I know the connoisseurs among you would close your curtains if he was fighting in your back garden but the less refined fan can see Matt Skelton challenge for the European heavyweight title in Italy on Friday live on the internet.
Italian promoters OPI 2000 stage a show at Milan's historic Palalido and three Euro titles of some description will be on the line, all with domestic interest (if you're Italian).
Paolo Vidoz will challenge Matt Skelton for the vacant European heavyweight title; Euro light-welter champion Gianluca Branco will defend against Juho Tolppola and EU light-welter champion Giuseppe Lauri will face unbeaten Ville Piispanen.
Look, don't ask me any technical information but here's the guff from the Italian press release:
"The EUROPEAN BOXING NIGHT will be broadcast in live streaming worldwide on the channel BOXE NOW WBC of the tv platform Streamit.
"BOXE NOW WBC is the new channel of OPI 2000 headed by Salvatore e Christian Cherchi, which aims to become the international reference point for all boxing lovers, with live streaming. Streamit.it - the TV ReWWWolution – is the first worldwide free television that broadcasts on Internet by streaming, in high definition and total full screen, with no need of decoder. The show will be broadcast FOR FREE all over the world by Streamit.it - The High Definition Web Tv, starting at 8:00 P.M. Italian-time.
"Starting now and until Friday 19, Streamit.it will broadcast for free Giacobbe Fragomeni's WBC world cruiserweight title win over Rudolf Kraj. The fight took place on October 24, in Milan. Go to the menu - free on demand and click on the fight. It was a fantastic brawl."
So there you have it.
The internet was surely invented for moments like this - the Bedford Bear's invasion of Italy!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Crunchyroll - Watch Movies and Anime in Asia.
Crunchyroll is a video hosting website that focus on asian movies and animes. This site is good for avid fans of korean, japanese, thai, filipino and chinese movies and tv series. They provide english subtitles and all videos are working good.
Each video has each own english subtitles so that anyone could watch it and understand it. The subtitles are good provided by the uploaders and some other staff of crunchyroll.
Users need to register to watch more than one video and the registration is totally free. Many people talked about the website and it had gained ground in the internet. The problem is that its only popular in asia. They sometimes call the website as "CR" which means crunchyroll.
Crunchyroll.com was initially made by Shinji for himself and his friends but now it had evolved alot and more people are coming into the website. The good thing is that the website obeys copyright laws and removes videos requested by copyright owners to be removed.
Crunchyroll is better than any other video streaming website because of its fast buffering speed, good web design and easy navigation because movies are arranged well.
The website also feature several music game and car related videos. Registered members can interact and comment about the videos easily. The crunchyroll forums is also good. More features are added regularly in crunchyroll.
Each video has each own english subtitles so that anyone could watch it and understand it. The subtitles are good provided by the uploaders and some other staff of crunchyroll.
Users need to register to watch more than one video and the registration is totally free. Many people talked about the website and it had gained ground in the internet. The problem is that its only popular in asia. They sometimes call the website as "CR" which means crunchyroll.
Crunchyroll.com was initially made by Shinji for himself and his friends but now it had evolved alot and more people are coming into the website. The good thing is that the website obeys copyright laws and removes videos requested by copyright owners to be removed.
Crunchyroll is better than any other video streaming website because of its fast buffering speed, good web design and easy navigation because movies are arranged well.
The website also feature several music game and car related videos. Registered members can interact and comment about the videos easily. The crunchyroll forums is also good. More features are added regularly in crunchyroll.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Livestation To Bring Streaming Live TV To iPhone
Livestation, a service claiming to be "Slingbox without the box," says they are working on an app that would let users watch live streaming TV programs on their iPhone or iPod touch. The service would let you view video being streamed to your computer from anywhere with an internet connection.
The app is currently still in development, and they have yet to announce a release date. There's a little skepticism about if they can actually pull it off, but it will be pretty great if they can. There are already a few video apps in the App Store like Hulu and Netflix's streaming video service, but this would be the first to cover live TV programs.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Christmas will soon be upon us, enjoy the cookies recipes
We would like to share some Christmas recipes for all who read this blog. We will post a recipe on a frequent basis. Be careful of your waistline.
Great Aunt Ellen's Smorbakelser
Submitted by
Caroline Johnson, New Brighton
"Every year, my Great-Aunt Ellen made her Smorbakelser cookies for Christmas Eve. The recipe came from Sweden with her mother in 1882.
Great-Aunt Ellen ground the cardamom for the cookies in the old coffee grinder her mom had used to grind coffee in the galley of the ship on her way to America. Every Christmas, Great-Aunt Ellen's gifts to us were her cookies and the story about how she and her family would ride in a horse-drawn sleigh, warmed with hot bricks, from their farm in North St. Paul to Christmas Eve services. As Great-Aunt Ellen used to say, this is how it was long, long ago."
Makes 5 dozen
1/3 cup sugar plus additional sugar for dipping cookies
1 teaspoon freshly ground cardamom
3 teaspoons baking powder
3-1/2 cups flour
1 cup butter
1 cup whipping cream
To prepare oven: Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
To make dough: In bowl, mix sugar, cardamom, baking powder and flour. Using pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture is crumbly, resembling piecrust dough. Mix in whipping cream. Shape into a ball. Divide into 3 balls.
To bake cookies: Using 1 ball at a time on lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8 or 1/4-inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes. (Note: Traditionally, Smorbakelser were cut with a doughnut cutter and dipped in granulated sugar, but they also can be cut into heart and tree shapes and dipped in colored sugar.) Dip top of each cookie in sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet ¼-inch apart. Bake thicker cookies for 14 to 16 minutes or until brown on bottom and quite pale on top. (Note: Thicker cookies resemble shortbread.) Bake thinner cookies for 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer to wire rack. Cool completely.
To make chocolate mixture: In heavy saucepan (low and wide works better than deep one), melt shortening over low heat. Add chocolate. Heat, stirring occasionally, until melted. Stir in molasses. Combine sugar and soda. Add to warm mixture. Heat until mixture bubbles and becomes quite thick. Continue heating, stirring occasionally, for 2 minutes or until sugar crystals no longer grate on bottom of pan. Remove from heat. Cool.
To finish dough: Sift together flour, salt, nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon. Set aside. Beat egg into cooled chocolate mixture. Transfer cooled mixture to large mixing bowl. Gradually add flour mixture. Mix thoroughly. (Note: Mixture is thick; you may need to mix with your hands.) Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until chilled throughout.
To prepare oven, cookie sheets: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or lightly grease. Set aside.
To bake cookies: Roll out dough to ¼-inch thickness on lightly floured board. (Note: Roll dough thicker if you prefer softer cookies.) Cut out with cookie cutters. Transfer to prepared cookie sheet, placing cookies fairly close to each other. (Note: These cookies do not spread when baking.) Bake for 8 minutes. Remove to cookie racks. Cool completely. Frost and decorate with favorite icing.
Great Aunt Ellen's Smorbakelser
Submitted by
Caroline Johnson, New Brighton
"Every year, my Great-Aunt Ellen made her Smorbakelser cookies for Christmas Eve. The recipe came from Sweden with her mother in 1882.
Great-Aunt Ellen ground the cardamom for the cookies in the old coffee grinder her mom had used to grind coffee in the galley of the ship on her way to America. Every Christmas, Great-Aunt Ellen's gifts to us were her cookies and the story about how she and her family would ride in a horse-drawn sleigh, warmed with hot bricks, from their farm in North St. Paul to Christmas Eve services. As Great-Aunt Ellen used to say, this is how it was long, long ago."
Makes 5 dozen
1/3 cup sugar plus additional sugar for dipping cookies
1 teaspoon freshly ground cardamom
3 teaspoons baking powder
3-1/2 cups flour
1 cup butter
1 cup whipping cream
To prepare oven: Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
To make dough: In bowl, mix sugar, cardamom, baking powder and flour. Using pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture is crumbly, resembling piecrust dough. Mix in whipping cream. Shape into a ball. Divide into 3 balls.
To bake cookies: Using 1 ball at a time on lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8 or 1/4-inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes. (Note: Traditionally, Smorbakelser were cut with a doughnut cutter and dipped in granulated sugar, but they also can be cut into heart and tree shapes and dipped in colored sugar.) Dip top of each cookie in sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet ¼-inch apart. Bake thicker cookies for 14 to 16 minutes or until brown on bottom and quite pale on top. (Note: Thicker cookies resemble shortbread.) Bake thinner cookies for 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer to wire rack. Cool completely.
To make chocolate mixture: In heavy saucepan (low and wide works better than deep one), melt shortening over low heat. Add chocolate. Heat, stirring occasionally, until melted. Stir in molasses. Combine sugar and soda. Add to warm mixture. Heat until mixture bubbles and becomes quite thick. Continue heating, stirring occasionally, for 2 minutes or until sugar crystals no longer grate on bottom of pan. Remove from heat. Cool.
To finish dough: Sift together flour, salt, nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon. Set aside. Beat egg into cooled chocolate mixture. Transfer cooled mixture to large mixing bowl. Gradually add flour mixture. Mix thoroughly. (Note: Mixture is thick; you may need to mix with your hands.) Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until chilled throughout.
To prepare oven, cookie sheets: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or lightly grease. Set aside.
To bake cookies: Roll out dough to ¼-inch thickness on lightly floured board. (Note: Roll dough thicker if you prefer softer cookies.) Cut out with cookie cutters. Transfer to prepared cookie sheet, placing cookies fairly close to each other. (Note: These cookies do not spread when baking.) Bake for 8 minutes. Remove to cookie racks. Cool completely. Frost and decorate with favorite icing.
Monday, December 1, 2008
List of Video Sharing Social Sites
I put this article together because my ceriousity allowed me to ask this question and research the answer. I looked all around the internet in search of good video sharing social sites and this is what I found. I hope you enjoy them as I have.
VIDEO SHARING SOCIAL SITES
1. YouTube.com - YouTube, LLC is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion dollars, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by members of the public, although media organizations including CBS and the BBC offer some of their material via the site.
2. Vimeo- is a video-centric social network site (owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp) which launched in November 2004. The site supports embedding, sharing, video storage, and allows user-commenting on each video page. Users must register to upload content. Registered users may also create a profile and upload small user pictures as their avatars, comment and “like” videos.
3. AniBOOM- is a cross-media animation website offering a collection of short animations and cartoon, animation tools (like ShapeShifter), and competitions. Registered users can submit animated movies, which are then categorized according to type. Users are able to evaluate videos by giving them a number of “bombs” and by posting comments. AniBOOM also offers option to email the video to a friend, to post to a blog or social network profile page, or add to favorites. Users are given “BoomZones”, or profile pages, in which to showcase their videos.
4. Atom.com- (formerly AtomFilms) is an award-winning broadband entertainment network offering original short subject films, animations, and series by independent creators. The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi.
5. FameCast- is a social network website serving both bands seeking increased exposure and music fans looking for new independent artists. Once per month the site hosts a contest in which the community votes for their favorite artists in six different music genres. The winners of each category are featured in SPIN magazine and advance to the next contest level and have a chance to win cash. Headquarters in Austin, Texas, U.S. (2006)
6.http://www.liveleak.com/- is a video sharing website that lets users post and share videos. Liveleak places emphasis on current events, politics and reality-based footage such as war scenes from various parts of the world. The site went live on 31 October 2006. Founded by the team responsible for Ogrish.com, it aims to take reality footage, politics, and world events and combine them with the power of citizen journalism. The site came to prominence in 2007 following the unauthorized filming and leaking of the execution of Saddam Hussein, and was referred to by White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
7. Flickr Video- is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. As of November 2008[update], it claims to host more than 3 billion images. Launched on February 2004.
8. http://photobucket.com/- is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.
9. Twango is an online media sharing site that supports multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provides users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing. In addition, Twango saves all the original media and its metadata (this includes, but is not limited to, IPTC and Exif). Non-members are free to browse the site, while members can upload media of their own. Sign up for a basic account is free, and provides 250 megabytes of upload bandwidth a month. Twango was acquired by Nokia in July 2007 and has since been rebranded as the Share on Ovi service.
10. BGVIP.TV [Translated: English]- is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. The website contains a variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
VIDEO SHARING SOCIAL SITES
1. YouTube.com - YouTube, LLC is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion dollars, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by members of the public, although media organizations including CBS and the BBC offer some of their material via the site.
2. Vimeo- is a video-centric social network site (owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp) which launched in November 2004. The site supports embedding, sharing, video storage, and allows user-commenting on each video page. Users must register to upload content. Registered users may also create a profile and upload small user pictures as their avatars, comment and “like” videos.
3. AniBOOM- is a cross-media animation website offering a collection of short animations and cartoon, animation tools (like ShapeShifter), and competitions. Registered users can submit animated movies, which are then categorized according to type. Users are able to evaluate videos by giving them a number of “bombs” and by posting comments. AniBOOM also offers option to email the video to a friend, to post to a blog or social network profile page, or add to favorites. Users are given “BoomZones”, or profile pages, in which to showcase their videos.
4. Atom.com- (formerly AtomFilms) is an award-winning broadband entertainment network offering original short subject films, animations, and series by independent creators. The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi.
5. FameCast- is a social network website serving both bands seeking increased exposure and music fans looking for new independent artists. Once per month the site hosts a contest in which the community votes for their favorite artists in six different music genres. The winners of each category are featured in SPIN magazine and advance to the next contest level and have a chance to win cash. Headquarters in Austin, Texas, U.S. (2006)
6.http://www.liveleak.com/- is a video sharing website that lets users post and share videos. Liveleak places emphasis on current events, politics and reality-based footage such as war scenes from various parts of the world. The site went live on 31 October 2006. Founded by the team responsible for Ogrish.com, it aims to take reality footage, politics, and world events and combine them with the power of citizen journalism. The site came to prominence in 2007 following the unauthorized filming and leaking of the execution of Saddam Hussein, and was referred to by White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
7. Flickr Video- is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. As of November 2008[update], it claims to host more than 3 billion images. Launched on February 2004.
8. http://photobucket.com/- is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.
9. Twango is an online media sharing site that supports multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provides users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing. In addition, Twango saves all the original media and its metadata (this includes, but is not limited to, IPTC and Exif). Non-members are free to browse the site, while members can upload media of their own. Sign up for a basic account is free, and provides 250 megabytes of upload bandwidth a month. Twango was acquired by Nokia in July 2007 and has since been rebranded as the Share on Ovi service.
10. BGVIP.TV [Translated: English]- is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. The website contains a variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
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