Tag: youtube

  • Can corporate social responsibility affect your company’s bottom line?

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    Your company’s share price can be negatively affected if you fail to behave responsibly in your business practices. I have written here a couple of times about environmental risks companies could potentially face. This first time I wrote about this it was in reference to FaceBook’s decision to source the power for their new data…

  • YouTube to serve hi-def from their website

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    I see Rafe Needleman is reporting that YouTube are going to start streaming video in hi-def imminently. According to Needleman: YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference today, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon…. the service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer’s Net connection…

  • iPod Touch – a gateway drug?

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    Pilar gave me an iPod Touch for my birthday the other day and, wow I love it! As you can see, it looks fantastic. The interface is unbelievably slick and surprisingly responsive. Using Nokia smart phones means I have become used to devices this size being slow but there is absolutely no lag on the…

  • A sad day for Internet freedoms in China

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    If this were any other country you wouldn’t believe it but the Great Firewall of China has started re-directing traffic from the three major search engines (Yahoo!, Live.com and Google) to the Chinese owned search engine Baidu.com! Other sites such as YouTube.com and Google’s BlogSearch are reportedly also being re-directed. China has previously blocked sites…

  • Embeddable Google maps

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    According to this post on the Google Maps blog site, it is now possible to embed Google Maps on your own site in the same way you can embed YouTube videos. The image below is of the industrial park where we are building the CIX data centre http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.903566,-8.512151&spn=0.002022,0.005611&t=k&z=18&om=1&output=embed&s=AARTsJqzARj-Z8VnW5pkPMLMmZbqrJcYpwView Larger Map

  • Is there even a short-term gain for Viacom here?

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    Much has been said about the fact that Viacom are suing Google for $1bn because YouTube (now owned by Google) hosted Viacom copyrighted shows. Technically, Viacom are well within their rights to sue Google for this copyright infringement but what good does it do Viacom, apart from adding up to $1bn to their bottom line,…

  • Too much choice is not (always) a bad thing

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    Joel Spolsky has written an interesting critique of Windows Vista where he points out that there are up to 15 ways to turn a Windows Vista computer off (I can think of a 16th – don’t license it and Windows will automatically disable your computer!). He goes on to suggest ways to trim the number…

  • Soapbox – Microsoft's YouTube killer?

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    Following on from YouTube’s success in garnering audience, Microsoft have rolled out their own video sharing site called Soapbox. Right now, the site is in closed beta but I applied for an account and had one on a couple of hours! The site runs out of Flash which means it looks very well, but it…