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Thursday News: B&N unveils 2 new tablets; A look at print innovations;

Thursday News: B&N unveils 2 new tablets; A look at print innovations;

B&N announced two new tablets yesterday.  One is a 7″ and the other is a 9″ tablet. Their features don’t vary a great deal from the Kindle Fire or Google’s Nexus tablet but there is one stand out feature.  The new Nooks have profiles so that the family can share the same device but have(…)

UC Berkley Makes Class Lectures Available on YouTube

UC Berkley Makes Class Lectures Available on YouTube

It’s ironic that at the same time the first music file sharing case goes to trial, UC Berkley has uploaded over 300 hours of video including lectures on bioengineering, physics, chemistry, peace and conflict studies and others. UC Berkley obviously favors the free dissemination of its intellectual property. Many other universities, including UC Berkley, offer(…)

CORRECTION: YouTube Will Not Have 30 Sec Ad Bumpers. Choose Overlays Instead

Gizmodo wrote that it incorrectly reported that YouTube was going to use ad bumpers before video content. Instead, YouTube will have overlay ads. Also annoying but not so terrible as the 30 second ad bumper. Send to Kindle

Ad Content to Infiltrate YouTube

As you may have noticed, we use YouTube here for the hosting of our video reviews but next year, that will probably change. Gizmodo reports that YouTube will soon be adding 30 sec video ads to the beginning of video content beginning in 2008. Somehow I think that will lead to a huge decrease in(…)