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BBtv WORLD: Roots of Voudun and Slavery's Legacy in Ouidah (Africa)
from Boing Boing TV
October 09, 2008
Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we bring you first-person glimpses of life around the globe. From the 17th to 19th centuries, millions of African people were sold
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National Geographic Drives Traffic with User-Generated Content Initiatives
from Beet.TV
October 09, 2008
User-generated content plays a central role in National Geographic's dynamic multimedia platform, Senior VP for online content development Rob Covey told me at the Omma Global conference last month. Users can now share their own videos on the user-generated video hub Everyday Explorers, built with o...
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Newsvine Registrations Up 963 Percent Since Acquistion by msnbc.com
from Beet.TV
October 08, 2008
People-powered news site Newsvine has seen enormous growth since its acquisition by msnbc.com in October of last year, receiving 963 percent more registrations and 269 percent more unique visitors, msnbc.com has told Beet.TV. I interviewed CEO Mike Davidson about the Seattle-based social news platfo...
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Warren Buffet Biographer Alice Schroeder Stars in Digimentary
from Beet.TV
October 08, 2008
Alice Schroeder's biography "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," released September 29, became an immediate bestseller. The day after the book release, PR firm CJP Communications premiered the first segment of the eight-part digimentary, "Shaping the Snowball: Alice Schroeder and...
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Roots Reggae Legends Toots and the Maytals (music)
from Boing Boing TV
October 07, 2008
Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Toots and the Maytals are true reggae legends (more: Wikipedia, MySpace). Founder Toots Hibbert is credited with coining the word "reggae" in the band's 1968 single, "Do the Raggay." They've had more number one hit so...
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Huff or Die: Funny or Die Teams with Huffington Post
from Beet.TV
October 07, 2008
The comedy website Funny or Die, humor site 23/6 and The Huffington Post have teamed up to create Huff or Die, accessible at funnyordie.com/huffordie, to showcase their best political humor videos and blog posts. Funny or Die made the announcement last week. At the Omma Global conference last month ...
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Microsoft to Make Computers "Humanistic"
from Beet.TV
October 07, 2008
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer, says the industry is on the "cusp" of making computing more "humanistic." To demonstrate where this may be going, he shares a video of a prototype of a robotic receptionist at work at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.Mundie showed this ...
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Financial Crisis Drives Global Internet Traffic
from Beet.TV
October 06, 2008
In the midst a this extraordinary financial and political news cycle, online media consumption has been breaking traffic records. As consumption is up, so is demand for bandwidth from big content delivery networks like Akamai. Akamai, which carries Internet traffic for NBC, the BBC, Reuters and othe...
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Yellowstone River
from Wild Chronicles Digital Shorts
October 03, 2008
The return of spring to the Yellowstone River in Wyoming brings a flurry of wildlife activity. Swarms of newly-hatched insects provide an ample food supply for hungry fish swimming upstream to spawn. And the fish themselves are being hunted by even more tenacious predators, as no animal is ever quit...
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Yellowstone River
from Wild Chronicles Digital Shorts
October 03, 2008
The return of spring to the Yellowstone River in Wyoming brings a flurry of wildlife activity. Swarms of newly-hatched insects provide an ample food supply for hungry fish swimming upstream to spawn. And the fish themselves are being hunted by even more tenacious predators, as no animal is ever quit...
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Broken Social Scene: interview and live performance (music)
from Boing Boing TV
October 03, 2008
Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Boing Boing tv is wrapping up the work week with a music feature on Broken Social Scene, a Canadian indie rock music collective with about 20 members. Like a giant litter of hipster kittens! Together, they create a so...
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Adobe Aims for 100 Million Installs of Air by This Year; Next Step, Mobile
from Beet.TV
October 03, 2008
Adobe AIR runtime environment has been installed on 35 million PCs and hopes to reach 100 million by the end of the year, according to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch. Andy interviewed Lynch at the EmTech conference last week.Developers can use Adobe AIR to build rich, cross-platform Internet applications tha...
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John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater.
from Boing Boing TV
October 01, 2008
Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. BBtv is launching a series of episodes featuring author, PC, and minor television personality John Hodgman, as the world waits breathlessly for the launch of his new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE . We have r...
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BBtv WORLD: Elephant-blogging in Benin with Xeni (Africa)
from Boing Boing TV
October 02, 2008
Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we bring you first-person glimpses of life around the globe. Today: an ambient exploration of the creatures rustling around in a West...
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Galactic's "Modern New Orleans Funk" with Xeni and Russell (music)
from Boing Boing TV
September 30, 2008
Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. New Orleans is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to the guys in the band Galactic, it's the motherland of funk. In today's Boing Boing tv episode, Xeni and Russell catch Galactic's Crescent City Soul Crewe live ...
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Galactic's "Modern New Orleans Funk" with Xeni and Russell (music)
from Boing Boing TV
September 30, 2008
Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. New Orleans is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to the guys in the band Galactic, it's the motherland of funk. In today's Boing Boing tv episode, Xeni and Russell catch Galactic's Crescent City Soul Crewe live ...
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Adobe Confirms it is Working on Flash for iPhone
from Beet.TV
September 30, 2008
An Adobe official has confirmed that Adobe is working on Flash technology for the iPhone, and that the player will be available in a very short time if Apple gives it the OK, according to a report by CNET. Adobe already has Flash running on an iPhone emulator. Andy interviewed Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch ...
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Adobe Confirms it is Working on Flash for iPhone
from Beet.TV
September 30, 2008
An Adobe official has confirmed that Adobe is working on Flash technology for the iPhone, and that the player will be available in a very short time if Apple gives it the OK, according to a report by CNET. Adobe already has Flash running on an iPhone emulator. Andy interviewed Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch ...
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Akamai Aims to Unite Industry Around Standard Open Video Player
from Beet.TV
September 29, 2008
Content distribution network Akamai Technologies launched Openvideoplayer.com in an effort to unite the video publishing industry around an standardized video player. The base source code Akamai contributed to the Open Video Player has already been used by customers including Hulu and The NBA.The in...
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On Networks Opens Up AllScreen Syndication Platform
from Beet.TV
September 29, 2008
Digital media company ON Networks will begin distributing outside content through its AllScreen Syndication Network, a decision that will open up its market, co-founder Jennifer Grogono says. ON Networks produces and distributes its own content to syndication platforms including iTunes, Adobe Media ...
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Microsoft's Craig Mundie Says 3-D is Environment is Next
from Beet.TV
September 28, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The media-rich environment of the Web, along with desktop applications, will evolve to become an even richer experience with HD video embedded into applications and content displayed in 3-D, says Craig Mundie in this interview with Beet.TV. Mundie is Microsoft's Chief Research an...
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Floating in Zero Gravity is fun, Earthlings!
from Boing Boing TV
September 26, 2008
Can't see the video? Watch this video now in a browser or download this video now. In today's episode of Boing Boing tv, we float around in zero gravity. With me on this Zero-G weightless flight are Intel Chairman Craig Barrett; my friend Sean Bonner from metblogs; and a bunch of science teachers fr...
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Off the Map
from Wild Chronicles Digital Shorts
September 25, 2008
In the southern reaches of the Arabian Desert lies the Empty Quarter, a brutally hot, arid landscape that covers a quarter of a million square miles. A trio of adventurers and their guides attempt to retrace a fifty-year-old route across this scorched environment on camelback, ever mindful of the to...
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