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img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/mary-kate olsen
pregnant/post_image/post_image-wenn2182184.jpg" border="0"br A fetus, in emour/em Mary-Kate Olsen?
It's more likely than you think. a
href="http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=93406fm=newsmain,nrhl"NZCity/a reports:
blockquoteThe 22-year-old star – who shot to fame alongside twin sister Ashley
in hit US TV show ‘Full House’ aged nine months – has
sparked rumours she is expecting her first child after her weight shot up to 102lbs, according to
emNational Enquirer/em magazine.br A source said: "Mary-Kate has been looking a lot rounder
recently. It is good she has put on weight, because she previously suffered from anorexia, but a
lot of people think she could actually be attempting to hide her pregnancy."br Mary-Kate has been
dating New York artist Nate Lowman since the beginning of the year and is said to have been
inspired to start a family by late actor, and close friend, Heath Ledger – who
told her becoming a father was the most rewarding thing he had ever done.br The source added:
"Mary-Kate really took Heath’s words to heart. She wanted the same kind of fulfillment in her
life that Heath found in his after becoming a dad.br "She is really happy with Nate and is very
excited they will soon be starting their family together.”/blockquote Whoa; she shot up to
102 pounds?! M-K must be housing quintuplets in that womb of hers. Who even knew that a woman is
even capable of sustaining a child on a diet of black coffee and air? Nonetheless, all the best to
Mary Kate and her blessing to be, which will surely be the cutest Sea Monkey ever. div
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Onilne service Joost says it has published a native supporting application for iPhone and iPod
touch owners. The app lets users view hosted video, which is normally restricted for Apple
handhelds due to the latter's incompatibility with Flash. Joost claims to have over 400 TV shows
and 1,200 movies on its network, as well as some 18,000 music videos. Content is divided into
genres such as anime...
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touch owners. The app lets users view hosted video, which is normally restricted for Apple
handhelds due to the latter's incompatibility with Flash. Joost claims to have over 400 TV shows
and 1,200 movies on its network, as well as some 18,000 music videos. Content is divided into
genres such as anime...
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touch owners. The app lets users view hosted video, which is normally restricted for Apple
handhelds due to the latter's incompatibility with Flash. Joost claims to have over 400 TV shows
and 1,200 movies on its network, as well as some 18,000 music videos. Content is divided into
genres such as anime...
img src="http://www.go2web20.net/data/uploads/logos/boxee.gif"/br/ bYou are now Free to be
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experience to enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from
websites like Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr.br/br/ a
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We've posted before about the "Wilhelm scream," the singular screech heard in hundreds of movies
and TV shows since it was recorded in 1951. Over at Boing Boing Offworld, Brandon notes the
scream's transition into the video game world. "The gamer's guide to the Wilhelm Scream"...br
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Look,
this has nothing to do with films that air on cable television without commercial interruption. And
it's even hard for me to rant against films that air on television with commercial
interruption because this is the way it's been done for many years now. I can deal with that. I
have a DVR, I can record films that air on, say, NBC, and fast forward through the commercials.
Sure, from time to time I'll stumble across a flick like Lord of the
Rings: Return of the King on TNT HD, become sucked in because Peter Jackson created three
awesome movies, and have to deal with commercials since I never recorded it. This happened to me
yesterday.
But what I didn't sign up for was to watch some stupid character from whatever random television
show drop down the middle of my television screen and start waving at me during a key scene in the
film. Oh yes, from out of nowhere this guy swings right down the middle of the screen where he
meets some girl and -- whaddya know -- it's an advertisement for another TNT show airing later in
the week. Thanks. Because it's bad enough they have to interrupt these films with five-or-so
minutes of advertisements, but now they're advertising things DURING THE FREAKING MOVIE.
I got over the watermark in the lower corner because they've since made them a bit more translucent
(though MTV is notorious for covering up dialogue on the bottom of the screen with their stupid
watermark). But this ... I simply cannot get over. I've noticed these little miniature characters
walk on the screen during films and TV shows on both TNT and TBS, and I'm not sure who else is at
fault but it needs to stop now. It's literally so irritating that I've banned TNT and TBS in my
apartment. Not watching either station until they lose the stupid ads. Please join me.
Baofeng Gets $15 Million; Chinese video software company that is “like the
Brightcove of China” gets funding round led by Matrix Partners China and IDG. (paidContent)
The FeedRoom Acquires ClearStory; white label video provider completes
acquisition of digital asset management firm. (emailed release)
Will.I.Am Tops Truveo’s Most-Searched List;Yes We Can the most
searched for viral video of 2008, Obama’s victory speech most searched live video moment.
(Truveo)
MediaFLO Looking to Expand its Mobile TV; company expects to get a boost from
the digital TV transition and is mulling moves to other platforms as well as branded channels
like Victoria’s Secret TV. (Broadcasting & Cable)
Actor’s Strike Won’t Impact OldTeeVee Like the Writers’
Strike; many TV shows are covered under the AFTRA union, which already has a deal with
the studios. (The L.A.
Times)
VCs Still Investing in New Media Ventures; despite economic downturn, money
still going to startups in the space, but investors want proof that revenue can be generated.
(TVWeek)
The Simpsons Skewers Apple; Lisa falls for all things
“Mapple” while Krusty complains you can’t watch movies on a screen that small.
(The
Apple Blog)
pJoost has brought its 46,000-plus catalog of films, TV shows, and other clips to the iPhone. The
free player allows streaming access to the company's entire library, but this initial effort falls
a little short./ppa
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pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/iphone_and_pc.jpg"It seems we're approaching a new age
here on the Internet. Instead being anonymous, faceless IP addresses, social computing and changing
technologies have allowed the lines between the "real" world and the "virtual" world to blur. Web
2.0 helped create a world where your identity is revealed in bits and pieces as you share snippets
of your life online - a photo here, a Stumble there, a tweet, a Digg, etc. However, the rise of
social media is only one of the changes that is busy shaping the new web. /p p
align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12762amp;cb=12762'
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alt='' align="right" //a/p pOn tomorrow's web, we're no longer going to be anonymous. In fact, one
can argue that we're no longer anonymous today, but that's not entirely true. We're still hearing
of people hijacking people's names and brands on social networking sites like a
href="http://twitter.com"Twitter/a, for example, and any MySpace search for a famous celebrity will
return hundreds of results purporting to be the "official" page for that person. But those days of
"faking it" may be fading fast. /p h2Being "Fake" Is Now A Crime/h2 pA precedent-setting case, the
Lori Drew MySpace trial, has just come to an end. If you're unfamiliar, this was a case where an
overprotective mom established a fake online identity to bully her daughter's rival. The judge's
ruling has now criminalized the act of creating a fake persona online. In the case of Drew, most
would agree she deserves the punishment she received. However, the aftershocks of the ruling could
very well impact the online identity creation process for years to come if it's not overturned. /p
h2Authenticating The "Real" You/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/f8_image1.jpg"
align="right"To address the needs of sites wanting weed out fake personas, users will have to be
authenticated in new ways. Here, companies like Facebook, Google, and others are already in
position to offer a solution for making sure people are who they say they are. a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_connect_readies.php"Facebook Connect/a, a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_friend_connect_manages.php"Google Friend
Connect/a, and a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_opens_yos_to_developers.php"Yahoo's Open
Strategy/a, have all been busy trying to grab land on the new frontier of identity management. All
of them want to be your de facto online identity provider. /p pNo matter who wins, though, it's
emanonymity/em that loses. For the sites that move to these types of authentication methods, no
longer will their users be able to create disposable usernames and passwords so they can troll
around harassing others and leaving juvenile comments. Instead, all participants are themselves
online#160; - and subject to the same standards for behavior that you would expect to see if you
encountered them in a real-life public situation. /p h2The Psychological Impacts Of One Identity
/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/selector-example3d.gif" align="left"Even the
utopian plans of a href="http://openid.net/"OpenID/a, a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myspace_aims_to_win_developers.php"which MySpace pledged
to support/a, is being embraced by other big names like a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_is_now_an_openid_provider.php"Google/a, a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_windows_live_openid.php"Microsoft/a, Yahoo,
and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/barack_obamas_changegov_adds_o.php"even
President-Elect Obama/a. With this federated identity, one set of credentials can follow you around
the net, providing access to hundreds of sites. Although everyday computer users may not understand
the technicalities of OpenID, the psychological impact will become apparent. /p pTo the technically
unsophisticated, the concept that you are emone/em set of credentials, emone/em username, emone/em
person across numerous sites will start people thinking that their activities can be traced, that
they are not as emanonymous/em as before...regardless as to whether or not that is true. /p h2The
User Data Overlords/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/security-cameras.jpg"
align="right"Finally, there is Google, the company we joke around as being "our new overlords." The
reality is that we have, in fact, turned over vast amounts of our personal identity to this company
in exchange for free webmail with pretty themes, snappy web browsing experiences, free analytics
tools, more. As Allen Stern noted this weekend, "a
href="http://www.centernetworks.com/google-online-privacy"Google Knows Where I Am and Everything I
Do/a." em(If you want to jump even deeper down that rabbit hole, take a closer look at /ema
href="http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com/index.php/googles-user-data-empire/"emGoogle's User Data
Empire/em/aem).#160; /em/p pThe terrifying vision of our future that Orwell imagined in his
masterpiece, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four"1984/a, has been surpassed
by miles. Big Brother staring at us through TV screens is nothing - instead, we've managed to
create a world where we blindly, willingly, hand over our data and personal identities to a
publicly traded company because they promised us they were trustworthy. And like a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine"the Eloi people in H.G. Wells' The Time
Machine/a, everything we need is provided to us - up until the time we become the dinner for the
evils that lurk just below the surface. /p h2Struggling To Adapt/h2 pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/facebook_wand.jpg" align="right"In many ways, our society
will struggle to adapt to the changes imposed by the lack of anonymity. Those embarrassing Facebook
photos you got tagged in this weekend could lose you your job and prevent you from getting a new
one. But how can we draw the line between what's public and private when so many of us have already
decided that it's socially acceptable to shove cameras and video recorders in people's faces
(without asking!) and publish the captured images to the net immediately? /p pThe only way to
prevent reputations from being damaged in the process is to always "be on your best behavior" in
public. Frankly, that's no fun. No more wild boys nights out? No more getting silly and stupid with
your friends? No - not unless you're willing to live with the consequences of having it plastered
online in the morning. /p pWhen we reach the point where online anonymity has ended, instead of
getting to be who we really are, the fact that we've become so aware of the fact that we're always
being recorded, photographed, tracked, and traced, will have actually created a slightly altered
personality instead. Like reality TV show contestants, the act of being observed will change our
behavior. Our personal brand image will become our public identity and therefore our identity. /p
h2Not All Bad, Just Different/h2 pThe truth is, giving up our online anonymity may not be all bad -
we'll have a convenient, portable friend graph, for example. We can burn our notebook filled with
our usernames and passwords. Our search data will be easily accessible from one place. But for the
convenience of a simple login, searchable personal data and web history, and social networks filled
with friends, we'll have exchanged a bit of who we are in the process. We'll pay for our services
on the new internet with our identity and personal information. When the companies we sold
ourselves to use it for their own benefits, our outrage will come too late. We'll only have
ourselves to blame. /p pemImage credit: iPhone with transparent screen, /ema
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Starting last January Apple offered HD movies to rent only for the Apple TV. Now, with 24:
Redemption, the first HD movie (available in TV Show area because it contains exclusive TV
footage) comes to Mac and PC from iTunes. However, it’s expensive: $15 to buy...
br /Some questionsbr /br /How many lyrics make up the online database?br /br /Why it might be a
killerbr /br /Music lovers the world over will appreciate the chance to convene together and
exchange insight and opinions.br /br /In their own wordsbr /br /“WhoDitty.com is a website
dedicated to music artists and music fans. We provide a unique tune search and social network
combination that was created by musicians and fans, for musicians and fans.”br /br /What it
doesbr /br /WhoDitty is an online resource that serves one specific aim, namely bringing music
lovers the world over together. This social site enables users to search for any tune they heard,
regardless of the fact they knew who sang it or not. This is achieved via an elastic search tool
that takes into account as many aspects as the user managed to identify upon his listening.
What’s more, users can always see who is searching for what at the site and find more common
ground this way. br brThe website also enables you to search the most popular tunes from movies and
TV shows. This is a nice touch, although that field is already well-covered by the existing ST
Lyrics website. However, WhoDitty scores over that resource in the sense that it lets you find
tunes by tags. In practice, this means that if you have no idea who sang a song you heard long ago
nor do you remember a single lyric you might still be able to find that particular ditty by
submitting comments and setting down tags. br brOn the other hand, the community feeling is
strengthened by letting users promote their own bands and upload videos for all to see and comment
upon. Blogs are likewise highlighted, along with members of the site. br brWhen all is said and
done, this is a very well-put together resource that (to quote the Shepherd Bush’s boys)
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I understand when you buy music on itunes say you bought 1 song from T.I. and later his full album
comes out with that song but you want to buy the full album without buying that same song again
they charge you less to buy the album and they will only send you say its a 10 track album then
give you 9 since you already have 1 of the songs on the album. Does the same apply if you bought
like 2 episodes of the office and then later you decide to buy the the season pass/ buy the season
so then they would give you the rest of the episodes you don't have for a cheaper price?
pMicrosoft is again trying to improve laptop battery with their upcoming Windows 7 OS. Microsoft is
essentially trying to make it easier for system components to go into low power mode when in idle
state./p pOther key improvements include the ability to park CPU cores, slumber feature for SATA
drives, powering down USB ports controllers, and putting the Wi-Fi Card to sleep if enabled but not
connected to a network./p pWindows 7 will have a change in thinking about the system timer.
Presently, Vista is set to 1ms but in Windows 7 it will be raised to 15ms which helps to reduce the
power draw by 15%. Windows 7 laptops will also not wake up from sleep for applications that use
'wake timers'. For example: Open files from a network and CPU utilization won't stop the screen
turning off, the hard drive spinning down and the system going to sleep when you haven't used the
PC in a while; Windows 7 will only check for user input and applications like Media Center
recording a long TV show. The screen will also dim to save power before turning off./p pDVD
experience on laptops is one which tests several power-hungry components including optical drive
and graphics in one go. Microsoft will introduce specific changes in Windows 7 and new Windows
Media Player to cache video in a buffer so it can spin down the DVD drive and reduce CPU power
consumption./p pMicrosoft is working with system manufacturers to use energy troubleshooters across
the system to check settings that affect battery life. Microsoft also plans to monitor power
efficiency of laptops running Windows 7 anonymously and every two weeks./p pSource: a
href=http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/how-windows-7-shames-vista-on-battery-life-489109TechRadar/a/p