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Hulu

March 11th 2008 16:23

Home Sweet Home

Tomorrow, March 12, 2008, Hulu will be available to the public (possibly only in the States).

The website is supposed to provide free television programs, streaming movies, and all sorts of entertainment, supported only by advertising.

These spots have come and gone, with a few remaining.

We'll see how this one works out.....

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Blu-ray

March 8th 2008 02:44

He looks good in any medium

A little while back Toshiba announced that it would no longer manufacture HD-DVD technology.

Toshiba and Sony have been offering alternate formats. Toshiba it's HD-DVD and Sony offering Blu-ray.

While Blu-ray offered more storage space (50 gigs vs. 30 gigs), HD was less expensive. HD players sold for around $400, blue ray about $700 on the Playstataion 3. Now Walmart has a blu-ray player for about $388.00

According to bluray.com the fact is that eventually blu ray will replace dvd's. To some degree Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Warner, MGM and Lionsgate all have (some) movies available in the format.

The companies who make the machines say that most will be backwards compatible with the dvd's we currently own. Philips, Panasonic and Sony are among those manufacturers.

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A lot was at stake here. The DVD business is bigger than the American movie theater business.
In just the States dvd's bring in more than $23 billion dollars per year, compared to ticket sales of less than $10 billion per year.

Wal-Mart sells about 40% of those $23 billion dollars worth of dvd's. That may be part of the reason that you can't dowload a lot of your favorite movies, so far. Wal-Mart doesn't want to lose that revenue.

However, the studios may make more profit per film sale online, than through retailers, eventually.

But, that will involve making it easier to watch movies streamed from your computer to the television.
Micrososft has an instruction page, but that involves having a newer computer with Windows Vista, Windows Media Center and an x-box in your home.

The newer Tivo boxes can download from Amazon. You can also use Amazon with certain tv's, cables, connections and Microsoft software....

Apple has the Apple tv. And you need to buy from itunes.

So there's still a ways to go before it gets easy for the majority of us. But, eventually we will swap out our older technology and go along. (Although I still know alot of folks happily paying less for everything on their vcr's

And, in the mean time, for freeing dvd's to operate on different platforms, you might want to take a look at
Double Twist Interesting....

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Cruisin' The Net

February 8th 2008 01:45

cruisin' the net

Spin Magazine is now online, free....

A new site, called Reporterist, is trying to match freelance journalists with editors to publish their work.
USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review has a report on the new site:

“So the idea behind the Reporterist is a news exchange where freelancers and editors can connect. As a journalist, you can upload your work and submit it to a specific publication – say an article about hiking to an outdoor magazine – and give them two weeks to view the story and decide to publish it.
But you can also line up the publiscations that can have access to it after two weeks. Alternatively -- and we're still working on this – you can submit it to the “marketplace.”

Time Warner is in the news again because of the AOL division.
Maybe (financially) bloggers just aren't in the right arena....TW says it will save $50 million dollars by cutting 100 jobs...New York Times

and far away from 50 million dollars for one hundred jobs...Muhammad Unus is the founder of Grameen Bank. To date his business has loaned over five billion dollars to people in Banglandesh.

He was also instrumental in the creation of GrameenPhone
and Grameen Telecom.

Both these companies combine to provide a Village Phone to a subscriber, who pays back the loan, hopefully through cheap billing rates available to an entire village, whom the subscriber allows to buy time on the phone.

For the micro loans in Bangladesh, borrowers use money borrowed to buy items which they sell. With the money earned the loan is repaid and the borrower has money of their own.

Mr. Yunus and the bank received the nobel Peace Prize in 2006.

He has co-written a book I've not read yet, Creating A World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism Somewhat surprisingly the book is number 166 on Amazon's bestseller sales rank.

The authors ask, and attempt to answer, questions that arise in many of our conversations.
Here's a brief excerpt:

“Governments can do much to address social problems. They are large and powerful, with access to almost every corner of socieity, and through taxes they can mobilize vast resources. Even the governments of poor countries, where tax revenues are modes, can get international funds in the form of grants and low-interest loans. So it is tempting to simply dump our world's social problems int the lap of goverrnment and say,, “here, fix this.”
“But if this approach were effective, the problems would have been solved long ago. Their persistence makes is clear that governement alone does not provide the answer, Why not?”

Fortunately, there are used copies on sale at Amazon which I can look at, and I'll take a look at ebay to see what they have. I haven't bought a new book in some time

We have several charities in town that run stores to hellp finance their work. I contribute to them as I can, and in return, I, like all their customers, can pick up a book for 25 cents. Despite the price stamped on the dustcover of $27.05. Thank Heavens!

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Tech & Music

January 22nd 2008 03:02

Music & Tech

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Recycling Tech

January 18th 2008 22:58

Recycling Tech

Time Magazine has a nice article about companies launching buyback services for electronic gadgets. Another alternative to throwing the things away is TechForward a company interested in your used toys.... NEW Corp is planning to do something similar. Since their website does not work (!), here's a profile of the company from Business Week They work with huge chains such as Walmart and Best Buy, so the scope of their recycling could be vast

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Prozac for Pooches

January 17th 2008 03:01

Original Tech

The NY Times lists some of its favorites from the CES show, but, they seem focused mainly on metropolitan style, to my eye

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Reports of Change with Google Adsense

January 10th 2008 23:55

Is Google changing Adsense revenue

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Digital Art

November 2nd 2007 22:12

Digital Art

A magazine article caught my attention, PCMag, Didital Art for Beginners A lot of it, though, is a list of products to buy. So I looked around for something free....While Wikipedia has a nice article on the subject, no clear listing of free programs...

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Jobs Around The World (LINK)

October 9th 2007 19:01

Peace and Chocolate

So, I'm not sure if this post should go to Borderless World or here, because it's an example of a website for, I think, a US company that has employees in three countries

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Google & Kosmix, Something Old, Something New

September 12th 2007 18:47

I've said it before, but, then (when I said it) I didn't know about Kosmix. What I had said is: there are other options besides Google.

Google is great. But sometimes I get tons of pages that, no matter how I word my search, won't give me what I'm looking for

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Fashion & Technology

April 29th 2007 18:53

Sorry to have been sidetracked from the blog by road trips, flu, a heat wave, and a puppy shredding my index fingers with stalactite teeth, whose demise I am promised will be followed by blunter adult teeth, used more appropriately.

Anina is an interesting tech blog from the fashion world (the link has a blurb on a wonderful looking upcoming Australian fashion show). Take a look, you might enjoy...

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Search Engine Optimization

April 23rd 2007 23:28

Gold Boxes

"Search engine optimization (SEO), a subset of search engine marketing, is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. SEO can also target specialized searches such as image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines." (Wikipedia)

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Unfaithful To Google

April 2nd 2007 16:53

Let me be clear, please, give me a moment.

I have a devoted relationship with Google. I loved Google before many other people had heard of it.
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