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PSPCasting

Posted by Hemos on from the leaving-post-it-notes:-postitcasting? dept.

ChipGuy writes "Om Malik points out the launch of Sony PSP in US could actually turn Sony's fortunes around and thinks that new unqiue applications like Sajeeth Cherian's latest software, PSP Video 9, might be the real reason. Cherian created Videora bit torrent client's new hack, PSP Video 9. It takes any video and turns it into a format that PSP can read. So now you can download videos using Videora, and then convert them to PSP friendly format within a few seconds.He calls this PSP casting."

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  1. Casting? by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 5, Funny
    He calls this PSP casting.
    Is 'casting' the new hip catch-all phrase, after being made popular by the term 'pod-casting'?

    Next: 'Blogcasting' (reading your fave blog on your cellphone), 'bookcasting' (Ebooks on your PSP), and so on.
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    1. Re:Casting? by akadruid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Combining existing dumb ideas with worse catchphrases and patenting the results has replaced innvotation, as shown by the 'plogging' story.

      Besides Ebooks on a PSP would be EPSPBookCasting or something. Patent that quick.

      Who wants to bet the next four stories will also feature this process? Here's my prediction:

      Gridlogging
      Nano-toasting
      WiFiSatMaxG Mobile
      FlashReceipeCasting

      I propose a name for this phenomenon:
      dotCatchphrasePatentAbuse

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    2. Re:Casting? by chman · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Internet, to many people, holds some promise of being able to make absolutely anyone a world wide celebrity - that somehow a tiny idea can spread through the tangled maze of routers and fibre optics and afford its thinker-upper immortality. It probably started when everyone noticed just how much fucking money those Google guys made, or that kid that earned a metric fuckton playing Internet stock.
      Unfortunately, this mentality means that absolutely everyone throws around bullshit ideas. Also unfortunate is that any event within the Internet is desperately reported on by the mainstream media without it. So terms such as 'Podcasting' - which comes down to putting an MP3 on your iPod, as though that was some novel use for it - get seized upon and thought of as useful to society.

      Fuck it, I've got a new idea. I call it 'ShitZineing'. I came up with it when I used the Times Style section to wipe the excrement from my behind after I ran out of toilet paper. Obviously this idea can't take off without the iPod somehow being involved, so I figure I can Podcast a weekly show on the best pages to use from each week's Sunday magazines when you're out of TP and have a dire cling-on problem.
      There we are, throw that one out through the Blogosphere and come back to me with a big fat cheque when someone wants to make it commercially viable.

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  2. Definition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    castcasting (vb.) - The act of taking a word or acronym and appending "cast" or "casting" to the end to make it sound up-to-date and cool. See also "gategating".

  3. Thank God by Ken@WearableTech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally a way to spread the wisdom in my home movies to the whole world.

    Now I'm off to register PSPorn.com