Friday Open Thread Spew your technological affinities and prognostications, human 06:26PM Friday Mar 21 2008 by Karl tags: BBR-News
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On Friday morning, YouTube announced the second annual iteration of its YouTube Video Awards. What? Awards? The video-sharing service, owned by Google since 2006, awarded accolades in categories like "Adorable," "Creative," and "Comedy" to original videos hosted on its site that were uploaded in 2007, as voted on by users.
If interested, you can find the award winners here:
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New web site aggregates FREE network TV shows
Besides Hulu TV ( »www.hulu.com ) offering FREE online TV shows, another new site is doing deep linking to NBC, ABC, CBS, TNT, USA, FOX network shows thru the use of a fancy rotating cube on screen.
This web site doesn't play the shows in its own player like Hulu does. It just allows you to see what all the networks are offering for free in one place and then links you to each networks video player to actually play the show.
Watching online tv is really cool...but...How long before the cable giants decide that too much bandwidth is being used for online TV and not enough being used for watching video fed directly? Then they will have adapt to keep the revenue streams flowing...higher HSI price?..More and more customers hitting the ??caps??..Will they put pressure on the networks to stop the streams??..Many possibilities...It will be interesting to live thru this evolution!!!
By the way...TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- ERROR: Out of Memory... Should I forget Something (Y,y)?
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Re: New web site aggregates FREE network TV shows
said by backfeed :
Watching online tv is really cool...but...How long before the cable giants decide that too much bandwidth is being used for online TV and not enough being used for watching video fed directly? Then they will have adapt to keep the revenue streams flowing...higher HSI price?..More and more customers hitting the ??caps??..Will they put pressure on the networks to stop the streams??..Many possibilities...It will be interesting to live thru this evolution!!!
Wells Fargo Bank will soon offer its retail banking customers a personal online safe-deposit box that it calls "a natural extension" of the company's 156-year security legacy.
The Wells Fargo vSafe service is the first online storage solution offered by a financial services company, according to Katherine McGee, senior vice president of Wells Fargo's Internet Services Group.
According to McGee, vSafe "offers secure storage, and it's available through the Wells Fargo online banking session, so we leverage all the security we use for online banking," as well as additional measures that encrypt information as it crosses the Internet and while it's stored. An RSA SecurID token that adds a layer of authentication is an available option for a one-time fee of $25.
McGee says there will be different plans available, depending on the amount of storage required. For $4.95 per month, you can buy 1 gigabyte of storage -- the equivalent of about 10,000 documents, she said. For 3 gigabytes customers will pay $9.95 a month, and $14.95 will buy you 6 gigabytes.
While the offering may fare well with existing Wells Fargo customers, it will compete with some well-established -- and cheaper -- services such as Mozy, which offers 2 gigabytes for free and charges $4.95 a month for unlimited storage, as well as Microsoft's SkyDrive, which offers 5 gigabytes for free.
You have to be a Wells Fargo bank customer to order this service. Looks like a little better security than the FREE services. But even with those you can encrypt what you want before storing it using PGP free encryption software. -- My BLOG .. .. Internet News .. .. My Web Page
There are several ways to run this Linux operating system. It can be run from a "live CD", duel booted or run in a virtual machine inside windows XP or Vista.
Good presentation. It fully explains how damaging the P2P protocols like bittorrent are to the network.
I think this page was especially appropriate for the BBR denizens constantly chanting "Network Neutrality" everytime someone threatens their stolen music sources.
finally dropped their fee to remove bloatware. 50 bucks to remove what they put on? Wouldn't you think it'd be cheaper for them not to waste time to put it on in the first time? But then again, they'll be losing money for not putting it on. Oh well. I didn't know they where doing it. I guess its time for me to read the news more
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What new robotic overlords?
We already have robotic overlords, our politicians, with corporate America at the controls pushing all their buttons. Need I say more.
Ughhh....
