Double Agency: "Monetizing" Illegal Content

It's interesting that Youtube seems to be playing for both teams here: on one hand, doing nothing to discourage the uploading of copyrighted material by non-copyright-holders, and, on the other hand, hosting tools...

Nearly two million subscribers online in NZ

The latest figures from Statistics New Zealand show 1.5 million subscribers are now hooked up to the internet and most have broadband. " Broadband subscriptions have increased 10.7 per cent in the six months to March 2008, to reach 891,000. Subscribers with analog...

asian people have top record of internet user

سلام!اول تسلیت برای شکست تیم ایتالیا!که البته این شکست از ارزش هاش کم نمیکنه و تا اخر مسابقات یورو 2008 این وبلاگ با همان لوگو باقی می ماند تا....خوب!امروز یک...

YouTube-era crime and punishment

"Here’s a novel punishment: A Florida judge has sentenced two pranksters to one minute of YouTube shame.With the popularity of Google’s video sharing site has come an unfortunate rise in pranks from people chasing their 15 minutes of web fame. Kids plot, film, and proudly...

Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan's MySpace profiles breached

A glitch in the MySpace system allowed Paris Hilton's and Lindsay Lohan's private photos to be posted all over the Internet- I'm sure the 'stars' wouldn't mind too much considering they've been seen in a lot worse...

Release: NowPublic.com Announces Partnership with ShoZu, Making On-the-Go Jou...

" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- NowPublic.com (http://www.nowpublic.com/), the world's largest participatory news network, today announced a key partnership enabling consumers to quickly and...

Eye-Fi Brings Online Ubiquity to Almost Every Digital Camera

This is a pretty cool looking new product:"New versions of the Eye-Fi hitting the market today. Now available in the original model (at $100) that allows online and local file uploads, the new versions are desktop...

Yahoo Launches Video On Flickr

Flickr has now added a video feature to the site."Flickr members can now upload video to the popular photo-sharing site.Yahoo launched video-sharing this week. Flickr boasts 42 million visitors a month. The company...

Net Neutrality battle heats up in Canada

The chatter I hear suggests that this is going to be a huge issue."The CRTC has to date largely avoided the net neutrality issue, however, that is about to change.  The Canadian Association of Internet Providers, Canada's largest ISP association, has filed a Part VII...

The Stones team up with YouTube for Living Legends

Ever wanted to ask Mick Jagger how he stays so youthful looking? Or ask Keith Richards what kind of face cream he uses?Well, YouTube has teamed up with the aging rockers to be part of their 'Living Legends' channel...

Java (J2ME) mobile YouTube player now available

Official YouTube J2ME mobile video player was released. This player can be used with lot of mobile phones supporting mobile Java.

Best Seller Written on a Cell Phone

"The cellphone novel was born in 2000 after a home-page-making Web site, Maho no i-rando, realized that many users were writing novels on their blogs; it tinkered with its software to allow users to upload works in progress and readers to comment, creating the serialized...

Bug Labs: Build your own dream gadget

This product takes open source thinking to an new and very interesting level.  "Described as "the Lego of gadgets" by Webware's Rafe Needleman, the Bug Labs platform starts with a minicomputer, the Bug Base,...

The conspiracy behind Facebook.com

A few days ago I stumbled across a couple articles mentioning TheFacebook, and a little start-up capital they happened to get in the sum of $13 million. The number intrigued me, so I did a little more research, a...

Kylie Minogue site unites fans via cell phones

How much access is too much access? Having 24/7 fan access to artist updates via your mobile phone does seem a tad bit much...no? Dear Kylie, "I just can't get you out of my head". Anywhere. Ever. Best regards,Your #1 Fan"Kylie Minogue fans now have a new way to indulge their...

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