Holy video Batman! 20 hours of video uploaded every minute!!

So it turns out that 20 hours of video are being uploaded to YouTube every minute, at least according to the YouTube blog. Even though this a great achievement, it leaves one wondering how all the video is monitored and filtered for copyright and pornographic material. But here are a few notes I'll share about it.

- From the 20 hours of video uploaded every minute, almost 19hrs and 59mins of it is gargage.
- Clearly YouTube isn't making a profit at this time, plus the data is clogging up the Internetz linez.
- Quantity does not mean quality. The YouTube team needs to keep this in mind.
- There are a lot of kitty and lolcats videos haha

A Washington Post editor summed up YouTube's big problem:
"Too many of us like to think that we have made great progress in human relations and that little remains to be done. Unmoderated comments provide an antidote to such ridiculous conclusions."

Watch out! Here comes the Palm Pre!!

There has been a lot of news lately for the Palm Pre, and I've been reading as much on it as I can find. So far it seems promising, but there are a lot of issues with it that could potentially ruin it.

I currently have an Apple iPhone, but it has left me with a problems I couldn't even imagine. With my contract ending, I need a new phone. Not a Blackberry. Its a good phone, but just not for me. I need a phone with a good operating system, possibly a touch screen, a good internet browser, a GPS, and one that is smooth. Multi-tasking is a good thing too, but not entirely important. A physical keyboard would also be nice. The G1 is a good phone, but its pretty beta right now with a lot of bugs. Plus when you slide the keyboard out, the buttons always get pressed accidentally.

Palm has a knack of coming out with something awesome and then lagging behind everyone else for the next several years. If they do this again with the Palm Pre, this is possibly the end of the company. Investors are going to run, and this economy doesn't help either. That means no more system upgrades.

Also, they for some reason have limited availability for the Pre. This is a marketing strategy to increase demand and lower supply. Its all about perception, and this is hiw the marketing mind works. In this day and age, due to Apple, if you have something that is limited, it makes you better and more sophisticated than everyone else.

Finally, Pre runs on Sprint only. Never used Sprint, but it should be ok. They don't have a good customer service though, so we'll see what happens I guess.

I'm back!

Well the biggest thing I realised as soon as I left Blogger was how easy it is to use. I tried tons of other blogging engines such as Wordpress and Movable Type, but Blogger is just downright easy to use. I don't have much time with work and other things in the way, therefore its just easier to use Blogger. Look out for new posts by me in the coming days!!

Moved!

Just wanted to inform all the readers that I have moved blogs to http://www.abdultaiyeb.com/

This change happened after my Google Account got compromised and my blog pretty much got taken over with spam and random posts. Anyways, there are still a lot of readers visiting this blog. Around 200 a day! Therefore for all of you looking for me new blog, please navigate to http://www.abdultaiyeb.com and http://www.abdultaiyeb.com/blog

Exams!! (Lazy_Afternoons_Dept.)

Exams going on right now. Will resume posting in a week.

Make money off your bank balance!! (BFM_Dept.)

There are many different ways to make money nowadays, and Savings Accounts are one of the very few easy ways to make some money off of your bank balance. Savings accounts are accounts managed by commercial banks, credit unions, and loan associations, that pay interest to you. The catch? None really. These accounts are mainly meant to be used to be used by customers, not as one would use cash, but by other monetary means, for example by writing a cheque, or making a money draft. In this way, users can make money by setting aside an amount of their liquid assets and just leaving it in the bank! A bank I would recommend? The Co-operative bank. Unlike others, it actually has an ethical policy!

Toshiba's HD-A20 HD DVD player! (Lazy_Afternoons_Dept.)

Toshiba is finally shipping their HD-A20 to retailers ths week. The price is a relatively cheap $499 for retail stores, and can quite possibly be cheapers if sold online. It boasts a HDMI 1.3 capability and 1080p output. Finally, a decent HD-DVD player!