Kaneva- a new social network

Kaneva is taking one approach, and using “aspects of Web 2.0″ in games.
Kaneva is a new social network that extends the concept of MySpace into a virtual world. Although you’ve been able to sign up for a 2D profile on Kaneva they recently opened the doors to their 3D world. The idea is that users can create personal profile pages in the 2D space, like MySpace, but also carry out the same personalization to their virtual world apartments.
The social networking site is chock full of all of MySpace’s main features: friends, photos, videos, messages, groups, and personal blogs. Kaneva also gives you control over what your home site and profile look like, using an AJAX editor to drop modules into the page. If you really feel like replicating your MySpace’s horrid layout, you can also dress your profile in straight CSS.
Unlike MySpace, Kaneva also includes a voting system, called “raves”, to mark the best profiles, groups, photos, and videos.
I’d love to see the interactive picture frames and televisions in Kaneva be able to pull content directly from Flickr or YouTube. It would be also fun to see that content become clickable, so that you could see a photo on an apartment wall and click through to the Web page where it’s taken from. Neither of those things is possible at the moment, but Kaneva hinted to me that something like this might be coming.

source: helpero

how to identify the source of pirated videos

The Home gateway manufacturer Thomson plans to incorporate video watermarking technology, which it also developed, into future STBs (set-top boxes) and other video devices. The watermarks are unique to each device and will make it possible for investigators to identify the source of pirated videos.

Consumers will know that the watermarks are there and Thomson hopes to discourage piracy without putting up obstacles to activities such as copying video for use on another device in the home.
"The idea is to slow down piracy without limiting the use of the consumer. They should not be upset about this unless they are widely redistributing content," said Pascal Marie, responsible for strategic marketing at the company's content security division.
The plan is to watermark video with a unique code before it leaves the home gateway or set-top box (STB). To do that, Thomson is working with semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics NV to incorporate NexGuard into digital video chips. NexGuard can mark video encoded in MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and VC-1 formats.
Next month, the company will show a system capable of directly watermarking content produced with Windows Media Video 9 codecs. "We are able to process directly this format without the need to decode it, watermark it and re-encode it," Marie said.

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