tufte for decades. His notions about density of content are extremely relevant in this age of information overload, and he has just released a video in which he evaluates what works and what doesn’t on the device of the moment, the Apple iPhone. Before I give you the link, I should emphasize that the QuickTime file is...
Bush’s state of the union seemed fine, if a little simplistic, until they broke into song and I realized it was the kid’s Barney dvd.
Sunny and ice balls. Weather report or porn acting duo?
Tufte iPhone →
I’ve been trying to link to Tufte’s take on the iPhone all week, but their server keeps crashed. Now they’ve thankfully moved the best part — the video — to a different page.
If The Longest Yard were made today, it would be a 15sec Youtube clip of a dude getting hit in the balls with a football.
Mondrianum →
Filed under: Software, Graphic Design
Many TUAW readers, I would assume, are in either employed by, or dabble in, the creative pursuits. This means from time to time you have to fire up an illustration program, or design something using a color scheme. Luckily, I spend most of my time writing, not designing. I am mildly colorblind, and have very poor color sense (if you’ve watched any of our...
USB To Z-Wave Adapter, Houseport software comes to... →
Filed under: Household
Admirers of Macs and Z-Wave have longed for the day in which they could finally use their two dearest loves simultaneously, and thanks to Wayne-Dalton, that day is upon us. The WDUSB-10MAC is hailed as the world’s first Z-Wave-enabled home control system “designed specifically for the Mac OS X operating system.” Mac users simply plug in the USB dongle,...
YouTube to soon allow mobile video uploads →
In an upcoming feature, YouTube says it will make it possible for 3G-enabled cell phone users to shoot a video clip and upload it directly to the site. In other words, YouTube is enabling a wireless video army — a development that should be of immediate interest to TV news operations.
Second Life's pending crash [Virtual Economy] →
Shame on you, Wall Street Journal, for running a front page exposé on the Second Life bank run. Fair enough to report that its banks are collapsing. But mostly, the article will serve to remind Journal readers that second Life is still a going concern.
Since so many of the virtual world’s lending institutions are private enterprises, they’ve gotten away with breaking shady promises,...
News Search And Services Firm Inform Gets $15... →
Inform Technologies, the New York City-based news search and publisher services company, has raised a biggish $15 million third round. The round was done by Spark Capital, which has been very active in investment in digital media space over the last year (and is also involved in the proxy fight over CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks along with Jana Partners…Spark says it has committed $20 million...
News Search And Services Firm Inform Gets $15... →
Inform Technologies, the New York City-based news search and publisher services company, has raised a biggish $15 million third round. The round was done by Spark Capital, which has been very active in investment in digital media space over the last year (and is also involved in the proxy fight over CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks along with Jana Partners…Spark says it has committed $20 million...
Syndicaster.tv aims to simplify video publishing →
The company behind ClipSyndicate, the video syndication service used by quite a few TV stations, has launched a new service called Syndicaster.tv. Basically, it translates all the video that’s aired into text. Then you can select clips using the transcript and publish them directly into ClipSyndicate or iTunes (see screen grab here). “Bloomberg has been using it for four months, making 60 to 90...
TBS’ Slam Dunk: Online Sports →
With viral video phenoms, Internet sitcoms and online movie rentals grabbing the headlines, it’s easy to forget that an old teevee stalwart like sports could truly transform how people watch online video. With its recent moves, TBS is developing a lock on the broadband sports market. Today the network extended its deal with NASCAR to operate its official web site. Last week TBS expanded its...
No surprise: people stop watching video when ads... →
Online video ads command sky-high rates — a $30 CPM, or cost per thousand viewers, is typical. Yet more than half of all Web users will stop watching an online video as soon as they see an in-stream advertisement, BurstMedia reports. A full 78.4 percent say in-stream advertisements in online video are “intrusive.” And it’s not really worth it to you if they do stick around,...
Seesmic killed the YouTube star? (Darren... →
Seesmic killed the YouTube star? — It’s not often you are presented with a vision of the future of online video in a pub in London. — But that’s exactly what I was shown last night by celebrated French blogger, well-connected entrepreneur and Seesmic founder Loic LeMeur.
Source: BBC NEWS | dot.life
Author: Darren Waters
Link: ...
DirecTV rolls out remote recording →
We can’t count the number of times we’ve gotten to work and remembered we forgot to schedule that night’s American Idol football game to record on DirecTV, and wished we could do it using just our cell phone. Well, the satellite provider is adding the capability to do just that: with the DVR Scheduler (previously known as Remote Booking), you can log onto the mobile site at...
DirecTV rolls out remote recording →
We can’t count the number of times we’ve gotten to work and remembered we forgot to schedule that night’s American Idol football game to record on DirecTV, and wished we could do it using just our cell phone. Well, the satellite provider is adding the capability to do just that: with the DVR Scheduler (previously known as Remote Booking), you can log onto the mobile site at...
Hollow Earth Radio →
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Wikipedia To Get Its Video On →
Under a new partnership unveiled today, Kaltura, maker of embeddable collaborative video webware, will bring video to the Wikimedia family of sites. The beta program, which is being dubbed “an open, collaborative video experiment,” will allow users to add and remix rich media via an embeddable player on wiki pages. Kaltura’s software will be tested on WikiEducator before making its way onto...
The Web-Based vs. Desktop-Based Newsreader... →
Desktop newsreader giant Newsgator’s announcement last week that their popular line of cross-platform newsreaders were now free got many of you wondering why you would ever give up the web-based bliss of Google Reader for desktop-based readers, and still others wondering why everyone’s not riding the desktop wave now that these best-in-class readers have hit the free market. Today...
Create and Edit Docs from Your iPhone with Mobile... →
Even with its latest slick update, Google Docs for the iPhone/iPod touch interface doesn’t allow you to create or edit documents while you’re on the go. Mobile Web Docs, a free web app, might fill that void nicely for you, especially if you don’t want to jailbreak your iPod or don’t particularly love the iPhone’s notebook. Mobile Web Docs lets you organize your text...
Interview: Andy Berndt, Managing Director, Google... →
Much of the ad industry is trying to figure out what to make of Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The “frenemy” description WPP Group CEO Martin Sorrell has used to describe the search giant’s perceived “encroachment” into advertising has largely been accepted throughout the industry. And this past fall, when Google hired creative veteran Andy Berndt to lead the internet...
Retaining the 1&2 spots: a machete and a 2-liter plastic coke bottle of grain alchohol. Party time
After great deliberation, yes, the cast-iron bacon press makes the 3-item-desert-island list.
CircuitWriter conductive ink & pen →
This looks great! Draw your own circuits -
Apply instant traces on most surfaces (epoxy, glass, plastic, metal). Draw traces on circuit boards, repair defective traces, make jumpers and shield electronics, design prototype circuits and repair rear-window heater traces.CircuitWriter conductive ink pen - Link.
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Interview: Andy Berndt, Managing Director, Google... →
Much of the ad industry is trying to figure out what to make of Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The “frenemy” description WPP Group CEO Martin Sorrell has used to describe the search giant’s perceived “encroachment” into advertising has largely been accepted throughout the industry. And this past fall, when Google hired creative veteran Andy Berndt to lead the internet...
Create custom iPhone and iPod Touch webclip icons →
Filed under: Macworld, iPod Family, How-tos, Internet Tools, iPhone
Dan Dickinson has posted a super-simple way to ensure that those who visit your site with an iPod Touch or iPhone will get a nice-looking webclip icon. When I say simple, I mean it:
Create a 57x57 PNG. Name it “apple-touch-icon.png” Throw it in the root folder of your website. (Not the root of your server, the root...
Dear Steve, thanks for your numerous emails about the new MacBook. News had not yet reached me in my remote fucking cave.
Darkest material ever →
I’d like a coat made out of this stuff, but that’s just me…
In the iconic movie This is Spinal Tap, lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel said of his band’s black album cover, “It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.” He was wrong. A scientist at Rice University has created the darkest material known to man, a carpet...
If the West had acted after Bin Laden’s 1999 Time interview, how different the world would be. We now have that chance with Tom Cruise.
Make the Most of Your Newsreader with NetNewsWire... →
Hot on the heels of the announcement that previously shareware newsreader apps FeedDemon (Windows) and NetNewsWire (Mac) have gone freeware, weblog Ode to Apple delves into NetNewsWire to detail how to get the most from the powerful desktop-based newsreader. The guide covers everything from smart lists (like iTunes Smart Playlists) to application preferences. If NetNewsWire’s new freeware...
Customize Your Mac with Leopard Power Tweaks... →
Now that Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard’s been out almost three months, several apps, tweaks, and plug-ins have emerged that can customize (and sometimes re-Tigerize) your Mac. Now that you’re comfortable with Leopard’s new look and features, like Stacks, Quick Look, Time Machine, and Spaces, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and make Leopard look, feel, and behave just how you...
Netflix Unleashes its Movie Streaming →
Netflix is removing the limits from its online movie streaming service — just one day before Apple is expected to announce its own movie rentals. Netflix will now allow its seven million subscribers to watch as many hours as they want from a library of 6,000 instantly available films online. Previously, customers could only watch up to 17 hours online, depending on which subscription plan they...
Netflix Unleashes its Movie Streaming →
Netflix is removing the limits from its online movie streaming service — just one day before Apple is expected to announce its own movie rentals. Netflix will now allow its seven million subscribers to watch as many hours as they want from a library of 6,000 instantly available films online. Previously, customers could only watch up to 17 hours online, depending on which subscription plan they...
Tiinker is Like a Personal Digg for Feeds [Feed... →
New feed aggregator tiinker aims to help those feeling overwhelmed by their news portals and their own feed readers chop down their lists. Using Digg-style “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” controls, tiinker “learns” what types of news and sources you find relevant and interesting and mixes its content for you accordingly. Tiinker’s technology page reshaped...
Vista SP1 refresh →
After humans ultimately defeat the machines in the Matrix, do you think they finally had time to make new sweaters for themselves?
Exporting 3D objects into the real world →
“Export to World” by Linda Kostowski and Sascha Pohflepp is a workshop/project that aims to create real-world copies of virtual objects found in the multi-player world of “Second Life”. The site features some how-tos on exporting objects, importing into 3D applications and “unfolding” the objects into 2D cutouts you can print out and assemble at home....