RWORD – TECHNICAL BLOG

I read a story on Google News that says that Viacom has won some legal case in which they are to receive information from YouTube (whom they were taking legal action against).  The result of this suit is that YouTube must give Viacom all of its data on users and what videos they watch.

This is so overkill.  Viacom should only go after users who actually post video’s that they own.  Why should the owneres of MTV be trusted with all of our viewing records?  It gives them a lot of marketing data.  Just imagine Google suing Viacom for their numbers on what people watch.  Ridiculous!

Thus I have sent Viacom a complaint (I am sure I am not the only one).  You should also complain if you are outraged.  The following is the complaint I have just sent though their website:

Dear Viacom, I am outraged that you would ask for a list of ALL individual video’s that You Tube users have watched.  This information could be used for any number of purposes such as viewers habits and desires.
I personally think that it is funny that you are starting to lose money because people have been freed from the 4 channels of television that they used to be stuck with.  You Tube represents a new form of on demand media that will win in the end.
If You Tube actually hands over that very sensitive information of millions of users.  I will never buy Viacom stock, products, et cetera.

It a marketing dream!  Check this tool out because it rocks!  Google trends allows you to see search terms and websites ranked by search volume and news volume.  Prepare to make inferences.  Here are some interesting things I have searched for.

I started with a comparison of myspace and facebook:

As we see, from 2004-2007, myspace was more popular, however, facebook appears to have finally taken the lead.  Have a look at the next panel.

When orederd by region, we see that myspace is WAY more popular than facebook in America.

We all dislike spam.  But imagine being called a spammer–a turncoat–a rebel.  I have been deemed a spambot by Blogger and my account has been disabled after only one post.  From what I’ve read, Blogger has recently started to use keyword indexing to highlight spam-esque words or nonsensical sentences.  They also check for sites that link to only one other site.  After one post, do they really have enough information?  After two weeks of waiting, I have given up on the claim that they would have a real person look at it to see if it was spam.  So alas, here I am.

Expect technical blogs from my posts with overlap from academia, theory,  philosophy, and interesting thoughts.

Here are some things I am planning to post:

- Time management and prediction via the standard deviation and average of records

- My report for statistical quality assurance on the Decay of Bananas

- Fundamentals of OpenGL and computer graphics in general

- Learning perl as I learn it :) .

- Linux topics