YouTube has never been particularly well known for high-brow content, but it’s looking to change that through a new initiative in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum and HP called YouTube Play that will seek creative, artistic and experimental videos from its users. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
Like so many of his web peers in recent years, the CTO of Hulu has ditched the dot-com life for greentech pastures. Eric Feng has left the web video firm to join Kleiner Perkins and to work as a technical adviser to former VP Al Gore. Read More »
The I Can Has Cheezburger empire, with its LOLcats and blogs filled with “fail” pictures, doesn’t get a lot of respect from traditional media entities. But the site has managed to be successful by thinking about its business as more than just advertising-supported content on websites. Read More »
In order to get a clearer picture of today’s web worker, we here at WebWorkerDaily — together with our colleagues over at GigaOM Pro — ran a survey, the full results and analysis of which has just been published. Read More »
The Freeware of the Moment today is a simple utility for Android that fills a very specific need. ShootMe is a screen capture tool for Android that is simple to use. When the screen is displayed that you want to capture, you simply shake the phone. Read More »
Are you a hardcore gamer that wasn’t able to make it out to Los Angeles for this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo? Well have no fear, because IGN has teamed up with YouTube to stream live coverage of all the major happenings at the show. Read More »
Cablevision has said it will purchase Bresnan Communications. for $1.37 billion in a bid to move into Western states such as Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana where Bresnan has subscribers. Cablevision, the nation’s fifth largest cable operator, will gain 300,000 subscribers as part of the deal. Read More »
When you plug in and juice up your battery, are you buying electricity? No charging infrastructure providers say in comments filed with the California Public Utilities Commission. You’re paying for an electric vehicle service, and regulators need to make that crystal clear. Read More »
Jive Software today launched what it hopes will become a Facebook-style social networking platform for businesses, complete with an activity stream, an open API and an application store. But whether Jive’s new offering can make social networking more palatable to business users remains to be seen. Read More »
SeaMicro, a startup building a low power-server using Atom chips and its own specially designed silicon to handle the networking, has finally unveiled its hardware, which is pretty darn impressive. But can its $139,000 box containing more than 2,000 CPU cores win over data center operators? Read More »
Get ready to start hearing a whole lot more about stealthy low-power server maker SeaMicro. The under-the-radar company has finally unveiled its server technology that consumes a quarter of the power of a regular server but packs more than 2,000 CPU cores and costs $139,000. Read More »
HP purchased the Flip, HyperCore and HyperSpace technologies from Phoenix Technologies for $12 million. The timing of this deal leads to the question of using HyperSpace with future products based on the web0S platform acquired by Palm. HyperSpace is optimized to run on the ARM platform. Read More »
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