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A new accessibility test: Social networking in a foreign land
A non-Chinese speaker, Jonathan Gosier set out to sign up for and use Chinese social networking sites as a way of doing 3 interesting things: Evaluating UI ease-of-use from an intuitive POV, seeing what social networking looks, acts, and feels like in...
2009-02-08 15:18:03
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Taking the leap to online-only TV
Unless I chicken out, I’m about to make a test case of myself, going fully online for my TV within the next month. Who knows what our approach will end up being, or if we’ll go back after trying this. We’re starting with buying...
2009-02-07 14:52:28
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Everything is like a console TV with 3 channels when you look back
Who says science fiction is only set in the future? After a while, the story that looks least believable is the past. The console television with three channels. Black-and-white picture. Manual controls: the dial clicks when you turn it, like the oven.
2009-02-07 12:45:47
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Viewers and Content Owners Win Without DRM
Everyone who views content wants to watch videos, view shows, see movies, and share their media with their friends. Content owners want to create videos, shows, and movies; and they want to have these creations reach as many viewers as possible. Of...
2009-02-02 15:06:06
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A flawed sales job for cutting your cable today
Consumer Affairs today has published Cut the Cable with IPTV. A long and detailed exploration of the online television landscape, it’s actually a pretty good argument for keeping your cable subscription for the time being! The intro leads you...
2009-02-01 23:51:51
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Cable news discusses the stimulus package from an angle
This is not a political post. Just so’s you know. It’s about TV. As someone who tends to get news from the Internet but still watches TV news — mostly cable — I was fascinated by a Think Progress report that cable news outlets across the...
2009-01-30 08:35:35
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Life off the grid, making do with a non-Flash enabled 3G iPhone
I just spent 5 days in San Francisco with pretty much only the Internet access afforded me by my iPhone. My awesome hosts had awesome wireless, but had forgotten the WPA password. Guests: forget connecting. Specimen A The virtual jukebox Specimen...
2009-01-28 20:08:34
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Online inauguration viewing numbers are big, but don’t measure success
Digital Media Wire has published interesting numbers for live viewing of the inauguration at Ustream’s site and via iPhones: Ustream, the provider of an interactive video broadcasting platform, announced on Tuesday that it served some 3.8 million...
2009-01-21 14:54:08
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It’s all about us
Whitehouse.gov has been changed over to the new administration’s site (thanks Inquisitr for the coverage and the screenshot) in Obama’s trademark crisp and organized way. The new site is striking in that at the top, replacing bios of...
2009-01-20 15:37:49
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6,776,908,056 inauguration images and counting
Dude, that’s billions! I promise not to overdo it too much with Obama posts today, but I wanted to call attention to the Official Inauguration Book Project, yet another online tool that is helping people participate and connect to the events our...
2009-01-20 13:44:32
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A new spirit of service
People have overwhelmed Obama’s public-service website, which connects you to very local opportunities to volunteer for nonprofits, charities, civi efforts, etc. The sign his speech calling people to action for collective wellbeing was instantly...
2009-01-20 13:18:26
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The verdict is in: Inauguration on Internet TV was not a success
Twitter is awash this morning with folks who are very disappointed that they were foiled in their attempts to follow the inaugural proceedings live on the Internet. A few typical comments: Fifty stuttering web streams in this office and not one working...
2009-01-20 13:07:29
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Misleading marketing ploys to learn from
The Internet has so many upsides that it’s easy to put on the rose-colored glasses and feel warm and fuzzy about all the meaningful community building, information sharing, and productivity it has enabled. Without looking at the ugly side. Which...
2009-01-17 13:13:46
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Dear Scobleizer
Steve Jobs heralds the real-time web age (Scoleizer): A post and my repartee! Let's have fun, notwithstanding globally sad...
2009-01-14 19:48:59
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Internet TV evolution is a two-way street
Bringing the Internet to television (Boxee, for example, and all the new widgetized hardware that was shown at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show) means you can watch archived and online-only content on your Big Screen. Bringing TV onto the...
2009-01-14 14:06:32
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30 is either the new 60 or the new 20. You decide!
Salon finally came out and told me I’m old, even though I personally haven’t had any Facebook disasters [that I'm willing to admit to.] I find this weird, because so far in life I’ve seen 30 go from being decidedly one-foot-in...
2009-01-08 11:23:58
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Feels like a blackout!
I didn’t realize I had a problem. But two weeks of no new Top Chef episodes has me at loose ends. I mean, it might as well be a total blackout. We are a family that loves Top Chef so much that I can make a quick[fire] snack of Doritos and a...
2009-01-03 14:49:00
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Following the money onto the Internet
An interesting nugget about the recent Time Warner/Viacom tussle (AP) I hadn’t appreciated before: Part of the disagreement is that most of the popular shows are rerun on Web sites where Viacom collects advertising revenue that it does not share...
2009-01-03 14:36:44
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Preserving languages via text messaging
Texting “hi” in Hindi can take 21 key presses. That’s on a 12-key cell phone without predictive text. With predictive text, however, it’s just 6 keystrokes. Market research shows that text messaging soars after predictive text...
2009-01-03 14:16:32
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Viacom & Time Warner deal can’t clean up fallout
Much to my [lack of] surprise, Time Warner and Viacom have managed to come to an agreement (NYT) and not drop 19 channels from Time Warner’s lineup. It seems like a really bad time for such a public dustup that threatened to turn the consumer into...
2009-01-01 13:27:14
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