Like most great ideas, the concept behind Justin.tv is simple: a video stream, anytime, anywhere. But the hardware behind it all wasn't so easy to make
There I got to see amazing live performances but also the many minidramas that the television cameras miss. In that spirit, here are a few rituals you won't see as you watch the show tonight.
ONLINE VIDEO GUIDE ( ovguide.com ) If you've watched all of YouTube's hundred-million-and-counting videos and still have some time to spare, unglue your eyes from the computer monitor, get up, stretch, and then come back and check out this site. Online V
Catalyst is a program that sees science as a dynamic force changing our world. Each week Catalyst will bring a mixture of Australian and international stories, from science breakthroughs investigating the implications, the ethics, and the politics of the particular issue, to stories about how scientists work in the field.
All in the Mind, presented by Natasha Mitchell, is Radio National's weekly foray into all things mental - a new program about the mind, brain and behaviour.
Catalyst is a program that sees science as a dynamic force changing our world. Each week Catalyst will bring a mixture of Australian and international stories, from science breakthroughs investigating the implications, the ethics, and the politics of the particular issue, to stories about how scientists work in the field.
Rageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past amd looks back to a golden age when European civiliastion was enriched by Islamic learning
The shocking murder of a leading psychiatrist by another psychiatrist in South Australia has raised many issues, not the least being about the nature of mental illness itself. Norman Swan interviews the author of a book about the Margaret Tobin murder and its aftermath.
The Office - Guide to the people, places and episodes of the hit comedy. With maps, episode and character guides and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's definitive guide. The official website for The Office; part of the BBCi Comedy web site.
Learning an instrument can help children improve their linguistic skills and may even help people recover from memory loss after brain injury researchers have found
4 Minute Wonders is a competition for established and emerging filmmakers, which is designed to encourage the development of digital media skills. The competition is currently being run in South Australia and Victoria. Film makers can enter and receive funding to make a multi-platform music video clip for one of Triple J's Unearthed finalists.
The history of the continent from an African perspective. With hundreds of pages, and multi-media, the BBC investigates the events and characters that have made African history from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid.
Visit Radio 4 online to listen to the UKs most authoritative, entertaining and diverse speech radio station. Listen to the latest episode of the Archers and many other programmes
Livestation is a free TV player application which lets you watch live news (or sport) from anywhere in the world. It's based on Microsoft's Silverlight technology. You can sign up
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.
Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.
'There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed'
Say you're watching TV and an ad for Chevy's Silverado pickup catches your eye. Come this fall, viewers using Google's new interactive television technology will be able to type the object of their desire into an onscreen search box and launch a YouTube GOOG video or surf over to Chevy's (FIATY) website. Advertisers foresee a new medium to get their message to consumers. "Google is going to revolutionize the way we use media," says Shattuck Groome, president of New York ad agency Gotham Direct Interactive, which buys TV ads for brands that include M&M's candy and Zappos.com (AMZN). "It's the future of advertising."
In May, Google announced a new Internet TV product called Google TV. As we noted at the time, the most interesting aspect of the announcement was the developer ecosystem that Google is introducing to television. Google TV will not just allow you to view television programs and online video content, it'll also give you access to Internet TV applications built using Google's mobile operating system Android. Google is positioning itself as an Internet TV platform, despite not offering a hardware component like Apple TV and Microsoft Mediaroom. Instead, Google has partnered with electronics giant Sony on the hardware side. Google TV launches in the fall inside a new line of Sony TVs, so let's look at what we can expect to see.
Satellite television and the expanding power of the Internet are not only changing the way news is delivered, but also the perception of what news is and the way journalists do their jobs. These changes are having a profound impact on the news business while at the same time providing societies with more information that can help strengthen freedom, democracy and human rights. VOA's Bill Rodgers has more in this report.
FG Science TV macht Wissenschaft sichtbar: Drei Monate lang berichten Forscher Woche für Woche über ihre Projekte in dreiminütigen Kurzfilmen. Quer durch alle Wissenschaftsgebiete entstehen so zehn filmische Forschungstagebücher.
Google treibt seine Pläne für das "Fernsehen der nächsten Generation" weiter voran. In den USA zeigen die Sender der Plattform allerdings die kalte Schulter, und die Set-Top-Boxen verkaufen sich schlecht.
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