Over the course of two weeks, Ohio library internet traffic dropped from daily peaks over 8 Gigabits per second down to brief spikes that barely…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #691: Unprecedented spike in residential internet demand
Category archive for: YouTube
Can you imagine the world without YouTube? Certainly, if I asked my teenage son to try that exercise, he’d look at me like I belong…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #649: As YouTube grows, so do its problems
YouTube Kids has been in my newsfeeds quite a bit recently. Unfortunately, not for a great reason. I first became aware of the massive issues…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #572: YouTube Kids probably isn’t for kids
OPLIN 4Cast #108: YouTube Screening Room, Medical Records Online, Google Map Maker, Tag Clouds
Posted in 4cast, Flickr, Google Apps, Google Maps, Kido'z, KidZui, Library of Congress, Panda Cloud Antivirus, privacy, tagging, YouTube, and ZuiTube
1. YouTube is going semi-pro. There is a spot on their site called the Screening Room. The videos are now longer, better quality and available…
4cast #75: Plugins, Copyright, Taxes, Biblioblogs
Posted in BlindSearch, blogs, copyright, Firefox, Google, URL shorteners, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. Plug Your Catalog into Firefox A plugin is a small computer program that adds a specific, sometimes rather nifty, function to…
OPLIN 4cast #50
Posted in blogs, DRM, Second Life, TweetStats, Twitter, Wi-Fi, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. Bad Manners in the Blogosphere Recently, a prominent technology blogger named Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users) received a series of anonymous,…
OPLIN 4cast #47
Posted in copyright, Google, privacy, VirtualBox, VMware Server, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. Viacom to Google: This YouTube Thing’s Gonna Cost Ya When Google purchased YouTube late last year, there was some speculation that…
OPLIN 4cast #43
Posted in Congress, Evergreen, Federal Register, GIMP, Library 2.0, Obama, Web 2.0, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. Sheriff Roy Puts ILS Vendors on Notice Roy Tennant recently wrote an open letter to all ILS vendors, basically alerting them…
OPLIN 4cast #25
Posted in Award for Innovation, cellphones, Google, instant messaging, Library 2.0, Library vs. Internet, privacy, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. OPLIN Award for Innovation: Text Message Notification (Cuyahoga County Public Library) From 2001 to 2005, OPLIN gave an annual Award for…
OPLIN 4cast #17
Posted in Google, Library 2.0, productivity, web TV, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. Primetime @ the Library? As more and more viewers flock to YouTube and other websites offering increasingly television-like experiences, how long…