Video editing and sharing site Jumpcut is now a part of Yahoo Social Media after flickr (photo sharing) and del.icio.us (social bookmarking).
So we now have Google Video, Microsoft Live SoapBox, Yahoo Jumpcut. Who will acquire YouTube?
The Pinoy blogging community is slowing down because of SMART/PLDT’s fixed wireless broadband service troubles. But since I’m using the Vibe Tipid version that goes well with my already slow and old computer, I’m used to the usual lag. I just woke up and realized that I haven’t really published a page using Google Page Creator yet. Tough luck the slow connection + slow computer combo won’t budge. So I had to restart the self assembled machine.
Lucky me I found where they had relocated Hunt’s SnackPack Chocolate Caramel Pudding at the SM Supermarket the last time I bought food supplies. It’s no longer alongside the expensive puddings, cheese and yogurts. Kapitbahay na niya ngayon ang mga ready-to-eat gelatin for kids. Haha.
Why is Yahoo’s ad revenues going down? I always thought Google earns more during the last four months of the year. Online ad spending goes up to coincide with end-of-the-year online consumer spending. So talo na talaga ng Google AdWords ang Yahoo whatever?
ADHD is linked to prenatal smoking and lead exposure. Although genetics is still the main factor, magiging kiti-kiti pala ang iyong mga anak pag yosi mom ka. Di ba minsan, naisip na nila na baka may koneksyon ang (United American) Tiki Tiki (for baby) sa hyperactivity? Ritalin, baby. Tsaka overexposure ng mga babies sa TV.
Soapbox is Microsoft’s answer to YouTube.
Soapbox is being launched as an adjunct to the Microsoft Video download service. It will enable users to upload videos in various formats, assign categories to them and share them with others. Viewers will be able to browse through the 15 categories, find related videos, subscribe to RSS feeds, and share their favourites with their friends, while watching a video, another key differentiator from YouTube.
MSN Video already claims to be watched by more than 11 million unique users per month. According to Nielsen NetRatings, YouTube has nearly 20 million unique users per month. But both these figures are dwarfed by the number of MSN users - more than 465 million per month worldwide.
It remains to be seen exactly what Microsoft means when it promises that “Soapbox…will be deeply integrated throughout Microsoft’s portfolio of online services, including Windows Live Spaces and Windows Live Messenger,” but this has the potential to give it a huge advantage that stand-alone YouTube will have to work hard to match.
The beta of Soapbox on MSN Video is being made available on an invitation-only basis in the US.
At dyan nagsisimula ang aking umaga.
First we had SpiralFrog + Universal Music, then we have MySpace + Snocap. Now we have YouTube + Warner Music.
Deal Puts Videos And Music Legally On YouTube
The deal allows millions of people who upload their homemade videos to YouTube to license an array of Warner Music’s songs.
TechWeb [article]
by Laurie Sullivan
Sep 18, 2006 03:10 PMMusic from Paul Simon, Madonna and Red Hot Chili Peppers will become legally available on the YouTube Inc. Web site. Warner Music Group Corp. said Monday it stuck a deal with the video-hosting Web site to distribute its music video library from a roaster of artists.
The deal allows millions of people who upload their homemade videos to the San Mateo, Calif.-based Web site to license Warner Music’s songs. The pact helps the music label distribute videos, behind-the-scenes footage, artist interviews and original programming.
The two companies plan to begin sharing ad revenue derived from site ads placed next to Warner Music’s content by the end of this year.
We also have AOL Video (a Time Warner subsidiary) that is powered by Truveo and SingingFish which it acquired in 2006 and 2004 respectively.
MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp since 2006.
MySpace will using Snocap technology to sell music from independent bands that already have their pages on the number one social networking site. Pricing will be up to the sellers. Music makers had been asking iTunes this option, but Apple is sticking with its 99-cent pricing.
MySpace will sell music in MP3 format and that may be the reason why the big labels aren’t joining yet. MP3 does not come with protection but it’s the most popular format available today. PayPal will be the payment facility.
Read it here.
Since PayPal does not love the Philippines, this service is not available to Philippine residents. Ph well, SpiralFrog isn’t accessible, either.
Google’s Related Links for videos isn’t that good yet, so here are some videos you might want to check that appear on the bar above (temporarily turned off).
Philippines
pinoy
Philippines entertainment
pinoy entertainment
Philippine Idol
I had been wishing since last year that GMA-7 would upload its content to Google Video, but until now, they haven’t even tried. Too bad. Or did they, already?
GMA-7 videos
Download music for free the legal way. That’s what Spiralfrog will offer starting December 2006. So what’s new? The songs will come from albums released by major labels like the Universal Music Group (UMG). Ads will make up for the free downloads. SpiralFrog’s advertising-supported service might be accessible only in the US and Canada. More here.
By Alicia Chang (AP) here
An experimental inflatable spacecraft bankrolled by real estate magnate Robert Bigelow rocketed into orbit yesterday to test technology that could be used to fulfil his dream of building a commercial space station.
The Genesis I satellite flew aboard a converted Cold War ballistic missile from Russia’s southern Ural Mountains. It was boosted about 500 kilometres above Earth minutes after launch, according to the Russian Strategic Missile Forces.
The launch was a first for the startup Bigelow Aerospace, founded by Bigelow, owner of the Budget Suites of America hotel chain. Bigelow is one of several entrepreneurs trying to break into the fledging manned commercial spaceflight business.
Despite the successful launch, significant hurdles still remain.
Mission controllers were awaiting word of the spacecraft’s health. Once that’s confirmed, it will begin the tricky job of ballooning itself to twice its pre-launch width in a process that could last several hours.
Bigelow hopes to use inflation technology to build an expandable orbital outpost made up of several Genesis-like modules strung together like sausage links that could serve as a space hotel, science lab or even a sports arena.
“We’re ecstatic. We’re just elated,” Bigelow said from Las Vegas. “We have a sense of being on a great adventure.”
Bigelow has committed $500 million US toward building a commercial space station by 2015. So far, $75 million has been spent on the project.
Because yesterday’s unmanned mission was experimental, Bigelow said he was prepared for problems.
“I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if we have a number of different systems fail,” he said on the eve of the launch. “I would hope that we have some success.”
The watermelon-shaped Genesis I is a one-third scale prototype of the commercial space station to which the company eventually hopes to fly humans.
Unlike the rigid aluminum international space station, Genesis I consists of a flexible outer shell and is layered with tough material such as Kevlar, which is found in bulletproof police vests, to withstand flying space debris.
The 1,300-kilogram Genesis I measured 4.2 metres long and 1.2 metres wide at launch and was to inflate to twice that width in orbit. It carried photos of Bigelow employees and insects that scientists hope to study to determine how well they survive the flight.
Equipped with a dozen cameras to be aimed at the Earth, the spacecraft will circle the planet for at least five years while scientists study its durability.
Bigelow Aerospace plans to launch several prototypes this decade. Future missions will test docking among spacecraft, but the maiden Genesis flight will primarily focus on the inflation process.
In the 1990s, NASA studied inflatable technology for a possible trip to Mars, but later dropped the idea after deciding inflatable modules were too expensive. Bigelow Aerospace then licensed the technology from NASA.
This fall, the company hopes to launch Genesis II. Over the next several years, the company plans to test larger prototype spacecraft, including a full-scale mock-up slated to launch in 2012.
A new scientific breakthrough may lead to women in future being able to produce sperm.
Scientists in England have turned stem cells from am embryo into sperm which are capable of producing offspring.
The breakthrough is likely to lead to new advances in treating male infertility and even the possibility that women could manufacture sperm.
The researchers at Newcastle University say that the advance, when developed further, could help men with certain types of infertility to become fertile and even one day could enable a lesbian couple to have children that genetically would be their own.
The experiment used embryo cells to produce seven baby mice, six of whom lived into adulthood, although the survivors suffered adverse events of the kind seen in cloning experiments.
The researchers isolated embryonic stem cells from an embryo only a few days old consisting of a cluster of cells. The cells were grown in a laboratory and screened to isolate the spermatogonial stem calls which were grown and then injected into female mouse eggs and grown in early stage embryos.
The research team says its project will aid the understanding of the biological process through which sperm is produced, which should help in the future treatment of infertility.
It is hoped that this new knowledge could be translated into treatments for men whose sperm is dysfunctional, although could be some years into the future. [source]
I thought it would be something like Google Currency or Google Cash, but it’s going to be GBuy. The focus would be on the purchasing rather than the money used.
So it’s going to be Google GBuy vs. eBay PayPal. Will GBuy allow consumers from outside of PayPal’s coverage (PayPal snobs some countries like the Philippines)?