Look What I Found
I understand that there are laws, but something about this story just seems sad.
Without sounding insensitive…here is a good example of why Linux is perfect for education.
FOXNews.com – Gorbachev Pleads to Bill Gates for Piracy Leniency for Teacher – Technology News | News On Technology
The former leader of the Soviet empire is reaching out to computer czar Bill Gates, pleading with him to “show mercy” toward a poor school teacher accused of software piracy.
Here is a pic of the roof of a mall in downtown San Fransisco, courtesy of Kreg Steppe. Can you say “Eye of Jupiter?â€Â
Hilarious!
More YouTube Gold.
Here is a perfect example of how a TV network gets it, or is starting to get the fact that there are fans that want to “play with their content”.
When you loosen up and not be such a hard nose about copyright issues and suing your customers but allow them to create new things with it .. it can only peak curiosity. It is what viral marketing is all about. It is about creating interest in something by letting the audience create the interest for you.
CBS to allow snippets of shows on Web – Yahoo! News
CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves said Tuesday his company would embrace products and technologies that allow viewers to “time shift” and “place shift” his network’s shows and interact with them in new ways.
Wow can you believe it, no sooner did CES wrap but Apple came into Macworld and stole the show. A big chunk of the internet is a buzz about the new iPhone. This thing does just about everything. I think that they should have called it the iKitchenSink.
Not to miss this as well, but Apple also gave us some more info on the Apple TV. What I like about this is .. if it is in your iTunes it is on your TV. Homemade movies, music, purchased music, TV, movies…everything.
Very Cool.
Ah…one of my Favorite strips, FoxTrot, is moving from a daily strip to Sunday Only!
Laugh Tracks: FoxTrot Goes Sunday-Only
Citing deadlines and the desire to explore other creative outlets, FoxTrot creator Bill Amend has announced that the December 30 cartoon will be the last daily FoxTrot strip.
I recently received an email from The Beatles. (Not a personal one) and something struck me as funny….
LOVE Media Player for Your Site
To coincide with the release of “LOVE”, we have launched a viral mini-media player that you can embed into your web, myspace and bebo pages…
It is one thing to consider videos and things passed around the internet as Viral Marketing. However it is another for marketing material to refer to something that they are offering as viral. Doesn’t have the same ring to it, and it shows their hand a bit. “Here you do the work for us.”
Long Live the Beatles
Ok….This is too funny.
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Whoa…Something for you fellow Harry Potter fans out there…looks like we at least have the name of the book. No Dates or other information other than the Title.
I personally am looking forward to the next movie.
Name of final Harry Potter book announced – CNN.com
NEW YORK (AP) — We now have a title for Book VII: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”Rowling’s U.S. publisher, Scholastic Inc., released a brief statement Thursday announcing the name of the world’s most anticipated children’s book, the finale to her phenomenally popular fantasy series.