How people get their entertainment fixes is continuing to change and morph into something that we could never have guessed, and the perfect example of that is through the partnership of YouTube and Vevo, live shows get to be streamed to anyone’s computers. The experience of live shows over the Internet is till an experimentation, because it’s still an experiment, we won’t get to see live shows over the Internet all the time. We have to wait for a scheduled announcement from them. From who? As of now, to the best of my knowledge, YouTube and Vevo are the ones that are experimenting with the idea of streaming live shows over the Internet. Besides watching live shows, Internet users get to interact with the shows on their computers such as picking a live camera angle.
By the way, don’t miss out a new live show on YouTube/Vevo tonight! At 10:00 PM of Eastern Time or 7:00 PM of Pacific Time, YouTube and Vevo will air live concert of the band known as “Arcade Fire.” You may never have heard of “Arcade Fire,” but it’s a perfect opportunity for you to experience a live show over the Internet. You can head over here to know more about this new live show adventure. For your information, Arcade Fire concert will go live at Madison Square Garden. Why not write a comment or two to share your experience of watching a live show over the Internet below this post! Have fun watching a live concert of Arcade Fire, and this won’t be the last!
I’m taking the rumor about a new Motorola tablet with a grain of salt for now, but I hope one day soon we will see this rumor be a rumor no more. It is rumored that this new tablet is 10″ big, and it will run Droid operating system. There is something else that I consider a thing of beauty, and I’m talking about the possibility that this tablet will have dual cameras. To top it off, Verizon’s FiOS will service this tablet!
FiOS wires your house with fiber optic cables, and your service will be blazing fast! 3G or Wi-Fi , it doesn’t matter, when things run over fiber optic cables, everything is faster! Unfortunately, it depends on the speed of the Internet connection’s package that you are willing to sign up with Verizon. FiOS provides everything, and that means you’ll have TV, telephone, and Internet.
Besides the Internet connection, I suspect that the new Motorola tablet will have FiOS’s TV service also! As of now, everything is only a rumor about this tablet, but why don’t we all hope it will become true? The other thing that we all hope for is that it will be even more affordable than the iPad! At least the rumor has had that the new Motorola tablet will have dual cameras, and this iPad doesn’t have! Unfortunately, iPad is not a rumor! Therefore, I’ll eat this grain of salt and hope fore the best! How about you? Source.
YouTube has announced its victory against Viacom in a court case! About three years ago, Viacom sued Google for YouTube had hosted Viacom’s copyrighted videos. Viacom was seeking $1 billion in damages! Unfortunately for Viacom, it’s now clear that their frivolous charges against YouTube have only strengthen YouTube for many years to come!
As long YouTube cooperates with copyright holders to make sure their works are compensated fully, there is no reason for YouTube to be punished by just being kind as in hosting a free web video service where hundreds of millions of web videos are shared by millions of people. YouTube has not taken copyright matter lightly at all as I’ve seen way too many videos were pulled off of YouTube, because the copyright holders hadn’t granted some YouTube’s users to upload their copyrighted videos.
Obviously, YouTube is one huge web video service where way too many videos are being uploaded in seconds in a near constant rate, this is why it’s unfair to hold YouTube accountable for copyrighted videos that aren’t yet made aware as questionable videos that need to be pulled off of YouTube. With YouTube’s victory against Viacom, many other websites that are offering user generated contents can also breathe a little easier, because they now know that they too may have a winning chance if they have to face similar charges that YouTube had dealt with in this case. Indeed, it’s a big win for many people on the side of YouTube! Source. Related article: “Viacom sues Google over YouTube clips.”
Twitter Effect is what I like to call if I may, it has potent values for many people, albeit the values Twitter has for each mindful person can be very different in various degrees from spams to stellar matters of importance, to some people it’s a certain that Twitter has becoming another elite communication tool of the 21st century. Author for “Twitter at a crossroads once again,” Caroline McCarthy hints that Twitter may choose to turn itself into a less of a phenomenon — more of a cannot go without tool, and one perfect example of this would be email. Email is an exotic communication tool that came to life in the very-very late of the 20th century, it’s still very much a cannot go without tool for this early 21st century as far the eyes can see.
Twitter might succeed at turning itself into a cannot go without tool, but is it necessary? Twitter in a way is a phenomenon, and this phenomenon has solidified into a stable trend where staple of people use it every day in facilitating their agenda. Some agenda involve in making huge money, spread the words of God, alert a breaking news, UFO sighting, weird ideas, amazing experiences that convey into short, concise messages, and the bunch of farms more. In my case, I have been using Twitter to notify people about my new articles and blog posts such as this very post that you’re reading right now.
Twitter is certainly has the look of a cannot go without tool already, some Twitterers describe themselves as Twitter addicts, they cannot stop checking for new tweets and tweeting themselves all day long. No wonder, there is a device that dedicates only to Twitter which allows one thing, twittering. What about me, me me? In my case, I’m not qualify to be a Twitter addict, because to be one, you have to surf for tweets all day long; I often allow a plugin of WordPress to automatically write a tweet to notify my followers that there is a new blog post — set it once, look it twice, and sleep on it for a very long time.
Twitter is certainly a cannot go without tool for some, but I don’t think it is so for me, just not yet. I don’t think I have used Twitter at an optimum level, but my need so far isn’t demanding of Twitter much. What about you? Will Twitter be a cannot go without tool for you, or it is already so? Check out the source for a better understanding of the dilemma that Twitter is facing, and what it may do as its service gets even more popular.
Yahoo has been here since the very early days of the infamous Internet, although you must have been expected me to use the word famous for Yahoo and the Internet itself, unfortunately, Yahoo is on a downward momentum in terms of visitors and time spent on website, and the Internet itself is infamous for privacy matter (as social networks grow like weeds) and spams and a host of other uncool things. On that perspective, Yahoo and Internet are on the same page, but on the other, Yahoo is slipping away in popularity while the Internet has becoming scarier for the traditional environment where businesses depend on traditional tactics and strategies to churn out cold cash. A perfect example of how Internet invades other markets would be Google. Google has real interest in invading the Television advertising market; the company has partnering up with few players to release a new product known as Smart TV in an attempt of bringing the Web closer to Television.
I point out Google’s expansion to further demonstrate how influential Internet has become as it slowly spreads its popularity and tentacles toward all industries. The main actor in this very post is still Yahoo! Internet is just a side thing that keep you interest in what I’m writing, but probably it’s more like a distraction and yawning moments, for boring moments I apologize. To make long story short, Yahoo finds itself in a spot that is not so favorable as people compare it to others. This is actually a good thing for consumers like us! It can be a bad thing for Yahoo in a short run, but if Yahoo is vibrant enough to bring forth new innovations to entice the more, I’m sure Yahoo can make a big comeback, but it’s still an if. All of us have to wait and see as Yahoo is wooing all of us with their future innovations.
With so many speculations about Yahoo’s fading popularity, Carol Bartz who is now the current president and CEO of Yahoo — is out to defend Yahoo as in not so fast yo, Yahoo is still very innovative as it’s moving forward. Just recently, Carol Bartz is proudly defending Yahoo against all skeptics on TechCrunch Disrupt event in New York City. The video below is the chat that she had with Michael Arrington for the event.
What do you think about the future of Yahoo? How important Yahoo is to you? Let fictionalize the current situation, what if Yahoo is going away in a week or two, will you be sad, super sad, as in missing an important, irreplaceable part of you?
I had watched a documentary about the amazing brand Coca-Cola on CNBC not too long ago, forgive me for not remembering the documentary/interview/presentation title, and it was very interesting as one of those Coca-Cola people mentioned that when the company changed the taste of the all too familiar beverage Coke, a very old woman called the in-charged person up and told him that the company was being rude for destroying a part of her. That in-charged person of Coca-Cola asked the lady why she loved Coke so much, it turned out that she hadn’t drank a wee amount of Coke for years, but the company still ruined her by changed the taste of the original Coke. This very story demonstrates to us that the Coca-Cola brand is so well branded throughout its history that people see Coke as an important part of their memories.
People relate to the Coke brand so tightly may have been a mystery, but it can be explained in an assumption. The assumption is that many people who love Coke cannot forget theirs good moments and unforgettable moments for they who have had many Cokes in those amazing times.
What an amazing accomplishment for a soft drink that mainly has only few secretive ingredients in a combination besides water. What’s even better about Coca-Cola is that the company has now becoming so popular around the world to a point that it’s a large contribution to a growing economy of certain parts in Africa (forgot exactly where to be honest, but around there).
Coca-Cola is a very different company from Yahoo, and it is not an Internet darling, therefore it’s wrong to compare the two. Agreeably, I’m not trying to compare the two, I just merely pointing out the fact that Coca-Cola is so effective in its marketing that in a way Coke should not have been so popular (even though it’s only a drink) if not for Coca-Cola’s ingenious marketing plans; the question is, can Yahoo be able to achieve such a level of marketing to a point that it isn’t need to be so innovative to survive and thrive in today hyper Internet environment?
Everyone knows that technology companies must come out with new products, new technologies, better services and the likes for them to be competitive, but many people are not so sure about Yahoo in this respect. The question remains for the commentators, can Yahoo be competitive without bringing out new products? Isn’t this obvious? Not so fast folks, as Coca-Cola has told us that with amazing marketing, things can go very far. The problem is that Yahoo isn’t Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola isn’t an Internet company, Yahoo is a web service mostly, you probably see where I’m trying to get at already… Source.
What’s phising? Wikipedia has a really detailed explanation on this very word, and so I save myself from explaining it too much. To me, phising is a method that hackers use to trick people into entering their sensitive credentials onto a fake website that made to look like a real one, and after the victims being tricked, usually the hackers got what they were after such as a bank password.
Why am I talking about phising? Well, on this post, I’m not trying to talk about phising in general, because there are countless of phising attacks that hackers know and use them. Nonetheless, most phising attacks usually depend on a user’s carelessness from the start, and one example would be an email claimed to be a bank email with a malicious link which led to a fake website made to look like a real bank website.
Even worse, there is a new phising attack that uses Javascript to infect your browser somehow, and then it changes a legit website into a fake website when you’re not looking. As a user opens more than one browser tab, an malicious Javascript automatically changes one of the browser tabs into a malicious website made to look like a real website such as Gmail, and in combination of attacks add on top of this very dirty phising attack, a user can be tricked into giving out his or her sensitive credential.
All phising attacks that hackers use are stuffs of nightmare, and this one is no different. This is why I love to use Firefox with Noscript plugin. This plugin has worked wonder for me as it stops all Javascript from working unless you allow certain portion of website to do so. To end this post with a doubt, I could be very wrong of how this phising attack works its dirty magic, because I’ve got to know this scary phising attack from reading it here. Feel free to correct me on my lack of understanding about this phising attack, and don’t go try this, or else you’ll be in a world of hurt as in being locked up by the FBI or whatever enforcers that would go after hackers.
A New Type of Phishing Attack from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Some of us are familiar with Google News, but not many of us are familiar with Google News Timeline. Google News Timeline is still in a beta/testing phase. The whole idea is to present news in a chronological format!
OK, chronological format is cool, but what makes this service better is its ability to allow you adding queries. At the very top of the service, next to the default queries, you can see a small link “Add More Queries,” and by clicking on this very link you get to see a new page that allows you to add even more queries; also on this page, you can subscribe to magazines and blogs and newspapers.
Going backward in time to read older news is simply as browsing in reverse through clicking a back arrow at the very top of the service (note: not the back arrow of your web browser). It’s quite intuitive! News can load slowly as the service tries to gather the headlines across the web, but this only happens if you have subscribed to a huge number of queries.
In my opinion, the layout of Google News Timeline sort of reminds you of the newspapers that we know of. Nowadays, news are presenting in a magazine like format on various websites, and very few news websites are sticking to the older looks of the newspapers. You can argue that time has changed, and some of us prefer the newer looks and ways of presenting news, but for some folks the old look is still the best! Google News Timeline is not having an exact feeling of a newspaper, but I think it’s pretty darn closer than most news service on the web.
I surmise that Google News Timeline is not a game changer, but it’s something that I highly recommend for news browsing. Google News Timeline is very convenient since it allows you to scrape news across the web and to organize news in one location for perusing. Best of all, you don’t even have to register for an account or sign into your Google account to start using Google News Timeline!
Although not yet having an iPad, I can imagine how gorgeous it is for perusing news through Google News Timeline on an iPad. You may ask why, and I certainly want to reply that — I think the simplistic way of presenting news in a very intuitive format with no-nonsense-layout, Google News Timeline is indeed gorgeous on a small device such as an iPad. Then again, I don’t have an iPad yet, and so I can be very wrong! By any chance that you are using iPad to browse Google News Timeline, please write a comment and let me know that you think otherwise.
Getting start with Google News Timeline, you can go to here. Google News Timeline is still in a testing phase, therefore I can safely assume that the service is going to be enhanced and to be morphed into something that might be very different from what it is now; again, sometime in the future, the release version of Google News Timeline might not change much at all! After all, no one knows what will happen in the future; best we can do is to speculate!
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