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According to the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday will rule that Comcast wrongly interfered with file transfers among its customers who were sharing videos (almost certainly illegal bootleg copies).
Comcast countered that it was merely trying to protect available bandwidth for other customers who weren’t engaged in such (illegal?) activity.
In a real boost for First Amendment rights, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said he believed that consumers should have "unfettered access to the Internet," according to the WSJ report.
Comcast and the cable industry are expected to challenge the ruling in court and hope eventually to implement "Internet metering" to charge more for higher bandwidth usage, while still retaining the right to block usage at will.
In this case, I’m rooting for the federal agency.
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26
Jul
One of the primary sources for affiliate products–and profits–is Clickbank. If you haven’t joined or discovered its wealth, that’s your first step, certainly.
But now noted Internet video producer Jay Douglas nas come up with a program to provide you with promotional vidoes for the hottest ten Clickbank sales opportunities–ten videos each month for just $47, and he charges $1275 if you want an original (one only) 60-second video.
I signed up. For this slight monthly investment, I figure if I can parlayat least two or three of the videos into Adsense-driven sites, then I can see some steady sales and income.
But hurry, Jay is offering just 500 memberships, and then the door slams shut.
Check out the Jay Douglas System now.
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25
Jul
Recently, a site called MentalFloss (?) spread the suspicion publicly that it had been dropped from the Google search results because it was offering full-text RSS feeds, in other words, duplicating its content on subscriptions.
However, none other than Matt Cutts, the Google guru who knows all the answers, says that that wasn’t the case at all. The site had been dropped because Google thought it had been hacked. Cutts says that he himself uses full-text RSS feeds on his blog.
Cutts wrote back:
This has nothing whatsoever to do with RSS full-text feeds. I happily use full-text feeds on my personal blog, for example, and recommend that others feel free to do the same.
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17
Jul
SnagFilms has taken the YouTube model to legitimate heights.
SnagFilms has created a repository of 250 documentaries, many of them feature length, for free viewing, What’s more, it enables you to create widgets for your favorite documentaries and place them on your MySpace, Facebook and other social networking pages. However, if you host your own WordPress blog as I do, you can’t use the widget, but you can embed the videos in a post.
Over at my latest effort, a site called News Verite, I embedded a video on today’s post. You can check it out there.
Once you go to SnagFilms and find the video you like, you can hit the Snag button to create and send a widget to your social networking platform. You also have the option to e-mail the link or capture the embedding code, which is what I did and used at News Verite (a take-off on cinema verite).
When you share the documentaries, SnagFilms proclaims you a "Filmanthropist."
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11
Jul
As a proud subscriber to NicheBot, a service that enables anyone to search keywords on both WordTracker and Keyword Discovery along with other keyword tools, I was just alerted to an improvement to Google’s Keyword Tool.
The Kekword Tool, which is part of Google’s AdWords system but can be accessed by clicking the link above, used to show just bar graphs representing the volume of searches for a keyword or keywords. Now, however, the system shows actual search counts for the month. Not only that, but it provides a list with search results for similar and complementary keywords or terms.
Give it a try. It’s great.
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