Archive for the ‘File Sharing’ Category
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 |
By Eric Eldon 09.10.07 at VentureBeat
Meebo, provider of a popular instant messaging service, is unveiling a useful service tonight: File sharing.
The Mountain View company is letting users share files with each other, from office documents to photos to music.
Any file under ten megabytes is fair game, although each user is restricted to 30 megabytes per month, and Meebo stores files for only four hours after they’re sent.
As the school year gets going, this service could be a hit.
High school and college students are already some of the most active users of the service. It lets them IM with each other across IM protocols — including AOL’s AIM, Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk — from its web browser. This useful when places like school libraries won’t let students download IM software to their desktop.
More than 6 million people use Meebo per month, and the median age is 21, the company says. Almost every user is between ages 14 and 29. More than 140 million messages are sent through Meebo daily, with about 20 million of those going through Meebo Rooms, its chat room service.
The file-sharing service works two different ways. If you’re using Meebo’s own chat protocol, simply click the file-sharing icon in the Meebo chat window, upload the file, and hit return to send. Your friend will see an icon of the file in their chat window that they click on to begin downloading it (screenshot to the left).
The company has a necessary but slightly less convenient solution for sharing files with people using Meebo to chat via other IM protocols. If you’re say, chatting with a friend on AIM, your friend will receive a web link to a Meebo page they can download the file from (screenshot below).
The service uses Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services for storing and retrieving files online. It is currently available for Internet Explorer and Firefox, although it plans to support Safari soon.
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007 |
I ran across a site this morning that allows you to convert a video from any format (.mov, QT, FLVto a video in any other format. The service at www.mux.am (.am is Armenia - for those of you wondering). You enter the url of a video you want to convert, choose the outputfile type and the size of the video, bit rate and frames per second. Pop in your e-mail address where you want the file delivered when it is finished.
The site says Mux is for personal, non-commercial use - I suppose to make it easier for people to share their own videos online - which is a service I personally could use. I just wonder a bit about what happens when people find a video that the owner doesn’t want shared and points this service to it.
The service also allows for you to convert and deliver any video to your cell phone. Just enter the url for the video, your cell phone number and Mux does the rest. Currently only available for subscribers of Cingular, T-mobile and Sprint in the US. Again a very interesting service for sending home video - but what about copywritten material that the owner wishes to exploit commerically?
There is a link to Amazon Web Services, the new service offering from Amazon that provides developers with direct access to Amazon’s robust technology platform. I’m not sure what type of due diligence is done when a company wants to use the platform or what the liability might be. Just speculating.
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007 |
A total of 32 million Americans aged 12 or above have downloaded a full-length movie sometime in the past, according to a new study.
By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
Jan 24, 2007 07:02 PM
The majority of U.S. online consumers do not believe downloading movies illegally from the Web is a very serious offense, a research firm said Wednesday.
A survey by the Solutions Research Group found that most consumers suffered from the “Robin Hood effect,” when it came to stealing copyrighted movies from online peer-to-peer networks. “Most people perceive celebrities and studios to be rich already, and as a result don’t think of movie downloading as a big deal,” study director Kaan Yigit said in a statement.
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Friday, January 26th, 2007 |
In what appears to be a security breach at Twentieth Century Fox, a YouTube user gained access to copies of episodes of their hit show “24″ and made them available on the video sharing service, before the broadcast airing. Fox has served Google’s YouTube video-sharing service a subpoena demanding the identity of a user. But Google has a history of fighting subpoenas seeking the names of those using its services.
Related Links:
http://tinyurl.com/2ssbud (Hollywood Reporter)
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/index.html
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 |
Digital media is changing the way students access classroom information in South Carolina’s Cherokee County School District. The district will soon support distance learning courses at two High Schools using a new media encoding system that captures and encodes broadcasts of the courses, which are then made available to students unable to attend those classes in person.
Using products from a company called Viewcast, the school district is now able to encode live streams and save them to local storage at Gaffney High. Students can access and view encoded files at their convenience and, in the future, will have the option of borrowing a mobile device, such as an iPod, and watching the selected class at home.
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007 |
Back in April of 2000, a federal judge ruled that MP3.com had violated copyright law with the creation of its my.mp3.com service, which allowed users to stream music from a database of music the company stored on its servers. Before damages had been set in the case, the company settled its dispute with three of the major labels for reportedly over $60 million dollars then agreed to be acquired by a division of Vivendi Universal in May of 2001 for $350 million dollars.
A new service called Avvenue insists that while they let people share music stored on their PCs with other computer users or those with Web-enabled mobile phones, their service is legal because recipients don’t retain copies of songs - the streams only work when there’s an Internet connection, and only for five days.
What is so reminiscent of the MP3 suits is that Avvenu is allowing music files people wish to share to be uploaded to and streamed from its servers when the sharer’s computer is off. Using the free Avvenu Music Player, the playlists and songs are automatically copied to Avvenu’s secure media center for streaming playback and users can send links to friends via e-mail. Recipients click on the link to listen to the songs for up to five days on standard Web browsers.
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Friday, January 19th, 2007 |
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today a plan to help fight crime by equipping 911 call centers throughout New York City to receive digital images and video from cell phones and computers. Apparently the city is basing the decision on the popularity of text and photo messaging and Internet services like Google and YouTube. Law enforcement and emergency management experts praised the plan.
“Anything you can do to advance the information flow is good,” said Jerome M. Hauer, director of emergency management under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and now an antiterrorism consultant in Washington. “Imagine someone caught in a hostage situation transmitting pictures or video,” he added. “It’s just an incredible amount of information that can be gathered from fairly simple technology.”
The cost per call center phone will be about $10,000.
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007 |
Applause to CBS for reportedly joining with Slingbox to investigate how sharing of video clips builds communities around content. The Clip+Sling service will allow owners of Sling Media’s Slingbox device to clip and share content directly from live or recorded TV shows with both other Slingbox owners and others over the Internet.
Usually big media companies wait to be disrupted and then react from a position of fear. Quincy Smith, CBS Interactive President, is taking the unusual step of being a catalyst for disruption. One thing I’ve seen over and over though is that you can’t control what happens after the disruption. That keeps many in paralysis, afraid that what they do will come back to haunt them. Funny thing is that doing nothing leads to the same result. Only time will tell if the decision was the right one.
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 |
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 31, 2006; Page N03
Ever since their invention, the television set and the home computer have remained separate devices, often in separate rooms. But next year could be the year they come together — or at least become less distinguishable.
New gizmos are coming (and many are already here) that enable you to send content from your PC to your TV, and vice versa. Just as important, these devices enable you to send content from any PC (work, home, laptop, etc.) to any TV set or video playback device you want, anywhere. And vice versa….
Say there’s a neat video on YouTube that you want to watch on your living-room TV set. Done. Say your living-room TiVo captured a show that you want to watch later on the TiVo-less TV set in the basement. Done, too. Or say — sneaky fella — you want to watch the big game on your computer while you’re at the office. Can do, too.
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Friday, December 29th, 2006 |
Some digital media heavyweights and pundits chime in on their visions for 2007
Napster in 1999. MySpace in 2004. YouTube in 2006. Experts from the tech community look ahead to the innovations that will change how we work, play and communicate in 2007.
by STEVE BALLMER; NED SHERMAN; RAFAT ALI; KEVIN WERBACH; CHRIS ANDERSON; HANK BARRY; JOHN BROCKMAN
December 28, 2006 LATIMES.COM
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