Photobucket users rejoice: they now host video.
The top half of their upload interface has gotten a bit of AJAX, too. They have a way to go if they want to compete with sexy social media darlings like Flickr and YouTube, but they're going in the right direction.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Friday, March 03, 2006
Stupid Videos
Would you believe a site called "Stupid Videos" is the fifth largest streaming content destination on the Web?
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
NTC Picks Up Blogged Complaint
I am so lovin' the National Telecommunications Commission nowadays.
Last year, they ruled that VoIP doesn't require some silly congressional franchise. Now, they take action on a blogged ISP complaint of telco eavesdropping.
Hear that? That's the sound of clueful e-governance.
Last year, they ruled that VoIP doesn't require some silly congressional franchise. Now, they take action on a blogged ISP complaint of telco eavesdropping.
Hear that? That's the sound of clueful e-governance.
Morganis: Origami is a Mobile XP PC
Alex Morganis has examined the code of the Origami Project web site, and says he's figured out what the thing is: a mobile PC running Windows XP.
For all the hype it's creating, it had better be significantly more than just another notebook. All that teasing to "touch me" "everywhere" had better lead up to a mind-blowing Origamism.
Touchscreens? Pervasive computing? More info from the site on March 9.
For all the hype it's creating, it had better be significantly more than just another notebook. All that teasing to "touch me" "everywhere" had better lead up to a mind-blowing Origamism.
Touchscreens? Pervasive computing? More info from the site on March 9.
Microsoft Dance Pad Email
Now here's a step in the right direction. And the left. And forward. And back.
Microsoft struts a dance pad email interface.
(Photo by AP.)
Microsoft struts a dance pad email interface.
(Photo by AP.)
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Local Telcos Eavesdropping on ISPs?
Wilson Chua hopes this nasty rumor about local telcos eavesdropping on ISPs isn't true.
Readers who have seen my PLDT Purgatory know I'm inclined to believe Philippine telcos are capable of stooping this low, but even I'd give them the benefit of the doubt on a rumor this nasty. What's going on here?
(Via Migs.)
These telco/s is/are tapping into the lines at Bitstop Internet Service E1/R2s to find out the numbers of all Bitstop subscribers and Nitro card users. These telco/s then generate a report of that contains all the numbers that dialed up into Bitstop. They then use this to make DSL offers to the people whose numbers are on that list.
Adding insult to injury, the telco people insinuate that the users will be double billed. Once for the telco and another for Bitstop. However, if they decide to switch, they will be billed only once.
Readers who have seen my PLDT Purgatory know I'm inclined to believe Philippine telcos are capable of stooping this low, but even I'd give them the benefit of the doubt on a rumor this nasty. What's going on here?
(Via Migs.)
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Sounds of Counter-Strike
Seasoned Counter-Strike players can hear the rhythm of gameplay in the roar of virtual gunfire, the clicks of virtual guns, the bounce of virtual projectiles, the beeps of virtual detonators, the bang of virtual bombs.
Someone's taken those sounds and turned them into a wonderful percussion piece. You have to hear it to believe it.
Someone's taken those sounds and turned them into a wonderful percussion piece. You have to hear it to believe it.
The Origami Project
Microsoft is teasing people with their mysterious Origami Project. Even Scoble didn't know about it before his readers did.
People are speculating on what the device could be. The site says we'll know more tomorrow.
People are speculating on what the device could be. The site says we'll know more tomorrow.
Live Messenger Beta New Look
Windows Live Messenger Beta sports a new look with its first update.
They've taken interface elements from Windows Media Player, letting users mix their own colors and collapsing the menus into a button in the upper right corner. Check out all the new features on the dev blog.
They've taken interface elements from Windows Media Player, letting users mix their own colors and collapsing the menus into a button in the upper right corner. Check out all the new features on the dev blog.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Google Payments Preview
A while back, I mentioned that PayPal is scared shitless of Google's rumored payment service.
They must be shittng bricks now, as the Google blog confirms those rumors. TechCrunch previews how Google's payment service will work, predicting the interface will be faster and prettier than PayPal's.
You know what I like most about this? Existing Google services make and receive payments to and from 65 countries in 48 currencies, including the Philippines and the Philippine Peso. Google could roll out merchant services for Filipinos. Take that, you PayPal racists.
They must be shittng bricks now, as the Google blog confirms those rumors. TechCrunch previews how Google's payment service will work, predicting the interface will be faster and prettier than PayPal's.
You know what I like most about this? Existing Google services make and receive payments to and from 65 countries in 48 currencies, including the Philippines and the Philippine Peso. Google could roll out merchant services for Filipinos. Take that, you PayPal racists.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Blessed are the Flamed by the Stupid
Guess where this flame comes from:
It's an email to top Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny.
I can FU-- with the best of them, but a public forum isn't the place for it. I accidentally stumbled on your so called web site, and find it to be very sophomoric! The little shit with the big mouth MUST BE HEARD I guess. I grew up during the Depression in South Buffalo, and we had people like you for lunch!No, it's not from my comments section -- though I get some flame gems there, too.
Wade Starbuck
It's an email to top Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny.
