This is the story of Cablevision, the companies that followed in its wake, and how we got to the strange place where wasting resources on thousands of tiny antennas made you legal—but where using one antenna broke the law.
via Why Johnny can’t stream: How video copyright went insane | Ars Technica.
For Pandora, as with local television stations, this year’s spike in political ads is a welcome source of cash for a media company reliant on advertising revenue. During the first three months of 2012, Pandora brought in $70 million in advertising revenue, nearly double its total over the same three months in 2011, a non-election year, according to SEC filings.
via The Politics of Your Pandora Station – US News and World Report.
It’s possible to sync Google Docs to Dropbox, automatically send Gmail attachments to Dropbox, play music in a browser from your Dropbox music files, encrypt your Dropbox, easily host a website or blog in Dropbox, collect URLs and web clippings to Dropbox and to automate file syncs between all of your social networks and Dropbox. You can even view all of your Dropbox files alongside your Google Docs, Box files and FTP files in the one web interface. If you want to know the best apps to do all of these things, then read on.
via 10+ Best Apps For Your Dropbox.
Here‘s another top 12 list.
I thought DropBoxFiler has potential in that it makes using the cloud transparent to the user. I’m not sure how well it works in practice however and this seems rather trivial to implement on a nix box. So far no Dropbox apps stand out as having much value added over the standard Dropbox UI.
So how does it work? Well, Dropboxifier simply fools applications into reading and writing directly from Dropbox! Saved games and profile data can be placed in Dropbox, a symbolic link put in its place (which is kind of like a shortcut at the file system level), and applications/games won’t even notice – they will read and write directly to your Dropbox folder.
LG Chem’s battery starts with thin strands of copper wire, which are coated with a nickel-tin (Ni-Sn) alloy to create the anode. These strands are twisted into a yarn, and then wrapped tightly around a 1.5mm-diameter rod. The rod is removed, leaving a strong spring. Next, aluminium wire is wrapped around the spring, and then the whole caboodle is dragged through a slurry of lithium cobalt oxide, which coats the aluminium wire and becomes the cathode. Finally, the anode-cathode spring is wrapped in a protective outer coating, and then an electrolyte is poured down the middle of the hollow spring to create a battery.
via LG produces the first flexible cable-type lithium-ion battery | ExtremeTech.
XcellaSave Inc. is seeking a jury trial and unspecified damages from Chicago-based Groupon and Washington-based LivingSocial, according to two lawsuits filed yesterday in federal court in Delaware.
via Groupon Sued With LivingSocial Over Mobile Ad Patent – Bloomberg.
As if Groupon doesn’t have enough problems.
Update: I missed this on August 1 from Techcrunch.
Under the new company, The Patriot-News will change its print schedule to three days a week beginning in January 2013. The newspaper will continue to publish on Sundays. The other two days of publication will be determined after gathering input from readers and advertisers.
via It’ll be ‘a different role’ for The Patriot-News as digital demand grows | PennLive.com.
In our applications, we take a risk-based approach. Generally speaking, we tend to use three strategies:
- In higher risk situations (e.g. documents with elevated risk of URL disclosure), we may couple the URL token scheme with short-lived, document-specific cookies issued for specific subdomains of googleusercontent.com. This mechanism, known within Google as FileComp, relies on a range of attack mitigation strategies that are too disruptive for Google applications at large, but work well in this highly constrained use case.
- In cases where the risk of leaks is limited but responsive access controls are preferable (e.g., embedded images), we may issue URLs bound to a specific user, or ones that expire quickly.
- In low-risk scenarios, where usability requirements necessitate a more balanced approach, we may opt for globally valid, longer-lived URLs.
via Google Online Security Blog: Content hosting for the modern web.
What is YourVersion?
The web is growing larger every day, making it a challenge to find the new content you care about in the limited time you have each day. YourVersion was built to help you find the information you want quickly and easily. YourVersion is a real-time discovery engine that continuously delivers web content tailored to your specific interests. YourVersion lets you discover the latest news, blogs, tweets, webpages, and videos — including results that don’t come up in a regular search engine. Even better, YourVersion always has your latest results ready for you each time you visit the website. YourVersion then lets you easily share your discoveries through Twitter, Facebook, and email. We also give you a centralized set of bookmarks accessible anywhere.
via Real-time Discovery Engine – YourVersion: Discover Your Version of the Web™.
The OpenStand principles are in sharp contrast to the more formal, government-driven efforts of rival standards bodies such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is an arm of the United Nations, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a group of national standards bodies. While ITU and ISO have national representation, groups like the IAB and IETF are comprised of individual engineers from corporations and universities.
via OpenStand: Internet standards groups embrace open process.