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04.21.06Stupid artist families and stupid astronomersThomas Hawk has an excellent comment on the fact that Joan Miro's family just sued Google because they incorporated parts of his art in their logo on his birthday: "So let's get this right. Google chooses to create a special logo to honor the art and memory of Miro and his birth in 1893 and his family wants to get all pissy about it?" I hope Miro turns in his grave in disgrace of his own family. This is just ridiculous. It reminds me of the story from 1994 when Apple used the code name Sagan for their new PowerMac under construction. The ...
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08.11.05The increase of pages indexed by Yahoo shows on Trendmapper?I have followed parts of the discussions around the fact that Yahoo claimed to have increased its index to include about 20 billion web pages. A claim that several people questions. I am not in the position to have qualified theories about that, but I am running a web site that reflects that something clearly has happened to the engine over at Yahoo. In Trendmapper nearly all the charts searching for phrases with a significant amount of hits had a big jump in its Yahoo curve earlier this month. Actually, a search that looked useless at first have become quite useful for me. ...
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06.30.05And I thought a banned video from Norway was interestingJohn Battelle: Now playing on Google: Matrix Revolutions ...for how many minutes? Edit: Not many minutes... It has now been removed and the link suddenly goes to a general page whith a search for "matrix". Lucky enough I captured the screen shot in this post while it was still available. Related: Banned video on Google Google Video update Google Video and Media Center Edition
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06.29.05Google Video updateToday BoingBoing announces that DVD-Jon has hacked the Google Video player so that it can play content from other sources as well. Very nice, considering the fact that 90% of the videos on Google are currently unavailable. As a friend of mine, Anarkistix states: "Why release a content service with no content?" True...
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06.28.05Banned video on GoogleI recently posted some thoughts on the fact that Google Video just released their own video plugin. So of course I had to download it and try it out. My first impression: - At this point only available for windows - Easy to install - Very basic functionallity: a) The videos play directly in the browser b) You can click the video for fullscreen Huge amounts of the videos are not available for playback yet. I guess it is due to the non existent payment system. However, as mentioned in my previous article I do not think that this is going to be a success before Google adds ...