Video thumbnail. Click to play. Click To Play. Although the consumption of streaming Flash video will continue to dominate the bulk of online video viewing, the growth of downloadable media to a desktop application is going to quickly ... Go to Full Article

Who owns what is one of most challenging issues for people in the web services business. On some level, everything is shared. Ultimately, though, I think of personalization as the guiding light in terms of decision-making. -- KM *** Some users are complaining about the recently...

The FBI is planning to build the world's largest biometric database to aid the agency in its law enforcement duties. Little has been said, however, about the impact such a system would have on American citizens, or on the technology and policies that would be used to keep false positives minimal. ...

What's missing is the content management system designed specifically to get the most out of RSS. I know there are a bunch of teams working on this issue, although I haven't found anything that comes close to vBulletin. Anyway, once we see content management systems make RSS easy to use, that is...

Why do they even bother. On the Internet, these types of laws are impossible to enforce. It's the code that sets the law now. -- KM *** Australia is preparing to enact new rules that will require age verification for multiple levels of content, as the country tries to apply movie...

Very interesting. We'll have to wait and see how it's executed, but I like the concept very much. Amazon is still a very shrewd company. -- KM *** Amazon.com will soon launch a virtual world and entering the virtual currency marketplace with a new service called Questville, which ties...

Twenty billion dollars here, $20bn there, and a lush half-trillion from the European Central Bank at give-away rates for Christmas. Buckets of liquidity are being splashed over the North Atlantic banking system, so far with meagre or ... Go to Full Article

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Yes, Drupal is becoming overwhelmingly popular and is on its way to becoming the default CMS for social web sites (which soon means all web sites). I'm not giving up on vBulletin anytime soon though. It's a million times better in my opinion, and is an example of the kind of outstanding things an...

If I'm reading this correctly, I think it means just linking to something that is pirated would be a crime in China. -- KM *** It is being reported by the IPFI that Yahoo China's music search feature violates the law when it deep links users to pirated music. Yahoo China's music search...

This type of stuff is going to create a need for human governance in online communities. -- KM *** Welcome to the brave new world of Digg blackmail. Where sophisticated online users earn a living by abusing the Digg abuse reporting system. It' a reality. I'd heard about it, but I've...

This is a no-brainer, Ron Paul is so clearly the candidate for technologists in so many ways it's getting almost ridiculous. As I'm sure you know TechCrunch is very influential in web technology circles, please encourage them to support free market capitalism by supporting the only real...

This is why RFID is important for anyone playing the info graph game, which is essentially anyone betting open, distributed systems. We are starting to see the emerging signs of how RFID is going to disrupt those industries come to market. -- KM *** <img alt="" height="1"...

The FTC, however, has approved the merger. Of course, the real story here is how the European Commission is deciding this issue -- an example of how much power supranational entities have taken from nation-states, and how we are already on the path towards a one-world government. As for the...

And what's the reason for this gun control legislation? The Virginia Tech massacre. We talked about how the Virginia Tech massacre had all the markings of a black op designed to set the stage for further gun control, which of course advances the police state agenda. We can't break out of this...