Google needs a new name for its wicked Holodeck
When Google showed off a way of navigating Street View in a fully immersive room of flat-panel screens at the I/O conference in May, there was a collective web cry of — uh, awesome!
Informally dubbed the “Holodeck,” the room had a chair in the center and a joystick that let you “drive” around. (See the video below applied to Google Earth.)
But alas, the name “Holodeck” is not meant to be.
Paramount Pictures filed for the trademark back… Continue Reading
Hollywood coming around? Lions Gate partners with YouTube for film clips
I don’t know about you, but when I see a short clip from a film on YouTube I think of it as advertising not piracy. After all, I see the clip and then I want to run out and see the movie. Hollywood has for the most part seen its clips on YouTube as piracy, but it could be coming around.
Google today announced a partnership with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., perhaps best known as the… Continue Reading
Paramount gives away digital movie clips but misses the point
Paramount Pictures yesterday announced that it would let Internet users view and share clips from some of their favorite movies. While this has been done for a while on sites such as YouTube, it is the first time a movie studio is directly allowing and participating in such action. It’s not necessarily all good news, though.
First of all, as of right now Paramount only has a deal in place with Facebook to distribute the clips… Continue Reading