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A day before Americans bowed their heads to remember the victims of Sept. 11, YouTube bowed to pressure concerning online terrorist propaganda from Sen. Joe Lieberman and decided it will no longer allow videos that encourage or teach people to hurt other people.
There are plenty of places to watch online video, but still no easy way to find a particular clip without suffering through a lot of trial and error. Now a startup led by a former Yahoo engineer is promising to simplify Internet video search with a complex technology that enables computers to recognize images, such as actors’ faces, and index them scene-by-scene.
Digital age, and the stealin’ is easy. Regardless of the content type — be it a text, audio or video file — computer users can seemingly download and upload copyrighted content with near impunity. After all, it doesn’t cost anything to share this material. It’s there for the taking. Besides, what’s the harm, and who cares anyway, right? That thinking represents the attitude of many computer users.
These were great games, and I particularly got a kick out of the initial U.S. swimming team win, which came in the face of the French team, who said they would “smash” us. I couldn’t help but draw a parallel from that to the Apple reaction I got from suggesting that Dell might be able to address a market need that Apple didn’t on a project that I’d helped with.
Online media coverage of this year’s Summer Olympic Games on MSN is shaping up to be a breakout event for Internet TV, as well as quite a big hit for NBC and its tech partners. The network reported 12 million hits and 70 million page views on its Olympics Web site — and that was before the opening ceremony. Things got even better from there.