Diebold can’t get dumber. Future of YouTube and Google, and the futility of suing video sharing sites.

January 25, 2007

Diebold, the voting machine builder that seems to think “security” is a special add-on service that doesn’t need to be safeguarded, has yet stepped in another pile of its own dog poo. Turns out they offered to make replacement copies of keys for its voting machine. And they posted a picture of the exact keys […]

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Social networking isn’t just for horny teenagers. MySpace takes on spam king. Never pay for directory assistance again.

January 23, 2007

Social networking. It’s not just for horny teenagers anymore. IBM is getting into corporate social networking with the release of Lotus Connections. Now you and your coworkers can create a personal profile, and you can link to each other, thus wasting more productive hours in the day. Microsoft’s collaboration tool Sharepoint just added social networking […]

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Will you line up for Windows Vista? Beatles on iTunes or anywhere else. Google Switch

January 18, 2007

At the end of this month, January 30th, the most delayed operating system ever in history, Windows Vista will finally be available for purchase. And according to the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg it doesn’t look like people will be lining up the night before to get it. I saw the operating system demo’ed over […]

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On KQED’s "This Week in Northern California" talking about the iPhone

January 17, 2007

Here’s my appearance from last Friday’s show.

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Netflix video. HD-DVD Serenity available on BitTorrent. Someone give me Joost.

January 16, 2007

It’s all video news today. Movie-by-the-mail service Netflix begins Internet delivery this week but it appears only for a select group of customers and I’m not one of them. Over the next six months they’ll be rolling the service out to all customers. The additional service is free, there are about 1000 movies currently available, […]

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Video journalists, do more than talk on camera

January 7, 2007

Andy Abramson, VoIP expert and cohost of KenRadio has a post about the rise of video bloggers at CES. It discusses how we’re going to treat journalists backed by a large media entity versus how we’re going to treat your average clown roaming the floor at CES with a DV camera. And that video bloggers […]

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High def DVD format over? Bezos in space. Brazil orders YouTube shutdown. Podzinger indexes YouTube.

January 5, 2007

There’s a new high def DVD format that could settle the never ending score between Bluray and HD-DVD. This third format, Total HD, supports players of both Bluray and HD-DVD. Alternatively, next week at CES, LG Electronics will be showing off a dual format high def DVD player that will play Bluray and HD-DVD disks. […]

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My predictions for 2007

January 2, 2007

Google will continue to issue press releases and be interviewed about their establishing a free Wi-Fi network in San Francisco. To the rest of us San Franciscans we won’t care because thanks to individuals not securing their personal networks, Wi-Fi is pretty much available everywhere now. MySpace will begin its flameout. The home of the […]

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Apple MVNO? P&G makes a risque video. Top 50 viral videos of 2006

December 14, 2006

Rumor has it that Apple will be releasing an MVNO or mobile virtual network operator. That’s when a company purchases air minutes from a mobile carrier and releases a phone and service through their own brand. ESPN did this with Sprint and Amp’d Mobile with Verizon. Soon possibly Apple with Cingular. MVNO’s have had mixed […]

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Netherlands goes digital. Outlawing pretexting. "Truthiness": Word of the Year. Valleywag’s tech words of 2006

December 12, 2006

The U.S. can’t seem to make the full plunge into digital TV, but the Netherlands can and did. With 94% of the population on cable it was an easy switch. Only 74,000 Dutch viewers were relying on over-the-air analog signals. The U.S. Senate approved a bill outlawing “pretexting”, the practice of acquiring phone records of […]

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