Last week I was tinkering with Google Adwords to promote the INTV.com domain name sale when something interesting happened. While building the attached ad, Adwords flagged my ad, and the term “Interactive Television” “Internet Television” for review as “Hacking and Cracking”. I suppose a large cadre of malicious makers are paying to dupe iTV [...]

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Want more than Over-The-Air TV?
This appears to be UK only for now, however this statement at TVOver.net probably is true:
“the first commercially available set-top box which combines the ability to receive high definition free-to air programming with a raft of Internet capabilities.”
http://www.3view.com/Home.aspx
http://www.3view.com/Images/3view%20Consumer%20Brochure-p3.png

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I’ve uncovered some disturbing trends for job seekers recently; even started to receive warning notices from Monster on a few.
There’s the usual… Postal re-mailing, and foreign finance processing scams, but here’s the ugly.. I followed an interested job link this week only to discover it was an ad for a job search service, and for [...]

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Hope you will join us for the Charlotte area premier of The Last Passport movie. Here is a trailer show a bit about the film. See ya at the show!.

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“With ZON’s launch, Portugal will be… the third country in the world to launch 1 Gbps (residential Internet service), after only Japan and South Korea.”
via Light Reading’s Cable Digital News.

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Many moons have passed since Ryan and I put the first INTV prototypes together. Our vision was to develop an Internet Television service for the masses. Our foundation, based in part on continuous-play streaming video; something only LiveStation.com seems to have a handle on some 7 years after our efforts.
And so startups and [...]

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Quick note to pitch an upcoming concert in Winston-Salem. A friend of mine is playing at The Garage in Winston-Salem on July 31st. If you’re in the city, please drop in for a look. Also on the bill – Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey – Brett Harris – and The Tomahawks. Enjoy.
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“The DynaLine user interface was the most favored interface, ranked most preferred by 61% of users…”
Nice to see the research proves out one of the design principles for our former INTV project.

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Early adopters, and early majority for online video services are now tapped out. In the following chart we see from 2008 to 2009, the number of unique viewers actually went down by around 2%. Usage rose, but uniques are flat. To take a shopping-mall analogy, sales, and foot traffic are up, but [...]

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