TechCrunch and others are reporting? that CBS is super happy about their YouTube partnership.? They specifically note a 5% increase in viewers on the David Letterman show as a result of displaying? copyrighted CBS content on YouTube. Michael Arrington makes an excellent point when he writes, “Content owners are trying to figure out what to do and how to do it before offline television dies.”
Archive for November, 2006
I suspect many of you, like me, are in the mood to give thanks or take a nap. We’ve really got a lot to be thankful for.? Technology has been? remained fun and rewarding for another year thanks to investors like us.?
I’d like to give thanks to the web professionals that gave their time above and beyond what they get paid for. Especially those of you that have given us tools and resources beyond our expectations. Big thanks to everyone for keeping web 1.0 effective and life changing for so many of us.
Thanks? to Google for leading and thanks to Microsoft for trying so hard to catch up. Thank you? Apple for staying cool and thanks to the? hardware? teams? everywhere for the gadgets and tools that inspire.
Thanks to the students. Thanks to the teachers. Thanks to the troops, thanks to the voters. Mahalo Nui Loa? to my family, to you for making this production possible.
There’s an Adobe Labs project designers should check out. Adobe Kuler is the name and is basically an interactive? color wheel, elegantly appointed with all the latest functionality including rich corinthian, web 2.0 trimmings. It’s super easy to use and in my opinion, more valuable than several other Adobe products that are still being supported.
Educators teaching color theory will probably love this. Programmers that need to translate or look up color values will save time using this. Webmasters and designers will go home earlier after style guide meetings and the world will soon be a more colorful place. Go to http://kuler.adobe.com.
Finally, there’s? some other news out there today.
A Chinese court sentenced the owner of a porn site to life in prison.
CNET is also reporting multiple security flaws in IE, Firefox and OS X in time for the holidays.
Matt Cutts debunks another myth about web hosting and Google’s algorithm at his blog.
All the links are at wowtechminute.com.
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Additional Resources
Check out Adobe Kuler 
http://kuler.adobe.com
Chinese Porn : http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-11/21/content_739248.htm
Matt Cutts Blog : http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
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Today I am here with Bebo White,? Departmental Associate (Retired) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a member of the team who established the first Website in the United States, and WOW Advisory Board Member.
Bebo, good afternoon.?
I am often asked to respond about the benefits of CSS and the “rants and raves” in the Web design community regarding the use of CSS and I would like to hear your thoughts.? Could you tell our listeners the value of CSS and what’s going on in the Web? design community regarding the use of CSS?
Google’s? Sitemap Protocol is now being used by the major search engines. Now there’s finally a way to have more control over the indexing and reporting of the bots that crawl your website to index your pages. You need one of these and I’ll quickly explain how to implement your own.
Now that Yahoo, MSN and Google have agreed to use the Sitemap Protocol as part of their official indexing routines, it’s time to get one for your site. By using the sitemap protocol, you can take the guesswork out of search engine optimization. With the Sitemap Protocol, you can build an xml sitemap that tells the search engines about the content on your site. Continue reading…
Stefanie Olsen? at CNET.com quotes Ryan Jones from NoSlang.com saying, “A lot of teens get mad that I’m cluing parents into their little warnings.”
That’s because Ryan deciphers the little acronyms that teens use to hide their online prose. If you’re a parent, you know the drill. You walk up behind your teen as they’re chatting and you see some three letter acrnyms appear like, “MOS” which means, “Mom over shoulder.” NoSlang.com won’t just keep you informed, it’ll keep you cool.
Speaking of teens and being cool, Microsoft’s Zune went on sale Tuesday in time for the holiday shopping wars. Also shipping in time for the Holidays will be machines with the new Intel Quad Core processors.
and finally, Adobe has released the Flash Player 9 for Windows and Macs.
Cracking the code of teens’ IM slang
http://news.com.com/Cracking+the+code+of+teens+IM+slang/2009-1025_3-6135457.html?
Microsoft sees Zune as just opening act
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sees+Zune+as+just+opening+act/2100-1041_3-6135131.html?tag=newsmap
Intel’s quad-core chip powerful but pricey
http://news.com.com/Intels+quad-core+chip+powerful+but+pricey/2100-1041_3-6132033.html
Get the Adobe Flash Player Update?
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/
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I found an interesting quote recently. So this is an excerpt from a blog quoting an online? newspaper. The closest I could get to the source was the online newspaper. So I may be putting too much trust in the source but here goes:
According to Crawford Kilian’s? excerpt from? The Guardian,? ? Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes devotees of blogging sites take too much information on trust: he says, “The blogging world works by people reading blogs and linking to them. You’re taking suggestions of what you read from people you trust. That, if you like, is a very simple system, but in fact the technology must help us express much more complicated feelings about who we’ll trust with what.”
I think it’s critically important to always seek out the source of the information. Whenever possible, we make the call or? make a visit? to get the story first-person. We will continually build on your trust and all our sources are always listed on this site.
Some of the resources used in this article 
Crawford Kilian? writes a solid, high quality? blog : Writing for the Web – The blog of Writing for the Web 3.0?
The Guardian : Best daily newspaper on the world wide web : Read today’s paper
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1938477,00.html
Trust and blogging – a new approach
http://citizenspin.typepad.com/citizenspin/2005/07/trust_and_blogg.html
Can “old” media trust bloggers?
http://sirymarketing.blogspot.com/2006/11/can-old-media-trust-bloggers.html
Yesterday I mentioned Web 4.0 planning.? A couple people? noticed I skipped over planning for web 3.0. They’re right, I did and we may. Let me explain.
The open-source clearing house continues as Sun releases Java under a General Public License (version 2). The source code became available today. I’m a bit surprised this didn’t make bigger news and there isn’t any clear indication of what impact it might have.
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