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+[Break.com, a video sharing site][1] similar to YouTube [announced yesterday that it will pay $400 for user-generated videos][2] and as much as $2000 for animated shorts. When Break launched last year they offered $50 per video and later raised that to $250 before yesterday's increase to $400.

With Google backing the massively popular YouTube, competitors have increasingly turned to paying contributers in an effort to lure them away from YouTube. [Metacafe launched a similar program called "producer rewards"][3] earlier this year.

In the case of Break, the only stipulation on getting paid is that your video must make it to the homepage. Unfortunately Break doesn't offer much info on how exactly your video can make it to the homepage

The one off payment model differs from sites like [Revver][4] which offer a revenue sharing model where the money earned is based on how many views your video receives. Revver and others like it seem to aim more for serial content (like that of lonelygirl15 or Ze Frank's *The Show* for instance) whereas clips likely to generate only one time views are probably better served by Break, Metacafe and other flat rate services.

A quick browse through the videos on Break failed to find much of what I would call quality content. But to be fair, Break's tag line is "the largest online site for guys," and the content clearly reflects that audience with innumerable videos of backyard stunts, and various sports misshaps as well as a whole NSFW section.

With the online video market still in its infancy, it's tough to gauge where these sites will be in a few years, but one thing is for sure, if you offer money, they will come. Break's homepage claims they have paid out over $300,000 to amateur producers so far.


[1]: http://www.break.com/ "Break.com"
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-26T080107Z_01_N24177992_RTRIDST_0_TECH-WEBVIDEO.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna "Break.com increases Video payments"
[4]: http://one.revver.com/browse/Editor%27s+Picks "Revver.com"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72022-0.html?tw=rss.index "Wired on metacafe"
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+The U.N. will meet later this week in Kenya to [discuss the growing problem of "e-waste,"][1] a term that includes, among other things, obsolete electronics. Well intended western donations of old computers, mobile phones and televisions often end up in third world landfills and create environmental problems in those countries.

It may sound like a nice idea to donate your obsolete computer to someone overseas, but in reality you may be doing little more than shuffling junk off to foreign landfills. No one wants to discourage you from donating an old computers to developing nations, but what constitutes a recyclable machine and what is simply a piece of junk is so far open to debate.

According to the Reuters article, one study last year in Nigeria claims that about 500 containers of secondhand electronics arrive at Lagos seaport every month. 

>But dealers said as much as three-quarters of the PCs, televisions and phones inside were "junk" -- so obsolete they could not be repaired. Many were burned at open-air dumps, releasing toxic fumes and leaching chemicals like barium, mercury and brominated flame retardants into surrounding soils.

Some of the proposals the U.N. will be hearing next week include a plan to make computer manufacturers take responsibility for the final disposal of their products. 

The U.N. estimates 14-20 million PCs are thrown out every year in the United States alone.
Most major computer manufacturers in the U.S. currently offer some kind of recycling program, but few of these programs are set up to handle overseas waste.

[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-11-27T103113Z_01_L27347882_RTRUKOC_0_US-WASTE-UN.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-scienceNews-3 "Old Computers create environmental hazards"
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+[The Gaia project][1], an attempt to reverse engineer Google Earth to create an open source version, was shut down by its owner over the weekend.

It seems Google was worried that Gaia's success would threaten Google Earth because of the licensing agreements Google Earth has with map and data providers which stipulates that the maps not be used outside Google's specific software clients.

It doesn't appear that Google resorted to lawyers or cease-and-desist letters, rather the developer of Gaia was contacted directly by Michael Jones, Chief Technologist of Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Local search.

According to Jones in a letter posted on the Gaia site:

>The data that we license for Google Earth and Google Maps is made available for use under the restriction that it not be accessed or used outside of Google's client software. These products -- Earth, Maps, and Mobile Maps -- each have a data protection mechanism tailored to their environment. ... In all three cases, the ToS are very clear that the data services used by the client software must never be accessed directly and that the
encryption, passkey, and other data protection mechanisms must not be circumvented.

Kudos to Google for not resorting to threatening lawsuits and an equal measure of praise to Gaia's developer for taking the project down, but that said, it's still a shame to see the Gaia project disappear. Perhaps someone could convince the data companies to loosen their license restrictions a bit.

Otherwise, any attempt to create an open source program similar to Google Earth will need to start from scratch and use open earth images from NASA or similar and such a project is certainly not for the faint of heart.

[1]: http://gaia.serezhkin.com/ "Gaia is no more"
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+Open Office version 2.1 has reached the final release candidate stage and [RC1 is now available for download][1].

As with any software still in the development stage, this release is not intended for serious production environments or mission critical data. That said, I have the new version installed under Mac OS X's X11 environment and it seems to very stable. 

The final release of version 2.1 is slated to feature some pretty cool new stuff, including a new extensions framework for third party developers. So far there are no actual extensions available, but given the functionality extensions have allowed in Firefox, I think the inclusion of an extensions framework could be the biggest thing to hit OO since it's debut.

I'll be doing a full review of Open Office when the official version is released (currently slated for later this month), by which time hopefully some extensions will be available. 


[1]: http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html "Download OpenOffice 2.1 RC1"
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diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Mon/reboot.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Mon/reboot.txt
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />And we're back... Here's your morning reboot:

*	Cray and IBM will [split a massive $494M grant][1] from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The money, which will be paid out over four years, is for developing the next generation of supercomputers. Cray says it will use AMD chips and the Linux operating system

[1]: http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/304963.htm  "DARPA gives grant to Cray and IBM"

*	According to a new British poll, [Britons who watch video on the internet spend less times watching TV][2]. The statistic is yet more bad news for the already beleaguered world of broadcast TV.

[2]: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-11-27T113007Z_01_L27856075_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-BRITAIN-DOWNLOADS.XML&WTmodLoc=TechInternet-C1-Headline-9

*	You can now [download 2,500 hand-picked wikipedia educational articles][6] on a handy CD. The cd was compiled by volunteers from the children's charity SOS. The CD is free and should work on any platform. [via [Lifehacker][3]]
[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/download/download-of-the-day-wikipedia-cd-all-platforms-217250.php
[6]: http://torrentfreak.com/wikipedia-cd-distributed-over-bittorrent/ "Download wikipedia CD torrent"

*	ITWire reports that the banking industry is increasingly [worried that Google may come crashing into their industry][4]. As the article points out, Google Checkout may be the first small step in a larger plan.

[4]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7490/53/

*	[Microsoft may be guilt of patent infringement in South Korea][5]. Back in 1997 a Korean professor filed patents for technology used to automatically translate English into Korean within Microsoft Office applications. The CNet article reports that the case "may force Microsoft to temporarily halt sales of Microsoft Office in South Korea."

[5]: http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6138379.html "Microsoft patent violations"
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+Microsoft's Zune works only with Windows XP, so what to do if you're a Mac or Linux user? Well of course you could always just choose a different MP3 player, but if you really want a Zune to work with your Mac, there may be hope on the horizon.

Zune Microsoft's [Media Transfer Protocol][3], but thanks to libmtp, a free open source library available for Mac and Linux which implements the MS protocol, you should be able to see your Zune in other OSes.

If you'd like to be able to see your Zune on your Mac, grab a copy of WentNet’s open-source program [XNJB][1] (it's free), which leverages libmtp, and you should be able to view your Zune songs.

XNJB was written to support Creative Nomad MP3 players, but some users have reported that they can read the Zune drive and see their music libraries from from a Mac using XNJB. So far no one has been able to transfer songs though. The problem with transferring is that Zune apparently refuses to transfer files with unknown hosts.

Zune may not actually work with other OSes yet, but I have no doubt that someday soon someone will figure out how to make it work.

If you're interested have a look at [this thread in the Zunescene.com forums][2].

[1]: http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/ "wentnet's xnjb"
[2]: http://www.zunescene.com/forums/index.php?topic=3550.0 "Zunescene forum thread on Mac connectivity."
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol "Wikipedia definition of MTP"
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