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Category: Social issues

  • YouTube & Google will kill the TV

    Now that Google has bought YouTube, the issue is really what is going to happen. It is not enough to see a lot of traffic (YouTube has tens of millions of users rushing in to look at a myriad of online videos) to make a good business model (look at the 2000 Internet bubble that…

  • Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

    Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

    This is the title of one of the worst movies ever filmed, according to the Internet Movie Database. But anyway, I have the pleasure to wish you a merry Christmas.

  • BitTorrent purchases uTorrent

    BitTorrent, the leader and creator of the P2P technology that is driving most of the video and large-file peer-to-peer exchanges just announced that they bought µTorrent (micro-Torrent or uTorrent), the company providing the smallest, lightest (and maybe, fastest) BitTorrent client. Apparently, they intend to re-inforce their presence, possibly in preparation of an extension of the…

  • Advertising turns to SPAM on MySpace

    When a good idea appears in the Internet space, it attracts people, a lot of idle people and a lot of marketing people. Of course, with marketing comes its shameful brother: SPAM. This is exactly what is happening right now on MySpace, the virtual social network where teens have been spreading and sharing for months…

  • AntiGravity: Toilets flush and Microsoft

    AntiGravity: Toilets flush and Microsoft

    There is no end to jokes about what Microsoft did wrong (they’re the number one target for many jokes and many grievances, just from their being #1 software company). Today, I want to point you to an excellent little paper by Steve Mirsky published in his excellent column in Scientific American magazine. In the October…

  • From Bras to Bag in 10 seconds

    Ok! We already knew that Japanese people were not thinking exactly like the rest of the world (it makes them both loveable and totally foreign to us Westerners). But, this time, I admit they caught me by surprise with this major (?) technological innovation serving what is at the core of every woman in the…

  • HD-Ready, crooks are out

    HD-Ready, crooks are out

    We already wrote here about it when the HD-Ready and HD-TV programs were launched, the nice black and white little logos supposed to bring the guarantee of compatibility of electronic devices with High Definition (HD) video are only adding to the confusion of the consumers. At best, the buyer wonders what is really covered by…

  • The best Thanksgiving ever!

    Sure! I’m not really into Thanksgiving (I’m French), but I thought it was a good idea to try and help you all Americans to have a great Thanksgiving. So, here is a link to a long article titled “How to Have the Best Thanksgiving EVER!“, for those who are not easily offended. As Art Burchwald…

  • Al Jazeera, in English on the Net

    Al Jazeera or Al Jezira, the TV news channel from Qatar, is now available in English. It often made the news headlines of other information medias since its creation on 1st November 1996, with its policitical stance very favorable to Islam and often considered very favorable to extremism and sometimes terrorism. Today, the channel not…