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What’s The Future Of Hulu, And Other Online Media Outlets?

Imagine, if you will a world where every form of media as we know is accessible (legally), free, by means of the internet. It's not a stretch to imagine, mostly because almost every form of media we know is available via internet. Welcome to the future. Granted, the landscape for game playing, television watching, hasn't quite 'caught up' in terms of selection and quality, compared to traditional media. Just give it time.

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Comcast Sets Bandwidth Cap, Effective October 1

The Associated Press reports that Comcast will be officially placing limits on the amount of data its subscribers can download and upload, effective October 1.  The limit will be set at 250 GB per month, with a $15 fee charged for every additional 10 GB over the limit.

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Is Twitter still relevant – If so, you can follow this geek on it

I hopped on the Twitter bandwagon a while ago when it was neat and fresh and then promptly forgot all about it. Then I got some neato iPod Touch apps, including a Twitter updater and reader called Twittelator and suddenly rediscovered Twitter. Anyone still using this?  If so, feel free to pop in and say hi!

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Lemur CATTA Says ‘No’ to Annoying Comments Online

The problem with traditional CAPTCHAs is that as image-recognition software becomes more and more advanced, CAPTCHAs need to become more and more distorted to defeat them.  Eventually in order to weed out the image-recognition software, CAPTCHAs will become unrecognizable to the legitimate humans as well.  Lemur CATTA is a system that aims to circumvent the downfalls of traditional CAPTCHAs, by using a combination of three levels of identification, with varying difficulties of completion.

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Cuil (Pronounced “Cool”) Search Engine is Anything But.

On Monday, July 28, 2008, a new search engine known as Cuil (pronounced "cool") went online amidst a flurry of press coverage.  The expecations were understandably high.  Cuil is led by CEO Tom Costello, who has formerly developed search engines for Stanford and IBM.  Also on the team are his wife Anna Paterson (a former employee of internet giant Google), and two other former Google employees, Russel Power and Louis Monier.  Armed with the technical experience gained at Google and $33 million in venture capital, the Cuil team set the lofty goal of attempting to overthrow Google as the most popular search engine in the world.

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Unfair Competition? Internet Radio struggles

I ran into more discussion about the Internet Radio Equality Act today at The Tech Observer. There seems to be a lot of misinformation going around as to what this is all about. Apparently many people believe that copyright royalties are unregulated, and that Pandora and the independent net radio industry is trying to impose special regulations on the recording industry in order to support their business model. This couldn't be farther from the truth.

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