Blogging is near and dear to my heart.
I admit freely that I am attached to the concept. I think it is better than something (whatever that is), and that is creates a lot of value.
I don’t know what the fate of blogging is, but as I think about it I wonder if it can survive without changing.
This week New York hosted the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, the American DVD rental company, has given a vote of confidence to web TV.
Speaking at New TeeVee Live in San Francisco, he explained how in an ideal world all TVs should have internet browsers to watch internet television. The problem is, the technology is not quite there yet.
"In terms of what you want to watch, we may be 15 per cent of the way there, but this will grow with time," explained Hastings.
"When you want to watch is covered 100 per cent, but when it comes to where you want to watch we're still limited to the laptop."
What you see here is a fairly interesting video (btw, thanks Crunkgear). Someone has hacked a real keyboard onto an iPhone. Cool right?
Thing is, this is a glimpse of the future. Not the Macworld '09 future, more like the WWDC '09 type of future. The iPhone docking plug will kind of take a reverse role where it will now connect to peripherals whereas before the iPhone was the peripheral.
“The pre-roll” - the video advertisement which begins the user’s experience with desired video content – has seen some major improvements in ad platform technology, along with convergence of user acceptance and marketers learning how to be much more user-friendly with video advertising.
The decline of newspaper popularity has been attributed to the rise of the internet and the proliferation of web-based content. With an extremely low barrier of entry and variable cost, the web allows anyone with a computer to become an independent publisher: As a result, the amount and variety of content online far exceeds print publications in most fields.
This month, we celebrate the 14th anniversary of banner ads being sold in commercial volume. I was fortunate enough to work for the company that launched the first "true" commercial banner offering on a mass scale (HotWired; Wired/Digital which was later purchased by Lycos).
This three-wheeled car runs on gas fumes. An entry for the Progressive Automotive X Prize, a contest for the most fuel-efficient car, it was on display at the New York International Auto Show March 18.
At the center of this technology is a man who recently turned his face into a remote control - Ph.D. student Jacob Whitehill, of the University of California's Machine Perception Lab (MPLAB).More than just a wacky stunt, Whitehill's feat marked a major step forward in the way people could one day learn by establishing facial expression recognition in robot teachers.
Why not learn how to read palms?So you want to know if you're finally going to hook up with the person you've been staring at across the workplace. Are you going to get a raise? Are you healthy? Your horoscope can give you the generic answers, but you probably want to know more about your own life than what newspapers and Internet predictions can tell you.
