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
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OPLIN 4cast #475: Cable in the future
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It would have been hard to miss the news last week about the FCC’s “war” against the cable TV industry. Most articles highlighted the FCC’s…
Last week, the Sandvine company released its latest Global Internet Phenomena Report (see first link below) and created a bit of interest in the tech…
Read MoreOPLIN 4cast #468: What are we doing with the Internet?
Last Wednesday – while you were no doubt reading the 4cast – Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) presented her 20th annual report…
Read MoreOPLIN 4cast #440: Mary Meeker’s 20th Internet report
OPLIN 4cast #424: Trashing Flash
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Once upon a time, Adobe Flash was a feature of many websites and Internet ads that used animated graphics to catch the attention of site…
Like just about everyone else, librarians know and love Flickr, Pinterest, and perhaps Instagram. Most of us have heard of Imgur, Snapchat, and Vine, and…
Read MoreOPLIN 4cast #391: The visual Web should not be ignored
Librarians are no longer surprised to find people watching streaming video on their public Internet computers, with YouTube currently being the most prolific provider of…
It has been about a month since Dish Networks announced that they were closing the remaining 300 Blockbuster Video stores, starting a rash of articles…
Read MoreOPLIN 4cast #364: What does the Blockbuster closing mean?
OPLIN 4cast #345: Seeing it all
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Shooting video with your smartphone is about to take on a whole new dimension with the advent of 360-degree lenses you can attach to your…
If you’ve been waiting with bated breath for the successor to the H.264 video codec, wait no more! On the other hand, if you think…