Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Saturday, April 9th, 2005
Over at Scobleizer, Robert points out something I found very interesting.
He compared Google Map's image of 1 Microsoft Way to that of TerraServer. At first glance, it looks like TerraServer's image is clearer and has less distortion. Indeed, TerraServer hands down serves up the better image of ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
http://prodigem.com/marketplace.html
Prodigem has just launched a new part of its service that creates a new marketplace for independent media producers. Content owners upload their works to Prodigem, name a selling price and Prodigem collects the revenue while controlling access. They take out 10% + the Paypal fees and send ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20...&partner=rssnyt
Portland's age demographics are switching. The pool of children is shrinking. In the last 10 years, Portland has grown by around 90,000 people, but enrollment in grammar schools is at an 80 year low.
Why? It seems that Portland is suffering from it's own success. The city ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
http://fuware.nanocrew.net/pymusique/
iTunes DRM protected music doesn't start it's life off as 'rights managed'. Apple adds the DRM instructions to the file on the fly while the file is being downloaded to you.
What an opportunity! Jon Johansen has created a program which bypasses the DRM stage of the downloading process ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
http://www.chron.com/cs/C...ch/blog/3082956
Via the Houston Chronicle's TechBlog, AOL says that regardless of the recent flare up caused by the posting of parts TOS throughout the blogosphere, AOL Instant Messenger's terms of service do not imply that the company has the right to use private IM communications, and the section quoted applies only ...
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Saturday, March 12th, 2005
http://www.benstanfield.c...avesdrops_.html
Our company uses AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) continuously. We're a small firm spread throughout the country, and the IM conversations we have make it possible for us to have real-time conversations with each other on the cheap. That may all change with AOL's recent change to the terms of ...
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Friday, March 11th, 2005
http://www.emediawire.com...3/emw216938.htm
Flickr has partnered with EZ-Prints to allow users to print professional quality photographs, much like Ofoto and Shutterfly.
Flickr currently has over 360,000 members and is growing at approximately 30 percent per month. The service allows people to share photos with friends and family, and also gives users the option to ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
http://injoke.org/tagnorati.html
I like to include Technorati tags in my blog entries, but creating them by hand is a pain, and I really don't want to create a category for every tag I wish to include, so I wrote this little javascript hack to make it a little easier on me.
Just enter ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
http://translate.google.c...ies%2F233475%2F
Spiegel Online was caught this week plagiarizing long passages of a Wikipedia entry without giving proper credit. They were caught in the act by including the same comma splice errors as in the source article.
Wikipedia has made it then. When major news outlets are stealing swaths of your ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
http://www.creativepro.co...re/20376-1.html
I guess for aslong as companies have been selling, as surefire way to get men to buy is to appeal to their machismo. Dating backto 1899, there have been print ads encouraging readers to send away for their exercise programs.
Even more baffling to me are the women who find ...
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