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Baghdad Security Plan Burdens Residents
from Alive in Baghdad
October 06, 2008
VIDEO - Baghdad, Iraq - The ongoing fighting in Baghdad pushed the Iraqi and US forces to establish checkpoints all over the city to secure the roads and neighborhoods. Controlling the cars inside the city and preventing them from distributing weapons or bombs was the first aim of these checkpoints....
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TWiT 163: MitNicked
from this WEEK in TECH - MP3 Edition
October 05, 2008
Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton, and Veronica Belmont Special Guests: Kevin Mitnick and Ryan Block Kevin Mitnick's airport detainment, Craigslist bank robber, Steve Jobs is alive, and more. Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/163. Audible pick of the week: Anat...
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Obama Landslide
from Michael Verdi
October 04, 2008
QuickTime vPIP Yeah I said it. We ll see for sure in 31 days. Vlog Anarchy Take 2 W-WTF?...
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Buzz Out Loud 822: It's all about the benzenes
from Buzz Out Loud from CNET
October 02, 2008
Stuck with a stinky new Mac Pro? Good news: it might be toxic! (No proof of toxicity has been determined.) Also, Tom Merritt reveals himself to be a ruthless murderer of Firefox downloads. And the state of Pennsylvania takes it upon itself to make the... ......
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Buzz Out Loud 823: Sad trombone
from Buzz Out Loud from CNET
October 03, 2008
Whence comes the sad trombone, and other questions of great worldly importance dominate today's discussions, but there is, in fact, other technology news today. For example, Steve Jobs is OK, but citizen journalism may not be; iTunes isn't going to have... ......
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Register to Vote, Anyone?
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
October 03, 2008
Voting, Vote For Change, State by State Voter Laws and Registration Deadlines, Vote 411, Project Vote Smart, Orange Moon, Halloween Pet Costumes, 2008 Candy Toy Product Review, Winston Churchill, Genghis Khan, Oh Hell No, Rock The Vote, All Gizah Pyramids, Rosie the Riveter...
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YouTube Hot Spots
from Michael Verdi
October 02, 2008
iPod vPIP This is a screencast of YouTube s great new metric, Hot Spots which lets you see what parts of your videos connect with viewers and which parts don t....
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I Am Blind
from Michael Verdi
October 03, 2008
iPod vPIP I got a package in the mail the other day for an ARG about the film Blindness which opens today. iamblind.org ARGNet post Unfiction thread...
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Chinese censors capture Skype text chats
from APM: Future Tense
October 02, 2008
Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a large surveillance system in China that monitors, censors, and archives text messages exchanged by customers of Tom-Skype. That's a joint venture of eBay-owned Skype, a provider of Internet-based voice calls and text chat, and a Chinese Inte...
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Microsoft offers perks in its search for searchers
from APM: Future Tense
October 03, 2008
Microsoft this week launched another rewards program that pays people for using Live Search, which has failed to make much of a dent in the most popular search engine, Google. The new SearchPerks program - available only to Windows and Internet Explorer users - awards points for using Live Search, w...
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How to get Video Exposure-Backlinks(Free Mentor Program)
from evilvlog
July 13, 2008
This video is to help those new and experienced in getting traffic to there videos, websites, services and products using high page ranked video sites, vidoe upload sites and while gathering backlinks at the same time. This is a http://freementorprogram.com lesson by Geronimo Rubio - Mentor - Team W...
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Buzz Out Loud 821: Cloud hippies
from Buzz Out Loud from CNET
October 01, 2008
On today's show, a big, fat present for long-time listeners (and Veronica Belmont fans): Veronica Belmont joins us! In the news, Real's pre-emptive lawsuit fails to stop the studios from suing over RealDVD, Apple threatens to close iTunes, Dell offers... ......
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net@night 69: My Name Is Webby
from net@night
October 02, 2008
Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte YouTube upgrades, Webby Awards, despinifying, restaurant podcast, Suzanne Vega, and more. News of the week: YouTube streamlines its video uploader, bumps size limits Webby Awards Opens Doors to Net Celebs Find “spin” on different websites Video of the week:...
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Master of Your Own Domain Name
from Rocketboom
October 01, 2008
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Domain name expansion like gold rush , changing to Biggest Expansion in gTLDs Approved for Implementation, Easily mispronounced domain names, the OpenNIC Project, Open Root Server Confederation (ORSC), the Public-Root...
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Urban Bears, Unusual Buildings
from Rocketboom
October 02, 2008
Urban Black Bears “Live Fast, Die Young , 1, 2, World s First Tidal Turbine Farms to Power 40,000 Scottish Homes (or Pubs), Solar panels installed on Vatican roof, Le Projet Triangle by Herzog & de Meuron, New Paris Building Casts No Shadows, Generates Electricity, Walter Towers by BIG, Scientists...
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Presidential campaign plays out on search engines
from APM: Future Tense
October 01, 2008
John McCain and Barack Obama are engaged in an advertising contest on the Internet, where both are buying up keywords from the likes of Google and Yahoo. Ads for the campaigns appear in search results when surfers search on keywords and phrases like "Iraq war" and "bailout."...
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Buzz Out Loud 819: Laptop size doesn't matter
from Buzz Out Loud from CNET
September 29, 2008
Natali says she giggles when she sees guys using the tiny little Eee PC. But she doesn't question their manliness. Engnr_Chik thinks Netbooks are for everyone. Plus we speculate on the rush to release a prebeta of Windows 7, demand Wal-Mart do... ......
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Buzz Out Loud 820: Stupid cloud
from Buzz Out Loud from CNET
September 30, 2008
Richard Stallman says anyone who puts their data in the cloud is stupid. Cooley thinks he's right about some things, but finds other parts of his statement stupid. Find out which is which. We also get into a discussion of why exactly the House of... ......
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Joyful Trees in a Park
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 29, 2008
Rocketboom field correspondent Tim Brunsden of Liverpool Stories speaks with David Allin about Joyful Trees , an architectural art installation created by Diller + Scofidio + Renfro for the 2008 Liverpool Biennial....
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Geological Arboreal Intergalactic
from Rocketboom (Quicktime)
September 30, 2008
Nuvvuagittuq, Superior craton, and Tonalites, Zircon, Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad (1, 2, 3), Nature Jewelry, 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One Cent, Preventing forest fires with tree power, Voltree Power, The human airbag that will protect the elderly if they fall, NASA s Glory, Send Yo...
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Does e-mail encourage fibbing?
from APM: Future Tense
September 29, 2008
We already know that people tend to be nastier in e-mail than by pen and paper. Now some university researchers say workers are significantly more likely to lie in an e-mail than a hand-written note....
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Finally, WiMax
from APM: Future Tense
September 30, 2008
Sprint Nextel opened a new wireless network to customers in Baltimore this week, offering Internet service for laptops for $45 per month. It's Sprint's first deployment of WiMax technology. WiMax is akin to Wi-Fi, but covers much greater distances. Sprint calls its WiMax network Xohm and offers spee...
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TWiT 162: Wedding Jitter Twitter
from this WEEK in TECH - MP3 Edition
September 28, 2008
Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Wil Harris, Adam Curry, and Andrew Horowitz Shaky laptops, Digg buries Leo, Palin pwned, G1 vs. iPhone, Icahn-dy, and more. Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/162. Audible pick of the week: Get two free audiobooks when you sign up for Audible'...
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