May 3, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for May 3, 2007

YouTube Finally Pays Users — a few of them

YouTube is going to share revenue collected from banner ads with the indie video creators on whose pages the ads appear. However, this will be in extremely limited fashion — rolling out tomorrow with just 20 to 40 top producers on the site, such as Lonelygirl15, … Read More »

YouTube is going to start helping some of its indie video content creators make money, starting tomorrow. The company will launch a program that puts the creators of some of the more popular YouTube channels — including Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, HappySlip, renetto, Read More »

 
 

It’s official: Spider-Man 3 has appeared online as an unauthorized download on public torrent trackers ahead of the release in theaters across the U.S. Just today, VCDQuality indexed two slightly different versions from the same source in China, presumably, as the recording is in … Read More »

Patent Office says P2P bad for you

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the geniuses who are keeping patent attorneys in caviar, champagne and corniches, have something to say to you: If you are using peer-to-peer networks, then you are breaking the law. In fact, they have published a study to prove … Read More »

Intel-Mac users having Joost problems

Some Intel-Mac users are having Joost problems which is showing some strange error messages, reports NewTeeVee. After loading the software, many folks, including me, have not been able to log into the service. Joost CEO Fredrik de Wahl in NTV comments writes, “Yes, we’re … Read More »

FCC’s Martin: No New Regs for Net Video

Even as the commission he leads pumps out reports about the harmful effects of violence on old TV, don’t expect FCC chairman Kevin Martin to try to extend the agency’s regulatory reach to video on the Internet. “We don’t play any role in regulating content on … Read More »

Ding dong, dial-up is (finally) gone

Broadband can finally declare victory over dial-up in the U.S. AT&T and Comcast are #1 and #2 when it comes to how Americans connect to the Internet. AOL dial-up, which for nearly a decade dominated the Internet landscape is dying a slow lingering death. AT&T, Read More »

Joost Is Error-Prone

Apologies to all of you who’ve requested invites to Joost. We’d love to let you into the service, but over the past few days we have had trouble launching the application ourselves. I’d had no problems running earlier versions, but these days can’t even get the … Read More »

What’s on GigaNET

WebWorkerDaily: 3 Ways of getting email without spam WebWorkerDaily: The Vacation Dilemma Found+READ: What’s in a name? For a start-up everything NewTeeVee: MySpace, the tv-network for minisodes NewTeeVee: Sell your content with Cruxy Read More »

What’s an aspiring Windows SideShow developer to do with so few Windows SideShow hardware devices actually available? I suppose you could pine away for an i-mate Ultimate smartphone which doubles … Read More »

Thunderbird's Most Underrated Feature: Identities

There are many good reasons to use Thunderbird 2 as your default desktop email client. Mozilla’s Thunderbird feature page lists some of them: advanced views, decent searching, security, junk mail screening, RSS feeds, add-on plugins and themes, cross-platform versions, and more. However, there is one … Read More »

DotBoom Revolutionizes Product Placement

Have you ever wanted to star in a sitcom? Have you ever wanted to be effigized as a puppet? Well now you can kill two birds with one stone. Brian Hogg of DotBoom, everyone’s favorite puppet show about life at web production … Read More »

More Must Reads

BREAKING: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursday that the commission told large telcos to stop blocking calls into numbers for the Iowa-based free calling operations, threatening punitive actions if the carriers didn’t comply. While the immediate FCC pressure was a victory for the Iowa telcos and Internet … Read More »

I’m still busy, busy, but at least now you’ll all know one of the items I was working on this morning. We just got direct word that T-Mobile … Read More »

When I was eight my friends and I planned to build a tank. None of us told our mothers why or how we would do this tank project, but once we had it there was no doubt we would be the kings of the neighborhood. We … Read More »

By Susan Heid As web workers who may lack daily contact with colleagues, it’s often up to us to figure out how to improve ourselves — work output, time management, prioritization. But maybe we should let others guide our efforts, just like the company suggestion boxes that … Read More »

T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi cellular converged phone service is supposedly breaking out of its Seattle trial and going nationwide this summer, according to the Wall Street Journal. The article says that some time in mid-June T-Mobile is going to do a national launch of its ‘Hotspot at … Read More »

I’m busy, busy this morning; can’t divulge details just yet. Since I’m swamped, I’ll keep this short and sweet. A Yahoo! Messenger update just launched and … Read More »

Sony, if you haven’t heard, will soon be launching a Minisode Network on MySpace that will show three-to-five minute versions of old TV standards like Charlie’s Angels and T.J. Hooker. Another sign of our ADD culture? Maybe. The Web certainly privileges quicker/faster/cheaper videos that only demand … Read More »

David Cole of DFC Intelligence, a game industry expert for years, has been a guiding source for me for years, and he just revealed some astonishing numbers about the MMOG market: “I can let you be the first person we tell that we forecast the worldwide … Read More »

AppleCare plans for Apple TVs aren’t the only items of interest at Circuit City. The electronics retailer is also carrying “Collector’s Edition” iTunes Gift Cards featuring the TV Shows 24, Prison Break, CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. The gift cards can be used … Read More »

Game industry expert David Cole of DFC Intelligence has been a guiding source for me for years, and he just revealed some astonishing numbers about the MMOG market: “I can let you be the first person we tell that we forecast the worldwide MMOG market going … Read More »

Podcasting buddy Marc Orchant has all the low-down of the just announced major upgrade to one of my favorite programs, MindManager.  The new version 7 is chock-full of mindmapping goodness, not the least of which is a ribbon interface a la Office 2007.  Here’s … Read More »

It’s a familiar problem: you want to give someone an email address where they can contact you, or put one on a web site, but you dread the thought of the flood of spam that will follow when that address gets loose in the wild. Fortunately, … Read More »

Although he knows “it sounds way too radical to be taken seriously,” Gundeep Hora at CoolTechZone.com nonetheless thinks Apple should make a strategic acquisition of processor-maker AMD. AMD is the world’s second-largest supplier of x86 based processors, after Intel, Apple’s current supplier. However, Apple could drop Intel … Read More »

I was all gaga over the wireless USB hub that Toshiba unveiled at the CES early this year, even if it’s only going to be available for the R400 … Read More »

Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video: Brightcove to Syndicate CBS News Content to Blogs, allowing approved sites to embed CBS player directly on their sites. (Brightcove) Cable Revenue a Plus for Time Warner, while AOL advertising also posts gains. (Read More »

Personal peer-to-peer (p2p) and personal file sharing services are dime a dozen. Not a day passes when some new start-up shows up with a new offering, with a slightly different twist. Wambo (previously known as Perenety), is throwing its hat in the ring, with Swapper, … Read More »

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