Yamaha Home TheaterToday's title is an example from Natali's mind of some tags you might put on a video with Yahoo's new video tagging game. I would like to see that video. We also touch on the myth of Cyber Monday and keep you up to date on Linux on the iPhone.
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EPISODE 862 |
Cyber Monday supposed to be big this year
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154458/a_cyber_monday_tech_shopping_primer.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-10110111-58.html
Joost for iPhone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10109753-2.html
Yahoo Video Tag game
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoos_new_videotaggame_lets_you_tag_within_videos.php
Facebook Connect appears set for expansion
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10110039-93.html
Baidu vows search overhaul
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AR3HI20081128
Hackers boot Linux on iPhone
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10110018-37.html
uTorrent for Mac
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/27/finally-utorrent-releases-a-mac-version/
Morroco biometric ID cards
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-10110050-42.html
European Cyber Crime unit
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10110133-83.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7758127.stm
Criterion Collection dips its toes into online film rentals
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081130-criterion-collection-dips-its-toes-into-online-film-rentals.html
VOICE MAIL
Dwight in Hollywood
Request for Amazon about Kindle
Whoa snap!
It looks like “Transit Mode” may be closer than we think. I don’t think that anyone has mentioned it yet (since you guys discussed it a week before the G1 was publicly available), so I give to you: Locale .
Locale is an app for Android which — well, the site is much more informative than I could be about it.
Suffice it to say that there are GPS-enabled, location-aware phone profile changes going on here. I’m thinking v2.0 could add hooks into changing voicemail settings; id est:
If curVelocity > 25mph Then
numRings = 1
vmGreeting = greet2
Else If curVelocity > 50mph Then
numRings = 0
vmGreeting = greet3
End If
Yeah, it’d *probably* wind up being slightly more complicated than the preceding block of code, but it’s a start. Heck, they can even use that as a springboard, no charge! 
Link: [http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=25]
~ J-2 in MD, who Luvs.the.freakin’.show!
P.S. After sending the following email, I took another look at the screenshots on the Android page. It looks like you can already set up specific call forwarding features based on current location! (see last pic) Now all we need is that voicemail greeting change thingy, and T.M. is here. For realz!
I listen to the buzz out loud podcast a lot and I really enjoy the banter. Sometimes I learn more about the tech world from listening to you guys than I do from reading most of the articles on technology and I recommend the podcast to my friends.
Now, here’s something I’d like to hear about. Today, on the front page of c|net, I was treated to a large, annoying, autorunning video ad of the iPhone. This is the second time it’s appeared this month that I know of. There is a close button at the top of the ad, but the button does not work and the ad plays ad whether I want it to or not. This has to be my number one pet peave on the internet these days since these ads only serve to clog up my tubes locally with content I don’t want to see. Ad blocking does not appear to work, so I notified CBS through the “ad feedback” link that for this weekend I will be blacklisting c|net on this network.
What do you guys think? Am I over reacting in a world where my ISP is planning to start limiting my monthly bandwidth and where annoying ads such as these are using up my bandwidth sans my permission? Or am I justified in wishing to control what goes across my network and what uses up my bandwidth and what doesn’t? I do not have anything against ads because I know everyone needs to get paid for the work they do, but come on, do they think we’ll keep coming back to a site that continually uses up more bandwidth than it’s worth? Afterall, CnetTV stops streaming after 3 videos for precisely the reason of not wanting to use up bandwidth, why limit the bandwidth there but not in this case?
Just my pet peave and rant of the weekend.
Matt in Palm Bay
With as nice as the Holiday Help Desk is to watch on cnettv.com, why
isn’t cnet cranking out content on a DTV subcarrier for any CBS owned
and operated station? Here in Las Vegas our local CBS affiliate (not an
O&O) carries programming from LATV on its .2 signal. My local NBC
affiliate carries not only Universal Sports but also NBC WeatherPlus.
For all the great stuff CNET does in audio as well as video online,
couldn’t it reach even more people via DTV?
An OTA version of cnet couldn’t be too difficult via DTV and would
likely have less download limit worries than pulling podcasts on an
iPhone. The morning wake-up show already exists with the404. B-O-L
could be the mid-morning show. After that other things that are on
watchbol.com now could be aired.
I am merely curious. I enjoy both the404 and B-O-L as morning shows.
Both are better than some of the things local radio provides.
Stephen Michael Kellat
Henderson, NV
Hello Molly, Tom, Jason +1,
I am a long time listener from India.
Please make mention about the role of social media (Twitter, Flickr) in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks if you can.
Wired article
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/first-hand-acco.html
WSJ article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122772417126260231.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us
I must confess that I have some concerns about it in this context, the biggest being the safety of the hostages, e.g. there were requests from the authorities to stop the twitter feed #mumbai, since the holed-up attackers might be following them, thus giving away details of the operations of the security forces.
However 36 hours on, #mumbai still lives.
In any case, it sign of the times and definitely of relevance beyond India.
Love the show.
Cheers,
murari
Murari Venkataraman
Wii Speak Channel
I’m surprised you guys didn’t talk about this today. Gosh, you guys are getting more and more influential. Someone should make a list of all the things you guys changed in order to make these troubled times less… troubled. In fact, I bet Molly could run for president and win at this point. Or better yet, you could make a podcast oriented government. Every week a new episode would come out with new laws for people. And it would be fair, because you would let other people come on to the show and submit their own laws.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6201714.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;3
Love the show,
Anonymouse
--Tom
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EPISODE 655 |
Hello, ladies.
IPv6 would make NAT unnecessary.
Stop talking about Apple.
eBay procedure.
Excerpt:
According to the framework agreement, the two agencies will identify areas of mutual interest and seek to develop cooperative programs or projects in Earth and space science, exploration, human space flight and other activities. The agreement replaces a soon-to-expire agreement signed on Dec. 16, 1997, which fostered bilateral cooperation in the areas of Earth and atmospheric sciences.Now, making Indian cuisine "space rated" will likely be quite a challenge ;)
Actually, there are some "homegrown" technologies that the Indian Space Research Organization has developed is rather impressive in its cost- effectiveness. I could benefit both parties to use the technologies on U.S. design/built vehicles.
Best,
Shalin
Howdy Buzz crew, Mike the graphic designer from College Station here.
You mentioned yesterday that eBay was considering removing the ability of sellers to leave negative buyer feedback. Tom said he thought it was a bad idea--and I have to tell you, Tom, you're wrong. Dead wrong. Dum, dum, dum!
Seriously, I've been waiting for something like this for years. Under the current system, 1,000-item sellers hold feedback over the heads of regular buyers like a piece of digital blackmail. First of all, they will not grant feedback until they get it--a subtle but unmistakable message that it better be positive. And If Joe user is dissatisfied and does give the seller negative feedback, what does a mega-seller really lose? .02 percent of his rating? While a buyer who's bought fifty or less items in years loses major credibility. Just a few months ago I bought battery covers for my phone, using an instant payment. They were blemished on arrival and clearly photoshopped in the ad, so I left negative feedback. The seller then left me negative feedback, after I gave him an instant paypal payment, literally granting him instant gratification. His note only said "bad buyer", proving that his feedback was a pure act of spite.
I applaud eBay for its move empowering buyers. Perhaps a softer system might agree with Tom--forcing sellers to leave feedback first would give buyers the freedom to fairly judge while still keeping feedback levels even--but I for one will be happy to judge fairly and without fear. Justice comes to the Streets of eBay!
Thanks all,
Mike
Fightin' Texas Aggie, class of 2010
--Tom
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EPISODE 654 |
Your personal devices won't need a bunch of IP addresses.
HDTV evidence.
Rhapsody has MP3s.
Tom & crew,
I just wanted to write in quickly about the coming changeover to IPv6. All recent Operating Systems support IPv6 natively, that is to say XP SP1 and forward, Vista, Apple OS X 10.4 & 10.5 and most flavors of Linux. With that said, the changeover shouldn't really be of any concern to consumers. Most carriers, my company included, plan to run both IPv6 and IPv4 in tandem for quite some time--worst case, the consumer may need to update the firmware on their router our but an new one. From the carrier perspective it isn't about simply updating the firmware on a $49 router; there's hundreds of hours of engineering and millions of dollars of equipment required to make the switch.
In any case, if you're interested, I happen to be fairly close with someone on the board of ARIN, the group that actually distributes IP addresses and determines policy. He may be an interesting interview for the show.
Regards,
Matt in New Jersey
OK,
Been listening for about two years (love the show!), and I just had to write in now, because the discussion on fiber optic roll-out by IT managers at Universities really boiled my buttons. We've already been there--back in the 1990s our wonderful government gave tax incentives to telecommunications companies to the tune of around 200 billion dollars to lay fiber optic cable throughout America. This was known as the "National Infrastructure Initiative", and the phone companies promised to wire 86 million homes with fiber optic by 2006. By 2004, only 38 million homes had been wired, and most of those was with DSL (considered "High Speed", but we all know it's truly not when we're moving towards a Video-on-demand Internet). More information can be found here.
Finally, zombies! I can't believe you haven't reported this yet, but scientists have observed a wasp that injects a venom into cockroaches, creating Zombie Cockroaches. The scary thing is that the scientists were able to duplicate the zombification, and could turn it on and off as well. I see massive turnouts in the next election of zombie humans voting for Mitt Romney.
Thanks,
Steven Blunt
Hello again,
Internet seems to be almost back to normal here, at least enough to listen to the BOL episodes I missed!
Regarding the UAE Internet prices, those prices mentioned were the prices issued by the greedy hotel. I noticed many hotels charging insane amounts of money for Internet access (20-30 euro a day in Germany) so I guess it is "normal" for hotel prices to be that high. Sigh.
The prices in UAE are relatively good. For 4Mbit DSL it costs 450AED, thats about 130$ monthly. Still expensive, but there are no competitors in terms of land lines.
Something similar here in Saudi Arabia, only one company (STC) handling the land lines as well as GSM. We noticed how their prices have dropped and services improved (in the GSM network anyway) when a second provider came in the market (Mobily). Now a third GSM network will enter this year (Zain) as well as a second land line telecom (one of the partners is Verizon apparently). So we hope to see improvements in the land lines as well.
Best regards,
Khaled A.
Hello Buzz town,
The reason that the Super Smash Brothers discs were not working is because the disc is a dual-layer disc.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/849/849072p1.html
"Nintendo has come to the conclusion that the problem has to do with dust and tobacco building up on Wii laser units. This affects Smash Bros. Brawl while leaving other titles unaffected because the new fighter uses a dual-layer DVD, which is apparently more sensitive to a dirty lens."
Love the show,
Brad in Ohio
Tuk will uh--a town near Seattle. Native American tribe from the Puget Sound area.
Not to be confused with the Nooksak or Chuckanut tribes which are located farther north. No really, those are the names of real tribes.
Robert Yee
Hi Tom, Rafe, and Jason,
On Episode 652, Tom and Rafe had a bit of an argument about tearing up roads to lay cable. Just wanted to let you know that utilities can lay cable underground without trenching (tearing up the ground) by using underground directional boring equipment. I don't know if this counts as a "well actually", but I really hope so.
Thanks for the show,
Jennifer
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