Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku
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In 2002, there was no Facebook, no Youtube, CMSs were used by precious few and no laptops shipped with built-in cams,
… today professionals in Seattle listen to pitches or manage projects via internet video collaboration suites like IWM , millions of regular people are video-bloggin, video chatting, the porn industry is apparently making a killing from allowing joe and jane to broadcast directly from their bedroom, Obama´s inauguration is going to be broadcast on CNN / Live.
In the space of 6 years, though has social networking & communication have moved to the internet digital distribution of music and art still controlled by the old guard; we are forced to buy music, movies and art the same way we did 25 years ago – the artist, movie or show is promoted on late night TV, and then plays at a theater near you or is available for digital download from iTunes or other DRM protected sources,
nowhere is the artist, musician or moviemaker allowed to publish directly to all devices, either the device maker is blocked by the OS maker or the music distributor throws a spanner in the works …
its a soup of stupid capitalists, greedy lawyers, ignorant buyers, frustrated artists – for me the bottomline is – art, music, movies must go from the creator to the consumer directly, why do artists and musicians and moviemakers need a bunch of MBAs parasting on them ? they dont – sure the record company puts up the capital to produce an album but its the listeners who pay the artists and the record company back, or have they forgotten that the business of selling creativity is ALL about the creator and the buyers, and NOT about the middle man.
i foresee artists bypassing record companies altogether, i foresee tour operators, booking agents, caterers 8 the works ) ignoring these fools in suits,
release your music directly onto the internet as FLAC, APE, MP4, WMA, see here, outsource the art work in contests across the world, or do away with them altogether, allow devices to discover and recommend downloads,
follow the lead of these guys and dont just play to 150 K fans play to 2 million via live internet broadcast, –
artists, musicians, movie makers the world is your oyster, why are you still tied to the aprin strings of the old world ?
come join us at MINIFAME !
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LOS ANGELES–The differences between Vista and Windows 7 are subtle–sometimes so subtle that they can go unnoticed.
This point was exacerbated by the fact that the build that developers were given a chance to take home last week doesn’t have the new taskbar that represents the most visual difference between Windows 7 and today’s Vista desktop.
Microsoft went to the trouble of shifting all the computer kiosks at the Professional Developers Conference over to Windows 7 on Tuesday. But because the version lacked some of the key visual features, some attendees didn’t even notice they were running the newer Windows.
But Microsoft felt that keeping the user interface features out of the developer build was critical to keeping the features a surprise at the conference. The company’s earlier M1, M2, and M3 builds all leaked out, said Chaitanya Sareen, a program manager in the Windows unit.
As the conference was winding down on Thursday, Sareen and another program manager–Rebecca Deutsch–offered an in-depth look at the changes Microsoft made to the desktop as well as the rationale for them. To get the best understanding of the changes, check out the two embedded videos (apologies for the lack of tripod).
The new taskbar is, in many ways, more akin to Mac OS X’s dock than it is to what most Windows users have seen at the bottom of their screens for years.
With Vista and all its recent predecessors, there are a host of different icons at the bottom of the screen, with one group representing favorite items, another representing open program windows and a third representing notifications and items that launch at start-up.
Window 7 aims to do away with most of that redundancy in favor of one collection of large icons that live at the bottom of the screen. The icons represent applications chosen by the user and live there whether an application is running or not.
The large icons serve several purposes. The icon can, of course, be used simply to switch to or launch an application. It is also home to what is known as a “jumplist,” sort of like a mini start menu for each program that can contain a series of actions, a link to recent documents, or even a series of controls that let a user take an action without switching to the program itself.
“This is the one button to rule them all,” Sareen said. A left click opens the windows while a right click or the swipe of a finger on a touch-sensitive machine brings up the jumplist.
When a program is open, the icon also allows a user to preview that application’s open windows. Clicking on a thumbnail naturally brings that window to the front. Hovering over the preview, though, temporarily previews that window as if it were in front, but doesn’t actually complete the change–a feature Microsoft is calling “Aero Peek.”
The idea came as the company tried to solve a riddle: what was the perfect size for a thumbnail window? For things like graphical Web pages or a pair of photos, a small representation might do the trick. But when one is trying to, say, flip between two similar Word documents or e-mails, it gets harder.
“The perfect size of the thumbnail is the actual size of the window,” Sareen said. And that’s how Aero Peek was born.
The goal with that feature and others, Sareen said, is to find ways to remove some of the things that make computing harder, what he calls “paper cuts.” They aren’t bugs, so much as things that are needlessly complicated or nonintuitive.
“We kind of went on a war against paper cuts,” he said.
The company is also trying to reduce all of those annoying notifications that pop up along the right hand side of the computer. Developers can still write code that makes them appear, Deutsch said, but with each one that pops up, users have the option of disabling all such warnings from that program. The idea is to use social engineering to convince developers to bother the user far less often.
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Inside Windows 7?s new desktop
During the boom years, technology advances were generally viewed in terms of how they allowed us to do new things.
Check out this new gadget – it lets you play a video game while skiing! It lets you update your Facebook page while scubadiving! It lets you Twitter while visiting the john! Awesome!
But there’s another side to technology that maybe hasn’t got enough play, but is likely to as the economy gets worse.
New technology also lets you do all the same things you always did, only cheaper.
And it’s not just a matter of comparison Web sites like billshrink.com that help you cut costs.
TV Web sites like Hulu.com will let many people save money by canceling some of their cable TV package. High-speed wireless Internet, from 3G to new WiMax, should let them save on home Internet connections. (Xohm, the new WiMax service, is priced well below cable- though at this point it has only been launched in Baltimore and rollout to other cities is taking time.)
Voice over Internet lets you dump your landline, and maybe even cut back on your cellphone. Google Talk lets you make video phone calls to family, friends or colleagues around the world for free.
From The Wallet, the Journal’s blog about personal finance news and investing trends:
New electronic book readers can give you access to discounted books and magazines. Amazon’s Kindle is only the best known. Several can be used to “borrow” electronic books, complete free, from the public library.
At first blush, the individual savings seem too small to bother with.
They’re not.
Ask yourself if it’s worth changing cable or home Internet providers, say, or cellphone providers, in order to save just $10 a month.
Many people couldn’t be bothered. It’s no surprise. Ten bucks doesn’t sound like much.
But one of the key themes of this column is that combining recurrent savings with compound interest has explosive power. It’s the atomic fission of finance.
Slashing just $10 from each month’s costs and investing it, instead, adds up to quite a bundle over the course of an adult lifetime. Someone who did that over fifty years would have an extra $54,000 when they retired. Not bad.
Until recently, few people thought like that.
Just ask the people around you how much their cellphone or their cable TV package costs them. Chances are they will just quote you the price per month as if it’s the total cost. “Oh, my cellphone’s only about $70,” they’ll say. Or: “We only spend $100 on cable.”
The true cost, year over year, is vastly greater.
It’s something worth thinking about in relation to the technological wizardry that permeates our culture. The real value of these whiz-bang innovations isn’t that anyone can live blog the presidential inauguration that everybody can see on their TV set anyway. Used wisely, these tools can put more money in your pocket.
Write to Brett Arends at brett.arends@wsj.com
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Windows 7’s “Action Center” alerts users if they don’t have antivirus software installed, pointing them to a Microsoft Web site with links to download various antivirus software products.
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Despite the fact that security programs are often some of the toughest code to make work with a new operating system, Windows 7 already has several companies ready with products aimed at keeping it safe from attackers.
By comparison, only one antivirus firm–McAfee–had its security software commercially ready by the time Microsoft launched Vista for businesses in November 2006.
That said, it stands to reason, given that Microsoft was making far more dramatic changes to the operating system’s underlying architecture in Vista than it is in Windows 7.
This time around, it is AVG, Kaspersky, and Symantec that have products that are being touted from Microsoft’s site. McAfee said it will have support by the time Windows 7 launches, while Trend Micro is working to have a compatible product in the next month or so.
“It is great to see that these partners were able to have their solutions working so early in our development process,” Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc said in a blog posting.
Dave Cole, a senior director of product management at Symantec, said his company decided to offer up a test version of its Norton 360 product for use with Windows 7, even though the company knows there are still a few things left to work out.
“We determined that we could run reasonably well under Windows 7,” Cole said. “There are bugs that we know about, but we’re comfortable enough with the effectiveness of the product that when they called us to participate we took them up on the offer.”
Having the support lined up is important to Microsoft, which built an “action center” into the operating system that warns users if it detects there is no antivirus software installed. The action center then points to a page on Microsoft’s Web site with links to Windows 7-compatible security software.
The page lists Kaspersky, AVG, and Norton, but adds that “Microsoft is actively working with additional security software independent software vendors (ISVs) so that security software solutions will be available for Windows 7 Beta and (the final release of) Windows 7.”
As far as Windows 7’s approach to security, it appears to draw heavily from the investments the company made with Windows Vista.
The most notable change is probably the fact that users now have the option to choose how often they are required to authorize changes to their system. One of the most frequent criticisms of Vista was the annoyance of the User Account Control dialog boxes that forced users to authenticate many types of changes to their systems.
Microsoft spent a fortune securing Vista, both in engineering new features as well as in testing. The software maker corralled a significant chunk of the world’s penetration testers to help poke at Vista ahead of its release.
The software maker plans some penetration testing for Windows 7, but declined to say how much or whether it would be comparable to its Vista effort.
CNET News’ Elinor Mills contributed to this report.
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