For the last two years, YouTube has carefully added users to the revenue-sharing program it offers to media companies. The site has called its Partner Program “our way of enabling some of the most popular and prolific original content creators within the YouTube community… Read More »
Archive for February 2009
Netflix Pushes Streaming; CEO Reed Hastings says there may be a streaming-only level of the subscription service as early as this year. (Bloomberg) New partnerships allow Netflix subscribers to add and play movies directly from The New York Times and Rotten Tomatotes. (Netflix Blog) YouTube… Read More »
The shift to mobile computing emphasizes the split between two distinct markets for the processor vendors that make the brains of computers. There’s the consumer-facing devices, which include everything from smartphone to laptops, and the server side, which offers content to consumer devices through the cloud. That… Read More »
Like many of us, I spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. In Clearing The Cache, I pull out some of my favorites and share them with you. Record and search voice notes on your Windows… Read More »
I have been happy with the improved window management that is built into Windows 7. Microsoft has done a good job making it simpler to handle multiple windows, especially on computers with smaller screens. Tom Reestman at TheAppleBlog recently noted this too and took a look… Read More »
Faced with the prospect of people cutting their cords in favor of watching programs online for free, cable operators like Comcast and Time Warner are reportedly in talks with cable networks to provide subscribers access to programming online. Web-streaming sites are a bit of a… Read More »
While my new unibody MacBook is pretty state-of-the-art, and indeed the most contemporaneously avant garde computer I’ve ever owned, I’m still a fan of good older hardware and getting a lot of useful work out of my two nine-year-old Pismo PowerBooks. The Pismo, for a variety of… Read More »
I offered a quick roundup of Palm Pre news last week and more info trickled out since then. I’m starting to lean towards the Pre for my next phone, so humor me if I continue to share these tidbits from around the web. Keyword =… Read More »
Don’t feel so comfortable with a hot-tub sized nuclear power generator buried under your feet? Perhaps those that mine and process Canada’s tar sands deposits will feel differently — at least that’s the hope of Hyperion, a startup developing a modular nuclear device. Hyperion… Read More »
In response to Hulu yanking its content from the CBS Interactive-owned TV.com video portal earlier this week, CBSissued the following statement last night: “CBS Interactive is well within its rights to stream Hulu video content on TV.com under its agreement with Hulu. We are evaluating… Read More »
There’s no shortage of invoicing applications for OS X, with a notable few including Billable, iBiz, Billings, and On The Job. They all offer different functionality, and may fit your requirements perfectly. However, another contender has recently emerged on the scene in… Read More »
How the watch phone that the head of LG Electronics’ mobile division used to call Steve Ballmer at the MWC this week was built. (Forbes) Adobe has issued a security warning with regards to its Acrobat and Reader software. (WebWorkerDaily) South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan… Read More »
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