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- ILM snags Oscar nods for visual effects
- How do you make a 30-foot robot/semi-truck appear lifelike? What about a creature with tentacles for a face? Those were some of the challenges for the visual-effects teams at San Francisco-based Industrial Light & Magic. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with the designers behind Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean:...
- Tags: News.com, Effect, Team Management, Management, ilm, transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, george lucas, san francisco, kara tsuboi, oscars
- Videos 2008-01-23
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- Exec: Yahoo positioned for more efficient advertising buys
- A Yahoo executive this afternoon spent some time talking about the ad business - specifically Yahoo's approach to advertising and how it's different from that of Google and Microsoft. Joanne Bradford, a veteran media advertising executive who joined Yahoo in September as senior vice president of U.S....
- Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Google triggers annoying DoS CAPTCHA prompt?
- Twice today during work -- from the confines of Google Chrome, no less -- I've been prompted, while logged into Google, with a denial-of-service notice stating the following: We're sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users,...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., DOS, Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- Movie Challenge: Oscars Special 1.0 (Mobile)
- Movie Challenge: Oscars Special gives you the chance to win $100 or equivalent in local currency in iTunes credit. Use the in game predictions template to send us your predictions for the 2009 Awards. The contestant with the highest number of correct predictions wins, it couldnt be simpler.Note: The "Download...
- Tags: Mobile, Movie, Apple iTunes, Redwind Software, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-02-03
- The Crunchies 2009
- The Oscars of Tech. That's how I explain it to my mother. 7:23 p.m. Arrived just a little late, but got great seats. Sitting next to MC Hammer: 7:42 p.m. Om Malik...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Om Malik, Mobile, Amazon Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- Alpha Zulu 2008.12.07 (Mobile)
- Alpha Zulu is a fast single-page utility.The phonetic alphabet is also referred to as the NATO alphabet or the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet. Features: Very simple single-page operation: no need to wait for pop-ups or page transitions, all letters A-Z are directly accessible. Full 360-degree rotation support: all text on...
- Tags: Mobile, Alphabet, Apple iTunes, Hoy Moon, Alpha Zulu, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-12-11
- MovieQuiz (Mobile)
- Who played Batman in The Dark Knight? Where does the Wizard of Oz live? And who does Jerry Lundegaard plan to have kidnapped in Fargo?These are just a few of the many thousands of questions in Movie Quiz, the ultimate film trivia game.The slick multiple-choice interface lets you quickly choose...
- Tags: Mobile, Movie, FinBlade
- Software downloads 2008-11-13
- Oscars emcee Jon Stewart plays with his iPhone, Wii too!
- Seems like Academy Awards emcee Jon Stewart managed to include iPhone and Wii-related compedy bits in last night's Oscar telecasts. Engadget has posted a grab from one of those moments. Doesn't tell us much about the iPhone except for the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Engadget, Nintendo Wii, Jon Stewart, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Jon Stewart's iPhone: Product placement or pop culture?
- Last night I was watching the Oscars (go Ratatouille!) frantically adding movies to my Netflix queue when host Jon Stewart did a bit about his iPhone. It occurred during a long reel of previous Oscar winners I think, when the camera cut back to Stewart he joked...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Jon Stewart, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- An odd side-effect of music piracy
- I am on an active quest to learn Spanish, which is a bit complicated at times, as I often find that my developing Spanish language skills mixes with my French to become Franglish (Je suis tres cansado, pero...). I guess Spanish goes into my "other languages" mental database, and sometimes...
- Tags: Piracy, Music, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- D5: The schwag
- The D conference is well known for its schwag...like the Oscars of the tech world, except no awards are given. You get the goods just for showing up. The bag and jackets are nice, but the top item is the YouTube tube socks. Completely useless. The cookbook from Time Warner,...
- Tags: D5
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- CBS vs. NBC: The REAL Wall Street (Wallstrip) story!
- In the Memorial Day battle of the "What is the REAL reson CBS "acquired" Wallstrip.com, diverse motivations abound:Grab the talent,Neutralize a potentially disruptive up and comer,Acquire the technology,Capture the brand,Learn about Web video...Digital Markets Blog has the REAL reason, though, REALLY!Why is CBS absorbing a bare-bones Web video start-up backed by...
- Tags: CBS Broadcasting Inc., Culture, Donna Bogatin, Lindzon Wallstrip, NBC Universal Inc., Video, Wallstrip
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- 'NewTube': Will video content really be king?
- 'NewTube': Will video content really be king?I believe so!!With everyone running towards it...I basically don't need a TV anymore. I can watch any show I want on my LCD monitor!!You mean likeStallman and Linus T. and the GPL3 ???DependsIt really depends on if anyone can deliver something worth watching. Crappy...
- Tags: INTERNET, Web 2.0, Web site development, video, Google Inc., Alexandre, YouTube Inc., NewTube
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- News to know: Apple vs. researchers; Drop 'IP' from VOIP; Local search
- Notable headlines: George Ou: How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers.More Apple coverage: Larry Dignan: Apple TV an $11.4 billion market? Techmeme discussion.WSJ: Apple Opens Doors by Running Windows.George Ou: Should Apple be making fun of Vista UAC?Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Design the next generation iPod. Jason OGrady: Portable users: heed the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), VoIP, IP, Apple Computer Inc., David Berlind, Microsoft Windows Vista, local search
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Forget the Oscars, YouTube to launch User-Generated Content awards
- Forget the Oscars, YouTube to launch User-Generated Content awardsYouTube awards are a legal tacticSteve, I think you got to the core issue about the timing and purpose of the YouTube Awards. The timing is to quickly generate evidence of non-infringing use for their legal fight with Viacom.The categories were purposely...
- Tags: YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-19
- Forget the Oscars, YouTube to launch User-Generated Content awards
- Its like somebody forgot to tell YouTube that Time Magazines Person of the Year was YOU. Except that couldnt have been the case, as YouTubes founder and poster child, Brad Churley, was heavily featured in Times coverage. So why is it then that YouTube has waited till March 07 to...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., nominee
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Google: Hollywood vs. YouTube video games
- Will the Google-YouTube-Copyright Holders video game ever end?Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscars via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips, Variety stated yesterday.I just relived...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Reflections on the first decade of blogging
- Reflections on the first decade of bloggingGutenberg's and Dave WinerJust like Gutenberg , who is not the inventor of the movable type printing but got the credit of printing press, Dave Winer has nothing todo with the invention of RSS Rahul Guha of Netscape or XML-RPC (Dave...
- Tags: Gannet, Gutenberg, Bemes, blogging, media, blog, genie
- Discussion threads 2007-02-25
- Yahoo: Cast YOUR Oscar Academy Awards Ballot!
- Yahoo is doing what it does best at its dedicated micro-site for the "Countdown to the 79th Annual Academy Awards."The Yahoo Movies special theme feature showcases non-stop Oscar news, profiles of nominees, photos and videos, a blog, Oscars history...AND unique interactive activities:Yahoo Avatars hit the red carpet: Dress your onlone...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Yahoo, Blogs, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, Amateur Content, Brands, TV, Television, Movies, Social Networking
- Blog posts 2007-02-24
- Filmmaker, Filmmaker make me A film
- Filmmaker, Filmmaker make me A filmRead the second page of the wired articleThe creator is quoted in the Wired article as wanting at least some control.[i]Molyneux won't allow any machinima to appear on The Movies Online that might be perceived as obscene. "If somebody tries to remake Star Wars and...
- Tags: statute, CPPA, sexual activity, depiction
- Discussion threads 2006-09-27
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