my favourite source of mashups has incurred the wrath of the RIAA.. bastards! from Boing Boing RIAA targets mashups MashupTown, a site that hosts and distributes mashups (two or more songs ingeniously mixed together to make a third) has taken down all of its files after complaints from the RIAA to its hosting partner. Mashups […]
Read more "RIAA is teh sux0r.. now targeting mashups!"from Variety.com Peeved over TiVo TiVo’s plan to allow users to download TV shows and films to Apple’s iPod and Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) could strain relations with networks and studios hoping to develop revenue streams from digital distribution. Several TV and studio execs told Daily Variety that they were considering legal action against the […]
Read more "TiVo introduces record-to-PSP, and annoys NBC"from WSJ.com Some Students Find Themselves In Principal’s Office Over Blog As parents wring their hands about Internet predators, many teens are worried about a different kind of online intruder: the school principal. Students are blogging about schoolyard crushes and feuds, posting gossip about classmates on social-networking sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com, and sharing their […]
Read more "kids love bloggin’, schools not happy"Talkman is the crazy new translation software for the PSP.. check this review from PSP Home.com Sony Computer Entertainment Japan have announced TALKMAN – a voice recognition device for PlayStation Portable. TALKMAN connects a microphone to the PSP’s USB port, which then clips onto the top of the PSP. It will come bundled with software […]
Read more "voice recognition and MICROPHONE! now avail for the PSP"from BusinessWeek.com E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago It’s being replaced by software that promotes real-time collaboration Darren Lennard is a managing director in the London offices of European-based investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He became something of a creative-class everyman a month ago when, after a long and onerous day at the office, he […]
Read more "the decline of E-Mail.. and rise of wiki"so last night after watching some wicked short films – ie Shorts #3 of ResFest, we attempted to pwn some n00bs.. unfortunately the Fed. Square SMS-Board is the most n00bish of all, and only our first test SMS was successful.. the others just took our 55c, but never came up 😦 here however, is video […]
Read more "we pwn Fed. Square – part 1"Advocates of such “Fab Labs” think they have the potential to vastly expand the creative powers of tinkerers and usher in a revolution in do-it-yourself design and manufacturing that can empower even the smallest of communities.
Read more "..Fab Labs unshackle kids’ imaginations.."from The Globe and Mail Teens like to hide identity on Net, study finds Almost six in 10 teenagers are disguising their identities on the Internet, according to a new study that looks at a generation of Web-savvy young Canadians. Whether it’s pretending to be older or a different gender, those in Grades 7 through […]
Read more "the kidz are still using handles or wot?"from The Observer British to help China build ‘eco-cities’ Frank Kane Sunday November 6, 2005 The Observer British engineers will this week sign a multi-billion contract with the Chinese authorities to design and build a string of ‘eco-cities’ – self-sustaining urban centres the size of a large western capital – in the booming country. Arup, […]
Read more "China to build ‘eco-cities’"It has now been 20 days since Apple announced it would sell selected ABC-Disney television programs via iTunes. As of Monday, iTunes customers had bought more than than 1 million videos. At first glance, these sales figures seem like another nail in the coffin of broadcast television. If we can get television content online, on demand, whenever we want it, how will networks convince us to tune in on their schedules? For that matter, how can they be certain we’ll tune in at all?
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