Magma is the brainchild of Andrew Baron in New York, and developed by his team at Rocketboom, known as Internet video blogging pioneers. Not meant to replace YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo and the like, this site is a place to discover and aggregate videos from those other sites. I use the site to pull together all my favourite videos from various sites on the Internet. Selecting content feels a bit like having my own TV channel. I take it a step further and add a widget to my business blog so that those who visit the page directly can see what I have been viewing lately. I’ve added the widget below the fold in this blog post so you can see it in action.
In addition to being able to create a collection of videos specific to your clients or other audience, there is an added feature: if you have created and posted your own videos to other video sites, Magma aggregates the various tracking statistics for monitoring views, comments and other measures of influence from the various sites.
Allow Molly from Rocketboom to give you the full tour:
Here is the Magma widget I’ve posted on my blog with a dynamic view of the latest videos I have collected:
Magma is the brainchild of Andrew Baron in New York, and developed by his team at Rocketboom, known as Internet video blogging pioneers. Not meant to replace YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo and the like, this site is a place to discover and aggregate videos from those other sites. I use the site to pull together all my favourite videos from various sites on the Internet. Selecting content feels a bit like having my own TV channel. I take it a step further and add a widget to my business blog so that those who visit the page directly can see what I have been viewing lately. I’ve added the widget below the fold in this blog post so you can see it in action.
In addition to being able to create a collection of videos specific to your clients or other audience, there is an added feature: if you have created and posted your own videos to other video sites, Magma aggregates the various tracking statistics for monitoring views, comments and other measures of influence from the various sites.
Allow Molly from Rocketboom to give you the full tour:
Here is the Magma widget I’ve posted on my blog with a dynamic view of the latest videos I have collected:
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Our simple-to-remember rewriting of the URL for the Supreme Court of Canada — And lessupremes.ca works as well, bien sûr.
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The Friday Fillip Collections
Some end-of-week frivols fastened in folios for your enjoyment ...
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Currently the Web largely uses IPv4, Internet Protocol version 4. Each IPv4 address is limited to a 32-bit number, which means there are a maximum of just over 4 billion unique addresses. IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol and uses a 128-bit address, so it supports a vastly larger number of unique addresses. Enough, in fact, to give every person on the planet over 4 billion addresses!
Paul Ceglia sued Facebook and Zuckerberg in state court June 30, claiming that an April 2003 contract entitles him to ownership of most of the closely held company. Ceglia’s lawyer produced a copy of the document for U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara today at a hearing in federal court in Buffalo, New York.
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Police dealing with G20 demonstrators can use sonic cannons for crowd control, but with restrictions, Superior Court of Justice Mr. David Brown ruled this morning, reports The Star's Peter Edwards.
But he ruled Toronto police can only use the noise blasters at the lower decibel range. Ontario Provincial Police still have the discretion to use the cannons at both the lower and highest decibel settings, the judge said, because their guidelines for use are more cautious. That means the OPP can't come right up to someone and blast them.
The justice stressed that the OPP were not permitted to use the cannons at random. "Their use requires very serious authorization," he said. Crowd safety would benefit from police having a quick and effective means of communicating with protesters, he said.
"Technology experts and stakeholders say they expect they will ‘live mostly in the cloud’ in 2020 and not on the desktop, working mostly through cyberspace-based applications accessed through networked devices. This will substantially advance mobile connectivity through smartphones and other internet appliances. Many say there will be a cloud-desktop hybrid. Still, cloud computing has many difficult hurdles to overcome, including concerns tied to the availability of broadband spectrum, the ability of diverse systems to work together, security, privacy, and quality of service."
