February 2012
51 posts
Liveblogging The iPad Home Button Revelation
parislemon:
Just to follow up:
LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. etc, etc, etc, etc…
Which is more likely:
Apple pre-leaking a major design change in a press invite image — or — Everyone reading way too much into what is essentially an advertisement?
There will still be a home button. Take my word for it, or wait for The Wall Street Journal to break the news in a week when they see it...
CanIStream.It: Search Netflix, Hulu, Vudu,...
Can I Stream It? Let’s say you are a regular techie with a Netflix account, a Hulu account, and since you only shop online, you also have an Amazon Prime account. Now let’s say you want to know if a movie you’re dying to watch is available to be streamed instantly, using any of these accounts. With CanIStream.It, you can search across all of these services and pick the...
Home via Cowbird →
The NYTimes had a piece in the decoder blog about this new site. I applied for inclusion. Maybe it will be my new HOME? If they take me?
“Telling stories on Cowbird asks a little more of you than dashing off tweets...”
– Pull Up a Mouse and Stay a While - NYTimes.com
“And Brian Calhoun, who lives near Orlando, would love to see a personal digital...”
– Consumers want USB, 4G, lower price for next iPad – USATODAY.com
Why Mountain Lion’s AirPlay Mirroring Is...
One of the features that immediately caught my eye about Mountain Lion was AirPlay Mirroring. As I noted yesterday, this offers a powerful presentation tool for business users as well as a great classroom addition for teachers and trainers. Of course, it’s also a great entertainment solution and one that has some dramatic advantages over AirPlay Mirroring on the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. Those...
Fred Wilson to Media Execs: ‘Everybody, and I Mean...
Last month, he seemed frustrated, tweeting out “#screwcable” when a feud between MSG and Time Warner Cable forced Mr. Wilson to consume pirated content if he wanted to see the (pre-Linsanity) Knicks. But during yesterday’s talk, Mr. Wilson seemed more convinced of the universality of the condition. “Making everybody a criminal is not the way to do this,” he told the crowd in an impassioned...
Bram Cohen: My goal is to kill off television —...
BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen demoed his P2P live streaming protocol at the San Francisco MusicTech Summit on Monday, which he said could potentially stream live video to millions of computers with no central infrastructure. Cohen said that the protocol could potentially be used for video conferencing, live streams of video game tournaments or even live sports events. “My goal here is to kill...
Roku Plays Nice With Cable Guys - Lauren Goode -...
You’ve probably heard a lot about cord-cutting in recent years — though the data on this trend is still somewhat contradictory. With cable companies launching streaming apps, and streaming device makers looking to cable content, both sides of the TV-content coin are acknowledging the same thing: We’re not entirely sure yet that cord-cutting is a real phenomenon, there’s evidence that consumers...
Hamilton and the Philosopher's Stone | Hamilton's...
via vice.com
Now playing on Internet TV. Another example of how my horizons have been expanded by the fact I don’t have a cable clicker anymore. More info on this dude from this NYTimes article
http://cmp.ly/0 →
Just a dude blogging. No hookups or ties to the things I post about. I am Clean!
TODAY IS THE DAY TO KILL ACTA (Cory Doctorow ) →
unexpectedtech:
Today is the day of global protest against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a copyright treaty negotiated in secret (even parliaments and other legislatures weren’t allowed to see the the working drafts), and which many governments (include the American government) are planning to adopt without legislative approval or debate. ACTA represents a wish-list of...
Watchfuturejournalismproject:
Ratio of Mobile to Fixed Line Phone Subscriptions Around the World
Mouse around, click about or visit one of the links below for a larger, more user friendly size.
Via Slate and the New America Foundation.
Anonymous Takes Down CIA Web Site →
unexpectedtech:
Anonymous has ended a rather busy week with a hack of the CIA website, which is currently offline.
“CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous,” the @YourAnonNews feed tweeted around 3:30pm Eastern.
The CIA.gov website has been unresponsive for about an 22 hours. Anonymous did not release details about the attack, but the group usually uses distributed denial of service...
Music Labels’ Joint Venture, VEVO, Shows Pirated...
Over the last decade the major music labels — and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America — have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of squelching illegal file-sharing. Piracy, they claim, has been the industry’s undoing, accounting for an over 50% drop in sales since 1999 (the industry likes to discount the impact of legal...
Instagram Version 2.1 →
parislemon:
instagram:
Good news! Instagram v2.1 is now available in the App Store! Here’s what’s new:
New Feature: Lux
We’ve given you a new way to instantly transform the look and feel of your photos. In just one tap, Lux works its magic by making your photos more vibrant and bringing out details you couldn’t…
Lux is great. Fantastic upgrade.
Smart TVs cause a net neutrality debate in S....
Remember that whole network neutrality fight in the U.S. from 2009 and 2010? Well back then the issue was over applications hogging precious bandwidth, and ISPs hoping to charge the likes of Google, Netflix and others for the increasing traffic running across wireline and wireless pipes. Korea Telecom in South Korea has taken an interesting twist on the idea, and decided to block Samsung’s Smart...
Boxee: TV Tuned into Your Life
via youtube.com No matter what device you use to connect to the rich, luscious pastures of internet TV. Be aware that after you “Cut the Cord” a grandiose expanse of content and possibilities await you.
How Roku Wants To Beat Apple By Treating Your TV...
With all the talk surrounding Apple’s rumored television set, it’s easy to glance over the other companies tackling the so-called “Smart TV” space. Of all the connected TVs, Blu-Ray players, Google TV boxes, video game consoles, etc., Roku has one of the most popular devices out there. And they say they’re just barely beating Apple in the space, at least in terms...
Your guide to residential broadband bandwidth caps...
As video consumption shifts from DVD to streaming, music consumption gravitates online, gaming goes on-demand, and a proliferation of cloud computing services ensures an almost constant stream of data flowing to and from our laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones, there’s one obvious direction our overall internet consumption is heading: up. Way up. The companies that deliver our precious...
Your guide to residential broadband bandwidth caps...
As video consumption shifts from DVD to streaming, music consumption gravitates online, gaming goes on-demand, and a proliferation of cloud computing services ensures an almost constant stream of data flowing to and from our laptops, desktops, tablets, and phones, there’s one obvious direction our overall internet consumption is heading: up. Way up. The companies that deliver our precious...
Video: Will Ferrell does Hornets-Bulls intros
via content.usatoday.com
ZuD's IPTV setup
See the full gallery on Posterous
It’s a bit unsightly but pic shows my setup. With it I can watch anything on the internet on my ancient 32 inch JVC flatscreen CRT TV. Just think of the possibilities.
owsome: The Perils of Amazon Prime Instant Movies →
chels:
Tonight, we stumbled upon Caligula. None of us had seen it but we’d all heard of it. Charlie was reading to us from Wikipedia as we watched.
Charlie: We’re watching Caligula. It’s supposed to be porn.
Chels: Oh, okay. Some half-naked lady is prancing through the woods. This isn’t so…
People! Let’s be realistic about this cord-cutting...
People! Let’s be realistic about this cord-cutting stuff This is Brian Roberts, CEO and Chairman of Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company. And he is smiling because the efforts to topple his industry, so far, are not progressing very well. (Well, actually, he’s probably smiling because photographer Tim Shaffer told him to. But for argument’s sake…) Today’s latest-reported efforts toward...
“My 10-year-old, who likes to make little videos on his laptop, wanted some music...”
– Philip Glass’s Life as an East Village Voice - Village Voice (via thisistheverge)
AT&T throttling Unlimited Data plans?
If your memory takes you back far enough, you’ll recall that AT&T once offered unlimited data plans. That all ended with the iPhone 4′s summer release in 2010, and the carrier has since offered tiered data plans. Customers who were already on AT&T did have the option of being “grandfathered in” and keeping their unlimited data. It looks like AT&T may be ticking off some of those...
Google Maps Help Predict Meth Labs Before They...
The same maps that can help you find your way to the mall can help the police predict where meth labs will pop up next. Here’s a look inside the strange, fascinating world of geospatial predictive analysis. Google Maps is a lifesaver. But the mapping technology behind Google Maps isn’t just good for highway directions and bike routes; it can also find methamphetamine...
Not Your Basic Cable →
futurejournalismproject:
In 2010 Google announced that it would lay down high-speed network infrastructure for one lucky American city. After more than 1,100 municipalities applied for Google Fiber, Kansas City was named the winner.
And today Google starts laying some cable.
For lucky Kansas City residents, they’ll soon have high-speed broadband that downloads 100 times faster than “normal”...
Google Image Search Results from Super Bowl Sunday
via pergoogle.tumblr.com Some of these tumblr blogs have such specific depth. This was worthy of a Posterous post.
Rarities in Streaming Video on Netflix Instant and... →
AT this point in its evolution streaming video can still feel like your neighborhood VHS rental shop, circa 1985.
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Photofest
Mikhail Romm’s “Nine Days One Year” (1962).
The shelves of the two leading services, Netflix Instant and Hulu Plus, seem to be full of films you’ve never heard of, arranged in no particular order. The latest hits haven’t arrived yet, and there’s...
Cutting the Cord: miniZuD.com is Back
via minizud.com miniZuD.com returns as a crusader in the great “Cutting the Cord” movement. A guide to help others, a diary of his own experiences and just a funnel for tumblr blog posts we see from time to time. Come on over and say hello. Follow, bookmark, burn a feed. Do whatever the kids are doing these days to stay connected.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My... →
Lo, in the twilight days of the second year of the second decade of the third millennium did a great darkness descend over the wireless internet connectivity of the people of 276 Ferndale Street in the North-Central lands of Iowa. For many years, the gentlefolk of these lands basked in a wireless network overflowing with speed and ample internet, flowing like a river into their Compaq Presario....
Impetus for me to Cut the Cord from Rupert's Own...
See the irony? This inspired me to call Comcast. It’s been rough, but oh so fun.
By KEVIN SINTUMUANG
Harry Campbell for The Wall Street Journal
Around 80% of what most Americans watch on TV can be had for free. Scandal!
Dear Cable:
Before I say anything else: It’s not you. It’s me.
I’ve changed over the years. I’m hardly at home. And when I am,...
MOG Player →
Mog is Free! Mog is now free. Last I knew it was ten bucks a month. Screw Spotify! Well, maybe not. So many choices for music on the web.
