Episode 690

The combination of foolish corporate admins and folks who don't read very well actually help save animals. It's a story about do not reply--and it's a good one. In other news, Comcast and BitTorrent reach a surprising deal that benefits both of them. We're boggled, as well.
==Stories Covered==
Happily ever after for Comcast, BitTorrent?
Safari 3.1 for Windows violates its EULA, vulnerable to hacks
YouTube to provide more viewership information
Will plug-in hybrids crash the grid? Duke Energy says no.
Adobe opens shop on Web-based Photoshop Express
Apple settles the amazing multicolor lawsuit
iPO Reports - Gartner: Second Round of 10M 3G iPhones Possible (Thanks Peter!)
Bug Labs sells out of initial inventory, founder pumped
Pirillo starts large scale community CMS project
Techdirt: It turns out plenty of people reply to DoNotReply.com
CNET laying off 120 In 'Workforce Realignment'; 10 percent of U.S. workforce; internal memo 
==From The Phones==
* Anonymous
New Rule!
==In the Forums==
Highly Technical Problem
by Linearly
Moustronaut
by 2klbofun
public letter to Motorola exec seems honest, fierce...
by shmody
Info about the CNET layoffs?
by merrybrown
CNET Reorganization
by Willbost
==Emails==
===My last e-mail about people as walking Wi-Fi hot spots was a bit of a joke, but this article on PC World that I found via Gizmodo might make it a reality.===
PC World Story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080326/tc_pcworld/143834
Gizmodo Story:
http://gizmodo.com/372376/walkinghotspot-turns-smartphones-into-wi+fi-routers
Erik the MBA student from Tulsa
gutterisatool.com
===Ick===
While listening to #689 it occurred to me that Wood and Merritt argue like a couple that have been married too long. It’s painful to be exposed to, so I no longer will.
Don
===Search keywords on Ads in Japan===
I’m now reporting from Tokyo, as one of the few (?) listeners in Japan.
Well, on episode yesterday, you were talking about the “search word ads in Japan”, and ya, the report is right. There’re plenty of ads showing text box and keyword in it. Normally, it desn’t specify which search engine. (Yahoo! Japan is still more popular than Google in Japan, for your knowledge.) Of course, you require some knowledge of SEO, but the trick is simple!
Those keywords are normally in Japanese (japanese letters, especially), so a lot of pages are already filtered out. Then, you pick up a few presumably rarely used keywords and add them into HTML.
Voila, your website is listed on top of all!!
By the way, EEE PC is shipped with Windows XP installed in Japan. People appreciate the decision not to choose Linux.
What a shame! (I’m Mac user heavily depending on MacPorts.)
All right, thanks for the good show. Have a good day!
--Hiroshi from Tokyo
===Flash Lite 3===
Hey guys, Nokia just updated the N95 firmware and included Flash Lite 3 so I can now watch Flash video from BBC iPlayer on the bus in a morning, as well as visit all those restaurant Web sites with flash home pages.
From what I’ve noticed there isn’t any impact on battery life, plus its as good as the full flash on a computer, scrolling around the Web page is still annoying.
--Matty, UK student
===Bell Canada story is worse than you reported===
There is a bigger issue with Bell’s throttling of “their” internet.
Canada has rules that requires Bell to allow third party ISPs to access customers over Bell’s phone lines. Many of these third party ISPs have made not throttling a major selling point of their service.
However Bell is throttling the traffic between the end user and Internet service providers, thus they are forcing throttling on all the third party ISPs that are delivered over the phone lines.
As always, Michael Geist has good coverage of this issue.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2782/125/
--Darin
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