NEW NETFLIX APP FOR IPHONE TO WATCH TV AND MOVIES ON INSTANT STREAMING … FREE!!!!!
Take THAT, Hulu and your $9.99 monthly extended-service charges!
Although I can hear Japan saying, “Been there, done that….”
I feel like playing around with Wordpress themes, but sadly cannot get my FTP editor working to start messing with the CSS. I do like this current one (called “clean minimal”). I need to get my program working soon to add a sub header or a second column.
I am tired at the moment so will try again later. Enjoy for now!
Ohmygoodnessgraciouswonshmasdfiojdifjdf! Hulu will be available for the iPhone!
You can request a preview invite. The HuluPlus is available for HD TV’s, iPads, and more for $9.99 a month. I’m not sure sure about the price being per month, considering that it is free to watch Hulu on my computer and my iPhone has a much… much smaller screen. But the fact that Hulu is accessible on 3G and 3Gs so you can pretty much watch it anywhere is cool. Gives you something to watch on long trips or when you’re sitting in a room for hours shooting interviews….
HuluPlus, my Roku, Google TV, I am overwhelmed with digital TV goodness. Learn more about HuluPlus on Hulu’s website.
Update: Boo. Only available for iPhone 4 right now. But Hulu is coming to more devices soon.
Video calling. DVR-compatible. Access to any content on web. Seamless search. Picture-in-picture. More, please!
Google, Intel, Logitech and Sony Join Together to Deliver Google TV Platform
DISH Network, Best Buy, Adobe to Support Bringing Devices to Market
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 20, 2010) — Today at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, leading industry players announced the development of Google TV—an open platform that adds the power of the web to the television viewing experience, ushering in a new category of devices for the living room. Intel, Sony, and Logitech, together with Best Buy, DISH Network and Adobe, joined Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on stage to announce their support for Google TV.
Over the past decade, the Internet has created unprecedented opportunity for innovation and development across the world, but so far the web has largely been absent from living rooms. With Google TV, consumers will now be able to search and watch an expanded universe of content available from a variety of sources including TV providers, the web, their personal content libraries, and mobile applications….
Oh, Google. On my TV stand, I already have a Roku box that plays my Netflix on my TV and a digital converter box that plays my air TV.
But it’s okay, I can make room for your Google box.
This fall, Sony will be the first to introduce special Google TV sets, a “smart TV”, that unites live television with the web. For those without smart TV’s, there will be a Google box available.
Already sounds more intriguing than the Apple TV! And I expect it’ll be a free service. And we all know this is the future: merging web and television.In fact, check out If I Can Dream. It is a show broadcasted only on Hulu, once a week, with cameras mounted all around the house. Yes, it’s like Real World, but you can actually tune in to watch any of these cameras live at IfICanDream.com. Then each week, see an edited episode of the top highlights that occurred.
So, alright, Google. Show us what else technology can bring us. I can’t wait!
I try. I really do. I’ve always wanted, and still want, to keep Woo Blog a happy, positive and fun blog.
But when Facebook gives you no customer service or interactive help section, you need some place to rant :/, and sadly that always ends up being my blog. So forgive me for the Facebook posts, but the privacy issues and news I come across regarding the social network site can just be too shocking to ignore. And it just gets more frustrating the more I see Facebook downplay everything.
This post is a summary of different Facebook issues I’ve come across in the past week:
Below is a video I posted recently. I created a new Facebook account and then recorded an entire video showing how long and how many confusing steps I had to take to privatize my account (since new profiles are defaulted to “public”. While doing the video, I even found another privacy setting that was practically hidden in the last tab of the account settings!!! You’ll catch it at the end.
This is shocking, yet not surprising… to me, at least. As Facebook advances to publicize our privacy more and more, Zuckerberg laughs at those that share so much information willingly on the network.
A controversial instant message conversation between Zuckerberg and friend in the beginning of Facebook has been circulating the net:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don’t know why.
Zuck: They “trust me”
Zuck: Dumb f*cks.
But isn’t he the one who is encouraging people to share more, to not be afraid of the end of privacy?
David Fincher, of Fight Club, is filming a movie based on Ben Mezrich’s novel, “Accidental Millionaires”. Of course, one of the characters is a dramatized version of Zuckerberg, even quoting the above conversation. Zuckerberg is apparently appalled at the negativity he is portrayed in. Really, Mark? You can’t imagine how they could’ve created that character based off of you?
Want to see a chart that illustrates your privacy diminishing over the past five years? Check it out here.
I love this. You know how if you delete your account, Facebook keeps all of your information (which I think they do to keep their high number of profiles)? Well, that breaches Canada laws.
I just saw this 
. Nona Belomesoff, a teenager, was murdered by Christopher James Dannevig, someone who created a fake profile to befriend Nona and take advantage of her passion on animal welfare. Yes, yes, I know that Facebook isn’t to blame, but this is just another reason why Facebook should turn to teach about how important privacy is to protect oneself instead of being so casual and anti towards it and encouraging people to share info with others they don’t know.
Okay, that is enough for now. There is so much more to share, but you get my point. Overall, I like Facebook. I really do. It’s a great way to keep in touch with families and old friends, as well as stay connected with people I’ve worked with. I know there are a lot of confusing privacy settings, but do check them frequently and make sure that you are not public enough for strangers to know what you look like, your name, where you live, your number, etc.
Facebook put all of your info at risk through the Instant Personalization! By linking third-party sites like Yelp and Pandora to Facebook accounts through Facebook’s Instant Personalization, people could take advantage of this link to harvest user data, such as friends lists, email addresses, and other personal info.
A security consultant also discovered a second hole that could allow him to “inejct malicious code using XSS that could put Facebook user data at risk”.
These holes have been patched up, but for Facebook to be partnering with other companies, must they risk our privacy in order to get it right??? Why was the security not tested fully before they enabled the feature?!
Read more:
“Another Security Hole Found On Yelp, Facebook Data Once Again Put At Risk”
“Facebook Instant Personalization Has a Security Hole, No One Shocked”
“Facebook Patches Security Hole That Exposed Users’ Instant Messages”
Full video of Conan at Google!
Ahh, so many jokes, Q&A, string dancing, and interesting stories behind Conan’s current tour and his twitter account. There may also be a Jay Leno impression in there somewhere….
I thought it was interesting to hear Conan talk about how aware he was of the power of the internet, so much more so than NBC. Resorting to Twitter to tell his jokes, he knew the amount of fans and support he had. Conan knew he would still have his audience. Then that led to everyone talking about him doing a tour or stand-up shows in LA, which made his team realize that they could legally do a tour without violating Conan’s exit contract with NBC. After the venues were booked, all Conan had to do was put up a twitter post with a link to the ticket site, and the show tickets were sold out everywhere within two hours (I sadly had the chance and could not afford it then). No effort or money spent on advertising. It must have been fascinating for Conan to have witnessed firsthand the power of the internet and the online grassroots campaign that came solely from his fans.
Conan also shared that to us, the young internet generation, it may not look like television has changed much. But to Conan who has been with network television for years, it has appeared to have changed so dramatically that he has no idea where television will be in 5 years. It’s hard to believe that Hulu itself has only been around for three years, YouTube for five.
Anyways, thanks to Google for this video! So hit play, put it on fullscreen, sit back, and enjoy some Conan on your computer screen cause that’s where you’ll be seeing a lot of him from now on.
Check it out! Do a Google search!
If you are logged in and go to Google.com, the page starts clean with logo and search box, then at the very top, your usual account header fades in with the move of a mouse!
The logo changed a little as well! Some differences are no more drop shadow, less obvious gradient, and lighter colors.
It isn’t a complete change, but notice the new image icons, search box, layout, and left-hand navigation on every type of search.
Read more about the latest changes in Google’s blog.
