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The End of YouTube: Does Anyone Really Care?

In recent weeks, Google has been court ordered to hand over terrabytes worth of user viewing data to Viacom in a lawsuit that could present the biggest challenge to the online video giant yet. Viacom is claiming that not only is YouTube not trying hard enough to remove copyrighted material from their site, but that […]

What to do when Twitter is down.

It seems that Twitter’s growth rate is positively correlated with Twitter’s downtime. As the site continues to gather users, I am left staring at a “connection timed out” page more and more often. This leads me to ask myself, “What is a Twitter addict to do during the constant Twitter downtime?”
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Never Bet on a Format War

In the latest of bad news for the HD-DVD format, Wal-Mart has announced that they are going to stop selling all HD-DVD titles as early as June. Add that to the Blu-Ray support from Netflix, Paramount and Warner Brothers and HD-DVD isn’t just hurting, it’s down for the count. But how did this happen? Wasn’t […]

Old Question; New Age

If a web page is hosted on a server, but no browser ever loads it, then does it really exist?