Archive for February 9, 2007

YouTube Won’t Rule Online Video Much Longer, Says Diller

While acknowledging that YouTube dominates the user-generated video space, InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller believes that its reign won’t last for long. “Those tools are going to be everywhere,” he predicts. YouTube is “not going to be one place to go.”

read more | digg story

PSP FW3.11 already decrypted by Team C+D

As the title says, PSP FW3.11 has already been pwned. Kudos to Team C+D. :D

read more | digg story

The “Top 10 List” Killer?

Every week or two a digger posts some link to some blog about a list of mac software that people MUST HAVE for their shiny new macs. CoolMacApps.com is attempting to be the list to kill all other lists. Ajax front and back, as well as a their own algorithm to track software popularity.

read more | digg story

Drupal 5 performance: How does the new Drupal stack up to 4.7?

The benchmarks are in, and the news is either great, ok, or bad depending on your site. In the end, it comes down to caching; is your site the type of site that can make extensive use of caching? If yes, great! If your site only has authenticated users, you might see a slowdown. D5 gained flexibility and features. For some, there is a small price.

read more | digg story

Performing Brain Surgery On Yourself

Some years ago Linux creator Linux Torvalds famously compared changing operating systems to

Crazy 90’s Windows Ad via Gizmodo…

I’m speechless…WTF?

read more | digg story

YouTube To Porn Industry: You

YouTube just deleted an adult entertainment channel that had little clips from conventions, interviews, behind the scenes on sets, etc. I

YouTube To Porn Industry: You

YouTube just deleted an adult entertainment channel that had little clips from conventions, interviews, behind the scenes on sets, etc. I

Create Torrents out of YouTube Videos

Online video conversion site, Hey!Watch has announced that it now allows users to download videos from the various video sites it scrapes, including YouTube, Google Video and Metacaf

Podcast of the Orson Welles Broadcast that Terrified the Nation in 1938

Hear the original radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds that freaked out the country. Also get free audio book podcasts of the major works by HG Wells. Includes The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and others. Includes iTunes and rss feed versions.

read more | digg story

Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare

Linux is the clear winner out of a dispute between the Russian legal authorities and schools over who should carry the can over the use of pirated Windows software. Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.

read more | digg story

Breaking: Guitar Hero comes to the Wii!

That’s right, Guitar Hero on the Wii! The announcement has been transcribed from the Activision conference call from Wednesday. Straight from CEO Mike Griffith’s mouth also!

read more | digg story