http://www.junshiwang.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:59:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en But you know, BitTorrent and peer-to-peer isn't the real problem. "The solution is so obvious for this problem. We should all be working together." Q: Do you think BitTorrent has been unfairly singled out by Comcast because the open-source protocol has been used to distribute pirated content? Walker: Yes I ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/09/04/bittorrent-to-comcast-lets-be-friends/ "The optimal point is changing...and going bigger is not the answer," Renou said. "Turbines in the two or three megawatt zone are the most efficient and the best cost per kilowatt." To get more power from the same footprint, GE is looking at a variety of technologies, said Renou, who oversees ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/08/30/ge-reshapes-the-future-of-wind-power/ According to Calacanis--who gave Blodget an "exclusive" interview on the matter despite telling me Wednesday that he was deferring to TC50 co-organizer Michael Arrington on the matter--the conflict is all Demo's fault. (Arrington, by the way, set the tone for the environment by telling me, bluntly: "Demo needs to die.") I suppose ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/08/24/my-take-on-calacanis-view-of-the-tc50-demo-kerfuf/ Google is typically tight-lipped about it the inner workings of its search business, but there are a few nuggets worth looking at in a Popular Mechanics interview with Udi Manber, the Google vice president who oversees search quality. Among them: Google rejiggered its search algorithm 450 times last year. The ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/08/21/google-tweaked-search-450-times-in-2007/ Yahoo's first-quarter net income increased dramatically, but most of the gain was from a noncash gain from the search engine's stake in Chinese Web site Alibaba. The company reported net income of $542 million for the quarter, compared with $142 million for the same period a year ago. Excluding $401 million ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/08/21/yahoo-earnings-rise-on-alibaba-stake/ One of the five members of the Federal Communications Commission, Republican Robert McDowell, said Tuesday that the DTV transition "will be messy...but we'll get through it." The switch-off of analog TV broadcast signals this February may cause even those who make the switch to lose some channels. (Credit: CNET) The statement comes ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/08/21/fcc-official-says-dtv-transition-will-be-messy/ Finally, visual search that isn't dumb. I have puzzled over several tools that try to put a visual interface on Web search. Most are either too clever, too slow, or both. But a new experiment, ManagedQ, shows us that it's not the concept that's been at fault, it's the ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/08/21/managedq-a-visual-search-experiment-that-actually/ CBS has begun testing high-definition streaming video. Buried in the lab's section of the network's Web site is a gallery of short HD clips from shows such as Jericho, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Dexter. TechCrunch was first to report the story and said the clips are available in H.264 ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/08/21/report-cbs-testing-high-definition-video/ It's still not up to 1.0, but Google on Wednesday announced completion of version 0.8 of OpenSocial, a standard for building social applications on the Web. One notable difference with OpenSocial 0.8 is the addition of the RESTful API. This addition lets a wider variety of software beside just Web-based ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/08/21/google-announces-opensocial-08/ Photrade is built around the notion of a democratic stock photo site that lets photographers control ownership of their images, even as they earn ad revenue if others use them for commercial purposes. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News) SAN DIEGO--These days, I hear about new photo sharing sites just about every day. That's especially ... http://www.junshiwang.net/2010/08/21/photrade-lets-photographers-control-their-pictures/