Category: Technology

Microsoft Buys Facebook

Microsoft Buys Facebook

What if you could merge two companies, one that is seen to some as evil – the other one that is seen as a breath of fresh air…

In the coming months, we’ll find out the answer to that question as Microsoft invested $240 million into Facebook.com today. Facebook is being valued at $15 billion dollars! If StuffWeLike.com ever receives that kind of estimate, I’d shit in my pants and eat it. (don’t quote me on that)

All the fine details have yet to be made public, but what is known is that Microsoft will be controlling the ad content shown on Facebook. Bottom line is, be prepared to see Microsoft only products – no iPhones, iPods, and other crap.

If you really want to read more details on this amazing twist of events, click here. But I’ll warn you that I’ve said the most juicy details in this post. So if you could careless, resume your life watching Prank David videos.

monoface: Mr. Potato Head on steroids

monoface

Browsing through the five-hundred lane interstate highway that is the internets, I came across monoface, an interesting project that puts all create-your-own-funny-face online games to shame. It uses actual photos (and really good ones, too) to create hybrids. Of course, no gender segregation and some humorous subjects makes for some rather strikingly funny results, as you see above.

I really like the professionalism here. Every possible face look real (albeit awkward) and blends perfectly. If you have nothing better to do, I recommend to hit the link and try monoface out for some laughs. If you have something better to do, I recommend you hit the link anyways.

Youtube Ads

After much debate, Youtube ads are now here for good. It appears that Google is trying to listen to all sides on how exactly it should include ads around the players. Anyone can create a ad based player if they have a Google Adsense. We’ve embedded the Youtube ad player in our Forum. We’re actually having issues including it in this post.

It’s great to know that content publishers can finally start making money off of their creations. Of course not all are welcomed. At this time only certain videos will be shown. Most of these videos are the highest viewed and rated, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But if you’re a content publisher like StuffWeLike and haven’t had that break out video hit, you’re videos won’t be featured in other’s players. But if you have a website, you can still profit off of other people’s work.

Hopefully this will encourage users to improve the quality of their videos. Most likely it won’t, but again I did say hopefully.

Unreal Tournament 3 beta demo coming in 2 weeks, are you ready?

Unreal Tournament 3 logo

If there is one possible thing UT fans love more than UT itself, it has to be a UT demo. UT2004’s demo, once released, became one of the most downloaded demos of all time. Even after the full release, a thick percentage of gaming servers were demo-based and the demo’s famed ONS-Torlan map became one of the most popular maps of all time, beating the original’s DM-Deck16.

Well, it’s all going to start again, because Epic’s Mark Rein has just announced that UT3’s “beta” demo will be striking the internet with a vengeance in two weeks’ time. The demo will include a Singleplayer instant action, and of course, multiplayer. Rein says that it should most likely be available this very week itself, but two weeks is just a safe number. Three is even safer – I wonder why he didn’t pick it?

One reason it’s being called the “beta” version could be because it’s the “in” thing right now, like the Gmail “beta” and the 4 dozen different Web 2.0 sites you use that are in “beta”. But Rein makes it clear that the reason of the beta demo is to test UT3 on every hardware configuration possible. What does this mean? Forget your specifications and download the demo when it comes out, run it and tell Epic how it slapped you and laughed at your low-ass PC.

Epic also announced UT3’s system requirements some weeks ago. See if your system is hip enough:

Minimum System Requirements
Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
512 Mbytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended System Requirements
2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
1 GBytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

Also, FreakyGaming reports that the “minimum specs” given are “minimum specs for high in game detail” as compared to the bare minimum specs required to run the game (and possibly play reasonably at ultra-low graphics). Regardless, it’s best that you download the beta demo and see for yourself!

My Red Camera Experience

Red Camera

If you’re not in the film industry, you may not have heard about the most advanced video camera in the world. Thanks to the Digital Cinema Society, I had the privilege of getting an in-depth look at what makes the Red camera tick.

First off, what makes this camera special is that it records in 4K. This is the same resolution that 35mm records on – a resolution higher than High Definition. Currently there are only 50 Red cameras in the world. At the event we were looking at #30.

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