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Yesterday word started getting around that come October 1st Comcast would be enforcing a 250GB bandwidth cap for all their users. This is obviously their way to get back at the whole BitTorrent rigmarole that started last year, and this way people are more apt to know what they consider to be "acceptable use."

The new policy won't go into affect until October 1st, and

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How will Hulu Affect Joost?

October 29th, 2007
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When NBC Universal and News Corp announced that they were teaming up back in March, most people assumed that they were doing so to take on YouTube by launching a video sharing site. As it turns out, they had no intention of competing with YouTube and instead had their eyes set on creating a place where people would be able to view premium video content online. Eventually they named the service Hulu, and

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Comcast is quickly gaining enemies from the BitTorrent crowd by using new technology to throttle torrent downloads.  The Associated Press was able to confirm that they are in fact doing this through tests all over the nation.  In their report they say that this move is "the most drastic example yet of

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On Tuesday, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts introduced the cable modem of the future.  The new modem will boast download speeds of 150 megabits per second!  To put this into perspective, we’ll compare it with today’s speeds using our recent poll.

“How Fast is your Internet Connection” was the question we asked most recently.  In our poll, 25% of the voters have said that their connection speed is between 3,000 and 8,000

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Is Comcast Blocking Joost Already?

April 18th, 2007
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It was just a couple of weeks ago that MetaMan sent us a tip saying that Comcast customers in the US were receiving warnings that they needed to cut back on their excessive bandwidth use, otherwise they would face termination (sounds like the Verizon ordeal, doesn’t it?). Some customers have already gotten cut off which is frustrating to say the least.

Joost isn’t even out of beta yet, and

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Facebook to create "Facebook Diaries"

February 8th, 2007
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"The Future of TV is not on TV. It's the Internet." You've heard that a few times recently, haven't you? That's what movie-maker/ producer R.J. Cutler has to say about his reasoning for producing "Facebook Diaries," an online movie which will be composed of "compelling and engaging and dramatic, and powerful and worth of telling" stories of 18-24 year olds on Facebook.

Facebook Diaries will be composed of 10 half-hour episodes which will air

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