YouTubeYouTubeYouTubeHilarious, inspirational, goofy, heartwarming,
creative, adorable, strange, thought provoking,
enraging. The YouTube video awards for 2007.

Sling Media, the company that introduced place shifting to the world, has been purchased by early investor EchoStar Communications for 380 million dollars. Hopefully this gives Sling the money to grow and continued freedom to innovate. Read more on the Sling Media site.

By now, you know about online file transfer services like YouSendIt. No?

TransferBigFiles.comups the free file size limit to 2 GB, and they offer a client program that speeds up transfers which is good, because lugging around files this size is sure to take up a good chunk of time.  What I find interesting is that we are rapidly approaching the ability to transfer a full DVD’s worth of info. Hey, got a copy of the first Lord of the Rings that I can check out?

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Today, videos of front and side impact tests from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety were made available online. They are being hosted by Consumer Reports.

Links that may be helpful when researching auto safety include:

www.ConsumerReports.org/crashtest Consumer Reports Crash Test Videos
www.SaferCar.gov National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
www.iihs.org Insurance Institute for Highway Safety