Techerous

My name is Bill, I am a recent graduate in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University and this is a place for me to post or give my 2 cents on the fascinating world of technology. I am now working for a pretty big technology related company whose name I will leave out just to avoid any possible complications, however far-fetched them happening may be. Music gets included from time to time as well.

May 22, 2013 7:51 pm
thedailywhat: Fandom News of the Day: Amazon Unveils a Fanfic Publishing Platform Beginning in June, fanfiction authors will be able to self-publish their works from selected partner franchises via Kindle Worlds. Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars are already on board with the project and more are expected to be announced the official launch. However, authors aren’t exactly jumping at the chance to turn their works into cash: by using the platform, authors give all rights to the work to Amazon, who can then license your elements to other authors with no compensation to the original poster. The platform also will not publish stories containing pornography, excessive use of brand names or crossovers, so your Superwholock mpreg (male pregnancy) stories will just have to stay on Tumblr.

thedailywhat:

Fandom News of the Day: Amazon Unveils a Fanfic Publishing Platform

Beginning in June, fanfiction authors will be able to self-publish their works from selected partner franchises via Kindle Worlds. Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars are already on board with the project and more are expected to be announced the official launch. However, authors aren’t exactly jumping at the chance to turn their works into cash: by using the platform, authors give all rights to the work to Amazon, who can then license your elements to other authors with no compensation to the original poster. The platform also will not publish stories containing pornography, excessive use of brand names or crossovers, so your Superwholock mpreg (male pregnancy) stories will just have to stay on Tumblr.

May 19, 2013 3:18 pm
marksbirch: So, a new era begins for Tumblr… Still don’t think Yahoo! is going to overhaul as much as people are worried. The integration with their services might cause some problems but they’ll let tumblr keep doing what it does for it’s “cool” factor. If anything I think Yahoo’s engineers will actually add some cool stuff, maybe a better reply format.

marksbirch:

So, a new era begins for Tumblr…

Still don’t think Yahoo! is going to overhaul as much as people are worried. The integration with their services might cause some problems but they’ll let tumblr keep doing what it does for it’s “cool” factor. If anything I think Yahoo’s engineers will actually add some cool stuff, maybe a better reply format.

May 17, 2013 6:09 pm
techhive: Could a Tumblr deal fix Yahoo’s square reputation? Not sure how I feel about Yahoo! buying Tumblr. What are your thoughts? Obviously buying tumblr alone is going against brand. I’ll be the optimist and say they will probably stay hands off and add some advertising/search integration. Hell maybe we’ll even get lucky and they’ll improve some of the stupid functionality such as how you reply. Of course they could just delete all the porn and piss off 80% of the site.

techhive:

Could a Tumblr deal fix Yahoo’s square reputation?

Not sure how I feel about Yahoo! buying Tumblr. What are your thoughts?

Obviously buying tumblr alone is going against brand. I’ll be the optimist and say they will probably stay hands off and add some advertising/search integration. Hell maybe we’ll even get lucky and they’ll improve some of the stupid functionality such as how you reply. Of course they could just delete all the porn and piss off 80% of the site.

May 15, 2013 8:33 pm
techfeit: Tech Event: Larry Page Google CEO Complete Q & A at Google I/O 2013 (video) Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance on stage at Google IO today for a 35 minute… View Post I’m skeptical on how much of this is really his view vs. the appearance he wishes to project, but overall a very human and open message for the technology sector.

techfeit:

Tech Event: Larry Page Google CEO Complete Q & A at Google I/O 2013 (video)

Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance on stage at Google IO today for a 35 minute…

View Post

I’m skeptical on how much of this is really his view vs. the appearance he wishes to project, but overall a very human and open message for the technology sector.

7:45 pm
me*dia*or: Google I/O Keynote: 8 Best Moments In Photos | Read/WriteWeb

mediaor:

Reposted from http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/RjlEqyNcHuY/google-i-o-keynote-eight-best-moments-in-photos on May 15, 2013 at 06:14PM

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Google bombarded thousands of attendees at its I/O 2013 Keynote with enough information to force that hi-res photo of Vic Gundotra’s forehead…

April 16, 2013 10:36 pm
Data for the Boston Marathon Investigation Will Be Crowdsourced Paul McRae, a native of New Zealand now living in Jacksonville, takes a photograph of an empty Boylston Avenue near the Boston Marathon finish line, in Boston, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Three people were killed and more than 140 were injured when bombs exploded seconds apart close to the finish line on Monday. McRae finished the race before the explosions. Photo: Charles Krupa / AP

Data for the Boston Marathon Investigation Will Be Crowdsourced

Paul McRae, a native of New Zealand now living in Jacksonville, takes a photograph of an empty Boylston Avenue near the Boston Marathon finish line, in Boston, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Three people were killed and more than 140 were injured when bombs exploded seconds apart close to the finish line on Monday. McRae finished the race before the explosions. Photo: Charles Krupa / AP

March 19, 2013 8:24 pm
"Online video-advertising rates continue to fall. Prices for ads on top-tier sites last year were down by 10% to 15% from 2011 […] Consequently, the amount of online space available for ads—the inventory—is exploding. Of the 39 billion content videos viewed on the Web in December, about 23% carried video ads, up from just 14% a year earlier"

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If Media’s Future Is Online, Where Are the Profits? - WSJ.com

Take these two trends and tell me where you think this is headed.

(via soxiam)


I think subscription model’s are taking over digital entertainment. While the last decade saw us unwilling to pay for our entertainment medium and accept anything for it. We are now realizing the benefits of paying a little here and there for a good amount of quality.  While most are still holding out for free ad-supported services, those numbers are dwindling year by year while netflix and paying spotify members go up.

(via emergentfutures)

March 12, 2013 8:20 pm
mashable: The one and only Grumpy Cat was at SXSWi to ignore her adoring fans at the Mashable House. See the rest of the pictures here. 

mashable:

The one and only Grumpy Cat was at SXSWi to ignore her adoring fans at the Mashable House. See the rest of the pictures here. 

March 3, 2013 10:41 am
Stowe Boyd: Trolls do more than spoil our reading enjoyment

stoweboyd:

Researchers have found that trolls not only make reading posts and articles less fun, the psychological backlash leads people to increase their sense of the negative implications in the writing, as well.

Dominique Brossard and Dietram Scheufele, This Story Stinks

We asked 1,183…

It would be interesting to see this paired with a study on why people troll.

February 28, 2013 6:42 pm
theatlantic: Marissa Mayer’s Job Is to Be CEO—Not to Make Life Easier for Working Moms Marissa Mayer is a CEO first and a woman second. Indeed, she is a role model for many precisely because she made it to the top job. And as a CEO, her first job is to save her company. If she fails in that, the employees she is insisting come in to the office will have no jobs to come in to. Read more. [Image: AP] I’m of two minds on this.  While we are certainly heading towards being able to telecommute as an industry standard, I feel like the circumstances of Yahoo justify Mayer’s decision.  Yahoo is in a rebuilding stage where constant collaboration and teamwork is necessary, you never know when inspiration might strike. If there’s one thing I like about going into the office rather than working from home, it’s that I find I am able to get my day-to-day work done sooner and have more opportunity to communicate new ideas to others.  Not to say you can’t be creative from home, but in Yahoo’s situation you need to be ready to communicate those ideas at any point.  Hopefully one day technology will allow for us to perform any job from anywhere without a loss in communication, but as for now struggling businesses need to fill in it’s gaps.

theatlantic:

Marissa Mayer’s Job Is to Be CEO—Not to Make Life Easier for Working Moms

Marissa Mayer is a CEO first and a woman second. Indeed, she is a role model for many precisely because she made it to the top job. And as a CEO, her first job is to save her company. If she fails in that, the employees she is insisting come in to the office will have no jobs to come in to.

Read more. [Image: AP]

I’m of two minds on this.  While we are certainly heading towards being able to telecommute as an industry standard, I feel like the circumstances of Yahoo justify Mayer’s decision.  Yahoo is in a rebuilding stage where constant collaboration and teamwork is necessary, you never know when inspiration might strike. If there’s one thing I like about going into the office rather than working from home, it’s that I find I am able to get my day-to-day work done sooner and have more opportunity to communicate new ideas to others.  Not to say you can’t be creative from home, but in Yahoo’s situation you need to be ready to communicate those ideas at any point.  Hopefully one day technology will allow for us to perform any job from anywhere without a loss in communication, but as for now struggling businesses need to fill in it’s gaps.