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Refocusing a photograph after taking it and other seemingly magical technologies

October 25, 2007

Arthur C. Clarke once said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Entire religions have been built around apparently magical events. In this PodTech video interview, Robert Scoble converses with Professor Marc Levoy of Stanford University about ongoing computational photography research that will simply blow your mind.
It’s almost an hour long (and worth [...]

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Wow

October 1, 2007

It’s hard to find words to describe this presentation by Professor Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon University. Titled “Really Achieving your Childhood Dreams,” Prof. Pausch’s lecture is a wake-up call, an entertaining how-to manual on how to truly live our lives. It’s an hour-and-a-half long and worth every second.

[Link to movie @ Google Video]
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New Tools for Tracking NBC vs. CBS at YouTube

June 13, 2007

TubeMogul, the awesome online video traffic analysis tool, now (finally guys! ) offers embeddable charts, as well as a number of new social features.
Here’s the latest month of YouTube data for NBC and CBS, showing NBC’s continuous lead over rival CBS.

I’ve set the chart to show data from May 13 to Jun 12, [...]

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NBC and CBS Neck-and-Neck on YouTube ratings

March 12, 2007

According to the latest YouTube stats, NBC has caught up with CBS on total daily page views (*) at YouTube.

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Pecha Kucha

January 16, 2007

The term Pecha Kucha (pronounced pet-shah coot-shah) is Japanese for “the sound of conversation.” It is also, I’ve recently learned, a place for designers to meet, network and show their work in public.

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Gaming the Cheaters

December 11, 2006

The Problem
Users of internet video websites trick the system to inflate the number of views recorded for a particular video. They may do this by setting several browser windows to auto-refresh on their video’s web page, or rigging a number of different computers to do the same thing, over and over again. A group of [...]

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Detailed CBS-YouTube Weekly Stats and Charts

November 30, 2006

I’ve been compiling data since CBS published their press release about their first month on YouTube. Here are some charts with the Top 15 videos from the CBS channel on YouTube. I began gathering data on November 21 and have charted the week from Nov. 22nd to Nov.28 (inclusive).

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Article Roundup and CBS-YouTube Data

November 29, 2006

A number of interesting articles and a recap of CBS|YouTube numbers for the last week.

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A Recap of Recent Articles

November 23, 2006

A recap of recent articles on the blog to welcome new readers.

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Analyzing the CBS YouTube Stats

November 22, 2006

An analysis of CBS’s first month on YouTube, including an investigation on the viral growth of several CBS shows.

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