FELICIA DAY: QUEEN OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENTERTAINMENT
Here’s a link to a good article about the amazing Felicia Day and her career. (click the link below and then you’ll have to click the picture of Felicia on that page– paste magazine hates internet users and won’t let you direct link to an article) Felicia and Kim Evey have really worked hard and have pushed the future of entertainment forward ahead of everyone else. (Have you seen Kim Evey’s insanely great Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show? … Read entire article »
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iPhone 4S video compared to Canon 5D MK II
Every year the choices for filmmakers get better and better. Embedded Link iPhone 4S video compared to Canon 5D MK II For budding moviemakers who want to shoot cinema-quality 1080p video, the Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR camera is a favorite. It’s a lot less expensive Google+: View post on Google+ … Read entire article »
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ANOTHER PR NIGHTMARE FOR NETFLIX
it would take Netflix about 65 seconds to fix this and then drop a press release saying how they apologize and are making it right and helping out the little man —- but they won't. First the price change stupidity now this. Reshared post from +Courtney Boyd Myers Embedded Link How Netflix royally screwed over an indie filmmaker With a $100 budget, Director Cullen Hoback set out to make a film. Google+: View post on Google+ … Read entire article »
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IS VLINGO GOING TO BE SIRI FOR THE REST OF US?
I noticed this morning that the iPhone app VLINGO had an update and mentioned it was free and could do SMS and email. I've had Vlingo installed on my phone for a while and think I've played with it a few times but not much… I think they previously charged for the ability to SMS and email from the app but now it's free. I tried it out and was able to VERY easily send … Read entire article »
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Amazon Cloud Service Goes To War Against Apple & Google
Today Amazon stepped up and made their Cloud Storage & Player service more competitive with unlimited storage and an iPad app. Is it enough? It wasn’t long ago Amazon beat everyone to the punch with their online music storage / streaming service Amazon Cloud Drive along with the Amazon Cloud Player. In a nutshell, Cloud Drive is a storage service offering just about anyone 5 GB of storage for free. Additional capacity was available at various rates … Read entire article »
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Skype Is Already Learning From Microsoft: Firing Execs Before Deal Finalizes To Avoid Big Payouts
Bloomberg is reporting that ahead of the finalizing of the deal with Microsoft worth 8.5 Billion dollars Skype is firing some “senior executives” so they can avoid larger payouts to these execs as a result of the purchase. The story says that because of when they are let go their stock options will be worth MUCH less. Love this quote: “As part of a recent internal shift, Skype has made some management changes,” said Brian O’Shaughnessy, a Skype … Read entire article »
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Microsoft Buys Skype For 8.5 Billion – They Start Ruining It As Soon As FTC Okays Purchase
Rumors were abounding for the last few days but it turns out to be true: Microsoft will purchase, for cash, Skype and pay $8.5 BILLION for it. Sites like GigaOM confirmed the deal and the details. The first thought I have about this is “They’ll ruin it as fast as possible. Where are people going to go?” The answer has to be Google Talk. The folks at Google must be having a MASSIVE party over this announcement. They … Read entire article »
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Amazon Announces Ad-Supported Discounted Kindle – FAIL!
Not long ago there was a rumor going around that Amazon would soon start offering FREE Kindles to their Prime program customers. I didn’t think it was likely to be free but it’s not a bad idea. If Amazon looked through their databases and picked out their very best customers and gave them a free Kindle to boost ebook sales it would make a lot of sense. Considering that Amazon probably makes very little or … Read entire article »
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Fear Your Email – It’s Going To Get Ugly In Your Inbox
You may or may not have heard about the breech at a company called Epsilon. “So what…” You think. You haven’t done business or given your credit card number to them. Not so fast, kids. Epsilon handles email services for 2500 of the biggest companies out there and I’ll bet you a dollar you’ve done business with one of them. Citi Corp? 1-800-Flowers? Brookstone? Best Buy? Walgreens? Home Shopping Network? How about people like JPMorgan Chase? Kroger? … Read entire article »
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Amazon Wants To Give Away Free Kindles?
Last week I reported on Amazon announcing their Amazon Prime members would have free access to their Amazon Instant Video service but somehow I missed a story that had come out a week or two before that. TECHCRUNCH reported a while back that they had a source claiming that Amazon wants to give a free Kindle to all Prime members. A lot of people have taken a crack at this story for being fanciful but at the … Read entire article »
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