WebbAlert - June 19, 2008 by Youtube

Can hackers change the way your coffee machine makes your coffee?

Can't see the video? They used mass amounts of pictures on Flickr, since many of them are geo-tagged, and the computer is pretty accurate. Depends on what brand of coffee machine you buy. Sometimes expensive isn't better. To read their entire paper - click here.

The MPAA is still trying to get the FCC to allow them to block recordings of films on DVRs - but NATO (the National Association of Theatre Owners, not the North American Trade Organization) isn't backing them up this time.

The BBC has the earliest known recording of computer generated music. Om Malik was initially shocked at that number, but after he did the math and compared it with Xing - a similar company - he found that Linked-In's valuation is not out of line with the value public markets are putting on Xing. Click here!

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Linked-In has some fresh cash now that investors bought 5% of the company for $53MM - that implies a total valuation of $1B. Listen to "Baby" play "God Save The King" back in 1951.

Videos are about to get longer on YouTube. And check out the great video introducing baby to the public. Wait, is that a good thing?

Two computer scientists have created a program that simulates what the human brain does when it looks at a photo - we use clues in the picture to determine where it was taken. It's one of the highest valuations for a networking site. YouTube is courting independent film makers trying to get them to put their films on the site.

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