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lundi 25 février 2008

Chris Cantell annouces New advertizing models for online videos

Obviously there is a trend that people like to watch their favorite TV shows not on TV but online. "Advertisers want to reach both audiences," said Jeff Ratner, managing partner and digital director at Mind Share Interaction. There will be a wind of change in the new online video experience. The wind is called impressions-based pricing model. It is supposed to come with time-based model. And what it is about? You know, when you are watching you videos online and you have to wait (or if you are lucky you get an option to skip) until the commercial is over then get to your video? And of course it happens with every video you click on over an over again. Well the time should be more user-friendly and actually save your time. With this kind of model the viewer will be exposed to commercial not before every video, but just once in specific period of time. This way everybody, meaning viewers and advertisers should by satisfied. "It's a better user experience because they now have a lot more flexibility to jump around and see different content and consider consuming more before being served more pre-roll," said Max Marvel, video sales director for msnbc.com. So who is using this model? It's the abcnews.com, Heavy.com, Video Egg and msnbc.com will be joining them next month. "A lot of it is being driven by the networks coming into the space. I think you are going to have pay-for-performance model as well. Right now it's essentially based on viewership," said Jeff Ratner.

Written by Lucia MitrovaEdited by Zuzana Tylkova
These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Chris Cantell annouces Facebook, it"s features and it"s problems

Raise your hand everybody who doesn't know Facebook! Not many hands, I see, but anyhow. Facebook is one of the many social networking websites for example like myspace or friendster. It is here to allow you to interact with other users, online friends, real life friends that you do not meet on daily basis. All you have to do is sign up and after registration you can start your social life on line. Especially Facebook, which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in Cambridge Massachusetts, was meant for the students, after some time it got so popular that now, anybody can join. And anybody is joining, Facebook has now days about 54 million active users and it is expected to grow to 60 million by the end of the year. What is so great about the Facebook? Apart from staying in touch with people and uploading photographs it the site's features. You can write your facebook friend a message on the "Wall", so the others would see it too or buy someone a "gift". By gift we mean a small icon that will appear on recipients's profile, unless you want the gift to be private. Very popular is the feature called "Poke" that allows you to poke others or even start a poke war. But Facebook has its problems too. Lately there is an issue about tracking and privacy. Facebook had from the beginning high privacy policy, but users are afraid it got lower. For instance with "News feeds" feature which let you now if your friend changed something on his profile. This feature was followed by huge users protests, so now it's optional and you cat turn it off. Another feature that users are complaining about is "Beacon". Thanks to this if Facebook users buys anything, his friends could see. The company statement to this issue is: "Beacon gives users an easy way to share relevant information from other sites with their friends on Facebook. Information is shared with a small selection of a user's trusted network of friends, not publicly on the Web or with all Facebook users. Users also are given multiple ways to choose not to share information from a participating site, both on that site and on Facebook."

Written by Lucia Mitrova Edited by Zuzana Tylkova
These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Chris Cantell annouces We must do something mates!

In last two centuries our parents and grand-parents wanted to make their life easier. They built a manufactures where coal made a steam for moving all machines and railway and trains to move faster and more comfortable and improved boats with big coals machines. And many many other improvements were bringing more and more carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide. Sulfur dioxide with water makes acid rain. So the industrial revolution mainly started damaging our planet. But our grand parents and parents didn't care about it because they pass over this problems. In 20th century our parents notice that something is going on with weather. But they still want their life without problems so they continued with passing over all this climate problems. But mates do we want bring our children to this world? Do we want let them breath poisoned air from their first breathe in? To be honest with you I don't want. I do want stop ruining this planet, stop hiding real problems because we have only one life and only one planet. Start doing new better decisions which helped not us but people after us....our children. One of right thing is renewable energy project. Britain woke up and start building the biggest biomass plant in the world. The 350-megawatt wood chip-fuelled electricity generating plant will be in the industrial town of Port Talbot. The plant is expected to contribute about 70 percent of the Welsh Assembly's 2010 renewable energy target. Lifetime this plant is 25 years and it will create 150 new jobs. I don't want to say to you that you must build biomass plant but just maybe properly separate rubbish, safe energy, walk to work, don't waste a water and other simple things which can makes our planet nice and clean for our children in the future.

Written by Eva Zelenakova Edited by Zuzana Tylkova
These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Chris Cantell annouces Safer and faster airport security scanners

After September 11th all countries wants safe traveling for their citizens. But traveling with spending many hours in airports checking all passengers is boring. But maybe next year 2008 can be everything changed. Why?....Because hardworking South Korea's Samsung developed a new digital X-ray system. Spokesman Henry Kim told that this is the first flat panel X-ray detector using thin-film transistor technology. The flat panel detector for radiology machines provides ultra-high definition images. And I'm sure its true, because Samsung Electronics is the world's largest flat panel screen maker. And as well the South Korea's government proudly predicted that the device would help the X-ray detector market become completely digitized within a few years. Brain new digital X-ray detector using thin-film transistor technology and this technology is the first of its kind in the world. X- ray detector converts invisible X-ray images into digital signals, which are transformed into pictures. The new detector will transfigure the global market and out come in the first quarter of 2008. But on the other side Henry Kim said that plastic-based analog film for X-ray photography applications isn't done jet. Professionals still working on it hardly, but it can take long time. Everyone of us are hoping that South Korea's hardworking professionals will completely finished new X-ray detector as soon as possible. So if you are waiting in queue on airport reading this enjoy it, because maybe next year this time will be long queue just sweet remember on boring time spent there.

Chris Cantell annouces David And Goliath 3:2

Do you hear bible story about David and Goliath? Can you remember the end of this old story? If you can't, let me tell you the point. This story was about huge and powerful Goliath who was one day proudly fighting with small and skinny David. And guess who won?....I will give you a clue....not Goliath. All I wanted to say is, that sometimes it's surprising when we hear about little and not expected team to win like on Wednesday Croatia hits the England Goliath. And smacks him out from the EURO 2008. It will be the first time since 1984 that England miss out on the European Championship finals and the first time since the 1994 Word Cup that they have failed to qualify for a major tournament. All big preparing process for England team was for nothing. And last night was better little David. Croatia coach Slaven Bilic said that his team was simply a much better team last night. In the fact it was big surprise when fans on tribunes saw 2:2 and after a second-half substitute England captain Beckham said:"This is a big setback, not just for the players but the nation.....We have to show the English way which is to fight back." But they didn't win the match and Big Goliath fall down in front of the little David. Wednesday 21st November brought sadness to England Goliath but happiness to David Croatia.

vendredi 22 février 2008

A delicious truffle

Earth wonders never seize to amaze and it only proves that there are still things that can make us gaps in surprise. Furthermore, we don't know still the potential that the nature has and instead of taking advantage, we mistreat it. Looking all the way to Italy, the latest discovery gives us the chills; a 1.5-kg white truffle was found in the Italian countryside. Christiano Savini is a truffle hunter and every year he goes hunting together with his father in an area of Tuscany. His dog, Rocco, sniffed out the truffle by an oak tree near Pisa last weekend. At the beginning it wasn't a surprise due to the fact that ten years ago they found there another white truffle of a half-kilo. It was buried 2.5 feet underground and they had to dig wider and wider, like in a reverse cone, rather than digging down and narrowing towards the spot where the truffle was, according to Savini's statement. The dog was all agitated and he continued to jump from one side to the other as if to indicate they had to enlarge the hole. After displaying the enormous truffle at a five-star hotel in Rome on Tuesday, Savini sent it to Macau, a Chinese enclave, for a charity auction that will be held on Saturday and it is expected to get as much as 150,000 euros (108,000 pounds) because a truffle of the same size found last year in Italy's truffle town of Alba, was bought for 125,000 euros by a Hong Kong bidder. Although it is not the biggest white truffle ever (in 1954 was found a 2,5 kg truffle that was presented to former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower) Savini consider it to be a gift for him and his family. The truffle hunter deserves our applause not only for his achievement but also for the fact that he looked beyond money and all other financial retribution. Good for him and bon appetite to the one buying it (if he/she eats it). Enjoy!

Edited by: Lydia Jasenska

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Adoption: Tell or not to Tell

The adoption in its pure meaning is a gesture of hope and new life for children that had not the chance to be born in the whole family, who were neglected, fighting their little wars on streets or eating from trash cans until the social workers find them and accommodated them. For some of those it was even worse, coming to a place, where dozens of the same stories found their way. The only thing left had been the hope- the hope for luck to be adopted. For these kids, the old dilemma of tell-or-not-tell about the adoption is resolved. Let`s think about those, who were adopted as infants, small babies in diapers, not able to remember a thing, a single memory of who their real parents were, where they were born and how they found their happiness in another family. Those can be endangered by the reality. Their lives can suddenly change from a heaven to hell. This is the reason why the majority of parents that once adopted are so concerned about the decision- Tell or not to tell? People always worried, that when their adoptive child find out about hers/his real origin, he/she will immediately pack one suitcase and left the home to find the HOME. That`s why there where so many children that had no clue about the fact that they had been adopted, in the past. New research challenges the common perception that adoption negatively impacts a child's self-esteem. A study by a Dutch researcher shows that adopted children tend to overcome developmental and emotional problems, and achieve a normal level of self-esteem. Don't worry, your child can be disoriented or confused, but at the end of the day, he/she will know who the mama really is.