October 28, 2004
Google acquires Keyhole
Keyhole is a great service/software. Read my previous post.
The Google acquisition annoucement.
Archive for October, 2004
More proof that John Kerry needs U.N. approval
From the Washington Post
“Kerry’s belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of a mission with international support. In 1994, discussing the possibility of U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, ‘If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no.’”
See the video
Adam Curry and Mark Cuban overlap
In a grand gesture of generosity 
Mark Cuban writes about “patentable” business ideas. One of those ideas is very similar to Adam Curry’s iPodder.
2. When I had broadcast.com we were testing software that let the user program their own TV stations. Just take any of our programs that were available on demand from our site, and plug it into a schedule that you create for your station. You can even insert a live program as part of the schedule and the software just changes the channel to the one you want.
Today, with PVRs and Media Center PCs, this doesn’t have to be about the net. With very simple software, you could pull content from the net, or more importantly Video on Demand sources and program your own personal TV schedule.
Search through your comcast or charter VOD programming guides, and schedule the shows you want, when you want.
Of course, this is not different than an MP3 playlist from any music player, so it would just be days till Personal TV station playlists would be shared. Want to watch Mark Cuban TV (don’t know why, but if you did), just subscribe to my TV Sched PlayList RSS output from my blog, and you can watch what I watch, when I watch it.
