Archive for December, 2006
NBC tries to get CBS audiences on YouTube
With YouTube becoming such a popular place for hosting and displaying videos, many studios such as CBS and NBC have signed on with YouTube as partners.
As most people are aware, the YouTube search engine searches for content based on tags. Well, I was recently watching a Conan episode on YouTube and one of the tags [...]
Sony Product Placements
I am not sure how many of you pay attention to product placements, but the next time you watch a movie or a TV show, make sure to notice what products are being used by the talent (actors). Recently I had the opportunity to watch 2 movies: Casino Royale and an Indian movie called Dhoom [...]
Viral Marketing….Illegal?
I recently came across this article from ars technica. If you read through the article, you will notice that marketers may be disappointed to see, if in fact such a regulation comes into effect. However, the question that comes to mind is: Why is this sort of marketing illegal or to use a better term [...]
Photoshop CS3 Public Beta
This is perhaps one of the very few times I will be posting software specific news, but this is quite interesting…
Adobe posted the public beta of Adobe Photoshop CS3 earlier today. This move may come as a surprise, but based on justifications from company personnel and various press-releases, it appears as if this is a [...]
An embarrassing coincidence on Google.
Often times, I like to type in software names in Google, just to see if there are any new resources. Well, today I came across something very interesting. Today (12/14/2006) when I google’d in Photoshop, Adobe was advertising Adobe Photoshop 7.0, where as ALL other links, including Warez stores were promoting Photoshop CS2. Take a [...]
CBS….oops!
“The news staff at a Baltimore TV station was left with egg on its collective face when the station broadcast — at least twice on Monday — a report that Michael Richards had appeared in blackface at a celebrity roast for Whoopi Goldberg over the weekend. The staff of WJZ-TV, a CBS affiliate, had picked [...]
IMDB Typos
Lately, it appears as if the quality of IMDB postings has been decreasing continiously. Usually, I don’t pick on typos, but since IMDB is one of the most visited websites, they should at least spend a minute or two to cross-check their spelling. Click on the thumbnail to see the typo.
Technology Changes for the week of Nov. 27th
The week of November 27th brought along quite a few major changes in the technological world. A few of these are listed below:
a) Microsoft Office 2007: One of the biggest launches in Microsoft history occurred on November 30th, 2006. Although, the MS Office products were only released to business partners, this release is quite [...]
