VCL Media Player

The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux...

flickr :: revenge of the humans

Yahoo has purchased Flickr -- essentially a web community that shares and tags photos. In Flickr terms a tag is a category attached by a human (probably).
What?
Here are the flickr results for graffiti.
Real humans attach their notion of meaning to photos they upload. Suddenly I have a few tens of thousands of photographers working for me. I'm a photo editor!
Not only that, I have a chance to integrate with grafedia by posting a picture of my own (or your) grafedia, posting it to flickr and tagging it 'graffiti'.
How cool is that?
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The possible synergy with google's adsense is interesting -- a photographer has the chance to use adsense (money for google) to sell photos on flickr (money for yahoo) thus making money for the photographer. Will photographer's hijack flickr?

geourl

What a great way to explore space and space. Geourl maps physical space to blogspace -- look at a map of our planet & click on an area of of interest. Geourl answers with urls from that place.

Kite boarding south padre island

Its official.
I'm headed to South Padre on May 12th for 4 days of lessons. South Padre has miles of flat water, steady winds. Fine. It also has flat shallow water - 3 to 5 feet deep - for miles. That, I think, will make a safe learning environment.
Now I just have to learn the right wind dances...

Creative Commons :: Yahoo and A9

Larry Lessig's comments on the Yahoo announcement/release suggest a lot more than improved search...
...and A9 is up to something as well with the ability to add creative commons as a search target.

What is it about the yahoo support that has Larry so excited?
Dammed if I know, so I'll investigate. LL is not likely to be getting money under the table from yahoo, so there is probably some beef to be found.

grafedia :: link the planet

You will need:

• a cell phone
• a blue marker
• a bit of spark

Feel frisky!