Not only this ad makes a stand in front of Sony and other big TV brands out there telling them “We have just advertised an Internet TV in front of 100 million viewers, you better get something out there soon or we’ll crush you”, but it also should tick you as a software developer. Now you’ll be able write software for the living room.

“VIZIO’s platform also includes support for the Adobe(R) Flash(R) Platform for the Digital Home, an optimized implementation of Flash technology that enables developers and content providers to deliver HD video, rich applications and other Web content to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices in the digital home.”

VIZIO Internet Apps (VIA(TM)) — Connecting to the Future of Television

(Good luck on killing Flash Steve Jobs)

Internet TVs will be huge if/when they support (open) standard technologies for media delivery used in today’s web and mobile devices, e.g. HTML5/JavaScript, Flash, Android SDK. It seems Vizio has gone the Flash route.

Thanks to @gliendo I understand that there’s still room for live tv content (sports, news and some events that are delivered in HD via Cable/Satellite networks), however for the rest of the stuff that I consume the most: TV Shows, Movies, Concerts, Documentaries… all of that I see it when I have the time, I just can’t be in front of the TV when they want me to. If I want to see a show, I don’t need to wait a week to see the next episode and be there like if it was a date, my time is way to valuable for that, I’ll do it when I can, how I can, and the internet has allowed me so far to be free of cable TV for over 2 years now, but that’s me, the majority of people watches TV in the living room, and a TV like this will also free them from cable channels when they figure the possibilities.

Ads on Cable and we still have to pay for it?
If a TV like this has support for Netflix, Hulu, YouTube or other existing online Video delivery services where I can get my favorite movies on demand (in the case of netflix for a flat fee and I can stream all I want from their catalog) why the hell would I need to watch TV on cable channels and with so many ads? you almost feel stupid for paying the cable company after they make you watch so many ads, in the internet world usually if you pay for something you never expect an ad, with such a high CPM on TV ads, why the hell do we pay for cable????

Cable TV Channels are so dead for me, a TV like this gives me hope that they will eventually die for millions of people once they realize this, the more internet tvs that are out there, the sooner it’ll happen.

http://vizio.com/via/

                          

Unboxing and comparing the Nexus One to the Motorola Droid. Audio is in spanish but you’ll be able to see and tell a lot from my video even if you are an english speaker (use this opportunity to practice your spanish)

                          

I learned the trick from a couple of other videos in youtube, however I thought they were badly shot and I decided to make my own version from the point of view of the person taking the bra off.

Wish I someone had taught me this trick years ago, thanks Internet for being such a great teacher.

                          

Notes to Joost developers: I had to resize the size of the embedded object, by default it was 640×360, but this is too wide for the standard blog, which usually has a 2 column layout.

It’d recommend 400×225 as the default size for most bloggers to copy and paste without further editing.

This should probably the standard embed code you should have for your users to embrace this:

<object width="400" height="225"><param name="movie" value="http://www.joost.com/embed/37aigyt"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.joost.com/embed/37aigyt" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" width="400" height="225"></embed></object>


Hat tip to the Joost team for allowing embedding, I was waiting for this to start recommending content properly.

                          

Chris Pirillo has reviewed this week our Infinite Storage service MyBloop.com very positively, and he has called it “The World’s Biggest Hard Drive.

About Chris
Christopher “Chris” Joseph Pirillo (born July 26, 1973(1973-07-26)) is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome which is a large blogging network. He spent two years hosting the TechTV television program Call for Help before parting ways with the show. He also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon on TechTV. He now hosts videos on several internet sites, including CNN.com, YouTube and his own website.

Chris Pirillo live streams from his home-office using Ustream technology and uses this to create YouTube videos daily with a focus on software, computers, iPhone applications, and other technology-related topics and events.

Chris Pirillo is also an avid blogger, combining his website which contains over 1,500 posts, and updating his micro-blogging accounts, such as Twitter and FriendFeed daily.

Every year, Pirillo hosts Gnomedex, a technology conference tailored to technology and blogging enthusiasts.

About MyBloop.com
MyBloop.com is a free service that allows its users to store an unlimited number of files absolutely for free. It allows for an evolving and incremental set of functionalities depending on the file types, being the more feature rich, music, playlists and picture files. It has social features, search, and several file sharing functionalities such as flash embedding, which makes it attractive to podcasters and musicians looking to host their audio files and get exposure without paying for the storage or the bandwidth.

                          

About Strands

Strands is a life streaming service that helps users discover new things based on what their friends like and do, and allows them to see what’s hot among the people they care about.

                          

Thanks to Kalong from Strands.com for posting this video of her receiving the FrostWire T-Shirt and stickers.

Also thanks to all the users that have posted pictures of their stickers and t-shirts on our Flickr Photo Album

About Strands.com

Strands is a life streaming service that helps users discover new things based on what their friends like and do, and allows them to see what’s hot among the people they care about.

From Wikipedia

                          

I just got a new Apple Wireless Keyboad.

My laptop currently sits atop a Griffin Elevator, this keeps it cool and also helps keep my neck at a healthy angle, something I need given how many hours I spend on the computer.

The problem with the Elevator is that after a while, your arms get tired and you end up resting your arms over your elbows, causing you elbow dryness and sometimes pain.

To rest my elbows and have an ergonomic posture, I needed a keyboard that was small enough to fit on my tight desk.

The other reason I got it was that the MacBook keyboard is extremely worn out.

Getting used to the new keyboard
The function keyboard layout is a bit different from the one on the MacBook. It took me a couple hours getting used to the spacing between the keys, but now I’m fully used to it. The feeling of the keys going down is very addictive.

Since the keyboard is wireless, I’m planning on getting another one to put it in front of the TV. Once Boxee integrates Joost and Hulu perfectly into the system, getting an Apple TV or a cheap custom built computer as a media center will make a lot of sense.

I’ve been hooking up the laptop via HDMI to the TV, and it sucks every time an episode ends in Hulu, or when there are commercial breaks on the ABC.com HD player because you have to get up and click on continue, or select the next episode to watch (unless you have setup playlists previously).

A wireless mouse and keyboard solve that problem.

Useful for Internet TV
Another plus, it can work like a remote control, for your HDMI-TV/Laptop setup.

I can proudly say we’ve been Cable-TV free for over 10 months now (saving probably around $200), I “survive” on Netflix DVDs & Streaming (can’t wait for the Xbox Live upgrade), Joost and Hulu.

Given my past history of doing things 2-3 years before regular people, I can see a big future for the Internet TV/Video companies that survive this “crisis” (bullshit crisis really, go to Venezuela and see what a real crisis is), eventually the whole thing will be packed on little boxes and CableTV companies will be in trouble if they don’t jump on the I-watch-what-I-want-whenever-I-want-via-internet boat.

                          

During the summer of 2008, a couple of Venezuelan Parachute Base Jumpers (Carlos and Pedro) got together with Propela Productions to make a short film about an extreme dream of the jumpers, Jump from the Base of one of the Twin Towers of Parque Central in Caracas, Venezuela.

They format published in YouTube was divided in 2 parts, this is part 2. You can see Part One here.

Very nicely planned, produced, executed and edited (to my taste).

Let’s keep an eye on these guys, anybody knows if they have a site? I just got this from Nosgoth

                          

Best damn funny/controversial show I’ve seen. Seinfeld on steroids for what’s left of the decade.

From wikipedia:

The series deals with a variety of controversial topics, including abortion, gun control, physical disabilities, racism, sexism, religion, the Israeli/Palestinian situation, terrorism, transsexuality, slavery, incest, sexual harassment in education, the homeless, statutory rape, drug addiction, pedophilia, nuclear proliferation in North Korea, child abuse, mental illness, gay rights, bulimia, prostitution, nazism, necrophilia and cannibalism.

Stream provided by Hulu.

                          

Hats off to the Joost team for a re-launch that went way better than I expected. Thanks for listening to all the suggestions, I know I’ve been a pest.

About Death Note

From Wikipedia

Death Note is a Japanese manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata. The series centers on Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook dropped on Earth by Ryuk, a shinigami (“death god”), that allows Light to kill anyone by writing the victim’s name in the notebook. The story follows Light’s attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook, and the complex conflict between him and his opponents.

                          

It’s official, I’m retarded compared to the guys that built this technology.

                          

MyBloop.com Playlist Creation Demo from gubatron on Vimeo.

                          

Here’s the video on Joost, the sound quality is great.

Saimim shows how to heat things up a bit with their funky anthem, Heater. Taken from continent to continent, this is not one to miss out on.

                          

This Verizon FIOS commercial always cracks me up.

In regards to FIOS I wonder how much money they’ve wasted advertising it, it’s been over the commercials are in the air but the service is hardly available anywhere. It’s either that or the fact their website sucks and you always end up forced to make a phone call, and that’s when they loose me, I just want to order the whole thing online, why wait 30mins until somebody picks up.

It’s hard to run a big company I guess, too many people that don’t give a damn about your business always end up making it bad.

                          

This is probably gonna be the next hottest viral video, I can imagine these dudes talking about doing this, either stonned or drunk as shit, and then actually doing it. Hilarious.

                          

I thought you’re not supposed to even shake a baby when it’s crying, I guess this is to stress test them, holy shit.

This is a ritual that’s been around for 500 years, the video was shot in Solapur, India.
The purpose seems to be having the babies grow strong. It seems to me more like a stress test, you either break or you make it.

                          

My friend Daniel Chang was recording “incognito” with his macbook’s webcam when I popped the game for the first time.

                          

They call it the best game of the decade.

                          

And here’s the video the boys made

                          

The city map as expected resembles quite a lot the maps of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and New Jersey.

I found this on the Bronx like area of Liberty City, it’s some kind of Latin character called Manny Escuela, it seems they’re recording some kind of Reggaeton Music Video during the game:

So far I’ve seen videos of other ethnic mafias, such as Italian (Jersey-like side), Russian, Albanian, Jamaican and Irish.

The similarities between Liberty City and New York are amazing, this is a picture of the main character flying over the city and looking at what in real life is Queens and northern brooklyn (where I live)
See how they made a building resembling the Queens Citi tower.

The game is finally coming out at the end of this month, it looks light years ahead of anything else that’s come out for any console, can’t wait to be playing it with my friends (yes, its the first multiplayer-gta)

                          

Today I found a new site called BluBet.com, in it people place all sorts of bets, anything you can imagine, I found a bet on this new device (still very early stage), that can convert your brain signals into words, check it out on the video and you’ll get it

My bet was of course that something like this will def. change the way humans communicate.

It’s still a little scary though, I can imagine the government putting “brain-sniffers” all over the place to read our minds, which is the last place where we all can be free.

It’d be great however with people that loose their speech, they could communicate like never before, the applications for this technology are amazing.

So… What’s your bet going to be?

                          

Specially the part where they said that it didn’t really add any innovation that it didn’t do anything you couldn’t with Digg.com. Then he said it surprised him coming from Arrington, a person who copied VentureBeat.

The video comes from Qik.com a new service which allows you to stream videos right from your cellphone.

It seems to me that Sillicon Valley has caught on the Rappers trend to start grudges in public to raise record sales.

                          

[Tomado de la lista de correos de wedoit4you.com y ted.com]

Para los que no conocen TED, es un evento realizado todos los anos, en donde las mentes
mas brillantes se reunen para compartir sus ideas, estudios, logros.

El enlace los llevara a una de las charlas mas impresionantes que he visto, tomo lugar
ahora en febrero de 2008, y se trata de una Neuro Cientifica que sufrio un derrame cerebral,
durante el cual estuvo conciente de lo que sucedia, y es verdaderamente conmovedora
y humilde la conclusion que tuvo despues de su experiencia, en la cual describe como
podia reconocer cuando su hemisferio derecho y su hemisferio izquierdo tomaban
el control.

Tardo 8 anos en recuperar el habla para poder estar en TED y compartir con nosotros
su experiencia y sus conclusiones.

Espero que puedan ver la charla.

Saludos.
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“Fuck it I’ll fund that!”
Hilarious.

                          

As seen on Techcrunch, it seems Google may be putting its eye on this company.

                          

If you managed to get out of Venezuela recently, I hope this helps you get over the home sickness and feel lucky you’re out of that madness.

To all those that think Chavez government is awesome and a cool socialist, I recommend you go and spend 6 months in Caracas, and then we talk. For some reason people from Europe and some cab drivers in New York seem to think Chavez is awesome, fuck that.

And to say that this case is Chavez’s fault is probably crap, since murders on convenience stores happen all over the world, the problem with Venezuela, is that this situation is repeated way too many times a day since we don’t have a few hundred guys like that, we probably have tens of thousands of sons of bitches like those two bastards.

(If someone knows when this took place, please leave a comment, so I can update this post)

                          

It’s all organized it seems by a group called Improv Everywhere Global, they like to create scenes.

                          

Venezuelan talent, can’t wait to see more of these talented team, I think they have what it takes to be the latin american Wachoskies. Keep dreaming, keep working for those dreams, and put no limit to your dreams, that’s my humble advice.

I think this goes to show how technology is leveling the field for talented people, this was done (according to the credits) with only 4 people and lots of work. I would speculate and say this was done using Final Cut Pro, After Effects, and on the 3D animation side I’m not gonna make any guesses, it’d be awesome if it was done using Blender3d, perhaps the creators will come and comment on this post about the making. I talked to Viviana and she said they’re producing a DVD with a making of, and producer’s comments audio on top of the video.

If you are a venezuelan blogger, please mirror this youtube video

Credits

Starring Alvaro Godoy
Created by Juan Carlos Redondo and Viviana Reveron
3D Animation and Special FX by Jesus Roldan Zozaya

                          

This is probably my favorite part of the movie, check this out

                          

Aqui puse un video para demostrar que en Xbox 360 uno se puede divertir muuuucho mas que con la consola de juguete llamada Nintendo Wii. Jeje. Esto es en realidad una respuesta en video a un hilo de conversacion muy largo que llevamos en la lista de correos de wedoit4you.com sobre si el Wii es la consola gay y si es divertida o no mas alla de unos 15 minutos de gameplay.

Aqui queda prueba de que puedes simular de forma bien divertida lo que se siente tocar una cancion de metallica en la bateria, y aprendes a mejorar tu ritmica mientras pierdes unas cuantas calorias.

                          

Los Chiflados de Chespirito. Tenia tiempo que no me acordaba de estos peculiares personajes y sus tontos juegos de dialogo.

                          

Teaser for Doug Benson’s super anticipated documentary Super High Me, a documentary where he smokes pot for 30 days and then doesn’t for 30 days.