Ustream.tv Just Got a Redesign, But Justin.tv Is Still Beating Its Pants Off
- July
- 2
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Both of these measure only the traffic to the main Websites of each competing live Web video service, and do not include how many people watch the videos in embeddable players elsewhere on the Web. But they are apples-to-apples and should give a good indication of the overall trend.
Ustream.tv, at least, realizes it needs to [...]
Shuttle Discovery Crew Glad To Be Back On Ground
- June
- 16
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Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion-dollar science lab.
Kelly and his crew accomplished everything they set out to do in orbit. They delivered and installed Japan’s Kibo lab, now [...]
Comstock: Tax Big Box Acres Of Free Parking
- June
- 4
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One of the massive changes in how we build our cities is in the retail sector. Most notable is the Wal- Martization factor where 60% of the city’s commercial tax base is being undermined by the tax treatment of this new-format retail: the Big Box with acres of parking. This change is not really surprising, [...]
Platform Music From Rogers Wireless
- May
- 27
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From exclusive live concerts to online previews of as yet unreleased albums, MTV in Canada’s partnership with Rogers Wireless is promising even more multi-platform access to popular music and related content.
Under a co-branded arrangement, Rogers and MTV will present new music oriented programming online and on TV, including:
“New technology has unleashed our audience’s demand for [...]
Janet Jackson To Open “Rock Witchu” Tour In September
- May
- 19
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Pop singer Janet Jackson said on Monday she will hit the road for the first time in seven years with the Canadian launch in September of her “Rock Witchu” arena tour through North America.
Jackson, 42, revealed plans for her upcoming concert series during an appearance on the television talk show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, saying, [...]
Progress 29P Launches Towards Iss Freon Leak Update
- May
- 17
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The Russian resupply vehicle Progress M-64/29P has launched on a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The vehicle will dock with the International Space Station on Friday.
Meanwhile, evaluations are also continuing on the freon coolant leak in the Russian segment of the Station - as efforts to removed contaminants via the [...]
Meet The Cast Thats Going To Save Saturday Night Live
- May
- 11
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For those of you who have been keeping score, it has been a long time since Saturday Night Live, once the premier, end all and be all of comedy on television, has held the clout it once demanded. In fact, many of those who grew up on the late night comedy show have long since [...]
Live Concerts Internet Are Music Industrys Future
- May
- 3
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Live concerts and music on the internet will be key to the music business of the future, feels Ralph Christoph, an electronics music expert from Germany who is scouting for talent in India.
Christoph, founder of the German music festival called “Cologne on Pop” or c/o pop, popularly known as the ‘Woodstock of Europe’, said the [...]
Facebook Catches Flak for Collaborative Translation Effort
- April
- 25
Generating Mounting Criticism
“We thought it’d be cool,” said Javier Olivan, international manager at Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif. “Our goal would be to hopefully have one day everybody on the planet on Facebook.”
Coolness aside, and many users are embracing the idea, other social networks aren’t “crowdsourcing” translation. The move is generating mounting criticism online, [...]
STARTUP TO WATCHVeodia: Gambling on a Better Way to Stream Video
- April
- 25
What It Does
Veodia, incorporated in January 2006, started with funds from angel investors and only recently had its first round of venture financing. Its service lets organizations broadcast and manage live, on-demand, TV-quality videos using the MPEG-4/H.264 standard, and they can do this without investing heavily in personnel and infrastructure.
Take customer MIT Technology Review, for [...]
