Yahoo Engages TiVo

Do you ever have weekends that go just as planned? I almost never do, but I got everything I needed to get done this past weekend done and even had some fun. I hope you all did just as well with your weekends. Anyway, my topic may be a little misleading, but it's not really a marriage since they don't pull out all the stops and combine their services like they could. So for those of you who are still confused, Yahoo is going to integrate some of its services with TiVo and vice versa in all the ways you'd expect except for that you can't transfer video content to your computer from your set-top box. You can capture images from it, but not actual footage. An example of what you can do now is look at the tv schedule on Yahoo, check the programs you want to watch, and then just send it to your TiVo. If you want weather and news updates on your TiVo then you'll soon be able to do that as well as check out pictures from Yahoo Photos. Why am I mentioning all this? It's showing that Yahoo has been a busy little beaver all this time and is really striking back at Google and MSN. This is a symbolically important move for them as it shows their connection with growing technologies and the connection between television and the Internet. I'm sorry that this is my second day in a row talking about them, but they're really on a roll.

The Guardian doesn't seem to see television mingled with computers as important as a study they've referenced shows that more than half of those surveyed don't care about watching television on the go. They're missing the point of the iPod video, which is showing the progression of Apple to take logical steps with their hardware and make bold strides in areas that have previously been taboo. iTunes is the first service to allow legal tv downloads to your PC. A really bad study though is one that AppleInsider has claiming that over a million Wintel users switched to Mac, which is a gross overstatement, in my opinion. I'm sure that there was surge due to security concerns and the iPod, but not by that much. Grokster is finally shutting down with a $50 million settlement on their shoulders, so they're aiming to make a legal download service to cover it. Lastly, Joel Splosky announced that his company is putting out a documentary on their internship program because he was disgusted with The Apprentice, and it actually looks pretty cool.

We now have word on the release of a couple of trailers. The first teaser for Miami Vice will be packaged with the December release of King Kong. Superman Returns is also preparing to release its first teaser trailer, which will come with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire next weekend. I'm sure that many of you didn't know this, but Spielberg jumped right to Munich as soon as they started wrapping on War of the Worlds, and so now we have a great trailer for it. The movie details a revenge plot following the murder of Israeli hostages during the Olympics in Munich a while ago and it looks quite compelling. The producer of Saw II has confirmed that there will be yet another sequel, but he has no details for us as of yet so I'm sure that you horror geeks are pretty happy about that. IGN has given the script for Rocky Balboa a rather mediocre review, but it may end up being a good boxing movie, nonetheless. There are a few pictures available of Uma Thurman in Super Ex, and I've displayed my favorite below but you can pick your own over here.



I just have to really quickly point out how funny it is that even the Pope rejects intelligent design asserting that evolution doesn't contradict Genesis, which is not meant to be a scientific basis but rather elicit the idea that the universe had a creator. So, ha to you fundamentalists!

Now for more Monday Madness:

1. Sometimes I wish I could just __________.
scream, because it feels like all the pressure is going to crush me.

2. If I could take a long weekend to ___________, I'd be very happy.
really open up socially, because I feel like I'm not getting enough of that aspect into my college experience.

3. The world would be a better place if more people would just ________.
be civil to each other; life's to short to go through it angry.

4. One of my greatest qualities is __________.
dedication; I hate giving up.

5. The one thing about me that I need to work on is __________.
speaking; I need to work on the delivery of my jokes and speaking slower.

6. Happiness is ____________.
fleeting, but totally awesome when you grab a hold of it.