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Future looks bright for video ads

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Continuing in the online video theme, The Register has a story about video ads:
Future looks bright for video ads
The article talks about ad-funded online video, and video ads in web pages. Both of these are relevant to me at work.

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August 13th, 2007 at 11:53 am

Symbian Slingplayer In Private Beta

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Saw this on mocoNews.net this morning: Symbian Slingplayer In Private Beta
Looks interesting, even with the number of operators making video available on mobile, this allows an individual get the video content that they have available, in their home or office, delivered to their phone.
So, while they’re on a train, or waiting in an airport, etc. they can get the news, the latest soap, or the view from the security cameras at home/office. This is obviously subject to bandwidth availability and cost. (uploading from home and downloading to phone).

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August 13th, 2007 at 11:09 am

Friday Fun: The Internet Crash of 2007

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Saw this on LifeHacker, it’s a fun video from the onion about the Internet crashing:

Friday Fun: The Internet Crash of 2007 – Lifehacker

Written by Martin Murphy

July 20th, 2007 at 1:18 pm

Today’s word from Dictionary.com: triskaidekaphobia

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Today’s word in the dictionary.com word a day feed is “triskaidekaphobia”
Nice one guys. :-)

Written by Martin Murphy

July 13th, 2007 at 11:53 am

Posted in Entertainment

RTÉ entertainment goes mobile – ireland.com – Breaking News – Tue, May 22, 2007

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Interesting news about RTÉ programmes on 3’s mobile network. ireland.com – Breaking News – Tue, May 22, 2007 – RTÉ entertainment goes mobile
50 cent a day doesn’t sound to bad for the amount of data. Let’s hope other data rates come down also.
(I wonder if you need a “televison reception aparatus” licence for your phone also :-)

Although, I don’t know how well a fashion program would work on such a small screen.

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May 22nd, 2007 at 11:45 am

YouTube – Microsoft oPhone

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Very funny video: YouTube – Microsoft oPhone

[link via Furrygoat]

Written by Martin Murphy

May 10th, 2007 at 9:59 am

Brilliant!

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Scott Adams strikes again:

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070418.html

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April 18th, 2007 at 10:17 am

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Software Development Process

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February 16th, 2007 at 9:51 am

Introducing iPhone Shuffle. Life Is Random.

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I’m not entirely sure about the iPhone, seems to be quite big for a phone. However this is a really good idea:
Introducing iPhone Shuffle. Life Is Random.

Thanks to the folks at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) for the link.

Written by Martin Murphy

January 28th, 2007 at 7:39 pm

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited

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A 2000 year old computer looks interesting BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited

I must keep a lookout for the radio program on Dec 12th

Written by Martin Murphy

November 30th, 2006 at 11:59 am

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