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Chinese Redirect Google, Yahoo Traffic to Baidu

Paul

Wow. After getting Google and Yahoo to sell their souls for cash, the Chinese government is now thanking them for their shameful sellout by REDIRECTING ALL CHINESE TRAFFIC from Google Blog Search, Yahoo, Microsoft Live and YouTube.com to the heavily censored Chinese search engine, Baidu. TechCrunch links to speculation that the moves is a reaction to president Bush’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, but I think it’s party of the nationwide general crack down on everything during the Chinese Communist Party Congress.

It is a shame they are doing this, I wonder what the US is going to do to fix the problem!!

It’s good to be: MrBabyMan

Paul

Below is a humorous video account of a ‘day in the life’ of MrBabyMan (Andrew Sorcini), who is ranked as the number one digger overall.

Sorcini works by day as a film editor, and has recently been helping Disney with animated programming for television and features. He worked on the Goofy and Tigger movies. Capitalizing on his tremendous Digg success, he also co-host’s a podcast on emerging issues in technology and the internet – The Drill Down, with top diggers msaleem (Muhammed Saleem) and Zaibatsu (Reg).

Sorcini says his online handle, MrBabyMan, is a reference to his “arrested development,” since he loves to play games and have fun. His daughter, who appears in the video below, loves to watch herself on the small screen.

I want to post this because it made me laugh!! 😉

George Lucas plans ‘Star Wars’ TV series

Paul


LOS ANGELES – The Force may soon be coming to a television near you. George Lucas is planning a live-action television series spinoff of the “Star Wars” film franchise. Lucas told The Los Angeles Times he has “just begun work” on the series, which will not include the films’ major characters Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader.

“The Skywalkers aren’t in it, and it’s about minor characters,” Lucas told the Times on Tuesday.

Lucas wouldn’t reveal details, but joked that the series would be about “the life of robots.”

Lucas, 63, already has another television series in the works. Lucasfilm Animation has been working for months on the computer-animated “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”

Man I love Star wars and thought others would like to know this too!! 😉

Steve Jobs: iPhone SDK In Dev Hands February ’08

Paul

The Steve has listened to our incessant whining and now he’s writing something I’ve been waiting to read for many months: “Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February.” That’s the lead-in from his letter on Apple.com saying the third-party app SDK for native iPhone programs is coming in early ’08. It’ll also do iPod touch programs. Jobs also explains the delay: Making the iPhone more open while keeping it secure from viruses has been a challenge. They’re taking their time, and doing it right. Arn from Macrumors points out that the piece includes hints that Apple might pick up a digital signature system for app verification. P.S. Kudos for Businessweek on scooping this ahead of time, but Fake Steve called it first, bluffing or not. P.P.S We’ll really have to wait a while to find out the exact details of app development to fully celebrate, but right now, I gotta admit, I feel like a born-again fanboy. [Apple. BTW, that Digg badge links to the apple.com website, so keep it floating.]

I hope they get those apps out soon!! 😉