pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portablevideo/" rel="tag"Portable Video/a/pa href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/3145691/Steve-Wozniak-interview-iconic-co-founder-on-the-iPod-iPhone-and-future-for-Apple.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/10/leopard-iphone-woz.jpg" //aUncle Woz is stirring things up today in an interview with The Telegraph, saying that he thinks "the iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one, things like, if you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, they kind of die out after a while... they get real cheap and then they are not selling as much." That's certainly an interesting parallel to draw, since the iPod is unquestionably the market leader and the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/apples-lets-rock-event-roundup/"recent updates/a to the nano and classic weren't particularly overwhelming -- but we've got to disagree here and say that the metaphor doesn't quite work. br /br /Walkmans and radios were standalone products that didn't really change over time, while the iPod is clearly evolving into a compelling standalone computing platform -- and it's tied to iTunes, which, hate it or love it, is the most popular content store out there. Sure, things could change dramatically -- competitors like the Zune are getting way better, subscription music could finally take off, and DRM is slowly going away (at least for music) -- but it's hard to see Apple getting baited into a brand-tarnishing price war or simply letting the iPod fade away without putting up a fight. We'll see, we suppose -- any of you willing to throw down some bold predictions?br /br /[Via a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/apple-co-founde.html"Wired/a]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/3145691/Steve-Wozniak-interview-iconic-co-founder-on-the-iPod-iPhone-and-future-for-Apple.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/07/woz-says-the-ipod-will-die-out-after-a-while-like-radios-and-w/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1335715/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/07/woz-says-the-ipod-will-die-out-after-a-while-like-radios-and-w/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=MCFRYx"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=MCFRYx" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=pYVMm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=pYVMm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=1Cxrm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=1Cxrm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/414247029" height="1" width="1"/

pAnd what took so long? YouTube has added a no-brainer: affiliate download links from Amazon (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=AMZN" class="ticker" title="AMZN"NSDQ: AMZN/a) and iTunes for music and other kinds of downloads, from any specific video on its site. For instance, if a user is viewing a video of music artist, then links from Amazon and iTunes will appear on the page for song download (see a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAp9BKosZXs" title="an example here"an example here/a. Another example if video game download a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAp9BKosZXs" title="for Spore"for Spore/a, by EA). /p p The Google-owned company is touting this as a larger e-commerce platform play, and will add music, movies, TV shows, concert tickets and other products down the line. For now on the music side this has only been enabled for EMI and Universal Music artists...hard to see why others would resist. Also this only works in U.S. YouTube content partners who are using its content ID system (for managing and anti-piracy) can also enable these links on user-generated content. /p p On a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-clicked-to-buy-and-i-liked-it.html" title="its own blog"its own blog/a, it declares, rather grandly: "Our vision is to help partners across all industries—from music, to film, to print, to TV—offer useful and relevant products to a large, yet targeted audience, and generate additional revenue from their content on YouTube beyond the advertising we serve against their videos." Yep, like the advertising part is working swimmingly well till now... /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=xY3Duk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=xY3Duk" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=vb3QM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=vb3QM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=SUXEM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=SUXEM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=4laXm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=4laXm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Q9g9M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Q9g9M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=3aZMM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=3aZMM" border="0"/img/a /div

As Canadians plan to return to the polls next week, they should know that the Conservative Party has pledged to reintroduce the bitterly controversial, one-sided Canadian DMCA, a copyright act modelled on the US failed Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The US DMCA has been in place for 10 years now and has resulted in tens of thousands of lawsuits against downloaders, the destruction of dozens of innovative businesses, and the mass-censorship of thousands and thousands of documents that were removed from the web by dishonest ideological opponents who accused them of infringing copyright. It has also totally failed to compensate artists or to reduce infringement. One formal definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different outcome. Canada's DMCA is, by this measure, insane -- and so is the party that insists on ramming it through. The Conservative Party has released its platform and it devotes a half-page to copyright that leaves little doubt that it plans to bring back Bill C-61 and continue to support ACTA. According to the platform: A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of musicians, artists, programmers and other creators and brings Canada's intellectual property protection in line with that of other industrialized countries, but also protects consumers who want to access copyright works for their personal use. We will also introduce tougher laws on counterfeiting and piracy and give our customs and law enforcement services the resources to enforce them. This will protect consumers from phoney and sometimes dangerous products that are passed off as reliable brand-name goods. Conservatives Promise to Re-Introduce Canadian DMCA...br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=024dcf69463ae63feefe22e50f2fc447" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=024dcf69463ae63feefe22e50f2fc447" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

How many times have you seen a YouTube video and just had to buy a product or a service related to the video? Ok, never. But still, if you want to spend your hard earned cash in these times of looming recession, now you can do it directly from YouTube.

Thousands of YouTube partner videos will now get click-to-buy links, which appear on the watch page beneath the video, right there with the other community features, like share, favorite, or flag. For starters, iTunes and Amazon.com links will be embedded on videos from media companies such as EMI Music - I cannot see it, because it apparently works only in the United States. Google says that they’ll slowly expand this program to international users, too.

Google promises that this is just the beginning of a broad e-commerce platform from which both users and partners will benefit. Partners who use YouTube’s content identification and management system can enable these links on user-generated content, if they use Content ID to claim videos and choose to leave them up on the site. So, next time you create that viral video, kids, make sure that it features a lots of enticing products which your viewers might want to buy.

From the user perspective, maybe sometime in the future this turns out to be the key of making YouTube profitable, but currently it’s just a bunch of simple “buy me” links which are far from earth shattering.

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This is a group of snailfish—the deepest living fish in existence—filmed alive for the first time in history in the name science and nausea. They live at depths of 4.6 miles (7,500 meters) or more, so scientists had to develop new camera technology capable of supporting a pressure of 8,000 tonnes per square metre—"the equivalent to that of 1600 elephants standing on the roof of a Mini car"—for a period of days.
The submersible platform reached 4.78 miles down the Japan Sea trench, and had to stay there for two days to be able to obtain this crystal clear footage, taking a total of five hours to reach the seabed. The camera equipment was designed specifically for this mission by the engineers at OceanLab—the sub-sea research facility of the University of Aberdeen.
According to project leader Dr Alan Jamieson, the resulting video taking during those two days is "absolutely amazing". We got some absolutely amazing footage from 7700 metres. More fish than we or anyone in the world would ever have thought possible at these depths. It’s incredible. These videos vastly exceed all our expectations from this research. We thought the deepest fishes would be motionless, solitary, fragile individuals eking out an existence in a food-sparse environment. But these fish aren’t loners. The images show groups that are sociable and active—possibly even families—feeding on little shrimp, yet living in one of the most extreme environments on Earth.
Whatever. Any fish that have teeth that do this...

...are not my friends. [OceanLab via Daily Mail]
Video and image credit: Natural Environment Research Council and University of Aberdeen.

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The first time David Reeves got up on stage and took a new PSP out of his pocket, it was easy to see why he looked so pleased with himself. The PSP-2000 - or Slim & Lite to you and me and the shops - was considerably smaller and lighter, and upon further investigation was clearly a big step forward, introducing USB charging, external video output, and more onboard memory to improve load times.

When he did it again in August 2008 though, we all wondered if he'd brought the wrong one. The PSP-3000 - another unofficial name - looked identical to the Slim & Lite, and Reeves' declaration that the screen was much better and that it now had a microphone built in didn't exactly cradle our nethers the way a built-in hard drive or Keeley Hawes might have done. In fact, we wondered what Sony was thinking.

The clue, we realised about ten seconds later, was in the name change - or rather the absence of one. "PSP-3000" may be the working title, but when it hits the shelves it will still be called the PSP Slim & Lite, because it's not a sequel to the PSP-2000 - it's a hardware revision that also happens to allow Sony to maintain the existing price point, and generate renewed buzz for the platform. Still, we'd never fall for that.

So, we've been playing with the PSP-3000 since it turned up on Saturday morning, and apart from a red bar mentioning the "enhanced screen and built-in microphone" and a discreet "PSP-3003 PB" designation in the bottom-right corner, the box doesn't make much of a song and dance about its brand new occupant.

Nor, initially, does the unit itself. The old "Home" button has been replaced with a brand-unifying PS-logo button, and the tiny microphone hole is located between the volume controls and the PSP logo itself on the front of the unit at the bottom. The promised curvier edges are so similar that we honestly forgot about them until most of this feature was written and we noticed some shadow gradient on a photograph, and went back and checked.

The main superficial changes are the microphone, the PS button and the slightly curvier edges. Can you find them all?
Switching on, the experience is much the same too, with the traditional set-up procedure - picking out a nickname and setting the date - before being plonked on the XMB and left to explore. There's something different about the screen though. In Sony's rather cold words, the colour range has been increased, the contrast ratio is five times that of the old model, the pixel response time has been halved to reduce ghosting, and it should be much easier to play outdoors thanks to anti-reflective gubbins. The "Color space" option on the system menu of the new 4.20 firmware installed on our retail unit is more poetic: "If you set to [Wide], the system's display will appear more vivid."

And it does. The usual four brightness settings are here (three when using the battery, and a fourth super-brightness level when you're plugged into the mains), but the colours at any level are much richer, warmer and deeper than the PSP-2000. As a result, the new PSP's battery-powered third brightness level outshines the mains-powered fourth on its predecessor. If you flick the "Color space" option back to Normal, meanwhile, the colouring reverts to something closer to, though still brighter than, the PSP-2000.

The difference in visual quality between games running on the PSP-2000 and PSP-3000 isn't as dramatic as the difference between games on the original DS and the DS Lite - the last time we found ourselves considering something of this nature, and a good frame of reference - but it's very noticeable when you return to a PSP-2000 running the same game. Lumines II and God of War: Chains of Olympus on the old hardware look pale and sickly after five minutes playing on the updated hardware.

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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan#39;s largest telecommunications company, has formed a quot;wide-ranging strategic partnershipquot; with EnterpriseDB that includes an undisclosed financial investment in the open source database maker./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The NTT announcement follows news earlier this year that#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/25/EnterpriseDB-pulls-away-from-Suns-orbit-embraces-IBM_1.html"IBM had become an investor in EnterpriseDB/a./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Track the latest trends in open source with InfoWorld#39;s a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/?source=fssr"Open Sources blog/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Many startup [database] vendors have one validating investment from a big company. It#39;s pretty unusual, however, to have two,quot; said Curt Monash, president of Monash Research./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"NTT and EnterpriseDB will work together to improve the PostgreSQL database technology at the heart of the vendor#39;s product line, focusing on high availability and scalability, and to promote adoption of PostgreSQL both wit