There’s social networking, social media, social shopping, social fitness, and now, thanks to YouTube and an Oscar winning director, social movie making. Google announced today the “Life in a Day” project that will combine footage from average people around the world into a feature length documentary film. On July 24, people from around the world [...]
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Tags: digital movies, Google, Life in a Day, video, YouTube 
No Comments »Remember when telephone numbers were linked to static geographic locations? Fortunately, the rise of mobile communications forever changed the concept of dialing a phone number from calling a place to one of calling an individual. Yet many people still have multiple telephone numbers by which they communicate. Google Voice attempts to aggregate these various means [...]
In June 2004, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) proposed a new version of the hypertext markup language standard used by most websites, designating it HTML5. While the standard is not complete, Google has become an early adopter of the technology for both its Chrome OS and most recently in trials delivering videos via YouTube [...]
To further saturate the digital media player market, Zinnet, a Taiwanese company, today announced that it is accepting pre-orders for its CinemaTube media player. The device, which plays the usual menagerie of formats and codecs, including h.264, at up to 1080p resolution via HDMI, can be connected to USB hard drives, wired, and wireless networks [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Digital Media Players and DVRs, TV and Video Tags: digital media player, h.264, HD, hdmi, home theater, torrent, TV, UPnp, YouTube 1 Comment »
