Is Condition One the future of video? Mark Cuban thinks so
Danfung Dennis, a war photographer and videographer who turned his experiences in Afghanistan into an Academy Award-nominated documentary, would like people to get a look through his eyes. But instead of referring people to his pictures or documentary, he’s got a more ambitious plan to build a new video standard that let’s people encounter moving imagery in a much more visceral and interactive way.
http://gigaom.com/2012/06/13/is-condition-one-the-future-of-video-mark-cuban-thinks-so/
Amazon getting cloud-music rights, may match iCloud (scoop)
Amazon executives are close to striking license deals with music studios to cover the company’s cloud music service, numerous music industry sources told CNET.
Amazon already has reached agreements with Universal Music Group, EMI and Sony Music Entertainment and is in the later stages of negotiations with the other Warner Music Group, the sources said. Amazon could announce the deals within weeks.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57451941-93/amazon-getting-cloud-music-rights-may-match-icloud-scoop/
The high-school blogger who’s been cracking Apple’s secrets
Trying to scope out Apple’s (AAPL) product plans in advance is serious business for a small army of tech journalists, one that has been dominated in the past by the team that covers the company for the Wall Street Journal.
But in the walk-up to this week’s World Wide Developers Conference, everybody — including the Journal — got scooped by an 18-year-old kid named Mark Gurman who goes to high school in Los Angeles and writes on the side for Seth Weintraub’s 9to5Mac.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/12/the-high-school-blogger-whos-been-cracking-apples-secrets/
US lawmakers create website to crowd-source a ‘digital bill of rights’
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) have started drafting a crowd-sourced digital bill of rights in hopes of preventing piecemeal laws like SOPA andCISPA from over-regulating the internet. The two have created a website calledkeeptheweb#open, where everyone is encouraged to contribute.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/12/3080901/ron-wyden-darrel-issa-digital-bill-of-rights
Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings
ICANN developed the New generic Top-Level Domain Program to increase competition and choice by introducing new gTLDs into the Internet’s addressing system. What is a gTLD? It is an Internet domain name extension such as the familiar .com, .net, or .org. There are 280 ccTLDs but only 22 “generics” in the domain name system right now, but that is all about to change.
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en
Confirmed: Waze And Others Contributing To Apple’s iOS 6 Maps’ Crowd Sourced Traffic Data
Shortly after yesterday’s Apple WWDC keynote there was plenty of chatter amongst the pundits, journalists and developers about which apps Apple had screwed over with iOS 6.
In particular is the turn-by-turn map servicesnow baked into iOS 6, a move that removes Google Maps from the core OS altogether. Waze, which launched back in 2009, offers free crowd-sourced map data for traffic and navigation via iOS, Android and other mobile platforms.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/12/confirmed-waze-contributing-to-apples-ios-6-maps-crowd-sourced-traffic-data/
Why Zynga is Shedding Users
Social gaming company Zynga had an outstanding 2011, leading to a well-hyped IPO in December. But Zynga’s biggest risk was always an over-reliance on Facebook, with most of its revenue and users coming from the social network. It’s now six months after Zynga’s IPO and its stock price has halved, currently sitting at under $5. That’s because many of its high profile gaming products are tanking.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why-zynga-is-shedding-users.php
Linus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trust
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has won the Millennium Technology Prize and an accompanying cheque for 600,000 euros ($756,000; £486,000) from the Technology Academy of Finland.
He was nominated for the award in recognition of the fact he had created the original Linux operating system and has continued to work on it, deciding what modifications should be made to its kernel – the code that lets software and hardware work together.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18419231
U.S. Probes Cable for Limits on Net Video
The Justice Department is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into whether cable companies are acting improperly to quash nascent competition from online video, according to people familiar with the matter.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303444204577462951166384624-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwMjExNDIyWj.html
