Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThe article implies that these are edited versions of the show, because you're right YT wouldn't allow the adult-ish content.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIt's all rights issues, it takes a lot of work - and a lot of money - to clear clips, actors, music, etc for non-US audiences. The big media companies see online distribution as a high-risk activity still (ha!), and international online distro is even more complicated.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI'd love to create an account for @pbs, which I manage. How might I go about getting an account setup?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWith GPS, they're checking vicinity, but otherwise there's definitely a bit of trust on the side of Foursquare for people just using the mobile web to checkin.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetCertainly would require some additional "privacy" settings huh? Maybe a real reputation system too? (ie No interns messing with your meds!)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetLouis, exactly. The current players aren't showing many signs of doing anything truly disruptive (ie disrupt the iPhone) it's going to take much more than an open-source platform, much more than fancy push-email, and much more than multi-touch (although I think multi-touch is here to stay).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI'd say that in many respects, Microsoft is further along in "getting it" as far as social type technologies go (case in point the xBox) -- Google just hasn't been able to get their fingers into the space very effectively yet. They undoubtedly will, but for now the point goes to MS.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetTotally agree, this model works for a school but wouldn't be possible for your local library. (not to mention the theft issues - imagine the chains the local public library would need just to keep the e-readers in the building)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetCushing only has about 450 students (per their web site), so it amounts to one e-reader per 25 students -- This sounds a lot like 10-15 years ago when schools started doing computer labs in schools, you basically rotate students/classes into and out of the limited number of computers the school had.
Now, schooles have not only computers in every classrooms but more and more a computer for every student. At say $300 a pop for an e-reader, Cushing ought to be able to scale up those 18 initial units pretty quickly.
(Also keep in mind that the school charges between $30,000-40,000 per student per year in tuiton)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWhile I can appreciate Facebook launching these new widgets, I'm still a little underwhelmed by the functionality they've chosen to add. With systems as powerful as Facebook Connect you would think that they would start integrating more ways to get the data both into- and out of- Facebook by way of these widgets.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThe coupon code is now working, after just a cursory glance the service looks like it'll be pretty useful. I've run into the problem of not being able to search or find old tweets on more than one occasion. Tweetsaver is still pulling in the tweets from my account, I'll probably take another look in the morning once it's had time to pull in some data and start processing.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI'm having a hard time finding any white-label, or decent hosted
scripts that aren't buggy little php apps.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAgreed, it's not a simple problem there clearly should have been more
reporting and content on CNN (and other networks) yesterday as events were
unfolding. That IS why we have multiple 24 hour news networks isn't it?
They're rarely completely accurate the first time they report on something
good journalism is a process that takes time.Twitter excels in the immediacy, which I think is why the networks are
relying on it more and more. I wish I knew why they ignored the situation
last night. It definitely would make for an interesting case study. Anyone
interested in investigating/interviewing them for such a report?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetGood point, and I think what you're getting at it is similar to the "product vs process" journalism that Jay Rosen, Clay Shirkey and others have been debating for some time. What twitter was doing is demonstrating process journalism by which there's a lot of information coming at you, but it takes a long while to get to 'the truth' whereas mainstream media is often stuck with product journalism (even in the digital space) where they want all their ducks in a row before publishing anything.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIt's Disqus, one of my favorites at the moment. They make it really easy to
moderate and have lots of extra functionality if you want. Ping @gianii and
he can hook you up with more info.
