Monthly Archives: July 2006

Video, Video and more Video

By Mark Evans | Published: July 31, 2006
Apologies for the video focus today but TechDirt has a great post questioning the proliferation of video-sharing services, which seem to be sprouting up like dandylions these days. What do you expect when the barriers to entry are so low what with low-cost servers, bandwidth and storage? Rest assured, there will be a few winners [...]
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Lulu.TV Enters Video Fray

By Mark Evans | Published: July 31, 2006
Bob Young, who made his fortune from Red Hat, is moving into the video business with the creation of Lulu.TV – a video-sharing service with a twist: it offers a “pro” account in which  it charges content creators $14.95 a month to submit their videos. Of that, 80% is put into a pool, which [...]
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How Long Does/Should a PC Last?

By Mark Evans | Published: July 30, 2006
A couple of friends at work had an interesting conversation last week about the life span of desktop or laptop computers – stemming from one of them buying a desktop for $500 based on the expectation that in a couple of years, it would either break or be obsolete. This prompted his friend to suggests [...]
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Wi-Fi Telephony: Possible or a Dream?

By Mark Evans | Published: July 30, 2006
The New York Times has sparked a lot of discussion about Wi-Fi telephony – the idea you can make a telephone call over a Wi-Fi network when using your mobile phone rather than burning up your mobile minutes. While Mathew Ingram and Om Malik have their doubts (and the mobile carriers will make Wi-Fi calls [...]
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Amanda's So Yesterday, Ze Frank is So Now

By Mark Evans | Published: July 29, 2006
Now that Amanda Congdon has left the video-blogging world (at least temporarily), the medium's new star is Ze Frank, whose in-your-face (literally), smart, rapid-fire commentary has become a must-see for many people (Rob Hyndman calls Ze Frank one of his first stops on the blogosphere). Ze Frank's star should burn hotter now that Blogspotting [...]
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Freedom of Speech Event in T.O.

By Mark Evans | Published: July 29, 2006
Rob Hyndman, one of the mesh gang, is chairing a roundtable on online freedom of speech on Aug. 5 in Toronto at the Rivoli featuring Jon Newton of p2pNet, Michael Pilling of OpenPolitics.ca, Jason Young of Deeth Williams Wall, and Russell McOrmond of Digital Copyright Canada. More details on the event can be found here.
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