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Flash on the Nokia N810

Jacob — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:50:17 +0000

In my continuing evaluation of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, I was delighted to see that Adobe Flash was included as part of the web browser. This means that I can watch Strongbad’s Emails and Youtube from a device that fits in my pocket.

However, I am disappointed that the version of flash installed does not recognized the built in camera or microphone. This means that I can’t send video messages to my friends on Facebook.

So, plus on the fact that flash is included, but a small negative because the flash doesn’t support that camera.

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BYU continues to block YouTube

Jacob — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:30:08 +0000

Brigham Young University’s Internet filters continue to block the popular video sharing website, YouTube. BYU blocks the site completely “because it allows inappropriate sexual media throughout its URLs,” according to an article in the student newspaper. I appreciate that BYU wants to block inappropriate content, but YouTube contains so many videos that it is unreasonable to block all of YouTube content because there might be a few bad videos. Likewise you could argue, that BYU should block the whole Internet because there are a few bad sites.

By blocking YouTube, BYU is prohibiting students from accessing great video content. For example, recently The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the sponsoring organization for BYU, has published public affairs videos on YouTube that show Church Leader Elder Ballard explaining church beliefs. Students trying to access this content from BYU campus Internet are blocked from the site.

Other educational materials are also on YouTube. Recently, UC Berkeley started posting full lecture videos online. So far, they’ve posted over 300 hours of video taped lectures online for free access to the public. These lectures could help BYU students supplement their own studies, except that BYU blocks the UC Berkeley’s YouTube site.

BYU’s efforts to block video content come in addition to Google’s own safe-search program anyway, which limits access to inappropriate “adult” material. Why does BYU feel they need to be extra restrictive about YouTube? When does blocking bad content at the consequence of blocking good content go too far?

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Dancing Larry King

Jacob — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:27:23 +0000

My roommates were flipping through the channels and were watching a bit of CNN. Apparently they were taking questions via You-Tube, but when I walked by it was showing this movie thing of a dancing Larry King in underwear or something like that. I kind of thought it was a joke, until I heard the audio of Anderson Cooper (from the other room) seem apologetic about it.

Does anyone know what happened? Was it a prank or joke, and if so, from whom? Did CNN get hacked?

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Google buys YouTube

Jacob — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:42:47 +0000

It is interesting to note though that there is no post on any of Google’s blogs about the Google purchase of YouTube for $1.65 billion (yes Marge, billion). I left this comment on another web site, and thought it might be of value here too:

And I am really confused with Google’s acquisition here. I don’t think we’ve seen Google do something like this before. Typically we only see Google purchases that get Google into a business. In this case, Google Video was an already existing competing product to YouTube with very similar technologies. Unless I’m missing something, YouTube has very little to offer Google with respect to technology. Video’s on YouTube have questionable ownership rights and so buying YouTube for the videos doesn’t make a lot of sense. YouTube is a fad, and so I think it would be disappointing for Google to dish out over a billion just for a name. What am I missing? What is really worth $1.6 billion that Google couldn’t do on its own?

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