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Archive for April, 2009
Howcast.com
1. Download a script
2. Make a How To video
3. Upload and share the revenue.
click on pic for more…
What about a… How To Move To West Cork ?
Digital Britain moving fast(er).
Just when Ireland has dropped the ball with DTT the BBC and commercial radio in the UK have joined forces to create The Radio Council with the aim of securing the future of radio in the digital age.
They have set out three digital objectives:
1. develop an online live radio player – an open platform [...]
The billion app march
Apple reached the big one and nine/twelve zeros.*
14 of those were me!
* nine in the USA, twelve in Europe (ie… its easier to become a billionaire in the USA)
Muzu & Spotify to save the planet
Well, not the planet but maybe the music industry ?
Beans for more info (Guardian)
Fair enough?
Pirate Bay Plot thickens
Independent Judge & Jury (not!)
From MusicWeek…
A lawyer representing Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde has called for a re-trial in the case, after reports surfaced that the judge who oversaw the trial was a member of several copyright protection organisations.
also from Pete the Pirate…
“One of the jurors was also acquitted because he was also part of [...]
Slow start for Nokia’s music plan
Nokia’s all-inclusive Comes With Music mobile service has been much slower to attract UK consumers than expected, according to an industry consultancy.
Click on old phone for more (BBC)
“It’s a big disappointment because very rarely, if ever, have we seen a digital music service that’s been so widely promoted in the mainstream media”.
More 3Dness
Immersive games are just over the horizon ?
Amazing 3D immersion technology from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.
VRML anyone?
More BBCness
The BBC bandwidth test tool is impresive… Here is the geek stuff…
Most speed test sites measure the speed taken to download a small file over HTTP. That’s a good number to know if you’re trying to measure your HTTP download speed, but what we and our users are more interested in is the ability to [...]
illegal downloaders save music industry
According to research, those who download ‘free’ music are also the industry’s largest audience for digital sales.
Click the criminals for more stats from Norway…(Guardian)
“If the kids are united they will never be divided” (Sham69)
BBC launches HD on iPlayer
Stunning quality from the BBC. Streaming & Download !
Click on estatic UK people with proper broadband for more info (The Register)…
RTE player anyone?
Adobe wins the content wars
Adobe has secured a deal to put its Flash software into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes. First they ‘got’ H264 and now this.
More behind the pic
Thank god it wasn’t Real Video
Can’t wait for the title “Ado wins the content wars”…
Thunderbirds are go
Interesting video technique… try the HD version on Vimeo here
Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
props to memenow
Pirate Bay defendants guilty
The four defendants in The Pirate Bay trial have been sentenced to one year in prison after being found guilty of breaking Swedish copyright laws.
The three founders of the filesharing site – Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi, plus Carl Lundstrom, who has provided funding were also ordered to pay fines of [...]
0% of teenagers want to buy a Zune shock!
A survey of teenagers has found 100 per cent will buy one of Apple’s music players in the next year.
Click on the Zune logo tat for more (The Register)
I’d love to get a Vista tattoo ?
He actually did it!
Avid readers of this blog (as if!) will remember the story about Josh Freese, the drummer who had some very unique offerings to promote his new album. He actually sold the one-off $20,000 dollar package which included a game of crazy golf with the singer from Devo and a few others. I think there’s a [...]
glorifying god through interactive media
Guitar Hero for christians…
Shred the pic for more info (Wired)
Was god not a DJ ?
one billion and eighty!
Apple have a counter counting the number of iPhone app downloads.
Click on the digits to get latest update…
(have they copied L2’s idea?)
Crowd Surfing Opera Architects
The new Oslo Opera House has been designed to be skateboard friendly… ie work with the dudes rather than fence them out !
Click on pic (Wired) for the full 360
Wonder would this work at the Swords Opera House?
Eat dirt dirteater 2
When you see stuff like this on YouTube it makes you shake your head and tut at the demise of TV as we know it.
Hint : go fullscreen and watch the whole way through HERE.
YouTube 1 : Vimeo 0
Don’t try this at the Swords Skateboard Park lads!
RED again anyone ?
Another CNBC Rant by JS
Another John Stewart Classic…
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
M – Th 11p / 10c
CNBC Financial Advice
comedycentral.com
Anyone have tickets ?
God, after all, is the ultimate CCTV ?
Frank Skinner rant on Google Street View.
Disclaimer : contains the words “drunkenness, crime and lust”…
click on perp
(Times Online)
Apple lockdown forced U2 to embrace Blackberry
Bono says..
“The Blackberry is going to give us what Apple wouldn’t – access to their labs and their people so we can do something really spectacular.”
Purple Bono for more…
Wonder how many U2 fans have iPhones Vs Blackberrys ?