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Archive for October, 2006

Disaster at Global Geek HQ!

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Normally you guys would be expecting that a podcast would be out either today or tomorrow. But tonight as we were recording total disaster struck. We had to resort to this:

That is a dirty hack if ever I saw one. The hand you see is my brothers, he was on the show last week. He [...]

More YouTube Clips Removed

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Last week saw the removal of a massive number of videos from the social video sharing site YouTube. This has been repeated today in a move that sees videos from the “Comedy Channel” being removed today after a DMCA from Viacom’s Comedy Central.
Clips from The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and South Park are no [...]

Going Geek with Gadgets

Friday, October 27th, 2006

For those of you that regularly listen to the podcast you know that my co-host is Knightwise. He was starting to feel guilty that he had not written any posts for the blog, so he sends me this “little” entry.
Please sit back and enjoy this special post from Knightwise about how to have the latest [...]

The Global Geek Podcast #024

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Welcome to the show this week. Should be a good one, we have a special guest co-host, Knightwise is podcasting “close to amenities” and we have a heap of fun.
Sorry the show is a day late this week but I have a real job that involves shift work, this week those shifts were not agreeable [...]

29,549 YouTube Videos Deleted

Friday, October 20th, 2006

This may well be the beginning. After complaints by a group of Japanese media companies YouTube has pulled 29,549 videos off the site.
The companies claim that television, music and movies were uploaded without the appropriate copyright permissions and therefore violate the copyright of the content. I am thinking Japanese cartoons here, there are (were) a [...]

Technorati Now Supports Open ID

Friday, October 20th, 2006

A while back we interviewed Dick Hardt of Sxip Identity. If you heard the interview you would know something about Open ID and identity management in the Web 2.0 era.
So I thought it was worth mentioning that Technorati have announced that they now support Open ID for claiming blogs. This is a good thing. This [...]

Not 24 Hours Later: IE 7 Bug Number 1

Friday, October 20th, 2006

I was very surprised to find that it has been out for less than 24 hours and the first bug has reared it’s ugly head in IE 7.
The bug has been described as an information disclosure vulnerability. While this bug has not been exploited yet I am sure that it will only be a matter [...]

The Podcast Network Forums

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Just want to remind everyone of The Podcast Network Forum. This is place where you can talk amongst yourselves and where the TPN hosts are active in conversations. You can also have your say regarding suggestions for the network to make it better.
There are some great discussions about the different shows on TPN as well [...]

Does Your New iPod Have a Virus?

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

News just to hand has reveled that Apple has discovered that a “small” number of video iPods that were made available for purchase after the 12th of September 2006 have a hidden surprise on them, a virus!
No specific numbers have been given but “less than 1%” of iPods that left the contracted manufacturer are believed [...]

The Global Geek Podcast #023

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Welcome listeners and new subscribers to another fun filled Global Geek Podcast. Please enjoy the show. This week saw a week absolutely stuffed with news, of most note the Google YouTube deal. Yes we do touch on it but that’s all!
The other thing we would like you to take note of is a slightly different [...]