| Startups Rush to Pave Way for Web Video
The intended recipient gets an e-mail with a link. Clicking it starts the download, which pulls the chunks together from the network of user computers like a squid pulling in its tentacles. In other words, Squidcast itself doesn't need to devote computers or buy bandwidth to transfer user's files. It will finance the service by showing short video ads to the recipients while they download. "If someone attempted to do this as a hosted platform they would simply go out of business," Putterman said. "It can't be done and that's why it hasn't been done." Atlanta-based Asankya Inc. is trying to solve the same problem, but for Hollywood rather than home movies. CEO Scott Ryan puts the current cost of distributing an HD movie online at about $3. Considering movies rent for $4 to $5 and the creators have to be paid, there's no real money in it for distributors.
The best books of 2007
Janet Malcolm's book packs heavyweight punches about truth versus fiction, in the guise of a chic stocking-filler. POLITICS & RELIGIONCompiled by David Honigmann Comrades: A World History of CommunismBy Robert ServiceMacmillan £25, 624 pagesFT bookshop price: £20 Robert Service, a historian of Soviet communism, widens his discussion to take in the rest of the world. His general judiciousness, noting that the poverty and injustice that fuel communism remain ever present, makes his condemnation all the more weighty. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad PoliciesBy Bryan CaplanPrinceton University Press £17.95 280 pagesFT bookshop price: £14.36 Far from favouring constituents, argues Caplan, democracies tend to adopt policies that harm most of their voters.
Tennis players seem to like the new instant-replay system debuting at ...
Down come the derisive whistles. Roddick walks to the net, hands on hips, incredulous. He wipes his brow. Chair umpire Lars Graf swallows hard, tongue circling around the inside of his cheek. He knows what's coming. Batten down the hatches. "You saw the ball hit the fat [expletive] part of the line, Lars," Roddick says, pointing at the court, then the chair, waving his arms like a man trying to land F-18s on the deck of the USS Nimitz. "What do you do? Just call one damn line! It takes all I have left not to just get inside of you right now!" Roddick pauses. "Seriously, that ball's not even close, Lars." For me, it's very close. "God!" Roddick screams. "You're just terrible!" Roddick turns away.
Knee - IR. Out until mid-February
The Chicago Tribune reports that Blackhawks rookie C Jonathan Toews is itching to return from a knee injury that has kept him out since Jan. 1. However, the rookie continues to play it safe. The initial diagnosis is that he would miss 4-6 weeks and it is expected he will be out the full stretch. "I feel like I'm getting pretty close to being able to skate," Toews said. "It's something I don't want to rush yet. I realize I have to be a little more patient, and it will take a little bit longer than what I feel like."
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Academic Advising by a Bot
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Young Serbian leads charge with maiden grand slam win
I'm so proud of myself in the first place and being the first Serb to win a grand slam. "I think it's a crazy house back in my country. "To Jo, unbelievable tournament. You should be proud of yourself. "If he won tonight, it would be deserved, so well done." Revered more for his ability to mimic than menace until last year, Djokovic lost only one set for the tournament in a march that included a semi-final crushing of Roger Federer. Djokovic, 20, is the first Serbian player to win a grand slam singles crown -- and it is unlikely to be his last. Equally, Tsonga showed he had not fluked into the final with an extraordinary first-set and late-match recovery. Djokovic's victory marked the end of the duopoly shared by Federer and Rafael Nadal since 2005.
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