dan tynan on Oct 21 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Video, Web 2.0, Wired
Online content factory Demand Media has a new way to generate blogs and videos, using software and a network of human drones. Welcome to your Web nightmare.
dan tynan on Mar 13 2009 | Filed under: Computerworld, Culture Crash, Da Web, Facebook, Video, Web 2.0
Hulu, the joint video venture between NBC and Fox, turned one year old yesterday. And what a precocious rugrat it’s become.
To celebrate, Hulu announced it’s becoming more social, adding a feature called, appropriately enough, “Friends.” (No word whether Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Ross, et al will be making guest appearances, but don’t hold your breath.) This [...]
dan tynan on Mar 09 2009 | Filed under: Computerworld, Culture Crash, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0
I admit, I was a bit harsh on ZillionTV in my previous post. I based my report on a limited amount of information – essentially, the press release and the Web site – both of which left a lot of room for interpretation.
Shortly after that item posted I heard from ZillionTV and had a nice [...]
dan tynan on Dec 15 2008 | Filed under: Computerworld, Culture Crash, Da Web, Video, Web 2.0, politics, youtube
Yesterday, President George Bush was attacked by an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at him. Thanks to the power of YouTube, footage of the attack may be what some people remember most about his administration.
Call it ShoeTube.
During a press conference on his farewell tour of Iraq, President George Bush was attacked by a journalist [...]
dan tynan on Dec 05 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Jesus H. Christ, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
Social networks are starting to censor their edgier content — and some folks want to apply the same rules to video games.
dan tynan on Nov 18 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, US Airways Magazine, Video, Web 2.0, politics, youtube
The Internet has changed presidential politics forever – and mostly for the better
As I write this column, the U.S. presidential race is still tighter than a pair of $2 shoes. But this time around, it might not be hanging chads or hockey moms that determine who wins. It might just be the Internet.
[Note: I [...]
dan tynan on Oct 10 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Video, youtube
Politics is infecting everything these days, from YouTube to email to, yes, Cringely’s blog. Thank god Microsoft and Google finally decided to get along. Right?
dan tynan on Oct 07 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Sony is baloney, US Airways Magazine, Video, Web 2.0
The future of entertainment can be found inside a game console
Hi, my name is Dan and I have a problem with electronics. (“Hi, Dan.”)
As a professional gadget wrangler, my home often looks like an electronics warehouse. These days my living room is filled with devices designed to deliver content from the Internet to my [...]
dan tynan on Oct 03 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Microsoft, Privacy, Quizzes, Shameless self promotion, Video, yahoo
This is an interview I did with David Tortorelli, president of Book Premieres, which I did years ago and just found on the Ezinearticles Web site, for some reason. I’d hired David to promote my book, Computer Privacy Annoyances, and this appeared on the book’s Web site (now defunct). But the things I talked about [...]
dan tynan on Oct 02 2008 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, DMCA Madness, Video
Well, that didn’t take long. One day after RealNetworks releases its DVD copying software, lawsuits are filed. Who’s right, who’s wrong, and where do movie fans fit in? Cringely has some thoughts.
dan tynan on Sep 29 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Video, Web 2.0
Lies, damned lies, and video. A new web site purports to separate the spin and the slime from the truth by analyzing the speech patterns of public figures. Is this too good to be believed? Cringely has a few thoughts.
dan tynan on Sep 18 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Foolishness, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, yahoo, youtube
It was a vacation she’d probably rather forget. When Janet Dudley-Eshbach, president of Salisbury University in Maryland, created an album of her family’s trip to Mexico on Facebook in October 2007, she didn’t expect a local TV station to broadcast the photos to the world, or to have a Wikipedia entry covering the mini-scandal. [...]
dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Foolishness, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
Quick, what’s more stupid–driving 140 mph or filming yourself while driving 140 mph? How about filming yourself driving 140 mph and then posting the evidence on YouTube? That was only the tip of the dunce-berg for 23-year-old Andrew Kellett of Leeds, England. He posted more than 80 videos of himself driving recklessly, stealing gasoline, [...]
dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Lists, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
What is it about firehouses that makes people want to take off their clothes? In this case, Boston fireman Alberto Arroyo got in trouble for stripping down to take part in a body-building competition last May. (He finished eighth in the 2008 Pro Natural American Championships, by the way.) There’s nothing wrong with fire [...]
dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Da Web, Foolishness, Lists, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
It’s bad enough to dress up like you’re about to slip a dollar under some toothless child’s pillow. But former intern Kevin Colvin made it much worse by asking his boss at Anglo Irish Bank if he could take time off for a “family emergency in New York,” then flitting off to a Halloween party [...]
dan tynan on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Copyrights and wrongs, Crazyass cults, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
From Jon Newton at P2Pnet comes this report: A group apparently acting as a proxy for the Church (ahem) of Scientology has issued 4000 takedown notices to YouTube for any videos relating to CoS — including things like city commission meetings for the city of Clearwater, Florida (where CoS has its HQ).
To wit:
The Cult of [...]
dan tynan on Sep 08 2008 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Video
The biggest story from Demo so far: Real Networks RealDVD recorder, which lets you make legal copies of your DVDs on your computer, just like you can with your music CDs. It’s a simple concept wrapped in a legal minefield.
Real does this legally by paying the same licensing fees that manufacturers of DVD players [...]
dan tynan on Jul 21 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, DMCA Madness, Da Web, Infoworld, Music, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
After years of terrorizing its best customers, the RIAA may soon be brought to its knees — by a handful of angry moms. Would you mess with them? Cringely advises against it.
dan tynan on Jul 09 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy, Video, youtube
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
So a New York judge last week ordered Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user information to Viacom. Yes, we know what you watched last summer, or at least Viacom’s attorneys soon will.
The owners of Comedy Central and VH1 are attempting to [...]
dan tynan on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Lists, PC World, Video, Web 2.0
Why spend $50 to $100 a month for video entertainment when there’s so much good, free stuff on the Web? Good-bye, couch potato, and hello, mouse potato.
(This post originally appeared on PCworld.com.)
Dan Tynan
Lost lost me a long time ago. I’m sick to death of all doctor shows (but especially Grey’s Anatomy). And if I see [...]
