7 Video Clips, 1 Private Email & 1 Video Greeting Card Later

Here is a sample video clip taken by my Flip Video camcorder - and of course, it's of my budgies... 5 of the 7 clips I saved are of our pets, I emailed a clip of my sister to our parents & sis in the Philippines and emailed a greeting card of my mother-in-law greeting everyone a Happy Easter to my husband's family.

My Flip Video Ultra Series camcorder was shipped separate from the external hard drive I ordered. It arrived yesterday after lunch and it was pretty much ready to shoot out of the box - all I needed to do was put in the batteries (which was included in the package, I might add).

It has a brochure-like quickstart guide that tells you how to turn it on, record a video, connect it to your computer and connect it to your TV.

Contrary to what I expected, there was no software to install, everything is in the camcorder, you plug in the USB connector and the software lets you organize your videos, share them, edit and make movies from them - and save them to your computer so you have more room to take more video clips.

I love it! You turn the camcorder on and it turns on immediately with no wait time at all. You have one button to record and stop recording. It's as small as your average Nokia phone and very stylish too... If only it came in red then it would have matched my phone hehehe. But then I love orange just as much so it would have to do:)

The simplicity of use of this product encouraged me to take more video clips and explore all the things I can do with it. The video enthusiasts might find it lacking in features, but for someone who just wants to take video of people and places to share with friends on the web - this is a great little gadget for your purse (and it won't hurt your wallet as much as most of the camcorders available out there either).

Kate Voegele - It's Only Life

We took my sister to see Kate Voegele at the Glass House in Pomona last Wednesday. My sister is an avid fan of the TV show One Tree Hill - and Kate Voegele plays the young singer that Payton is launching under her small record label. I thought she would enjoy seeing Kate in person.

I was going to share the video my sister took from her mobile phone, but I thought you would enjoy a closer view of the performance. This was from a previous show she had done - it was my favorite among the songs she performed that night...

A Terabyte of Storage

How much storage do we really need in today's world of digital photos, video clips, mp3s and various other downloads from the world wide web?

I bought a 500 GB external hard drive to store my pictures, soon-to-be video clips and to back up any project files I might come up with. While researching for external storage, I came across several 1 to 2 terabytes of external hard drives. Terabytes! There was once a time when the word terabyte was only used in the corporate world - only an office would need to store terabytes of data - but not anymore. External hard drives for personal use now come in terabytes - and you can actually use them up with just your personal files.

Ok, just in case you're wondering, how big is a terabyte - defined as one trillion bytes, or 1000 gigabytes. Imagine all the files you can store with 1 TB of storage space - and most external hard drives come in the above thin and portable format shaped like a book for easy stacking. Stacking, which implies that you may need more than one! Wow!

Kate Voegele in the Glass House

We took my sister to see Kate Voegele at the Glass House in Pomona last Wednesday. Kate Voegele is one of the artists under the MySpace record label - all throughout the concert they were promoting MySpace and the TV show One Tree Hill (of which my sister is an avid fan). Kate plays the young singer that Peyton's small record label is trying to launch. I thought it would be cool to see one of the show's stars in person.

The Glass House is an old club, there's a stage in one corner and people stand around it. We chose to watch the concert from upstairs where you can see better and where nobody is cramping your personal space - and where your ear drums are not in constant danger of bursting from the very loud music.

We enjoyed the show, my husband felt that her front acts would also gain popularity. They had great songs and they didn't look too bad either. A great night in an old town - the arts colony in Pomona.

Giving In to Temptation

According to my DHL tracking report, my purchases will be arriving today. I gave in and ordered this Flip Video Ultra Series camcorder that was featured a couple of weeks ago in my favorite blog for new gadgets, geeksugar.com. It's an inexpensive camcorder that can record an hour's worth of video and runs completely on flash memory.

This type of memory for video camcorders is being adopted by major brands like Sony, Panasonic, Canon and Samsung, which have launched their own flash memory-based players that I had considered buying instead of the Flip. I considered them, but they (1) were really expensive, (2) had crappy customer reviews, (3) didn't look as cool!

If I had to choose I would go for the camera more than the camcorder when capturing memories. I'm not really a video type of girl, it's just that in the field I am in - with the rise of YouTube and user-generated content becoming predominantly video content, I thought I should at least try to figure out how all these sites work as a content provider.

And so I went for the simplest to use beginner camcorder - which all the celebrities seem to carry around and play with now - and we'll see what happens. Knowing me, the videos will probably be mostly about my budgies hehehe.

OMMA Global Hollywood: An Attendee's Recap

We checked out the exhibit hall of the OMMA Global Conference in Hollywood on Monday where the focus had been online content. We attended a workshop on widgets and how it may be used to market your brand virally. Create a widget compelling enough to your users and let them embed it on their myspace, facebook, blog, etc. - let your users market your company for you! Now I've been trying to push this idea to our team for quite some time now - and finally I have someone validating my thoughts. The advertising.com representative explained how widgets can be used to increase web traffic and strengthen loyalties to your brand - which are a few of our team's goals.

Another workshop I found informative was the presentation by Marcia from V:Social. She presented case studies on the campaigns they launched for various companies and the effects it had or the type of users who actually participated in video campaigns. I nodded and smiled through the whole presentation, when we finally talked to her afterwards, she said she remembers me because all the other people in the room looked confused but I actually looked like I was enjoying her presentation - and I did! She explained how social networking tools can be used to run ad campaigns. I always thought social networking was used to build community that would be permanent and that you have to cater to in the long-term - she presented the cases and I was convinced!

This is definitely a niche that advertising agencies need to look at. And though we are publishers of content and not an ad agency - we gained a lot from our time at this OMMA Global Conference. Everyone is acknowledging that the internet is the brave new world - even advertising executives. So maybe we can wade thru this recession, nurturing this new machine that everyone seems to want to conquer - the world wide web.

Online Rebates

When I got to the US, I noticed how retail stores liked sending you discount coupons in the mail to get you to go to their store. I had thought about building a site around discount coupons and sale alerts.

Ebates seems to be built around a similar concept. Sign up and log in to ebates then go to your favorite online store. Ebates tracks the purchases you make and sends you a check for your cash-back credit - so actually they work more like REBATES. Quite a novel idea huh? I wish I had dozens of programmers that will be able to code all the ideas I've thought of implementing (and enough capital to pay them) - I'd probably strike it rich with one idea or another

clipped from www.geeksugar.com Just sign up (it's free) and once signed in, navigate to the store you want to shop at from Ebates. Once you make a purchase, Ebates tracks it for you and sends you a check for your cash-back credit! I've also heard good things about Fatwallet, which is similar to Ebates. Sometimes I think the universe wants me to shop.

P2P Upgrades with P4P

Verizon is now testing a new protocol called P4P or Proactive Network Provider Participation.

We had a class that discussed P2P Networks before, you had to figure out the nodes to connect one point to the other - P2P picks the nodes randomly while P4P has an intelligent selection process using the network topology data. So it chooses the most efficient route to connect a peer to another peer.

It was said to boost the performance of a website 200% - better performance is always a good thing!

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com P2P, or peer-to-peer, is the protocol currently used by many file sharing networks for moving large files over the internet. Now, a new protocol, P4P - aka Proactive network Provider Participation for P2P - is being introduced by Verizon. P4P's goal is to reduce backbone traffic and lower network operation costs. Will P4P bring us the bandwidth we've been waiting for? Unlike P2P, which selects random peers to share with, when using P4P the peers are intelligently selected as the protocol utilizes network topology data to maximize the efficiency of routing between the peer-to-peer connections. Verizon just tested P4P with Pando and received performance boosts of 200 percent on average and increases of up to 600 percent in some cases.

Happy Pi Day!

Today is 3.14 - Pi Day! It's one of Math's most celebrated numbers, the infinite division - the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter or the ratio of a circle's area to the square of its radius.

I saw this advertised on Geeksugar, one of my favorite social networks for the newest gadgets and applications on the web.

I thought it was a novel idea - and just to show you that Numb3rs is still my favorite show - just the thought of Pi conjured images of the adorably curly-haired Professor Epps and his slogan, "We use Math everyday..." (he actually uses it to solve FBI cases in the show). I know, I'm totally a fan of the geek brother instead of the FBI Agent - hey, geek is cool now! Happy Pi Day everyone!

The Happiness Game

This is for my good friend, Ninna, who tagged me to play this easy game - just write down 10 things that recently made you happy.

• Praying with my husband - I love it when we get to do this - ultimate quality time I think.
• Finally having the guts to join my sister in The Mummy ride at Universal Studios
• Catching my close friend, Adora, online and seeing recent pictures of my goddaughter, Faith
• Finally finding performers and getting tickets to shows my sister actually likes in the LA & OC Area.
• Not going over my budget this week - and being able to get back on track with my savings
• Hand-feeding my pet budgies - and actually getting to stroke them.
  
• Finishing a great project at work on time and to everyone's satisfaction - being plugged on the TV show this weekend.
• Looking at pictures of old friends raising their families and being so happy - this includes catching up on how they have been.
• Yummy chicken macaroni salad, dumplings, roasted duck, chocolates and ice cream
• Full coverage car insurance - not having to pay anything to get our truck fixed

Ok last part of the game, tagging someone...
1. Leaaaa :)
2. Lennice
3. Bang
4. Ivy
5. Les

You know I actually enjoyed this game, reminds you of those things you should be thankful for in your life.

FaveBot: A Search Valet

I have only just started using Google Alerts. I figured if I'm hunting down technology stories everyday to keep up on what's happening on the web, I might as well have a search valet do it for me.

Another thing I'm really interested in is concerts and shows. With FaveBot's location filtering, I can have a keyword for performers I want to see and once they have shows in LA or Orange County I'll be alerted. Cool, huh?

clipped from www.webware.com FaveBot is a service that keeps an eye on whatever keywords you give it to pull up related items from the Web. If you're familiar with Google Alerts, the idea is similar. In Favebot's case, you can take any keyword or set of keywords and apply it to the types of content you're looking to keep an eye on, be it photos, videos, blog posts, or podcasts. There are nine categories in all, and the system is designed to serve it up like a river of news with the most recent items appearing on the top. What's neat about FaveBot is that it uses location as part of the filtering. For example, if you live in Texas and earmark a word like Web 2.0 and opt into the events category, you'll get the heads up on when the service finds local happenings that match up with that category (e.g. SXSW). By adding more types of items on your tracking list, you can increase your chances of seeing them in the main news stream.

A Matter of Trust

I saw my sister doing it when I got home from work. She was holding the honey bar treat to Fluffy who was eagerly pecking at it.

When she left to read, I tried it with Botchok and then with Vanny - and they ate out of my hand. Fluffy even came to join in the feeding. Awww!

We are able to stroke Botchok's, Vanny's and Fluffy's tummies now when they are a bit tired or napping. Botchok is funny because when you stroke him, he closes his eyes as though savoring the caress. He is so sweet! I think I was able to stroke Coolit's tummy once and am usually able to stroke his tail feathers, but once she sees you coming she would usually fly away. Batty is the most untrusting of all, only my husband has been able to touch him - and Batty has pecked him a few times because of it.

The only budgie who has yet left the cage on his own has been Batty. When my husband changes their water or puts up new toys, Batty usually flies out and then just sits around watching us. He cannot fly for too long or very high so when he tries my husband lets him land on the palm of his hand. He tries to fly a couple of times more then angles off to the direction of their cage and that's when my husband would move his hand where Batty sat into the cage and he would rejoin his friends. The other budgies do not seem interested in flying out of their cage yet.

I feel that the budgies are getting used to us, but are still a bit frightened. They don't fly away when I change their seeds or their water. I can rotate the placement of their toys without causing too much of a fuss. I feel that they are starting to trust us though because they let us touch them now and they eat out of our hands. Maybe sometime soon they'll perch on our finger and let us play with them outside their cage...

YouTube From Destination to Service

Google's YouTube is going from being a destination to view videos to a service that provides video.

This portability of applications, to me, seems like another form of viral marketing. If I can provide code that people will place on their website to pull my content daily - then I've given people a service but also advertised my content in another website. They say this is where Web 3.0 will be headed and I think it's pretty cool!

clipped from www.webware.com Google's YouTube just announced that it is expanding its APIs to allow more direct access to the service. The updates to the APIs, or application programming interfaces, give developers deeper access into YouTube for video uploading and allow for "chromeless" players, or players without the traditional YouTube interface and branding. This move means YouTube will become not just a destination for videos, but a system that serves videos into other apps. Clearly, it's an effort to turn YouTube into an infrastructure play that, once adopted by a developer on a site, would be difficult to remove.

Brainstorming Online: Twiddla

This can be an informal study group tool, a department brainstorming meeting, a group of friends sharing tips on what's on sale this weekend tool. This has a great range of applications and it's free.

The only glitch is, it's kind of slow - and it makes my PC sound like it's going to have a nervous breakdown. It might be good to look at some performance issues here, but it's a really cool application.

clipped from www.twiddla.com Twiddla is a no-setup, web-based meeting playground. Real collaboration, in real time. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly, mom-approved. Oh yeah, it does one-click audio chats too.

Could data gathering be the reason?

Could Yahoo's 400 billion events to gather data per month be the reason why Microsoft wants to acquire it?

Here is the chart that shows potential of companies to gather data and Yahoo! seems way ahead of everybody else.

clipped from bits.blogs.nytimes.com When all these data collection events are combined for users in the United States in December 2007, Yahoo had the potential to gather data, through 400 billion events in the month. Time Warner, which includes AOL, was second, with about 100 billion events. Google was not too far behind with 91 billion. Interestingly, Microsoft, with 51 billion events in December is far behind not only the other big Internet companies, but also the News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media, which owns MySpace.

Online Tracking: How It's Done

Here are the typical ways we get tracked by websites to serve up targeted ads to us while we're browsing the web.

Very Big Brotherly, right?

clipped from bits.blogs.nytimes.com The comScore study tallied five types of “data collection events” on the Internet for 15 large media companies. Four of these events are actions that occur on the sites the media companies run: Pages displayed, search queries entered, videos played, and advertising displayed. Each time one of those four things occurs, there is a conversation between the user’s computer and the server of the company that owns the site or serves the ad. The fifth area that comScore looked at was ads served on pages anywhere on the Web by advertising networks owned by the media companies. Typically, Web company receives information about the type of page the user is looking at, the user’s I.P. address (which sometimes has clues to the user’s location), and for advertising, the content of the ad. Most Web sites and advertising networks place cookies on users’ browsers, allowing them to recognize each time they interact with that user in the future.

Justifying Bigger Monitors at Work

A lot of my coworkers want bigger monitors for work. I'm not really sure how it will benefit the type of work I do to have a bigger one, but I guess it will be easier to look at long pieces of code...

I know I would want one at home so I can watch my missed TV shows on it in a big screen or edit video on it in the actual size it needs to be. What do you think? Is this study justification enough to get one for your employees?

clipped from blogs.wsj.com The study concluded that someone using a larger monitor could save 2.5 hours a day. But James Anderson, the professor in charge of the study, tells the Business Technology Blog to take that result with a grain of salt: It assumes that someone will work non-stop for eight hours, which no one will, and that the tasks they perform will all benefit from a larger screen, which isn’t always the case. Researchers at the University of Utah tested how quickly people performed tasks like editing a document and copying numbers between spreadsheets while using different computer configurations: one with an 18-inch monitor, one with a 24-inch monitor and with two 20-inch monitors. Their finding: People using the 24-inch screen completed the tasks 52% faster than people who used the 18-inch monitor; people who used the two 20-inch monitors were 44% faster than those with the 18-inch ones. There is an upper limit, however: Productivity dropped off again when people used a 26-inch screen.

Reflections on Writing

As an aspiring writer, I have always been curious about this new genre that has sprung up recently called Chick Lit, especially since my sister (whose reading list I find very interesting) apparently enjoys it.

Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella was one of the books she brought over from the Philippines and since I already had access to it, I thought I should read it as well.

The book is a first person narrative. I always shied away from writing in the first person, I always thought it narrowed what I could describe especially what the other person in the book was thinking. But this seems like the most natural point of view to take since in real life, you don't know what others are thinking and that makes it a little more entertaining - to guess. I think I will try writing something in this point of view for a change.

Another thing I noticed is the simplicity of the plot. She's a shopaholic who's having a baby - trying to keep up with the rich and famous in London. She's also working out her relationships with her husband, her half sister, her best friend and her coworkers. She is balancing a career and a family. The only thing that makes this person different is her penchant for shopping - and the funny way the book was written.

I must admit, I am struggling with the book. It's not something I feel like I have to finish reading, I just read at my own pace when I have 10 or so minutes to spare. But it makes me laugh at times, it's not very heavy with drama or anything. I guess when times are as hard and uncertain as they are now - having a light read that makes you laugh is not such a bad thing.

But with the popularity of such books - and my unenthusiastic response to it - could it mean my writing style has already passed its prime? Or maybe Chick Lit just isn't my genre. I love the intercultural books like those by Amy Tan and the newer Chinese authors who talk about bringing traditional and old-fashioned Chinese upbringing together with the modern America - maybe that's a niche I could try bringing Filipino cultures into the forefront like what the now popular Happy Slip is doing.

I'm very big about dramatic and grandiose plots though... Maybe I should try writing fantasy books like Lord of the Rings or the Chronicles of Narnia... Hmmm... I think I need to find the daydreamer in me again for that one... I think sometimes real life overwhelms me too much that the powerful emotions that used to flow in my writing lie dormant in me somehow.

I was listening to the Greatest Hits of Billy Joel the other night, and a couple of his songs triggered a rush of emotions in me I hadn't felt in a long time. I remembered how it felt to be lonely, how it felt to be heartbroken and all the sad desperation that makes you think of all those conflicts and all those great plots. Maybe I'm just too happy or too content - and that is why I am having such a hard time writing...

I don't know, I feel like I need to write something soon - or whatever skill I had will soon be lost forever...

What's Next on the Web

Here is a slideshow I found that was presented by Richard MacManus, editor of ReadWriteWeb.com at the Media08 event in Sydney. I was going to clip it and post it here, but somehow clipmark did not detect this slideshow.

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Could've Been Thesis Proposal

This would have been the perfect thesis topic to present to my professor back in DLSU. It's similar to AI, which is his specialty so he would have loved that. It's aptly complex - it boggles the mind when you think about all the algorithms involved. Uniqueness? There is no search engine that does what this does as far as I know... Use? To go one step further than where Google has gone - is that considered an academically correct use? Well, considering how much money Google founders made with their search engine and how much good it did for mankind - maybe that is enough justification to pass the thesis proposal

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com eeggi (engineered, encyclopedic, global and grammatical identities) is the world’s first mathematically-based Search and Retrieve, Response, and Discovery engine (ReDi engine), capable of focusing on the concept of text and not just the text itself. A ReDi engine is a new type of engine capable of not only searching and retrieving information but also responding to direct questions (in what country did Napoleon died?) and discovering data through pure rationality, which is possible thanks to our new technological breakthrough of Relational Intelligence.

Vanny's Recovery and A Little Budgie Romance

My sweet Vanny caught her toe in a sandy swing that I recently bought for my budgies. She loved that swing so much, she would just stay there when she didn't want the other budgies to bother her. She liked the sandy perch the swing provided and gnawed at it constantly.

The swing was held up by metal sticks and there was a small gap between the end of the sandy perch and where the metal stick curves upward to hang from the cage. That's where Vanny's toe got caught, my sister saw her panicking and helped get her toe out, but she was bleeding by the time she got out.

We were worried about her because the toe seemed to swell and she stayed in one corner all silent with her feathers puffed up. But by the end of my lunch break she was able to move from perch to perch, she just preferred her uninjured foot. It was clear that the other foot was hurting.

My sister and I took turns watching her if she would eat or play with the others. Do you know what actually cured her - or at least made her forget that her foot was injured? The spray millet! She loved it so much, she chomped at it with gusto - going from one or the other spray depending on which one did not have other visitors.

I also noticed that this wonderful little male budgie, Botchok, was sweet on Vanny. He would stay by her side, stroking and cuddling up to her while she was quiet and recovering from her injury. Then when she started to eat, he stayed close either sharing the treat or just being there so the other budgies couldn't bully her. Awww... That was so gentlemanly of him.

Budgie Treats: Honey Bars and Spray Millets

After weeks of trying out what treats my birds would like - going as far as buying apples, carrots and broccoli just for them then slicing, shredding, chopping and dicing them to see which they would prefer (and realizing that my budgies don't really like eating fresh fruit and veggies); buying them all those cute treats like egg biscuits and birdie bananas that they just skim over not really interested in eating them - I almost concluded that all my birds liked to eat were the seeds that were their staple food.

Yesterday we bought these spray millets, which I had seen a couple of times - I admit I passed them over because they didn't look very appetizing to me (of course, I'm not a bird so how could I have known!). We hung them in the cage and within minutes my budgies were munching off the sprays. They loved them!

Another hit is this honey bar treat, which looked very hard to eat to me - and I reiterate, I'm not a bird and I assume too much! With the failure of those cute birdie bananas, I thought they didn't like hard treats like these. It was a good thing I decided to give these a try because they pecked through these with great enthusiasm when my husband hung them in the cage.

I love watching them enjoying the treats! I feel like I've shown them a little love by giving them treats like these. My husband concluded that we will be spending a lot on these treats - I don't really mind as long as the budgies enjoy them. I love spoiling my babies!

Viral Marketing & Easter Eggs

This year a web printing company called Moo is turning the traditional easter egg hunt into a viral marketing campaign. Participants are asked to find easter eggs based on clues found in the Moo blog. Prizes will be awarded to people who find the egg in Moo's partner sites or in the real world. Egg hunters need only enter the code on the eggs to qualify for the prizes.

I think it's a pretty cool concept, don't you? This is a great way of getting people to go back to your site - thereby increasing web traffic; getting your name out there - people will certainly remember that Moo did that easter egg hunt online; and getting talked about - maybe getting new customers via word of mouth advertising.

I wonder what their prizes are... Hmmm...

clipped from www.webware.com Viral marketing be damned, sometimes time spent searching the depths of the Internet for small, tucked-away items can be fun. Especially when you're rewarded from your efforts. Web-printing company Moo is running its own Easter egg scavenger hunt in conjunction with several other hip online companies like Etsy, Blurb, Ponoko, and Picnik. People are supposed to hunt down small Easter eggs on the various services and claim them. Moo is also bundling some of the eggs in products sent to customers in the next week. Meanwhile, the company keeps track of who has found what, and awards various prizes from the partnered sites.

Movie Night: Penelope

This was a great movie with a moral lesson. Other people's acceptance will not make you happy - only when you accept who you really are will you be content.

James McAvoy was great in this movie - definitely leading man material. Christina Ricci made her role believable - and made the audience feel her pain in captivity and her exhilaration at being set free.

The movie made me laugh, made me sigh and made me go "Aha!" when we realized the moral of the story. It is a touching romantic comedy - a wonderful date-night movie if you ask me. Two thumbs up!

Lifestreaming: The New Black

With all the wonderful web applications out there, it's easy to see the need to collect all the bits and pieces of your online life into one place. This is what lifestreaming does - the primer described in this clip even went as far as to say that it's The New Black.

Have you ever tried using Tumblr, Jaiku, Friendfeed or MyBloglog? These are examples of lifestreaming applications - so are you acquainted with the new black?

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com It's a pretty good bet that if you're not making a Twitter or Facebook application, you're probably making a lifestreaming application. Okay, so not everyone is into lifestreaming, but it is one of the hottest areas for development out there, and there are an overwhelming amount of services offering a way to aggregate all the little bits of your online life (which, for the purpose of this post, is the definition of lifestreaming that we'll use). Richard MacManus wrote an excellent primer on lifestreaming in January, but we touched on just 5 such services. The purpose of this post, rather than to review, is to just list the various options out there. Lifestreaming apps generally fall into two categories: those that help you keep track of and display your own lifestream and those that help you keep track of your friend's lifestreams (or both).

A High-Tech TV Guide

A new website that collates all the TV shows from different networks and presents them in a cube of links. According to this news clips it plays directly on the Hulu embedded player or redirects you to the network site to play the requested show. So is this application actually a glorified TV Guide - for people like me who instead of tivo-ing their missed shows look for them online? As long as it's useful, I guess...

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com Prime Time Rewind is a new web site that allows you to watch network TV for free online by using their web site. The shows that are played are identical to what the networks release on their own web sites, the only difference is that Prime Time Rewind aggregates them together in a unique way. Prime Time Rewind presents you with a cube where each face represents a different network or a different genre of TV show. You can spin the cube around using either your mouse or the arrow keys on your keyboard. Spinning the cube one way will show you the networks, one per side: ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, USA, and TNT. Spinning the cube the other way shows TV show genres: reality, drama, action, and comedy.

Is Yahoo! Migrating to Asia?

From what little tech news I read from the Philippines, I know that Yahoo! just set up an office and appointed a CEO there. Now here's a clipping that says it's expanding its base in India. Is Yahoo! migrating to Asia to get the expertise it needs or is it just cutting costs and getting cheap labor? Whatever the reason is, this is an exciting time for Asians to step up and show the world how ingenius we truly are!

clipped from www.techcrunch.com Yahoo’s decision to purge 1000 staff members primarily from its United States operations (some in Europe) has been hot news this year. What we didn’t know when the announcement was made was that Yahoo was planning to expand its base in India. Yahoo is establishing a new lab in Bangalore with a focus on long-term research. The lab will be “a center of excellence for next generation search and advertising technologies, focused on making the Web more relevant and simple for users and advertisers.”