Internet advertising spending in China increased by more than 50 percent last year to finally overtake print media ad spending, according to data from iResearch, cited by the China Internet Watch blog. (via Research: Internet ad spend up 57% to overtake print media in China - The Next Web)
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What do you get when you cross the brilliant podcast Radiolab with Mozilla and SoundCloud? The Radiolab Hyper Audio Player (v1)!
We are proud to announce we have been involved in an interesting experiment. Using a segment of Radiolab’s latest show “Desperately Seeking Symmetry”, a JavaScript framework for integrating the web into audio and video productions called Popcornjs, and SoundCloud - an experimental HTML5 media player has been created! Now, it is still a demo, but go check it out here:
There’s some pretty cool features in there, for example:
- Displays images added by Radiolab to the SoundCloud timed commenting
- Click on the paper icon to see a hyper linked transcript of the show (amazing)
- The word river - looks cool when there aren’t any images shown
Many thanks to everyone involved and to Henrik Moltke for leading the project, looks like the start of something really special. Take a look at his blog post on the project for far, far more info! It’s still an experiment and we’re looking for feedback so let us know what you think!
I like experiments…
Increasingly, more sites are going with domain hacks.
Thanks to international top-level domains like .am, .ly, and others, a lot of words can be spelled out in an efficient use of space. But it’s not only domain-name shorteners like bit.ly and sn.ip, tr.im and sl.im using it. There are also gems like tra.sh, the musings and advice of a grizzled biker and combat veteran experienced in life and love.
- Samur.ai: Just a message rewarding you for typing in too many stupid domain names. Strangely satisfying after the hundredth GoDaddy holding page.
- dontclick.it: Can you resist clicking? Do you miss clicking?
- Inter.net: An international web host.
- Crescen.do: Some kind of bill-paying doo-hickey.
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**River of IPv4 addresses officially runs dry*
In a ceremony in Miami this morning, the final five blocks of IPv4 addresses were given out to the five Regional Internet Registries that further distribute IP addresses to the far corners of the planet. The five RIRs still have tens of millions of addresses as working inventory, but once those addresses are given out, it’s over. Internet Protocol addresses are a prerequisite for all Internet communication—both the sender and the receiver need one. As such, additional addresses are necessary whenever new users are connected to the Internet.
Without access to more IP addresses, service providers are forced to have their customers share an address. For most types of communication, that’s a workable solution, but it makes it much harder for two end-users to communicate directly, such as when making a VoIP call, video chatting, or transferring files directly using an instant messaging program, or through a peer-to-peer filesharing system.
» via ars technica
The server market has experienced four phases of massive change over the last 25 years. Each time, the incumbent technology was replaced by “lesser” technology that offered to get the job done reasonably well but for a fraction of the price. Mainframes were replaced by minicomputers, which were replaced by UNIX servers, which are now being pushed out by x86 servers. It won’t stop there. The cost of energy and space requirements for data centers now approaches or exceeds the cost of the server and networking hardware itself. When you have 20,000, 50,000, or even hundreds of thousands of servers, a power guzzling data center quickly becomes a barrier to business innovation and a significant cost hurdle for the business to clear. Green now means more than good stewardship and social responsibility. Green means big dollars and Euros.
ARM-based servers will consume a fraction of the power and space demanded by today’s most efficient servers. Performance per “core” will be lower, but clusters of these efficient nodes will consume perhaps as little as 1/10th as much power to deliver comparable performance. Couple that with huge gains in performance density to realize massive savings potential in data center capital expenditures. Conventional wisdom in data center planning will undergo a rethink.
» via GigaOM
A minimalist Wordpress portfolio was recently set up by Meaning Creative for illustrator Michael Oglesbee. Take the time to look at his incredible work.
Call it ingenious, call it evil or call it a little of both: Copyright troll Righthaven is exploiting a loophole in intellectual property law, suing websites that might have avoided any trace of civil liability had they spent a mere $105.
That’s the fee for a blog or other website to register a DMCA takedown agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, an obscure bureaucratic prerequisite to enjoying a legal “safe harbor” from copyright lawsuits over third-party posts, such as reader comments.
” The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits | Threat Level | Wired.com
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