Apple Prepares Ad Patent
Apple is getting ready to patent a method of delivering X many ads at X frequency in your online video feeds. Basically, no more skipping ads on your iPhone, TV.com feeds and the like; each ad unlocks the next block of content.
So Apple can now offer a cheaper show for you to buy (99 cents)… with the added bonus of commercials (priceless)!
AND they are thinking about a TV subscription package that puts the latest and greatest together for $30 or so a month.
Hooray.
CES 2010 Photo Fun!
I’ve been going through all of the pictures that we took at this year’s CES and ran across one which I think is my absolute favorite. I call it:
“Guy Taking Picture Of Lady Gaga’s Hat While Semi-Burly Security Looks On”
Yeah.
The Polaroid press conference where Lady Gaga was announced as a new Creative Director was totally awesome. Totally.
Only 10 Percent of Web Addresses (IPv4) Remain
TechSpot reports that only 10% of the IPv4 addresses remain. IPv4 is the numerical nomenclature used to identify all of those great websites you grew up with like: pets.com, yahoo.com, geocities.com, etc. New kid on the block IPv6 will give us – potentially – trillions of addresses to Facebook about into the future, but the days of IPv4 being our go-to Internet communications protocol are now numbered.
Well crap. I guess it’s time to reserve NakedWheelbarrow.net
CES 2010 – Pre Day Digital Experience
Theresa and I are currently cruising our way across Vegas as we get ready for the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show. We attended Digital Experience earlier tonight, which gathers a large group of technology companies together in a conference room for a smaller, more intimate setting for press and media interviews. They also provide free booze… LOTS of free booze.
We ran into some pretty slick companies there with some equally slick products, and we will be bringing you interviews, reviews and more in the coming weeks. Some of the products we’ll be looking at include a wireless receiver for your music collection (Sonos), 3D content on your computer screen (Corel), a device that lessens potential radiation from the iPhone (Pong) and even a massively multiplayer LEGO game (um… Lego).
In the meantime, here is the view from our window in the Excalibur Hotel:
The Entire Milky Way On Your Desktop
The All-Sky Milky Way Panorama (Version 2) is a collection of over 3,000 images that were stitched together to represent the entire galaxy as accurately as possible. This is some pretty slick stuff… especially slick when you consider all of the software used to make this work of interstellar art is open-source.
The Future is Facebox
Gaming is on pace to become a $68 billion dollar industry by 2012, but it needs you, middle-aged mothers, environmental activists and North Slope scientists, to get there. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 already offers streaming video on demand, providing movies, documentaries and BBC series to members. Now customers can update their status and tweet about it, too.
Click to Unfriend?
Unfriend. That is the word of 2009 according to the New Oxford American Dictionary. I have done my fair share of unfriending, along with a complete Facebook and MySpace de-tox about 6 months ago.
One of the words in the running was “funemployed,” which means people who are newly unemployed focusing on having fun.
I think the right word won.
Let Me Twitter That…
TechCrunch is reporting that for the first time in months (which is eons in Internet time), that Twitter is experiencing a DECREASE in visitors. I hope, hope, hope this continues because I hate, hate, hate twitter.
I’m sure its because I just don’t understand it and I hate technology and everything that is good in the world. That’s got to be it.
Apostrophe’s or Apostrophes’?
I ran across this website a few weeks ago and forgot about it until I had to add some apostrophe action to a recent press release. Instead of asking around the office, I returned to this cartoon flowchart and found my answer.
General Protection Fault
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