An amazing sounding Technology Mall in Shenzhen, China. Photos here. Ooh look, there are some videos on You Tube too, it looks awsome, if you’re that way inclined. Also check out the bizarre cross shaped MP3 players in this picture
As I first step foot into the building, I am assaulted by a whirlwind of electronic components. Tapes and reels of resistors and capacitors, ICs of every type, inductors, relays, pogo pin test points, voltmeters, trays of memories, all crammed into tiny six-by-three foot booths with a storekeeper poking away at a laptop, sometimes playing Go, sometimes counting parts. Some booths are true mom-and-pop shops, with mothers tending to babies and kids playing in the aisles.
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For the meantime anyway, you can watch it here
Just got multi spammed by MovieFiesta.com. a site offering up to DVD quality downloads for a fee of quite a large selection of movies. OK from the outset looks utterly dodgy as the referring URL in the email was something else, the domain is registered as being somewhere in Korea, and as of today, there is NO trace of it on Google whatsoever. However on the other hand… is it in any way related to MP3Fiesta.com which is kosher(ish), and to me it looks like a little too much work has gone into it for it to be a phishing site. Anyone know anything? Been brave enough to buy?
This is probably really old, but did you know that adding &fmt=18 onto the end of a YouTube url improves the quality of the video?
First watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVhVClFMg6Y
Then behold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVhVClFMg6Y&fmt=18
Not a gigantic difference, but better never the less.
Via Church of the Customer a compilation of ‘citizen media’ competition winners run by several brands including Intuit and Southwest Airlines. Worth it just to see my man Vanilla Ice in an Uncle Sam glitter top hat.
Smoking, Drinking and Fighting in an ad! To sell cigarettes! From the days when working in advertising meant 6 hours lunch breaks we bring you: “Gauloises, la cigarette de l’homme fort!”
BBC NEWS | Business | YouTubers to get ad money share YouTube founder Chad Hurley confirmed to the BBC that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity”.
Probably was not a good idea to have done this, though he was back on stage 24hours later. News coverage here (video)
Um, ok so isn’t this kinda why America gets pissed off with Islamic fundamentalist indoctrination of the young and malleable?
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