We have to admit that most of us are simply following the trend. Where do trends come from? They are from thousands of popularity contests created by us. We all like charts, rankings, comparison reviews and etc. It is not surprising to say that our economy is dependent on these popularity contests.
However, it is difficult to be on a popularity contest ourselves. Thanks to the Internet, everybody now has a chance of being listed on a popularity contest with less effort. You can post your video on YouTube, which has a ratings system to track the popularity of all posted videos. YouTube is on stage to exploit more on the popularity contest.
YouTube will present awards for best user-generated videos of 2006. Starting now, YouTube members can browse through videos and rank their favorite short-form videos. It is essentially a Broadcast yourself. Oscar.
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Dell has opened a survey on Linux titled Linux Learnings: We’re Listening on Tuesday.
Do not get me wrong, Dell is already selling servers with Redhat Linux and Novell SUSE Linux pre-installed. However, Dell has yet to sell any desktop or laptop that comes with any variant of Linux.
To confuse things even further, Dell does sell a range of products that do not come with Windows - open-source desktops and laptops that come with FreeDOS.
FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems. It is not a Microsoft operating system and is not qualified for Windows licensing use under any existing Microsoft Volume Licensing Program.
The survey is quite primitive (only six questions) that indicates an early market study. It is designed to capture the PC usage pattern of would-be buyers. The questions include:
The Seagate Momentus® 5400 FDE.2 hard drive features full disc encryption using hardware-based 128-bit AES algorithm. It offers government-grade security protocol to prevent unauthorized access to data on lost or stolen laptops. It also eases re-purpose of laptops by strictly complying data privacy laws.
As usual, the product comes with software to ease drive management.
Momentus 5400 FDE.2 hard drive with the Wave Systems management software makes it easy for administrators and users to create and back up passwords, and for administrators to control hard drive policies and security settings.
The software also leverages Seagate’s DriveTrust Technology to allow administrators instantly and easily erase all data cryptographically so the drive can be safely redeployed or discarded.
According to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday, Viacom is expected to announce a licensing deal with Joost, a new Internet service that specializes in commercial video content. You can get some background information from my previous posts.
The collapse of talks between Viacom and YouTube/Google just few weeks ago had resulted in 100,000 video clips been removed from the popular video site. What are the tricks that Joost has put in place to win the trust from Viacom? The answer is simple - Joost is designed for commercial video content from day one.
Joost makes it possible to distribute streams of video to its users using P2P technology. There is no central server involved in the process. Each user plays a role in distributing real time video streams just like BitTorrent.
There is no Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection applied on the content. Each user only gets a fragment of the content and it is not saved on the disk to make up the whole video watchable offline.
Written and directed by Josh Faure-Brac, the video starts with the usual fights between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The fights are meaningless and both should just concentrate on providing their respective users the best of Internet connected experiences. The Internet will make platform war obsolete forever.
When compared to Commodore 64, the best selling single personal computer model of all time, Windows Vista and OS X are both far more advance. Both platforms have added more and more features that are identical and often indistinguishable with the common intentions of facilitating better connected experiences. Why the fight?
Gmail, Google’s email service started in April Fool’s Day in 2004 as the first to offer one gigabytes storage for its users. Major email services such as Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail soon followed with the fear of losing out in the market. Gmail remains an invitation-only email service since then. You couldn’t simply sign up for the service by filling in a form, there wasn’t one.
On Wednesday, Google has decided to lift the restriction to join the nearly 3-year-old service in North America and a swath of Asian and South American countries. The primary reason for the restriction was to give away time for Google to build up the infrastructure to accommodate the generous amount of free storage provided by the e-mail service. Google has built enough of them now. However, Gmail is retaining its “beta,” or test, status, signaling that Google still considers the service to be a work in progress.
In December, Gmail attracted 60 million unique visitors which is far behind Yahoo!’s 249 million and Hotmail’s 236 million. Advertising revenues remain a heavy weight in the revenue structure of companies like Google and Yahoo!. Advertisements are usually priced in proportion to the daily traffic of a site.
The pressure on Google to institute more aggressive copyright protections and policies is growing.
A Brussels court ruled in favor of Copiepresse, a copyright protection group representing 18 newspapers that complained the Google’s “cached” links offered free access to chargeable contents. The court ordered Google to remove any articles, photos or links from its sites.
Google faces a fine of 1,000 euros a day if it does not remove the copyright violated contents within 24 hours once it has been told in the future.
The media companies have been vocal about their dissatisfaction with Google in the past months. These media companies have established sales channels that are more lucrative than putting their contents online. Two incidents stand out.
1. News Corp. has subpoenaed YouTube for the identity of users who uploaded full episodes of Twentieth Century Fox’s prime-time series 24 before they even debuted on television. YouTube gave up the identities, according to a Fox statement last week.
The new Wal-Mart Video Downloads website (still in beta) imposes tons of restrictions on the movies or TV episodes you purchase from them.
1. You must be 13 years of age or older to register for the service. Wal-Mart Video Downloads complies with the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and no adult content is available on the site.
2. The service is not Mac friendly. The video that you download requires Digital Rights Management 10 (DRM 10) software, which is not compatible with the Mac OS X.
3. There are two formats on offer - PC Format and Portable Format. The Portable Format enables you to play the video in a portable player. The PC Format has 640 X 480 resolution, 30 fps and 1,500-1,700 kbps average bit rate. The Portable Format has 320 X 240 resolution, 30 fps and 500-810 kbps bit rate. You can purchase movies in PC/PC & Portable Format but only Portable Format is available for TV episodes.
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Back in September last year, I wrote an article comparing Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. The article is still great to read until today. However, it is nowhere nearly as illustrative as what the video is going to show you. The video will help you understand more about Web 2.0. It will also help you to explain to your friends or families about Web 2.0.
The background song, “There’s Nothing Impossible” by Deus, is equally impressive.
If you are like me, an expatriate who does not want the hassle of installing a broadband Internet in a rented room, this video will thrill you. However, bear in mind that it is illegal in some countries such as Singapore to use third party Wi-Fi connection without consent. You have been warned.
The video by Infinite Solutions shows you a method of boosting Wi-Fi signal by two bars. If you have a 3G phone, you just need to wind an LAN cable (Ethernet cable or CAT5 cable) around the phone. The mobile phone has a better ability to grab a weak signal than most Wi-Fi antenna in an electromagnetic noisy environment such as your room or house full of electrical appliances.