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Bebo is taking on YouTube (and Hulu). Recently, it opened up its social network to video partners who want access to its captive audience. Launch partners include CBS, MTV Networks, ESPN, the BBC, Channel Four, BSkyB—Bebo is very popular in the UK—Next New Networks, Crackle, Ustream, Last.fm and JibJab. On the surface it is a system that allows broadcasters, like Sky, BBC, ITV and so on, to put videos onto the social networking site whilst also retaining copy protection. Essentially, it’s just a player that pulls videos from the broadcaster’s site. The partners can keep all advertising dollars from the videos (and from music too). Bebo gets to keep its members on its site. Bebo is a British social network, but a slew of new media deals may give the site the reach of a traditional broadcast network. In separate deals with CBS, BSkyB and the BBC, Bebo will bring free video to its 40 million users.

Members will be able to create and share their own video and music playlists. And media companies will get their own profile pages. There is no doubt that media needs to go wherever the audience happens to be hanging out.Every media company is looking for better ways to deliver their content online. While the deals include traditional media companies, web video startups are also getting in on the action. Crackle, Sony’s user-generated video site, will push its content across Bebo’s network, which is populated primarily by younger users. Bebo, which has traditionally competed with Facebook and MySpace, see the venture as a way to lure users away from its rivals. However, its new video model also puts it into direct competition with the likes of YouTube and Hulu, a joint venture from NBCU and News Corp. The software that is powering the new video element to Bebo is called VideoEgg, which enables uses to upload videos and enables Bebo to essentially echo the content from other sites. They also have various pages that are just embedded YouTube videos. Essentially, the way the system works is that a user, even if that is a corportate user like Sky or the BBC, uploads a video using the VideoEgg application to their profile. The videos are then aggregated on a special video page where users can see what’s current, what’s hot and jump to various videos around the site. It’s all very simply really and quite easy to replicate even with an open-source CMS like Drupal.

To herald this as anything like ground-breaking or revolutionary is probably over-cooking the egg somewhat. There’s nothing new in terms of technology and it’s basically akin to broadcasters uploading their videos to YouTube, but YouTube has always been weak on the social networking side of things. Bebo has the advantage of being able to post the video to your profile and pass a link to the video to friends. That’s nothing new either, but Bebo has the user numbers to be able to make a success of it. Facebook has had a video element to its site for some time already, allowing users to upload and share videos. However, the problem is that users aren’t able to upload videos by Sky or the BBC legally owing to copyright laws. But, that’s all going to change. Facebook recently launched a “Pages” service, which allow broadcasters to create a presence on the site without having to register a user profile. They can then upload videos to the platform easily and allow it to be shared virally. The people that visit the page can become a fan of the broadcaster and receive updates, etc.

http://www.bebo.com

http://www.hulu.com/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.youtube.com/

http://www.videoegg.com

http://www.myspace.com/

Work is not just a means to an end. Work has enormous intrinsic value. Standard economic theory makes the assumption that time spent in leisure gives us pleasure, while time spent in labor gives us pain—and that we only work because it is necessary to earn money, which we want in order to meet other desires. In short, when it comes to work, we have a conflict of visions. One vision says that work is a source of happiness, the other that it is a necessary evil. Which view is the more accurate for most us? Ask yourself this: What proportion of people do you think are satisfied with their jobs? Twenty percent? Thirty? Of course, statistic might be hiding big differences between people with “good” jobs and those with “bad” jobs. What about the people with low incomes and little education? They must be less satisfied with their jobs than we are, right? Wrong. What about the middle class, who we hear from television pundits and politicians are so dispirited? Even if I am satisfied with my work, I might still prefer leisure.  “If you were to get enough money to live as comfortably as you would like for the rest of your life, would you continue to work or would you stop working?” Standard economic theory makes the assumption that time spent in leisure gives us pleasure, while time spent in labor gives us pain—and that we only work because it is necessary to earn money, which we want in order to meet other desires. For most of us, job satisfaction is a reliable source of happiness—more so than leisure. Among those who say they are very happy in their lives, 95 percent are also satisfied with their jobs. In short, most people like their jobs, and would work even if they did not have to. Obviously, there is a point beyond which excessive hours of work will lower health and quality of living.The notion of meaning as a guiding principle for happiness explains some interesting facts about what actually compensates workers in their jobs. Indeed, there is strong evidence that compensation such as pay and vacation—the “extrinsic rewards” for working—can actually have a negative effect on job satisfaction by degrading the “intrinsic rewards” that people care about so much. The reason for this is that people stop seeing a task as fun when pay is involved. Another route from work to happiness is control. According to psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, in some of the most authoritative psychological research on the subject, people have an “intrinsic need to be self-determining.” This means that, to the extent that work gives people a sense that they are in charge of their lives, it will bring them joy. As Aristotle put it, “Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.” Control is the reason that job security is so important for predicting job satisfaction for many workers. Nothing lowers our sense of control as much as insecurity about our ability to make a living.Work brings happiness. What happens when we don’t have work? What about retirement? Does voluntarily separating from work at an appropriate age have the same negative influence on happiness?What is the most common policy solution when people cannot find work and support themselves? In Western countries, it is public support—“welfare,” in the vernacular—to meet their economic needs. A sensible response on its face, financial support combats part of the material deprivation that comes with unemployment. But this approach does nothing to combat the unhappiness problem. The PSID shows that, in 2001, people receiving public assistance were more than twice as likely as those not receiving welfare to feel hopeless or worthless.Receiving government assistance appears to have special unhappiness-provoking properties, even apart from the fact that people on welfare are generally not earning their living through work. No other single factor—not income, age, education, or anything else—comes close to predicting this much of one’s unhappiness.The happy are not those who enjoy lots of leisure, but rather the majority of those who enjoy satisfying work. The unhappy among us are more likely to be unemployed, on public assistance, or members of the small minority with unsatisfying jobs. When it comes to work, if happiness is our goal, we have no apologies to make for working hard.Obviously, not every job brings satisfaction and happiness in life.Read More

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Techno-Ideas (articles)

Your cell phone camera can tell you all about a product. Is this an ephemeral gimmick or a great business?

When you sit at your computer surfing cyberspace and hit on something you want to learn more about, you click a hyperlink. Why not do the same in the physical world?

Nextcode, founded in 2003, develops technologies to make the physical world clickable. It builds software platforms that transform your cell phone or personal digital assistant (PDA), like a Blackberry, into a mobile mouse, one that can help you navigate a hyperlinked world. Here’s how it works….

Nextcode’s powerful suite of barcode scanning solutions can work with any camera phone to transform the way consumers access and experience mobile content and commerce. Using your cell phone’s camera, you snap a picture of the bar code. Software designed by Nextcode called ConnexTo does the rest. It scans the code, interprets it, and then serves up information immediately. It can present text information about the object, redirect you to a Web page, play a video or audio clip, help you make a purchase, or do just about anything else you could imagine doing in cyberspace.

http://www.american.com/topics

http://www.nextcodecorp.com/  

In less than two years, the explosive growth of YouTube and its rivals has transformed video social networking sites into a powerful communications medium that reaches millions globally. Most Social networking sites built around or substantial inclusion of multimedia (in the form of podcasting and video) is where longer term sustainability is going to be found rather than “pure” social networking sites. Social networks have unique micro-targeting capability and amazing behavioral measurement capability. Podcasting, micro-video ads, long form video advertising, and other forms of contextual and behavioral advertising will emerge as the viable and scalable solutions. Advertisers love using podcasting and video ads. Believe it or not, users love them too. Downloadable media and online environments like podcasting, virtual worlds, blogs, and social networks will benefit most. How the new internet content gets searched, branded and presented is going to be a great evolving battle between the content owners, search providers and network companies.

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Internet video has come of age. We watched for years as people tried to find a way to make Internet video useful .HDTV, next-generation gaming, personal video, and digital photography will all contribute to the emergence of a new broadband gold standard of 100 Mbit/s symmetric over the next 12 to 24 months. Bandwidth consumption isn’t the only byproduct of the increase in video sharing. With the social web, people are eager to share and video is a good way to satisfy that desire. We have broadband to handle the payload and it’s a climate ripe for growth and innovation. Content distribution networks are beefing up, and the companies in that space are thriving as Web-based services make it easy to exchange larger and larger files.

Content makers and advertisers are seeking out online video sites as a way to reach younger demographics. MSN is currently developing a user-generated/user-submitted video solution that will launch this year. With all that going on, it’s definitely worth looking at who stands out in this ridiculously crowded space. Since popular opinion does matter online – where the consumer experience is hugely important – we thought it’d be useful to rank some of the Internet’s most popular video sharing sites by how they performed from the point of view of someone wanting to post videos rather than just look at someone else’s. The main criteria for evaluation drills down on the following issues: Video editing capabilities, File size limit, How much it costs, Whether videos can be kept private  and Whether a software download is necessary .

Free movie downloads are more common than you think on the Web. You won’t find the most recent blockbuster here, but you will find a huge amount of classics, trailers, independent films, documentaries, and more.

General Free Movie Downloads

• Free Movies and Documentaries in the Public Domain: These are all free movies that have fallen out of copyright - download away.
• OVGuide: a meta search guide to online movies.
• Movies: This enterprising website has taken the time to find and upload clips of hundreds of movies.
• Veoh Cult Classics: Night of the Living Dead, Metropolis, Eraserhead are all included here.
• Watch Free Movies Online. This site is full of classic movies, all free movie downloads.
• The Internet Movie Database. Movie reviews, information about upcoming movie premieres, movie clips, and more.
• AltaVista - Video Search. Search for movies and videos on the Web in virtually any format. Find free movie downloads easily and fast.
• Yahoo Search-Video.. Search for videos and movies on the Web. Also includes a link to submitting your own video to Yahoo to be indexed.
• Singingfish, an audio and video search engine. Search for movies, free movie downloads, short movie clips, and always check “Staff Favorites.”
• Google Video Search. Find videos, movies, and TV programs online.
• Netbroadcaster.com: Features trailers, shorts, independent films, and more. Most of the films on this site are free, but some do require subscription access.
• Turner Classic Movies: Lots of trailers, movie clips, and background information on all your favorite classic films. A very cool site.
• Hollywood.com: Trailers, movie clips, and more.
• All Movie Guide:Comprehensive database of film synopses and reviews as well as concise actor biographies.
• Apple Movie Trailers:An extensive collection of brank spankin’ new movie trailers.
• JoBlo.com:Reviews, trailers, scripts, interviews, clips, and a lot more.
• YouTube: you can upload, watch, and search free videos here.
• YouTube, GoogleVideo, and IFilm: Nice mashup of all three services; looks like you’ll need to know exactly what video you want, however.
• Google Video of the Day: Another day, another Google Video of the Day. Varies from funny to interesting to extremely weird.
• LearnOutLoud: free streaming lectures, audio, and video.
• VideoBomb: “Video Bomb filters up the hottest videos on the internet: people submit links to the ‘Incoming!’ page and you bomb the best ones. If a video gets a lot of bombs quickly, it makes it to the front page.”
• Truveo:a video search engine that delivers pretty good results.
• Mefeedia: “Find thousands of videoblogs (video podcasts), and watch them on your computer, video iPod or PSP.”
• The Open Video Project:a shared digital video collection
• Free Documentaries: “Welcome to the Internet’s top resource for finding free documentaries.”
• SearchforVideo: SearchforVideo is a fantastic video search engine with over 6000 sources available for searching at the time of this writing. News, entertainment, viral videos - all searchable here.

Students at UoM want technologically collaborative atmospheres that facilitate and support
knowledge within environments where the tools are ubiquitous and, hopefully, free. Arizona State University is providing such an environment by giving students, teachers, and administrators free, unlimited access to wikis and blogs for:

1) documentation and collaboration on anything from homework to HR policy
2) internal and external knowledge retention
3) creation of digital platforms for speaking about educational expectations and how the university is delivering those platforms (those expectations?)

|Can we explore something similar for University of Mauritius students?

http://www.innovativeeducators.org

To address the need of the modern university to meet students where they congregate and collaborate. MySpace and FaceBook users have begun joining forums for current university students and alumni to discuss issues related to particular universities. The hidden secret to these forums is the potential for student recruitment and retention. Innovative Educators can discuss the areas of MySpace and FaceBook that
should be explored by institutions across the country as a way to retain students and progress issues identified as important by students about
the university.

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