Mediaglobe - the Digital Archive

Der neue Teaser-Trailer für unser Projekt 'Mediaglobe - The Digital Archive' ist online. Weitere Infos über das semantische Videosuchmaschinenprojekt unter der Mediaglobe Projekt-Webseite oder über unsere Semantic Technologies Webseite am HPI.

Everybody DOS now....

Words fail me....
Just take a look at this vintage MS-DOS advertisement video clip...

'everybody DOS now...'

Now with 384K extra available RAM....Really I remember those days, but it seems to be ages away. Thank god I have my Mac....

[via MissM@rple's Blog]

New Conspiracies ahead - The Google Masterplan

Did you ever wonder what Google is doing with all the terabytes and petabytes of information they collect....? Almost everybody is using any of the services offered by Google. And they keep track of what you are searching (and doing). Do you think they do it merely for placing some (more or less well suited) text ads??

This short video clip from Özan Halici und Jürgen Mayer presented at the EMERGEANDSEE Festival Berlin 07 is raising the same (more or less rhetorical) questions. See for yourself...

[via 'Die ZEIT']

50 years Saarland - 50 Joor Saarland

Did I mention that I received my PhD at the University of Trier...
In Trier -- btw it is the oldest city of Germany with more than 2000 years of history ... everytime in your garden, if you dig a hole deeper than half a meter ( ca. 1.5 feet) you will find some Roman relics -- you meet a lot of people coming from the Saarland (which is the southern neighbor of Rheinlandpfalz). Ofcourse 'Pfälzer' (being the name of the folk living there ... o.k. don't beat me ... that's not really correct because in Trier there should be the 'Treverer') have certain prejudices concerning 'Saarländer' (being the inhabitants of the Saarland), but I don't want to go into details ;-)
Saarland is the youngest of the federal states of Germany and this year, it celebrates 50 years of existence.

If you want to learn more about this genuine little country and its inhabitants, there is a wonderful animated video clip created by Stefan Abendschön from HBK Saar.

[via Glückauf! - Andreas sein weblog]

Copyright and Fair Use....

I have found an amazing videoclip about copyright. In his short movie "A Fair(y) Use Tale... Professor Eric Faden from Bucknell University addresses the question of fair use and the copyright law in a humorous but informative way. Interesting thing about is that the entire movie is sampled from short Disney movie clips....and thus subject to copyright law. If the video is deleted from youtube, it can be also retrieved from Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
[found via telepolis]

Turn your smile on....

Finally, the video clip is there! My friend schminktante as head of makeup department did the groovy 60s style make up in a music video being the diploma thesis of two students from bauhaus university in Weimar.
You may find some backstage information and also some pictures. Anyway....the setting reminds me somehow to the movie 'Catch me if you can'...
So...enjoy and 'turn your smile on'!