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WWD Coffee Break: Google, Twitter & Bad Habits

By Mike Gunderloy Nov. 6, 2007, 8:00am PT Comments Off

Wow, What a Surprise! – As most of us were expecting, Google announced its “Android” mobile phone platform yesterday; that link takes you to analysis from Om Malik. For more information, or at least more feel-good public relations material, you can pop over to the … Read More »

WWD Coffee Break

By Mike Gunderloy Nov. 5, 2007, 8:00am PT 2 Comments

Welcome to WWD Coffee Break: our new daily roundup of short notes, news, and links to interesting web worker content, ready to enjoy with your morning coffee. If you have something to suggest for this space, email us at tips@webworkerdaily.com. Twitterrific 3.0 – Latest version … Read More »

 
 

Pluggd Still Trading on Potential, Promise

By Aug. 1, 2007, 11:58am PT 4 Comments

Last week, multimedia search startup Pluggd launched a public demo of its SeeHere search technology, which uses voice recognition and natural-language mapping to help you to drill down into specific sections of a clip. SeeHere’s color-coded “heat map” suggests points in the video that … Read More »

Wednesday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines

By Aug. 1, 2007, 11:25am PT 2 Comments

Techies Complain to FTC over League Warnings, calling the boilerplate copyright warnings at the end of sports programming misleading. (Wall Street Journal) Nalts to Teach Online Marketing; $5,000 gets you a private, half-day tutorial in the finer points of marketing online from a veteran corporate marketer … Read More »

Vidmetrix Gets Its Upload On

By Jul. 30, 2007, 11:27am PT 7 Comments

Aiming to be a one stop-shopping experience for viral marketers, Vidmetrix, part of San Diego-based Holt Labs, is continuing to build its suite of tools for Read More »

Can Broadband Replace Old TV, Cable & Sat TV?

By Jul. 24, 2007, 6:00am PT 14 Comments

Theoretically yes! Especially now that even Comcast and Verizon have started to talk about broadband connections that zap data back and forth at speeds in excess of 100 megabits per second. As the speeds increase, the ability to call up niche content will theoretically be faster … Read More »

Thursday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines

By Jul. 12, 2007, 10:58am PT Comments Off

Cable Set-tops the Boxes to Beat, suggest analysts who are bearish on the recent proliferation of movie offerings for XBox, TiVo and Apple TV. (CNN Money) Time Remarks on Al-Qaeda’s Web Savvy, “we fully expect Al-Qaeda to launch it’s own Blip.TV channel soon.” (Time) BBC to … Read More »

Startup Watch: Vakaka, the Chinese Joost

By Jul. 11, 2007, 5:00am PT 8 Comments

Reader James Ding writes in to tell us about the latest online video innovation in China, where IPTV startup Vakaka launched its X-TV beta this week. Vakaka provides video on demand and live streaming via P2P for free. Ding tells us, “Unlike Joost or Babelgum, … Read More »

Friday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines

By Jul. 6, 2007, 9:58am PT Comments Off

Netflix “Watch Now” Growing, according to numbers that show them not only beating Blockbuster, but decimating on-demand online movie sites like CinemaNow. (compete) Media Defender’s Miivi Offline, the copyright infringement honeypot meant to catch unauthorized downloaders now offline after tech media firestorm. (ZeroPaid) AXE Advertising Online, … Read More »

France’s Free Offers Two-Way TV

By Jul. 2, 2007, 11:42am PT 2 Comments

French IPTV pioneer Free unveiled a new feature [PDF release] Friday for its subscribers, TV Perso, which allows anyone to plug an S-Video cable into their “Freebox HD” set top and create their own channel. Anything from a live camera feed to pre-recorded … Read More »

Open Thread: Last Time You Watched OldTeeVee

By Jun. 29, 2007, 4:00pm PT 8 Comments

Earlier this week I turned on my antique cathode ray tube and flipped the channels looking for something to watch. I sat through about 20 minutes of an MTV Real World/Road Rules challenge, then decided I had better places to find video programming, and fired up … Read More »

Video Industry Gossip, Live from Mountain View

By Jun. 28, 2007, 2:25pm PT 9 Comments

I’m at the Under the Radar conference today, where the focus is entertainment and media. Some notes from the audience, the hallways, and the lunch: Pluggd has switched its strategy away from podcasting (yeah, like everybody else) and is doing online video ads (yeah, … Read More »

More Must Reads
Nokia’s Film Competition Phones It In
By Jun. 25, 2007, 9:03am PT 3 Comments

Twenty teams get 48 hours to make a 30-second commercial… using only a phone. That’s the hook of Nokia’s recent “Young Creatives Competition: Film.” The contest was part of the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, France. This year’s brief … Read More »

Parody and Fun: NewTeeVee June Pier Screening Recap
By Jun. 20, 2007, 7:09am PT 6 Comments

Thank you all who came out to our lovely pier and enjoyed a cold beer in the glow of satirical videos and propane heat lamps. The San Franciscan summer smiled on us with a mild evening of popcorn, prizes, and parody at the June Read More »

Google Hiring Shows Video Key to Growth
By Jun. 11, 2007, 7:20am PT 1 Comment

The $1.6 billion buyout of YouTube was a good indicator that Google, the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant had serious designs on the online video business. Its recent moves, including a partnership with Apple, are signs that it will keep investing. More anecdotal proof that the … Read More »

Monday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines
By Jun. 4, 2007, 9:40am PT Comments Off

YouTube Gets Local TV Feeds, will share revenue with Hearst-Argyle. (Reuters) Disney Has a Wiki, and other digital media strategy (Fast Company) FBI Presses Charges Against 24 Uploader, faces up to three years in prison. (Variety) Cuban Argues for Online Video Ad Price Hierarchy, says full … Read More »

CastTV Gears Up for Video Search (with screenshots)
By Jun. 1, 2007, 11:37am PT 20 Comments

Yesterday I paid a visit to the CastTV headquarters, and was amused to find the company recently moved into the Jumpcut space in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco, following Jumpcut shacking up with its new parent company, Yahoo. Pretty good evidence … Read More »

Gripe: Laptop Heat
By Iyaz Akhtar Apr. 23, 2007, 9:16am PT 18 Comments

The other day, a friend of mine was showing me something on his laptop.  He handed his Lenovo ThinkPad over to me. I prepared my hand for the expected heat and was pleasantly surprised by a physically cool laptop. This brings me to my gripe. Why can’t Apple laptops … Read More »

Following-up Pimp Your Quicksilver
By Nick Santilli Apr. 20, 2007, 8:00am PT 3 Comments

It seems my screencasts garner much interest in the rest of my system’s bling, if you will. So a quick rundown to answer some of the questions left in the comments of the Pimp Your Quicksilver screencast from last week. WALLPAPER I find my Desktop wallpaper in … Read More »

Skin Google Reader in OS X Browsers
By Nick Santilli Apr. 17, 2007, 6:14am PT 5 Comments

If you’ve chosen Google Reader as your RSS ‘app’ then this little tidbit may be pretty interesting to you. Jon Hicks has been laboring over a sweet skin for Google Reader, making it look (and function) much more OS X-like. Read his post … Read More »

New Final Cut Products
By Iyaz Akhtar Apr. 15, 2007, 2:12pm PT 1 Comment

Today, Apple announced two new Final Cut products. First off is Final Cut Server which is priced at $999 for 10 users, $1999 for unlimited users. Apple says it is scalable and has workflow automation. It will be available this summer. Apple also announced Final Cut … Read More »

Hey Apple! Fix the green button already!
By Eddie Hargreaves Apr. 9, 2007, 6:23am PT 99 Comments

Sometimes it zooms, sometimes it maximizes and sometimes it just does wacky stuff that no one can really explain. The green button in all OS X windows has been a nuisance since the public betas and it’s (long past) time Apple fixed it. A Brief History Actually called … Read More »

Apple Products as Collectibles
By Iyaz Akhtar Mar. 21, 2007, 9:00am PT 8 Comments

I’ve been eyeing a 17 inch iMac G4 for sometime now. It’s pretty expensive at around $560 at WegenerMedia.com- not that much less than a brand new Mac mini. I have thought about putting the 17 inch iMac in my guest room for … Read More »

Looking For The Usefulness in Twitter
By Nick Santilli Mar. 19, 2007, 9:10am PT 36 Comments

By now most everyone’s probably heard about Twitter. Evan Williams, who started Blogger, and then Odeo, has moved on to his next project which is called Twitter. If you’ve been under a rock, it’s sort of instant messenger input meets blog-style publishing. … Read More »

Most Interesting Rumor I’ve Heard Lately
By Nick Santilli Mar. 14, 2007, 6:40am PT 6 Comments

Apparently Leopard is going to be released this year. In fact, Rumor mongers have it nailed down – sometime between like next week and June. So rest easy knowing it’ll be here at some point…. But that is not the interesting rumor, believe … Read More »

$200 Millllion Projected from Leopard
By Nick Santilli Mar. 6, 2007, 11:33am PT 7 Comments

As many of you may be aware, the pool of Mac users has grown significantly in the past year or so. Some of you may be included in that growth. Well it was what, almost 2 years ago now that the move to Intel … Read More »

Give Your Mac Location Awareness
By Nick Santilli Feb. 21, 2007, 4:11pm PT 2 Comments

LifeHacker links an interesting utility (that’s new to me), called Home and Away. It’s sort of a Do Something When, but based on your Mac’s IP address. You can set drives to mount automatically when the address an address is detected, … Read More »

Take Jobs to Task – How to remove DRM from iTunes
By Todd Baur Feb. 14, 2007, 12:04pm PT 26 Comments

I’m a geek and a Mac fan. I admit it. I’ve read Job’s letter four times already. I’ve read countless rebuttles, analyst opinions, and blog posts about Job’s Thoughts on Music. Yesterday the solution to the problem of DRM hit me. Stop buying DRM’d music. We … Read More »

Next Iteration of iPods Flash Based?
By Nick Santilli Feb. 8, 2007, 1:16pm PT 2 Comments

Sounds like Apple may finally be moving the big boy iPod line (those with video capabilities) to flash-based storage. The move isn’t altogether unexpected, as the nano line has already had the flash treatment. Flash-based storage solutions provide greater durability, and radically improved battery life. … Read More »

Apple releases multi-color iPod shuffles
By Josh Pigford Jan. 30, 2007, 8:53am PT 1 Comment

This morning Apple announced the release of 4 new iPod shuffles (each of differing color). 3 of the colors are identical to colors available in the iPod nano line. They have also added a new orange color for the shuffles. Apple has also changed it’s shuffle tag line … Read More »

Verizon Couldn’t Come to Terms
By Nick Santilli Jan. 29, 2007, 9:52am PT 7 Comments

USA TODAY reports that Verizon turned-down the possibility of working with Apple on the iPhone. Two years ago the 2nd largest cell network decided that they couldn’t come to terms with Apple on a deal that would be mutually beneficial. I can understand Verizon’s stance … Read More »

DevonThink For Writing Your Next Book
By Nick Santilli Jan. 19, 2007, 5:42am PT 9 Comments

Lifehacker Chief, Gina Trapani has been documenting the steps she took in order to turn her popular blog into a book in print. Can you imagine trying to organize and edit 5,000 blog posts worth of information for book format? Yeah, me either. … Read More »

Macworld Roundup, Day Four
By Julian Bennett Holmes Jan. 13, 2007, 11:12am PT Comments Off

My fourth day on the Macworld show floor was really interesting. I got some answers that I was definitely looking for. First off, I went to the AppZapper / Disco booth, to find out why people couldn’t see Disco’s smoke without burning a disc by … Read More »

Macworld Roundup, Day Three
By Julian Bennett Holmes Jan. 11, 2007, 8:42pm PT 9 Comments

Day three was good, but, I must say, not quite as interesting as day two. I talked to an Apple representative who was standing near the iPhone that was on display, and I asked a couple of quesitons. She confirmed that the iPhone’s battery is not removable. … Read More »

ModBook Unveiled, No One Notices
By Richard Neal Jan. 9, 2007, 7:09pm PT 18 Comments

It seems that with all the hubbub over a certain other electronic manufacturer’s new tablet-esque device, no one noticed toady’s official unveiling of the Axiotron ModBook, the first OS X-wielding commercial tablet. We previously reported on a few of the specs, … Read More »

Unix Tip: Remember The Tab
By Nick Santilli Jan. 4, 2007, 1:47pm PT 14 Comments

In what I’d like to make a weekly series, I’m going to begin sharing Unix (stuff you do in the Terminal, for the uninitiated) tips for those wishing to learn more about it in the New Year. Or just learn more about it because … Read More »

My Login Items
By Nick Santilli Jan. 3, 2007, 1:51pm PT 10 Comments

Yesterday I posted a (apparently well known to everyone but me) tip about quickly adding items to your Login process. There was a comment asking about what I could possibly have with 12+ items starting at Login. So I figured I’d answer … Read More »

Broadband and Tour De France
By Om Malik Jul. 16, 2004, 7:59am PT 1 Comment

We know Lance Armstrong is not quite strong these days but there is yet another US connection to Tour De France. France Telecom is using Aperto Networks’ broadband wireless access systems at this year’s Tour de France, giving spectators broadband Internet access while they attend … Read More »

Polish City going WiFi
By Om Malik Jul. 11, 2004, 7:38am PT Comments Off

Dziekuje Cisco! The networking giant is helping the City of Slupsk in building a broadband wireless network to link up government offices, schools, hospitals, libraries and other public institutions. For the first phase of the long-term e-Slupsk program. (Press release) The Cisco … Read More »

Singapore, the new bandwidth nation
By Om Malik Jul. 9, 2004, 7:16am PT 2 Comments

Computer World (Singapore) has a fascinating article on how the tiny-island nation is becoming the bandwidth and technology hub of Asia. VSNL, for instance is building a 3175 kilometer 5.12 terabit cable between Madras and Singapore, the second such pipe between the two places. … Read More »

7-Digit Dialing for Vonage
By Om Malik Jul. 7, 2004, 7:49am PT Comments Off

Now if you lived in Manhattan, you curse the day when 10-digit calling became mandatory. Those of us who had 212 area codes cried the loudest. Anyway Vonage has now introduced seven digit calling which is going to be a hit with NY hipsters at the … Read More »

Mobility of a billion
By Om Malik Jul. 5, 2004, 5:02am PT 2 Comments

A few months ago, I had visited India, and posted about the hyper-growth in the mobile subscriber base in that country. The Feature today points to a news report that quotes senior government officials as saying that there will be more mobile users … Read More »

AT&T cuts deeper and bigger
By Om Malik Jun. 29, 2004, 6:06am PT Comments Off

MSNBC/Reuters reports that AT&T is going to be making much bigger cutbacks in its consumer phone business. The Wall Street Journal has more details and adds, The nation’s largest long-distance carrier by customers and revenue has begun notifying companies that provide it with marketing services, such … Read More »

WiFi in your phone
By Om Malik Jun. 16, 2004, 7:06am PT 1 Comment

TheFeature: A Japanese company has announced a new chip that looks to solve the two biggest obstacles keeping Wi-Fi out of mobile handsets. The company that makes the chip, Alps Electric of Japan, is targeting mobile phones first, but also plans to make the chip for … Read More »

Coming Soon, lots of UWB devices
By Om Malik May. 31, 2004, 8:05am PT 3 Comments

On June 9, all the pooh phahs from the Ultra Wide Band world are going to get together in Boston and are going to talk about everything concerning this new technology. Bunch of companies will be showing off their products, many of them at mostly … Read More »

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