Technically Speaking

Voyager was unveiled yesterday. Is it the answer to the iPhone. Kind of looks like it might be, only the fact that Verizon likes to censor your data as discussed yesterday. That in itself is a no sell in my mind. As far as iPhone clones go, this will be the first of many, so Apple better innovate again or at least lower their price point.

Free Music - Well let’s hope for music’s sake alone, that never comes to pass. If that ever happens, forget about artists ever releasing any music. They may as well just go on tour forever. Let people pirate them, and than find them and shake them down for a cut of the bootleg profits. I saw the article yesterday on the Radiohead experiment. This should be quite interesting. If the demand keeps the price at least in the $0.79 range I would say they won, and there will be a new business model to follow. One point that I do agree with is that with the p2p sharing, you sometimes end up with total crap.

Facebook - Is it just a great theory and we are all along for the ride? Well count me in, as I always told my band members - hang on for the ride, the train has left the station. No idea why I use the “train” example, but if Facebook fails, it won’t be for quite some time. There are far too many companies with a vested interest to let the “train” crash anytime soon.

Technically Speaking, that was all that interested me so far this morning. If you feel any of them belong as a GMAFB, by all means go post it now as I have some people looking over the site in the next day or so. Sign Up to post, vote, and comment! Here are 34 that need a break.

Did you get your taxes filed this weekend? If you were watching rex.tv yesterday afternoon about 3:30pm central time, you saw me whip mine out in about 15 minutes. Here we go, welcome to another week on planet earth:

Dodgeball founder quits Google - And so the twittering goes on and on.

Review of San Francisco - I have no clue, it was open in one of my tabs in Firefox, which if you reading this blog via it, you are doing “A OK” by me! IE 7 users, may be wondering why the side bar drops; just read this.

UK has Kate Modern - LonelyGirl15 via Bebo.

Egnyte - Let this program manage your files.

Router In Space - Yeah, I saw this the other day also. Funny thing, routers have been in the sky forever since the inception of satellites. It just wasn’t used to route internet traffic!

Why Google? - No idea, but I know Om will tell us why Google bought DoubleClick.

blip.tv - They have a new show player. More signals that television is dying off; companies are investing more in the technology to put TV online.

p2p - Remember when it was a dirty word? Associated with pirates and such? Now the mainstream is embracing it. Wow, go figure!

Technically Speaking, that is it for this morning. I know you lucky dogs out at the web 2.0 conference will have so much news, that I probably will be way behind by this evening! rex.tv will be on the air, but will you want to watch my chair today? Sorry, I don’t have another cam to broadcast from a remote location. But I’m thinking of it now! haha!

GrooveShark, p2p music done right. Now why didn’t Napster (the 1999 version) think of this? This might have saved us from ever seeing DRM being rolled out in the first place. P2P is here to stay, and you may as well let the money guys get a piece of the action.

Technically Speaking, music; you post about it, and I see it, I am going to have to speak up. Oh, and this is a private beta still.

Advertising is what makes this internet tick. It’s also what will make the movie downloading, music downloading all possible. YuMe Networks launched a movie real-time targeted ads for such peer to peer networks as the movie downloads available on BitTorrent today.

on Monday is launching what is believed to be the first advertising campaign that lets a marketer dynamically insert video advertising into content that has been downloaded onto a viewer’s PC, mobile device or TV. This will allow peer-to-peer networks and others that offer downloadable content to monetize it with advertising. Previously, such services had to offer the content for free or charge users on a per-download basis because the viewing of the ads could not be measured and tracked.

Technically Speaking, this should make the movies studios and the advertisers all happy.

The nice thing about Sunday night if you do a feed run is that most of the items are talked about on Monday morning. Here are some interesting items I just found.

Electric Sheep - First we had Second Life, and now it appears that Electric Sheep are right around the corner.

Google’s First Server - Circa 1999. Great times to be living in back then.

NBA Social Network - Who doesn’t have a social network these days?

BitTorrent and Joost - All legal, all p2p, all supported by the people that said that p2p was evil!

Spies and Mashups - I really don’t know what to make of this. Really, I don’t.

Facebook API - At least they are releasing some new API for the people to write cool stuff with. I’m actually glad to see Facebook still kicking it. Why? I don’t really know. I guess without them, all we would have would be a MySpace dominated world.

YouTube Celebrities - This sort of cracks me up. Well we do have the Friggin’ Break Report #3 out there as of today, but seriously this reminds me of that song by Brad Paisley.

Business Plan - Do you need one anymore? Is it okay to just sketch it out on the back of a Denny’s napkin?

Sad as this is our future - Schools have more issues. There has to be someone out in the SV area that can help?

p2p is evil - Let’s remember what was said a few year’s ago. Tomorrow is the launch day of the pirates and the evil doers who are all now good guys. I wonder what REALLY happened here??

$2.6 million - I hope this site succeeds so that we won’t have to see the “starving artist” commercials anymore.

Technically Speaking, I did get a lot done this weekend. I hope everyone’s weekend was great — and — Link Blog!

Kind of funny to write that. Near the end of the article comes a very interesting point though. With the higher penetration of broadband and the coming of FiOS in places, I think the writer is correct when they said:

I’m open to the possibility that I’m dead wrong. I don’t know, maybe Cuban is right. Maybe BitTorrent is in fact doomed, and the video streaming technologies he pioneered with Broadcast.com in the 90s will make a major comeback. I mean, who uses BitTorrent these days? Just a bunch of pirates, soon to be exiled to metal platform in the middle of the North Sea. Right? Right.

Remember that place? I guess they will be the only ones soon using p2p on their old oil rig platform. The pipe is getting bigger, and the days of p2p will be taken in a different direction. Technically Speaking, the way bit torrent worked, it took a ton of patience, which I have very little of!

Where? On MySpace of course! SnoCap which is Shawn Fanning’s latest and greatest startup is doing things right. Merlin, which is a record label launched at MidemNet in Cannes yesterday, made the announcement. They want to be the the next major player in the recording industry. Hey, wasn’t it just like yesterday that Shawn and his boys showed the record labels that you can’t hog all the money? Isn’t this the same Shawn that mastered and applied p2p technology and took it to another level? Of course it is!
Technically Speaking, I have one more, and then I’m off to watch a game! Watcha Gonna Do now RIAA???

Here is the main thing I loved about this article:

Although many believed that it was ABC themselves who had leaked the episodes to get the hype going, it is unlikely that a mainstream content producer would do such a thing.

TV producers are the most honest people on the face of the planet. ABC would never stoop to levels such as that to hype up a new season of 24. TV and the internet are not becoming one.

Technically Speaking, BitTorrent just recently received a boat load of money to ship movies on the internet. BitTorrent went from tabu p2p company to mainstream good guys. You tell me, does the above statement make a bit of sense to even type? At least I just did a copy and paste, and was able to credit it elsewhere. To have had to type that line must have buried every shred of moral responsibility for that writer.

AllPeers sounds like a great plugin to install here in Firefox (my browswer of choice). I just happen to also leave a comment here about the plugin. I wonder, will my browser start to act sluggish due to me installing it? If so, it won’t be popular here. In fact it will be ditched rather fast. I do think that it could be the app killer or the plugin must have if you are into p2p and chatting.