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Phil Leigh Will consumers pay to watch TV shows and movies at the hulu.com website? Hulu.com’s website hosts popular TV shows and movies after they have been released normally. Owners include Disney, NBC-Universal, and News Corporation (Fox). Viewers can watch shows for free but in exchange must also watch commercials since the videos are streamed and not downloaded. Last month, Chase Carey who is the President of News Corporation said that Hulu should start charging fees sometime next year. Presumably he envisions a premium subscription service providing more content or viewing time in exchange for a monthly fee. There are two reasons to be doubtful about the success of such a plan. First, as author Matt Ragas put it, “We all love the information highway, but we don’t want to pay a toll every five miles.” Second, incumbent media companies may be overvaluing their own content. Matt’s remark led me to examine my own subscriptions which are summarized in the accompanying table. Already I pay over $220 monthly for telephone, Internet, and video entertainment. Other services under consideration would advance the total to about $265 monthly.  Such an analysis makes me look for ways to cut, instead of add, services. Phil s Monthly Subscription Fees Naturally, I’ll focus on the bigger numbers first which come from the cable and wireless providers. However, if The Wall Street Journal (owned by News Corp)   editorial viewpoint prevails, the carriers will likely increase ISP fees even higher. That leaves consumers with thinner wallets to buy additional services from Hulu or anyone else. Even if cable and wireless charges don’t go up, consumers may calculate that they’re already paying enough in service fees. Readers of the Baltimore Sun seem to be strongly opposed to paying for hulu.com access. A polling button on the newspaper s website reveals that they voted 20-to-1 against it. You can see the results and review reader comments here. As for content value, the recent success of Paranormal Activity might serve as a reminder to media producers that we characteristically undervalue the works of people who are not like us. It’s reported that the movie was set in a single San Diego home and produced for $10,000. By the day after Halloween it had grossed over $80 million in box office receipts. Much like Internet publishing demolished the value of the printing press, low cost video cameras combined with computer-based film editing and an abundance of people seeking stardom and film-crew careers, necessitates an introspective reassessment of Hollywood’s self worth. Paranormal Activity is more than an isolated echo of The Blair Witch Project. Years from now we’ll look back to see it as data point in a connect-the-dots trend line pointing toward a future of content abundance. To learn more about how your business can exploit or adapt to thye future of media, feel welcome to contact us. You may also want to consider buying our research reports Third Generation Television and Future Developments in Video Advertising.

Går du rundt og tænker på, hvorfor ASP.NET MVC mon får så megen opmærksomhed i øjeblikket? Der er trods alt ikke tale om noget revolutionerende nyt mønster, ja faktisk er mønstret et af de ældste, vi kender til i branchen. Og hvad betyder det for gode gamle WebForms at MVC pludselig er på banen? Forventer Microsoft helt at droppe supporten for WebForms i fremtiden? Lyt med i denne episode af ANUGCast, hvor vi sammen med Christian Holm Nielsen svarer på disse spørgsmål og samtidig giver dig en introduktion til ASP.NET MVC. Vi vender til sidst blikket mod fremtiden og kigger på, hvad version 2.0 af frameworket bringer til bordet. Emner Oplevelser fra Dev Days Hvad er MVC WebForms vs. MVC Routing Extension points Hvilke typer projekter passer MVC til jQuery og MVC MVC Futures og Contrib projekterne Links ASP.NET MVC Web Platform Installer MVC Contrib ASP.NET MVC 2 preview ANUGCast #55 ASP.NET MVC 1.0 med Christian Holm Nielsen del 1 af 2 [mediaplayer:http://www.publicvoid.dk/content/binary/podcasts/ANUGCast-55-ASPNET-MVC-1-0-med-Christian-Holm-Nielsen-del-1-af-2.mp3] Download ANUGCast #55 ASP.NET MVC 1.0 med Christian Holm Nielsen del 1 af 2

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In this episode we ll cover a topic sent in by a listener who is having a problem at the workplace. What is the role of a junior designer as opposed to a senior designer? Who is supposed to know what, and is the senior supposed to be a sort of mentor for the junior? We ll discuss these questions and more. Links from the show: Rookie Designer forum In the Bullpen: Core 77 Try GoToMeeting for 45 days! Visit www.GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts to start your free trial today.

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Scott's in Sweden this week and he sat down with master debugger and ASP.NET Escalation Engineer Tess Ferrandez. She explains .NET Debugging 101. What's a dump file? Do you need PDBs? How do you use WinDBG and what are the best ways to debug memory issues, perf problems and hangs.

Tom and Rafe discuss the apps they put on first thing when they get a new computer. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Episode 186 Download.com starter kits: Windows: http://download.cnet.com/8001/2701-19409_4-2-1.html windows security: http://download.cnet.com/2701-2023_4-6-1.html mac: http://download.cnet.com/2701-19406_4-4.html And of course, NiNite http://ninite.com/ Tom s picks (Won t read all of them, just a few favorites and then refer to the show notes for complete list): VLC Open Office Sea Monkey or Firefox/Thunderbird/FileZilla/XChat (Colloquy) AVG Antivirus Hijack This Pidgin/Adium Paint.NET iTunes Audacity CCleaner Skype Rafe s picks PC Microsoft Security Essentials Process Explorer Foxit PDF reader CCleaner Paint.net Picasa Pidgin SugarSync Roboform VLC WinDirStat (plus the usual: Apps like Office/OpenOffice, Evernote, etc) Techtracker Mac Witch Win-like task switcher SugarSync Skitch Adium DiskInventoryX Precipitate puts google doc results in spotlight Multiclutch more trackpad gestures LISTENER PICKS Google Earth (for Linux) -dpeach uTorrent (Vista) -Hardus Backup Chunker (Vista) -Hardus SyncBack Glary Utilities (Vista) -Hardus Fences (Windows ) Sang Tweetdeck Andrew Path Finder http://cocoatech.com/ (Mac) Obada Rightzoom http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30591 (Mac) Obada Default Folder X http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/ (Mac) Obada Quicksilver (Mac) Sang EMAIL QUESTIONS Tom and Rafe, I know you are doing an episode on useful software for a new computer. I m wondering if you know of a good Hard Drive Visualizer for the MAC? Those programs are super useful for tracking down and deleting files that are just clutter and hard to find. I ve used a couple, but they are unstable and crash frequently. Robinson A Answer: Disk Inventory X! http://www.derlien.com/ for PC: WinDirStat ******************* Tom s not the fastest thing in the world, but it does appear save the harddrive to RAM allowing a complete power disconnect. I don t know how long it can suspend the harddrive on the RAM, but score one for windows. Love your show, JoshuaCaleb P.S. for all the listeners out there, you have to put the computer in hibernate not sleep . When in sleep , the computer will eventually go into hibernate and I think you can alter the hibernate settings as well. Anyway, that s my nickel and two cents. *********** Tom - On Real Deal Ep 184 you read an email from a guy with a fried XP drive that wanted to upgrade to 7, but didn t have his key. this actually happened to me, but I did have the original XP drive. Someone suggested I call Microsoft (yeah, right ) and on a whim i did. The guy on the phone (lovely gentleman from India who was concise, pleasant and knowledgeable) told me to read the characters printed around the rim of the hole in the CD. I d never noticed those numbers before but I read them off and in about 20 seconds he told me my product key! Now the thing that really blew me away was that he asked if he could stay online with me while I ran the XP install so he could be sure I was taken care of! Or maybe I dreamt that, it sounds too good to be true, doesn t it? Allison Sheridan NosillaCast Podcast Now live Thursdays at 4 PM Eastern / 1 PM Pacific on http://live.cnet.com/ Call live! 888-900-2638 (CNET) Next time: Warranties realdeal@cnet.com forums.cnet.com

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Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The easiest ways to get programs these days is to download them. When I was getting started with software, you had to actually go to a store and buy them. The Internet didn t really even exist back then! There s software available for any platform these days, but this video is all about Windows and the ease with which you can install programs using Ninite. Choose your software, and let Ninite do the rest. It will download and install your programs with the default setup. It will even say NO WAY! to installing toolbars and other such nonsense that some programs try to sneak past you. All Ninite will do is install the latest versions of the programs that YOU choose. Nothing else is downloaded or installed onto your system. I can t think how it could get any easier than this, other than if the service could read your mind and know what programs you want without your having to click anything. Ninite has excellent choices, as well. I recommend and use many of them already! Choose your favorites in the following categories and get ready for easy install: Web browsers Instant Messaging programs Media Players Photo/Graphic Editors Document creation and editing programs Anti-Virus programs Runtime utilites (such as Java) Utilities Compression programs Developer tools The list is very good, with excellent choices and it sticks them all into one nice, neat little installer. If you know of any other easy ways to get the latest and greatest software, I d love to hear about it. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: object width= 425 height= 350 param name= movie value= http://www.youtube.com/v/8J8LxCcZSh4 /param param name= wmode value= transparent /param embed src= http://www.youtube.com/v/8J8LxCcZSh4 type= application/x-shockwave-flash wmode= transparent width= 425 height= 350 /embed /object br / a href= http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris /a | a href= http://live.pirillo.com/ Live Tech Support /a | a href= http://media.pirillo.com/ Video Help /a | a href= http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow Add to iTunes /a Top Ten List of Free Windows Programs Is Software Install Order Important? Upgrade XP by Installing Windows Vista Top 10 Tweaks, Tips, and Tricks for Windows Vista The Truth About Windows Vista The Windows Vista Challenge Leopard vs. Windows Vista Windows Media DRM is Corrupted Users vs. Developers How to Disable the UAC in Windows Vista How to Install Your Favorite Windows Software is a post from: Chris Pirillo

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Being the gadget-lover that I am, I have been on the cookout for the Geekiest rice cooker out there! I finally found it, and I love it! It s the Zojirushi Micom 3-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer. I bought it in the stainless steel finish, to match the other appliances in my kitchen. It s easy to use, Geeky enough to make me happy, and makes delicious rice! There are several different ways I can cook my rice, with just the touch of a button. I can choose to change the consistency from soft to medium to hard! I can even change up the type of rice I cook: white, sushi, porridge, brown, and quick cooking! There s a built-in timer if I want to watch the minutes go by, and it comes with a rice spatula and measuring cup. A rice spatula what?? I ve never even heard of one, but apparently I need it! I love to eat rice, flavored in many different ways. This handy new Geeky cooker makes it ten times easier on me to make sure that I cook it to perfection. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: object width= 425 height= 350 param name= movie value= http://www.youtube.com/v/2v42A2-6Urs /param param name= wmode value= transparent /param embed src= http://www.youtube.com/v/2v42A2-6Urs type= application/x-shockwave-flash wmode= transparent width= 425 height= 350 /embed /object br / a href= http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris /a | a href= http://live.pirillo.com/ Live Tech Support /a | a href= http://media.pirillo.com/ Video Help /a | a href= http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow Add to iTunes /a What Technology of Today Will be Obsolete Tomorrow? How to Cook Rice Spam Musubi Recipe Which Technology Do You Need When You Travel? These are a Few of My Favorite Things What is Your Favorite Technology? The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth Could all of Life s Conveniences be Killing Us? What 100 Things Will Your Child Probably Never Know? Heaven on Earth Geek Style World s Geekiest Rice Cooker is a post from: Chris Pirillo

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Compared to our computers, our bodies are mind-bogglingly complex systems. There s no life extension pill available today, and none is likely to arrive soon. Fortunately for us, we can use our technical skills to evaluate and implement today s life extension techniques, some of which can be fun at least from a geek perspective. Christine Peterson catalyzes new technologies: first, focusing on atoms, she co-founded Foresight Instituteto advance the field of nanotech. This work is accomplished by providing balanced, accurate and timely information to help society understand and prepare for nanotechnology through public policy activities, publications, guidelines, networking events, tutorials, conferences, roadmaps, and prizes. Her work is motivated by a desire to help Earth s environment and traditional human communities avoid harm and instead benefit from expected dramatic advances in technology. This goal of spreading benefits led to an interest in new varieties of intellectual property including open source software, a term she is credited with originating. More recently, having noticed that — as some crudely put it — aging sucks , she works to further life extension, especially within the tech community. She serves on the Advisory Board of the International Council on Nanotechnologyand the Editorial Advisory Board of NASA s Nanotech Briefs, and served on California s Blue Ribbon Task Forceon Nanotechnology. Christine is the co-author of one book on nanotech, and another on collaboration technologies. She is a member of IEEE, and an alumna of MIT. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: object width= 425 height= 350 param name= movie value= http://www.youtube.com/v/BejUJoM3TIU /param param name= wmode value= transparent /param embed src= http://www.youtube.com/v/BejUJoM3TIU type= application/x-shockwave-flash wmode= transparent width= 425 height= 350 /embed /object br / a href= http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris /a | a href= http://live.pirillo.com/ Live Tech Support /a | a href= http://media.pirillo.com/ Video Help /a | a href= http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow Add to iTunes /a Phil Plait Active Skepticism Online Firas Khatib FoldIt Jay Grandin and Leah Nelson 20,000,000 versus 20: Audience vs. Impact Warren Etheredge The Art of the Interview (Or How to Grill a Star) Beth Goza Nerd Craft: A Field Guide Angel Djambazov Amazon, Affiliates Taxes Micah Baldwin Building Influence Online Mark Glaser and Jim Ray Hacker Journalists at Gnomedex What Happened at Gnomedex 9.0? What Does Gnomedex Swag Look Like? Christine Peterson Life Extension for Geeks is a post from: Chris Pirillo

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My cousin, Dr. Adrian Lamberti, is writing a book about technology, and wants your help. She and her co-author are putting together a book about technological history. It will look at watershed moments in communications technology, beginning with the advent of email and the World Wide Web back in the 90s. Take a listen to the video and hear the list they ve already come up with. Then, leave a comment on the corresponding post in my blog with your ideas. Who knows? You may contribute to the book! She also lists such things, such as MMORPGs, Google, Flickr, Twitter, blogging, Facebook, and MySpace. Also collaborative media such as Google Docs. They ve even listed the iPhone and iPod Touch! They are coming at this from one disciplines point of view. It will be radically different than what your list might be. What suggestions do you have for Adrian and her writing partner? What can you think of in the world of tech that has really impacted and/or changed your life? Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: object width= 425 height= 350 param name= movie value= http://www.youtube.com/v/Pv2bosfeQ2E /param param name= wmode value= transparent /param embed src= http://www.youtube.com/v/Pv2bosfeQ2E type= application/x-shockwave-flash wmode= transparent width= 425 height= 350 /embed /object br / a href= http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris /a | a href= http://live.pirillo.com/ Live Tech Support /a | a href= http://media.pirillo.com/ Video Help /a | a href= http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow Add to iTunes /a Are YOU a Social Media Geek? How Do You Get Started in Social Media? Putting the Me in Social Media Do you Network Socially Too Much? I Know What You Did Last Summer Social Networking in Hawaii How to Create and Browse Lifestreams What s Your Social Networking Advice? How Has Social Media Changed Your Life? Seattle Social Media Scene (with WTIA) What Technology has Shaped Your Life is a post from: Chris Pirillo

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Firas Khatib is a postdoctoral researcher in David Baker s Laboratory in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Washington. He is currently trying to cure cancer by getting people to play online video games, specifically Foldit, but has yet to break the news to his grandmother who would not approve. Firas received his PhD in Bioinformatics from UC Santa Cruz in 2008 where he gave the graduate commencement speechfor the school of engineering; luckily they still gave him his degree. The University of Washington are investigating whether the brainpower of humans worldwide can be brought to bear on critical problems posed in computational biology. The long term goal of this project is to utilize the combined power of humans and computers in order to build accurate models of disease-related proteins by introducing a new approach: distributed computing driven by human intuition. The problem of accurate prediction of protein structures remains one of the most important unsolved dilemmas in biology. Determining the correct structure of a protein helps researchers successfully target them with drugs. Currently, experimental methods for solving protein structures result in accurate, high-resolution solutions, but cannot keep pace with the quantity of information. Developing new computational techniques to produce experimental-quality models is one of the most important problems in computational structural biology. While progress in high-resolution protein structure prediction is being made, particularly here in David Baker s research group using our Rosetta prediction algorithm, consistent computerized production of models with atomic level resolution are still out of reach. Even with the current supercomputing and distributed computing power available, the protein structure prediction field is still years away from being able to predict the 3D structure of any protein whose genome has been solved. A novel approach to this problem is the use of human puzzle-solving intuition and pattern recognition skills in conjunction with computers running the Rosetta algorithm. Foldit is an interactive Rosetta-based program that was recently developed by the Baker Lab and University of Washington s department of Computer Science and Engineering. This program allows users around the world to directly manipulate protein structure models on their home computers in real-time using Rosetta s energy function. The ultimate goal of Foldit is to use results from the computer program to improve protein structure prediction algorithms by capitalizing on human 3D problem-solving skills. Human users can recognize that certain moves they make might temporarily result in a worse Rosetta energy score, but lead to a better overall energy score. Humans have the advantage of awareness that often the only way to get to the correct low energy state is to go through many high energy conformations. Foldit users are also able to share their solutions with others around the world, taking advantage of the strengths that different people have. The more knowledge we have on how proteins fold, the better equipped we will be in the fight against protein-related diseases, such as cancer and HIV. Foldit can contribute to this global fight by giving worldwide participants an immediate and relevant application for scientific knowledge, and hopefully reinforcing motivation to understand the underlying science. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: object width= 425 height= 350 param name= movie value= http://www.youtube.com/v/2ad_ZW-mpOk /param param name= wmode value= transparent /param embed src= http://www.youtube.com/v/2ad_ZW-mpOk type= application/x-shockwave-flash wmode= transparent width= 425 height= 350 /embed /object br / a href= http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris /a | a href= http://live.pirillo.com/ Live Tech Support /a | a href= http://media.pirillo.com/ Video Help /a | a href= http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow Add to iTunes /a Phil Plait Active Skepticism Online Christine Peterson Life Extension for Geeks Jay Grandin and Leah Nelson 20,000,000 versus 20: Audience vs. Impact Warren Etheredge The Art of the Interview (Or How to Grill a Star) Beth Goza Nerd Craft: A Field Guide Angel Djambazov Amazon, Affiliates Taxes Micah Baldwin Building Influence Online Mark Glaser and Jim Ray Hacker Journalists at Gnomedex What Happened at Gnomedex 9.0? What Does Gnomedex Swag Look Like? Firas Khatib FoldIt is a post from: Chris Pirillo

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During live calls recently, the main topic of discussion was Windows 7. Ross was happy to get through, and immediately asked what he felt I think Windows 7 brings to the table for an average or intermediate computer user. I have my own opinions, of course. I m interested in seeing what all of YOU think. So, let s hear it! I feel there are a variety of features that Windows 7 brings to the table. The most prominent ones are the taskbar and Start Menu changes. Those are excellent, for sure. Some people are complaining about them, of course, wishing they were more like very old versions of Windows. Personally, I think it s about time they were so different! Functionality-wise, everything works very well on these. I feel there is an epic UI fail, but that s just me. Maybe it s because I m anal-retentive? Do you think? But I just don t like that the popup menu where it shows recent programs has huge gaps between the program names. However, the normal all programs menu is missing those gaps. That just bugs me, but I ll survive. Ross also wanted to let all college students know that if you go to Win741 and use a college.edu email address you can buy Windows 7 Home Premium for only $29.99! That s official folks, and one heck of a great deal for students! Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: object width= 425 height= 350 param name= movie value= http://www.youtube.com/v/WzSNnki3qH8 /param param name= wmode value= transparent /param embed src= http://www.youtube.com/v/WzSNnki3qH8 type= application/x-shockwave-flash wmode= transparent width= 425 height= 350 /embed /object br / a href= http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris /a | a href= http://live.pirillo.com/ Live Tech Support /a | a href= http://media.pirillo.com/ Video Help /a | a href= http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow Add to iTunes /a Best Buy and Windows 7 Who Loves Windows Vista? Windows 7 Thoughts How Much Computer Memory Does Windows Need? Can a Windows Vista PC Run Windows XP Instead? What s New in Windows 7: A Lot!! Do You Think Windows Will Last? What Would You Like to See in Windows 7? Have You or Are You Switching from PC to Mac? What s the Best OS for Data Storage and Stability? What Does Windows 7 Bring to the Table? is a post from: Chris Pirillo

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Yes, this video will get a million views. Why? I don t know! Pixie isn t sure exactly what s going on, but that s ok. She s often clueless when it comes to funny sounds emanating from my office. Hey it s not my fault that she tends to nose around my desk when she shouldn t! Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: object width= 425 height= 350 param name= movie value= http://www.youtube.com/v/ghJF7aoBYnI /param param name= wmode value= transparent /param embed src= http://www.youtube.com/v/ghJF7aoBYnI type= application/x-shockwave-flash wmode= transparent width= 425 height= 350 /embed /object br / a href= http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris /a | a href= http://live.pirillo.com/ Live Tech Support /a | a href= http://media.pirillo.com/ Video Help /a | a href= http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow Add to iTunes /a Pixie Puppy Sleeping in my Arms New Dog Trick! What is Your Favorite Type of Dog? Dog Pictures A Dog s Social Network Playing Dead Wicket, the Internet Puppy Wicket, The Puppy Happy Howloween Chillaxin This Video Will Get 1,000,000 Views on YouTube is a post from: Chris Pirillo