I read the article and could not help think that any mobile UI that requires people to keep their eyes glued to a screen can not be the Next Big Thing as far as information retrevial on the fly . In order for this to really be a paradigm shifting application it has to be voice input. Once I am able to say "Computer, where is the closest bathroom?", then things might get interesting.
What about MC Paul Barman, Infesticons (and their alter egos the Majesticons), even El-P and Company Flow have been delving in these realms for years. Check them out if you never heard of them, you may like them even if you are not a fan of hip-hop.
This is the first Web 2.0 acquisition that truly make sense to me. Unlike other social networking websites like Myspace and Facebook, the money making potential is clear.
Youtube owns the online video space. More folks uploading and watching video on youtube than anywhere else out there. One pesky problem is they heavily traffic in copyrighted material. No way a pesky startup can cut the deals it needs to cut to keep the copyrighted material on its site (I think the deals it has alrady cut with the major labels have been predicated on the fact that the labels were aware of the talks with google).
Googles contribution will be to make the deals with the major content producers and set up revenue sharing advertising arrangements with the Major Content Producers. Don't expect to see less copyrighted material on youtube, expect to see more copyrighted material. This is the first step between an ad supported GoogleTV which could be a total game changer.
It would be nice if you backed up your statement with facts, but even if the "vast majority" were communist, I consider it a setback 1.)People were persecuted for their communist beliefs and 2.)people who had no communist ties at all,were persecuted. even if just a few.
You folks who see a slippery slope in shutting down necro and cannibal sites are foolishly overacting. The first amendment has never meant that we have the freedom to say anything we want. There are certain forms of speech that have long be recognized as not falling under the protection of the first amendment, e.g. Commercial Speech, Obscene Speech & Speech that endangers public safety. And despite these limitations, free speech in this country endures. Yeah sure every now and then we have set backs, the sedition act, macarthyism, the patriot act, but We have a history of recognizing those mistakes and correcting them so freedom of speech may live on.
Defend the speech of necro-loving all you want, but it is a loser issue.
Why can't you make a rule for your inbox that says, I will not receive e-mails from people who will not warrant that their mail is not spam. If they breach that warranty they will owe me 5 cents which I empower [spam collections] to collect.
You send me an e-mail, and you are prompted with the question "do you warrant that you are not sending spam and agree to pay the 5 cents if the receivers finds that your mail is spam?"
If you say yes and don't send me spam, your added to my whitelist. If you say yes and send me spam, I report you. Spam collections can collect 5 cents from you.
I think this is simpler because it does not require universal adoption and it only adds 1 more step to non-spam senders and receivers. recievers have to get and add-on to their e-mail to perform the warranty test. senders have a yes/no box to check.
I was trying to track down a Sci-Fi story I read years ago, about these beautiful creautures, sylphs i think they were called, who men would become obsessed with until they wasted away. Not only did I not find the story, (anyone know this story), but I was disappointed that I couldn't find anywhere I could go, pay a small fee and download short stories, poems, or even novels that are out of circulation. Does such a place on the web exist? If it doesn't then it should.
Its funny you should say that. I was an English Major who took a couple of sociology classes. The analyisis of history that we did in Sociology class was not vey different from the analysis of a text we would do in an English class. and yet, one was a science and the other was not.
with this technology inplace, Intel will be able to prosecute OC'ers under the DMCA, similar to the recent Lexmark case, where Lexmark sued a company for providing mod chips that allowed replacement toners to be used other than the ones made by lexmark. the whole story can be found at http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57866,00.html
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I read the article and could not help think that any mobile UI that requires people to keep their eyes glued to a screen can not be the Next Big Thing as far as information retrevial on the fly . In order for this to really be a paradigm shifting application it has to be voice input. Once I am able to say "Computer, where is the closest bathroom?", then things might get interesting.
Eben Moglen was the single most influential law school professor I ever had. I have never looked at the world the same since taking his classes.
What about MC Paul Barman, Infesticons (and their alter egos the Majesticons), even El-P and Company Flow have been delving in these realms for years. Check them out if you never heard of them, you may like them even if you are not a fan of hip-hop.
This is the first Web 2.0 acquisition that truly make sense to me. Unlike other social networking websites like Myspace and Facebook, the money making potential is clear. Youtube owns the online video space. More folks uploading and watching video on youtube than anywhere else out there. One pesky problem is they heavily traffic in copyrighted material. No way a pesky startup can cut the deals it needs to cut to keep the copyrighted material on its site (I think the deals it has alrady cut with the major labels have been predicated on the fact that the labels were aware of the talks with google). Googles contribution will be to make the deals with the major content producers and set up revenue sharing advertising arrangements with the Major Content Producers. Don't expect to see less copyrighted material on youtube, expect to see more copyrighted material. This is the first step between an ad supported GoogleTV which could be a total game changer.
It would be nice if you backed up your statement with facts, but even if the "vast majority" were communist, I consider it a setback 1.)People were persecuted for their communist beliefs and 2.)people who had no communist ties at all,were persecuted. even if just a few.
You folks who see a slippery slope in shutting down necro and cannibal sites are foolishly overacting. The first amendment has never meant that we have the freedom to say anything we want. There are certain forms of speech that have long be recognized as not falling under the protection of the first amendment, e.g. Commercial Speech, Obscene Speech & Speech that endangers public safety. And despite these limitations, free speech in this country endures. Yeah sure every now and then we have set backs, the sedition act, macarthyism, the patriot act, but We have a history of recognizing those mistakes and correcting them so freedom of speech may live on. Defend the speech of necro-loving all you want, but it is a loser issue.
Why can't you make a rule for your inbox that says, I will not receive e-mails from people who will not warrant that their mail is not spam. If they breach that warranty they will owe me 5 cents which I empower [spam collections] to collect. You send me an e-mail, and you are prompted with the question "do you warrant that you are not sending spam and agree to pay the 5 cents if the receivers finds that your mail is spam?" If you say yes and don't send me spam, your added to my whitelist. If you say yes and send me spam, I report you. Spam collections can collect 5 cents from you. I think this is simpler because it does not require universal adoption and it only adds 1 more step to non-spam senders and receivers. recievers have to get and add-on to their e-mail to perform the warranty test. senders have a yes/no box to check.
I was trying to track down a Sci-Fi story I read years ago, about these beautiful creautures, sylphs i think they were called, who men would become obsessed with until they wasted away. Not only did I not find the story, (anyone know this story), but I was disappointed that I couldn't find anywhere I could go, pay a small fee and download short stories, poems, or even novels that are out of circulation. Does such a place on the web exist? If it doesn't then it should.
Its funny you should say that. I was an English Major who took a couple of sociology classes. The analyisis of history that we did in Sociology class was not vey different from the analysis of a text we would do in an English class. and yet, one was a science and the other was not.
with this technology inplace, Intel will be able to prosecute OC'ers under the DMCA, similar to the recent Lexmark case, where Lexmark sued a company for providing mod chips that allowed replacement toners to be used other than the ones made by lexmark. the whole story can be found at http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57866,00 .html