Nintendo: Apple is enemy of the future

Nintendos president, Satoru Iwata, has instructed his subordinates to consider Nintendo victorious over Sony.  Instead, Nintendo now considers Apple its “enemy of the future.”

Sales of the Wii are down nearly 21 percent year over year, and the company’s net profits have seen an almost identical decline. While Nintendo hasn’t been selling either the Wii or the [...]

Obama in 3D: Photosynth to Crowdsource Synth of the 44th Presidential Inauguration

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Next Tuesday, the eyes of the United States – and likely the world – will be on Washington, DC, as Barack Obama takes the oath of office to become the 44th President of the United States. Attendance is likely to dwarf any presidential inauguration in history – with estimates currentlypredicting at least [...]

Obama inauguration, live chat with Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds on Livestation

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Al Jazeera’s senior Washington correspondent, Rob Reynolds, will again be hosting a live chat with Livestation viewers, this time about the inauguration of Barack Obama.

The last time Rob engaged in real time chat with Al Jazeera viewers was in the run up to the election, which saw Obama beat McCain. A [...]

Win 2500$ from current.com and HP Wireless Printer assignment

I was sent this interesting contest today. I am not paid to put it here… I only thought it was cool and might interest some of you guys:

Current TV is all about viewer created content, and VCAMs offer opportunities for viewers to create advertisements for network sponsors. Anyone can participate in the assignments and if their ad is selected to air on Current, they’ll earn $2500.

This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in growing their portfolio and a chance to earn meaningful cash, and would love to invite your readers to participate. Continue reading Win 2500$ from current.com and HP Wireless Printer assignment

YouTube Annotations

Googlesystem report that YouTube added a new feature for video creators: annotations. “Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos. Use them to add background information about the video, create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene) or link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video.”

You can add annotations by going to the list of uploaded videos and clicking on “Edit annotations” or by visiting one of your videos while you are logged in. There are three types of annotations that can be added while playing the video: speech bubbles, notes and spotlights, as you can see in the screenshot above. Continue reading YouTube Annotations

Veoh getting $30 million investment from Intel and Adobe

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NewTeeVee is reporting that someone new has stepped up to pay Veoh’s bandwidth bills as it figures out its business. The Internet video portal and software maker is announcing today it has raised $30 million from Intel Capital, Adobe Systems Inc., and Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Research Global Investors.

Veoh now has $69.5 million in total investment from these three plus previous investors Shelter Capital, Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, Time Warner Investments and Jonathan Dolgen. The Los Angeles-based company reports 28 million viewers per month, spending an average of more than 100 minutes per month.

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Joost new Web Interface comming this summer?

Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that Joost is nearing a beta testing stage of it’s new Web Based interface with embedded video playback.

If rumors are true it is expected that users will need to install a small footprint client on their Mac/PC (possibly a browser plugin) to carry those special Joost peer-to-peer packets… so forget about [...]

Matsushita’s Panasonic, Google to launch Internet TVs

TOKYO (Reuters) – Web giant Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is developing televisions that display Internet content such as photos and videos together with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd’s (6752.T: Quote, Profile, Research) Panasonic unit.

The TVs, to be launched this spring, will allow users to directly browse and access videos from YouTube, a video-sharing Web [...]

Joost working on a browser based version of it’s client?

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Joost CEO Mike Volpi just suggested on stage at Web 2.0 that Joost is working on a browser-based version of its peer-to-peer Internet TV service. “At some point, when we can deliver the quality that Joost is known for, we will deliver an in-browser experience,” he told the audience here. I got up and asked [...]

YouTube content ID tool going beta

A few months ago, Google announced the initial development of a highly complicated technology platform — content identification tools for YouTube. Today, they are pleased to launch, in beta form, YouTube Video Identification.

Video Identification is the next step in a long list of content policies and tools that Google have provided copyright owners so that they [...]