December 2008
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November 2008
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First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter, Flickr →
techcrunch.com
In Mumbai, India hundreds of civilians are being gunned down by terrorists. So far there are nearly 100 dead. The ground breaking news is taking place by citizen journalists on Twitter and Flickr.
“Twitter isn’t the place for solid facts yet - the situation is way too disorganized. But it’s where the news is breaking. GroundReport is doing a good job of reporting and aggregating citizen reports.” (Rachel Sterne is Founder and CEO of GroundReport, a global citizen journalism platform that strives to democratize the media).
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YouTube Changes Video Size And Adds New Features →
ca.youtube.com
YouTube changed the video size on video pages. Furthermore, they allow you to batch upload multiple videos at one time. For example, today I uploaded two videos. Instead of having to upload twice, I can upload in one click. This is perfect for someone on the go like me. I can click upload, go out to dinner and by the time I come back my video is encoding. Motionbox used to be the only video site with this feature, but now it’s got some major competition.
For a content creator who shoots in HD, this is superb. You can watch videos in high quality, 16:9 and batch upload them at one time! You will notice that not all channels have this functionality. Channels that have not been on YouTube for long or who are not in the partner program have not noticed this functionality. Do you think YouTube has been doing a beta test in the last couple days?
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Online Micro-Celebrities →
collegemogul.com
“The same way Hollywood breeds superstars and celebrities, the internet has quickly become a medium for people to gain their own fame, power, influence, and stardom.” It’s a sweet article about Pop17 tracking online micro fame and the rising popularity of internet stars. (Clarification: I don’t call myself a video journalist).
(Via Giz) a10 things you need to know about in-flight wifi
1. Your last bastion of Internet Free peace is gone. Forever. You’ll be forced to work on flights instead of valium napping or reading comic books, and your boss will expect you to be checking email. Time to plan a camping trip.
2. Total bandwidth is not as fast as Cable Modem, but it seems faster than slow DSL. (We were sharing 3.6Mbps down and 1.8Mbps up, which isn’t bad at all, on this Virgin America test flight, and it felt this fast when benching.)
3. But bandwidth is shared between customers. Aircell’s GoGo a 3GHz EVDO-Rev A related tech modded for ground to air, started crawling as soon as other passengers signed on. (I got a test result measuring 66kbps down at one point, but Ryan showed about a mbit down. )
4. You have to pay. Virgin America charges, for example $9.95 for flights under 3 hours, and $12.95 on flights over 3 hours.
5. You will still need to close your laptops and shut off your devices until you reach cruising altitude.
6. Most airlines, even those that are not blocking ports, are blocking known VOIP ports. For our sanity. Although I WAS able to initiate a really solid iChat video session, but they may filter this on real flights. (See Below, courtesy of Nick Bilton from the NYTimes.)
7. Although plenty of airlines will have Wi-Fi by the end of next year, I prefer Virgin America because they’ve got 110v AC power plugs in coach.
8. WiFi porn won’t be blocked by Virgin America or American Airlines (according to a test earlier this week.) But blocking porn is silly — people can easily play porn on DVDs or predownloaded files, but people generally have refrained so there’s no reason to think they’ll do otherwise now.
9. Flights using Go Go service will be able to connect to a VPN.
10. You can file share with other computers on the 802.11 a/b/g Wi-Fi network. That’s good for gaming, but also, make sure your firewall is up.
Broadcasting Live On YouTube From Virgin America →
youtube.com
On November 22nd, Virgin America is launching Gogo Inflight Internet, via the first air-to-ground video stream during YouTube Live-YouTube’s first official real-world user event on November 22nd. The carrier’s first Wi-Fi enabled plane will circle the skies above San Francisco during the event and a segment of the YouTube Live show will be streamed from 35,000 feet to an audience on the ground and on-line.The YouTube Live event flight will serve as the beta launch of the Gogo(r) Inflight Internet Service on Virgin America with one Wi-Fi enabled aircraft available to guests from Nov. 24 on, the airline will be the first U.S. carrier to offer inflight internet fleet-wide by the second quarter of 2009.
19 year old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv →
newteevee.com
Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide live on Justin.tv, Wednesday. The video was quickly removed and the CEO, Michael Sibel, said, “As for the broadcaster incident last night, we don’t comment on individual videos, however, our policy prohibits inappropriate content on Justin.tv. We rely on the community to flag videos that they feel are objectionable. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed and quickly removed from the system if it violates our Terms of Use.”
It’s not the first time someone has live streamed their suicide. Someone did it on PalTalk before. The disturbing part is the comments in the live chat and in this forum were egging him on and encouraging him to do it. People actually wanted to see him die. People need to think twice before leaving vile comments.
