Posts tagged with "Internet"
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Getting video on the internet right
In the past two years that I've been working in transcoding at Joost, I have learnt a lot about what works, and what doesn't, when it comes to putting video ...
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Winning comment on Freakonomics blog
I LOVE freakonomics; they approach the sci^H^H^Hart of economics with a sense of humor, delight and curiosity, and they attract a readership that has the sam...
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Seth Godin on status quo
I follow Seth Godin's blog, because he tends to have interesting things to say about marketing. This time I think he's really really right; organizations tha...
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Cool TED talk on wisdom
Like most geeks, I love TED talks, and think it's great that they're put on the internet for free for anyone to watch. I really liked this one, although I ha...
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Joost embeds!
Joost embeds kinda work now, although I have to go through vodpod.com to embed in wordpress because wordpress doesn't allow me to post code :S. Anyhow, I so ...
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Internet memes
Internet memes are an amazing phenomenon, from badgerbadgerbadger, to lolcats, to rickrolling. The latest is quite odd, in a sense disgusting, but still fasc...
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Why I want Joost to succeed
Last week we had a lot of meetings about what we need to do with regard to content ingestion and distribution at Joost, and it has been interesting, very int...
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Thedailywtf posts a non-WTF story
Like many other IT people I'm an avid reader of thedailywtf, a site about all kinds of things that go wrong in and around IT in companies, and where the only...
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Battlestar Galactica
As some of you may know I love Battlestar Galactica (aka BSG) and I can't wait for the fourth season to start, because it's bound to kick ass again. SciFi ch...
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Radically incompetent
It isn't much of a secret that I don't like Geert Wilders, our national extremist, fear mongerer and muslim hater. I am convinced that his extreme standpoint...
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We are the knights of the technosphere
I recently read some sensible post from one of the tech blogs I follow about internet addiction, that is on the one hand quite sad, but on the other totally ...
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Hell
An old but good joke: Is hell endothermic or exothermic?
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XKCD comic for my boss
My boss (Steve) has heard about the word kewl. xkcd knows all about people using slang:
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Video of the day
No Joostlink unfortunately because of geo restrictions, but just a video with very strong imigary: Serj Tankian - Empty Walls
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Geekfun!
I recently discovered xkcd, a somewhat geeky web comic, with at times very funny jokes. (if you understand them :-))
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Spine (or lack thereof)
It is official: I'm a spineless creature now, I have recreated a Hyves account. It turns out that everybody I know a) has one and b) seems to use it all the ...
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Here to stay
Today the two months probational period at Joost have passed, so even though it was pretty clear after a couple of weeks that I would stay, it does feel very...
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Silverlight
I am sure at least a part of my faithful blog readers hasn't ever heard of Silverlight, so I'll give it a small introduction. Drumroll please \drumroll sound...
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New (and barely stable)
In a perhaps daring and awe-inspiring, or foolish move, Apple has decided to leverage it's iPod advantage in the desktop computing market. Last monday apple ...
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iRack
On the OGD forum they pointed out the latest product from Apple Computers, the iRack. It is genious.
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omgponies!!!
I find it funny how the dynamics of an online community works. Last year (April Fool's) the site had become pink and decorated with cuteness. This year, they...
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Bye bye Hyves
Some time ago I relented to all those mails and got myself a Hyves account, and soon I noticed it was Orkut all over again (sans the Brazillians). Today I've...
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growlzorntshlinskglergmnsplanksdrysklid
Multiplayer notepad (also known as IRC) is teh pwnage when I feel like it and today I did, because I was too tired for Contramime. We played the Amish game. ...
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Extremes on a scale
I can't help it. If a television program has some undefinable, but very distinct quality, I have to watch. Which is why I love both Hak.5 and Pure Pwnage and...