Archive for March 24th, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO–Chances are if you’re running a commercial open source company, Google is one of your best friends.

That’s because a search on Google for “open source and (whatever company X sells) can yield the largest volume of referrals to an upstart in that business.

“Two thirds of …

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SAN FRANCISCO–When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was 16 years old, he downloaded his first copy of open-source database software MySql, according to MySql chief Marten Mickos.

Now, roughly seven years later, Zuckerberg’s company is one of MySql’s biggest paying customers, Mickos stated here Monday at SD Forum’s …

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With $35 million in new financing disclosed Monday, Demand Media has now raised $355 million in about two years. This leads to an obvious question: what exactly are they planning to do with that money, take over the Internet?

Demand Media logo(Credit: Demand Media)

A spokeswoman for the Santa Monica, Calif., social-media …

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David Yen, executive vice president of Sun Microelectronics (Sun’s chip group), is leaving the company after 20 years to go to Juniper Networks.

Mike Splain, who has been at Sun for two decades as well, has been appointed as acting head of the organization.

Yen has been one of …

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South Park fans rejoice, each episode of your favorite show is now available on the web, legally, via South Park Studios.

This central location for all things South Park is host to each single full episode of the show and around 3,000 embeddable video clips. It’s not really clear why you are not able to embed the full episodes as of right now and their reach may suffer as a result. I’m not going to knock South Park Studios too hard for this since it is offering up its whole catalog for viewing, which is a major step. But embeddable full episodes seems like a logical feature and one that would be easy to implement since you can already embed clips.

(Credit: South Park Studios)

South Park Studios is doing a lot of things right, like offering up its entire catalog for viewing, unlike some of the other huge names (Heroes, The Office), who only offer a few of their most recent episodes. This is bad news for less-than-legal sites, like Alluc, which lists South Park as its most-viewed TV show.

This is a really exciting time for Web video and, with more large names like South Park embracing it, we’re really moving toward a world where it’s not frustrating to get your entertainment.

Check out one of my favorite South Park clips after the jump.

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(Credit: South Park Studios)

South Park fans rejoice, each episode of your favorite show is now available online, legally, via South Park Studios.

This central location for all things South Park is host to each single full episode of the show and around 3,000 embeddable video clips. It’s not really clear why you are not able to embed the full episodes as of right now and their reach may suffer as a result. I’m not going to knock South Park Studios too hard for this since it is offering up its whole catalog for viewing, which is a major step. But embeddable full episodes seems like a logical feature and one that would be simple to implement since you can already embed clips.

(Credit: South Park Studios)

South Park Studios is doing a lot of things right, like offering up its entire catalog for viewing, unlike some of the other massive names (Heroes, The Office), who only offer a few of their most recent episodes. This is bad news for less-than-legal sites, like Alluc, which lists South Park as its most-viewed Television show.

This is a really exciting time for Web video and, with more massive names like South Park embracing it, we are really moving toward a world where it’s not frustrating to get your entertainment.

Check out one of my favorite South Park clips after the jump.

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Offering financing services to customers is nothing new for huge personal hardware makers. Unfortunately, running into trouble because of those vendor financing programs is almost as common.

Tucked into a piece on Apple and patents on Barron’s On the internet is an interesting tidbit about Dell. No, Dell hasn’t been …

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Update at 6:15 p.m. PDT to add areas that might likely see delays in delivery.

Update at 7:55 p.m. to reflect that the site has since come back on the web.

Netflix customers anticipating a little red package soon might be disappointed.

The largest on the internet video-rental service has suffered a technical glitch

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Even the mightiest graphics boards bow to Crysis. And Nvidia’s newest dual-graphics board is no exception.

First some background. Crysis is a science fiction personal game developed by Germany-based Crytek and published by Electronic Arts.
Crysis is visually stunning, packed with intelligent, thrilling gameplay, and easily one of the …

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