| Feb 10 | Book Review: Annie's CS101 by Dmitry Zinoviev The full title is \"Annie's CS101, A Charting Approach to Computer Programming.\" This is an interesting approach to an introductory programming course -- the target is for younger learners (although not children), and it focuses on the thought p.. |
| Feb 10 | Latvia Joins Countries Putting The Brakes On ACTA Approval Following the news that Poland and the Czech Republic have put the brakes on ACTA ratification, we can now add Latvia to the bunch : The Economy Minister Daniels Pavluts has decided to block the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.. |
| Feb 10 | DailyDirt: It\'s Time To Open Up Access To Academic Journals It\'s kind of ridiculous when researchers actually have to pay to read journal articles about their own research online, but that\'s how academic publishing works. Even worse, the costs of access are obscenely high, limiting the readership to mostly pe.. |
| Feb 9 | The Web Is Saved: East Texas Jury Says Eolas Patents Are Invalid Okay, that happened much faster than I expected. Just a few hours ago, we wrote about Tim Berners-Lee telling an East Texas jury just how insane patent troll Eolas\' patents were, along with their claims that all sorts of core web technologies were co.. |
| Feb 9 | Railing Against Pollution Standards, Conservative Evangelical Group Sa.. The Cornwall Alliance calls environmentalism \"one of the greatest threats to society.\" A conservative religious organization with ties to the oil industry is lashing out at health-conscious evangelical leaders for supporting new federal rules on mer.. |
| Feb 9 | Rep. Doyle Introduces Bill To Provide Public Access To Publicly Funded.. We were quite disappointed last month to see that Rep. Darrell Issa -- who has done lots of excellent work to encourage more open access to government information -- was sponsoring a bill that would close off open access to government funded research.. |
| Feb 9 | Connecting YouTube Artists, Celebrities, Advertisers & Brands: Big Fra.. On a recent trip to LA, I had a chance to talk to Sarah Penna, the co-founder of Big Frame. Big Frame is a YouTube management company, working with online video talent to grow their careers. They have over 30 channels, collectively bringing in an av.. |
| Feb 9 | Canadian Muslim Who Sends Text Urging His Employees To \'Blow Away\' The.. Boing Boing points us to the crazy story of Saad Allami, a sales manager in Quebec -- who is Muslim -- who sent a text message to some colleagues heading to New York for a trade show, in which he encouraged them to \"blow away\" the competition. He (q.. |
| Feb 9 | Texas Grocer Slashes Energy Use With ‘Whole Systems’ Approach Whole systems design isn\'t about solving one problem. It\'s about shifting the underlying strategy and culture to create competitive pressure, emulation, and durable change. by Alexis Karolides, cross-posted from the Rocky Mountain Institute Which co.. |
| Feb 9 | Major Label Owned Vevo Caught Publicly Streaming NFL Game Off Of \'Rogu.. Where\'s ICE when you need them? For a while now, ICE has been making the case that sites that merely link to streaming content -- especially sports content -- are the most evil kinds of criminals around. It\'s why they\'re trying to extradite Richard O.. |
| Feb 9 | What Does the Solar Trade Dispute Mean? Shining a Light on U.S.-China .. New approaches are needed to ensure China\'s technology ambitions don\'t erode U.S. competitiveness in clean energy. by Melanie Hart The U.S. Department of Commerce next month is expected to issue a critical ruling on one of the biggest trade cases to.. |
| Feb 9 | Tim Berners-Lee In Court To Try To Prevent Patent Troll Eolas From Pat.. Remember Eolas? We\'ve written about this infamous patent troll many times , mostly focusing on its big patent fight with Microsoft over the idea of browser plugins -- a case it eventually settled. In 2009, however, Eolas came back and basically sued .. |
| Feb 9 | Will Ferrell, Old Milwaukee, & The Super Bowl Ad Only North Platte Saw Old Milwaukee Beer and Funny Or Die put Will Ferrell in a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl, only to seen in the North Platte, Nebraska market. No doubt, the move was made to buy a cheaper Super Bowl ad. But the unusual nature of the ad and Will .. |
| Feb 9 | Humorous Video Shows Coal and Nuclear Towers Fighting for Their Lives The UK renewable energy company Ecotricity just released an amusing video ad as part of its Dump the Big Six social media campaign designed to get Europeans to ditch the “big six” traditional power providers for Ecotricity\'s services. Ec.. |
| Feb 9 | What are Boxee\'s upcoming mystery products? Boxee’s spat with cable companies over their desire to encrypt basic cable programming got a lot of press this week, but one interesting detail hasn\'t been reported yet: A publicly available copy of Boxee\'s most recent filing with the FCC ( PDF ) co.. |
| Feb 9 | Megaupload Founder’s Home Seized, Co-Defendant Bailed Bram van der Kolk, the lead programmer of the now-defunct Megaupload cyberlocker, last appeared in court on January 26th . Judge David McNaughton agreed to give the Dutch national bail but his release was delayed for a week while his home was assess.. |
| Feb 9 | Open Offer To Chris Dodd & Cary Sherman: Meet The Internet Online And .. We\'ve covered how the RIAA\'s Cary Sherman and the MPAA\'s Chris Dodd have both taken the strategy of first slamming everyone who took part in the internet protests against SOPA/PIPA as somehow being misinformed corporate pawns... but then concluding b.. |
| Feb 9 | 11 Tips For Planning A Green Screen Video Production Previously, I wrote an article discussing the benefits of a green screen video production . However, once you have determined that green screen is the way to go - how do you plan for it? Well, do not underestimate the importance of Pre-Production wh.. |
| Feb 9 | Amazon: No plans to launch a standalone video service soon Amazon has aggressively grown its Prime Instant Videos service over the past year, more than tripling the amount of content available to subscribers since launch . And as Amazon continues to add more content to Prime Instant Video, there have been s.. |
| Feb 9 | Beware Of Those Who Claim They\'re \'Saving The Culture Business\' When T.. We\'ve talked a few times about the ridiculously unsupported and unsupportable claim by Robert Levine that the \"tech industry\" (by which he means \"Google\") is somehow destroying culture by \"free riding\" on content. There are so many things wrong with .. |
| Feb 9 | Joe Nocera Joins the Climate Ignorati Joe Nocera is a business columnist for the NY Times . He understands business, including some aspects of the energy business (see Nocera on “The Phony Solyndra Scandal”: The “Real Winner is … the Chinese Solar Industry” ). But his Monday NYT artic.. |
| Feb 9 | Jim Louderback On Cow Paths & Old Media Moving Online Last month I shared part of my conversation with Jim Louderback . We covered a great number of video-related topics that day, including the comparison of the online video marketplace to cow paths (trust me, it makes total sense once you hear it) and.. |
| Feb 9 | If The Internet Is Treated Just Like The Offline World, We\'d Never Hav.. One of the key talking points from the SOPA/PIPA supporters was this ridiculous claim that the internet shouldn\'t be \"lawless.\" That was a laughable line, considering just how many laws have been passed already that directly impact the internet -- in.. |
| Feb 9 | Cross Platform Campaigns Boost Brand Recall 9 Times; Mobile Bumps Inte.. Advertising is becoming increasingly interconnected this year and more marketers are pushing out innovative cross platform campaigns, but how does each medium perform? They’re not all created equally and mobile phones generate a much higher click th.. |
| Feb 9 | Ex-FTC Officials Remind Current FTC Officials That They\'re Supposed To.. Two former FTC chairs, James Miller and Daniel Oliver, have written an opinion piece chiding the current FTC for its antitrust investigation into Google . As we\'ve noted in the past, politicians seem to be going after Google simply because it\'s a con.. |
| Feb 9 | Why Haven\'t All Major Sports Jumped On The YouTube Bandwagon? One of the more frustrating aspects of our On Demand culture is that some of the best moments in sports history aren\'t available to watch on YouTube. I understand that there\'s a buck to be made in making those highlights available on a DVD or somet.. |
| Feb 9 | Book Review: Machinima by Matt Kelland, Dave Morris, and Dave Lloyd If you're wondering what machinima is, this book is a good starting point. If you're wondering what machinima is likely to be capable of and what its history has been like, then you'll likewise find it very useful. If you are looking .. |
| Feb 9 | Don’t Believe the Hype: Opponents of Mercury Rules Puff Up Costs While.. Saving lives, encouraging clean generation, and creating new jobs are not enough for opponents of new mercury rules. by Daniel J. Weiss and Zachary Rybarczyk Today’s House Subcommittee on Energy and Power meeting could more closely resemble a kangar.. |
| Feb 9 | Romney Mixes up Solyndra and Keystone Pipeline at Campaign Rally Perhaps a bit flustered from losing three primary races a day earlier to fellow GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney got his energy talking points confused at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday. Speaking about his pla.. |
| Feb 9 | BBC Tracks Down And Confronts An Internet Troll Lots of people wonder what internet trolls are thinking in trying to get their kicks out of being as obnoxious as possible online... and some folks at the BBC apparently were able to track down and confront an individual who had a reputation for high.. |
| Feb 9 | February 9th News: Global Ice Loss from 2003-2010 Could “Cover the Ent.. Other stories below: Solar power to pay Nevada city\'s debt; Bank of England says to evaluate fossil-fuel investment risk A new study confirms we are on track for significant sea level rise this century Global warming: CU-led study pinpoints Earth’s .. |
| Feb 9 | Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, It’s Only 90 MB Last month The Pirate Bay announced that it will stop hosting torrents in the very near future. This change is expected to go into effect before the end of the month. From then on, Pirate Bay users can only download files through magnet links. The P.. |
| Feb 9 | 86yr old protester sues police over surveillance database Police spy unit kept detailed record of 86-year-old John Catt\'s presence at more than 55 demonstrations over four-year period.An 86-year-old man is launching a landmark lawsuit against police chiefs who labeled him a \"domestic extremist\" and secretly.. |
| Feb 9 | People Rushing To Give Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars In Just Hours .. Whoa. After dinner, I did a quick look around the web to see if anything interesting was going on, and saw someone mention that the Double Fine Adventure project on Kickstarter had raised over $100,000 in just a few hours . I clicked to open the page.. |
| Feb 9 | Another Answer To Dealing With Piracy: Keep Creating Better Tools & Bu.. We\'ve already discussed, a few times, how the tech/startup industry has repeatedly given the entertainment industry the \"solution\" to piracy, in the form of new tools, services and business models, which are helping many \"compete with free\" by offeri.. |
| Feb 9 | Trustwave Admits It Issued A Certificate To Allow Company To Run Man-I.. We\'ve pointed out for years that the whole structure of SSL certificate-based security is open to attack via man-in-the-middle attacks... if you can somehow get a certificate authority to grant you a fake certificate. Of course, the protection agains.. |
| Feb 9 | DailyDirt: The Age Of Super Lightweight Stuff Civilizations were previously categorized by the materials they used: copper, bronze, iron, steel, plastic, etc. The advancements in material science haven\'t quite had as much of an impact on society as they used to. Still, there are plenty of really.. |
| Feb 8 | Judge Denies Injunction Against MP3 Reseller Due To Lack Of Irreparabl.. I\'ve said before that I\'m skeptical of the idea behind ReDigi -- a seller of \"used\" mp3s. The company claims it has a system to make sure that if you sell a music file you own, that they then make sure it\'s deleted from your computer. This just seems.. |
| Feb 8 | Bombshell Study: High Methane Emissions Measured Over Gas Field “May O.. Air sampling by NOAA over Colorado Finds 4% Methane Leakage, More Than Double Industry Claims Natural-gas operations could release far more methane into the atmosphere than previously thought. [Source: Nature] How much methane leaks during the entir.. |
| Feb 8 | Brazilian Government Ordering Web Hosting Firms To Kill Domain Names T.. A lawyer I know passed along a letter from the Brazilian government to Sedo, a company that helps sell domains and also hosts parked domains (on which it puts some advertising), demanding that it take down a domain that it did not like. The text of t.. |
| Feb 8 | Must-See Video: Steroids, Baseball and Climate Change Readers asked what a good extended metaphor was for global warming. Here\'s one, courtesy of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (.. |
| Feb 8 | According To Lamar Smith, Data Or Criticism From Anyone Who Doesn\'t Li.. We recently wrote about PolitiFact trashing Lamar Smith for the numbers he used in support of SOPA -- numbers that PolitiFact says grade out to \"false.\" What I somehow missed was at the very end of that article, they ask Smith to respond to the charg.. |
| Feb 8 | RapidShare: From “Notorious Market” To Proactive Piracy Eliminator In common with every file-sharing, video hosting or other digital storage facility on the web, RapidShare has been used by some of its members to host infringing material. Just like Google-owned YouTube, RapidShare has been sued for the actions of i.. |
| Feb 8 | The Dramatic Impact Of Social Video Recommendations On Brand Metrics -.. According to new research commissioned by Unruly Media , viewers are far more likely to recall a brand name and engage with an ad’s message if a branded video has been recommended to them by a peer. The survey, conducted by Decipher Research to meas.. |
| Feb 8 | Scheduled Publishing To YouTube For Non-Partners -The Reel Web Creator.. Today we answer several of the questions you asked us during last week\'s Creator\'s Tip video, including suggestions for good background music for your videos, how to schedule your videos to automatically publish to YouTube at a certain date and time.. |
| Feb 8 | 60 Members of Congress and Nearly 400,000 American Citizens Urge Obama.. As the Obama Administration moves to open up Arctic waters for exploratory offshore oil and gas drilling, a raising tide of opposition is emerging to counter the decision. In the last two weeks, dozens of members of Congress, hundreds of scientists,.. |
| Feb 8 | Evidence Shows That Megaupload Shutdown Had No Real Impact On Infringe.. The first big analysis of what happened to file sharing via cyberlockers following the shutdown of Megaupload shows that there was no slowdown in file sharing -- it\'s just that the traffic moved elsewhere. The analysis, by Deepfield Networks, conclud.. |
| Feb 8 | Syria’s Internet Censorship Extends to Hotels Syria’s current authoritarian, repressive regime is notorious for their comprehensive censorship of the Internet. Syria has been profiled by Reporter’s Without Borders as an “enemy of the Internet” and has been named by the Co.. |
| Feb 8 | Doonesbury Takes on the Whole Anti-Science Industry Gary Trudeau is running a whole week on the disinformers. Related Posts: Kentucky creationism theme park set to open in 2014 will “include dinosaurs” Doonesbury Takes on the Climate Change Deniers Great Doonesbury Global Warming Cartoon |
| Feb 8 | Why we are buying paidContent First the news: Yes, the rumors are true . We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidC.. |
| Feb 8 | Nowbox brings TV-like navigation to videos on the iPad While many cable companies have turned to the iPad as a way to build a better navigation system, there\'s at least one app that\'s trying to build TV-like navigation for web videos. Nowbox , which is available as a free download on the Apple App Store.. |
| Feb 8 | James Franco & Aziz Ansari Among Judges For Vimeo Festival + Awards Vimeo announced their judging lineup today for the upcoming 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards . The awards will be handed out across 13 different categories, with each category having a panel of three judges. And there are some pretty big names among the.. |
| Feb 8 | Recession Resilience: California’s Green Economy Doubled Performance o.. Job creation in California\'s clean energy/materials manufacturing sector increased by 53% from 1995 to 2010 When times get tough, companies often fall back on an old familiar phrase: “we just need to do more with less.” That usually appl.. |
| Feb 8 | The Benefits of Using A Green Screen For Your Web Videos So, youʼve been awarded a contract to shoot a company video. Awesome. But now you need to find a location to film your video. Not so awesome. If your client is like most clients, their office or corporate boardroom probably provides a wide range of .. |
| Feb 8 | What the LA Times Got Wrong on Solar Energy and Public Lands Neither California nor the Mojave will survive unrestricted emissions of heat trapping greenhouse gases, but we can harness solar energy responsibly by Jessica Goad (with some thoughts by Joe Romm at the end) The Los Angeles Times recently published.. |
| Feb 8 | The Super Bowl Online Stream Amassed A Record Amount Of Viewers This year, NBC made history by allowing the Super Bowl, one of the biggest events on TV in most years, available online. There has always been a fear that allowing the game online would water down the TV audience, something we\'ve seen time and agai.. |
| Feb 8 | The Great Carbon Bubble: Bill McKibben on Why the Fossil Fuel Industry.. To preserve a livable climate, we need to leave most remaining hydrocarbons in the ground. Guess who doesn\'t like that idea? by Bill McKibben, reposted from TomDispatch If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, on.. |
| Feb 8 | With Viacom deal, Amazon looks like a real competitor to Netflix Amazon continues to ramp up the amount of video content it offers for free to its Amazon Prime subscribers. On Wednesday it announced a deal with Viacom that will bring the number of titles available as part of its Prime Instant Videos service to mo.. |
| Feb 8 | Blip.tv raises $12M, changes name to… Blip? Web video pioneer Blip.tv has raised a new $6 million round of funding from existing investors including Bain Capital Ventures and Canaan Partners, as well as $6M of debt from Silicon Valley Bank, according to an announcement sent out Wednesday morn.. |
| Feb 8 | Big Oil’s Banner Year: Higher Prices, Record Profits, Less Oil Top Five Oil Companies Made $1 Trillion in Profits from 2001 Through 2011 by Daniel J. Weiss, Jackie Weidman, Rebecca Leber General economic theory holds that companies will produce more of a good if its price is higher, or if it receives subsidies... |
| Feb 8 | Boxee clashes with cable companies over encryption Boxee’s live TV dongle has only been available for a few weeks , but the company is already embroiled in a fight with cable giants like Comcast and Time Warner Cable over it, and it is now getting support from groups like Public Knowledge and the Co.. |
| Feb 8 | February 8 News: AEP Executive Says Eliminating Coal is “Just Not Goin.. Other stories below: Global warming could kill off snails; South Korean lawmakers vote for limits on greenhouse gas emissions AEP chief: Coal\'s elimination ‘just not going to happen\' Although the amount of energy produced by coal will decrease.. |
| Feb 8 | Spark: A Tablet Running Open hardware and KDE Plasma Active Pre-instal.. A tablet has been on my to do list since forever. Two things held me back: the priority to replace my terminally ill eight-year old laptop and the unhappily well known fact that the current crop of tablets are tied down more securely that a latter-d.. |
| Feb 8 | Minority background videographer wanted Are you a film-maker, videographer, or an aspiring one with a minority background? Guardian News & Media is always looking for new voices as part of our commitment to the diversity of our editorial content and the contributors that we use. If you bel.. |
| Feb 8 | Ferris Bueller Movie Highligts Moshed With Broderick’s Superbowl Ad By Kevin Nalty, http://www.willvideoforfood.com You\'ve seen the Ferris Bueller homage that promoted Honda during the Superbowl. Now watch Michael Broderick “then and now” as he delivers key lines in both the Superbowl ad and the film. Be.. |
| Feb 8 | Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down The Tribler BitTorrent client is no newcomer to the BitTorrent scene. It has been in development for more than 5 years and has delivered many innovative features, which have mostly been ignored by the masses. Today, however, Tribler is more relevant.. |
| Feb 7 | What Obama Would Say If He Were the Teddy Roosevelt of Climate Change Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descenda.. |
| Feb 7 | Driving Video Views & Engagement With SEO & Social Media Our founder, Mark Roberston, had a chance to serve as moderater at the Streaming Media West conference on a panel discussion entitled Driving Video Views and Engagement With SEO & Social Media. With Josh Warner of Feed Company, Gregg LaRoche of Brig.. |
| Feb 7 | Meteorologist Masters: “The Climate Has Shifted to a New State Capable.. An Interview with Weather Underground\'s Dr. Jeff Masters The laws of physics demand that the huge amount of heat-trapping gases humans are pumping into the atmosphere must be significantly altering the fundamental large-scale circulation pattern of .. |
| Feb 7 | Is BitTorrent Done? Major Torrent Sites Consider Shutting Down For nearly a decade BitTorrent sites have ruled the file-sharing landscape. In recent weeks, however, worry about the future has increased drastically among the owners of some of the largest torrent sites. Yesterday, BTjunkie closed its doors for go.. |
| Feb 7 | Cord Cutters: Lilyhammer, Battleground & Co. Online video isn\'t just about clips of cute kittens anymore: Netflix and Hulu have both invested in original programming, and YouTube and others are stepping up their game as well. Check out web-first shows like Lilyhammer and Battleground in this e.. |
| Feb 7 | Must-See Video Reveals What’s at Risk With Canada’s Northern Gateway T.. Protests Increase Against Canada\'s Alternative to Keystone XL Photo: Ian McAllister Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is currently visiting China to forge alliances and open up the Asian market for Canada\'s environmentally-disastrous tar sands .. |
| Feb 7 | SHAZAM! Interactive Super Bowl Ads Drive Engagement In my recent Hulu AdZone article I talked about how ads online needed to step back from the \"here\'s the brand - now here\'s the call to action\" format and make their ads more entertaining, like companies do during the Super Bowl. For a long time I\'ve.. |
| Feb 7 | Apple\'s iTV and the carrier question Evidence is slowly emerging that Apple could be working with operator partners for the introduction of its upcoming iTV product. Last week, Bloomberg reported that Apple may get access to programs through partnerships with carriers such as AT&T and .. |
| Feb 7 | Is Vimeo For Sale? Sources Claim IAC Asking $300M For Vimeo PandoDaily--the tech news website started by former TechCrunch employee, Sarah Lacy, and staffed with several former TechCrunch writers--got a pretty big scoop yesterday , assuming it turns out to be accurate. According to \"two sources familiar with.. |
| Feb 7 | RedBox And Verizon Team Up On Streaming Service To Challenge Netflix According to TechCrunch , RedBox and Verizon are likely teaming up on a new streaming video service that is aiming to hit OTT boxes and game consoles as well as iOS and Android. This could be big news, or it could be too little too late. Their main .. |
| Feb 7 | Video Search Online Versus Connected TV Search & Discovery? ReelSEO\'s own Mark Robertson spoke last October at the Streaming Media Europe conference in London. He was on a panel with some great folks like Vanessa Vigar & Thomas Dvorak--all moderated by Streaming Media\'s editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen--ca.. |
| Feb 7 | Flingo raises $7m to make your TV smarter Flingo has raised $7 million in a Series A funding round led by August Capital. The San Francisco-based startup, which integrates streaming video and interactive advertising into smart TVs, has also added two new board members: August Capital’s Davi.. |
| Feb 7 | Tips for telling a good story How to tell a story http://www.skotos.net/articles/PlotStrategies.html Undercurrents is an award winning alternative news service producing videos of people taking inspiring actions. http://www.undercurrents.org |
| Feb 7 | Elite Anti-Terror Police Went After Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Even after taking in the details of today\'s 3Newz report several times, it is harder than ever to comprehend what happened at the Dotcom mansion last month. We knew that dozens of police swooped on the location in helicopters and we knew they were a.. |
| Feb 7 | YouTube Shifts Its Strategy To Channels - The Reel Web Episode #25 This week our coverage of news from the online video world includes a look at The Huffington Post\'s recent investment of $30 million dollars into a daily 12-hour live video stream that covers all the news going up on their site along with several ot.. |
| Feb 7 | Archiving emails as text files, with command line help Call me old-fashioned, but I like to store emails in text files, one per correspondent. For example, 'Bloggs_Fred.txt' contains all my emails to and from Fred Bloggs, in chronological order with the newest message last. Other people might .. |
| Feb 6 | Hulu Users Rate Best Super Bowl Ads & The Bark Side Takes Top Honors While the Giants were busy beating the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI (which I wasn\'t at all interested in except for the great half-time show), Hulu users were busy rating all the ads. In fact, it seems like many of them were more interested in the ad.. |
| Feb 6 | \"Look Around\" With The Red Hot Chili Peppers Interactive Music Video I wrote this morning about how the future of online video marketing can be glimpsed just by watching what the band OK Go is doing with video --creative, envelope-pushing, inventive, etc. Another way brands and companies are expanding the definition .. |
| Feb 6 | You Can’t Copyright Porn, Harassed BitTorrent Defendant Insists When confronted with an accusation that they have illegally shared unauthorized material online, Internet users quickly realize they are in a Catch 22 situation. Even if innocent, these accusations cost money to deflect, a cost which often exceeds t.. |
| Feb 6 | Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent This week there are three newcomers in our chart. The Three Musketeers is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the .. |
| Feb 6 | Brightcove\'s IPO: What you need to know Online video platform provider Brightcove amended its SEC filing today to go public; the company is expected to raise just shy of $60 million, selling 5 million shares for $10 to $12 a piece. Brightcove originally filed its S-1 with the Security an.. |
| Feb 6 | OK Go & Chevy Bring The Future Of Video Marketing To 2012 We\'ve written about OK Go several times here at ReelSEO. Their music videos are always viral events, due mostly to the time and care they put into them--oh, and the insane level of creativity. I\'ve often said that it\'d be endlessly entertaining just.. |
| Feb 6 | Verizon teams up with Redbox to cash in on video Verizon and Redbox are creating a joint venture to provide movies on demand using the web as well as Redbox\'s physical DVD rental kiosks around the country. The deal is seen as a blow against Netflix, which offers a DVD-by-mail and a streaming servi.. |
| Feb 6 | Acta opposition grows as Pirate Party UK joins day of action According to The Guardian , The Pirate Party UK will join an international day of action against controversial copyright agreement ACTA on Saturday with protests planned for London, Glasgow and Nottingham. Pirate Party UK leader Loz Kaye said: \"We sa.. |
| Feb 6 | Now BTJunkie shuts down: Who needs SOPA? In the weeks after Internet users and some of the web\'s biggest companies rallied around to fight SOPA\'s approach to curbing online piracy, filesharing services of all stripes have taken a thrashing. First Megaupload was shut down and its flamboyant.. |
| Feb 6 | ACTA. A New Question of Internet Freedom European activists who participated in American Internet protests last month learned that there was political power to be harnessed on the Web. Now they are putting that knowledge to use in an effort to defeat new global rules for intellectual prope.. |
| Feb 6 | Book review: Open Advice A lot of people work hard trying to benefit Free Software. All together, we make a difference. Then again, some people manage to make a huge difference. They are sometimes lucky, but most often than not just immensely dedicated. Well, if you want to.. |
| Feb 6 | Binge viewers rejoice: Netflix releases Lilyhammer Netflix launched its first foray into original programming with the release of the TV show Lilyhammer Monday. The show, which stars Steven van Zandt as an ex-mobster in a witness protection program in Norway, was co-financed by Netflix and is, at le.. |
| Feb 6 | BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good Founded in June 2005, BTjunkie has been among the top BitTorrent sites for more than half a decade. The site was never involved in any legal action, and to keep it this way the site\'s operators decided to shut the site down for good today. The follo.. |
| Feb 6 | What to do if your mail server is blacklisted This article is not strictly about free software. In fact, it's not about free software at all: it's about what to do to find out if your server's IP is blacklisted for sending mail. I just discovered Valli.org as one of the things I .. |
| Feb 6 | Book Review: Animating with Blender by D. Roland Hess Among the books I've read to get my head around the process of creating an animated film with Blender, this one is definitely the best. Nowadays you'll probably want to use Blender 2.5 or later, and this book is based on 2.49, but even wit.. |
| Feb 6 | Book Review: The Transparent Society by David Brin This book is a bit of a departure for my Free Software Magazine book reviews, it's a philosophical and social essay by science-fiction writer David Brin, and it's over 13 years old (published in 1998). But as I am reading this now, I'.. |
| Feb 6 | The Tester: Sony’s secret reality TV hit Reality TV show The Tester attracts hundreds of thousands of viewers per episode — but if you’re not a gamer, you’ve probably never even heard of it. That’s because The Tester has been running exclusively on Sony’s PlayStation Network, where l.. |
| Feb 5 | The Target Isn’t Hollywood, MPAA, RIAA, Or MAFIAA: It’s The Policymake.. Big Monopoly has learned in the past century that when they look like a little spoiled brat having a tantrum, politicians will throw taxpayer money their way to shut them up. Therefore, this is a behavior they emulate as soon they are given a good e.. |