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Tuesday, Feb 23 2010

random wed, yahoo gets closer to twitter

can't believe it's wed already. raining all evening out. a sort of cold rain, half ice. having late dinner now, reading the paper, and fast forwarding thru american idol.

according to a press release by Yahoo, new deal brings Twitter's content to Yahoo's network of nearly 600 million people worldwide. for Yahoo, this brings Twitter to the table where it had already seated social network giant Facebook, but we think this might be an even better deal for Twitter.

the press release breaks down the partnership into three key areas. first, Twitter feeds will be available across Yahoo, from the homepage to mail and beyond. yahoo's users will also be able to update Twitter and share content direct from Yahoo. search results will also contain tweets as will a number of Yahoo media properties, such as News, Finance, Entertainment and Sports.

favorite gear

some of my favorite gear

shuttle SX58H7 box, BENQ 24" FP241W monitor
Panasonic PT-AE4000 HD Projector
MacBook Pro 17”
Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS
iPhone 3G

DRM

noticed that the wdtvlive, when you watch youtube, if you play certain clips like song videoclips, you get a warning saying content is protected by the content provider, and won't play on "tv enabled" devices.

that's annoying. they should not do that. they will complain that people find alternate ways to download their content - no wonder, if they didn't do silly things like this people would not.

likewise, ever noticed how when you play a disney dvd you get first an fbi warning, then a piracy warning, then a locked sequence about disney, then several trailers, and you can't skip any of it, it's forced playback content. tsk, tsk. they should not be so forceful with that either.

content providers should be more careful with DRM and content protection measures. that would be a good first step.

mon/tue

i guess it's already tue. having late dinner, and watching 24, my favorite show. got a dvd version of legion, and of did you hear about the morgans, better quality that the versions i had seen before.

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