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Friday, November 26, 2010
Google’s French Connection: YouTube and SACD, SCAM, ADAGP Partner for TV Shows and Movies Online in France
In a event at the home of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, "YouTube and SACD, SCAM and ADAGP - three associations representing French screenwriters, composers and other creative artists - signed an agreement to put more TV shows and movies online in France."
Comment on Why iPad 2 Is Coming and What to Expect by Scott
It may very well happen and I expect it will only because Apple needs to stay ahead of the rest. I just played with a Samsung galaxy tab and it's already better then an Ipad. The original ipad needs a camera and much more to stem the huge tides of new tablets about to hit.
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Lifestyle design and location-independent entrepreneurialism
Finally, someone has said it: lifestyle design is a load of rubbish.
The video below comes from Chris over at My Egg Noodles and the phrase used is actually BS. While his language is pretty strong, I completely agree with Chris on calling this out.
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Rant life in thailand moving to thailand
The video below comes from Chris over at My Egg Noodles and the phrase used is actually BS. While his language is pretty strong, I completely agree with Chris on calling this out.
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Rant life in thailand moving to thailand
Lifestyle design and location-independent entrepreneurialism
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Friday Geonews: One-Click StreetView, Buffers in Lat-Long, Books, Location Privacy, Map of Global Debt, and much more
The Friday geonews in batch mode, including anything pertinent that we haven't shared yet.
On the Google front:
- Google announced single-click StreetView navigation
- Last March was announced that Google Mapplets were on their way out, their annihilation plan begun
- The GEB shares an entry on animated 3D models in Google Earth
- There will soon be bike directions for many Canadian cities in Google Maps
On the ESRI front:
- An entry on a mosaic image finder addin for ArcMap
In the miscellaneous category:
- MDA released a National Urban Change Indicator for the U.S.
- Here's an interesting entry (it must be since its involves Slartibartfast ;-) on removing complexities of complex polygons
- Here's an entry showing us what happens when you compute circular buffers in geographic coordinates
- If you're looking for geobooks to give at Christmas, The Map Room shares lists of geospatial-related books released this year
- There's also a new book named Preservation in Digital Cartography, co-authored by Tracey P. Lauriault, Peter L. Pulsifer and D.R. Fraser Taylor
- This entry explains why location privacy is different from privacy
In the maps category:
- From numerous sources, here's a one-minute video of the last 88 years of presidential election results in the U.S.
- The Map Room offers a long review the ninth edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World
- The Economist shares an informative and scary interactive map of the global public debt
- In the same vein, GeoCurrents shares an entry named the So-Called Happy Planet Index, which includes a map
- The Strange Maps blog shares a Map of the World's Countries Rearranged by Population
Homeland Security Is Seizing Internet Domains Left And Right
The Department of Homeland Security's ICE has launched a major crackdown on websites enabling copyright infringement or selling counterfeits of trademarked goods. In just the past few days ICE has seized at least 12 domains, TorrentFreak reports.
All of these domains now display the image shown here.
The sites fall into two categories: torrent sites that enable the download of copyrighted music, and sites selling knockoffs of trademarked goods like designer handbags.
A controversial bill that would allow the Attorney General to shut down domains on similar grounds was recently derailed (temporarily) by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden.
The owner of an affected site told TorrentFreak that his domain was taken over without any prior complaints or notification from the court.
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Homeland Security Is Seizing Internet Domains Left And Right
Mark Zuckerberg And An Army Of Insurgent Entrepreneurs Just Declared War On The TV, Music, News, And Movie Industries
At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a six minute speech about how, starting sometime in the next five years, he expects his company to make billions and billions of dollars turning the TV, news, film, and music industries upside down.
The speech was nuanced and obviously pre-planned. It contained big revelations. But because it came in the middle of a wide-ranging, hour-long interview, hardly anybody noticed.
The gist: As has already happened in the gaming industry – where Zynga now has a larger market cap than Electronic Arts – Facebook expects insurgent entrepreneurs to "reform" the film, TV, news, e-commerce and music industries with the help of Facebook. Some of these companies will be incumbents. Some will unseat incumbents. Facebook will then – perhaps through credits or advertising, but also perhaps some other way – tax these companies in exchange for the value it has added.
Here's how Zuckergberg put it:
"Anything that involves content or specific expertise in an area – games, music, movies, TV, news, anything in media, anything e-commerce, any of this stuff.
Over the next five years, those verticals are going to be completely re-thought. There are going to be some really good businesses built.
Our view is that we should play a role in helping to re-form and re-think all those industries, and we'll get value proportional to what we put in. In gaming, we get some percentage of the value of those companies through ads and credits. But that's all because we're helping them.
If we're helpful to other industries in building out what would be a good solution then there will be some way we get value from that. "
In the next few days, we're going to publish a speculative story on how Facebook can "reform" those industries the way it has been able to funnel hundreds of millions of users into social gaming. We'll be talking about some of these issues at our Ignition conference next week too. We'd love to hear your thoughts, too. Comment below or email us at Nicholas@businessinsider.com.
In the meantime, we've embedded Zuckerberg's speech here:
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See Also:
- What I, Eduardo Saverin, Learned From Watching “The Social Network”
- Here's Some Real Damage Mark Zuckerberg Did To The Winklevoss Brothers That Wasn't In "The Social Network"
- Peter Thiel Rips Early Facebook Employee Eduardo Saverin And The Social Network Movie
Comment on The Web Worker’s Advantage, Part 2: Flexibility (and the Freedom to Wear Pajamas) by Adam Bluhm
I agree that flexibility is one of the major perks. For example, yesterday morning I had a major headache and just could not concentrate as much as I wanted so I decided to take an early and long lunch break. Instead of forcing myself to work when I was less than productive, I was able to take that time to relax and then work some extra time in the evening. I appreciate the "give and take".
HubOne and Paradyne Becomes Aussie World’s First Partners to Join Cloud Accelerate Program
Microsoft Australia announced the first two partners to qualify for one of its newest worldwide partner programs -- "Cloud Accelerate".
HubOne and Paradyne Becomes Aussie World’s First Partners to Join Cloud Accelerate Program
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by John Conor
The US DoJ uses a particular test to determine if a firm has monopoly power - the Herfindahl - Hirschmann index (HHI). Using this as the sole indicator, and thinking reasonably carefully about the markets in which each plays (search and web-delivered ads for the first, 'social network' connections for the second): Google and Facebook absolutely have monopoly power. The answers for the others are less clear. I have not read Prof. Wu's book (and can't get it except, ahem, to my Kindle, since I live in Asia), so cannot tell if he used the DoJ numerical definition, or how precisely he used term monopoly at all.
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Balck Friday/Cyber Monday Holiday Deals: Office for Mac 2011 ome and Student ‘Single License $88.99, Family Pack (3 Licenses) $108.99′ at Amazon
I hold on this post for over a week, to see the final prices of Amazon. Last week, Microsoft's MacBU team posted Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals for Office for Mac 2011.
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Comment on CA Delivers on Cloud Investment With Service-Measurement Suite by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «
[...] Cassatt was ahead of its time in selling cloud-like capabilities, but because cloud hadn’t yet caught fire as a marketing tool, the company was left trying to sell its Cross-Virtualization Manager. Companies didn’t really get why they should care about dynamic resource allocation, full-scale automation and intelligent power management. By the time Cassatt began marketing itself as a cloud computing vendor, it was too late. Faced with bankruptcy, the company sold its assets to CA Technologies in May 2009, and is now an integral part of CA’s cloud portfolio. [...]
Comment on Appistry Opens the Cloud to (Almost) All Apps by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «
[...] which experimented with terms like “hive computing” and “application fabric” before settling into its cloud groove, or Cloud.com, which wasn’t getting nearly the attention it deserves under its previous VMOps [...]
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Comment on Cloud Storage: Two Days, Three Startups, $30 Million by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «
[...] by themselves, and during a two-week stretch in November, four cloud-storage startups – Zetta, Nirvanix, Gluster and Scale Computing — combined to close $47 [...]
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Comment on Mo' Money: Life Is Good for Cloud Vendors by Why Cloud Computing Sells and NoSQL Is Fading: Cloud «
[...] like “hive computing” and “application fabric” before settling into its cloud groove, or Cloud.com, which wasn’t getting nearly the attention it deserves under its previous VMOps moniker. You’ll [...]
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Email Reverse Lookup - Trace Unknown Gmail And Other Email Addresses And Get Name And Location
Email Reverse Lookup - Trace Unknown Gmail And Other Email Addresses And Get Name And LocationThe beauty of technology is such human beings from any part of the earth can really trace a person to where he or she lives through his/her e-letter domicil
Email Reverse Lookup - Trace Unknown Gmail And Other Email Addresses And Get Name And Location
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Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by eideard
The paranoid rarely change - except, occasionally, the direction of their fears.
A foolish waste of time and energy.
Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by eideard
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Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by PRETHOUGHT
Yeah, tell me about it. Now complete proud owner Novell! 420 million dollars worth to MS and then the rest to Attachmate another company owned by MS just to make it look like it's not an anti-trust case. Android and Linux users be prepared for the MS lawsuit assaults!!!!! In 2011 the battle royal against open source will begin!
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Angry Birds ‘Peace Treaty and Queen Vs. Angry Birds Rock You — Noy Alooshe Remix’ Mashup Videos
Angry Birds, the best-selling mobile game from Europe's Rovio, is turning into quite a cultural phenomenon. Here're two viral video embedded below, -- first featuring the angry birds and pigs in peace treaty talks:
Angry Birds ‘Peace Treaty and Queen Vs. Angry Birds Rock You — Noy Alooshe Remix’ Mashup Videos
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Google Transit Program and Mobile Transit apps – A Starting Point for public transit
No doubt many if not most of you are familiar with the Google Maps transit layers – this is a layer of data found in Google maps showing readers current/live public transit data and more. I can’t help to think that in this day and age where the public, developers, industry and more are clamoring [...]
Google Transit Program and Mobile Transit apps – A Starting Point for public transit
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Slashgeo: Directions Magazine Articles: Opportunities of the GeoCloud, Geo vs Data Vizualization, The New Geospatial Jobs, and more
Here's a few Directions Magazine articles published in the past month that I found interesting:
- An article on GIS Computing in the cloud. The summary: "Author Philip O'Doherty believes our thinking may be too small when it comes to GIS computing in the cloud. One of the big problems with GIS today, writes O'Doherty, is that it is seen as a specialist tool, available only to a limited number of people in a limited number of organizations.
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